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edit: thank you Joe! Don't forget to join the lost souls in the #Diefenbunker on IRC @ irc.synirc.com canada.gif wins out over canada.jpg Welcome to the Canadian political megathread! We use this thread to post about anything related to Canadian federal, provincial, municipal, regionalism or food politics. (La Bottega > German Town) For those of you who have been drawn in by the Ford scandal involving crack cocaine, we invite you to consider these alternate reasons to be mad at everything:
Sources for news: I personally rely on a couple of things to get my news. First of all, if you can sign up to the iPolitics Brief (may require a subscription, but mine has expired and I still get it), you are guaranteed at least basic knowledge of what to search on Google News that day. Our major national news sources are, sadly, the National Post, Macleans, Globe and Mail, and the CBC. For partisan news on the left and right, you will want to check out Rabble.ca and Sun News Network, respectively. I also make judicious use of Blogging Tories. Good regionals include the Tyee for BC, Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen ,and I guess Cyberpresse or Le Devoir for Quebec? Opinion editorials to watch include Chris Selley's pundit round up, Aaron Wherry, Paul Wells, Andrew Coyne, Johns Ibbitson and Ivison (I'm not convinced they're different people), Dan Gardner... this list is pretty leftist, but Coyne makes up for all of the others. The rest of the time I use RSS feeds, Google news search alerts, and Twitter. If you're handy, you can use RSS feeds and your Twitter account in conjunction with something like Flipboard (as I do) to find articles that are making big waves. Watch #cdnpoli for a while to get an idea of the best twitter feeds to watch for serious retweeters, then follow them and watch who they're retweeting. Easy, and your smartphone can keep you up to date at all times. And now, our cast! Stephen Harper, King in the North. Note possible heir and four time Sexiest MP Peter McKay grinning in the background as King Harper inspects his troops prior to the battle with: Lord Outremont, Thomas Mulcair Here he is, laughing at a performance of the Rains of Toronto, where he defeated his rivals for the throne. Lord Papineau, Justin Trudeau, known to absolutely no one as "the Mountain that Rides". The Queen of Thorns, Elizabeth May of the Flowers. Don't forget Littlefinger! Ahem, I mean Lord Paille.
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I'm not your Buddy, Pal.
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Why did it go back to poo poo post? I definitely set it to Canada.
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Kafka Esq. posted:Why did it go back to poo poo post? I definitely set it to Canada. That tag is as useful as nipples on a breastplate. Little and less.
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Kafka Esq. posted:Why did it go back to poo poo post? I definitely set it to Canada. Forums software content auto-detection and correction.
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Kafka Esq. posted:Stephen Harper, King in the North.
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Yahoo News posted:'Raise taxes on the rich' is a verse straight from the NDP hymn books. (thanks hand knit) edit: this is very interesting Kafka Esq. fucked around with this message at 21:57 on May 30, 2013 |
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ALL HAIL KING JACK!!!! Also,
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Kafka Esq. posted:
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This isn't turning into a picture thread, is it? At the risk of not fitting in:
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Entropic posted:You can take my child-smashing from my cold dead hands.
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JoelJoel posted:This isn't turning into a picture thread, is it? At the risk of not fitting in:
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Doug Ford posted:Toronto is in better fiscal shape than any other city in North America*
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Another minor scandal broke today - we all knew about how the Conservatives have been blandly redesigning sites to be generally less useful except as billboards for the Economic Action Plan. Now, the office of Julian Fantino (development minister), has basically denied knowing that why two articles saying "Dear NDP, CIDA doesn't need your advice" and "Liberals make promises, Conservatives get results" were posted. However, emails exist to the contrary, and the Canadian Press has them. Via the National Post:quote:OTTAWA — International Development Minister Julian Fantino’s office has said it had nothing to do with the posting of two partisan letters to a government website — but new documents appear to contradict that statement.
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My sister works for Canada World Youth and is worried her job's going to disappear any day now. With CIDA being merged into Foreign Affairs everyone's waiting for CIDA-funded projects to start getting the axe.
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Posted in the last half-hour of the old thread:blackswordca posted:Looks like Mr. Duffy was fishing for some perks
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# ? May 30, 2013 22:44 |
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Why do all these Canadian politicians embroiled in scandal look like rotund knavish liars?
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Expand my role /
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VR Cowboy posted:Posted in the last half-hour of the old thread: Bring on the Senate abolishment cries! Even in the CBC comments. Yay!
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# ? May 30, 2013 22:56 |
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I'd rather they just brought back putting people in stocks, this time in front of parliament so the duffster can get pelted with soggy cabbage for 8 hours a day.
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Ban fat white guys from Canadian politics.
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# ? May 30, 2013 22:58 |
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Baloogan posted:Expand my role
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Kafka Esq. posted:Why did it go back to poo poo post? I definitely set it to Canada. It's alright. I exported the poo poo post tag to Detroit so you can have your nice Canada one back.
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And his jowls grew 3 sizes that day
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Joementum posted:It's alright. I exported the poo poo post tag to Detroit so you can have your nice Canada one back. The proper response would have been to insist that there was no Canada tag even through everyone's seen it.
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Just want to point out that Ontario Tories harping on the Liberals for closing the power plants to score political points is really the height of hypocrisy, because: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ontariovotes2011/story/2011/10/05/hudak-mississauga-gas-plant.html
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Joementum posted:It's alright. I exported the poo poo post tag to Detroit so you can have your nice Canada one back.
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First Canada mega thread without Chad Kroeger. Give those socialists an inch and they spit all over Canada's proud heritage.
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Joementum posted:It's alright. I exported the poo poo post tag to Detroit so you can have your nice Canada one back.
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Op is missing Her Majesty
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Her Royal Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith
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Baloogan posted:Her Royal Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith Owner of the Best Teeth in the Realm
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Fine-able Offense posted:Owner of the Best Teeth in the Realm Is that how they determine rank in the UK? The quality of the teeth? Here we base it off of how good you look in a cowboy hat.
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Baloogan posted:Her Royal Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith Long may she reign.
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God Save The Queen.
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Baloogan posted:Her Royal Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith You forgot "Paramount Chief of Figi". ductonius fucked around with this message at 23:53 on May 30, 2013 |
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Baloogan posted:Why do all these Canadian politicians embroiled in scandal look like rotund knavish liars? They actually look like white Hutts.
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ductonius posted:You forgot "Paramount Chief of Figi" If I listed all of Her Majesty's titles I'd still be typing up the post. That is Her Majesty's title in Canada in Her Majesty's capacity as Queen of Canada.
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Excelsiortothemax posted:Is that how they determine rank in the UK? The quality of the teeth? Mulcair looks awesome in the hat. He should wear it everyday in QP.
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