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OSI bean dip posted:The Canadian Federation of Students is renowned for its jackassery. Read up on the Kwantlen Student Association and the CFS' involvement there. It is one of many reasons why UBC's Alma Matter Society is not part of it. those were the folks who were stealing vast amounts of money and disrupting any chance of turfing the existing council, and then suing afterwards?
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/patty-hajdu-renovations-million-1.3901080quote:Status of Women Minister Patty Hajdu approved a $1.1-million price tag to build a new suite of offices for herself and her staff earlier this year, even though she was told the cost might raise some eyebrows. lol 'efficiencies' wtf does this minister even loving do
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we're getting into john thain territory here http://www.cnbc.com/id/28793892 quote:When John Thain became Merrill Lynch’s CEO in early 2008, he hired Michael S. Smith Design to revamp his office suite, spending approximately $1.22 million according to documents. quote:Commode on Legs $35,115 i hope it looks like dickbutt
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Arivia posted:Gotta be honest I was a single-issue voter last election too. I literally voted for Ms. Auschwitz because Mulcair promised national public childcare, which is huge for women's rights. Childcare? No, you must be misremembering. I remember during the election this thread (and numerous other places) talking about how the NDP were "running to the right" of the Liberals. Surely Justin's pipelines and excuses are as left-wing as it gets. And surely what women in Canada need isn't affordable childcare, but rather they need a few more women to be ministers so that they know their voices are being valued and they feel included, without actually doing anything to help them. gently caress, it makes me mad. I work flexible enough hours that my wife and I can manage to not have to pay a fortune in childcare, but we have a friend who is a single mom and can't afford basically anything and can't get a decent job because the jobs she could get hired for would keep her away from her kids and she can't afford to pay for daycare for all of them. But at least under Justin, she's more likely to be made the minister of something!
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Listen that would be ridiculous, he not only won, he creamed her. Hillary never had half a chance as evidenced by the results, nobody is going to spit on democracy on her account. The electoral college is capable of doing something that boneheaded but it would never happen in a million years. And look more educated voted Trump also (both groups, actual stats) - and there happen to be a lot of really smart people in the oil field btw. You are probably picturing that bum in the back row that barely passed or dropped out and headed out West for a grunt position. In reality though, most of the oilfield workers I have met are incredibly motivated and entrepreneurial in spirit. They are people who have recognized the opportunity the oil field presented and were brave to go out to a place even knowing they could get easier jobs, earn a fraction, but enough to live off. In particular I have nothing but admiration for people who risked it all to go out and start their own businesses I think its classless to associate them as people who just "couldn't afford an education" as a lot of them went out there with their "education money" and built a better life than the scrap of paper ever would. Now we are in a place where our own government is turning its back on them, on the best the country has to offer, and its sickening. Had we a leader like Trump he would of found a strategy to help that sector. Ignore help even, he would of never done so many things to hurt them. The government should of done, and not done, many things over the past year. Transfer payments should of been cancelled and reinvested within Saskatchewan and Alberta, pipelines shouldn't of been held up, carbon tax should of never entered the vocabulary, and most importantly of all the government should of found something for those hard workers to do in the meantime like build infrastructure or set up manufacturing, but instead of all that we have seen billions spent overseas to no benefit of Canadians. People choose to look at Trump as a monster because the news blew up a couple quotes to much more than they ever were, and because their rigid definition of morality chooses to ignore common sense and evolution. Trudeau has literally set the country back at every turn, and he has done it all with a smile on his face while taking selfies. Trump has real potential, the markets agree, and I can't wait to see the wall, the economy resurrected, and most of all I can't wait to see a real leader in the power seat of the world.
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I hope by the use of "shouldn't of" multiple times, that whole post is an elaborate troll. Personally, despite my bitching about transfer payments in the past, I'm okay with them now because I get to watch a bunch of whiny assholes bitch about them and gnash their teeth, which is frankly well worth the cost. I hate my province and part of me actually wants to see it wither and die just because the people here have pissed me off so much. It's basically another variant of FYGM since I know I have the money to escape, but I feel better about it this time. gently caress Alberta and gently caress Albertans.
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I still really don't get where this faith that Trump is gonna do "all these things" comes from. I can only assume that a year from now after Trump with his billionare cabinet has done jackshit for the average American there will be a lot less (but still a ton) of true believers. It'll be amusing for any Conservatives trying to hitch their campaign onto that wagon right now.
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namaste faggots posted:http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/patty-hajdu-renovations-million-1.3901080 This is my local MP.  (I still voted NDP after the traitor Bruce Hyer left the party over the gun registry of all things.) Entropic fucked around with this message at 07:07 on Dec 17, 2016 |
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Entropic posted:This is my local MP. I really wish that the Trudeau government would consider optics before committing to poo poo like this. I'm sick of defending him to conservatives because he's spending All The Money Ever, and poo poo like this really doesn't help my argument. Like, if you're going to spend money, why not put it toward something worth spending on?
