Charlie Angus🟧 on Bluesky

The #elbowsup / resistance tour is on the road.

MediaSmarts on Bluesky

If you believed in house hippos, you’re not alone! Anyone can fall for misinformation – that's why fact-checking matters.

In an election, it’s more important than ever to check before you share. Learn how at www.breakthefake.ca

#BreaktheFake #AprilFools #househippo

The image is an infographic titled "The Liberal's Broken Promise: Electoral Reform" that displays a vertical timeline with colored dots and information boxes chronicling electoral reform events in Canada.

The timeline shows six key events:

1. June 2015 (pink dot): Campaign Promise - Justin Trudeau pledges: "We are committed to ensuring the 2015 election will be the last election using first-past-the-post."

2. October 2015 (blue dot): Election Victory - Liberals win a majority government with 39.5% of the popular vote, securing 184 seats (54% of the House of Commons).

3. June 2016 (light blue dot): Special Committee Created - The Electoral Reform Committee (ERRE) is established to study options. The committee conducts consultations across Canada.

4. December 2016 (red dot): Committee Recommendations - The ERRE recommends proportional representation. 88% of electoral experts consulted favoured proportional representation.

5. February 2017 (blue dot): Promise Abandoned - PM Trudeau abandons electoral reform, claiming "no consensus" despite clear committee recommendations and public consultations.

6. October 2024 (black dot): Looking Back - Trudeau admits he should have "immediately shut down talk about proportional representation" and that Liberals were "deliberately vague."

Below the timeline is a "Key Statistics" box showing:

• 63% of voters cast ballots for parties promising electoral reform
• 80% of town hall participants asked for proportional representation
• 71% wanted parties to govern together

The infographic includes a Creative Commons license icon in the bottom left corner and a QR code in the bottom right. The footer cites sources: House of Commons Special Committee on Electoral Reform, Fair Vote Canada, Policy Options.

NDP🟧 on Bluesky

New Democrats will always show up for you—just as you've shown up for us.

New Democrats secured dental care, pharmacare, anti-scab legislation, and more because what we're all about: delivering programs that change people's lives.

And Jagmeet is ready to fight for more.

Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 on Bluesky

The far-right hijacked the GOP and gained power in the U.S. thanks to first-past-the-post.

Proportional representation prevents hostile takeovers—no group gets outsized influence without real voter support.

#cdnpoli #Election2025

Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ on Bluesky

Pierre Poilievre once said politicians shouldn’t stay in office for life. That was 1999. It’s 2025—he’s still here, with the same angry rhetoric and no results. Now he wants to kill public media and silence journalists. What’s he so afraid of? #SaveTheCBC #CdnPoli #Canada

"Politics should not be a lifelong career, and elected officials should not be allowed to fix themselves in the halls of power of a nation... Therefore, I would institute a limit of two terms for members of Parliament" - Pierre Poilievre 1990

Green Party of Canada | Parti Vert du Canada🟢 on Bluesky

Today we celebrate our loved ones in the trans community! Joy is essential to resistance.

Greens will continue to show up at Pride, to fight against hate, bigotry and transphobia, to protect trans kids, and to keep advocating for trans rights. 🏳️‍⚧️

The Walrus on Bluesky

There are over a hundred Green parties around the world, but the only country in which they’ve ever held actual power is Germany. Still, it’s never wise to write the Greens off entirely, notes @arnokopecky.bsky.social. thewalrus.ca/the-withering-of...

Jagmeet Singh🟧 on Bluesky

While Trump threatens health care, Canadian provinces are stepping up to bring in US doctors and nurses.

Doctors from overseas should be allowed to work from coast-to-coast-to coast. The NDP is focused on expanding health care for all Canadians—because everyone deserves care, not chaos.

APTN News on Bluesky

Green Party co-leader Jonathan Pedneault was in Whitehorse on Monday where he announced the party's new plan to tackle national defence.

Green Party announces plan to tackle national defence at northern campaign stop | APTN News

Jagmeet Singh🟧 on Bluesky

More New Democrats in Ottawa means YOU are better off.

With 25 of us, we fought for the biggest expansion of health care in a generation. We brought you dental care and pharma care.

These are concrete things that improve people’s lives.

If you elect New Democrats, we will fight every day for you.

Charlie Angus🟧 on Bluesky

Hello Alberta.

The Resistance Tour is coming to Edmonton.

Sunday, April 13

St Basil's Cultural Centre at 2 PM.

I hope to see folks there!

Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 on Bluesky

Huge thanks to @thejuicemedia.bsky.social for this epic shout-out to Fair Vote in their latest Honest Government Ad!

