PT6A posted:

Montreal, I assume? That's a special case because their transit system doesn't blow rear end. In Calgary, driving to school cut my commute by a solid half hour.

Kibayasu posted:

Boy, it sure sucks we elected someone that puts on a cultural hat at an event????

THC posted:

Justin Trudeau (J.T.) is going to Japan this week. Did you know that Japan has taxes? Taxes are bad!

jm20 posted:

Just look at this guy, gosh

Slightly Toasted posted:

Days I am glad that nobody cares about Manitoba;


Thanks MB PCs! That sure didn't take long!

infernal machines posted:

Ikantski posted:

Haha, thanks for sharing and I hope you salted the hell out of it. I'm glad they're afraid of Brown and surprised that it sounds like Wynne might run again, I still think she's going to resign before her term is up. Her approval ratings are tanked and the vitriol on her twitter and facebook makes me look downright reasonable.

We were bound to get Harper Harper Harper whether we chose Brown or Flaherty's widow but Canadians have short memories and Harper might not seem so bad after 3 years of this guy.

Dreylad posted:

Jesus Christ this post

CLAM DOWN posted:

I'm pretty sure it's a satiric post, it has to be.

MonsieurChoc posted:

I'm sorry that Calgary is terrible. My goondolences.

Edit: Yeah, you were right about me being in Montreal.

PT6A posted:

P.S. Trudeau is very clever because he somehow convinced his wife to act in such an unlikeable and entitled way that all his detractors have decided to focus on her rather than him. Between this and somehow turning elbowgate into a positive for himself, I suspect he might be a genius.

Dreylad posted:

I think Montreal is fortunate in that for whatever combination of reasons it's a very dense city and so it's very walkable. That seems to make a difference in how they built their transit infrastructure. The commuter train kinda sucks, although there really isn't any reason to take it unless you are a commuter so there's that.

apatheticman posted:

Hey guys,

I have a thought, maybe 4 year election cycles isnt the best time frame for infrastructure planning.

Everyone wants an influx of cash right when they get in and right when the next election cycle comes around.

No one gives a poo poo about operating cost of capital or wants to fund a reasonable sustainment and repair fund and all democratic nations seem to be suffering the same infrastructure rot as everyone else.

Non partisan planning committee for... PM?

Dreylad posted:

I think Montreal is fortunate in that for whatever combination of reasons (on an island, urban planning, controlled/natural growth that promotes it??) it's a very dense city and so it's very walkable. That seems to make a difference in how they built their transit infrastructure. The commuter train kinda sucks, although there really isn't any reason to take it unless you are a commuter so there's that.

vyelkin posted:

Bombardier is a laughing stock when trying to deliver anything on time.

Hal_2005 posted:

Montreal has been a rusting, rotting cesspit of institutional corruption since 1960 (Expo 67 anyone?). Anyone who disagrees is both nostalgic and willfully ignorant; likely seeking fresh Government patronage contracts.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/montreal-decline-neil-macdonald-1.3501352

Hal_2005 posted:

Montreal has been a rusting, rotting cesspit of institutional corruption since 1960 (Expo 67 anyone?). Anyone who disagrees is both nostalgic and willfully ignorant; likely seeking fresh Government patronage contracts.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/montreal-decline-neil-macdonald-1.3501352

Pixelante posted:

In Toronto, everyone took transit except the debutante princesses I met in private school. My friend at Branksome Hall (elite girls school... for families who couldn't afford Havergal) had an angst meltdown because her parents didn't buy her a car for her 16th. She ran with the high-so crap, though, which is entirely her parents' fault. WASP to the core.

eXXon posted:

UCC has an NHL-sized and an international-sized hockey rink. They're drat well maintained too, always with a fresh scent of money and privilege.

Slightly Toasted posted:

Thanks MB PCs! That sure didn't take long!

quote:

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-may-25-2016-1.3598848/canadian-seniors-still-working-to-make-ends-meet-1.3598884

Canadian seniors still working to make ends meet

A survey by Manulife Bank found that six out of ten Canadians worry about having enough money to retire. (Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters)

A third of Canadians who don't have an employer pension are reaching their mid-sixties without enough in retirement savings, forcing them to keep working.

