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brucio posted:You just need ID and something with your address like a lease or hydro bill to vote.. Hopefully they accept secondary ID or printouts of e-bills and online statements. Other than my drivers license the only hard copy I have anymore with my address on it are UVic and UBC alumni magazines. Sort of like the problem the homeless face, only with money, food, a warm place to sleep, and a vastly reduced chance of being murdered by a crack addict.
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# ? Nov 17, 2016 17:15 |
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Was this posted yet, because Fraser Institute. Texas comparison shows Alberta's spending problem: study quote:Comparing Alberta to Texas shows the province’s fiscal woes stem from government overspending and mismanagement, says a study released Thursday by the Fraser Institute.
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# ? Nov 17, 2016 18:45 |
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Im going to run for PM and if you guys vote for me the first thing I do will be to shut down the Fraser Institute. OK it would be the second thing I do. First would be to turn 24 Sussex back into a cat sanctuary.
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# ? Nov 17, 2016 19:38 |
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While the government did do a lot of dumb poo poo, in 2013 34% of Texas's revenue came from federal aid, 30.1% of their budget went to medicaid. 13.2% of Alberta's revenue came from federal transfers, and 47% went to healthcare, $5.112b in federal transfers against $17b in healthcare costs . In Ontario, 19% of revenues came from federal transfers and 38.5% of expenses went to healthcare, 21.7b against 47.7b. So Texas had federal money cover over 100% of it's largest expense, Alberta around 30%, and Ontario around 45%. It turns out if you just let people take on massive medical debt, in decreases the immediate burden on the state. The average annual healthcare premium in Texas appears to be around $3000/person, If that was paid as a tax into a single payer system by the 22.3 million people not on medicaid, it would more than double the state's tax revenues. from $2,048 per capita to around $4,200 per capita, nearly matching Alberta's per capita tax revenue of around $4,700 per capita. But then they would have to take care of a bunch of people who shoot themselves and play with fireworks all the time. So the answer for Alberta, and Canada in general is obvious, austerity.
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# ? Nov 17, 2016 20:18 |
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oh my god she's tweeting like trump https://twitter.com/KellieLeitch/status/799325246826442753
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# ? Nov 17, 2016 20:32 |
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She needs some bots to pad her likes and retweets. Sad!
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# ? Nov 17, 2016 20:38 |
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rawrr posted:She needs some bots to pad her likes and retweets. Sad! It provided the best representation of her "support".
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# ? Nov 17, 2016 20:45 |
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So, this week in neoliberal hacks trying to rescusitate their dying political project, we have a (highly selective) history of trade patterns in the 20th century. Reading this gives an interesting clue as to how our elites think about trade, and specifically how they seem utterly incapable of learning any lessons from history. Read this and ask yourself if anything important is getting left out of the story: quote:KONRAD YAKABUSKI Funnily enough this guy lecturing the anti-globalists on the dangers of ignoring history has absolutely nothing to say about the actual design of the post-war political economy that was hammered out in the Bretton Woods conference, nor does he mention how this system broke down in the 1970s and was reconstituted on an entirely new basis with floating currencies and much larger flows of cross-boarder investment and commerce. But most crucially he completely ignores the hard won recognition that the "turn inward" that he bemoans was caused by the massive economic and social dislocations brought about by liberalized trade and finance. In fact it's been the left-liberals and social democrats who have been constantly ringing the alarm bells about the dangers of the neoliberal period. Thinkers like the late Tony Judt have repeatedly pointed out that quite a bit of what passes for neoliberal doctrine is the exact same set of ideas -- with slightly different and more mathematical theoretical justifications -- that predominated in 1920s and 1930s, prior to the Keynesian intellectual revolution. Neoliberals are pissing and moaning about the collapse of globalization without even bothering to acknowledge that their economic policies failed to give ordinary voters a strong enough stake in the international trade order, and introduced levels of financial instability and economic precarity that made some kind of backlash inevitable. Of course once they're done complaining they'll pick themselves up, dust themselves off, and dedicate themselves to finding ways to help accommodate corporate dominated crony capitalism to whatever brand of right-wing authoritarianism rises up to replace the squishy cultural and economic liberalism catches on in the Atlantic rim.
