Just scrolling through is exhausting. What an absurd amount of wealth.

They said this strike was about class size limits and you said the problem is too complicated for simple class size limits, disagreeing with the union position.

Do you really think the teachers asking for class size limits don’t understand the nuance you pointed out? Do you think you’re the only one who understands the complexity of the situation. And yet they’re all asking for class size limits anyways, because although it’s imperfect it’s better than the current approach.

I don’t see where you’re confused. When you respond against a statement you’re disagreeing with it, as I’m disagreeing with you. Stop pretending context doesn’t matter and each of your statements should be taken and debated independently. That’s nonsense!

I like how you know that some classes are too big to manage. You list several considerations a teacher may use to determine what is and isn’t a manageable class size. Then you turn around and use that to argue AGAINST class size limits.

You apparently oppose any class size limit because “it doesn’t perfectly resolve every situation”, leaving the teachers with no class size limits and no tools to resolve the very real issue of managing large class sizes.

This is a perfect encapsulation of conservative logic.

1.You see a problem you agree is real 2. You see someone’s proposed imperfect solution to the problem which certainly would shrink the size of the problem but not perfectly solve it. 3. You oppose the solution because although it would shrink the size of the problem, it’s imperfect and doesn’t solve the whole thing all at once. 4. You don’t propose or support any replacement. 5. The problem continues to grow unresolved, and you’re satisfied having done a good job stopping any kind of progress whatsoever.

LMFAO the amount of union cope in this post is WILD.

“I used to work for an non union school and we got fucked by the government. Luckily they sent someone down to convince us this was okay. Then after I left the teachers there realised it’s NOT okay, unionized and immediately got the same better pay that I was told simply wasn’t possible. Now the government is trying to fuck the teachers again including by the tyrannical use of the NWC and the unions are standing up for it but I’m confused, could it be the unions were good all along and the government was bad?!?”

Bro, I’m sorry you were so easily separated from the fair wages you deserved and could have had if you were unionized. We need unions to protect teachers like you, who are willing to give up their fair wages for a sad story. The very same gentleness that likely makes you great with kids is used by the government to exploit you. You need protection from people who are going to fight for what you deserve from a government who has been fucking teachers over from day one.

Edit: in case it helps the reason the teachers union is refusing the agreement isn’t wages, it’s because they want a class size limit. As a teacher you should know what it’s like teaching classes of 35+ kids. The government won’t budge because they don’t care about teachers or kids. They see teachers as overpaid government funded babysitters so parents can go to work, and the more kids they can throw in a class the cheaper it is for them.

This is excellent news. The ends don’t justify the means, just because the person committed crimes doesn’t mean the police can ignore the law to find evidence and arrest them.

The police showed up at an overdose case, and found people with drugs, which is obviously true, people without drugs don’t overdose. The Good Samaritan act prohibits the police from arresting/investigating people on drug charges during an overdose call. As a result of the arrest the police found evidence of other crimes on his person and charged him with those crimes instead. The judges ruled that because the arrest was illegal, all evidence gathered during the arrest was also illegal. This is EXACTLY the role of judges, to reinforce the law and prevent abuses of power.

I literally can’t understand the opposing view because it sounds a lot like “illegally gathered evidence should be admissible in court” which if you know any history at all is a bonkers take.

These businesses are dumb as fuck. The data is in: around 10% of purchases at downtown businesses come from people who drove there. Making streets more welcoming to pedestrians, transit users and cyclists boosts local and small business revenues even when it’s at the cost of being less welcoming to cars.

https://tcat.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Bike-Lanes-On-Street-Parking-and-Business_-A-Study-of-Queen-Street-West-in-Toronto’s-Parkdale-Neighbourhood.pdf

These people just don’t understand the science and data behind who their customers are and how to cater to them.

Lol the guy is literally “I got nothing better so here is an ad hominem”

Wow, commit war crimes or renounce citizenship? Such a hard choice!

It’s about people not wanting to be shot. In the US their complete lack of safety training and licensing requirements mean every moron can own guns.

Canada has better requirements, resulting in fewer problems with legal gun owners and legal guns.

That being said all the “they’re coming for our guns” crap is not helping. Canadian gun owners and associations should be driving the narrative that Canada has sound regulations, that Canadian gun owners are safe, and that Canadian police are effectively tackling illegal guns and illegal guns owners (last one is doubtful based on my encounters).

We can’t keep our guns without showing Canadians that they will remain safe if we keep them. We don’t have a charter right to firearms, so we need to dissociate from the American talking points and switch to ones that show WHY we’re already so much better than the worst of American gun owners.

And he shat himself. Some say it’s because he heard Trump shit his diaper and did it to match his leader. Some say it’s because he was completely unprepared for the responsibility and shat himself out of fear. But everyone agrees he shat himself and has no idea what to do next.

I think there was nuance in my comment you missed, and that your views are unsophisticated and naive. I’m willing to take any path that will lead away from neoliberalism if it actually has a hope of working in Canada. We won’t even vote NDP and you’re suggesting:

1. undermining the Liberals
2. letting the fascist elements from the conservative parties win so they destroy everything good and beautiful about Canada, and implement neofascism.
3. ???
4. Democratic Communist society?

