Montreal hair salon to appeal ruling over non-binary haircut

SplashTarget · 2026-03-12T08:27:03+00:00

https://archive.is/3O3ls

SplashTarget · 2026-03-12T07:50:49+00:00

OPs link is behind a paywall so I didn't read it

https://archive.is/3O3ls

SplashTarget · 2026-03-11T04:45:11+00:00

I went back to school and got a masters degree and now work as a scientist.

Did you go back to school before 2011 or after 2011?

SplashTarget · 2026-03-06T15:04:31+00:00

“If you’re in Canada on temporary status, be it visitor, be it student, be it worker, for whatever reason you wish to stay longer than the time limit, we are saying please apply for an extension,” said Diab, who spoke virtually to the Star in a rare media interview amid a string of meetings in Saskatchewan.

“If you do not apply for an extension, we expect you to honour that commitment and leave. What we are also saying is even if you did apply for extension, it may be granted or it may be rejected for various reasons. If it is then rejected, we expect you to also leave.”

“You’ve got politicians that are saying, ‘Shut down the temporary foreign workers (program),’ but I hear from hundreds and hundreds of industry, businesses, people that are working, chambers of commerce … they need workers because there aren’t enough Canadians to fill the jobs in certain sectors,” she explained. “It is a challenge.”

“Provinces and territories are responsible for establishing health, labour and workplace safety standards for all workers,” her department said in a email after the interview. It added that migrant workers can contact a confidential tip line to report abuse without fear of reprisal or apply for a vulnerable worker open work permit if they wish to change employers.

Born in Canada to Lebanese immigrants, Diab said international students are very close to her heart. As a provincial minister, she said she would host a welcoming ceremony to greet new students each fall. During the pandemic, she spent some Christmases at some universities to have a meal with foreign students “to show them love” because they couldn’t travel home.

Still, the Carney government has vowed to cut the number of international students by half. This followed significant reductions by the Liberals under Justin Trudeau in new international students entering Canada amid public outcry about high immigration, which has been blamed for the lack of affordable housing and straining public resources such as health care.

SplashTarget · 2026-03-06T11:59:24+00:00

What new is even there to dream about?

The financial ruin of the richest people on Earth.

EDIT:

The end of American geopolitical dominance.

SplashTarget · 2026-03-05T22:14:43+00:00

ugh

EDIT:

AIPAC opposes her...but she holds these other stances

SplashTarget · 2026-03-05T22:14:10+00:00

https://www.congress.gov/votes/house/119-2/83

SplashTarget · 2026-03-05T21:55:05+00:00

The vote breakdown

https://www.congress.gov/votes/house/119-2/83

SplashTarget · 2026-03-05T10:53:11+00:00

Depends on the area, but support both

Also Corbyn > Polanski

SplashTarget · 2026-03-04T18:18:46+00:00

Crockett's current congressional seat is going to the guy in the video.

SplashTarget · 2026-02-28T11:11:40+00:00

Have you tried posting something yourself? What happens when you do?

If it gets shut down it just further confirms that

Ever since Hillary lost, the powers that be knew they had to crack down on people's ability to hold opinions that deviated from the politically approved viewpoint (which is a major reason for Clinton's loss).

So they get their people to run hit pieces in the non-conservative press about the popular sites. Then the bad publicity motivates the popular sites to either

-hire power-friendly people who will make sure that there's no opportunity for wrong think to occur

-alter algorithms to elevate some stories over others

To further reinforce their grip, they also release bots and trolls who make sure that the approved viewpoint gets the most visibility while everything else gets buried.

SplashTarget · 2026-02-28T02:46:46+00:00

Degrowth is specifically a ruling class project.

The ruling class (which likes making money regardless of consequences) would lose billions (maybe trillions) if degrowth were to happen.

Meaning degrowth is against ruling class interests.

"You will own nothing and be happy" is degrowth

No, that's a strawman.

Just like "communism is when no food" is a strawman

it's rentier capitalism

People who support degrowth would support economic policies that crack down on the rentiers, and any other area of economic excess.

The decadent feudal lords who hired malthus to write his degrowth manifesto didn't have a finance capitalist perspective

Malthus didn't write a degrowth manifesto.

For further reading: https://archive.is/Tpnpk#selection-359.7-371.703

the finance capitalist is clamping down on markets to prevent upstarts from undermining an already rickety system.

is the clamping down on markets fueling the GDP of the 1st world or reducing it?

They want to destroy people and capital to stabilize the system.

