Recently in the National Post, Jordan Peterson diagnosed the psychological grip woke activists have on ordinary people, urging conservatives to move beyond the slogan “It’s the economy, stupid” and start fighting the philosophical battles at hand. I would argue his advice should be amended slightly: “It’s the political economy, stupid.”
Communists
Former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi announces bid for Alberta NDP leadership
Following weeks of speculation, former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi has officially entered the race to be the next leader of the Alberta NDP.
“I’m Naheed Nenshi, and I’m running to be leader of the Alberta NDP and your next premier,” he said in a video posted online on Monday.
“Together, we can beat Danielle Smith and the UCP.”
NDP calls on government to fund school lunch program in upcoming budget
The NDP is calling on the federal government to announce a national school lunch program in the upcoming federal budget, to be released on April 16.
The party says a national program would help children learn by providing them with healthy meals every day, while offering some relief to parents who are struggling with high food prices.
“Parents are doing everything they can to take care of their kids, but the cost of food just keeps going up,” NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said in a media statement released Wednesday.
This is how lunch went down back in the olden days:
1st week of the month, Ham, Tuna or Salmon sandwiches.
2nd week – Mystery meat or one of the 1st week selections.
3rd week – PBJ’s
4th week – Cheeze Whiz sandwiches.
h/t Damn I forgot sorry
Democratic Socialists face seven-figure debt ‘crisis’ amid Palestinian support that may force dreaded layoffs of staff
The Democratic Socialists of America are red all over — with a financial situation so dire that some leaders are demanding job cuts and the layoff of staffers just like a corporate America entity, The Post has learned.
The DSA — which has led protests against Israel over the Jewish State’s retaliatory response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack — is deep in a seven-figure hole and desperately in need of a way to stanch the red ink, members acknowledge.
Why isn’t Lenin as condemned as Hitler?
Around the corner from me is a barber’s shop decorated with black-and-white photographs of icons of the 20th century. James Dean is there with the usual cigarette hanging out of his mouth; Marilyn Monroe is perching on the edge of a pool table. A poster for the film Taxi Driver is alongside a photo of Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack — and also a photo of Lenin.
I guess the aim is to appear edgy, alternative and rebellious. But obviously there is no image of Hitler. That would be unacceptable: Hitler was a fascist who invaded countries and killed millions of people. It would be tasteless to display an image of him. But Lenin is apparently OK.
Victims of Communism memorial focus on Vietnam could cause political hassles for Canada: documents
The Victims of Communism memorial to be unveiled in Ottawa sometime this year has a high degree of focus on Vietnam, potentially setting the stage for a strong negative reaction from that nation, Canadian diplomats have warned.
Vietnam is Canada’s largest trading partner in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and as one of the world’s fastest growing economies it will play a key role in Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy, according to Global Affairs Canada.
God forbid we offend the communists.
50 Years Ago, Gulag Archipelago Unveiled A Haunted World
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn dedicated his book about the end state of communism ‘to all those who did not live to tell it.’
Just after Christmas 50 years ago, the original Russian edition of the first two parts of The Gulag Archipelago was published, followed by French and English translations the next year. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn dedicated his book “to all those who did not live to tell it.”
This was followed by second and third volumes in 1975 (parts three and four) and 1976 (parts five through seven), with corresponding translations in 1976 and 1978. Harper Collins publishes an authorized abridged edition.
Dear Ottawa: Mandating electric-vehicle sales is a bad idea
Canadians got a jolt Tuesday when Ottawa released new electric-vehicle regulations. The move, called the “Electric Vehicle Availability Standard,” aims to dramatically accelerate EV sales. Meeting the standard will require EVs to constitute 20 per cent of new vehicles sold by 2026, 60 per cent by 2030 and 100 per cent by 2035. For reference, EV market share has been less than 10 per cent in recent years. But not complying with the proposed rule risks drawing the ire of regulators – along with potentially hefty fines.
‘War on Christmas’: Movement to Cancel Holiday in Canada Seen Before in Communist Regimes
The Canadian Human Rights Commission said in a recent report that having statutory holidays for Christian celebrations such as Christmas is “a form of discrimination … deeply rooted in our identity as a settler colonial state.”
It’s the latest shot across the bow in what’s often called a “war on Christmas,” primarily driven by those seeking to secularize public life, says Christmas expert and historian Gerry Bowler of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
Adam Zivo: Sorry, progressives, but socialism is bad for minorities
Socialist-leaning progressives — and there seem to be an increasing number of them — often argue that only socialism can protect minority rights, but, in fact, the opposite is true. By largely abolishing private property, socialists deny minority communities the independent wealth needed to counterbalance state power and other hostile forces, leaving them more vulnerable than ever.
In socialist systems, the state controls the nation’s wealth. This would not be a bad thing if politicians and bureaucrats, who govern and administer the state, could be trusted to exercise their powers justly. But in practice it has been shown, time and time again, that these gatekeepers are prone to corruption.
Canada and Massachusetts open the door to the quartering of soldiers—oops, I mean unhoused populations
As a colleague noted, there are no property rights in a socialist state.
It should come as no surprise that Canada, with its notoriously socialist and interventionist government, is in the midst of a housing crisis. Who woulda thunk it?
The Left: What Is Left of It?
Since the 1980s, European political parties such as the Alliance for the Future of Austria, founded by Jörg Haider, and the National Front, founded by Jean-Marie Le Pen, have broadened their electoral base and forced their opponents, that is to say the traditional social democratic left and conservative right, to drop the labels they had used against them. The label “extreme right” became “far-right” and, currently, replaced by “populist.”
Today, we have no extreme right or far-right parties in Europe; we only have “populist” parties that have established themselves as parties of government in more than half of the European Union. Solidly based social democratic regimes in such places as Scandinavia and Finland have been dethroned by coalitions led by “populist” parties.
Similar coalitions are in power in Estonia, Greece, Italy, Poland and Slovakia.
Norway: Communisty party leader resigns after stealing designer sunglasses
The leader of Norway’s far-left Red Party Bjørnar Moxnes resigned on Monday after being caught stealing designer sunglasses from a shop at Oslo airport.
“I made a big mistake and made things even worse by the way I handled it afterwards,” Moxnes wrote on his Facebook page. “I am very sorry and would like to apologise.”
Victims of Communism, Victims of Modernism
One year after its opening, many still don’t recognize the extent of the horrors documented in the Victims of Communism Museum.
The Holodomor: 2–7 million dead.
The Gulag: 1.5 million dead.
The Great Leap Forward: 30 million dead.
The Communist Coward
Just as the spring weather wrapped Brussels in its arms, Malin Björk, a member of the European Parliament from Sweden, put her contempt for Europe’s Christians on full display in the heart of the European capital. She inaugurated an openly hateful exhibition in the parliament, consisting of a dozen highly disrespectful pictures of Jesus Christ. A Swedish photographer had depicted the son of God in multiple settings meant to desecrate the man worshiped by Christians worldwide.
Malin Björk did not desecrate the Prophet Muhammed. She is a communist and therefore harbors a fervent hostility toward religious faith in general. Hate of religion is an integrated part of communist ideology, but for reasons we will get to in a moment, Björk is careful not to let her hate spill over on Islam. She apparently confines her contempt for faith to Christianity …