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If their fish are poisoned why don't they eat cake instead?
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 04:06 |
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PT6A posted:I'm sick of being a centrist and a pragmatist, I get poo poo on from all sides. Just ignore the extremists
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 04:45 |
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PT6A posted:I'm sick of being a centrist and a pragmatist, I get poo poo on from all sides. Nothing you've said is pragmatic or even particularly centrist. You get poo poo on because of posts like this one, where instead of even pretending to offer a justification for removing government funding to an AIDs treatment centre you wade in and say the dumbest thing imaginable: "Trudeau must be great because his approval rating is so high". Then you instantly pivot to making the issue all about you, specifically how it showcases how terribly persecuted you are for being the only sane person around here. Nothing you've said actually addresses what the government is doing or why it's good or bad.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 05:10 |
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Brannock posted:Just ignore the extremists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLNhPMQnWu4 But to be fair, PT6A only brought it up because no one was talking about him for a few pages
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 05:11 |
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PT6A posted:some Randian/Mad Max hellhole with no public services. Speaking of Saskatchewan quote:According to the ITO, that afternoon Colten Boushie and his girlfriend Kiora Wuttunee went swimming in the Maymont River with their friends Eric Meechance, his girlfriend, Belinda Jackson, and a young man named Cassidy Whitstone.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 14:23 |
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People don't kill people, guns kill people
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 14:38 |
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Postess with the Mostest posted:Speaking of Saskatchewan You might think that Ford Escape would be valuable evidence, but actually the RCMP just left it exposed to the elements in a tow lot for months before presumably having sold it at auction: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/colten-boushie-family-lawyer-key-piece-evidence-compromise-1.3819161 quote:Murphy said that when he went back to Astro Towing the following day to take pictures of the vehicle, the car was gone. He's concerned key evidence may have been lost.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 15:08 |
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Seat Safety Switch posted:You might think that Ford Escape would be valuable evidence, but actually the RCMP just left it exposed to the elements in a tow lot for months before presumably having sold it at auction: That's some fine RCMP work right there. Looks like there'll have to be a stay of proceedings as key disclosure isn't there and/or there's no longer a reasonable prospect of conviction.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 15:58 |
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The kids are alright. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...ampaign_id=A100 quote:Justin Trudeau greeted by heckles and jeers at youth labour forum
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 16:30 |
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Subjunctive posted:The kids are alright. Whines and complains. Feeble. Sad!
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 16:38 |
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(Actually the kids are probably hosed.)
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 16:50 |
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Subjunctive posted:(Actually the kids are probably hosed.) No doubt, but I was talking about Trudeau. Checking the promise tracker, looks like in a year he's already broken about 10% of his campaign promises, the majority of them being his grand sweeping financial management promises.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 16:56 |
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TRUDEAU IS GETTIN UPSET
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 18:11 |
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There's something magical about our pampered trust fund prime minister getting huffy and upset because the kids who his government has concluded will be working lovely low-paying jobs for their entire lives aren't using active listening techniques when he speaks.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 18:16 |
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Morneau said something to the same effect. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/10/23/bill-morneau-job-churn_n_12612230.html quote:NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. — Finance Minister Bill Morneau says Canadians should get used to so-called "job churn'' — short-term employment and a number of career changes in a person's life.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 18:19 |
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Sunny ways, goons, sunny ways.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 18:19 |
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Worth nothing that both companies I've gotten severance from have also paid for 6 months of career counselling through Morneau Shepell as part of the package.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 18:26 |
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DariusLikewise posted:Morneau said something to the same effect. Should he be saying otherwise?
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 18:31 |
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Jordan7hm posted:Should he be saying otherwise? Yeah maybe he should try to be a bit more optimistic rather than say just get used to it. Maybe say something on how to try and prevent young people being doomed to poo poo jobs
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 18:35 |
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Helsing posted:There's something magical about our pampered trust fund prime minister getting huffy and upset because the kids who his government has concluded will be working lovely low-paying jobs for their entire lives aren't using active listening techniques when he speaks. Or not realizing that talking about CPP existing for them in the future isn't great as they'll never get to contribute when most of them will still be unemployed.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 18:37 |
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Newfie posted:Liberal politician apologizes for telling Labrador First Nations to just stop eating fish if government action at muskrat falls causes their food supply to become tainted with methyl mercury. This blows my mind. I've been trying to track down info on where the mercury came from but I can't find any. Regardless, methylated mercury compounds are not to be hosed with unless you enjoy dying via slow brain death I'm a quivering heap.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 18:42 |
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Fried Watermelon posted:Yeah maybe he should try to be a bit more optimistic rather than say just get used to it. I think there is some value in being straightforward about it instead of floating meaningless platitudes. These are all long term, worldwide economic and technological trends. The natural consequence of capitalism/globalization. Plucky lil' Canada isn't going to be able to turn the tide here. We are very much along for the ride. Might as well tell young folks to expect that things are going to be harder and shittier for everyone and they need to plan for it and not get blindsided. Honesty is refreshing.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 18:45 |
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What about innovation? You know, moving from a resources based economy to a knowledge economy? Did we try that one yet?
