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Arivia posted:@Nozh: Don't feel bad. As far as I know, CAMH generally does good work with addiction and most mental health issues. Trans care has just been their terrible dark secret for decades. It's why the Ontario government picked them as the central hub for trans services in the province, and why other health care professionals felt good about making referrals there: they're a quality institution that does great work in mental health across a wide range of specialties, it fits. No one just ever paid attention to them not following the international standards of care, etc etc. I've donated time and money to CAMH and feel terrible that they've even touched conversion therapy but I'm determined to put whatever pressure I can to make sure they change their ways for the better and provide positive care to trans people. Anyway, my girlfriend has been knitting like crazy to make touques and little stuffed polar bears for Syrian kids arriving in Toronto. Although the weather's been so mild they may not need them for a while yet. Dreylad fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Dec 10, 2015 |
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DariusLikewise posted:Brian Bowman is too good for Winnipeg Winnipeg: tolerant, accepting, understanding. unless you're native
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Dreylad posted:I've donated time and money to CAMH and feel terrible that they've even touched conversion therapy but I'm determined to put whatever pressure I can to make sure they change their ways for the better and provide positive care to trans people. Thank you. I wish I had suggestions about how you could help, but I honestly try not to think about it too much. It still hurts, a lot. About all I can think of is donating to the Rainbow Health Coalition, if they take donations.
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Oh poo poo, Duffy is dropping more bombs
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Time to wheel out this ol' chestnut (caution: jittery GIF) I made a couple years back. Also I found this when I went looking: 
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Cultural Imperial posted:Look at all you wide eyed fluffy tailed morons acting like Canadians aren't fygm assholes Wonder how many Canadian Trump supporters are out there? Of course, according to the threads favorite political analyst, the one and only J.J McCullough, the fact that Canada cannot produce a Trump like-candidate is symptomatic of an "unhealthy democracy." http://www.jjmccullough.com/index.php/canada-could-not-produce-a-trump-and-thats-a-bad-thing/ haha
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I don't understand how you could read American political history, with its political machines, brokered party conventions, electoral college, and even the modern primary system and think that the American system tolerates political heterodoxy. If Canada's worse about this then it's a matter of degrees, not a wide gulf like he's suggesting.
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crowoutofcontext posted:Wonder how many Canadian Trump supporters are out there? American political parties are weaker because cash is king. Trump can offend his party's establishment because he's a multibillionaire with the private resources and name recognition to run his own campaign. The lack of internal democracy in Canadian political parties is frustrating, as is Canada's complacent smugness about being morally better than the USA, but my God that's one of the dumbest arguments I've ever seen. "Making politics the plaything of billionaire celebrity capitalists = SELF RULE BY THE PEOPLE!" 
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I am biased towards looking at the broader historical trend, rather than a narrow snapshot of the current political situation, but both the US and Canada have generally shifted towards more inclusive democratic systems when choosing representatives and leaders within political parties throughout the 20th century. The United States's political machines are more complex, but are the mercy of a broader range of interests, as we've seen with the GOP-backed candidates get ousted by Tea Party candidates. And the primary system is certainly better than brokered conventions - although the news today was that the GOP is considering a brokered convention - even though that still leaves candidate choice in the hands of a couple of states. On the other hand the electoral college still exists in the 21st century. Canadian politics were dominated by nepotism, which rather than being seen as political corruption was how politicians did business and how the country was governed. As hilarious as it is to say when our current prime minister is the son of a former prime minister, things are a lot better, given how most parties are improving the ways local candidates are nominated and how leadership conventions are run. Not perfect by any means - given how at least two of the parties have intervened in the nomination of local candidates - but Canadians have a decent amount of say in who represents them, rather than having it decided for them. That's stymied by our FPTP system, but that's not something unique to Canada.
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JJ is such a loving embarrassment.
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According to a draft of COP21's final deal, Trudeau's 1.5C snuck in there as a nice to have, which is... shocking. "Hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5C, recognizing that this would significantly reduce risks and impacts of climate change."
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Canada's democrary is broken because we've never quite had a Ross Perot post-war, obviously.
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eXXon posted:Canada's democrary is broken because we've never quite had a Ross Perot post-war, obviously. I thought that was Elizabeth May.
