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Arivia
Mar 17, 2011

OSI bean dip posted:

Who cares about who's loving each other?

Can we compel loving like speech? Can we make Jordan Peterson mad about this, too?

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namaste friends
Sep 18, 2004

by Smythe
https://dogwoodbc.ca/trophy-hunters-pass-hat-for-christy-clark/

quote:


Safari Club International sends $60,000 to shore up BC Liberal election campaign

If there’s one thing Donald Trump’s sons, Porsche-driving dentists and Texas oil barons love most, it’s straddling the lifeless body of an exotic endangered animal.

Chilled by the prospect of losing that opportunity in British Columbia, U.S. trophy hunters are digging deep to ensure the reelection of Premier Christy Clark.

As the Canadian chapter of Safari Club International explained in a Facebook post last Friday, “NDP have vowed to end the Grizzly hunt in BC if elected. SCI chapters from CANADA and the USA banded together donating $60000.00” (sic).



The payment appears to be made out to the Guide Outfitters Association of British Columbia, an organization known for inviting BC Liberal ministers to bizarre minstrel shows and giving them lots of money.

The Guide Outfitters lobby vigorously to maintain a commercial grizzly bear “harvest” in British Columbia, which attracts wealthy customers from around the world.



The Safari Club photo offers a rare glimpse into how the B.C. Guide Outfitters fund their political war chest. “Together working with GOABC to prevent the NDP from getting elected and ending the hunt,” says the caption.

It is unclear whether the money will be donated directly to the BC Liberals or pay for other anti-NDP activities.

B.C. Premier Christy Clark is a vocal supporter of the trophy hunting industry and a past winner of the Guide Outfitter association’s President’s Award.

The BC Liberals have refused to change the province’s political financing laws, which allow them to take unlimited money from corporations and wealthy donors anywhere in the world.

The next provincial election will be held on May 9, 2017. If you support reforms to British Columbia’s donation laws, please call your MLA or sign Dogwood’s #BanBigMoney petition today.

loooool

this province is so retarded

CLAM DOWN
Feb 13, 2007




Lol of course the BC Libs aren't going to ban those donations

Entropic
Feb 21, 2007

patriarchy sucks

It's a goddamn crime that in the age of seemingly everything being online, I can't find the 22 Minutes "Stephen Harper owns a dragon. He keeps it in his garage" parody of that ad anywhere.

namaste friends
Sep 18, 2004

by Smythe
i'm amazed that some mainland chinese association of tradition chinese medicine hasn't donated money to christy clark to make the bear gall bladder trade legal

JawKnee
Mar 24, 2007





You'll take the ride to leave this town along that yellow line

Baronjutter posted:

Who? I don't care. WHERE is the question.

what park WHAT PARK

namaste friends
Sep 18, 2004

by Smythe
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-03-21/turnbull-looks-to-change-hate-crime-laws-in-appeal-to-right-wing

quote:

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull moved to overhaul Australia’s race-hate laws, heeding calls from right-wing lawmakers despite criticism from other members of his ruling coalition who see the issue as a distraction.

Under the proposed changes announced by Turnbull on Tuesday, the word “harass” will replace “offend, insult, humiliate” in clause 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, which currently makes it it unlawful to act in such a way towards another person.

“We are defending Australians from racial vilification by replacing language which has lost credibility,” Turnbull told reporters. In a statement, he said the changes would strengthen the laws and allow authorities to more easily reject complaints without merit.


check out australia beating back the hordes of liberal cultural marxists like a boss

australia has figured out how to listen to the concerns of white trash men, thus staving off a trumpian populist uprising. justin would do well to pay attention

Helsing
Aug 23, 2003

DON'T POST IN THE ELECTION THREAD UNLESS YOU :love::love::love: JOE BIDEN
Some gratitude. Complaining bout my effort posts when I just gave you a sweet new alt-right term to throw at the rest of this thread seventeen times a day.

