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Dude looks like your standard movie version of a corrupt and wealthy senator's son. Like he could deffo get away with killing at least one hooker with no consequence. The Butcher fucked around with this message at 04:57 on Oct 23, 2016 |
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Tochiazuma posted:Over Dykstra? Whoa Process of elimination, mostly. Hudak didn't run particularly strong in the riding even when he was leader, the OLP is the OLP, the ONDP has surprising strength in the Niagara region, and the PCs nominated a literal child whose main claim to fame is really disliking that women have agency.
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# ? Oct 23, 2016 04:59 |
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Can't wait for that kid to be our premier before he hits age 30
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# ? Oct 23, 2016 05:16 |
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Pinterest Mom posted:Process of elimination, mostly. Hudak didn't run particularly strong in the riding even when he was leader, the OLP is the OLP, the ONDP has surprising strength in the Niagara region, and the PCs nominated a literal child whose main claim to fame is really disliking that women have agency. Yeah Niagara, especially Welland is strong NDP turf, a lot of people there are still in unions or were within the last 10 years.
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# ? Oct 23, 2016 07:16 |
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He's pretty cute, shame about his politics though. Between JT and this guy I wonder if the NDP could learn something about taking advantage of being well-presented
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# ? Oct 23, 2016 07:49 |
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Pinterest Mom posted:Sam Oosterhoff, 19, has won the PC nomination in Niagara West–Glanbrook, Tim Hudak's seat. Looks like he won thanks to support from the anti-choice lobby. That's some pretty spot-on How I Met Your Mother cosplay. Maybe we can get Jason Segel to slap him.
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# ? Oct 23, 2016 13:15 |
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That guy makes me want to re-read basically anything from Bret Easton Ellis, he's got that bleakly shallow vibe going on.
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# ? Oct 23, 2016 13:30 |
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Hating on John A Macdonald for his drinking rather than his handling of the western rebellions seems like such a dumb monocle drop thing.
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# ? Oct 23, 2016 13:44 |
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Pinterest Mom posted:Process of elimination, mostly. Hudak didn't run particularly strong in the riding even when he was leader, the OLP is the OLP, the ONDP has surprising strength in the Niagara region, and the PCs nominated a literal child whose main claim to fame is really disliking that women have agency. On the other hand, the riding is a hole in the ground and the child Ceausescu will absolutely win.
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# ? Oct 23, 2016 14:50 |
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Three Hole Punk posted:Yeah Niagara, especially Welland is strong NDP turf, a lot of people there are still in unions or were within the last 10 years. Which would be great if the riding included Welland, but this is the Grimsby/Fonthill/West Lincoln etc. conglomeration we're talking about I would not be at all surprised if that little drip is elected.
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# ? Oct 23, 2016 17:28 |
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Predictably, the diesel spill response was a joke with them deploying booms that couldn't handle typical west coast conditions. World class. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/community-in-state-of-shock-after-diesel-spill-booms-fail-1.3817560
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# ? Oct 23, 2016 17:37 |
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Mr_Roke posted:There are a few problems with that piece: I was posting the article more for the very particular tone of irritation it conveys toward Canada's projected self image. If you've read this thread for any amount of time then there's something distinctly familiar about Brown's tone and the general areas that he fixates on, right down to mentioning the infamous fruit machine. Your points here are well made (though your citation style means half the people reading your post probably didn't even notice you included sources, you might want to just hyper link actual words next time) though I think the quibbling over the rhetoric surrounding the healthcare reduction is kind of foolish. Everything about public spending is already so obscured in a fog of misinformation, general public indifference and misleading PR-speak phrasing that for me at least I think the distinction between telling the public there's going to be cuts to healthcare spending vs. telling the public that there's going to be a large reduction in annual increases despite costs being projected to rise faster than in the past is really minimal. In terms of how Canadian citizens will experience the public healthcare system, all else remaining equal, they are likely to face greater barriers to access if the spending reductions go through so calling them "cuts" might not be as misleading as Emmet Macfarlane suggests. quote:The annoying thing is I think the premise of the article is reasonable, Canada's not all sunshine and sunny ways and there are some things that are horrible (living conditions and treatment of the indigenous peoples being the biggest one) and other things that should also be better. You don't have to make stuff up to make that case but Brown went ahead and did that. Well, personally I'd zero in more specifically on the way that the election of Trudeau completely squandered the momentum of a lot of progressive or left leaning causes. It's not just that we're overly optimistic or that we treat our indigenous people badly. The fact is that if you despised the Harper government as much as a lot of Canadians did but you love Trudeau as much as many of the same Canadians do then it does suggest an underlying kind of incoherence or enthusiasm for style over substance.
