Today we're revealing the cuts plans for our immigration system from Budget 2025. TLDR: These aren't efficiency savings they are major services cuts and cost downloads to cities poised to wreck our immigration system. @policyalternatives.ca 1/x
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spi... This book documents the pernicious effects of inequality. USA is the most unequal country and this survey backs that up.
Short-sighted cuts. Long-term harm.
✍️ Sign the e-petition today to protect the agricultural research we all depend on!
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
albertaviews.ca/agricultural... Here is a debate on Supply Management, with #NFUcanada VP Phil Mount on the Yes side.
A year ago ...
Go to www.nfu.ca and click the "Stop AAFC cuts" button for actions you can do.
On January 23rd, 2026, the Government of Canada announced its intention to close 7 Agriculture Research facilities and cut 665 related jobs.
Farmers and concerned citizens are fighting back.
Here's why.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-r0...
Two House Sparrows at a bird feeder
House Sparrows
In 2023, 78,050 children under the age of 18 in Saskatchewan were in poverty, a child poverty rate of 27.1% This is well above Canada’s national child poverty rate of 18.3% and is the highest child poverty rate of all the provinces. By @simonenoch.bsky.social #skpoli leaderpost.com/opinion/lett...
www.realagriculture.com/2026/02/dont... This op ed is by two of Canada's top wheat breeders. To protest this wrong-headed cuts to our public research capacity, send a letter via the NFU's action tool at www.nfu.ca/stop-the-aaf... #agpoli #seed #agriculture
This!
Former Canadian Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy shreds the rationale for an attack on Iran - and 🇨🇦 support for it.
youtu.be/HfXmpJRZPYI?... Excellent speech. THESE are the values Canada should uphold. And what right does Carney have to declare Canada's support for US aggression without a debate in Parliament?
youtu.be/HfXmpJRZPYI?... Listen to this entire speech. It is only a couple of minutes. These are the values Canada should uphold.
Indeed, as @markkersten.bsky.social argues here, looking at global politics more broadly, middle powers such as Canada depend on a predictable rules based global order.
bsky.app/profile/mark...
India has refused to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
MacKinnon is affiliated with the Aristotle Foundation, an openly racist and anti-public education "think tank".
Have you sent your letter to the Minister, your MP, etc. to protest the massive cuts to AAFC agriculture research in Canada? If not, go to www.nfu.ca/stop-the-aaf... and stand up for #foodsovereignty #seeds and #farmers
www.producer.com/opinion/more... Closing the Indian Head Research Farm represents a failure to understand how agricultural knowledge is built and sustained. ... that this is ... the permanent loss of knowledge that cannot be rebuilt on a spreadsheet or reproduced in a lab.
NFU member Rav Singh is one of 4 young people holding the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board legally accountable for failing to account for the financial risks of climate change.
We're so proud of her!
@ecojusticecanada.bsky.social
www.nfu.ca/why-im-suing...
Perfect!
Well said Dr. Watts. Seems there is a lot of that going around these days. Who needs a population when you have AI?
#caturday Tom Kitten soaking up sunbeam on a -29 day.
@ccpa-tirp.bsky.social has something on this
Should guarantee an NDP win in the next Alberta election.
