twistedmentat posted:

Mandate all breaks and lunches are paid, so no more working 8.5 hours so you can get a break. Full time should also be reduced to 32 hours. These are the kinds of things that as someone who's pretty much just worked minimum wage retail jobs for the last 20 years that piss me off. I mean besides being stuck at minimum wage because "we can't afford raises right now".

This is also why I find it impossible to feel bad for anyone making more than 60k a year. Yea there's problems, but i doubt you ever had to figure out if you could get a haircut or buy lunch for the next week.

Mad Hamish posted:

This is great but while we're at it I'd also like a unicorn. A real one, not a lovely one made by joining the horn buds on a baby goat.

McGavin posted:

"Former pet nutritionist"

Wistful of Dollars posted:

If you tattoo eyes on your eyelids you can sleep in class and your teacher will never know.

Think about it.

yellowcar posted:

lmao yeah never want anything better ever i get it

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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is cheering Liberal MPs who walked out of a hearing Tuesday to prevent a Conservative counterpart with anti-abortion views from being named to head up the House of Commons committee on the status of women.

All the Liberal members of the committee got up and walked out right before they were scheduled to hold a vote on nominating Alberta MP Rachael Harder to the position of committee chair.

Harder, who represents the riding of Lethbridge, didn’t want to discuss the matter Tuesday but she has in the past expressed support for laws enacted to protect the rights of “unborn children,” and has said she believes life begins at conception.

Trudeau told a news conference that his government supports the independence of committees, and that the Liberals on the status of women committee made the decision to walk out on their own — but that he supports their position.

“We will always defend women’s rights in this party and in this government,” Trudeau said.

“Quite frankly, one would hope that the committee for the status of women would have a spokesperson who would be able to stand up and unequivocally defend women’s rights. That’s sort of the point of the status of women committee.”

The Liberals hold a majority on the committee and could have voted down the nomination, but instead opted to make a show of their disapproval by walking out of the hearing.

As they left, Liberal MPs denounced Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer — also opposed to abortion, but in a far more delicate position as leader than an MP from Alberta — for putting Harder forward for the job.

“These are not liberal values,” said Liberal MP Marc Serre. “We wanted to take a position as a party that we don’t support this decision by the leader of the Opposition.”

The Liberals are challenging Scheer to put forward someone who is not from the right-wing fringe of his party — and who doesn’t share his opinion on abortion.

Scheer, however, insisted Tuesday that he put forward Harder’s name because she’s a hard-working, strong and democratically elected MP, and repeated his position that his Conservative caucus has no interest in advancing an anti-abortion agenda.

And he made it clear that despite what the prime minister said later, he believes Trudeau had a hand in Tuesday’s theatrics.

“It’s certainly unprecedented that the prime minister would interfere and block the nomination of a democratically elected member of Parliament to serve as chair of a committee,” he said.

“I think it shows a lack of respect for the parliamentary process. It’s very unfortunate.”

Conservative MP Lisa Raitt, one of several Tories who ran against Scheer for the leadership, defended the choice of Harder to chair the committee, insisting that her personal feelings about an issue needn’t cloud her ability to do the job.

“Look at it this way: her beliefs are her beliefs, and she holds them herself. There are members of cabinet, Justin Trudeau’s cabinet, who hold the same beliefs,” Raitt said.

Trudeau has made it abundantly clear that those members of cabinet are expected to toe the party line when it comes to voting on issues that might conflict with their beliefs on abortion, she added.

“When the government says Rachel Harder can’t be the chair of this committee, what they’re saying is they don’t trust her to put her personal beliefs aside. They don’t give her the benefit of the doubt.”

Committee vice-chair and Liberal MP Pam Damoff said it now falls to the Conservatives to decide what to do next.

Inside the meeting room, Harder accused the Liberal MPs of disrespecting the democratic process. She refused to respond to questions from journalists asking about her position on abortion.

Maryam Monsef, the minister for the status of women, echoed Trudeau’s support.

“I support their choice,” she said. “And applaud their decision to be heard.”

Sheila Malcolmson, the NDP status of women critic who first flagged Harder’s nomination, thanked the Liberals for taking action.

“Ms. Harder’s position and commitment to advance legislation restricting a woman’s right to choose makes her an inappropriate choice to head the House of Commons committee charged with defending women’s rights in Canada,” Malcolmson said.

“Reproductive justice is foundational to women’s rights and there can be no question that we will defend all women’s rights as we pursue the advancement of the status of women in Canada.”

