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Yeah, Parizeau sure spoke for every single resident of this province.
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Pinterest Mom posted:It has been at the vanguard of innovative and groundbreaking policy proposals that our country desperately needs. The glossary alone is enough to fill me with impotent scientific-inaccuracy rage, and this poo poo isn't even anywhere near my field of expertise. I'm a "software engineer" for christ's sake, and yet I can tell this entire thing is bullshit because I produced better reports when I was in CEGEP. I mean, who the gently caress writes something like this if not to pad a document to make it look "serious"? The Esteemed Senate of the Dominion of Canada posted:Joint
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Oct 31, 2015 02:44
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Hexigrammus posted:I guess this is why Gretzky was stumping for HarperCo during the election. Not that he's been relevant to anything other than being rich for years.
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Oct 31, 2015 02:44
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I think a more accurate translation would be "money and ethnic votes". It's "l'argent pis des votes ethniques", not "l'argent pis le vote ethnique".
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Oct 31, 2015 02:45
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Pinterest Mom posted:Oh my god. JawKnee posted:not to mention JTs promises of patronage-free, non-partisan senate appointments Justin Trudeau is going to bring the Senate Liberals back into the LPC caucus, and then appoint 22 failed candidates and party insiders to give himself a Senate majority. Canadians won't care in 4 years.
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Oct 31, 2015 02:53
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Suspicious posted:Yeah, Parizeau sure spoke for every single resident of this province. Sorry didn't mean that of course. But it was a 49% vote, and there's the spokesperson saying they lost due to "ethnics", on national TV. That's a hell of a thing to say in public if you don't have wide support, as there is some serious baggage attached to saying a thing like that. He obviously wasn't just neutrally and objectively stating statistics.
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Oct 31, 2015 02:55
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He was noticeably drunk. I was young but I remember noticing it.
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Oct 31, 2015 02:57
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The Butcher posted:Sorry didn't mean that of course. But it was a 49% vote, and there's the spokesperson saying they lost due to "ethnics", on national TV. That's a hell of a thing to say in public if you don't have wide support, as there is some serious baggage attached to saying a thing like that. He obviously wasn't just neutrally and objectively stating statistics. Well, he also resigned the next day and was probably drinking, so he clearly didn't give a gently caress.
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Oct 31, 2015 02:58
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Just heard in the pub: "didn't they discover insulin to help fight polio." Burn this fucker to the ground... Everyone's well concerned about global warming, but does anyone stop to think that the annihilation of our species could be for the best? PT6A fucked around with this message at 03:00 on Oct 31, 2015 |
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Oct 31, 2015 02:58
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PT6A posted:does anyone stop to think that the annihilation of our species could be for the best? Actually, I desperately want the world to revert to a wholly feral existence void of human life. Don't kink-shame.
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Oct 31, 2015 03:11
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If that hockey concern trolling was real, I think we should agree to ban sports teams from Canada so that literally the stupidest objection to taxes increasing can't be used anymore.
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Oct 31, 2015 03:26
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One of the reasons I hate the prairies so much is because they loving love cfl so much. gently caress each and every one of you
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Oct 31, 2015 03:28
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Sedge and Bee posted:If that hockey concern trolling was real, I think we should agree to ban sports teams from Canada so that literally the stupidest objection to taxes increasing can't be used anymore. The "gently caress millionaire athletes" stance is stupid because the tax increase likely won't affect them any more than the tax rates between individual states do (which is to say, basically not at all), so everyone crying for them probably shouldn't be. It could very well hurt the teams who might lose spending power if they have to make up for the taxes over an entire roster, which they probably won't, but it's not a realistic threat to most of them and even if it were that's still not a good reason to seriously reconsider doing it. Hike baby hike.
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Oct 31, 2015 03:35
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Cultural Imperial posted:One of the reasons I hate the prairies so much is because they loving love cfl so much. gently caress each and every one of you That's OK ci, we hate you too  plus CFL is terrible.
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Oct 31, 2015 04:12
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Cultural Imperial posted:One of the reasons I hate the prairies so much is because they loving love cfl so much. gently caress each and every one of you No one except Saskatchewan gives the faintest gently caress about CFL, just so you know.
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Oct 31, 2015 04:15
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and one might say the same about horse rasslin yet here we are
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PT6A posted:Just heard in the pub: "didn't they discover insulin to help fight polio." live well and do not breed
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Oct 31, 2015 04:16
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Don't worry guys the cops would never use a dirty trick like convincing a father to try to get his estranged son to admit to murdering his cousin! http://news.nationalpost.com/news/c...l-too-far-judge Oh wait.
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Oct 31, 2015 04:22
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PAGING MELIAN DIALOGUE SOMEWHERE IN CANADA A SHITFUCKING DOUCHEBAG COP DID SOMETHING REPREHENSIBLE. DO THE NEEDFUL PLS
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Oct 31, 2015 04:25
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PT6A posted:No one except Saskatchewan gives the faintest gently caress about CFL, just so you know. Then why did BC spend $500 million on a roof for BC Place? Don't tell me somebody actually watches the White Caps.