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# ? Nov 17, 2016 21:00 |
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Furnaceface posted:Im going to run for PM and if you guys vote for me the first thing I do will be to shut down the Fraser Institute.
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# ? Nov 17, 2016 21:00 |
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Furnaceface posted:Im going to run for PM and if you guys vote for me the first thing I do will be to shut down the Fraser Institute. Aren't the Trudeau's living in Gaitneau Park? How do we know the strays haven't overtaken 24 Sussex? Winnipeg Police are using FIPPAs to try and find out journalistic sources, good start for the new police chief http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/police-reporter-fippa-1.3851641 quote:CBC News has learned a Winnipeg Police Service employee filed a freedom-of-information request last month seeking "any email correspondence" between a justice employee and "the CBC reporter Caroline Barghout" regarding "names removed" from Sept. 12-16.
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# ? Nov 17, 2016 21:27 |
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Me, in conversation, 68 hours ago: "I mean, it's not like Sandra Jansen is going to join the NDP."
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# ? Nov 17, 2016 22:24 |
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Me, today: https://twitter.com/EmmaLGraney/status/799364573023174657
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# ? Nov 17, 2016 22:33 |
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Who the gently caress is sandra jansen
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# ? Nov 17, 2016 22:34 |
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cowofwar posted:Who the gently caress is sandra jansen She was a PC leadership candidate like a week ago.
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# ? Nov 17, 2016 22:37 |
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# ? Nov 17, 2016 22:38 |
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cowofwar posted:Who the gently caress is sandra jansen The last female conservative MLA in alberta. Maybe ever? The conservatives are going to tear themselves apart. Most people who know who Kenney is know exactly who he is. This might be the first step in alberta staying orange.
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# ? Nov 17, 2016 22:41 |
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Powershift posted:The last female conservative MLA in alberta. Maybe ever?
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# ? Nov 17, 2016 23:09 |
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Pinterest Mom posted:She was a PC leadership candidate like a week ago. At least it's not the federal NDP
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# ? Nov 17, 2016 23:11 |
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The NDP in Alberta is already pushing pretty hard against the provinces' Overton window so I think they can be forgiven for not instantly nationalizing the economy. The fact that a PC candidate can seamlessly transition to their party says more about how wacky Wildrose is and how much Jason Kenney's ratfucking behind the scenes must be pissing people off.
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# ? Nov 17, 2016 23:57 |
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What the gently caress is an overton window
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# ? Nov 18, 2016 00:09 |
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Black Bones posted:What the gently caress is an overton window It's a pseudo-intellectual way of saying people won't support with them much longer.
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# ? Nov 18, 2016 00:15 |
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Black Bones posted:What the gently caress is an overton window It's like the range of ideas that are publicly acceptable. Over the past several decades conservatives (locally and internationally) have been very successful at moving the Overton Window rightwards by going hard right, and having liberals dimly follow in an attempt to meet them in an always-moving middle.
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# ? Nov 18, 2016 00:19 |
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More specifically, it's a phrase coined by Joseph Overotn, a right-wing think tank hack, to persuade businesses and their owners to give more money to right-wing think tanks. It's an incrementalist theory of political change and it has all the limitations that incrementalist theories always have, but it's also a handy way of describing how political parties operate most of the time in a stable parliamentary system.
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# ? Nov 18, 2016 00:26 |
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It's also the title of a political thriller by Glenn Beck!
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# ? Nov 18, 2016 00:27 |
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For all the hand-wringing about a Canadian Trump, the government sure is eager to breed angry workers.quote:Canada’s unions are organizing against Bill C-27 a new piece of federal legislation that enables Crown corporations and federal private-sector employers to back out of defined-benefit pension commitments.
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# ? Nov 18, 2016 02:05 |
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Liberals will insist the left is responsible for working-class anger because we call racists mean names like "racist"
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# ? Nov 18, 2016 02:24 |
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So I had an appendectomy today. Yesterday morning I went to see the doctor about some stomach pains, she sent me to an ultrasound clinic, the ultrasound clinic sent me to a hospital, and while I was waiting for a long time (not in danger of imminent death, I assume) I'm incredibly happy with how all this went. I can't believe that all the care I received, and an overnight hospital stay, didn't cost me a dime. Thanks, OHIP! We spend so much time complaining about political things, but in so many ways we're infinitely better off than people in some other countries. Had I been in the states I would have been bankrupted by all this.
