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Binzy_Boi

@ BinzyBoi @piefed.ca

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The local Albertan!

Former Flashpoint Archive staff member.

Enjoys local history, open data, Canadian politics, retro video games, and cooking (mmmm, perogies).

I have the following instances blocked. If you are on these instances, it's often nothing personal:

  • lemmy.world/piefed.world - Way too much American politics and casual transphobia for my liking
  • lemmy.ml - Transphobia from admins as well as denial of human rights abuses

  • Millions of Americans can now claim Canadian citizenship by descent. But they have to prove it.

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  • We can denounce the horrible shit that people have done in the past and correct the wrongs that continue to happen while also making indigenous people front and centre of how we approach our national identity, especially when it comes to the connection we have to the land that we live on seeing how indigenous people's cultures are by and far the most attached cultures to the land which we live on.

    I respect treaty rights and the right for First Nations have regarding self-determination, and there should be more efforts out there to help give proper reconciliation to the people we've historically harmed who have more right to this land than anybody else.

    In Edmonton for example, while there is absolutely more that needs to be done, especially when it comes to helping indigenous people directly through social services and the likes, I do appreciate that the efforts for reconciliation have been made such as the renaming of city wards to Cree names, renaming Dan Knott Junior High to Kisêwâtisiwin due to Knott's very likely connections to the KKK, and renaming the Oliver community to Wîhkwêntôwin because of Frank Oliver's racist efforts and attitudes towards indigenous people like the Papaschase as well as Black immigrants.

    We are leaving the very people who hold the richest culture relating to our land behind, and it is absolutely inexcusable that we continue that pattern, to which we should hold the government to account.

    Edit: Looking at the modlog for you and the absolutely vile things you've said about people, I'm just not going to engage any further.

  • Canada's most recent cancer report

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  • Reminder to get an adequate amount of fibre in people. Eat more beans, whole grains, ditch the white bread for whole wheat, etc.

    It's unfortunate that colorectal cancer rates are increasing because people's eating habits lacking the fibre they need.

  • Millions of Americans can now claim Canadian citizenship by descent. But they have to prove it.

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  • Completely against this.

    Every single election cycle we hear the same thing from either side of the aisle of American politics where if the person they're against wins, suddenly they want to move to Canada.

    We already have a big enough problem with having our own national identity. You can argue we have xyz that'll keep us afloat, but the reality is, we lack a lot culturally compared to other countries in our position. We constantly lose cultural talents here to the U.S. because it's more profitable to do what they do down south than it is here. Like, how many Canadian actors can you name that haven't moved to the American film industry? How many of them even live here?

    The same goes for a lot of major musical talents. Like wow, congrats, fucking Drake lives in Toronto, what an accomplishment that we have one major musical talent from this era who stuck around, and it's one of the worst people you can name.

    When Americans come in here through these ancestry claims, we are importing more American culture while completely failing to adequately protect our own. We are also giving credence to Americans seeing us simply as a safe-haven extension of the U.S., and allowing people to abandon the responsibility to their country if the Trump administration is the root cause of them coming here.

    Want to protect those such as immigrants and trans people in the U.S.? Get rid of the Safe Third Country agreement. We should only be taking in those whose lives are directly in danger despite their actions rather than those who have the ability to do something about their situation, yet take the coward's way out by leaving after they refused to take proper action.

    You already see this crap online of people simply saying "sorry" and doing fuck all otherwise about shit like the annexation talk. Why reward inaction?

  • Alberta regulator rejects Canada’s largest data centre

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  • More electricity than Edmonton should already be an absolute "no" on the project. That's abhorrent.

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    Binzy_Boi @piefed.ca

    Az(rule)manga

  • ‘Our women, they get lost on the street’: On the front lines of Edmonton’s Indigenous unhoused crisis

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  • Resources for the homeless in Edmonton have always been terrible, speaking as someone who was homeless there twice now. There's a lot of people wanting to make a difference, but as for organised supports in getting housing, there wasn't a lot when I lived up that way.