I think you’re missing the fact that we’ll be in prison or dead between step 2 and 3. Look what’s happening in the US, or in Germany with the original Nazis. Did that lead to successful communism in Germany? Or did fascism completely destroy the country and completely exterminate the progressive elements within it. Then the USSR took over half the country after it was ravaged by a brutal war to implement Actually Existing Socialism which is, in effect exchanging our capitalist ruler class who extracts our “surplus value” and alienates us from our labour and our consumption with a political ruler class who extracts our “surplus value” and alienates us from our labour and consumption.

No one has ever successfully discovered and implemented a path to Stateless Democratic Communism yet, and I doubt you have a path there that has a hope of winning or that is novel in any way.

What is the practical action you think we should take after the Liberals lose their power thanks to being undermined by the progressive left?

I don’t know the route to progressive politics in Canada. I used to think that if the conservatives won, people would see how bad it got would help turn the tide left. But that’s not working, the US is a perfect example of that. If you vote neoliberal they pass shitty policies that make people’s lives worse and the people then vote for right wing neofacists. If you vote neofacists you get what you asked for.

I’m politically exhausted, but I know that delaying or ideally preventing neofascist is important to me, even if the only means to do that right now (support neoliberals) is a path to eventual neofacist victory as well.

I now have several queer and trans friends that have moved to Canada because of neofascism in the US making it unsafe for them. Some are even seeking asylum in Canada now. I don’t want Canada to become unfriendly to them. Undermining the Liberals in a way that bolsters the Conservatives will do exactly that.

How do I get the NDP to win or become significant enough to affect the outcome of Canadian politics and move us left? I don’t know but it’s not by giving credence to claims that the Liberals are Nazis. Doing that is just paving the way for PP and neofascism. Doing that will directly harm my queer friends and every other minority group in Canada.

It’s not whether it becomes a setback for liberals, it’s how much it bolsters neofascist elements in the conservative party.

That’s not true. These types of investigations basically hand over tons of political power to your opponent. Anything discovered can be implied to be the government’s fault, and if little is found then it’s the government wasting money.

We don’t have the required refinement in the media and the political engagement of the average citizen to effectively use these kinds of investigations.

Leveraging this type of investigation is part of how Stephen Harper best Paul Martin.

Hmmm creating rhetoric against an identifiable underclass, then requiring the class to carry identification that labels them as a member of the undesirable underclass… Where have I seen that before?!?

I wish I shared your optimistic view of this theoretical exemption. “Lawful protest” is already a trap word thanks to the last 30 years of anti protest laws. Police can declare any protest unlawful based on vague laws, then suddenly you’re guilty of the new hate crime. Many municipalities require protest paths in order to qualify as lawful. This law can be used as an excuse for the municipality to reject the plan and move you to a place where protesting is pointless. Here is a straightforward guide to your rights and the limitations commonly used to regulate, restrict, and extinguish lawful protest: https://lawshun.com/article/what-is-a-lawful-protest-in-canada

We already have hate crime laws. They’re effective. The only thing that’s ineffective is that police never want to investigate to find the people committing hate crimes, calling in bomb threats, vandalizing with hateful messages. This is 90% of the hate crime problem. This law does NOTHING to help identify and indict people who commit hate crimes.

So the only question left is what existing group of people who weren’t targetable by existing hate crime laws can be targeted with these laws. And the answer is pretty straightforward: people who protest the genocide in Gaza. And I’m sure other groups will be targeted.

What you’re missing, is that like the Toronto anti protest law, this law is meant to stop people protesting genocide and ethnic cleaning.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/real-estate-thornhill-event-1.7133251

The protests usually occurred at real estate sales which happened in community centers and less often in synagogues. There was nothing inherently anti-Semitic about these protests

“We weren’t there because it’s a synagogue, we were there because we were protesting against a real estate show,” said Ghada Sasa, who was at the protest over the weekend.

The UN, alongside Canada, consider Israeli settlements in the occupied territories to be in violation of international convention,

However under this new legislation, these protests are hate crimes because they occur near religious or cultural centers where the occupants constitute an identifiable minority.

This doesn’t help stop bomb threats or 99% of the 4800 hate crimes per year that happen in Canada. It just protects Zionists.

They’re both racing so hard to destroy us it’s hard to tell who’s ahead!

First of all, it’s super cool to see a content creator in the lemmyverse. Second of all, although I haven’t watched all your videos, the image you portray through your chosen titles and thumbnails show you’re pushing a basic neoliberal agenda. Lots of focus on jobs, economic performance, government debt, and scary topics like government stability and immigration.

Maybe you’re a progressive leftist who’s using this as clickbait, but my gut feeling is that if that was the case you’d be called a communist not a “liberal shill”.

I appreciate your criticism of the TFW program, definitely valid. I think I would probably say the same of most of your videos since you seem eloquent and well supported by facts. My concern is about the overall neoliberal message created by the topics you choose to explore and the effect that has on society drifting towards fascism instead of good progressive humanist development.

Also no leftist would find being called a conservative “refreshing”, and we all know how the centrist position works in practice. So I suspect you’ll continue to find it refreshing as I continue to believe you’re a conservative pushing a neoliberal agenda.

Conservative anti-immigrant garbage. Look at the rest of the videos, always criticizing liberals and ndp, never criticizing conservatives.

Absolute fearmongering trash, nobody is as scared of everything around them as tough conservative men.