CanPol Megathread: Big Changus

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Juul-Whip: Mar 10, 2008

Dreylad posted:

panique! � le Costco

Au magasin Costco, svp

# ? May 3, 2016 22:56

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JohnnyCanuck: May 28, 2004; Strong And/Or Free

Dreylad posted:

panique! � le Costco

I want you to know how much I appreciated this.

# ? May 3, 2016 23:05

Baronjutter: Dec 31, 2007; "Tiny Trains"

Someone get rich mass producing big well lit commercial signs that say "This business is in Quebec" in french. Then just mount them under existing signs so no one in Quebec ever runs the risk of forgetting. It's important to remember.

# ? May 3, 2016 23:08

Heavy neutrino: Sep 16, 2007; You made a fine post for yourself. ...For a casualry, I suppose.

PT6A posted:

Also, Quebec is busy figuring out new and inventive ways to embarrass themselves and make their province a little shittier: http://www.cbc.ca/1.3564089

This is probably more about picking off straggling p�quistes and burying the Libs' recent string of scandals under the overwhelming weight of ethnonationalist attitudes than any other professed goal but yeah it's silly.

Like the one important rule of Quebec politics is that any time the issue of "notre qu�bec FRAN�AIS!!!" comes up in any shape you can practically give up on having any meaningful political conversation about anything worth a drat for at least a month.

# ? May 3, 2016 23:51

Helsing: Aug 23, 2003; DON'T POST IN THE ELECTION THREAD UNLESS YOU JOE BIDEN

On the bright side this is still better than that ridiculous values charter.

# ? May 4, 2016 00:04

JawKnee: Mar 24, 2007; You'll take the ride to leave this town along that yellow line

Baronjutter posted:

I hope the chains and companies just add litterally "french text" or "french slogan" in french.

just append toujours to your business name

# ? May 4, 2016 00:20

Postess with the Mostest: Apr 4, 2007; Arabian nights
'neath Arabian moons
A fool off his guard
could fall and fall hard
out there on the dunes

JawKnee posted:

just append toujours to your business name

"St." to the front would save even more.

# ? May 4, 2016 00:35

Dreylad: Jun 19, 2001

Helsing posted:

On the bright side this is still better than that ridiculous values charter.

Bill 101 has pretty much no support among any young Quebecois I knew -- it's the hangover from the Quiet Revolution, still trying to protect a language that they felt was subservient to English. The need to keep enforcing it to drum up patriotic support from people who still listen to what la soci�t� de saint jean baptiste has to say will diminish over time.

# ? May 4, 2016 00:37

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

Ikantski posted:

"St." to the front would save even more.

St. Walmart

St. McDonalds

St. Chalet du Suisse

# ? May 4, 2016 00:38

Franks Happy Place: Mar 15, 2011; It is by weed alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the dank of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, stains become a warning. It is by weed alone I set my mind in motion.

Bilirubin posted:

Ft. McMurray

A bunch of rig pigs learning the hard way why climate change is important to some of us.

# ? May 4, 2016 00:40

Heavy neutrino: Sep 16, 2007; You made a fine post for yourself. ...For a casualry, I suppose.

Helsing posted:

On the bright side this is still better than that ridiculous values charter.

The values charter was such a legendary example of notre qu�bec FRAN�AIS that it swallowed up not just a couple weeks or even a couple months, it suppressed discussion of issues that are dangerous to business for an entire election campaign. It was pure genius. We're simply biologically unable to dodge empty national debates about are language and are culture

# ? May 4, 2016 00:43

BattleMaster: Aug 14, 2000

Je suis Costco

# ? May 4, 2016 01:07

Excelsiortothemax: Sep 9, 2006

The 15 million hasn't come out of the budget until August 2016. I'm sure they will release emergency funds to help out.

Thought it'll be hard to tell what's burnt from the fire and what is left from the extraction process.

# ? May 4, 2016 01:07

Vintersorg: Mar 3, 2004; President of
the Brendan Fraser
Fan Club

Fort McMurray will be wiped off the face of the planet. What was it like before the oil?

