Build Harvard International in London Ontario Canada. Move the personnel, staff, Professors north.
Move assets to Canada. Begin making arrangements, move at risk first, in small groups.
What a shame this was. The BC Citizen's Assembly came up with a really great made-for-BC form of Proportional Representation that checked off all the boxes. It would, in fact, be a great model for a PR system in the whole of Canada.
It gave people ranked choice, it preserved and emphasized local representation, it gave opportunities to small and large parties as well as independents even within large multi-member ridings, it ensured the results were still fair and representative, and it may have even reduced the tendency toward partisanship. And it could all still easily be done with a simple paper ballot.
But the entrenched interests in the BC Liberals and NDP could not possibly give in to the will of the people… and they spent the next decade destroying the consensus for it.
https://citizensassembly.arts.ubc.ca/public/extra/stv_resources.xml2.htm
Here are their resources:
a PowerPoint/PDF: https://citizensassembly.arts.ubc.ca/resources/Weekend%20Session%20Readings/Weekend4Session2PPT.pdf
A/V presentations (in WMV format): https://citizensassembly.arts.ubc.ca/public/learning_resources/learning_materials/av.htm
And a full report and other info: https://citizensassembly.arts.ubc.ca/public/extra/deliberation_weekend4.xml.htm
It was a top-tier effort that I think the result of the referendum proved was appreciated, valued and accepted by the majority of the population across the province but which the government and political parties felt did not serve their purpose, so they shut it down.
And this is why people get so cynical.
As a golfer and Canadian, I approve of this message we are sending to the U.S.
#CanPoli #TrumpTariffs
https://youtu.be/Huy2zReTCUY?si=SShJ8t3USxz975IB
Pressure mounting on Poilievre to fire Jenni Byrne: sources | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-byrne-conservative-caucus-1.7540215
PS: dear @pfefferle is there any way in your plugin to federate an archival post that long predates installation of your plugin?
20 years ago this week a majority of BC voters approved a change to BC-STV, a homegrown form of proportional representation recommended by a Citizen’s Assembly of their peers.
Government ignored them and then ensured subsequent referenda failed.
I just stumbled on my post about it 20 years ago! I was more forgiving/naïve then.
Keep fighting.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #electoralreform #bcpoli #proportionalrepresentation
https://chrisalemany.ca/2005/05/18/bc-wants-electoral-reform/
Post Offices are gloriously self funding, subtract billionaire profit and bang, good to go. Good jobs, great service, fully Canadian in every nook and cranny, not a dime leaves as profit.
The Post Office is the subject of lies, attacks, conspiracies and bullshit.
It does the exact same service as FedEx but it also SERVES HOMES as if they owned rhe enterprise. Use it, demand it grow and improve.
#Canada #cdnpoli #canpoli #post # #postoffice #CanadaPost #carney
Canadian Diplomats part of group shot at by Israeli forces.
How long before we can start sanctioning this insane rogue state??
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Genocide #InternationalLaw
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/anand-idf-canadains-west-bank-warning-shots-1.7540343
Speaking of the invasion and boycotting US products and services here is a list of who picks up and delivers in Canada
UPS
DHL
FedEX
Canada Post
Purolator (thanks readers*)
If you want better service from Canada Post, you're an owner, tell management, in an election if necessary.
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California’s Assembly Bill No. AB 1167 (AB 1167) required full-cost financial assurance upon the transfer of low-producing oil wells. The result has been to curtail the transfer of low-producing wells that likely posed greater risk of operator defaults to the State of California. Comparing transfers prior to the bill and after its implementation reveal a stark contrast – from over 1,300 wells in the first half of 2023, to just six wells in 2024.
https://carbontracker.org/reports/closing-the-oil-well-transfer-loophole/
In other news... now that the United States Fascist Government isn't *actively* threatening Canada's sovereignty, the BBC is back to having no Canada-related articles on the top tier of its "US & Canada" section.
There is not a *single* story about Canada.
Even though the King is coming in less than a week.. lol.
I know it's not “the time”... but, why are we still a Monarchy…?
#Uninteresting #SecurityThroughObscurity #Canada #UK #CanPoli #RepublicOfCanada
https://www.bbc.com/news/us-canada
Today's political commentary...
On April 28th, after thoroughly witnessing how the far-right #Trump administration is decimating everything good in society, the majority of #Ontario voters made their voices heard, that they oppose far-right policies.
#DougFord, an unoriginal Trump acolyte in every way from the lying and doublespeak to the cronyism and corruption, and playacts as "Captain Canada", wants nothing more than to turn Ontario into a Mini-USA.
Busting the Myth That Ottawa Has Hurt Alberta’s Oil Industry
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/05/15/Busting-Myth-Ottawa-Hurt-Alberta-Oil-Industry/
Join us as we explore what’s next—both on and off Parliament Hill—for rebuilding the Green Party and NDP, pushing forward progressive policies, and sustaining activism in today’s centrist political climate. #canpoli
https://rabble.ca/politics/canadian-politics/oth-ndp-and-greens/
I hope Carney solidifies the new functioning of the Senate of Canada into law somehow. Having Senators appointed as Independents rather than beholden to any party has been a good change.
This article written by a BC Senator makes a lot of sense and gives me hope that there are legislators (like @Paulatics) in Parliament that take their responsibility to protect the constitutional rights of all Canadians very seriously.
https://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2025/06/at-mace-value/
“Independent senators can be expected to exercise their duties vigorously under any government, using all the procedural tools at their disposal, including proposing extensive amendments to bills that are flawed — as they have done in the past nine years. In fact, since the advent of non-partisan appointments, there have been an unprecedented number of Senate amendments to government bills, many of which were accepted by the House of Commons.
And if bills are proposed by a new government that challenge fundamental rights, including the rights of minorities and regions that senators have a special duty to protect, one should expect the resistance to be even more determined. Unlike opposition partisans, independent senators are not interested in opposing for the sake of opposing. But if egregious violations of rights are involved, I believe Canadians will not only tolerate but actively support a Senate that is prepared to play its role as a defender of basic freedoms and as the chamber of sober second thought. As Macdonald put it, “There would be no use of an Upper House, if it did not exercise, when it thought proper, the right of opposing or amending or postponing the legislation of the Lower House.”
Why exactly *is* it that we have a minister of #ArtificialIdiocy but not a minister of actual *science*?
I received this link today and thought I'd solicit opinions. #Election2025 #Canada #cdnpoli #canpoli #yyj #NDP @jsatre
Saving the NDP from party insiders
By Desmond Cole & Martin Luckas - 2025,
The Breach
https://breachmedia.ca/ndp-party-insiders-saving-leadership-race/