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The Liberals hold a majority on the committee and could have voted down the nomination, but instead opted to make a show of their disapproval by walking out of the hearing.

yellowcar posted:

lmao yeah never want anything better ever i get it

TheKingofSprings posted:

So I've been reading through the Trump thread and USPOL and their discussions and it makes me want to ask here: how does our own police stack up in terms of corruption, and ineptitude? Incidents that stick out to me included the Toronto police shooting the kid in the streetcar a couple of years back, the RCMP literally home growing terrorists, and the relatively recent uncovered allegations of sexual misconduct pervading the RCMP. Is our police comparably toxic to the US? Are they better, and if they are, what contributes to that difference?

DariusLikewise posted:

Just take those posts, replace the word "Black" with "Indigenous" and you have what Canadian police are.

HookShot posted:

That's a bit disingenuous; so far this year the cops in the states have killed 730 unarmed people, whereas in Canada that number is estimated to be around 15-25 a year (no one really keeps track of it here).

The RCMP is a poo poo organization that should be exterminated from the top down, but let's not pretend our cops are going around randomly shooting natives all the time like they do in America.

HookShot posted:

That's a bit disingenuous; so far this year the cops in the states have killed 730 unarmed people, whereas in Canada that number is estimated to be around 15-25 a year (no one really keeps track of it here).

The RCMP is a poo poo organization that should be exterminated from the top down, but let's not pretend our cops are going around randomly shooting natives all the time like they do in America.

DariusLikewise posted:

Our population is a tenth of the United States. The issue in the States isn't that they are "randomly shooting" people it's that in situations that require force, cops are shooting black people and coddling white people. It's literally the same thing here when cops have to deal with Indigenous people.

HookShot posted:

A tenth of the population would still require our cops shooting people at 4-6 times the rate they are now to be on par with the USA.

HookShot posted:

A tenth of the population would still require our cops shooting people at 4-6 times the rate they are now to be on par with the USA.

HookShot posted:

A tenth of the population would still require our cops shooting people at 4-6 times the rate they are now to be on par with the USA.

DariusLikewise posted:

So are you saying that police in Canada do not carry a prejudice towards indigenous people? Or that since the problem is statically better than it is in the USA we shouldn't be too hard on our officers?

DariusLikewise posted:

So are you saying that police in Canada do not carry a prejudice towards indigenous people? Or that since the problem is statically better than it is in the USA we shouldn't be too hard on our officers?

infernal machines posted:

What about just beating them so severely they lose an eye and not reporting it to the SIU? Does it have to be a killing to count?

How do we track incidents that aren't reported or investigated?

RBC posted:

yeah there's absolutely no reason everyone shouldn't have a paid lunch.

time you are at work is work and should be paid

government should have done this a long time ago

and overtime should start after 8 hours. not 44 hours a week. this isnt the 19th century

Mad Hamish posted:

It's almost as though firmly entrenched business and corporate interests would fight tooth and nail against anything that remotely improves the lives of their slaves workers.

murked by dragon posted:

Lol there's going to be a neo nazi rally in Peterborough

murked by dragon posted:

vyelkin posted:

Our cops don't need to shoot people when they can just drive them into the country and let them freeze to death.

twistedmentat posted:

Those stories are really horrible. I remember one that it was a kid who got left on the outskirts in Winnipeg in the dead of winter without warm clothing.

Mad Hamish posted:

It's almost as though firmly entrenched business and corporate interests would fight tooth and nail against anything that remotely improves the lives of their slaves workers.

ChairMaster posted:

It's ridiculous to say that the RCMP are as bad as American police, but that's about as faint of praise with which one can be damned. It's like saying Saudi Arabia is great because they're not as bad as Nazi Germany.

Reince Penis posted:

The RCMP are more like Hoover's FBI tbh

EvidenceBasedQuack posted:

Racism aside, a good example of Canadian police officers is the yearly peaceful March Against Police Brutality in Montreal, which invariably ends with police brutality.

A Typical Goon posted:

Does anyone know any good histories of the Winnipeg general strike? For such a big event I'm pretty ignorant of how it all went down. Preferably a focus on the strike leaders and Labour perspective but I'm open to anything that's good

A Typical Goon posted:

Does anyone know any good histories of the Winnipeg general strike? For such a big event I'm pretty ignorant of how it all went down. Preferably a focus on the strike leaders and Labour perspective but I'm open to anything that's good