OSI bean dip posted:

Albertans just want to defy nature just like Jim Prentice attempted to defy gravity.

The Butcher posted:

PT6A posted:

Have their been any quadruple-hyphenated names, from two parents each with hyphenated names? Eventually you'll get there, and then to octuple hyphenation, unless you concede that it's okay to drop some names eventually, which essentially produces the Portuguese surname system.

The Butcher posted:

Pop-o-Matic Trouble posted:

Please let the American election end. The amount of Canadian white guy privilege I hear from coworkers is astounding.

Most of them like Trudeau too..

Professor Shark posted:

This sounds a lot like heraldry: eventually you pick and choose the most important symbols and coats-of-arms to represent yourself

namaste faggots posted:

http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/translink-ceo-hails-compass-card-as-big-success-with-rising-revenue-and-ridership

Eat poo poo s j ws. Oh my god the loving handwringing from hookshot and franks happy place over the injustice of forcing people to pay to ride the skytrain lmao

namaste faggots posted:

Eat poo poo s j ws.

namaste faggots posted:

http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/translink-ceo-hails-compass-card-as-big-success-with-rising-revenue-and-ridership

Eat poo poo s j ws. Oh my god the loving handwringing from hookshot and franks happy place over the injustice of forcing people to pay to ride the skytrain lmao

Baronjutter posted:

So I had to go to Vancouver last month and I haven't been since compass came out and I heard it was so confusing and the gates always crowded and everything was a huge disaster and tourists can't figure it out.
We had a bunch of fare saver tickets from previous trips that we thought were now useless. I figured it would be logical for them to sell them on the ferry, and they do. You just buy the loving card, it comes loaded with at least enough money to get into town and back, and once you register your card you can top it up. The cards are extremely easy to use, it's basically the same system the Dutch use except with physical gates (I'm still against physical gates simply because they slow poo poo down). I don't understand why the buses had the scanners at every door when you don't tap out on buses and can only enter in the front, my wife was super confused why the buses don't board with all doors now like in many european systems with similar tap cards. Maybe they only do during rush hour?

Someone told us trying to load our old paper tickets on our cards was a "huge pain in the rear end". We went to the chinatown station, said "can we load these tickets on our cards" and a lady did it in about 20 seconds. Done. The system seems totally fine. That didn't stop half the people from Victoria getting on the bus super confused about these new cards despite signs explaining their existence and how to use them and where to get them being everywhere.

I'm not sure how these new cards are some war on the poor. Don't poor and disabled people still qualify for discounts?

Baronjutter posted:

I'm still against physical gates simply because they slow poo poo down

Pop-o-Matic Trouble posted:

All public transit should be free and tapping out was the dumbest thing in the world.

namaste faggots posted:

yeah i mean, vancouverites have so much more important poo poo to do than literally anyone else in the world with a metro system this is why we can't have nice things with faregates slowing everyone down

PT6A posted:

And why, pray tell, is tapping out the dumbest thing ever? It allows for much better fare structuring.

CLAM DOWN posted:

It'll never happen, get over it.

PT6A posted:

And why, pray tell, is tapping out the dumbest thing ever? It allows for much better fare structuring.

quote:

http://www.metronews.ca/news/vancouver/2016/10/14/vancouver-mayor-says-transit-plan-risen-from-ashes.html

Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson said the region’s 10-year transit plan has “risen from the ashes” after last year’s failed plebiscite.

Metro Vancouver mayors are set to vote next month on a new funding regime for the region’s share for Phase 1 of the plan, consisting of a five-to-10 cent fare increase, residential and commercial property tax increases and a possible regional development fee.

...

quote:

http://tenyearvision.translink.ca/plan/

Transit Fares
Gradual annual increases of about 5 to 10 cents on a single fare, and $1 to $3 on a monthly pass. Transit riders will continue to contribute roughly the same share of total costs for operating transit.

Property Tax
TransLink's portion of property tax bills will be adjusted, adding an additional $3 increase per year on the average home and $45 per year on the average business property.

Regional Development Fee
A new regional development fee for transit and transportation is proposed to be collected no later than 2020. Details for the fee would be developed in consultation with local governments, stakeholders, and the province. (If the development fee is not in place by 2020, some parts of the transit service expansion will be deferred.)

CLAM DOWN posted:

It's barely slower at all, what the gently caress are you doing to tap? Just quickly and casually tap your card, it beeps and opens almost instantly, you barely have to slow down.

DariusLikewise posted:

Lmao the Manitoba PCs have created a website where you can fiddle with sliders and offer budget suggestions for the next budget

http://manitoba.citizenbudget.com/

DariusLikewise posted:

Lmao the Manitoba PCs have created a website where you can fiddle with sliders and offer budget suggestions for the next budget

http://manitoba.citizenbudget.com/

iPolitics posted:

Don't fear the leapers, says NDP's new national director

Robert Fox signals his party is steering leftwards as he takes the reigns.

The new national director of the New Democrats says he plans to encourage more activist groups to work with the party, and doesn’t believe the controversial Leap Manifesto is a “radical document.”

Fox’s comments signal a likely shift to the left for the federal NDP, one political analyst told The Tyee.

Robert Fox took over the top administrative job in the party this week, coming to the federal NDP after 10 years as the executive director of Oxfam Canada, and said he plans to “do things differently” following the party’s popularity free fall during last year’s election campaign.

