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Well gently caress, looks who's back https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/freedom-convoys-taking-to-hwy-401-402-for-large-scale-protest-saturday
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Mar 5, 2022 19:58
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What are they even protesting? All the provincially mandated health restrictions have ended or are ending this month.
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Mar 5, 2022 20:19
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An apology for the last two years, and for Jason Kenny to be made President of Canada.
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Mar 5, 2022 20:34
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infernal machines posted:What are they even protesting? All the provincially mandated health restrictions have ended or are ending this month. They're protesting that most people's attention is no longer on them
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Mar 5, 2022 20:49
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Kopitar posted:Well gently caress, looks who's back There was a crowd of them on the Hill today, too. Couple hundred at best. The new outrage is that the PPS told them their "gently caress Trudeau" flags violate the General Rules of Use of Parliament Hill, which state signs cannot be offensive, obscene or promote hatred. Naturally, this means Trudeau is personally banning dissenting speech and not, you know, the general rules of use that have been in place for protests for who knows how long. So now you might see the phrase "CK Trudeau" start to show up in chud circles. It's how Twitter picked up the trend with people writing "F-maple leaf emoji-CK Trudeau." I wonder if some enterprising screen printers are making "CK Trudeau" flags and clothing items now.
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Mar 5, 2022 22:50
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ColdBlooded posted:They're protesting that most people's attention is no longer on them Narcissism is as Narcissism does.
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Mar 5, 2022 23:17
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Pierre Poilievre vows to threaten our chance to do anything about climate change https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sask-visit-pierre-poilievre-1.6373266 quote:Federal Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre stressed his commitment to repealing three pieces of legislation that the Liberal government enacted with the goal of combating climate change during a visit to Saskatchewan on Friday. It's also important to let the private sector just try things out and see what works.
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Mar 6, 2022 00:03
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Syfe posted:Pierre Poilievre vows to threaten our chance to do anything about climate change If Poilievre becomes PM I'm leaving the country.
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Mar 6, 2022 00:53
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Poilievre is not going to become Prime Minister. Poilievre is not even going to win the CPC leadership. Poilievre is a gasbag who gets a lot of press because he never shuts up, not because he's a serious candidate for leadership.
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Mar 6, 2022 00:57
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Yeah I have no real concern that he's got a chance of being PM, he's just a bloviating loud idiot. https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/as-provinces-lift-mandates-federal-officials-say-mask-wearing-a-personal-choice-1.5807051 quote:Deputy chief public health officer Dr. Howard Njoo made the comments during a Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) press conference on Friday, saying that while “clearly mask-wearing is a well-tested, tried and true personal protective practice,” it is not a mandatory requirement across the country and is “a personal choice under one’s individual risk assessment.” I feel that this is about not having employers tell employees they have to stop wearing masks, by officially saying it's a personal choice at this point, they can at least have the people who want to stay masked not threatened by being forced to stop because their employer, teacher, etc. wants masks gone. Syfe fucked around with this message at 01:10 on Mar 6, 2022 |
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Mar 6, 2022 01:03
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infernal machines posted:Poilievre is not going to become Prime Minister. We were an anime convention and die roll away from Prime Minister Maxime Bernier so let's not rule anything out just yet.
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Mar 6, 2022 01:10
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infernal machines posted:Poilievre is not going to become Prime Minister. He's a piece of poo poo but the front-runner in all the polls for Con leadership (well, behind "None of these" and "Don't know" LOL)  Edit: This is from a month ago and I suspect he got a bump since from being so prominent in the stupid convoy.
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Mar 6, 2022 01:12
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infernal machines posted:Poilievre is not even going to win the CPC leadership. Poilievre is a gasbag who gets a lot of press because he never shuts up, not because he's a serious candidate for leadership. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Conservative_Party_of_Canada_leadership_election#Declared Expressed interest: Scott Aitchison Nobody one term MP with "a campaign focused around character and tone"? Leona Alleslev former liberal who crossed the floor and lost her seat 6 months ago? Roman Baber Ontario MPP? Patrick Brown, sex scandal failure? Jean Charest, maybe if Harper weren't going to do everything possible to sabotage his campaign Michael Chong, 5th place in 2017. I guess his resume is about on par with Poilievre, but seems less likely to appeal to the CPC base. Vincenzo Guzzo No idea who this guy is Tasha Kheiriddin No idea who she is Leslyn Lewis, LOL Potential Peter MacKay, Caroline Mulroney, Michelle Rempel Garner, I guess all three of these might stand a slightly better chance than Poilievre but I wouldn't make a definitive statement on it.
