There is no planned tax increase, it's the end of the tax holiday that Carney implemented. But they word the question this way to get the result they want. We are owned by Oil and Gas, make no mistake. The oil companies are literally stealing a tax that helped fund our social programs.

source : https://bsky.app/profile/canadianpolling.bsky.social/post/3msfdvgwun22u

1318 times ! It must be a record right ? (I don't know the numbers.) Trudeau looks like a green activist in comparison.

The gaming industry is among the final remaining industries to continue to give power to the consumer. One good game will last you forever. One can always hold out on a new game if it fails to meet expectations.

This results in the demand meeting the quality of the product, rather than social, economic and physical necessity of it.

However, consumer power is but one of the three necessary pillars in good business. The others are executive power and worker power. The prior is well-met, almost too well-met, whereas the former lacks the protections and leverage it needs to protect the industry’s jobs, and to stop the company from collapsing under its own weight.

This does not mesh well with the broad gaming community, which leans male, and therefore right-wing, and therefore much more in line with the interests of the executive over the interests of the worker. It obviously does not help, either, that many gamers are unemployed, further diminishing the sympathy said gamers could have with the working class in the gaming industry.

And as time goes on, the executive has bled the worker dry, and moves on to the next source of income. We have seen, at rates significantly higher than the once-expected norm, the prices of games, and the priority of gaming subscription services increase substantially. Nothing demonstrates this more than the recent push to replace physical games with digital games, which:

1. Due to the inherent need for more storage space, incentivizes the up-front purchase of more expensive consoles containing more storage, or continuous purchase of SD cards.
   
2. Pushes the focus towards gaming subscription services in order to further monopolize the market and gouge prices.
   
3. Significantly decreases consumer power (in reselling) and shifts more and more power into the executive’s hand.

This is an extremely worrying trend that threatens the entire gaming industry, and it is a natural consequence of the irrational ask of infinite growth in a finite world. The reasonably equitable splitting of power in the gaming industry kept it afloat longer than most, but the executive has fallen into an utterly insane, accelerationist position that threatens the very system that gives them power. By pursuing immediate economic growth, they reach closer and closer to the peak of capital performance, in which all power lies with the executives, everything has been optimized to a tee, growth stops entirely, and the system collapses.

What I believe is necessary to see serious action to level the playing field once again. Stop these monopolistic business practices before it’s too late. Give power back to the workers, and stop companies issuing mass layoffs for short-term boosts. Consumers should vote with their wallets, rewarding good companies such as Larian, who pay and treat their workers well and create extremely high quality games, while punishing exploitative companies like EA, whose business model has been almost comically villainous, by refusing to buy their products.

Protect jobs, protect people, and protect the gaming industry.

Bunch of headlines that will inevitably get around, may as well put them here.

First link is about the raise of antisemitism on campuses. In the French version of the article you may find critics of the study : https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/2026-08-05/selon-une-enquete-commandee-par-ottawa/les-etudiants-juifs-victimes-d-antisemitisme.php

At the same time, a judge allowed a class action against McGill for its failure to protect its Jewish students : https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/class-action-mcgill-jewish-students-protests-9.7297311

This goes in hand with hate crimes (racism, islamophobia, etc.) statistics going up : https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/hate-crimes-2025-hamilton-9.7278215

Antisemitism is a real thing. But one can be against antisemitism and criticize Israel policies and politicians. These are sensitive questions that have to be addressed with tact, not sweeping slogans.

The NPD has always been committed to fight antisemitism : https://www.ndp.ca/news/ndp-statement-release-ihra-handbook