I’d love to explore all options, including tax reform, closing offshore tax evasion loopholes, ending subsidies for highly profitable large-scale industry, windfall profits / wealth tax…. Something tells me the gov’t isn’t exploring “all” options though.
It’s a good reminder to never believe anything a liberal says because they aren’t grounded in any actual values.
I feel so dumb and naive that I really thought Holt was better than this.
I know she’s a liberal & liberals always disappoint, but even still this feels straight out of the Higgs playbook
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Maybe we could have both if we taxed the oligarchs instead of funding their losses at the expense of the public purse.
I would also like to know this. Also, how many were already existing clinics that are just getting a little facelift & a bow?
I literally don’t care about the deficit. Like at all.
Why do the short work weeks somehow always feel the longest 😭
Screenshot from CBC CBC NEWS Sections ~ New Brunswick Irving Paper to get up to $45M in tariff relief funds 1 year after halving production The company announced last year it would lay off 140 staff, pointing to electricity costs Silas Brown • CBC News • Posted: Feb 19, 2026 6:00 AM AST I Last Updated: February 19
Screenshot from blog post FEB 11, 2026 BLOG | MEMBER NEWS, HEALTHCARE Irving Oil Announces $35 million gift to Massachusetts General Hospital for cancer care
Screenshot from CBC CBC NEWS Sections New Brunswick Irving Oil had $250-million profit when it won tax break from city and province Leaked financial documents show company was consistent money-maker, even during global crash Jacques Poitras, Frédéric Zalac • CBC News • Posted: Nov 14, 2022 5:00 AM AST I Last Updated: November 14, 2022
You’ve heard of “trickle down” economics, but have you heard of “firehose” economics, where a company takes money from Canada and then just firehoses it as fast as possible out of the country ??
Anyone else gearing up to watch the NDP leadership debate tonight?
I’m gathering my emotional support wine & pizza & hope to see some debate commentary on bsky tonight
#NDPdebate
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Screenshot of Facebook post by Barry Ogden, posted 6 hours before. Text: Prime Minister Carney yesterday announced the largest amount of money to be spent on Defence since the Second World War.180 billion directly and 290 billion in spin offs which in total will create 125,000 jobs.
Screenshot of a calculator showing 470000000000/125000 =3,760,000
Yeah no spending 3.76 million per new job seems like a really good return on investment, couldn’t have designed a better economic system myself
I feel like I’m missing something here. Isn’t evisitNB just a webpage that redirects to Maple (not a NB company). What actual “services” does evisitNB currently provide ??
The government is giving a loan to a Crown corporation that should just be a public service that we pay for because it provides an essential task that Canadians depend on.
We don’t provide loans to the health care system or schools; we just pay for them.
I just know all the Saint John’s industrial businesses are really doing their part today to #shavethepeak too! 🙏
"The cost to the city was estimated at $112 million over a quarter-century."
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The Schmirving family is estimated to have a tax avoidance bill in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The province has a deficit of hundreds of millions of dollars.
And yet the question to us is always “would you rather have less paramedics or less teachers??? 😁” Your choice!
NB gov’t is seeking public feedback on the budget.
Funny how taxing industry to pay its fair share isn’t one of the options for feedback we can provide, though 😒
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I’d love to see Avi Lewis win the NDP leadership bid this spring.
Here he is speaking with my personal hero Cory Doctorow about some very sensible but impactful policy ideas for fighting back against tariffs (7 mins)
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Yikes. Province not meeting many of its most important targets and Holt wants to discuss…. CUTS?!? Liberals always manage to disappoint.
ICE is 'on New Brunswick’s border’ in Calais, Maine, premier says
"It makes all of us very uncomfortable and there’s nothing we recognize in our neighbours right now, the leadership they have,” Premier Susan Holt says
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Little tweaks to tax credit systems are the go to policies when liberals don’t actually give a shit about Canadians but want a quick little win in the news cycle or bump to their polling numbers. We see it and we’re sick of it.
This is actually the laziest most ineffective policy I can possibly think of
The gov’t literally commissioned a report on this 2 years ago & you’ll never believe it but a wee one time cash payment & tiny tax credit increase ain’t in the recommendations
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Mark Carney’s off making big speeches to distract from how he’s gutting the public service and by extension the capacity of the federal government.
As far as I can tell no grocery store sells vegan meatballs anywhere in Saint John anymore 😪 the Gardein ones used to be widely available. If anyone has a source plz let me know 😩
This is like basically the first thing carney has done that I DO agree with lmao
Watching the NDP become more cringe & wrong on every issue year over year is so depressing
Quite frankly, it’s outrageous that Mark Carney is cutting Statistics Canada. If he was Stephen Harper or Pierre Poilievre, I feel like this would be getting a lot more backlash.
Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.
Holy shit for my 2024 predictions, not only was I so close to getting the Trudeau prediction right, I was months away from getting the Hudson’s Bay one too!
Wise before my time!
Screenshot text: 2025 predictions Empty circle: Taylor Swift takes on Spotify Empty circle: Luigi Mangione case gets a jury nullification ruling Checked circle: Premier Holt doesn't take a single action in 2025 that goes against the wishes of the Irving's Empty circle: Nuclear war near miss incident Empty circle: Bloc Québécois becomes official opposition
Once again, a bad year for my annual new years predictions. However, Holt did come in with a surprise finish on that gas pricing issue, so I’ll give her that one.
What should i include for my 2026 predictions?? 🧐
And like to be clear I have a “good” job. It’s chill, I work with nice people, it’s relatively low stress and secure. But like I’d still rather just… not.
