CanPol Megathread: Big Changus

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Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

Baronjutter posted:

Pitbulls are good at solving loud annoying unsupervised children problems, and outdoor cat problems. Cougars take care of the dogs. I'm not sure what to do about the cougars though.

Gorillas, then winter comes

# ? Sep 28, 2016 21:39

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DariusLikewise: Oct 4, 2008; You wore that on Halloween?

Fried Watermelon posted:

Gorillas, ~~then winter comes~~ the Cincinnati Zoo park staff

FTFY

# ? Sep 28, 2016 22:11

RealityWarCriminal: Aug 10, 2016

Baronjutter posted:

Only certain breeds prone to violence though!

White people?

# ? Sep 28, 2016 22:11

flakeloaf: Feb 26, 2003; Still better than android clock

THC posted:

Ban human breeding imo

Nah, just breed Aboriginals. They have shorter lifespans and they don't aspire to much.

quote:

http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/probe-launched-after-ottawa-officer-accused-of-racist-online-posts-on-death-of-inuit-artist

The Ottawa Police Service has opened a chief�s complaint against one of its own after an officer was accused of making racist online comments following the suspicious death of acclaimed Inuit artist Annie Pootoogook.

Pootoogook�s body was discovered on Sept. 19 in the water near Bordeleau Park in Lowertown. Police said last Friday her death wasn�t considered suspicious, but on Monday Staff Sgt. Bruce Pirt said �elements� of her death were now indeed suspicious and warrant further investigation.

Pootoogook, 46, originally from Cape Dorset, Nunavut, attracted international attention for her drawings, which depicted gritty scenes of life in the North. In 2006, she won the $50,000 Sobey Art Award, and had had exhibitions of her work in Switzerland, Germany and New York. She had lived in Ottawa since 2007.

A comment on the Citizen�s story about Pootoogook�s death attributed to Facebook user Chris Hrnchiar seemed to blame Indigenous people for their own hardships: �Because much of the aboriginal population in Canada is just satisfied being alcohol or drug abusers, living in poor conditions etc�..they have to have the will to change, it�s not society�s fault.�

�And of course this has nothing to do with missing and murdered Aboriginal women�..it�s not a murder case�..it�s (sic) could be a suicide, accidental, she got drunk and fell in the river and drowned who knows�..typically many Aboriginals have very short lifespans, talent or not,� the post said.

The police are the people and the people are the police. CI was right.

Spay or neuter a Canadian today.

# ? Sep 28, 2016 22:19

ocrumsprug: Sep 23, 2010; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

flakeloaf posted:

Nah, just breed Aboriginals. They have shorter lifespans and they don't aspire to much.

The police are the people and the people are the police. CI was right.

Spay or neuter a Canadian today.

Looks like someone hasn't perused this months Best Countries in the World ranking in Macleans.

# ? Sep 28, 2016 22:25

Azerban: Oct 28, 2003

A person should not be allowed to own a pet that they are not capable of killing with their bare hands, if necessary.

# ? Sep 28, 2016 22:35

Wistful of Dollars: Aug 25, 2009

flakeloaf posted:

Spay or neuter a Canadian today.

Harsh, but fair.

# ? Sep 28, 2016 22:57

Monaghan: Dec 29, 2006

Azerban posted:

A person should not be allowed to own a pet that they are not capable of killing with their bare hands, if necessary.

Do you mean physically capable or emotionally/psychologically capable?

# ? Sep 28, 2016 23:00

Juul-Whip: Mar 10, 2008

Andrew Sheer, the former house speaker, has announced his bid for the CPC leadership.

# ? Sep 29, 2016 00:04

RBC: Nov 23, 2007; IM STILL SPENDING MONEY FROM 1888

excited to see all the bumbling clowns who are going to throw their hats in the ring to lead a party that has no chance of winning in the next ten years

# ? Sep 29, 2016 00:06

Brannock: Feb 9, 2006; by exmarx; Fallen Rib

Azerban posted:

A person should not be allowed to own a pet that they are not capable of killing with their bare hands, if necessary.

