Today's jobs report is deeply alarming:
➡️84,000 jobs lost
➡️108,000 full-time positions erased
➡️youth unemployment is skyrocketing
The Liberals are making this jobs crisis worse with cuts and austerity. The NDP is demanding better.
My full statement:
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DOGE said it was cutting government waste.
So they gutted USAID — the agency that feeds starving people around the world.
Meanwhile the Pentagon spent millions on lobster, ribeye, and even a $98,000 piano.
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#NDP #MPHeatherMcPherson calls on govt to #sanction companies doing business with #ICE #cdnpoli
Adjusting to daylight savings is tough. Adjusting government savings isn’t.
The solution is simple: a flexible remote work policy. It could save the government up to $6 billion wasted on office space.
The CMHC housing catalogue would have been awesome if the units were for family-sized homes. But, unfortunately, they weren’t 👎🏼
#PEI I am sure there's a link to the fact that we the highest rate I think it is in the provinces, of children who go to school hungry.
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New piece in the Toronto Star from Cara and me, on research showing how the middle-class housing crisis negatively impacts all of us, not just those priced out of homes.
Read here:
🤦🤦🤦 #PEI
"Travel nurses come from outside P.E.I. and are hired by a private agency to fill vacancies on a temporary basis, usually at a higher pay rate than most salaried nurses hired by the province. Health P.E.I. currently has contracts with 10 travel nurse agencies.#
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One of the more discouraging parts of living in a province (PEI) with unit-based rent control:
Enforcement relies on existing tenants filing a form for the potential to have overpaid rent returned to them + have rent for their unit be lowered to the legal amount.
Health PEI is showing classic signs of abusive behavior, including but not limited to running down and exhausting doctors and other medical professionals. They have to be held accountable. #PEI
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The amount of sexual abuse in our schools is insane and changes should have been implemted such a long time ago.
#PEI
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"I cannot keep working for a health authority that continues to treat me and my fellow physicians with such ignorant disrespect,"
#PEI
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This is a campaign of retribution. Trump is weaponizing the entirety of the federal government to punish blue states like Minnesota.
These cuts will be devastating for veterans, families with young kids, folks with disabilities, and working people across our state.
10 years after the federal government outsourced the Phoenix pay system to IBM, the damage is still being felt. The debacle has wasted over $5 billion in taxpayer money, proving that contracting public service work is costly and inefficient.
It's crazy that our old satire movies are less satire now then real life.
For a full decade, Phoenix has disrupted lives and created ongoing financial uncertainty. Workers were placed in impossible situations through no fault of their own. Today, many are still living with stress and anxiety.
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👏 👏 👏 👏 “I just see too many situations where children are speaking to us and … the picture that's being presented in this report is not consistent with the reality that we see on a day-to-day basis.” #PEI
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I mean, you just had to ask any person trying to buy a starter home. That it is worse then it was being reported. Including almost no homes being listed for under 350 #PEI
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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
It is against Canadian law to sell weapons that could be used against civilians. Check out my conversation with @heathermcpherson.bsky.social over her push to cancel the export permits for the armoured carriers that Rochell industries is building for ICE.
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"He said that, on at least one occasion, firearms had been seized from the home, and the lawful owner of the firearms had petitioned to have them returned."
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PM Carney’s government will need to spend millions fixing up pest-infested, falling-apart federal buildings just to force workers back to the office.
All while cutting jobs and calling it “saving money.” That’s not fiscal discipline. It’s hypocrisy.