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Mar 6, 2022 01:15
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HackensackBackpack posted:There was a crowd of them on the Hill today, too. There was a few dozen in my sleepy town too, but they were vastly outmatched by the hundreds at the pro-Ukraine demonstration.
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Mar 6, 2022 01:24
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“Someone else” and “None of these” seems redundant so that’s the clear #2.
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Mar 6, 2022 01:26
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Less Fat Luke posted:(well, behind "None of these" and "Don't know" LOL) Yeah, this is the thing. Peaceful Anarchy posted:Who is a serious candidate for leadership? It's an entire field of also-rans and perennial failures. But for Poilievre to win the entire party, collectively, would basically have to throw up their hands and just give up. It's not literally impossible, but it's astonishingly unlikely the minute any other candidate declares. I would bet on it coming down to Charest and Stephen Harper in a Groucho mask before Poilievre. infernal machines fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Mar 6, 2022 |
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Mar 6, 2022 01:28
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If Patrick Brown or Doug Ford can find an Alberta lieuftenant with some credibility to rep them out there they're a shoo-in to win. I don't know who that lieuftenant would be however.
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Mar 6, 2022 01:29
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Every Conservative leadership campaign is full of losers. People thought Patrick Brown was toast but he resurrected his career (not that Brampton mayor is a particularly strong position to move up the ladder from, but it's something). However, I do feel strongly confident that this being a lovely timeline, the powers that be will be unable to resist the idea of a Mulroney-Trudeau failchild showdown. e: alternative, Doug Ford resigns and wins CPC leadership against Caroline Mulroney; Ben Mulroney edges out Zach Paikin for OPC leader. Precambrian Video Games fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Mar 6, 2022 |
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Mar 6, 2022 01:31
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Is Ben Mulroney still hosting some z-tier celebrity gossip show on a cable-only network no one has thought about in 20 years?
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Mar 6, 2022 01:36
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infernal machines posted:Is Ben Mulroney still hosting some z-tier celebrity gossip show on a cable-only network no one has thought about in 20 years? He left CTV last year to "develop scripted and unscripted projects." He's still a spokesperson for the CNIB.
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Mar 6, 2022 02:02
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infernal machines posted:Poilievre is not going to become Prime Minister. 
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Mar 6, 2022 02:14
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Peaceful Anarchy posted:Who is a serious candidate for leadership? Lol guzzo owns the Guzzo chain of cinemas in Montreal. Closely tied with the Saputo's and allegedly other types of ties that havent been proven hint hint
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Mar 6, 2022 02:15
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lol. Pierre Poilievre is no Donald Trump. We all know this country is just a low-rent United States, but come on now. The guy who is polling internally below "literally none of these people", who is only at the top of the list because he started telling people he was running for leadership before the knives were even in O'Tool, is very probably not going to win the party leadership because he is no one's choice at all. I could lob a potted plant into the convention hall the day of with the name "Ford" sharpied on it, and it would get more votes than that guy. infernal machines fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Mar 6, 2022 |
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Mar 6, 2022 02:19
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if he does succeed in getting the leadership he also has tons of old media appearances his opponents can dredge up where hes acting like the slimiest slimeball that ever slimed
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Mar 6, 2022 02:58
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quebec green party having a normal one  https://twitter.com/AlexTyrrellPVQ/status/1499855566335885319?s=20&t=iAiN04eVAUMF_W1-hWevZA EMay wants nothing to do with it #appalling https://twitter.com/ElizabethMay/status/1500288654538805250?s=20&t=iAiN04eVAUMF_W1-hWevZA
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Mar 6, 2022 03:03
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Canada also doesn't have the gerrymandering and voter suppression that they do in the American south.
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Mar 6, 2022 05:30
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Mad Hamish posted:Canada also doesn't have the gerrymandering and voter suppression that they do in the American south. True, there's no way a party could form government here with like 20% of the eligible vote.