PT6A
Jan 5, 2006

Public school teachers are callous dictators who won't lift a finger to stop children from peeing in my plane

Baronjutter posted:

Who? I don't care. WHERE is the question.

In the rear end. Ivanka wants Trudeau to come in the back door.



No one's even going to comment on CI's pro addition to this article? For shame, goons...

JawKnee
Mar 24, 2007





You'll take the ride to leave this town along that yellow line

another reason not to visit the maritimes

Tighclops
Jan 23, 2008

Unable to deal with it


Grimey Drawer
I find information about canadian right wing fascist shitlords interesting and appreciate effortposts about it

Juul-Whip
Mar 10, 2008

A sworn affidavit provided to The Globe and Mail alleges that one of Mr. O'Leary's key organizers in the Sikh-Canadian community in Brampton, Ont., offered to pay for party membership – a clear breach of party rules.

The affidavit is being used by leadership candidate Maxime Bernier's camp to target the reality-TV star as a hypocrite after the O'Leary team accused his Quebec rival of committing mass membership fraud last week.

Six Sikh-Canadians swore an affidavit on Sunday alleging that the president of the Conservative Brampton East Riding Association offered to pay for their memberships.

Party rules require membership to be purchased by an individual using either personal cheques or personal credit cards.

"I was approached by Ron Chatha from the Kevin O'Leary team to provide names and addresses for myself and friends, so they could sign up for the Conservative Party of Canada [and] not to worry about the fees as they will take care of it. But I discussed with my friends, they said they had to pay for the membership so we decided not [to] sign for membership," the six men said in the signed affidavit.

:unsmigghh:

Precambrian Video Games
Aug 19, 2002



Paper With Lines posted:

What is the consensus among ya'll for how badly Ivanka Trump wants to bang Justin Trudeau? Seems the number is high.

Well since someone asked who cares about this question, the answer is that the Star is on the case:

Daniel loving Dale posted:

WASHINGTON—A businesswoman whose lifestyle brand is struggling with liberals. A liberal-multilateralist prime minister who needs an in with a conservative-nationalist president.

Diplomacy is rooted in interests. And Ivanka Trump and Justin Trudeau both have an interest in hanging out with each other.

Read the latest news on U.S. President Donald Trump

The prime minister sat with the president’s daughter Wednesday night at the Broadway musical Come From Away, the Canadian show about the Newfoundland town that took in stranded Americans on Sept. 11, 2001. It was his second olive branch to her in just over a month.

Some U.S. news outlets suggested Trudeau had been sending a kind of passive-aggressive message: “Justin Trudeau brought Ivanka Trump to a Broadway show that celebrates generosity towards foreigners in need,” the New York Times tweeted to its 34 million followers. Whether or not that was true, he was also offering a kind of cashless donation to her company.

Trudeau joked of his “bromance” with former president Barack Obama. Shared youth and mutual interest in women’s issues notwithstanding, his new bilateral bestiehood appears much more a marriage of convenience.

“It is just so Game of Thrones‎,” said John Higginbotham, a former Canadian diplomat in Washington, referring to the television show in which warring family dynasties strike strategic alliances in ruthless pursuit of power.

Like Donald Trump before her, Ivanka Trump has made a brand out of her name. Her name has been tarnished, in the eyes of millions of progressive American consumers, by her father’s xenophobia and sexism. Who better to be seen with than the fashionable foreign progressive feminist who hugs refugees?


For Trudeau, daughter diplomacy offers the prospect of a lifeline to a president who shares almost none of his principles but who often appears to value personal relationships over ideology and policy — and who appreciates a political gift. Donald Trump has lavished praise upon chief executives who have let him take undeserved credit for their investments.

“It looks as if foreign leaders think the way to approach Trump is by direct or indirect appeals to his ego and personality, rather than in terms of national interests,” said Charles Stevenson, a former State Department policy planner who teaches foreign policy at Johns Hopkins University. “Business leaders have already discovered this, so they bring their announcements of job creation as if they had birthday presents for the king.”