“I look at the party and I think it has lots of capacity, lots of depth and lots of ability to make change,” Fox said.

The change will involve holding on to areas where the party excels and trying new approaches elsewhere, he said.

It’s Fox’s first sortie into the political realm and many factors contributed toward his decision to take the job, one of them being what he says is a channelling of disenfranchised members of the public into right-wing causes against their own interests.

After starting out last year’s election campaign ahead after their best fundraising quarter ever netting $4.5 million, the New Democrats lead by Tom Mulcair rapidly started lagging in the polls and lost one million votes and 59 of its 103 seats on election night.

Many analysts and party members blamed a shift to the centre for the election defeat, such as the promise of a balanced budget at a time of economic uncertainty.

Their displeasure was voiced in part by 35 members of the party in Quebec who wrote a letter earlier this year detailing their concerns about the party.

Not long after the letter was published Tom Mulcair lost a leadership review vote, thrusting the party into the position of finding a new leader and some soul searching.

Liberals hampered by ‘smugness’ and ‘hubris’

Fox wouldn’t say much about the Mulcair situation, leaving it up to the party’s election process.

But he thinks the party doesn’t court activist groups robustly, including using their skills and dedication to channel their causes through the party.

Such a move would be the best way to challenge the governing Liberals and the “smugness” and the “hubris” Fox said are their greatest weaknesses.

“We’ve got lots of activists we only really tap into at election time,” Fox said. “We need to ensure that we are supporting them as they take on issues between elections.”

Party donors are also key, he said, because many of them only feel like they hear from the NDP when they want cash.

The party isn’t doing as well financially as last year and has “fewer” resources and staff, according to Fox, but he plans to tackle the problem through issues-based fundraising.

The party must then stake out its turf and take clear positions without being concerned about whether it is trying to be “purist” or “selling principles” to win, Fox said.

He predicts the classic conundrum of moving to the centre for votes or sticking to ideals to push for change will be a sterile argument if proportional representation is adopted and implemented next election. Either way, Fox said, the party will be part of a parliament likely to be more left wing.

The great Leap debate

A parliamentary shift to the left could help the NDP after it voted to debate the Leap Manifesto across Canada as potential party policy at the same convention at which it ousted Mulcair.

The Leap calls for an increase to education and health-care funding plus a concerted effort to shift away from fossil fuels.

When introduced, the Leap sparked heated debate within the New Democrats, who hope the party’s provincial win in oil-rich Alberta wasn’t a one-off. Analysts said it showed the party was taking on more radical ideas that would cost jobs.

Even British Columbia NDP leader John Horgan distanced his wing of the party from it, saying the Leap doesn’t represent the values of the province.

But Fox doesn’t think the Leap is much of a stretch.

“A lot of the debate on this has been framed by a media who do not in any way share our interests or share our objectives,” Fox said. “(They are) portraying the Leap as a radical document, I don’t see it that way and I don’t think most people in Canada do actually.”

He wagers about half of the country’s Liberal Party supporters also support the Leap.

Left turn ahead

University of British Columbia political science professor Maxwell Cameron said Fox’s comments signal he may be preparing to pull the party further to the left of the political spectrum.

Cameron said with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberals occupying the centre left of the political spectrum, enhancing relations with activists and not shying away from the Leap Manifesto is logical.

It would enable the New Democrats to hold Trudeau accountable from the left on issues like climate change and pipelines.

“The NDP has to go back to a more left-wing orientation,” he said. “There’s no point in trying to persist at being a centrist party at this point.”

Running a populist campaign from the left worked well for U.S. Democrat Bernie Sanders and Cameron said it could work for the NDP in Canada.

He agreed with Fox that proportional representation could render moot the NDP’s need to argue over its soul.

That’s because, Cameron said, it would rid Canadians of the need to vote strategically to keep out parties they don’t support.

It’s just that kind of situation Fox said he hopes the party can take advantage of over the next three years leading into the 2019 election.

He said he is coming to the party to listen and help create a “space to innovate” where the party can try things and even fail at them with plenty of time to prepare for 2019.

But first, Fox said, the party must put the disappointment of 2015 behind it.

“I have a three-day history in the party, my conversations are all about the future,” he said.

Jeremy J. Nuttall is The Tyee‘s Parliament Hill reporter in Ottawa. Find his previous stories here.

DariusLikewise posted:

Lmao the Manitoba PCs have created a website where you can fiddle with sliders and offer budget suggestions for the next budget

http://manitoba.citizenbudget.com/

Baronjutter posted:

I think the current government is going to be really excited about my ideas!

Baronjutter posted:

I think the current government is going to be really excited about my ideas!

Subjunctive posted:

Can I keep my car though?

Subjunctive posted:

Even as a member of the capitalist class whose job could literally not exist in a socialist nirvana, I'm pretty excited about them! Can I keep my car though?

infernal machines posted:

Private property is theft comrade.

Baronjutter posted:

A car would be personal property so ok, but unfortunately none would exist after the WAR ON CARS.

DariusLikewise posted:

Lmao the Manitoba PCs have created a website where you can fiddle with sliders and offer budget suggestions for the next budget

http://manitoba.citizenbudget.com/