If you’re tired of feeling forced to vote strategically, it’s time to fight for proportional representation!

#cdnpoli #Election2025

Bhutila Karpoche🟧 on (https://bsky.app/profile/bhutilakarpoche.bsky.social/post/3llol4rgtrc2a) on Bluesky

New Democrats will take on the corporations profiting off of the housing crisis in Canada.

✅ Ban corporations from buying existing affordable rental buildings

✅ Cut off handouts for big corporate landlords who gouge their tenants

✅ Boost the Rental Protection Fund

Charlottetown NDP🟧 on Bluesky

Grocery chains have been increasingly raising prices, squeezing Islander's abilities to afford groceries. The NDP are putting forward concrete solutions to help all Canadians put food on the table.

Charlie Angus🟧 on Bluesky

I've been thinking a lot about fear—how it isolates us and how we break through it.

Read my reflection on how we are moving from fear to determination and building a better nation.

You can read it here: charlieangus.substack.com/p/how-the-li...

NDP🟧 on Bluesky

On #TransDayofVisibility, we celebrate transgender and non-binary individuals across Canada.

In the face of rising transphobia at home and in the US, we stand united and committed to protecting, uplifting, and amplifying the rights and voices of trans and non-binary people.

Now, and always.

Marit Stiles🟧 ONDP Leader on Bluesky

I’m honoured to once again serve as Leader of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. Let's get to work.

CIVIX Canada on Bluesky

Join thousands of educators across the country bringing democracy to life in their classrooms.

Schools receive ready-to-use learning materials and realistic voting materials to coordinate Student Vote Day.

Register your school today at studentvote.ca/canada

BC's New Democrats🟧 on Bluesky

Because trans rights are human rights, and always will be. 🏳️‍⚧️

#transdayofvisibility

Lt. Gov. McIntyre Speaks On Volunteering

Carol Baldwin

2025-03-28

On Thursday, March 20, Tourism Saskatchewan hosted a webinar, Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Great Volunteers, featuring Saskatchewan’s Lieutenant Governor, Bernadette McIntyre, a seasoned expert in volunteering. McIntyre shared her insights into how she has brought volunteers together to run the many large events she has coordinated over the years. Growing up in a small community, her parents were always involved in the community, helping out at the curling rink, the skating rink, the ball diamonds, or the church, and so volunteering has always been a way of life for her. Although she spoke primarily about volunteers for events, many of the same principles can benefit community organizations looking to build their volunteer ranks.

Platform Crunch: Comparing four parties’ tax cut and cash transfers promises

Tax and cash transfer promises are flying fast and furiously in the first week of Canada’s 45th federal election.

David Macdonald

2025-03-28

Earlier in the week, the Liberals came out with a promise to cut the lowest federal personal income tax rate from 15 per cent to 14 per cent and also cut the value of tax credits to match.

The Conservatives have the exact same plan except they’d drop it to 12.75 per cent (over two years), as well as exempting an additional $10,000 in seniors’ working income from taxation.

The NDP was the third party to join the frenzy. They’re promising to increase the basic personal exemption to $19,500. They’d also target cash transfers by doubling the Canada Disability Benefit to $4,800 and boosting the Guaranteed Income Supplement for low-income seniors. They’d pay for part of this by reinstating fairer taxation for capital gains, which was cancelled just before the election (of an inclusion rate of 66 per cent on capital gains over 250,000).

The Greens are in here too, promising to increase the personal exemption to $40,000, just like the NDP but to a much higher level.

Eby Pledges to Curb Cabinet Power in Controversial Tariff Response Bill

Critics had complained about a lack of legislative oversight

Andrew MacLeod

2025-03-28

The B.C. government is backing off on the part of a tariff response bill that critics said would give cabinet too much power to act without scrutiny from the legislature.

“Across the board people understand the intent of this bill, which is to ensure that we’re able to respond quickly to executive orders from the president that target our economy,” Premier David Eby said this morning. “But what they would like to see is increased ability and increased oversight, safeguards, in relation to the legislative assembly process.”

Attorney General Niki Sharma introduced Bill 7, the Economic Stabilization (Tariff Response) Act, on March 13 saying it was “enabling legislation” that would allow the government to quickly respond to threats from U.S. President Donald Trump.

A section of Bill 7 would have allowed the B.C. cabinet to make regulations for “addressing challenges, or anticipated challenges, to British Columbia arising from the actions of a foreign jurisdiction,” reducing interprovincial trade barriers and supporting the economy of B.C. and Canada.