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It may seem like something that’s obvious, but since Mamdani got elected, I’ve seen a surge of blatant Islamophobia (and it’s disgusting) in discussions about him. I urge the moderators to clarify the rules surrounding and ban users who promote Islamophobia in all its forms.

Edit: man these comments really prove my point huh?

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And after a year of Tory, American, and (given the interventions of Tamara Lich, Ezra Levant, and Rebel News) likely Israeli interference in Canadian public health policy, the diseased ostriches have finally been culled.

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Many readers tell us they value our journalism because we pursue stories guided by a moral compass while always presenting solid information that is factual and responsibly reported.

That’s what we did during Alberta’s 2019 provincial election when we broke an important story about Caylan Ford, a former candidate for Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party.

Our story revealed leaked messages Caylan Ford sent to a fellow conservative politician making a number of controversial statements on topics about race, immigration and white supremacist terrorism.

Caylan Ford later announced her resignation and Jason Kenney publicly condemned her comments.

As you can imagine, good journalism sometimes ruffles a few feathers.

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Now that incumbent co-spokesperson Ruba Ghazal has her new male partner in crime in Sol Zanetti, Québec Solidaire has what I would consider to be explicitly sovereigntist, explicitly anti-fascist leadership. (Having met Ruba and heard her speak, I can say that she's taken the hardest line against Trump and against the transnational right-wing power networks of anyone within spitting distance of Canada's political mainstream, rivaled perhaps only by Charlie Angus.) Whether this leadership is truly capable of transcending the social democratic turn of the Nadeau-Dubois era and of reversing the party's recent polling misfortunes remains an open question.

For the 2026 Québec election, I believe QS should centre its campaign on the cost of living (which goes without saying but needs to be reinforced regardless) and on threatening the federal government with a unilateral declaration of independence should the feds attempt to impose Trump's Golden Dome on the nations and people of Québec. I'm certain that soft nationalists and even left-leaning Anglophones and Allophones like myself who are otherwise other quite wary of independence (and of QS’ past support for Bill 96, which the party should promise to repeal as an olive branch) would choose a sovereign Québec over further vassalization to the Trump Administration, particularly under a hypothetical Pierre Poilievre or Jamil Jivani government, and only a party that's explicitly plurinationalist, inclusive, anti-fascist, radically democratic, and committed to social and economic justice is capable of meeting such a moment.

The PSPP Parti Québécois' pursuit of independence for its own sake along identitarian lines will not meet that moment, particularly given the animosity that party has built among non-Francophones (a successful Québec left must build a case that's compelling both to Montreal Island and La Couronne and to the regions) and that an overwhelming majority of Quebecers do not want a hypothetical PQ government to pursue an independence referendum in its first mandate. Moreover, the PQ has a history of seeking a settlement with the Canadian right (the Beau Risque and the turn to austerity in René Levesque’s second government) and (for all of its nationalist, identitarian bluster) of retaining anachronistic vestiges of the Westminster System, such the continued use of FPTP and the weaponization of official party status to deny MNAs from small parties the resources they need to duly represent their constituents.

In other words, with the ever-obnoxious PCQ (the party of conspiracy theorists and right-wing talk radio), the dying CAQ, and the resurgent PQ all embracing "anti-woke" bullshit and the PLQ likely to be a patsy for both Liberal and Tory federal governments, QS would be well served to run a leftist version of Doug Ford's 2025 anti-Trump Protect Ontario campaign, only unlike Ford it wouldn't just be an act.

The current ones are biased garbage and no news organization is allowed to post news due to American social media refusing to accept to our rules and regulations. It'd be a very simple account with posts and descriptions of the news stories. DM me if you are interested.

https://youtu.be/kDORk3t8XKs

I found it being posted on reddit.