# ? May 4, 2016 01:12

namaste friends: Sep 18, 2004; by Smythe

I posted several pages back that Alberta was going to turn into the road didn't i

# ? May 4, 2016 01:22

Heavy neutrino: Sep 16, 2007; You made a fine post for yourself. ...For a casualry, I suppose.

You know it really sucks for the people affected but Fort Mac getting razed by a wildfire is symbolic to say the least

# ? May 4, 2016 01:30

Pinterest Mom: Jun 9, 2009

Dreylad posted:

Bill 101 has pretty much no support among any young Quebecois I knew -- it's the hangover from the Quiet Revolution, still trying to protect a language that they felt was subservient to English. The need to keep enforcing it to drum up patriotic support from people who still listen to what la soci�t� de saint jean baptiste has to say will diminish over time.

I don't think that's fair. I suspect you'd find near-universal support for several hugely important provisions of bill 101 - French as the language of the workplace, sending immigrants' kids to French school, French labelling on products and the like. The sign language regulations and things like the periodic panic about sales clerk speaking English are widely ridiculed, but they're not the heart of the Charte.

# ? May 4, 2016 01:31

Wistful of Dollars: Aug 25, 2009

https://twitter.com/olearychris/status/727643001439195137

# ? May 4, 2016 01:36

Funkdreamer: Jul 15, 2005; It'll be a blast

El Scotch posted:

https://twitter.com/olearychris/status/727643001439195137

Good to see everyone pitching in

# ? May 4, 2016 01:41

Funkdreamer: Jul 15, 2005; It'll be a blast

Here's some erotic literature for CI:

quote:

The fire had barely hit the Centennial Trailer Park before John Davidson and his girlfriend Joanne Bates had lost everything.

"It was the second one to go," said Davidson. "It's probably all blown away now."

Behind him, the flames consumed what was left of the trailer park where his former home sat.

Davidson and Bates had lived there for more than a year and kept their vehicles and two snowmobiles there.

"Everything I worked for the last two years, it's all gone," said Davidson.

While the two commend the RCMP and the fire department, they are upset that they weren't able to get into the trailer park to get their belongings.

"It's a disaster," said Bates. "I think it's not fair. They didn't even let us take our things, so we lost everything."

# ? May 4, 2016 01:42

EvilJoven: Mar 18, 2005; NOBODY,IN THE HISTORY OF EVER, HAS ASKED OR CARED WHAT CANADA THINKS. YOU ARE NOT A COUNTRY. YOUR MONEY HAS THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND ON IT. IF YOU DIG AROUND IN YOUR BACKYARD, NATIVE SKELETONS WOULD EXPLODE OUT OF YOUR LAWN LIKE THE END OF POLTERGEIST. CANADA IS SO POLITE, EH?; Fun Shoe

3 months from now the headlines are going to be all 'Strong retail sales boost Alberta's economy!' and it's just going to be Albertans replacing their poo poo with their insurance cheques.

# ? May 4, 2016 01:50

Chicken: Apr 23, 2014

As if Newfoundlanders hadn't been hit hard enough by their provincial budget, now their houses and skidoos and F150s are burnt.

# ? May 4, 2016 01:54

namaste friends: Sep 18, 2004; by Smythe

# ? May 4, 2016 02:08

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

Oh hey so now literally the entire city of Fort McMurray is being evacuated. All 80,000 people are being redirected north to Noralta Lodge, which is next to a place called 'Tar Island.'

That's a logistical nightmare; evacuating 80K people is hard at the best of times, but in this case it's pushing people further into the bush, because the only highway to Edmonton is on fire.

# ? May 4, 2016 02:13

Dallan Invictus: Oct 11, 2007; The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes, look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

Jesus gently caress. This would seem to be a point at which all those offroading-capable vehicles might come in handy.

