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jm20 posted:The solution is to allow the pipelines through our provinces provided Alberta accepts our low and mid level nuclear waste and torontos garbage We tried shipping the Maritime's garbage over there, but it came back. 
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jm20 posted:The solution is to allow the pipelines through our provinces provided Alberta accepts our low and mid level nuclear waste and torontos garbage Don't send Wynne to Alberta, they're suffering enough.
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Jan 22, 2016 20:44
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Count Roland posted:Why are these plans impossible? So you can't have the headway without building new lines, fine. But you also can't build new lines in some of the corridors planned without flattening a bunch of homes, because the right of way for the lines isn't broad enough to run three or more sets of tracks. Then you look at the proposed stations and find that there's nowhere to build some of them without either flattening more homes, or making them completely useless to the areas they're meant to serve. The whole thing was drawn on the back of a napkin, it was an election ploy, and it worked. Unfortunately John Tory is too stupid to realize that it was never meant to be doable, and so he's been trumpeting it from the rooftops as the savior of Toronto transit.
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Jan 22, 2016 20:53
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Every time an Albertan doesn't buy my app they are denying my livelihood! 
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Jan 22, 2016 20:58
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THC posted:Every time an Albertan doesn't buy my app they are denying my livelihood! If the government of Calgary had the ability to block the sale of your app to most people, and was intent on doing so out of sheer petulance, you might have a good point.
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Jan 22, 2016 21:08
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PT6A posted:If the government of Calgary had the ability to block the sale of your app to most people, and was intent on doing so out of sheer petulance, you might have a good point. Also if the app brought Alberta 0 benefit with significant risk of environmental contamination.
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Jan 22, 2016 21:11
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sliderule posted:Also if the app brought Alberta 0 benefit with significant risk of environmental contamination. e: come to think of it, there is also the potential for environmental contamination, if users throw their smartphones away in disgust without taking them to an ethical e-waste recycling shop. Juul-Whip fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Jan 22, 2016 |
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Jan 22, 2016 21:17
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Maybe Alberta should small business themselves out of their resource export price shock.
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Jan 22, 2016 21:29
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Guys why isn't my Marxist weed fantasy real Edit 
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Jan 22, 2016 21:30
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Small businesses can't fail, they can't only be failed (generally by the government, or livelihood denying enemy provinces)
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Jan 22, 2016 21:31
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Honourable job creator: Stop being petulant and let me dump this toxic waste near your city! Selfish tree-hugging hippie politician installed by the stupid evil job-hating communist conspiracy: No! Also I am bad.
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sliderule posted:Honourable job creator: Stop being petulant and let me dump this toxic waste near your city! The PoliToons thread is leaking again.
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Jan 22, 2016 21:42
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PT6A posted:If the government of Calgary had the ability to block the sale of your app to most people, and was intent on doing so out of sheer petulance, you might have a good point. I won't even bring up environmental concerns because I get that you'll never care about them or will always find a way to rationalize why economic development matters more but let me try and frame this in a way you might understand. What's petulant is that Albertans seem to think they have a right to build pipelines through other people's backyards and yet they're outraged that the people assuming most of the risk of the inevitable leaks or spills might actually want to enjoy some of the benefits of the pipelines. If you're not gonna share profits with BC or Quebec then why in God's name would they ever agree to these pipelines? The real irony here is that I bet if we'd had a Liberal government for the last 9 years they would have greased enough palms and made enough concerned clucking noises about the environment to get most of these pipelines built. Jean Chretien or Paul Martin would have found ways to placate the US environmentalist lobby and throw a bit of symbolic devleopment projects at BC or the East. But Stephen Harper decided to play hardball, and the Albertans loved it and kept supporting Harper long after the rest of the country was fed up with him. And now as a province you're all shocked to discover there isn't much goodwill left. Maybe if your province hadn't doubled down on the most divisive and unpleasant and generlly undiplomatic rear end in a top hat in living memory then you would have made more progress on getting those pipelines built. Turns out, though, that speeches that might play well with the Calgary Petroleum Club or the Calgary Southwest riding association might not be the right message for the rest of the country.
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Jan 22, 2016 21:46
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So is weed legal yet
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Cultural Imperial posted:So is weed legal yet Yes they're using it to build condos in Vancouver
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Tochiazuma posted:Yes they're using it to build condos in Vancouver Better than wood. At least when it catches fire, someone will benefit.
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Cultural Imperial, eat your heart out:quote:Wednesday, January 20, 2016, 5:09 PM - In news that will not come as a surprise to anyone living in the Great White North, a new survey listed Canada is the second-best country in the world on Wednesday, sitting behind one European country. 
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Helsing posted:Cultural Imperial, eat your heart out: Those articles are generally garbage. It's like the wanking that goes on when Vancouver ends up in the annual top-5 list of the best cities in the world when The Economist does its rounds. Which reminds me that we're due for that article fairly soon.
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lol celebrating cultural diversity, bunch of white people in their condos thinking they are culturally diverse because they have a Canadian-born asian neighbour and have sushi once a week.
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It's even funnier when you notice that this particular study isn't even based on some attempt to estimate "quality of life" or whatever. They just rang up some unspecified business leaders and "citizens of note" just before t
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DariusLikewise posted:lol celebrating cultural diversity, bunch of white people in their condos thinking they are culturally diverse because they have a Canadian-born asian neighbour and have sushi made by korean or cantonese speakers once a week. This is the real Canadian experience right here.