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Oct 31, 2015 04:31
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/quebec-to-ask-ottawa-to-match-1-billion-bombardier-investment/article27046364/quote:Quebec wants Ottawa to match $1-billion Bombardier investment hahahaha fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
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Oct 31, 2015 04:31
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I guess I shouldn't laugh so hard. What can be more keynesian than dumping money into a dumpster of hot garbage
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Whiskey Sours posted:Then why did BC spend $500 million on a roof for BC Place? Don't tell me somebody actually watches the White Caps. Winnipeg just finished building a new stadium a couple years ago. And did such a lovely job that it's been literally falling apart and cracking at the foundation since. Now provincial NDP is getting ready to throw another $35 million at it.
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JawKnee posted:live well and do not breed Unironically by far the best thing you can do for the future of the planet is to adopt instead of spawn. Plus doesn't it seem vaguely selfish to create an entirely new child when there are so many children out there that need families?
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lol if you think it's easy to adopt a kid
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PT6A posted:Just heard in the pub: "didn't they discover insulin to help fight polio." A friend of a friend once asked me how "they managed to plant all those trees all the way up the mountains" when we were driving in the Rockies.
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Cultural Imperial posted:I guess I shouldn't laugh so hard. What can be more keynesian than dumping money into a dumpster of hot garbage Wouldn't enticing Canadian airlines to purchase Bombardier aircrafts ultimately lead to more Canadians on those things and all the associated misery that comes with it? I mean, if there's anyone who'd be happy about that, it'd have to be you.
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flakeloaf posted:The "gently caress millionaire athletes" stance is stupid because the tax increase likely won't affect them any more than the tax rates between individual states do (which is to say, basically not at all), so everyone crying for them probably shouldn't be. It could very well hurt the teams who might lose spending power if they have to make up for the taxes over an entire roster, which they probably won't, but it's not a realistic threat to most of them and even if it were that's still not a good reason to seriously reconsider doing it. Hike baby hike. The National Post doesn't give a poo poo about athletes or Canadian sports teams. The only thing they care about is throwing anti-tax poo poo at the wall until something sticks, and if it's "Think of the Jays!!" that does the trick then that's what they'll do.
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1 billion goes to Bombardier while the province apparently can't pay for healthcare or education. What a load of poo poo.
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Oct 31, 2015 05:48
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Bombardier is a beloved LPQ client who's willing and able to bribe the party and its leaders. Students, sick people, poor people, and public servants (who are currently striking over wage cuts) aren't.
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Gorewar posted:1 billion goes to Bombardier while the province apparently can't pay for healthcare or education. What a load of poo poo. Not sure why you edited your original post, but: Pffff, I have people in my family who were "encouraged" to retire from Bombardier after a lifetime there a couple years back, and were then called back in shortly afterwards on a contractual basis. We're talking about high level administration/IT stuff here, the sort of positions where you can gently caress around with databases that have to do with HR, accounts receivable/payable, or whatever else you want with near impunity. Don't assume it's limited to the "low level" stuff.
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Oct 31, 2015 06:09
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Didn't Quebec get 49% equity in the C Series in exchange for their money? how would that work if the federal government matched it?
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cowofwar posted:He was stumping for Harper because he is Ukranian. The Ethnic Vote (and money) - not just a Quebec Thing.
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Suspicious posted:Yeah, Parizeau sure spoke for every single resident of this province. Precisely. In fact, if you draw his card, you have to leave the game in disgrace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlUVXRowiPg
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Heavy neutrino posted:Bombardier is a beloved LPQ client who's willing and able to bribe the party and its leaders. Students, sick people, poor people, and public servants (who are currently striking over wage cuts) aren't. The fact that these assholes were put back into power after only a single year makes me super mad and sad and depressed.
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Gorau posted:I vote we follow the NHS. All doctors are now government employees, none of this payed contractor poo poo. Doctors bitch and moan that they need to make 350k a year so they can pay for their office and staff. I say we solve the problem for them: they become employees of the government, government takes over all the other expenses, and doctors make 125k a year. Still vastly more than the population, but probably much more reasonable then they're making now. As an added bonus, doctors can now be incentivized to actually think about what tests/procedures/treatments they recommend and actually put the patient first instead of ordering a ton of redundant/unnecessary tests that costs the health system a ton of money and only serves to pad the doctors bottom line through fee for service. A few pages back, but this is total bullshit. A close family member of mine runs a PET clinic in my hometown. Basically every scan he does costs a patient around $2000. Kicker is though is the Radio-isotope used for the scan is $700 per scan. Then the Government takes another $700 bucks. What's left over is what he has to use for paying the rent and electricity of the building, cost of maintaining the scanner and other miscellaneous things. The guy doesn't even have an employee. Just his wife running around (who at least is a Nuclear Technologist) doing all the busy legwork as well as the actual scans. Oh and of course he has to feed his family. Oh as an added "gently caress you", OHIP still counts PET as "experimental" even though its been around for 30 some odd years. So they capped by the Government and are only allowed to do like 100-120 scans a year. Doctors getting overpaid is imaginary problem. Real problem is OHIP putting more and more money into already unnecessarily bloated programs like Radiology so they can give dose every kid with a sore foot with unnecessary radiation with a free X-Ray.