# ? May 4, 2016 02:18

Wistful of Dollars: Aug 25, 2009

Funkdreamer posted:

Here's some erotic literature for CI:

He's probably wanking it to that right now.

# ? May 4, 2016 02:23

Postess with the Mostest: Apr 4, 2007; Arabian nights
'neath Arabian moons
A fool off his guard
could fall and fall hard
out there on the dunes

Hopefully the population of Fort McMurray stays safe and remembers to follow evacuation orders.

# ? May 4, 2016 02:30

Solenna: Jun 5, 2003; I'd say it was your manifest destiny not to.

Albino Squirrel posted:

Oh hey so now literally the entire city of Fort McMurray is being evacuated. All 80,000 people are being redirected north to Noralta Lodge, which is next to a place called 'Tar Island.'

That's a logistical nightmare; evacuating 80K people is hard at the best of times, but in this case it's pushing people further into the bush, because the only highway to Edmonton is on fire.

yeah a fun game is to follow the roads north of Fort Mac, and see if you can get back to civilization without backtracking south on highway 63.

I haven't found a route yet.

# ? May 4, 2016 02:31

brucio: Nov 22, 2004

Ikantski posted:

Hopefully the population of Fort McMurray stays safe and remembers to follow evacuation orders.

was this you

https://twitter.com/CliffWho/status/727647175908446208

# ? May 4, 2016 02:34

Starsfan: Sep 29, 2007; This is what happens when you disrespect Cam Neely

Solenna posted:

yeah a fun game is to follow the roads north of Fort Mac, and see if you can get back to civilization without backtracking south on highway 63.

I haven't found a route yet.

I just moved out of Fort McMurray last week, and you are correct that the only route south is Highway 63 up until the point where Highway 881 splits off of it 20 minutes south of town.

I worked in the assessment department up there, and Fort McMurray is almost uniquely well positioned to deal with this situation for being a remote northern community. There are 30,000+ workcamp beds in the rural area around the city, and a good number of those are located to the north of the city. Most of the major oilsands sites have their own airstrips where supplies can land. Atleast those people have a place to go while they wait for the escape route down south to open up again.

# ? May 4, 2016 02:37

Postess with the Mostest: Apr 4, 2007; Arabian nights
'neath Arabian moons
A fool off his guard
could fall and fall hard
out there on the dunes

brucio posted:

was this you

https://twitter.com/CliffWho/status/727647175908446208

Can confirm that I'm not "just an emo nerd that dyed her hair"

# ? May 4, 2016 02:41

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

Solenna posted:

yeah a fun game is to follow the roads north of Fort Mac, and see if you can get back to civilization without backtracking south on highway 63.

I haven't found a route yet.

There are none, unless it's winter and you feel like driving on the river all the way to Fort Smith. Fun fact: if you want to drive across the north half of Alberta, you have to go all the way south to Athabasca!

# ? May 4, 2016 02:58

bunnyofdoom: Mar 29, 2008; I've been here the whole time, and you're not my real Dad!

https://twitter.com/mariamdena/status/727674626025902082

# ? May 4, 2016 03:02

JohnnyCanuck: May 28, 2004; Strong And/Or Free

Dallan Invictus posted:

Jesus gently caress. This would seem to be a point at which all those offroading-capable vehicles might come in handy.

OMG take your truck offroad , what are you, nuts?

It has to be shiny.

# ? May 4, 2016 03:03

EvilJoven: Mar 18, 2005; NOBODY,IN THE HISTORY OF EVER, HAS ASKED OR CARED WHAT CANADA THINKS. YOU ARE NOT A COUNTRY. YOUR MONEY HAS THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND ON IT. IF YOU DIG AROUND IN YOUR BACKYARD, NATIVE SKELETONS WOULD EXPLODE OUT OF YOUR LAWN LIKE THE END OF POLTERGEIST. CANADA IS SO POLITE, EH?; Fun Shoe

So hypothetically speaking, if the entire city burns to a crisp, with the state of the oilsands industry, will they even bother rebuilding?

# ? May 4, 2016 03:05