Donald Trump, not Ivanka Trump, was Trudeau’s original invitee to the play, communications director Kate Purchase said. Trump told Trudeau he couldn’t make it, Purchase said, “but suggested that perhaps Ivanka Trump could join instead.”

“We were happy to arrange that,” she said.

“We’re friends and neighbours, partners and allies. We are committed to continuing to build on that relationship in a positive, constructive way. That means talking to U.S. senators, members of Congress, governors, Cabinet secretaries, business leaders, and importantly: the president and those close to him.”

Ivanka Trump has been portrayed in anonymously sourced stories as a powerful figure in the administration, a kind of de facto first lady. In February, Politico reported that she helped convince her father not to roll back protections for LGBT people. In March, Reuters reported that she was “a key advocate for the more measured, less combative tone” he adopted in his address to Congress.

But there is considerable skepticism in Washington that the leaks are anything other than self-serving public relations — and that Ivanka Trump has either the inclination or the ability to push her father toward moderation. The president has so far pursued a hard-right agenda that has betrayed few hints of liberal influence.

“Ivanka’s the only one of his children I think he listens to. But it’s just very, very small, and around the edges,” said Joshua Kendall, author of the book First Dads, about presidents as parents. “I think every once in a while he pays a little lip service to child-care, but I think those tiny inroads have led to sort of a feeding frenzy. Everyone says, ‘Maybe we can go much further than that.’ And I don’t think that’s going to happen.”

It is not only the president with whom Ivanka Trump might help Trudeau. Her husband, Jared Kushner, has emerged as one of the most powerful people in the country. As Donald Trump sidelines the professional diplomatic corps, Kushner, a 36-year-old with no government experience, has been shovelled responsibilities that range from soothing Mexico to striking Middle East peace.

Colin Robertson, a former Canadian diplomat, praised Trudeau for astute “realpolitik,” saying his rapport with Ivanka Trump serves Canadian interests. But the NDP has criticized his friendly posture toward a president whose policies foreign affairs critic Hélène Laverdière calls “racist.”

“Justin Trudeau took Ivanka Trump to an excellent Canadian play about kindness to strangers. It’s a play President Trump really should see. However, Trudeau continues to give Trump and his family political cover,” Laverdière said.

Trudeau’s early work with Ivanka Trump has paid at least superficial dividends. Trump boasted in his high-profile address to Congress of the new Canada-U.S. council on women in business; Trudeau was the only foreign leader he mentioned by name.

The council was an invention of Trudeau’s office designed specifically to include Ivanka Trump. She sat next to him at the inaugural meeting at the White House in February, cameras clicking away. Their Broadway appearance made new international headlines — some of the stories wrongly framing it as a quasi-date, omitting the presence of Trudeau’s wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau.

So the guy who made his name hounding Rob Ford with a fearless critical eye gets a promotion to cover DC politics and immediately turns into a mewling idiot babbling sycophant.

Reince Penis
Nov 15, 2007

by R. Guyovich

eXXon posted:


So the guy who made his name hounding Rob Ford with a fearless critical eye gets a promotion to cover DC politics and immediately turns into a mewling idiot babbling sycophant.

I think that's pretty unfair to Dale. He's been doing great reporting on Trump, from the campaign to calling out his lies everyday since the inauguration.

He's the Washington bureau guy, and was obviously asked to write this puff piece by his editors because it's what readers (and indeed, even posters! ) are interested in.

brucio
Nov 22, 2004
Yeah 1 puff piece by a Canadian reporter posted to Washington about the Canadian prime minister and the daughter of the President doesn't diminish all the reporting he's done in the last year. His daily tracking of Trump's lies was comprehensive and fairly widely shared. Good reporter.

AlouetteNR
Jun 6, 2011
Also, that's not a puff piece? It's pretty thoroughly saying 'Ivanka is poo poo and is using Trudeau's reputation as cover to try to repair her brand, we're fine with that because her favor is giving negligible benefits to Canada with the USA, a pox on all our houses'. Unless I'm massively misreading it?

