Taylor C. Noakes

3 days ago | cultmtl.com | Taylor C. Noakes

As of April 21, 2025, the Conservatives have not released a party platform for the election they a) knew was coming, b) spent all of 2024 trying to goad Trudeau into calling early, and c) were going to win in a landslide up until three months ago. This is pathetic by any objective measure. To me, it demonstrates that this isn’t as much a political party as it is a ChatGPT-based slogan-generating algorithm speaking through the mouth of everyone’s least favourite muppet, Pierre Poilievre.

5 days ago | cultmtl.com | Taylor C. Noakes

The Leaders’ Debate Commission has failed Canada for the last time. First, they undermined their own importance by rescheduling for a hockey game. Second, they banned the Greens — a national party — for not having enough candidates, while still allowing the Bloc. Third, they allowed far-right activists to dominate the French debate’s press scrum.

1 week ago | popularresistance.org | Taylor C. Noakes

Above photo: Federal subsidies to the oil and gas sector totalled $74.6 billion over five years, Environmental Defence found. David Niddrie / Flickr. Amid trade war talk of expanding Canadian energy infrastructure, a new report reveals that direct Canadian subsidies to the fossil fuel and petrochemical sectors reached nearly $30 billion in 2024. For comparison’s sake, Canada spent between $38 billion and $39 billion on defense in 2024.

2 weeks ago | nationalobserver.com | Taylor C. Noakes

Fossil fuels have, unfortunately, not only become more economically significant in the intervening years, they've become wrapped up in people's identities. And the problem isn't just that some regions of Canada have organized much of their economies toward providing the United States with cheap oil and gas, but that others - such as Ontario - have become far more dependent on American fossil fuels in recent years, as well.

2 weeks ago | cultmtl.com | Taylor C. Noakes |Cult MTL |Matthew Renfrew

Maybe it’s not surprising for a career politician who has voted against the environment 400 times in 20 years, but Pierre Poilievre has capitulated to every one of Big Oil’s demands.