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What's worse on this rating scale, German Turks or Canadian Chinese?
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jm20 posted:This is the real Canadian experience right here. My favourite local sushi place has a Korean sushi chef, super nice guy
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more like dICK posted:What's worse on this rating scale, German Turks or Canadian Chinese? Mods!!!!!!!? DO SOMETHIIIIING
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CLAM DOWN posted:My favourite local sushi place has a Korean sushi chef, super nice guy http://www.168sushibuffet.com http://www.gccmgc.com/about.php ni hao, shi shi shi... shi, thats some good kanji I have going here
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eXXon posted:The Eglinton LRT is fine. In fact, John Tory's SmartTrack (TM) plan would necessitate tunneling along Eglinton West and Tory just admitted that this would be outrageously expensive. So guess what, we're also going back to the Transit City plan of extending the LRT. Good job, anyone who voted for this useless old money suit for his half-bakrd transit fantasy. The consturction going on on Eglinton wouldn't be so bad if the other side of the street wasn't shut down to build condos. I was just driving in that area this week and it is goddamn nightmare. cowofwar posted:So is there any city in Canada where council actually runs the city in planning mode and not just constant catch up and whack a mole? David Corbett posted:If I was all-powerful and had a time machine, I'd have focused Canada's development on the public control and ownership of vital resources, utilities and natural monopolies. The profit from them would be reinvested into creating an extremely efficient space for people to take risks and form businesses, with robust public infrastructure, a strong social safety net, high-quality education, and only indirect government support in the form of low taxes (which would be focused more on personal income), cheap power, universal health care (to include vision, dental and pharmacare) and other such enablers. I wanted a glorious socialist petrostate too, man.
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David Corbett posted:To be honest, I don't think anything can be done about the Canadian economy unless and until our biggest and best corporations are forced to do something better than collect rents - whether on natural monopolies (utilities), exploitation of publicly-created infrastructure and regulations (telecoms), accumulations of capital (retail finance and insurance), or natural resources (mining, forestry, energy, fishing)... This was what 'the Waffle' attempted to do, operating as a leftist faction of the NDP. Wikipedia posted:Manifesto for an Independent Socialist Canada Even though they were just one faction of a party that never even held power they were actually able to shift the coordinates of the debate back during the 1970s, when the public dialogue on these issues was generally more conducive to these discussions than it would be in today's barren and corporate controlled media environment.
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jm20 posted:This is the real Canadian experience right here. There's actually a ton of ~ethnic Japanese~ owned restaurants in Vancouver and there's starting to be more in Toronto. Of course, when there are 15x more Chinese Canadians than Japanese Canadians you're definitely going to see a lot more of those AYCE places and whatnot around. Also I just looked up the numbers and there are 160k Koreans to 109k Japanese in Canada? Why does it feel like there are way more Koreans or is this just due to immigration waves leading to more first gen Korean immigrants?
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Japanese immigrants are older and tended to be professionals. Korean and Chinese immigrants tended to be from a lower class background so that is reflected in their occupations. Also Japanese cuisine is a thing so authentic Japanese restaurants tend to be expensive. Restaurants serving AYCE tend to be run by Koreans.
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A shooting at a school in La Loche, SK left at least two people dead, according to multiple reports.
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5 dead now. Yeesh. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/northern-saskatchewan-school-in-lockdown-after-shooting/article28351900/ quote:Five people have been killed during a school shooting incident in northern Saskatchewan, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday.
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As it happens was interviewing a kid from the school. (and more) Ugh.
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Jordan7hm posted:As it happens was interviewing a kid from the school. (and more) His descriptions were surreal, describing seeing his friend get shot (and presumed he's dead) and running for his life. He also posted pictures or video of the chaos according to that interview.
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That's awful  Is that the worst one in Canada since Ecole Polytechnique?
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colonel_korn posted:That's awful I think so, yes. It's horrifying.
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quote:The annual suicide rate in the Keewatin Yatthe Regional Health Authority is the highest of any health authority in Saskatchewan. The area, which includes La Loche, Buffalo Narrows, Ile a la Crosse and other communities in the province’s northwest, averaged 43.4 suicide deaths per 100,000 people between 2008 and 2012. That’s more than triple the average annual provincial rate of 12.7 suicide deaths per 100,000. The average annual suicide rates in the Saskatoon and Regina Qu’Appelle health authorities were 10.2 and 11.5 per 100,000 people respectively for the same time frame. Jesus Christ.
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This is a horrifying event, but notice how loving nothing is being released about it. No victims names, no mugshots, no theories on the killer. How the RCMP aren't leaking to the press like a sieve. What a stark contrast to the immediate dramatization and milking of American shootings.
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You're overthinking this. It is a community of 3000 with no access by road, Ofcourse information will be much less forthcoming then the us market where every affiliate news station has a helicopter and police scanners.
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jm20 posted:You're overthinking this. It is a community of 3000 with no access by road, Ofcourse information will be much less forthcoming then the us market where every affiliate news station has a helicopter and police scanners. Yeah, if this was happening in downtown Toronto instead we would have fifteen competing wildly speculative theories so far and ten of them would be terrorism.
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