    When you compare the resources available for the homeless in Edmonton to those available for people in Calgary, it's essentially night and day. Even with government assistance, I remember waiting over four hours on two occasions to get on Income Support in Edmonton, whereas in Calgary, we were in and out of the office in maybe fifteen or twenty minutes.

    Mind you this was a few years ago, but still.

  • propaganda rule

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  • "Democracy dies in darkness, and we're on the side of darkness"

  • B.C. to end time changes, adopt year-round daylight time

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  • Whyyyyy

    I remember voting against the Daylight Savings removal here in Alberta when it came up because I don't understand why the only option when it comes to removing the swap is to make it permanent rather than not have it at all.

    Like congrats, we're basically changing timezones.

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
    Binzy_Boi @piefed.ca

    Don't mind me, just dropping a petition to review and possibly recall Pete Hoekstra

    www.ourcommons.ca /petitions/en/Petition/Details

  • Alberta’s reliance on oil revenues means that when prices fall, the economy follows

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  • This is the issue with the Heritage Fund. When Peter Lougheed established it and started funding it, the funds were supposed to be put towards investments in other sectors of the provincial economy so that we didn't have to rely on the boom-bust oil cycle.

    Premier after premier has failed to address the issue of the fund. We just hit $30 billion in the fund last year when the value in 1985 was $14 billion. We have done fuck all to diversify the economy here, it's been all talk, with the only action being backwards investments like a new AI data centre that'll end up costing more money than it's worth.

  • Is the town hall disappearing from Canadian politics?

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  • Counter-point, council meetings and open events not being a part of politics radicalises people and further exacerbates the issues we see with political extremism since people become more prone to the thought that politicians aren't working for them, something that could actually potentially happen when politicians don't meet with constituents face-to-face.

  • peterule

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  • Ordinary Sausage lookin' ass.

  • NDP statement on Iran bombings

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  • If he can talk about the issues of American hegemony at Davos, he can hold true to that word in a statement like this.

    Oh no, the U.S. is gonna negatively affect trade with us... as if Trump isn't literally out there threatening to abandon CUSMA, a deal that he made in his first term to replace NAFTA.

    If their word never seems to matter, why should we hold ourselves to their standards?

  • Cities in Australia and New Zealand get the little things right. Why can’t ours?

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  • I don't know if Australia is facing the opioid crisis the same way Canada is, but if these public washrooms are going to be accessible to the public, the government needs to take drug addiction seriously and properly address it with the money and laws that it deserves.

    I recently moved back to Edmonton briefly before coming back to Calgary, and where I remember public washrooms being accessible, they were all closed off, or too monitored to make me comfortable. Washrooms that used to be public in bus terminals and downtown pedways were always conveniently "out of service", and the open ones I did come across offered by the city had two security guards sitting directly outside them.

    People wash their clothes in these washrooms, inject and snort drugs, and sleep in these washrooms. Here in Calgary the Exeloos are a running jokes because they cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and they're never available because they don't want people dealing with addictions abusing them.

  • Boy, 11, wins campaign for new UK child cruelty register

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  • Seems like a great step in the right direction, but what would happen if someone on the register were to get pregnant? Would they be legally required to surrender their children on birth?

  • Former Diageo workers speak out on deal that keeps Crown Royal on shelves

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  • I don't drink a lot of alcohol, but a while ago I wanted to experiment with using whisky as a vanilla extract substitute for baking.

    Maybe the experience is different in Alberta from the rest of the country since there's no public liquor store, but while I was able to find Canadian-made whisky with ease, it was weirdly difficult finding any that were Canadian owned.

    Like you take a look at the companies that own these brands and they're based in the U.S., U.K., Japan for some odd reason... You look online and can find locally-owned brands, but the trouble is finding them on store shelves.

  • Can Canada find digital sovereignty in the Fediverse? | BetaKit

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  • If it helps garner any hope, there are former MPs and MLAs on the fediverse, and two candidates in the NDP leadership election have made accounts there and regularly post.