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You couldn't make this up if you tried.quote:Canada Post on Thursday sent out a letter of its own, delivering a stern rebuke to the government. In it, Sian Matthews, the chair of Canada Post's board of directors, lays out the process by which Chopra was chosen as the company's president.
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Has nobody reminded the staff of crown corporations that this country is, in fact, a democracy and that you do not talk back to elected officials without damned good reason? And that, further, when it becomes completely impossible to implement their policy, the only honourable thing to do is resign? Anyway, it's clear that she was given the job as a patronage sinecure and so she should be reminded of parliamentary supremacy with a free trip to the unemployment line.
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lol the management at canada post is so terrible. it's kind of nice the public is finally getting a taste of it
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Just dump the whole Canada Post board and bring in some people who can modernize it. There's lots of room for improvement and growth and it doesn't need to be union busting or cutting services. The current board was hand picked for a privatization agenda so anything they do is going to be a failure.
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David Corbett posted:Has nobody reminded the staff of crown corporations that this country is, in fact, a democracy and that you do not talk back to elected officials without damned good reason? And that, further, when it becomes completely impossible to implement their policy, the only honourable thing to do is resign? Eh, I think they should talk back to elected officials, and publicly. I am really disturbed by the ability elected officials have to completely overhaul organizations on nothing but a political whim. We're electing them on broad platforms not saying we agree with the minutia of their day to day decisions; there is an assumption that the bureaucracy can to some extent run itself even if the government of the day is incompetent. And thank god that is by and large true because we have had some truly incompetent people represent different departments over the years. e: quote:Matthews was named to the Canada Post board in 2007 and became chair in 2014. The Liberal Party has, in the past, included her on a list of Conservative insiders who were granted federal appointments. That doesn't make what she's saying untrue. Jordan7hm fucked around with this message at 03:40 on Dec 11, 2015 |
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Deepak can suck a dick. He was chosen to bust the union and get the postal service ready to be privatized. Anyone pretending otherwise is lying. He's always been Harper's puppet.
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The mere fact that she is a Conservative is a pretty good indicator that she is lying.
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I saw an interesting theory as to why Harper didn't resign from politics today quote:In 2004, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that MPs are immune from being required to testify while Parliament is in session. The privilege also applies to an MP for 40 days before and after Parliament is in session. For the summer, for instance, that adds up to an 80-day window of parliamentary privilege. Summer recess is typically between 75 and 79 days. It popped up when I saw he was trending on Facebook because he showed up at parliament to vote against tax reform.
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Jordan7hm posted:That doesn't make what she's saying untrue. That may be true but can you tell us if you've ever donated to the conservative party so we know if you are a reliable source or not? The schadenfreude is starting to roll in on the tax cut for people who understand tax brackets . I like it. 
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THC posted:The mere fact that she is a Conservative is a pretty good indicator that she is lying. Either that or that she's dumb enough to believe someone else's lies with 100% conviction.
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Ikantski posted:That may be true but can you tell us if you've ever donated to the conservative party so we know if you are a reliable source or not? 
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For all Trudeau's faults, he's doing and saying poo poo Harper or another con wouldn't be caught dead doing. I like it.
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With these Uber protests in Toronto, does anyone else find the media coverage odd? It's all about how the cab drivers failed to sway public opinion in their favour... By blocking traffic. I'm pretty sure they weren't trying to court the public by enraging them, but the media is breathlessly reporting on this as some kind of strategic gaffe, when in fact they forced Tory to do something. Not that I'm a fan of Toronto cabbies (I use Uber myself), but it seems like no one understands how protests work.
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Wasting posted:With these Uber protests in Toronto, does anyone else find the media coverage odd? It's all about how the cab drivers failed to sway public opinion in their favour... By blocking traffic. I'm pretty sure they weren't trying to court the public by enraging them, but the media is breathlessly reporting on this as some kind of strategic gaffe, when in fact they forced Tory to do something. Prbly not the soundest comparison but when MTL had a big student protest a few years ago all the media did was talk about how the kids were shooting themselves in their spoiled feet for blocking traffic and inconveniencing the public. The media could not for the life of them connect the goal of the protests with the method. Than said public annoyances caused the provincial liberals to overreact and kinda lost them the election, while the party *ostensibly* supporting the students won the election. It was basically a protest that managed to reach one of its goals- but the media couldn't let go of the idea that the traffic-clogging was a sort of political and moral suicide.