Guests in this segment:

Stu, age 72
Sheila, age 68

bunnyofdoom posted:

Harper is resigning as an mp. So I think I owe my friend who pointed out he'll stay on til the Duffy trial is over

Whiskey Sours posted:

http://angusreid.org/premier-approval-may2016/

canadian_politics.png

E: The BC Liberals will still get a majority in the next election.

Mad Hamish posted:

Hey, here in Hamilton we have city councillors actively trying to sabotage a $1 billion transit investment from the province from no reason other than petty regionalism. It's arguably the stupidest thing I've ever seen in municipal politics.

Terry Whitehead needs to be violently expelled from City Hall, preferably head-first into a brick wall.

Hal_2005 posted:

Montreal has been a rusting, rotting cesspit of institutional corruption since 1960 (Expo 67 anyone?). Anyone who disagrees is both nostalgic and willfully ignorant; likely seeking fresh Government patronage contracts.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/montreal-decline-neil-macdonald-1.3501352

quote:

Good Wednesday morning to you…

…And a happy anniversary to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who’s taking the day off to spend it with his wife of 11 years, Sophie. Yesterday, Japan’s prime minister put heat on him over the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the South China Sea dispute. CP’s Andy Blatchford has that story.

Just hours after U.S. President Barack Obama gave a speech in Vietnam praising the benefits of the pending TPP, Brian Pallister's newly elected Conservative government in Manitoba said it backs the deal, too. In a press release, the province’s Trade Minister Cliff Cullen said he plans to ask the government to back the multi-billion trade deal unanimously. Our Kelsey Johnson has that story.

Meanwhile, the Globe and Mail has learned that Trudeau will name two prominent female civil servants to serve as Canada’s envoys to Great Britain and Israel rather than fill the posts with political partisans.

The National Energy Board wants to know whether end-to-end encryption and other communication techniques can help restore trust in its whistleblower program. The federal oil and gas regulator issued a request for information Friday for software that could ensure confidential and anonymous communication between a 'tipster' in the industry and the board's safety officials. Our James Munson has more.

Despite the ruckus around ‘elbowgate' that’s bumped the real issue of assisted dying to the sidelines in recent days, the government’s representative in the Senate thinks it’s still possible the bill will pass in the upper chamber before the deadline passes. Sen. Peter Harder won’t say whether he would resort to moving for time allocation to facilitate that, which is ultimately, albeit indirectly, what led to breaking out the elbows down the hall in the first place. We shall see.

Turning to electoral reform: The results of two polls — one conducted in April by EKOS Research and another last week by Ipsos Public Affairs — seem to imply, at first glance, that Canadians are becoming increasingly insistent the Liberal government hold a referendum on reform. However, neither EKOS president Frank Graves nor Ipsos’ CEO Darrell Bricker think their firm’s polls can be seen as a continuum. Our BJ Siekierski looks at why.

Although he stressed he’s not advocating one way or another for Canada to join a possible western military coalition in Libya, Gen. Jonathan Vance says military intervention to deal with Islamic militants there is not inevitable. As he told reporters yesterday, what happens will depend on the performance of Libya's new, United Nations-brokered government and what assistance it may ask for. CP’s Mike Blanchfield has more.

Still with the military, ships that do double duty as humanitarian vessels? As David Pugliese reports, it’s an idea Irving Shipbuilding is hoping will float the Liberal government’s boat.

With an eye on improving the province’s environmental reputation and formalizing grand climate change plans unveiled last fall, the Alberta government has introduced legislation to tax purchases of all fossil fuels, including gasoline and natural gas. As the Globe’s Kelly Cryderman reports, Bill 20 was tabled yesterday.

Meanwhile in Ontario, although published reports have leaked portions of the province’s climate plan, Premier Kathleen Wynne won't guarantee that it will be released before the legislature rises for the summer on June 9.

“New advertising rules that limit using the image of Canada’s most photogenic prime minister won’t stop public servants from being dragged into partisan government ads and communications, warns the former senior bureaucrat once responsible for the policy now being revised.” The Citizen’s Kathryn May reports.

Meanwhile, the Conservatives say the Liberals broke their ban on partisan ads when Trudeau appeared in a $24,000 tourism video.