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# ? Nov 18, 2016 02:40 |
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Mad Hamish posted:I can't believe that all the care I received, and an overnight hospital stay, didn't cost me a dime. I get your point, but it's worth pointing out that this is not true. You paid into the system like everyone else, so it wasn't directly out of pocket but you have paid for it.
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# ? Nov 18, 2016 02:52 |
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Alt-right pamphlets come to Richmond targeting Chinese people McGavin fucked around with this message at 03:05 on Nov 18, 2016 |
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Mad Hamish posted:So I had an appendectomy today. Yesterday morning I went to see the doctor about some stomach pains, she sent me to an ultrasound clinic, the ultrasound clinic sent me to a hospital, and while I was waiting for a long time (not in danger of imminent death, I assume) I'm incredibly happy with how all this went. I can't believe that all the care I received, and an overnight hospital stay, didn't cost me a dime. Thanks, OHIP! We spend so much time complaining about political things, but in so many ways we're infinitely better off than people in some other countries. Had I been in the states I would have been bankrupted by all this. I totally get where you're coming from. Last winter I went to the hospital with an unbelievably splitting headache and they shoved me in a PET scan to make sure something in my skull wasn't about to explode. I googled what it would have cost me south of the border and it came up to something like 8 grand. I really wish they'd actually expand what gets covered in this country. Aside from cosmetic surgeries that aren't part of rehabilitation after an injury I don't think anyone in this country should have to pay out of pocket for anything related to medical service. I'll gladly pay the extra taxes.
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# ? Nov 18, 2016 03:05 |
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Ah ok, so it's an actual concept. I've seen the term used by conservative peeps while complaining about political correctness, but wasn't sure what it referred to.
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# ? Nov 18, 2016 03:19 |
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What would Richmond "the community your [white] forefathers built" look like without Chinese immigrants? A loving one-horse town with unpaved roads?
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# ? Nov 18, 2016 03:24 |
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the trump tutelage posted:For all the hand-wringing about a Canadian Trump, the government sure is eager to breed angry workers. wow that law is insanely bad. It's a terrible trajectory that leads to more and more people believing pensions are bad and unsustainable. Dreylad fucked around with this message at 03:29 on Nov 18, 2016 |
# ? Nov 18, 2016 03:26 |
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the trump tutelage posted:For all the hand-wringing about a Canadian Trump, the government sure is eager to breed angry workers. i think ive beat this drum before but i want to point out again that bill morneau's family business makes money administering these new types of pension and he stands to benefit enormously from this bill oh yeah also this is something that was cooked up under harper and the liberals are simply continuing the implementation
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# ? Nov 18, 2016 03:30 |
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REAL CHANGE
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# ? Nov 18, 2016 03:32 |
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RBC posted:i think ive beat this drum before but i want to point out again that bill morneau's family business makes money administering these new types of pension and he stands to benefit enormously from this bill I had no idea Morneau was involved in TB plans god drat.
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# ? Nov 18, 2016 03:32 |
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THC posted:What would Richmond "the community your [white] forefathers built" look like without Chinese immigrants? A loving one-horse town with unpaved roads? Well, Richmond was mostly white and Japanese until the 1980's when there was an influx of 80,000 Chinese immigrants escaping Hong Kong.
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# ? Nov 18, 2016 03:32 |
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RBC posted:i think ive beat this drum before but i want to point out again that bill morneau's family business makes money administering these new types of pension and he stands to benefit enormously from this bill gently caress everyone who voted for the Libs 'strategically' or otherwise. You're loving rubes and you got hoodwinked hard by liars, just like your hardworking rust-belt middle-america compatriots south of the border you loving idiots.
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# ? Nov 18, 2016 03:45 |
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Ottawa Vanier isn't even a contest. Jeeze
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# ? Nov 18, 2016 04:18 |
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Powershift posted:The last female conservative MLA in alberta. Maybe ever? As an Albertan, I am delighted by this idea. Kenney is a socially regressive idiot-- we have a party for those people already, the Wildrose. The PCs used to be able to pretend that they were a big tent party, but it's becoming increasingly clear there is no place for social progressives/lefties in that party. I hope the right wing eats itself, splits the vote and ushers in an NDP dynasty. 40 years would be okay.
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