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Chandler said he can understand how his words were taken out of context— citing the number of characters.

“I can understand in the world of 140 characters how people misunderstand things,” he said.

Facebook does not have a 140-character limit.

EvilJoven posted:

All of you assholes acting like the current RRSP/TFSA system benefits the average Canadian in any way are probably making twice or higher the average Canadian yearly wage and have never had to do anything as drastic as moving in with a roommate or selling a personal belonging because something as simple as unexpected vehicle repairs started you on a debt spiral.

Most people don't have the money to put into savings in the first place.

THC posted:

That's Craig Chandler, member of the board of directors of the Alberta Progressive Conservatives, and their regional director for Calgary. He's fired now.

Cultural Imperial posted:

And this is why all Canadian journalists deserve to live out of social housing and eat out of dumpsters

THC posted:

That's Craig Chandler, member of the board of directors of the Alberta Progressive Conservatives, and their regional director for Calgary. He's fired now.

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“I was discussing Halal and not Muslims—those are two separate issues all together,” he said “Halal is a type of treatment for meat and the way it works is to be Halal certified you actually pay a tax that goes back to Saudi Arabia.”

Chandler said when he made the terrorist comment he was referring to Saudi Arabia.

“Saudi Arabia currently happens to be funding Al Qaeda in Yemen and so that was my comment relating to Earl’s saying they supported terrorists now,” he said.

“Do all Muslims eat Halal? No. Do all Muslims understand there is a tax going back to Mecca for this? No. I never once said the word Muslim—not once in the sentence there do I mention the word Muslim.”

Cultural Imperial posted:

I live in Vancouver and I earn well over the limit where Trudeau's tax regime starts to penalize me. I'm not even middle class in this city so gently caress you poor destitute assholes

El Scotch posted:

The Wente pile-on continues

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The Toronto-based columnist’s major alleged crime against journalism was her failure to put quotation marks around somebody else’s words, something that is now defined in the blogosphere as plagiarism — “an act of fraud,” according to one expert.

Falstaff posted:

That is literally the definition of plagiarism, on the blogosphere or anywhere else.

Whiskey Sours posted:

I don't understand this new fangled web 2.0 social media blogosphere concept of plagiarism.

Whiskey Sours posted:

Helsing posted:

Expecting journalists to attribute ideas to their original sources is now a form of "political correctness".

apatheticman posted:

I'm going to pull a CI and say execute all opinion columnists.

blah_blah posted:

It's certainly true that the RRSPs primarily benefits the 50-99th percentile of the income distribution (as noted it has no benefit to the really rich). For example, funding/subsidizing postsecondary education also primarily benefits a similar segment of the population, so that alone isn't a sufficient criticism of the policy.

Most Canadians were better off and more financially secure in the age of defined benefit pensions (which, again, primarily benefitted a similar income range of the population), but those days are gone and never coming back. Canadians as a whole are awful with money, and it is likely that we'll see significant increases in people entering retirement without the necessary resources to do so in the coming decades, which is going to cause a gigantic drain on the system. It's virtually guaranteed if there's any significant nationwide loss in home equity over that timeframe. If anything, we should be incentivizing Canadians to save for retirement a lot more than we do currently with the RRSP. I'd support an expanded CPP as well.

There are plenty of ridiculous handouts to the wealthy that should be eliminated. Preferential tax rates on stock options, unlimited capital gains exemptions on primary residences, lack of means testing on OAS/TFSA/RESP, boutique tax credits, and so on. And there should be new marginal tax brackets for the highest earners -- ones that reflect the gigantic skew present in the income distribution and don't end at 200k (was ~140k until last year!). We probably should have tax brackets starting at 1M. But knee-jerk opposition to any policy that might benefit someone making an above-median income is short-sighted.

Cultural Imperial posted:

LMAO that carleton has hundreds of students in journalism.

remember, the k in carleton stands for quality

flakeloaf posted:

Last time I checked, which hasn't been in a while, that journalism school was a bright shiny nugget of corn in that turd.

flakeloaf posted:

I don't understand this new fangled web 2.0 social media blogosphere concept of plagiarism.

Cultural Imperial posted:

LMAO that carleton has hundreds of students in journalism.

remember, the k in carleton stands for quality

mojo1701a posted:

An eighth grade teacher of mine (who would go on to teach English at my high school the very next year) used to bring up his Carleton degree all the time. He was also a dick. That's my story.

flakeloaf posted:

I wish contempt of jury were a thing.

bunnyofdoom posted:

PMJT visited Shoal Lake 40

PT6A posted:

Not to make light of the problems our First Nations face, but I recently found out that a friend of mine has been on a boil-water advisory for years now, and I grew up on a wholly private water system with no chlorination or treatment. Rural Canadians, of which the First Nations are a major part, are being failed across the board. We should stop pretending these are issues unique to First Nations people.

There are other issues which relate only to First Nations communities, though, so we should take care to recognize that and work to solve those problems as well.

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With little regard for the area's indigenous inhabitants, land was expropriated from what is now the Shoal Lake 40 First Nation for the construction of a water intake, which required digging a canal that cut off the community from the mainland.

Shoal Lake 40 First Nation has been on an island ever since.

Just 15 kilometres off the Trans-Canada Highway, today it remains accessible only by boat in the summer and an ice road in winter.

While the Shoal Lake 40 First Nation sends water to Winnipeg, it's been on a boil-water advisory since December 2000.

That could have changed in 2001, as the then Liberal federal government proposed to build a bridge from Shoal Lake 40 to the mainland through the neighbouring Iskatewizaagegan First Nation (also known as Shoal Lake 39).

Not wanting a public right-of-way through its lands, Iskatewizaagegan First Nation voted against it, killing the bridge proposal. (Iskatewizaagegan did not respond to an interview request)

Iskatewizaagegan First Nation has since imposed tariffs on anyone trying to reach Shoal Lake 40 through its lands, via ice road or ferry.

THC posted:

CBC's Power & Politics is an extremely bad show.

THC posted:

CBC's Power & Politics is an extremely bad show.

El Scotch posted:

Counter position: it is a good show.