California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced just one day after the U.S. officially withdrew from the World Health Organization (WHO) that his state would become the first to join the organization…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced just one day after the U.S. officially withdrew from the World Health Organization (WHO) that his state would become the first to join the organization’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, in a seeming rebuke of the Trump administration’s withdrawal from international collaborations.

Newsom traveled this week to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he was scheduled to speak at an event but was canceled at the last moment. During his trip, he met with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

  • Jack_Burton@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    Yep, and the equalization payment garbage really sums up the right-leaning mentality that’s pushed on society lately as well; if the results aren’t immediate, it’s not worth doing. These traitors scream about how they pay more than other provinces and get nothing back. The fact is they get a lot back, it’s just not immediately apparent.

    Equalization payments help “have-not” provinces who need the boost, which strengthens those provinces. Strengthening the “have-nots” makes Canada stronger as a whole and more united, which very much helps Alberta (and every province). The “fuck you I got mine” attitude that gets pushed by Conservative gov’ts is a toxic cancer that’s spreading through the population and makes it easy for them to push their division politics, like Danielle Smith does. You’re meant to get sucked into it to fight the culture war so you don’t look up and fight the class war.

    • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      also, if we didnt just let these multinational oil companies just siphon off all the profits and leave messy orphaned wells for the public to clean up, albertans would be better off

      If they had started a sovereign wealth fund like norway, instead of shipping all the profits overseas, they would be better off…

      I would actually support oil and gas if it actually benefitted the nation.

      Canada got rid of the british, but not the corporations that are the true colonizers still extracting from the land and the people and sending the wealth overseas

      • Jack_Burton@lemmy.caEnglish
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        3 hours ago

        The Heritage Fund was our Noway fund, it was just mismanaged to the point of nonexistence. Smith “brought it back” but I suspect it’s going to just be a slush fund to increase pension payments for the first couple years after dumping CPP to make it seem like the APP performs better.