Reince Penis
Nov 15, 2007

by R. Guyovich

AlouetteNR posted:

Also, that's not a puff piece? It's pretty thoroughly saying 'Ivanka is poo poo and is using Trudeau's reputation as cover to try to repair her brand, we're fine with that because her favor is giving negligible benefits to Canada with the USA, a pox on all our houses'. Unless I'm massively misreading it?

Ehhh maybe you're not wrong. I don't really want to read it again, or even closely the first time. :)

Vintersorg
Mar 3, 2004

President of
the Brendan Fraser
Fan Club



Yes Pallister, freeze wages for nurses and doctors. See how that works out for you. In a province with the busiest emergency wait times.

You loving idiot.

TheKingofSprings
Oct 9, 2012

PK loving SUBBAN posted:

I don't really want to read it again, or even closely the first time. :)

This would make a really good thread title

EvilJoven
Mar 18, 2005

NOBODY,IN THE HISTORY OF EVER, HAS ASKED OR CARED WHAT CANADA THINKS. YOU ARE NOT A COUNTRY. YOUR MONEY HAS THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND ON IT. IF YOU DIG AROUND IN YOUR BACKYARD, NATIVE SKELETONS WOULD EXPLODE OUT OF YOUR LAWN LIKE THE END OF POLTERGEIST. CANADA IS SO POLITE, EH?
Fun Shoe

Vintersorg posted:

Yes Pallister, freeze wages for nurses and doctors. See how that works out for you. In a province with the busiest emergency wait times.

You loving idiot.

Here's to hoping for a single term. :smith:

PT6A
Jan 5, 2006

Public school teachers are callous dictators who won't lift a finger to stop children from peeing in my plane
How does it feel to have a provincial government that's considerably worse than the one in the province that repeatedly elected Ralph Klein?

Risky Bisquick
Jan 18, 2008

PLEASE LET ME WRITE YOUR VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT SO I CAN FURTHER DEMONSTRATE THE CALAMITY THAT IS OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM.



Buglord

JawKnee posted:

what park WHAT PARK

Marie Curtis

EvilJoven
Mar 18, 2005

NOBODY,IN THE HISTORY OF EVER, HAS ASKED OR CARED WHAT CANADA THINKS. YOU ARE NOT A COUNTRY. YOUR MONEY HAS THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND ON IT. IF YOU DIG AROUND IN YOUR BACKYARD, NATIVE SKELETONS WOULD EXPLODE OUT OF YOUR LAWN LIKE THE END OF POLTERGEIST. CANADA IS SO POLITE, EH?
Fun Shoe

PT6A posted:

How does it feel to have a provincial government that's considerably worse than the one in the province that repeatedly elected Ralph Klein?

Pretty loving terrible and I'm gonna set aside all gimmicks and shitposting and say that a small part of the reason why we chose Manitoba is because of the strong support for the NDP and it's genuinely upsetting that we ended up with a conservative lich of our own as a premier the first election after we moved here. I'd trade my guns my pickup truck and all the other stereotypical urban redneck white guy stuff I have for an actual economically and culturally left wing government and my voting record reflects this.

EvilJoven fucked around with this message at 15:02 on Mar 21, 2017

Vintersorg
Mar 3, 2004

President of
the Brendan Fraser
Fan Club



And then the beautiful comments section on Facebook: I can get by scraping by - WHY CAN'T THEY? Lower wages for everyone so I feel better. Including people taking care of me when I am sick and dying.

Duck Rodgers
Oct 9, 2012
It kind of boggles my mind that he seems to be doing all the same things that got Filmon kicked out and led to 16 years of the NDP. Filmon Fridays, cuts to healthcare, fighting the unions. And they seem to be laying the groundwork to privatize hydro.

DariusLikewise
Oct 4, 2008

You wore that on Halloween?
Everyone on my Facebook had a good circlejerk over Uber coming to Winnipeg, even though Bowman is backtracking and now saying they may just issue more cab licenses instead now that the city has control over regulation.