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I wish we'd get a ranked ballot system already so I could feel smug about voting NDP and make fun of the Trudeau govt's follies while not feeling guilty that I might potentially have helped another Harper term happen.
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Powershift posted:Did someone say commode on legs? I'm assuming the five-figure version wasn't already full of poo poo.
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PT6A posted:I hope by the use of "shouldn't of" multiple times, that whole post is an elaborate troll. The change and growth this thread has seen in you is heartening 
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PT6A posted:I hope by the use of "shouldn't of" multiple times, that whole post is an elaborate troll. The whole thing is an actual real opinion posted on Facebook by a friend of a friend. My favorite part is when they suggest all 17 billion dollars of equalization payments should goto Saskatchewan and Alberta.
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Also equalization payments are federally funded and the Alberta government pays exactly $0.00
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yellowcar posted:Also equalization payments are federally funded and the Alberta government pays exactly $0.00 What's this now?
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Postess with the Mostest posted:What's this now? They are from federally collected taxes
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I kind of wish Alberta would just separate and keep their precious equalization payments. Pipelines wouldn't get built anymore and we wouldn't have to listen to their incessant whining. It's a real win-win.
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namaste faggots posted:http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/patty-hajdu-renovations-million-1.3901080 As a woman and somebody from Thunder Bay (though admittedly not living there now), this bugs me a lot, it makes both look bad. My mother worked with her ex-husband and did not have nice things to share (though, really I generally took it with a grain of salt, because ex-husband is a biased source) Syfe fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Dec 17, 2016 |
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Syfe posted:As a woman and somebody from Thunder Bay (though admittedly not living there now), this bugs me a lot, it makes both bad. My mother worked with her ex-husband and did not have nice things to share (though, really I generally took it with a grain of salt, because ex-husband is a biased source) Because it's 2015! 
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Risky Bisquick posted:They are from federally collected taxes No, the part where Alberta pays zero?
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Postess with the Mostest posted:No, the part where Alberta pays zero? The Alberta government pays zero.
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Postess with the Mostest posted:No, the part where Alberta pays zero? Alberta government
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*Cue argument about Alberta, taxes, and Maritimes that ends with a variant of "Well maybe I'll just stop paying my taxes!!"*
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Syfe posted:As a woman and somebody from Thunder Bay (though admittedly not living there now), this bugs me a lot, it makes both bad. My mother worked with her ex-husband and did not have nice things to share (though, really I generally took it with a grain of salt, because ex-husband is a biased source) Well she's a lakehead grad. I guess I shouldn't bitch about under educated ministers considering BC will be run by a dropout for decades to come.
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Postess with the Mostest posted:No, the part where Alberta pays zero? It's a minor misunderstanding in the grand scheme of things, but it kind of speaks to the fact that a lot of Albertans would blame the NDP for a rainy day.
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namaste faggots posted:Well she's a lakehead grad. Hey now, she at least graduated from high school, a definite improvement over the Bill Bennett years when the Cabinet consisted of a bunch of rich kids with grade 10. The one MD from UBC was a definite argument against higher education. I doubt I'd think more highly of Christy if she'd completed her Poli Sci & Religious Studies degree.
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I almost thought about going to Lakehead for like 30 seconds. Really glad I didn't.
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Arivia posted:I almost thought about going to Lakehead for like 30 seconds. Really glad I didn't. Lakehead is if your backup school had a backup school
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namaste faggots posted:http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/patty-hajdu-renovations-million-1.3901080 At least it only cost 78% of what it would've cost other departments.
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Baronjutter posted:I honestly can't tell if it's trolling or not. It's pretty good either way. Noooo your previous avatar
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JawKnee posted:those were the folks who were stealing vast amounts of money and disrupting any chance of turfing the existing council, and then suing afterwards? Yeah Concordia tried to break free and it turned into a massive shitshow. Student politics are always, always stupid.
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Albino Squirrel posted:The facebook post is blaming the Alberta government for not cancelling transfer payments to the rest of Canada. Ah that's it. I thought he was talking about Trudeau.
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Dreylad posted:Yeah Concordia tried to break free and it turned into a massive shitshow. Student politics are garbage. The only ones who should be in charge of anything are people who don't want the job in the first place.
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Oh yeah a student Diocletian Hey maybe we should just abolish student unions ever considered that?
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But then how will our future leaders practice acting offended when someone says fart.
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People who bitch about equalisation payments never seem to realise that they are calculated based on what the federal government calculates your provincal government should be able to raise in terms of revenue, rather than your actual revenue. That way you don't get some chucklefuck province that decides to levy a flat and wholly inadequate 10 percent tax rate and then compl wait a minute
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What can we expect from an economic fallout in Canada in the near future? What would be worse: The impacts of China's implosion, or the Housing bubble popping? Would Trudeau's Premiership be at stake?
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https://twitter.com/ArleneDickinson/status/810200682619801600 https://twitter.com/ErinOTooleMP/status/810195350413803520 lol edit: the dogpile has begun https://twitter.com/MichaelChongMP/status/810243698600640513 brucio fucked around with this message at 00:12 on Dec 18, 2016 |
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