Decent enough sentiment, though a fully grown human male can handle animals that the elderly / children / many women wouldn't be able to... escapes and 'accidents' do happen.

THC posted:

Andrew Sheer, the former house speaker, has announced his bid for the CPC leadership.

Is this guy as enormously boring and generic as he looks?

# ? Sep 29, 2016 00:08

Baronjutter: Dec 31, 2007; "Tiny Trains"

E-May is handling this about as poorly as she could

https://ricochet.media/en/1436/elizabeth-may-retaliates-over-leaked-emails

The greens are terrible. At the same time I love the irony of a bunch of NDPers yelling about this. Yeah how dare a centrist election-obsessed party leader cull a party's actual progressive left elements using nasty internal politics. What a horrible thing to do!

# ? Sep 29, 2016 00:14

peter banana: Sep 2, 2008; Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

Lobok posted:

Pitbull laws are always terrible because the law is so vague in describing which dogs (as if there's a perfect taxonomy anyway) and because the breeds that cause trouble change through the years anyway.

Ther's a really good documentary on Netflix right now called The Champions about the rehabilitation of pit bulls seized from Michael Vick's property and this is mentioned. As well as apparently all the "facts" about pit bull viciousness being "inherent to the breed" and everything. Apparently, a different breed gets associated with those ideas about every generation or so.

I recommend it. Cried my loving eyes out.

# ? Sep 29, 2016 00:29

peter banana: Sep 2, 2008; Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

mojo1701a posted:

If it's one thing I can say about this country is that our lows aren't as low as most similar countries, and our highs aren't as high as most similar countries.

Unfortunately, this lack of really low lows keeps us complacent in an unambitious middle that allows us to ignore our actual problems while we pride ourselves constantly on whatever accomplishments we may actually have. It's like living in a giant suburb, where everything seems fine because you're personally isolated just enough to ignore the actual structural problems like a woefully-inadequate public transportation system (because everyone I know drives a car, you see), or how racism doesn't exist because everyone's friendly to the one black family in the neighbourhood (ignoring the crippling problems on First Nations reserves because "they're just a bunch of drunks"), or a common sense of identity that isn't some faux-Canadiana like what CI goes on about.

The last time we had something bite us in the rear end hard enough to motivate us was universal health care. That was what, over a half-century ago? Things seem like they're going fine for the majority of people because they lack the ability to critically understand how the world works around them. I mean, who has to know how economics really works? It's obviously like a family budget, where if you cut spending and services (that don't affect me or anyone I know), we'll be just fine. Meanwhile, when it actually does affect you or anyone you know, it's merely an unconnected circumstance.

It's this kind of lack of cognitive dissonance that allows a good portion of Canadians to know that the Republican party is nuts and Donald Trump is so out-there and yet they'll vote for the Conservatives that take a lot of their cues from the same playbook (or how the Liberals really are as warm and fuzzy as they play on TV).

fake edit: Wow, that's more words than I intended.

I'd also like to point out that we share the same attitude of dismissing outsider views of our country as the Americans. Not surprising considering Canadians travel on average, much less to other countries than ours, so we don't feel forced to confront how other societies differ from us.

Nominating this post to be the first of the next thread.

# ? Sep 29, 2016 00:40

Ron Paul Atreides: Apr 19, 2012; Uyghurs situation in Xinjiang? Just a police action, do not fret. Not ongoing genocide like in EVIL Canada.

I am definitely not a tankie.

haha what's the deal with the Harper Avatars

# ? Sep 29, 2016 00:45

RBC: Nov 23, 2007; IM STILL SPENDING MONEY FROM 1888

papa lowtax needs a new forum

# ? Sep 29, 2016 00:53

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

Baronjutter posted:

E-May is handling this about as poorly as she could

https://ricochet.media/en/1436/elizabeth-may-retaliates-over-leaked-emails

The greens are terrible. At the same time I love the irony of a bunch of NDPers yelling about this. Yeah how dare a centrist election-obsessed party leader cull a party's actual progressive left elements using nasty internal politics. What a horrible thing to do!