Literally every bill the PCs rammed through yesterday reduces or freezes peoples wages in some way. Race to the bottom.


JawKnee posted:

what park WHAT PARK

Trudeau loving in a park while singing O Canada and firing his AR15 into the air :canada:

flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

But what language did he start singing in first?

Skippy Granola
Sep 3, 2011

It's not what it looks like.
I'm concerned about the Alberta PCs and the Wildrose merging into a conservative superteam.

Say what you will about the NDP, but the PCs were riddled with graft and corruption, the Wildrose had no platform, and our health services and education were gutted.

Consolidating the right wing vote is just going to hand back the reins.


Thus far the only thing holding back the deal is that neither party wants to hand over its assets to Elections Alberta, since donations between parties are illegal.

I definitely hope that EA doesn't back down on the law with this one. That'd just be gross and the last thing we need is more goddamn FYGM conservatism in this world.

Risky Bisquick
Jan 18, 2008

PLEASE LET ME WRITE YOUR VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT SO I CAN FURTHER DEMONSTRATE THE CALAMITY THAT IS OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM.



Buglord

Duck Rodgers posted:

It kind of boggles my mind that he seems to be doing all the same things that got Filmon kicked out and led to 16 years of the NDP. Filmon Fridays, cuts to healthcare, fighting the unions. And they seem to be laying the groundwork to privatize hydro.

This is a peoples revolution, they wanted the cuts and to privatize essential public services. You're gonna get filmon fridays and like it.

Risky Bisquick
Jan 18, 2008

PLEASE LET ME WRITE YOUR VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT SO I CAN FURTHER DEMONSTRATE THE CALAMITY THAT IS OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM.



Buglord

Skippy Granola posted:

I'm concerned about the Alberta PCs and the Wildrose merging into a conservative superteam.

Say what you will about the NDP, but the PCs were riddled with graft and corruption, the Wildrose had no platform, and our health services and education were gutted.

Consolidating the right wing vote is just going to hand back the reins.


Thus far the only thing holding back the deal is that neither party wants to hand over its assets to Elections Alberta, since donations between parties are illegal.

I definitely hope that EA doesn't back down on the law with this one. That'd just be gross and the last thing we need is more goddamn FYGM conservatism in this world.

But they had no debt, and were the envy of Canadian provinces. Well until the O&G spigot ran dry and they were facing massive deficits due to no reserves or a reliable revenue stream.

InfiniteZero
Sep 11, 2004

PINK GUITAR FIRE ROBOT

College Slice

Duck Rodgers posted:

It kind of boggles my mind that he seems to be doing all the same things that got Filmon kicked out and led to 16 years of the NDP. Filmon Fridays, cuts to healthcare, fighting the unions. And they seem to be laying the groundwork to privatize hydro.

The last part is the important part. Yeah, Filmon did all that stuff and it did lead to the NDP taking over for a long time, but Filmon himself came out ahead. If Pallister makes the Hydro thing work, he'll come out as well or likely better than Filmon. Then the NDP or whoever can take over because FYGM.

It's not a secret agenda or anything either: like you said, he's running nearly the exact same playbook. What the gently caress do people expect?

Skippy Granola
Sep 3, 2011

It's not what it looks like.

Risky Bisquick posted:

But they had no debt, and were the envy of Canadian provinces. Well until the O&G spigot ran dry and they were facing massive deficits due to no reserves or a reliable revenue stream.

That's the thing, everyone thinks back on the Klein Tyranny as the golden age, but it was literally impossible for Alberta to fail when oil was $140 a barrel.

Sheesh, this province is boned.

Legit Businessman
Sep 2, 2007


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Legit Businessman fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Sep 9, 2022

DariusLikewise
Oct 4, 2008

You wore that on Halloween?

InfiniteZero posted:

The last part is the important part. Yeah, Filmon did all that stuff and it did lead to the NDP taking over for a long time, but Filmon himself came out ahead. If Pallister makes the Hydro thing work, he'll come out as well or likely better than Filmon. Then the NDP or whoever can take over because FYGM.