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# ? Oct 23, 2016 18:13 |
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I'm stuck in Saskatoon for the day with nothing to do. Really, nothing. The listed attractions on trip advisor and in google are all closed Sundays. The whole city is a loving ghetto ghost town. I'm not usually one to complain about a lack of traffic but it honestly feels like I'm driving around in the middle of the night. gently caress the prairies. Also why the gently caress are these digital billboards as bright as they are? Are they trying to light the way to Regina?
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# ? Oct 23, 2016 18:19 |
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Tochiazuma posted:Over Dykstra? Whoa Whoa is right. Rick Dykstra was also running for the nomination and is the current President of the PCPO. I guess Patrick Brown doesn't like him? I dunno. e: https://www.buzzfeed.com/paulmcleod/conservative-mp-rick-dykstra-was-pictured-drinking-with-unde#.rwxppn0vl quote:Incumbent Conservative MP Rick Dykstra was photographed drinking with multiple high school-aged girls at a nightclub last month. One girl, who was 16 at the time, now says she was offered VIP service if she claimed it never happened. Maybe he reminds Brown too much of himself lol
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# ? Oct 23, 2016 18:20 |
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Helsing posted:The fact is that if you despised the Harper government as much as a lot of Canadians did but you love Trudeau as much as many of the same Canadians do then it does suggest an underlying kind of incoherence or enthusiasm for style over substance. Trudeau seems to be a perfect storm of: 1) Harper hate 2) style over substance (i.e. people thinking Trudeau is so dreamy and voting for him like they're choosing a prom king) 3) a concerted "strategic voting" effort that skewed Liberal, hard (anyone who checked any of the sites promoting this would know) 4) real lack of scrutiny over the Liberal platform (middle class tax break? ) 4b) the whole "we're going to go into debt to build infrastructure" serving to distract from the rest of their platform, but also getting the attention of aggrieved parties who didn't see any/enough Economic Action Plan™ money i.e. any ridings that hadn't elected tories
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# ? Oct 23, 2016 18:27 |
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In Toronto news, the mayor that is ideologically committed to privatizing everything has hired some old friends to tell him that it makes sense to privatize Toronto Hydro. Only two years after running against a candidate who proposed exactly the same plan and had it thoroughly debunked as a long term loss for the city.
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# ? Oct 23, 2016 19:16 |
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cowofwar posted:Predictably, the diesel spill response was a joke with them deploying booms that couldn't handle typical west coast conditions. Looking west from those rocks it's a straight shot to Japan. Multiple storms have come through, and while the tag end of a typhoon is a little unusual the rest aren't and it's only going to get worse through November. (There's a reason no one in their right mind is out there at this time of year unless the pay is good.) Do they even make booms that could contain spills under those conditions? The only people who think a winter spill can be managed in those waters are working in land-locked offices back east. Better kick more money into the advertising kitty.
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# ? Oct 23, 2016 19:23 |
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Hiring the
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# ? Oct 23, 2016 19:48 |
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Are there still people who think politics and campaigning are different things?
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# ? Oct 23, 2016 20:07 |
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Math You posted:Also why the gently caress are these digital billboards as bright as they are? Are they trying to light the way to Regina? Don't worry they're bright as gently caress here too. They take advantage of the flat land and crank up the brightness to increase visibility, you can see some of them from the U.S. border.
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# ? Oct 23, 2016 22:57 |
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Helsing posted:Hiring the I feel odd sitting next Ikantski in the "I told you fuckers this was going to happen" box, but here we are, and no one wanted to listen back in 2014 with the specter of another Ford mayoralty haunting us. Bonus: This is the lobbying/consulting dream team that enabled Uber to buy their own legislation in Toronto.
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 00:42 |
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Helsing posted:Hiring the Hey, some traditions deserve to be honoured. Maybe it'd be better if we just had open patronage again so we wouldn't have to pretend that the system was anything but.
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infernal machines posted:I feel odd sitting next Ikantski in the "I told you fuckers this was going to happen" box, but here we are, and no one wanted to listen back in 2014 with the specter of another Ford mayoralty haunting us. I spent hours convincing friends that strategically voting for Tory would be worse than another term of Ford. I'm not sure how many listened but man, being right sucks sometimes.
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 02:32 |
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Humble Bundle has a "Hacking Capitalism" deal going on for a bunch on titles if, like me, you've been thinking about reading "This Changes Everything" or "The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man". Nothing about how to sharpen machetes, so I assume the hacking is all metaphorical.
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infernal machines posted:I feel odd sitting next Ikantski in the "I told you fuckers this was going to happen" box, but here we are, and no one wanted to listen back in 2014 with the specter of another Ford mayoralty haunting us. Don't blame me, I voted for
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 03:22 |
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Three Hole Punk posted:I spent hours convincing friends that strategically voting for Tory would be worse than another term of Ford. I'm not sure how many listened but man, being right sucks sometimes. The hit to the public perception of municipal politics would have been worth it just to have a populist demagogue who actively alienated any allies and incited revulsion in everyone else, rather than an bland, milquetoast executive with the connections to actually accomplish the same agenda. vyelkin posted:Don't blame me, I voted for Ah yes, the reluctant candidate. She tried, sorta.