I think this can be seen as a teachable moment regarding how our political parties end up behaving in the ways that they do. My biggest issue with the Green Party has always been my suspicion that the closer they get to influence and power, the more they'll come to resemble the other political parties.

If we step back and look at how the political/electoral system in Canada functions then it's obvious there are selection pressures that mold the mainstream political parties into particular shapes. The closer a party comes to electoral success, the more pressure there is to behave as a typical political party behaves. Some of these selection pressures are fairly obvious. There are, for instance, the organized pressures groups who reward or punish certain actions. Other selection pressures are a lot more subtle. Think, for instance, of the ways in which the professionalization of politics and elections necessitates a mindset and organizational structure that produces a particular kind of politician and a particular kind of politics.

Enthusiasts of the Green Party seems to hope that the inherent purity of the new party, or the superiority of the policies it advocates during it's election campaigns, will somehow translate to better policy. Stories like this demonstrate the inherent vulnerability of that strategy.

# ? Sep 29, 2016 01:26

Pinterest Mom: Jun 9, 2009

Alex Tyrrell sucks tho

e: Oh this story is just Ethan Cox whining that the Greens won't comment on May being a bit dismissive of Alex in an email. Okay.

# ? Sep 29, 2016 01:45

namaste friends: Sep 18, 2004; by Smythe

lol you loving white people and dogs

# ? Sep 29, 2016 02:05

MA-Horus: Dec 3, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

namaste faggots posted:

lol you loving white people and dogs

if you're gonna go generalise like that

having pets is part of our cultural heritage

eating them is part of yours.

# ? Sep 29, 2016 02:27

peter banana: Sep 2, 2008; Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

MA-Horus posted:

if you're gonna go generalise like that

having pets is part of our cultural heritage

eating them is part of yours.

# ? Sep 29, 2016 02:29

namaste friends: Sep 18, 2004; by Smythe

mods!!!!!

# ? Sep 29, 2016 02:30

Furnaceface: Oct 21, 2004

Ron Paul Atreides posted:

haha what's the deal with the Harper Avatars

We angered someone on payday.

# ? Sep 29, 2016 02:34

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

Pinterest Mom posted:

Alex Tyrrell sucks tho

e: Oh this story is just Ethan Cox whining that the Greens won't comment on May being a bit dismissive of Alex in an email. Okay.

I think the story is Elizabeth May's meltdown over the BDS stuff.

# ? Sep 29, 2016 02:39

Whiskey Sours: Jan 25, 2014; Weather proof.

THC posted:

Andrew Sheer, the former house speaker, has announced his bid for the CPC leadership.

Brannock posted:

Is this guy as enormously boring and generic as he looks?

You should show the least effective House Speaker since Confederation a little more respect.

# ? Sep 29, 2016 02:50

Juul-Whip: Mar 10, 2008

_{order, order, order. order, order, order}

# ? Sep 29, 2016 02:53

crackton: May 9, 2009

Risky Bisquick posted:

lets be real, a dog bites my kid the dog gets shanked end of story.

Shank my dog, I'll eat your kid.

# ? Sep 29, 2016 03:10

Juul-Whip: Mar 10, 2008

i am still laughing about the environment minister's comment today that the "best available science" and "indigenous traditional knowledge" says we should approve and backstop with tax dollars a massive $40 billion fossil fuel project for the benefit of an ultra-corrupt foreign state company in the year 2016 :laugh:

Juul-Whip fucked around with this message at 03:40 on Sep 29, 2016

# ? Sep 29, 2016 03:36

namaste friends: Sep 18, 2004; by Smythe

This is what thc is talking about.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33447456

1 mdb is a sovereign wealth find. This pious Muslim put 700mil USD from it into his own personal account. Christy Clark's friends right here.

# ? Sep 29, 2016 03:44

vyelkin: Jan 2, 2011

THC posted:

i am still laughing about the environment minister's comment today that the "best available science" and "indigenous traditional knowledge" says we should approve and backstop with tax dollars a massive $40 billion fossil fuel project for the benefit of an ultra-corrupt foreign state company in the year 2016

He doesn't have to justify it because no one will notice because the royal family is here.