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 18:48 |
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Three Hole Punk posted:This blows my mind. I've been trying to track down info on where the mercury came from but I can't find any. Regardless, methylated mercury compounds are not to be hosed with unless you enjoy dying via slow brain death I'm a quivering heap. Says right in the article that it's a by-product of biologic stuff breaking down. Natives/Harvard are saying that if Nalcor cut down all the trees and bulldozed all the grass in the future reservoir then there would be much less mercury in the water. Not sure how much that would cost, you'd think they'd try to hire some people from the nearby town to do it and just make it a win-win.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 18:49 |
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There's no redeeming value in Trudeau being straightforward about the plight of the youth in this country when he has continuously courted that demographic through election promises and social media. His entire shtick as a politician is "Sunny Ways" AKA "Make Canada Great Again". I guess he's just upset that all those young folks don't want to take selfies with him after he tells them the bad news about their future in Canada, so he's going to take his ball and go home.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 18:59 |
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Just cross posting a cheap wireless plan because no one visits other forums https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3492258&pagenumber=103#post465728483 Trudeau is pretty stupid he's losing a lot of support over #ERRE but I guess when he legalizes weed it will make up for it for 61% of Canada.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 19:04 |
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What's wrong with career changes and relatively shorter-term employment than has historically been the case? I'd go insane if I knew I was destined to do the same goddamn thing every day for the rest of my working life. I'm preparing for a career change in the next year or two and I'm thrilled about it (also because my clients are driving me nuts at the moment).
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 19:06 |
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peter banana posted:What about innovation? You know, moving from a resources based economy to a knowledge economy? Did we try that one yet? What sort of concrete steps could we take on a macro level to do this, and what would a knowledge economy actually look like? The most obvious thing I can think of is realigning the education system to direct kids into STEM tracks. Which I think is somewhat happening already. So then we've got more programmers, scientists, engineer types etc coming out the pipeline, but we need more jobs for them to work at, or a glut of qualified workers will just drive down wages for the existing jobs. So where do the new jobs come from? I guess this is the tricky innovation step. Give out big rear end grants to anyone who wants to give their idea/company a shot? More favorable taxation for new businesses? Is there another country in the world who is doing something like this and succeeding that we should be looking towards?
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 19:08 |
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Yeah, what's wrong with the complete disappearance of pensions for the middle class (with the exception of public sector workers)?http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/retirement/retire-planning/many-canadians-entering-retirement-with-inadequate-savings-study-says/article28761394/ posted:A large percentage of older, working Canadians are heading into retirement without adequate savings to keep them out of poverty, a new study suggests.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 19:09 |
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Fried Watermelon posted:Yeah maybe he should try to be a bit more optimistic rather than say just get used to it. He didn't say anything about being doomed to a poo poo job, but if you're unable to handle changing careers multiple times and what that means for you in terms of prioritizing professional development and maximizing your own opporunities for change, you're going to have a very hard and likely unsatisfying working life. We need to redesign how we handle job transitions, career development and retirement at a broad social level with the reality of the job market in mind, not by shoving our fingers in our ears and pretending it will all go back to the way it was for our parents.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 19:10 |
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blah_blah posted:Yeah, what's wrong with the complete disappearance of pensions for the middle class (with the exception of public sector workers)? Indeed that's a problem, but there are better solutions than saying everyone should have a single long-term career when that's clearly not a sustainable model for employment any more.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 19:12 |
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The Butcher posted:So then we've got more programmers, scientists, engineer types etc coming out the pipeline, but we need more jobs for them to work at, or a glut of qualified workers will just drive down wages for the existing jobs. A movement to a more convoluted economic system is probably what would guarantee jobs for most people. It's also the exact opposite of how our system works (innovation and streamlining end up cutting out middlemen positions and while those are superfluous they also kept people fed) and isn't going to happen. Has there been any point in the last 100 years where the economic growth rate outpaced population growth?
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 19:14 |
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DariusLikewise posted:Worth nothing that both companies I've gotten severance from have also paid for 6 months of career counselling through Morneau Shepell as part of the package. Not sure if typo.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 19:14 |
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PT6A posted:Indeed that's a problem, but there are better solutions than saying everyone should have a single long-term career when that's clearly not a sustainable model for employment any more. This hasn't been the case for a while though, yeah? There are no lifers in my circle of same-age friends, and the group about a decade younger have already either switched or are thinking about/about to/will soon have to switch.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 19:19 |
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Try getting laid off while living paycheck to paycheck a couple times, maybe add a dependent or two or a chronic medical condition just for argument's sake, and come back and tell me how very sane that made you feel and what a sustainable model for employment that is
Juul-Whip fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Oct 25, 2016 |
# ? Oct 25, 2016 19:21 |
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TheKingofSprings posted:Has there been any point in the last 100 years where the economic growth rate outpaced population growth? Looks good to me
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 19:22 |
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flakeloaf posted:This hasn't been the case for a while though, yeah? There are no lifers in my circle of same-age friends, and the group about a decade younger have already either switched or are thinking about/about to/will soon have to switch. Yeah, it's not a new thing by any stretch of the imagination, which is why I think it's so strange that people want to go back to it. Hell, I don't know anyone in my parent's generation that hasn't had a bunch of different jobs with separate employers, if not entirely different careers.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 19:21 |
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THC posted:Try getting laid off while living paycheck to paycheck a couple times, maybe throw in a couple dependents or a chronic medical condition just for argument's sake, and come back and tell me how very sane that made you feel and what a sustainable model for employment that is Layoffs are unavoidable, though. That's not necessarily a terrible thing. The real problem, which you were so perilously close to correctly identifying before veering into leftist territory, is the lack of good-paying jobs so that people can establish stability while accounting for the fact that layoffs or career changes probably will happen a few times during your working life.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 19:24 |
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It's not the getting laid off or the having a dependent or the having an illness that sucks, it's working a subsistence-level job and living paycheque-to-paycheque knowing that you're one work stoppage or cloudy x-ray away from irrevocable financial ruin.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 19:43 |
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Young workers facing lifelong income precarity should rejoice at the Trudeau government's minor tweaks to the pension system. Why won't these snotty kids show some deference to their prime minister. These snotty little socialists just want everything handed to them
Juul-Whip fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Oct 25, 2016 |
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