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Hexigrammus posted:Humble Bundle has a "Hacking Capitalism" deal going on for a bunch on titles if, like me, you've been thinking about reading "This Changes Everything" or "The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man". You missed the best title: "How the Poor Can Save Capitalism" Stockholm syndrome at its finest.
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 14:27 |
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Oh hey look, a terrible judge in my terrible province has made another embarrassingly lovely and ignorant ruling: http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/calgary/judges-order-4-year-old-boy-not-to-wear-girl-clothes-in-southeastern-alberta-town-1.3816829 Boy, Alberta is full of loving idiots, I'll tell you what!
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Helsing posted:It's a short article so why don't you go back and read it and then respond to it? I was going to reply to the rest of your post but frankly most of what you said is addressed in my response to Dreyland and besides when somebody combines a bunch sarcastic dismissals with a "tl;dr" it kinda dampens my enthusiasm for typing out a more thoughtful or in depth reply. Well sorry for the sarcasm but you're just coming at the issue from a really weird, oblique angle and spending way too many words to get from some OECD study (that isn't about immigration) to criticize the government's immigration policy. The government doesn't use immigration just to grow the population, although they ARE worried about our aging demographics. The rationale for taking more immigrants is addressing skills shortages for businesses.
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Better start building more bridges and tunnelsquote:The 14-member council was assembled by Finance Minister Bill Morneau to provide "bold" advice on how best to guide Canada's struggling economy out of its slow-growth rut.
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PT6A posted:Oh hey look, a terrible judge in my terrible province has made another embarrassingly lovely and ignorant ruling: I'm curious to read the judges' reasoning.
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the trump tutelage posted:I'm curious to read the judges' reasoning. quote:Smith and the child's father are separated and share custody. Kid has gender dysphoria, father blames the mother for it and isn't entertaining it, making the kid act and dress like a boy seems to be part of the family court's deference to the father's transphobia or something? At least they came to the right decision eventually quote:By this past September, the interim clothing order was revised by a third provincial court judge. Judge G.K Krinke said after consulting with a parenting expert, the parents must provide both boy and girl clothing options and the child can then choose from those options.
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 17:22 |
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Do we think the kid might be faking it in order to get an NDP nomination?
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 17:29 |
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PT6A posted:Oh hey look, a terrible judge in my terrible province has made another embarrassingly lovely and ignorant ruling: In fairness it's not just Alberta that's lovely about this kind of thing. I could see this ruling happening in Prince George just as easily.
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Guy DeBorgore posted:Well sorry for the sarcasm but you're just coming at the issue from a really weird, oblique angle and spending way too many words to get from some OECD study (that isn't about immigration) to criticize the government's immigration policy. Advisers who are close to the government actually are seriously discussing the idea of using immigration to help substantially increase the size of the Canadian population above it's estimated trend. While it's doubtful the government is going to adopt the most extreme proposals being discussed it's still worth dissecting the underlying premise here, which would seem to clearly go beyond filling skills shortages: quote:Influential Liberal advisers want Canadian population to triple by 2100 Now if you read the text of this article carefully then it's true that nowhere does anyone explicitly say that increasing immigration will increase income or gdp per capita (they keep is vague, saying how increased population can "expand our economic potential"). However, when you hear them talking about a "brewing demographic storm" necessitating a massive increase in immigration I think it should be clear that they're not just talking about filling in skills gaps. In fact they're quite open about the fact that they think a larger population would give Canada more "influence" on the global stage and that if only Canada had let in more immigrants in the last century then this could have been "Canada's century". I'll agree that exactly why all this is supposed to be good for us is never spelled out explicitly, but it's very clear the policy being advocated here goes way beyond a targeted policy intended to fill some skills gasps.
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 17:44 |
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Tripling the population in a country that can't keep bridges from falling on people is a great idea and I look forward to seeing it in action.
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 17:51 |
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Another part of the proposal is getting other people to lend us money to build new bridges, which we'll repay with user fees.
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Helsing posted:The discussions that eventually blossomed into Century Initiative began in 2011 during a weekend gathering of friends at Barton’s cottage in Ontario’s Muskoka region, north of Toronto. "How hard are cottage prices going to crash when all the boomers die?" is surprisingly common dock conversation, good on these guys for working towards a solution.
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Postess with the Mostest posted:Are there still people who think politics and campaigning are different things? If you spend any time at all working in politics you'll see that the people who get hired for caucus/government jobs are invariably the ones who are good at helping to win elections, because really that's the only thing which matters. Should you be decent at elections you'll probably be easy enough to train into other things, the only issue is your morals/worldview.
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