"Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive & available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable."
β Milton Friedman
Think #Trump attacks, #tariffs, end of #cusma etc. Then Carney & Digital Services Act, supply management, etc. Ripe for plunder. #canada
Zeb King π¨π¦
Zeb King π¨π¦
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Activist Politician/Municipal Councillor in Central Saanich, #YYJ, π¨π¦. Doctoral candidate at RRU interested in the 'engagement cycle' of political/community organizing. Champion of local urban food production. In my pokemon like game that I call Mastodon following, I'm searching for #Canadians (1pt), #BritishColumbians (2pts), those living in #YYJ (3pts), and the rare, elusive, and beautiful creatures of #CentralSaanich (4pts). I'm against all violence, human suffering, and injustice.
Website: www.zebking.ca
Recommended: https://followgraph.vercel.app/
Verified By Mastofind: https://verified.thecanadian.social/people/nostr:npub1clv3kk8e5ysax3lfrxuxzzd24r8f3nu5djuz42vc68qu4twtqc0szufsmp
Iβm curious about the ground reality here.
How much person-to-person recruiting to Mastodon is actually happening?
No judgment in this β Iβm just trying to understand the landscape a bit better. Boosts help widen the sample. Ran out of room for more options... Perhaps one option should be for anyone who encourages folks to leave this space, not just to join it (in pursuit of the small is beautiful concept, perhaps). #BuildTheFediverse
Question: How many people have you brought into Mastodon?
1/10
Shout-out to Green Party of BC leader, @Emily Lowan (she/her)
for mentioning βMastodonβ on Rachel Gilmoreβs Bubble Pop show.
The quick laugh after said the obvious: this place is still seen as niche.
Maybe it is, and maybe thatβs also an opening.
#BuildTheFediverse #cdnpoli #canpoli
Calling all Mastodons!
New Democratic Party of Canada leadership candidate, Heather McPherson, said she'd have her team/staff look into it when asked if she'd get a Mastodon account.
Send them an email at contact@heathermcpherson.ca
Give a Toot!
#NDP #cndpoli #canpoli #mastodon #leadership https://mastodon.online/@ZebKing/115595517830865093
#USA
#boycottusa


Mastodon Canada
bhoutlook (@bhoutlook@mstdn.ca)
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Canada has sodium, aluminum, and forests rich in carbon feedstock. Everything needed for world-class sodium-ion batteries. Whatβs missing? The will to scale it and not simply be subservient to the USA industrialists.
π₯ Call to action: ask your MP and local utilities to invest in homegrown Na-ion pilot plants.
#SodiumIon #EnergyStorage #cdnpoli #Canada
Find Members of Parliament - Members of Parliament - House of Commons of Canada
Find Members of Parliament - Members of Parliament - House of Commons of Canada

Latitude Media
The promise and perils of sodium-ion batteries
What breakthroughs do sodium-ion batteries need to become competitive? This new tech could accelerate the energy transition.
π± Congratulations to Emily Lowan, newly elected leader of the BC Green Party!
She is now the first political party leader in Canada on Mastodon β a milestone for healthier, community-driven digital spaces.
I look forward to seeing Emily share more here about expanding Mastodon adoption and supporting her MLAs as they join the Fediverse. Perhaps also a friendly challenge to other party leaders.
@Emily Lowan (she/her) @npub18ur8...e8kt #yyj #Cdnpoli #Canpoli #GreenParty #BCPoli @npub12j4e...vque
Charlie Angus nails it.
#cdnpoli #canpoli #boycottusa, #Canada
"Fascism is an alliance between the 'strongman' and big business" β Mehdi Hasan π π
AKA
"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is fascism β ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.β
β Franklin D. Roosevelt, Message to Congress, Jan 3, 1938
#USA
#boycottusa


Have you ever made an #introduction post on Mastodon?