The Alberta Worker
In today’s issue of the Lethbridge Herald, the publisher and advertising manager, Brian Hancock, took the liberty to use his platform to share his personal opinion about recent developments regarding the drug crisis in Lethbridge. He disparaged the now-defunct supervised consumption site, which was operated by ARCHES, as well as the mobile overdose prevention site […]
I’m not opposed to a consumption tax, per se, but it can’t be the only taxation source.
In the second quarter of 2020, Lethbridge had the highest fentanyl death rate in the province and had doubled ER visits and EMS responses.
Non-renewable resources are public resources, and companies who extract them for a profit should pay the public for them.
Indigenous people already have to deal with the effects of generations of systemic racism. It’s cruel to make them deal with solving them, too.
Addiction isn’t something you can switch on and off at will, and it will drive people to find a way to feed the cravings. That’s not something people get to control.
If you’re friends with a libertarian, you’ve probably heard them say something like “taxation is theft”. Taxation isn’t theft; tax cuts are theft. More specifically, tax cuts on corporations and the rich are theft.
Conservative politicians prefer short-term solutions over long-term solutions. They’re concerned only with what happens between now and the next election.
Conservative governments cut expenses to save money from reduced revenues, because of their tax cuts, which are cut to increase profits for companies.
I wonder if the whole Anyone But Conservatives hurts labour in the long run.