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Apparently there have been non-specific threats made to Canadian cities by ISIS discovered by Swiss authorities. link
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crowoutofcontext posted:The media could not for the life of them connect the goal of the protests with the method.  This isn't actually ignorance, it's a tactic to deligitimize whatever the protest was about!
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crowoutofcontext posted:Prbly not the soundest comparison but when MTL had a big student protest a few years ago all the media did was talk about how the kids were shooting themselves in their spoiled feet for blocking traffic and inconveniencing the public. The media could not for the life of them connect the goal of the protests with the method. Haha loving quebec students. Good job achieving your goal of getting rid of the provincial liberals.
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Ikantski posted:That may be true but can you tell us if you've ever donated to the conservative party so we know if you are a reliable source or not? lmao this is amazing. "I voted based on a misunderstanding of Liberal policy and now I'm mad that it doesn't help the poor and working class!" Well no poo poo, Sherlock.
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vyelkin posted:lmao this is amazing. "I voted based on a misunderstanding of Liberal policy and now I'm mad that it doesn't help the poor and working class!" Dude is just dealing with the shocking revelation that he is below middle-class in the government's opinion.
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Sedge and Bee posted:Apparently there have been non-specific threats made to Canadian cities by ISIS discovered by Swiss authorities. Man I thought I'd completely regret reading the comments but they're a loving throwdown all throughout
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Wasting posted:With these Uber protests in Toronto, does anyone else find the media coverage odd? It's all about how the cab drivers failed to sway public opinion in their favour... By blocking traffic. I'm pretty sure they weren't trying to court the public by enraging them, but the media is breathlessly reporting on this as some kind of strategic gaffe, when in fact they forced Tory to do something. When people don't agree with peaceful protesters, they complain that they're "blocking traffic." That's all that's going on here. That plus "Drivers traffic hmm maybe there's a point here."
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Wasting posted:With these Uber protests in Toronto, does anyone else find the media coverage odd? It's all about how the cab drivers failed to sway public opinion in their favour... By blocking traffic. I'm pretty sure they weren't trying to court the public by enraging them, but the media is breathlessly reporting on this as some kind of strategic gaffe, when in fact they forced Tory to do something. You might find yourself enjoying Desmond Cole's editorial in the Star, then.
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RBC posted:Deepak can suck a dick. He was chosen to bust the union and get the postal service ready to be privatized. Anyone pretending otherwise is lying. He's always been Harper's puppet. This. The entire goal of Chopra's incumbency was to destroy Canada Post. The fact that the CMB conversion was, no word of a lie, put on hold the day after the federal election says all you need to know about where Chopra's orders came from.
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When the protesters are breaking the law people have a right to get mad at them, especially if the cops aren't even writing them tickets for it (e.g., in Ottawa). Not to mention the fact that the cabbies' gripes center mainly around the shittiness of their own industry, for which the private taxi dispatch corporations are to blame, and the illegal activity of uber, which is already being prosecuted... isn't it? In Ottawa they're also mad about the airport rate hike but Transport Canada has double-stamped the pot no gobacksies. The whole point of inconveniencing people with a protest is to get us to adjust the system to give you what you want. Even if propping up the garbage fire that is the status quo with the taxi industry were a good idea (it's not), there's literally nothing I can do to help. So get the hell off the road, I have a flight to catch.
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Christy Clark says B.C. children's ministry to only get more funding if economy grows Your daily reminder that the premier of BC is a rancid old oval office leading a pack of hyenas. MCFD has been frozen for fifteen loving years. Announced a $100m corporate welfare package earlier in the week. 
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Taxis in Toronto drive like complete assholes and continually violate the rules of the road: using merge lanes to pass traffic, failing to signal, performing unsafe maneuvers, overall driving selfishly at the expense of others. Them complaining about UberX drivers breaking the rules is laughable. I'll shed a tear the day I see a Taxi driving courteously.
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