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vyelkin posted:The National Post doesn't give a poo poo about athletes or Canadian sports teams. The only thing they care about is throwing anti-tax poo poo at the wall until something sticks, and if it's "Think of the Jays!!" that does the trick then that's what they'll do. Not to get into sportschat but Canadian teams don't sign "big free agents" anyway for a variety of reasons: American athletes don't want to live in a foreign country, lovely weather, media overexposure, and poorly managed organizations where no one is held responsible for anything (e.g. the Edmonton Oilers) or where no one cares as long as the cheques keep coming in on time (MLSE). also they seem to have wrote this after the Jays basically indicated they were gonna go back to aiming for mediocrity again, so, lol
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Doctor stuff (and, for context, I'm a family doctor in Alberta): - Some doctors are paid too drat much. The classic example is ophthalmology, where cataract surgery has changed from a half-day, highly technical procedure (and paid as such), to a 20-minute outpatient procedure done by a robot... and still paid at the old rate. As a result ophthalmologists are paid an enormous amount of money for the easiest part of their job. - I would personally do my job for substantially less than what I'm presently paid. Granted, I'm in a strange situation where my overhead is mostly covered by a separate funding stream. I'm also a filthy hippie who works in a homeless clinic so my views might not be representative of most physicians. I can also live very comfortably on a middle-class salary, because I'm not a complete idiot with money like most doctors. - I'm a fan of the NHS model as mentioned above, wherein all overhead/support is government-funded and doctors are just employees. What they should be paid is debatable - it needs to be 'enough' to compensate for at least 10 and sometimes 15 years of rather difficult university, six-figure student debts, 60-80 hour work weeks, and fairly stressful work environments. - There are enough physicians being trained in certain specialties, especially surgical ones. Orthopedic surgeons in particular can't buy a job. Now, there's still demand for ortho surgeries like knee replacements - the limiting factor is that there's no OR time, which is a combination of a) not enough physical operating rooms, and b) not enough funding for nurses to staff them when they do exist. In Alberta, the blame for that would fall squarely on the previous provincial government, and not on the physicians. - There aren't enough family doctors, if we're going to accept that everyone needs a doctor. I would personally slightly increase the number of medical school spots but greatly increase the number of family med residency spots. - Medical schools need to get better at not accepting outright sociopaths. (We already have enough surgeons). Maybe we need more thorough interview processes. - Hiring international medical graduates (IMGs) is not necessarily the best way to resolve doctor shortages. Some are among the best physicians I've ever met. Some are absolutely terrible and should be fired into the sun. A disproportionate amount of 'boundary issues' (read: banging patients) seem to arise from IMGs, which may be 'less inappropriate' in the countries in which they were trained. - Nurse practitioners can do pretty much everything a family doctor can, for about a third of the cost. We should be training many more of them to alleviate physician shortages, particularly in rural areas. I work on a team with multiple nurse practitioners, so I'm generally in favour of their profession and don't feel threatened as some doctors do. - The 'guild' and 'college' portions of physician representation are separate. So the OMA's job is to advocate for physicians, while the CPSO provides standards and punishment. The OMA is free to launch ill-advised charter challenges (and I don't know what charter section they could possibly lean on), but there's an entirely separate organization whose job it is to make sure that doctors are adequately trained and not misbehaving. - In general, the colleges look at physicians as highly-trained, sometimes difficult-to-replace assets. So, in the case of 'sexual boundary violations', it's probably better to provide mandatory supervision and limited practice rather than strip someone of their license. (As long as it was consensual, of course, because if not then it's a criminal matter and needs to be prosecuted as such.) - That being said, colleges do need to show more teeth in terms of cracking down on poor physician performance. My particular bugbear is prescribing practices - I've filed complaints with my college and got some physicians banned from prescribing benzodiazepines and opioids, but it took far too long and shouldn't rely on another irritable doctor to get something done. - I'm sorry this is a few pages late, but I was working.
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Apples McGrind posted:A few pages back, but this is total bullshit. OHIP counting PET as experimental is ridiculous, of course... but then, OHIP is a special kind of stupid.
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PT6A posted:No one except Saskatchewan gives the faintest gently caress about CFL, just so you know. Hey now there's a pretty large REDBLACKS! following here in Ottawa
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