# ? Sep 29, 2016 03:53

Pinterest Mom: Jun 9, 2009

Helsing posted:

I think the story is Elizabeth May's meltdown over the BDS stuff.

I don't know what you're reading, but the story I'm seeing is that Ethan Cox is throwing a hissy fit because EMay won't talk to him about writing an email in which she explains to someone that Alex Tyrrell (who is a New Democrat) isn't a real Green and that people shouldn't automatically engage with him because of his title of leader of the Green Party of Qu�bec.

# ? Sep 29, 2016 04:10

grabulasa: Apr 3, 2005; i'm new. beee nice

THC posted:

i am still laughing about the environment minister's comment today that the "best available science" and "indigenous traditional knowledge" says we should approve and backstop with tax dollars a massive $40 billion fossil fuel project for the benefit of an ultra-corrupt foreign state company in the year 2016

it's a good project that will bring Canadian resources to demand markets and spur employment in BC and Alberta. And it can be done safely and with respect for the environment, win-win for all yayy

# ? Sep 29, 2016 04:31

RBC: Nov 23, 2007; IM STILL SPENDING MONEY FROM 1888

grabulasa posted:

it's a good project that will bring Canadian resources to demand markets and spur employment in BC and Alberta. And it can be done safely and with respect for the environment, win-win for all yayy

is this a real post

# ? Sep 29, 2016 04:47

RBC: Nov 23, 2007; IM STILL SPENDING MONEY FROM 1888

Joe Oliver calls not building oil pipelines a "greek tragedy" : http://business.financialpost.com/fp-comment/joe-oliver-canadian-pipelines-greek-tragedy-is-ruining-our-energy-economy

# ? Sep 29, 2016 04:50

Juul-Whip: Mar 10, 2008

Real Change and a Strong Economy for a Secure Tomorrow powered by Clean LNG :angel:

# ? Sep 29, 2016 04:51

namaste friends: Sep 18, 2004; by Smythe

How the gently caress did this rear end in a top hat get into Princeton

# ? Sep 29, 2016 04:54

CLAM DOWN: Feb 13, 2007

Mayor Gregor "The Stud" Robertson, after defeating the Chinese real estate menace, is now beginning his assault on AirBnB

http://www.news1130.com/2016/09/28/major-crackdown-for-anyone-who-rents-their-vancouver-home-on-airbnb/

quote:

The proposed laws say people will have to get a business license to offer short-term rentals (less than 30 days) in principal homes, whether they are owned or rented and renting out non-primary residents will be illegal.
...
The city thinks about 1,000 homes currently on Airbnb will be banned under the rule changes and it warns it will be closely monitoring short-term rental listings.

# ? Sep 29, 2016 04:59

Hexigrammus: May 22, 2006; Cheech Wizard stories are clean, wholesome, reflective truths that go great with the marijuana munchies and a blow job.

RBC posted:

is this a real post

Why not? The B.C. Minister of Natural Gas Development (one of his actual, honest to God titles) was holding forth earlier about how B.C. has enough natural gas to supply the North American market for the next 200 years, it just needs a way to get to market. We have some world class forward thinking going on here.

Once again, the sound of cancer cells quacking about sustainable growth.

# ? Sep 29, 2016 05:04

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

Pinterest Mom posted:

I don't know what you're reading, but the story I'm seeing is that Ethan Cox is throwing a hissy fit because EMay won't talk to him about writing an email in which she explains to someone that Alex Tyrrell (who is a New Democrat) isn't a real Green and that people shouldn't automatically engage with him because of his title of leader of the Green Party of Qu�bec.

That seems to be one small part of a larger story about an internal power struggle over the party's relationship to the BDS movement though?

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PittTheElder: Feb 13, 2012; Yes, it's like a lava lamp.

grabulasa posted:

And it can be done safely and with respect for the environment, win-win for all yayy

It can be, but it won't be.

# ? Sep 29, 2016 05:33

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