    The leader of the BC Green party, I believe her name was Emily Lowan, also has an account.

    Elbows Up Digital has a tracker and campaign to get politicians onto the fediverse: https://elbowsupdigital.ca/

  • How to Close a Diamond Mine in the Northwest Territories | The Walrus

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  • Wonder why they're closing. Have lab-grown diamonds become that viable of a replacement?

    Or is it because the new generation of consumers have changed their shopping habits, either because they can't afford something as expensive as a diamond, or are bucking the idea that love is something that needs to be shown with extravagance?

  • Some Grocery Items Have Increased Dramatically In Price Since Last Year. 'This is Unprecedented Inflation,' Experts Say.

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  • This just reminds me of Tanille Johnston's remark during the NDP debate, where she was talking about the removal of interprovincial trade barriers, and how she was waiting for agriculture to be mentioned.

    Part of the reason food prices are so expensive isn't just because of inflation, but also because of lack of consumer knowledge paired with a lack of proper domestic production and transportation of food.

    For example, many recipes online will call for olive oil as a healthy food option, but the cost of olive oil is insane. Consumers need to be informed by the government that Canadian-produced sunflower seed and canola oil are just as effective in these recipes.

    Another example is sugar. If people want to remove political tensions between urban and rural areas and help loosen the Conservative grip on rural communities, you need to appeal to and support farmers. Alberta has the only sugar production plant that works with domestic sugar in Taber. All other sugar production plants import sugar cane from abroad, which costs money in shipping, uses more resources, is environmentally damaging in the harvest process, and has a lower sugar yield per kilogram than domestic sugar beets. A Domestic Sugar Policy would benefit farmers, and lower the end cost of a pantry staple to Canadian shelves. It could also help us produce our own pantry essentials that we don't currently produce domestically, such as molasses which is often imported from Guatemala, a country currently in a political crisis with María Consuelo Porras.

    Why are we making and buying peanut butter when we hardly grow peanuts, importing most of them from a country actively tariffing us, when we grow sunflower seeds and can make sunflower seed butter a pantry staple with ease? It'd support domestic farmers, dropping production costs we see with peanut butter. Why is it that when I go to Dollarama, they sell beans imported from China and Turkey when we're the world's largest producer of pulses?

    Inflation is an issue, but this is also a failure of domestic policy when it comes to feeding ourselves and keeping money in our own economy. By investing in domestic food production and getting domestically-produced food on grocery shelves, we keep money in the Canadian economy, lessen political divides, reduce the cost of groceries at the till, and create a food landscape that further distinguishes ourselves as different from our American counterparts.

  • Calgary councillors debate whether a 'war' on cars is brewing in the city

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  • To think that we could have more progressive councillors if the more progressive types didn't misread the moment and run as a municipal party.

    The success of certain candidates was largely because of a rejection on the new municipal party system the provincial government put in place, and independent candidates faired much better than those aligned with a party.

    Genuinely think had it not been for the terrible arena deal that Gondek would likely still be mayor. Farkas may not be the best, but honestly I'm just glad he seems to be a genuine guy and that we avoided Sonya Sharp.

  • Hundreds of American nurses choose Canada over the U.S. under Trump

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  • It's easy to shit on the healthcare system here, but literally just using Ctrl+F in the article reveals this:

    Increased interest from American nurses was also confirmed by nursing associations in Ontario and Alberta, as well as by the nationwide Canadian Nurses Association.

  • Nearly 80% of Canadians oppose idea of Alberta leaving the nation: polling | CBC News

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  • Christofascist politicians.

    Like Heather McPherson, Corey Hogan, Mel Hurtig, the current prime minister...

    Need I go on?

  • Lemmy411 - Don't know where to find what you're looking for? @lemmy.ca
    Binzy_Boi @piefed.ca

    Communities for support and chat regarding personality disorders?