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Max Davids retweeted
Jesus Christ - watching the Alberta Leg committee on the boundaries change, @nenshi confirmed the UCP is going to split Lethbridge up (likely the four way split we saw in the minority maps) and the Calgary rural-urban split seats.
Shameful @ABDanielleSmith, dirty cheater. #ableg
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Brazil is the world's case study in what happens when oligarchs capture a country. Car Wash, Odebrecht, Petrobras: the biggest corruption scandals in modern history, and a handful of billionaires who got rich by hollowing out the middle class.
That's Brazilification. Now we're letting Brazilian oligarchs run the same playbook here. 3G gutted Tim Hortons. Cleveland-Cliffs is gutting Stelco. Same system, same result, and this time it's Canadian communities paying for it.
3G Capital hollowed out Tim Hortons. They took a Canadian institution, squeezed the franchisees, cut the quality and turned it into another line on a spreadsheet.
Now the Brazilian-born CEO of Cleveland-Cliffs has admitted why he bought Stelco: "I bought Stelco because I could not afford anymore having Stelco flooding the market here in the United States to the detriment of my own company."
He didn't buy it to run it. He bought it to kill it. 500 workers are being laid off, and when Ottawa objected, he called his lawyers.
This is Brazilification, a term coined by a Canadian, Douglas Coupland. Oligarchs buy up competitors, choke production, capture regulators and dare anyone to stop them. Over time, you get the consequences. The middle class disappears. Good jobs vanish. A small elite owns everything and lives behind walls, while everyone else fights over what's left. The state stops serving the public and starts serving the people who own it.
That's where this road ends. Canada needs to get smart about who we let buy us.
Start with Stelco. Nationalize it and write the assets down to reflect everything Cliffs owes us: the broken job commitments, the lost production, the damage to Hamilton.
Then shut the door. No more approvals for predatory takeovers of Canadian brands or strategic industry.
He paid billions to destroy 500 Canadian jobs. He should be stuck with the bill.
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The American CEO who bought Stelco is openly admitting that he purchased the company to sabotage it.
This is why the Liberals should have never approved Stelco's sale in the first place. When you give away ownership of a critical industry like steel, your economy is forever under another's thumb.
There is only one solution that will save these jobs and put Canada back in the driver's seat: we need to nationalize Stelco.
Max Davids retweeted
Corporate greed is Microsoft making $134 billion in profits last year, receiving $19 billion in tax breaks under Trump, paying a lower federal income tax rate than a nurse and getting rid of 60,000 workers.
“Corporations will create jobs if they get tax breaks” is a total scam.
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34 days after this tweet was made chatgpt was released to the public
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Congratulations, you’ve just discovered what apartheid looks like: two populations living in the same territory, one with full rights and protection, while the other is denied both.
Max Davids retweeted
I have just published a piece that is very important to me. It's about why so many "progressives" and people on "the left" are lying to us right now about crime, safety, and repression, and what we should be doing instead. equalityalec.substack.com/p/…
The failure of the BC NDP campaign was nobody hearing about this.
#bcpoli
Max Davids retweeted
NEARLY 1 OUT OF 3 (60,000 EMPLOYEES) AT MICROSOFT BEING OFFERED VOLUNTARY TERMINATION
Emails should be going out any minute to those receiving the offer.
Absolutely insane.
$MSFT offers 60,000 employees a voluntary exit.
60K Y’all!!
First time this has ever been offered at Microsoft and it will affect employees in India, The United States, Canada, and the UK at level 70 or below…
Employees find out in a few hours if they are being targeted for this.
This just makes me think that H127 layoffs sound intense. Is this a pre-layoff round?
Also makes me wonder if they changed some scheduled layoffs due to be called out by @VP. Peace offering? 🤔 Timing is just interesting.
More to come.
Max Davids retweeted
I don't get why so many on the left and the right point to ideology being at the heart of the BC results, when the evidence points to "BC NDP made a cynical election call and NDP voters stayed home" as the real factor.
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AMERICAN WORKERS NOW GET THE SMALLEST SHARE OF WHAT THEY PRODUCE ON RECORD
The BLS labor share index hit 93.4 in Q2 2026.
It started at 116.0 in 1947. Now, the lowest ever.
It has fallen five quarters in a row.
Output keeps climbing. The workers' slice keeps shrinking.
Max Davids retweeted
Fewer people voted for the Conservatives than last election, and this city just elected it's most left wing municipal government ever. I think taking that as pro-Conservatism is an interesting angle.
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Israeli Elections:
BREAKING: Former IDF chief Gadi Eizenkot projected to become Israeli Prime Minister after Tuesday’s election, replacing Netanyahu.
52% chance.
🔗 polymarket.com/r/IsraelPM
