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vyelkin posted:For the record your sister in law's husband is your brother, so Hookshot could have a husband who has a sister who is married to a dude, excuse the cisheteronormative presumptions.
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vyelkin posted:For the record your sister in law's husband is your brother, so not if it's her husband's sister's husband. efb
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HookShot posted:My brother-in-law? (my sister-in-law's husband) is a huge Conservative supporter federally and doesn't have anything remotely resembling a socialist bone in his body and he would rather kill himself than vote NDP ended up voting green because he hated Clark's Libs and even he could see the BC Cons were total idiots. I'm an American who finds Canadian politics very interesting. Prior to reading this thread and others, I would have guessed that BC would be like the Pacific northwest in America. Why is it a laughingstock here?
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THC posted:“I mean no disrespect when I say this but here’s my offer: I’ll invest $1 million in Canadian energy companies if out of grace and for the absolute good of Canada the premier of Alberta resigns,” O’Leary said. 1 million is a fart in a hurricane, but good job Kev.  Also, Hook-"I get paid in USD"-shot should probably change her name to 'Mrs. Moneybags' at thus point. Wistful of Dollars fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Jan 12, 2016 |
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Jack of Hearts posted:I'm an American who finds Canadian politics very interesting. Prior to reading this thread and others, I would have guessed that BC would be like the Pacific northwest in America. Why is it a laughingstock here? lol that you think Canadian politics are interesting. Go read the wikipedia entries on BC ndp, Mike Harcourt, moe sihota, Glenn Clark, ujjal dosanjh. For more comedy, bill vanderzalm. Also the best is reading up on the HST, which most dumb sjw assholes in here opposed.
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colonel_korn posted:http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tories-press-liberal-government-to-justify-saudi-arms-deal/article28125150/ lol this is a faster turnaround than the Trudeau pirouette.
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vyelkin posted:For the record your sister in law's husband is your brother, so Ikantski posted:Hookshot could have a husband who has a sister who is married to a dude, excuse the cisheteronormative presumptions. This, exactly.
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El Scotch posted:1 million is a fart in a hurricane, but good job Kev. But seriously this is so much better than in 2008-9-ish when I watched the AUD (where I lived at the time) go from $0.65 to parity.
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Cultural Imperial posted:lol that you think Canadian politics are interesting. Don't forget Christy Clark! BC itself is only kind of a laughing stock, it's politicians on the other hand are like the worst people in the country.
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vyelkin posted:lol this is a faster turnaround than the Trudeau pirouette. Or the Trudeau Stairs Gag! edit: politician falls straight into the basement of legitimate criticisms Kafka Esq. fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Jan 12, 2016 |
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colonel_korn posted:not if it's her husband's sister's husband. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ymDKhYBgTM
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Pinterest Mom posted:Rachel Unf 
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Pinterest Mom posted:Ontario political financing: still really gross. It's stuff like this that makes me think Ikantski is a model of reason, restraint, and understatement. Burn this village down.
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Hexigrammus posted:It's stuff like this that makes me think Ikantski is a model of reason, restraint, and understatement. “I have always held the position, and I have said this many, many times publicly, that I believe that individuals and organizations should have the ability to take part in the democratic process,” Wynne said. “Some people and organizations can give money, some people and organizations can give time.”
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I'm not sure I understand her position, since when were organizations given the opportunity to vote? If you can't vote, you shouldn't be able to
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Hexigrammus posted:It's stuff like this that makes me think Ikantski is a model of reason, restraint, and understatement. I'm trying to lay off the Wynne but she makes it so hard. quote:TORONTO - The man the Liberal government brought in to fix problems with Toronto's Pan Am Games committee will head the agency overseeing the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan.
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Jack of Hearts posted:I'm an American who finds Canadian politics very interesting. Prior to reading this thread and others, I would have guessed that BC would be like the Pacific northwest in America. Why is it a laughingstock here? https://twitter.com/richardzussman/status/686980065075294208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw The largest city in the West has a serious housing crisis. The province is refusing to build affordable homes because that would damage property values which is main reason for the crisis. Basically gently caress the working poor, there are rich mainlanders that could be negatively affected. This is probably the second least evil premiere this province has had in 40 years.
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MA-Horus posted:Yeah, Wynne is starting to become pretty goddamn indefensible when it comes to cronyism. starting? she wasn't some nobody who came in from the cold when dalton left.
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Y'all need to cool it on the Wynne hate. She's a progressive trail blazer who saved us from being squished under Hudak's jackboots. She's literally saving the planet so of course she will need a little help from her friends. Speaking of people who deserve a pepper spray ... http://www.amazon.de/gp/bestsellers/sports
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Ikantski posted:Y'all need to cool it on the Wynne hate. She's a progressive trail blazer who saved us from being squished under Hudak's jackboots. She's literally saving the planet so of course she will need a little help from her friends. So hypothetically speaking, she's less bad than the alternatives? Not that Wynne is good, but everyone else who ran was worse in an immediately identifiable way. What do we do here, in situations where we're choosing the least bad option as a matter of course?
