I asked ChstGPT and it agrees with Steve. Am I being ironic? I don’t even know anymore. 🤣😭

Steve Roth@steveroth.bsky.social · 9h ago

They’re obviously just doing this as a way to hype their products. 🙄

“The battle over [tariffs are] between well-organized protectionists and a less-organized segment of the business community.” Thomas Cochran, 1972

When the federal government says, “We can’t afford it” they actually mean, “We don’t want to do it.” Anything we can physically do—like put everyone in a home—we can afford.

I see a lot of men online who insist that women make decisions based on emotions, while men make decisions based on logic. As someone who spent a summer selling cars, I can tell you they've got it upside-down.

If a national leader talks about “extreme tail risk” but isn’t making massive investments in climate transition, they are full-of-shit.

None of the reasons cited by Prime Minister Mark Carney for airport privatization hold up. So why is he doing it? DT Cochrane writes. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

There’s No Good Reason for Carney to Privatize Canada’s Airports | The Tyee

The plan would worsen labour conditions and make flying more expensive.

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There’s no good reason to privatize airports. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

There’s No Good Reason for Carney to Privatize Canada’s Airports | The Tyee

The plan would worsen labour conditions and make flying more expensive.

thetyee.ca

Carney wants project approvals to be fast. Then they can either be cheap or they can be good. He’s trying to make them cheap by slashing public service jobs.

You know how you could speed up approval processes without stampeding communities, nature, and Indigenous rights? Have enough public servants properly trained, equipped and coordinated.

Here’s a funny new version of th crowding-out argument. In the old days, we were told fiscal tightening was needed to solve the problem of weak private investment. Now, we are told tightening is needed because private investment is so strong. Austerity: always the answer! www.ft.com/content/d96c...

This is secondary, but I’m interested in the idea that the airports have “true value”. And that this truth will be revealed by the ownership bids.

Transport minister won’t guarantee prices won’t go up after airport privatization, promises fees will be ‘partially regulated’

Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon won’t guarantee the cost to fly won’t go up for travellers if the federal government follows through on its plan to privatize Canada’s four largest airports but doe...

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This correct. Deprivation is a brutal form of constraint. It would tend to undermine creative potential. Creativity requires risk-taking. Those deprived have more to lose when creative undertakings fail.

David Marx@digthatdata.bsky.social · last wk.

I'd start by reframing it from "deprivation" to "constraint". Constraint, not suffering, is the mother of invention.

How do we recognize the potential for deprivation to spur creativity without glorifying poverty? I think it requires the community, which provides the safety net to protect the deprived from annihilation.

Dominant companies use regulation to block competitors. That’s why the AI companies are calling for regulation. They want regulation they control to shore up their dominance.

The @canadianlabour.bsky.social's new report 'Public Runways, Private Profits' shows why Carney's plan for privatized ownership of Canada's airports will mean cuts to jobs & higher prices. @dtcochrane.bsky.social explains on the Perspectives Journal Podcast: perspectivesjournal.ca/terminal-profits

Carney wants us to believe that we can’t do anything without rich people’s money. Spoiler: We can.

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 2w ago

Well, it happened: Prime Minister Mark Carney announced plans to open up Canada’s four largest airports to private investment. So....privatization. That's not the only thing he pledged to a room of obnoxiously rich people. I talked to economists and a top labour leader to break this down:

Trying to make the best out of a bad situation doesn’t mean you accept the situation. And it doesn’t mean you should accept the bad situation.

A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations

A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown

Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.

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Why does “fiscal discipline” always mean selling public assets to the ultra-wealthy instead of taxing them?

My IRL friends call me Chris@christyceeck.bsky.social · 2w ago

Carney is shameless. Pure disaster capitalism. “This time is different,” Carney said. “We are building this country in a more dangerous, divided world, a more hostile world & a difficult market environment as well. We need to retain fiscal discipline, this government is committed to that” #CdnPoli

How will siphoning revenue out of airports as profits make them better? It won’t.

Carney wants to bring the efficiency of the Walkerton E. coli disaster to Canada’s airports. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Government to open up Canada's 4 largest airports to private investment, Carney says | CBC News

Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government will open up Canada's four largest airports to private investment, but that Ottawa will maintain ultimate ownership.

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We don’t need rich people’s money to do what needs to be done. We don!t need to sell off public assets to get tho ha done.

Carney said investors are coming to “peer in our shop window”. In other words, it’s all for sale.

I can’t believe we have 4 years of experience with AI psychosis and still most people are just pretending it isn’t happening.

Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient

Blake Lemoine says system has perception of, and ability to express thoughts and feelings equivalent to a human child

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25 years ago I ended up grounded in Thunder Bay for two days. I can still remember the pilot saying, “There’s something going on in New York.” The decision was whether or not to get a Greyhound back to Ottawa or wait until CDN airspace re-opened. I obviously waited.

Reading a harrowing description of gambling addiction on Reddit. They’re talking about how relentless the digital ads are. Said he’s self-excluded from a bunch of sites but new ones keep popping up. He is desperate for help and asking about GA. We need to do more about online gambling.

Capital is not some mythical thing that only appears if you say the right things to rich people. The Carney govn’t can just pay people to do the things that need to be done. It really can be that simple.

New from me: an update on the US-Canada trade war. I recap how we got here and take a closer look at what the new Trump trade measures mean for Canada. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Trump’s new trade escalation: What is going on? | CCPA

Unpacking the tangled mess of the ongoing trade war between the U.S. and Canada, beginning with the latest measures that came into force early September

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“Unlock additional sources of capital.” He’s talking about the unearned wealth of the global ultra-rich. Just tax the rich already. Stop “catalyzing” and “unlocking” and “incentivizing”.

Avi Lewis@avilewis.ca · 3w ago

"The federal government is also exploring new models of infrastructure ownership and investment to unlock additional sources of capital, including the intention to maximize the full value and economic potential of Canada’s airports by modernizing governance and increasing capacity.