It's not a secret agenda or anything either: like you said, he's running nearly the exact same playbook. What the gently caress do people expect?

There seemed to be a pretty large portion of Manitobans that believe there was 1 billion dollars worth of "fat to trim" that the NDP had created with over hiring in management and bureaucracy. The truth is that

The Manitoba NDP are eating themselves alive currently over how to a elect a leader and the Manitoba Liberals are an awful useless party, both are neck deep in debt with the PCs cutting the per-vote subsidy and changing fundraising rules to favour themselves I can't see Pallister not getting another Mandate to do what he wants.

EvilJoven
Mar 18, 2005

NOBODY,IN THE HISTORY OF EVER, HAS ASKED OR CARED WHAT CANADA THINKS. YOU ARE NOT A COUNTRY. YOUR MONEY HAS THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND ON IT. IF YOU DIG AROUND IN YOUR BACKYARD, NATIVE SKELETONS WOULD EXPLODE OUT OF YOUR LAWN LIKE THE END OF POLTERGEIST. CANADA IS SO POLITE, EH?
Fun Shoe
If Pallister privatizes MB Hydro we can kiss what diversified economy we do have goodbye. Businesses are already considering leaving Ontario because of the cost of electricity.

Risky Bisquick
Jan 18, 2008

PLEASE LET ME WRITE YOUR VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT SO I CAN FURTHER DEMONSTRATE THE CALAMITY THAT IS OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM.



Buglord
http://www.rbc.com/economics/economic-reports/pdf/provincial-forecasts/prov_fiscal.pdf

NL&L is right screwed

Vintersorg
Mar 3, 2004

President of
the Brendan Fraser
Fan Club



EvilJoven posted:

If Pallister privatizes MB Hydro we can kiss what diversified economy we do have goodbye. Businesses are already considering leaving Ontario because of the cost of electricity.

If he approves that there should be riots in the streets.

But he'll just be loving off in Coasta Rica so he's safe there.

Lien
Oct 17, 2006
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That's sort of what it's sounding like right now. I think (hope) there's going to be a lot of former PC aligned people, like Lukaszuk, who just throw up their hands and say gently caress it. I think any merger between the PCs and Wildrose will just be like, full on lake of fire loony tunes. There's a bunch of people who don't like the socially conservative stuff, but cling to the idea of being a "fiscal conservative" so they'll pretty much have to vote for the AB party. Libs are toxic in AB and always will be, so they're not an option. I am desperately hoping that the NDP manage to pull off a second term-- partly because if they don't get in, I'm not going to have a job, but also because I actually think we are taking some small steps towards economic diversification under them. Although I am really disappointed with the whole doubling down on pipelines thing.

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Legit Businessman
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Duck Rodgers
Oct 9, 2012

InfiniteZero posted:

The last part is the important part. Yeah, Filmon did all that stuff and it did lead to the NDP taking over for a long time, but Filmon himself came out ahead. If Pallister makes the Hydro thing work, he'll come out as well or likely better than Filmon. Then the NDP or whoever can take over because FYGM.

It's not a secret agenda or anything either: like you said, he's running nearly the exact same playbook. What the gently caress do people expect?

Its that last point there that really bothers me. People hated Filmon for hallway medicine, privatizing MTS, Filmon Friday's etc. Yet Pallister gets elected with basically the same platform?


DariusLikewise posted:

There seemed to be a pretty large portion of Manitobans that believe there was 1 billion dollars worth of "fat to trim" that the NDP had created with over hiring in management and bureaucracy. The truth is that

The Manitoba NDP are eating themselves alive currently over how to a elect a leader and the Manitoba Liberals are an awful useless party, both are neck deep in debt with the PCs cutting the per-vote subsidy and changing fundraising rules to favour themselves I can't see Pallister not getting another Mandate to do what he wants.


I really do wonder what would have happened if Selinger had stepped down. Would people have been satisfied with that and stuck with the NDP, or was the well already poisoned? I guess we'll never know.

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