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infernal machines posted:So hypothetically speaking, she's less bad than the alternatives? Why clearly you vote for the party that will gently caress over everyone except ikantski instead of one that will fucker over everyone including him. Hudak was worse in every way and Im glad him and his GOP platform got told to gently caress right off into oblivion.
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There is an uninspiring 3rd party that may be less brazen about cronyism , at least in their first term.
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infernal machines posted:everyone else who ran was worse in an immediately identifiable way. The NDP would have been better but it doesn't matter because the $8m in union OLP advertising made it a race between Hudak and Wynne. Yes, a Hudak minority would have been better. The province is financially hosed, we're constantly fighting with nurses, doctors, teachers and jail guards, we're about to become the highest debt per capita province in Canada. The "most progressive budget" in our history included selling off our biggest asset. Wynne didn't bring it up a lot during the campaign but it was in there. I'd prefer Hudak who was honest about it and was only going to sell 49% rather than Wynne selling off 60% but max 10% can be held by any entity. What kind of fairlyland school trustee bullshit is that? The 60% share holders can just talk to each other and agree to do what they want. It's retarded. Hudak was going to trim the public sector via attrition and spare nurses. Wynne is trimming the public sector via attrition and sparing teachers. We have almost nothing to show for 10s of billions in green energy subsidies and tripled electricity rates. Hudak and Horwath both ran horrible campaigns but when you look at the policy they've stood up for, I think they would have been better leaders. Look at this ridiculous bullshit. quote:The province offered Ubisoft $264-million in subsidies over 10 years. In return, the company promised to invest $500-million of its own money to open a new gaming studio in Toronto, creating roughly 800 jobs. That's a stupid way of promoting business in the province. Instead of improving the general conditions for business owners or classes of business, the politicians pick and choose profitable firms like Cisco and Ubisoft to receive hundreds of millions in subsidies. Hudak pretty much killed a $700m handout to Chrysler with all his bitching and moaning. Chrysler is still here and now they're complaining about high and rapidly rising hydro rates. I don't know if Horwath has ever accomplished anything. She seems to be on a widely unreported warpath since the election. They've given up trying to nudge the OLP toward more progressive things and are just calling them on bullshit now. I'm sure she's done something progressive for you guys to have elected her leader so I will just blindly say she would be a better progressive leader than the privatizing, austerity hungry Wynne. I'd take a Hudak, Horwath or Brown in a heartbeat over a Wynne majority. Frig, I'd personally roll out the red carpet for McGuinty at this point, never thought I'd say that. Furnaceface posted:Why clearly you vote for the party that will gently caress over everyone except ikantski instead of one that will fucker over everyone including him. Yup, my stupid sister can't find a doctor job in Ontario cause no doctors want to work here so I might have to move to stupid Nelson, BC. Which isn't that bad because I enjoy snowboarding, hunting and fishing and that should offset the dirty hippy factor. Nothing is final yet so don't tell anyone but my days of Wynne complaining might be coming to an end.
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Ikantski posted:I don't know if Horwath has ever accomplished anything. She seems to be on a widely unreported warpath since the election. They've given up trying to nudge the OLP toward more progressive things and are just calling them on bullshit now. I'm sure she's done something progressive for you guys to have elected her leader so I will just blindly say she would be a better progressive leader than the privatizing, austerity hungry Wynne. But her campaign was so uninspiring. It just didn't inspire voters. Nobody wants an uninspiring leader!
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THC posted:But her campaign was so uninspiring. It just didn't inspire voters. Nobody wants an uninspiring leader! it wasn't just uninspiring it was actively poo poo. I don't think you can blame voters for questioning if a party that can't even run a campaign for an election they forced is capable of running a government. anyway I don't think Wynne is worse than McGuinty, nor do I think there is something inherent to Wynne's character that makes all this stuff her fault. The OLP is a broken institution and the person in charge is irrelevant.
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Ikantski posted:The NDP would have been better but it doesn't matter because the $8m in union OLP advertising made it a race between Hudak and Wynne. Yes, a Hudak minority would have been better. The province is financially hosed, we're constantly fighting with nurses, doctors, teachers and jail guards, we're about to become the highest debt per capita province in Canada. The "most progressive budget" in our history included selling off our biggest asset. Wynne didn't bring it up a lot during the campaign but it was in there.
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Cultural Imperial posted:lol hunting are you some obese retard When I was in Alberta I saw some hunters getting ready to start their day on the side of highway 40 one morning at like 7am so I sat on my horn for the next kilometer or so. Saw them flipping me off in the rearview.
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cowofwar posted:You have to move to where your sister can get a job? Are you married to her? Hes not from that far north in Ontario. Personally I like his "Hudak was up front about being a corrupt shithead that wanted to privatize everything while Wynne lying about it makes it so much worse despite the same end results!" approach. Small Business Owner LogicTM.
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