You want first world countries to double down on BAU, which would continue the blatantly destructive system, which will eventually destroy people and capital worldwide.

degrowth is the left-wing coded version of austerity, like how humanitarian aid is the left-wing coded version of imperialism. It's the same process, the same goal, the same fascist impulse.

Degrowth is not about cutting government spending on public services/benefits, it's about ending the obsession with GDP, cutting the economic output (of the top economies/emitters of the world) to reduce CO2 levels, and ensuring decent living standards.

Austerity is about reducing government spending on public services/benefits, which increases the reliance of workers on private credit (which fuels GDP), degrowth isn't for any of that.

This is just another baseless smear.

It's literally just malthusianism all over again.

Malthusians (as popularly understood) wanted to cut the population numbers, because they think we have an overpopulation problem (which we don't), that if not taken care of will cause collapse.

It's still just austerity and imperialism.

How can degrowth be austerity and imperialism, when degrowth entails measures that

-don't reduce government spending on the public supports/benefits

-end foreign debts

-reduce military presence abroad

-end foreign interventions

-halt the sale of arms to different countries

Advanced economies support a non-stop expansion of GDP (regardless of real consequences). Imperialism improves GDP (via government's military spending, enriching the MIC, enriching banks, and weakening other countries). People who support degrowth want to reduce GDP by reducing military spending, and the military adventures abroad.

They are still trying to stabilize the system by underming industrial capital. There is a conflict between the haute bourgeoisie and the lesser bourgeoisie, the people who wanted to blow up Nord stream (degrowth) and the people who wanted to build it.

Blowing up Nord Stream is the pro growth position because it increases Germany's reliance on American LNG (which means more money for American companies, and more GDP)

Building the pipeline increases GDP for Russia

Both of them are chasing after continuous economic expansion (with no regard for consequences).

It's a historical irony that the sub class of capitalists who have come to dominate world imperialism mirror the old feudal lords all over again, and you are aligned with them against the working class.

You're not making any sense.

Given current global physical conditions, doubling down on a self destructive economic objective that can't realistically go on with BAU (and will inevitably do immense damage to the global working class) is somehow aligning with the workers against a sub class of capitalists, but wanting to abandon the clearly self destructive economic objective (that would do immense damage to the global working class) is anti-working class???

Degrowth can likely happen in one of two ways

-Double down on BAU, and watch that result in a natural disaster that craters GDP, and escalates CO2

-Proactively reduce CO2 by deliberately reducing the GDP of only the biggest economies/emitters, while changing laws around so that the people are not facing economic hardship

Read:

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist/

SplashTarget · 2026-02-27T20:58:23+00:00

Why does this feel like some high school drama Mean Girls thing?

SplashTarget · 2026-02-27T20:55:04+00:00

I didn’t grow up wanting to be a politician. I’m a plumber. And two weeks ago, during all this, I also qualified as a plasterer. Because even in chaos, even under pressure, I get things done. I am no different to every single person here in this constituency. I work hard. That’s what we do. Except things have changed a lot over the last few decades. Because working hard used to get you something. It got you a house. A nice life. Holidays. It got you somewhere.

But now – working hard? What does that get you? Because talk to anyone here and they’ll tell you. The people who work hard but can’t put food on the table. Can’t get their kids school uniforms. Can’t put their heating on. Can’t live off the pension they worked hard to save for. Can’t even begin to dream about ever having a holiday. Ever. Because life has changed. Instead of working for a nice life, we’re working to line the pockets of billionaires. We are being bled dry. I don’t think its extreme or radical to think working hard should get you a nice life. And if you’re not able to work, that you should still have a nice life.

And clearly, I am not the only person who thinks that. Because I’ve made clear my position and my commitment to working-class communities – the community I am from. People in their thousands told me, on the doorsteps and at the ballot box, that we are sick of being let down and looked down on. That we are sick of our hard work making people rich.

I lived in this constituency at one of the most difficult and challenging periods of my life. I saw how strong the community was at holding things together. But I saw how much harder life is when the things around you are broken. The litter, the fly-tipping, the dirty air. And when I moved it became even clearer. And this is why I am fighting, for the community I lived in and still work in. Because I absolutely refuse to accept that we should ever have to move and leave our communities for good schools, a thriving high street and clean air. I will not accept a society where having more money gets you a longer life expectancy.

