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Well written article. Worth reading

Characterizing Trump’s tariff war as an emergency that demands drastic action, the province of British Columbia has passed Bills 14 and 15, expediting resource extraction and development.

In Ontario, Bill 5 was whipped through the legislature in recent weeks, creating Special Economic Zones that the premier says will fast-track mining in the “Ring of Fire” – a vast region of boreal peatlands rich in critical minerals.

Carney has introduced an equally authoritarian legislative proposal called the Building Canada Act, which will grant to cabinet the extraordinary power to waive the application of almost any federal law in respect of projects it deems to be in the “national interest”

These so-called “emergency” levers being pulled in the national interest are a complete stunt. Besides a couple of thousand new security recruits – and a small surge of workers for a short period of construction – there is no job creation here, no reduction in cost of living, no difference to Canadians at the grocery store.

Instead, let’s look at who really gains from this concentration of new power in the executive branches, and who loses.

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/18/canada-trump-flood-zone

It's nice to see that we no longer trust privatization as a the magic wand that solves public institution problems.

That said I think the 52% support for non-union gig work in Canada Post is indicative of the mindset that needs shifting if Canada is to change course in a way that makes most people better off long term.

Source: https://angusreid.org/canada-post-privatization-strike-service-disruption-vote-union/

The national police force determined Mastracci’s journalism was “non-criminal”; he was likely added to a police database.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/46346741

A major overhaul is expected of the national body that issues Canada's cancer screening guidelines.

The changes were ordered by the federal health minister, following an external review of the Task Force on Preventive Health Care.

The task force is an arm's-length panel set up by the federal government to publish national guidelines for family doctors, advising them on when to send their patients for routine screenings of various illnesses, including common cancers.

But the panel has been criticized for years for failing to fully take in expert advice, using outdated research and being too slow to update its guidelines. Many of the task force's recommendations are over a decade old.

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