Cam Regier

@camregier.bsky.social

Husband, Father, Engineer, Buildings Nerd, IAQ, LongCOVID, MCAS, ME/CFS. He/Him. Views are my own. Likes and retweets are not endorsements. Winnipeg, MB

It may not be a direct line, but the antagonism towards the Human Rights Museum in Winnipeg’s restrained Nakba display just happens to have preceded an attack on a mosque that Winnipeg police are investigating as a hate crime. Good job, Minister Marc Miller.

Blowback to Nakba exhibit featuring family members at human rights museum heartbreaking: Winnipeg woman | CBC News

A woman whose family is among those featured in a controversial human rights museum exhibit on the displacement of Palestinians says she's disappointed the public discussion has focused so much on wha...

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A good article, but these quotes.😖 "Food safety is a great place but..." "If you want to look for solutions, you're going to have to have tax incentives or reduce taxes. But it seems as long as we have a Liberal government, it's just going to keep skyrocketing." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Canada could add billions to its economy by processing more food. Here's what it's trying | CBC News

The federal government's national food security strategy is pledging hundreds of millions of dollars to scale up Canada's food processing industry. CBC's The House spoke to Ontario farmers and innovat...

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We’re having climate change conversations with friends every single day right now. Everyone is looking for ways to try and climate-disaster proof their homes. But our govs keep insisting this is a non-issue, not worth investing in. Why isn’t this anxiety showing up in polling?

What is fascinating is that all of these terrible leaders who are dismantling democracy and ushering in fascism were elected because of racism. The anti-immigrant train is never late and always standing room only

Behold, a steaming pile of self-serving dung from a recent Globe and Mail op-ed by two business leaders. Reality: the province is suffocating clean energy, no business has “stepped up” to build or fill the pipeline, and oil companies are minting massive profits for themselves, not the federation.

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Also: if there's long-term demand growth (and supportive pricing), what's the big rush? It's almost like these guys know the gig is about to be up and they need to squeeze as much government support out as possible before it's obvious.

There is a real sense that they were supposed to be grateful the pandemic was “over,” but all of these things in their lives were worse than before. And now, the way things got worse feels unspeakably permanent.

It matters what rich and influential people say about democracy in Canada because rich and influential people have outsized power to shape our public policy and institutions.