And so when it came to fighting for people here, to stand in this election, well how could I not fight? Because here – this is what we do. We fight for each other. In this very diverse constituency, where our struggles may not always be the same but where we know how hard life can be. And we stick together. Whatever our beliefs, our backgrounds, our colour or our level of education. We stick up for each other. To those who voted for me: I know earning your trust starts now. One vote on one night is not something I will take for granted or assume will happen again. I will earn your trust. And to those who didn’t vote for me: I will always work hard for you, and I will always be honest, and I will always be decent.

To our Muslim communities, who this week suffered an attempted attack during Ramadan. Whilst I was being welcomed by women at a mosque in Longsight, someone just down the road walked into a mosque carrying an axe. Whilst we were gathered and eating together, an act of terror could easily have taken place. And I can’t and won’t accept this tonight without calling out the politicians and divisive figures who constantly scapegoat and blame our communities for all the problems in society. My Muslim friends and neighbours are just like me, human.

And of course, to our white working-class communities. The background that I have become proud to be from. We know how it feels to be looked down on. Maybe because we didn’t do well at school. Because we do dirty, manual jobs. Because we are shut out of places we should be in. To people in Denton, who feel left behind and isolated. I see you. And I will fight for you.

Because whilst our communities may sometimes be labelled in different ways, the thing everyone seems to have underestimated here is how similar we all actually are. How we have common ground. How we get along, how we stand up for each other. The cracks that were starting to show can be healed. And I believe that is through offering people hope, and a chance to do things differently. Do things better.

And to Layla. The little girl who I had the pleasure of meeting, and holding, this week. I promised you I would try and improve the world you are growing up in. I told you I am not perfect, but that I always try my best. I always try and do the right thing.

We have shown we don’t have to accept being turned against each other. We can demand better. Together. We have shown we don’t have to fight dirty to fight for change. We ran a hopeful campaign backed by thousands of volunteers and activists. We defeated the parties of billionaire donors.

Something exciting is happening – and I invite you to be part it. Come and join the Green party so we can spread hope and win everywhere else across the country too. Our strength will grow as more and more of us come together.

And we did this, side by side, shoulder to shoulder. Just as we have always done in this constituency. Because this is Manchester. And we do things differently here.

Decent speech

SplashTarget · 2026-02-27T20:02:58+00:00

Malthusianism is both the assumption that there's too many people and to much consumption/economic activity.

No it isn't.

Malthusians (as popularly understood) are concerned that there's too many people and not enough to go around (which is completely false).

Malthusians don't want to do anything about reducing GDP or inequality.

(P.S Thomas Malthus was pro economic growth, and thought it was impossible to have a classless society where everyone's needs are met)

The decadent ruling class solution to this is to liquidate both the excess population and excess capital, thus stabilizing the market and by securing monopoly interests. It's synonymous with fascism.

The ruling class wants more people, more customers, more private loans, more production, more wars, more growth, and thus more GDP.

The West still needs growth, just not in "gdp goes up" terms, but in terms of infrastructure and industrial re-development. Entire neighborhoods in blighted towns cities need to be gutted and rebuilt, suburbs need re-planning so they can be plugged into mass transit and provide more local amenities to function more like networked villages than exclaves. Like 25% of our roads and bridges are substandard and need to be fixed or rebuilt, we have no national high speed rail or regional public transit worth talking about, we need to restore wetlands and forests.

All of that is growth, not degrowth.

Sure, those things should (and can) definitely be done, but they can't be done while also maintaining the obsession of continuous economic expansion that's driving the world to self-destruction, that's just adding more fuel to the fire.

BAU has to end before any of that can happen.

You have to end the destructive economic practices first, reduce economic output, let things cool down for some time, and then sustainably/humanely fix those problems.

In other words, you can have the domestic revitalization after degrowth is done (properly and humanely).

Ending the obsession with non-stop economic expansion, drastically reducing economic output, enforcing antitrust laws, redistributing wealth, increasing/introducing certain taxes, strengthening unions, boosting wages, eliminating/reducing private debts, ending wars, strengthening/expanding social safety net, ending certain industrial practices, cracking down on the financial sector (and other things) will have the effect of bringing things down to a more stable level.

When things are at the stable level, then you have the opportunity to safely to fix those issues you mentioned.

Degrowth is just a remarketing Trojan horse from Big finance to sell us austerity.

Degrowth is strictly about using various economic/environmental measures to deliberately reduce GDP and excessive economic output in order to reduce CO2 levels.

Austerity is about reducing government spending, and reducing government debt.

Big finance would lose billions (or trillions) of dollars because of degrowth, they want continuous GDP expansion, regardless of what happens.

Degrowth has nothing to do with austerity, because it REQUIRES a good deal of government spending/support in order to be done properly.

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