Here and there:

• In Cairo, Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion will meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and other top officials.
  
• Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes the day off ahead of the G-7 on May 26-27.
  
• Gov. Gen. David Johnston is in Atlanta (through May 25) as part of a week-long working visit to the U.S.
  
• The Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries holds a global defence and security trade show. Keynote address this morning by Gen. Jonathan Vance, followed by release of the State of Canada's Defence Industry 2014 report.
  
• Protesters gather outside the EY Centre to demonstrate against the CANSEC Global Defence and Security Trade Show.
  
• Statistics Canada releases farm income for 2015.
  
• Bank of Canada releases its latest decision on its key interest rate target.
  
• The Grace-Pepin Access to Information Award presented to Ken Rubin and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
  
• In Calgary, Veteran Affairs Minister Kent Hehr highlights how measures in Budget 2016 help Canadian Armed Forces members, veterans and their families.

Donald Trump is now less than 10 delegates shy of clinching the Republican presidential nomination following a win last night in the Washington state primary. CNN has that story.

In what’s starting to become the new normal, things got more than a little heated outside a Trump rally in New Mexico late yesterday. It was a chaotic scene as protesters smashed a door, broke through barriers, threw rocks and lit fires outside Albuquerque's convention centre.

Hillary Clinton also took the Washington primary and has gained a new partner in her battle against Trump: Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has escalated her attacks on a ‘small’ and ‘insecure’ Trump.

In Afghanistan, the Taliban has announced a new leader to replace Mullah Akhtar Mansour who was killed in a US drone strike. The BBC has more.

Overseas, there are still more questions than answers around the crash of EgyptAir Flight 804. While one forensic investigator says the evidence points to an explosion on board, the idea of a blast was promptly dismissed by the head of Egypt's forensic agency as "baseless" speculation.

In Featured Opinion this morning:

• It's considered bad form in certain circles to say nice things about Stephen Harper's time in power, but you had to give the man credit: He built the modern Conservative Party of Canada, and the CPC was pretty good at winning elections.
  
• Good enough, in fact, for the current tenant of the PMO to lift a few items from Harper's playbook. Tonight, Susan Delacourt explains how Justin Trudeau and his advisers are moving to restructure the Liberal party to make it more top-down, streamlined and election-ready — more like the CPC, in fact.
  
• The Conservatives, meanwhile, may be moving in the other direction. L. Ian MacDonald tells us why the Conservative grassroots is taking steps to make sure the next leader of the CPC has a lot less power than Harper did.
  
• And Fiona Kouyoumdjian and Stephen Hwang have a piece for Evidencenetwork.ca on the phenomenon of Canadians who've served prison time suffering shorter lifespans — and what we can do about it.

And finally, why Donald Trump is a fact checker’s nightmare.

Have yourself a great day.
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International

Afghan Taliban appoint new leader after Mansour's death (Reuters)
Republican voters, politicians unite under Donald Trump (Toronto Star)
U.S.-backed Syrian alliance launches new attack near Islamic State capital (Reuters)
National

Trudeau chooses two women to fill top diplomatic positions (The Globe and Mail)
New rules on partisan government ads go in ‘right direction,’ but still too weak: former senior bureaucrat (National Post)
Social media campaign to target laser pointer strikes on planes (CBC News)
Canada announces extra $331.5 million in humanitarian aid (Toronto Star)
Royal Society of Canada, academics, call on Ottawa to halt Site C project (The Globe and Mail)
Mike Duffy’s legal ordeal in Senate expenses scandal ends as Crown decides not to appeal (Toronto Star)
Atlantic

Premier Dwight Ball's deputy chief of staff resigns (CBC News)
Ontario

Wynne orders MPP to apologize to protesting mother of autistic son (Toronto Star)
Prairies

Manitoba government backs TPP, calls on feds to ratify (iPolitics)
Alberta

40 new fires in Alberta over the weekend, most from abandoned campfires (Edmonton Sun)
British Columbia

B.C. funds caregiver network providing mental-illness support to families (The Globe and Mail)

less than three posted:

TTC uses a "gently caress you we're a special snowflake" track gauge that isn't compatible with anything in North America or Europe, so that requires modifications to accommodate whenever they order, so maybe that's it.