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Mar 6, 2022 06:06
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HackensackBackpack posted:He left CTV last year to "develop scripted and unscripted projects." He's still a spokesperson for the CNIB. Wasn’t that part of his wife being super racist or something?
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Mar 6, 2022 06:11
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Arivia posted:Wasn’t that part of his wife being super racist or something?
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Mar 6, 2022 06:38
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Mad Hamish posted:Canada also doesn't have the gerrymandering and voter suppression that they do in the American south. The maximum number of electoral votes that could possibly be affected by gerrymandering is five (out of 538), none of which are in the South. The actual point of the post you were replying to is that Trump voters had a tendency to lie to pollsters.
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Mar 6, 2022 06:48
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lol "CK TRUDEAU" is trending on Twitter right now because right-wingers keep posting stuff like F*CK TRUDEAU because they don't wanna type a full-on swear word.
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Mar 6, 2022 07:00
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The CPC leadership race seems advantage more moderate candidates than fringe nutjobs. Maxime Bernier's wasn't full on PPC dipshit back when he lost to Scheer and his most controversial opinion at the time was that the dairy board should be eliminated and he still lost. Leslyn Lewis and What's-his-face were easily eliminated in the first two rounds leaving O'Toole and MacKay. I'm not really convinced someone with like 15 years of being hated by nearly everyone, including his own party, like Pollievre really has much of a shot. Unless the field is reeeeally dire. They changed the rules a bit after the last leadership race but the votes are still roughly proportional with population. That kinda rewards candidates with broader appeal or at least ones that aren't actively hated very much.
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Mar 6, 2022 07:29
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Yes but with the caveat of the insane caucus. They tossed O'Toole because he wasn't evil enough
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Mar 6, 2022 07:38
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I'm surprised Harper wasn't included in that list.
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Mar 6, 2022 07:42
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bunnyofdoom posted:Yes but with the caveat of the insane caucus. They tossed O'Toole because he wasn't evil enough A large part of caucus voted to turf him largely cause he was a loser. Also the CPC membership votes for the leader so what caucus thinks only matters in an indirect sense, and they're probably going to be very divided in this upcoming race.
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Mar 6, 2022 08:01
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leftist heap posted:The CPC leadership race seems advantage more moderate candidates than fringe nutjobs. Maxime Bernier's wasn't full on PPC dipshit back when he lost to Scheer and his most controversial opinion at the time was that the dairy board should be eliminated and he still lost. Leslyn Lewis and What's-his-face were easily eliminated in the first two rounds leaving O'Toole and MacKay. I'm not really convinced someone with like 15 years of being hated by nearly everyone, including his own party, like Pollievre really has much of a shot. Unless the field is reeeeally dire. All the cpc people i know (not many) loving love poilievre. Who doesn't like him in the party? MPs? O'toole won because rode the vote splitting between mackay and leslyn lewis. Maybe that will happen again, idk. Leadership conventions can lead to weird outcomes. It's unpredictable most of the time.
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Mar 6, 2022 15:47
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Poilievre is a master shitposter but that's what a lot of conservatives are into these days. He's going to meme his way to CPC leader.
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Mar 6, 2022 15:59
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so he's looked up to him for a long time?
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Mar 6, 2022 17:37
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RBC posted:All the cpc people i know (not many) loving love poilievre. Who doesn't like him in the party? MPs? O'toole won because rode the vote splitting between mackay and leslyn lewis. Maybe that will happen again, idk. Leadership conventions can lead to weird outcomes. It's unpredictable most of the time. It's quieted down a bit post-Harper but there's plenty of quotes out there dragging the guy during the Harper years. I tried to go looking but most poo poo is just buried by recent news and  How did Mackay and Lewis split votes in an instant runoff election? Like, this is kinda what I'm getting at, being people's 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. choice has been a big factor in the last two races and an extremely polarizing guy is gonna be disadvantaged. Someone like Michelle Rempel Garner seems way more likely to pick up later round points. leftist heap fucked around with this message at 18:34 on Mar 6, 2022 |
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Mar 6, 2022 18:29
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Mr. Apollo posted:I'm surprised Harper wasn't included in that list. Pretty sure Harper is Palpatine in this scenario.
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