vyelkin posted:

im lolling pretty hard at the legend here

Reince Penis posted:

quote:

For the second year in a row, federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau will wear a pair of shoes from Edmonton company Poppy Barley, when he tables the budget next week.

The annual shoe tradition is an unusual one with a mysterious background, but selecting the same shoe company two years in a row is unprecedented, the Edmonton shoemaker said. Poppy Barley said it was again considered a perfect fit for the occasion for being a Canadian, female-founded business.

Last year Morneau chose a pair of black Edmonton Oxfords, described as their “classiest, dressiest shoe.” For 2018, he went with the Jasper Derby in black calf and deer, purchased for $250 through the company’s sample sale. The derby shoe is described as being the ultimate in comfort (and class).

quote:

"It is the youngest province, and is becoming younger, better paid and more highly skilled as the rest of Canada becomes older and less skilled, and a ward of the state financially...it comes down to demographics. Right now, every man, woman and child in Alberta pay $6,000 more into the national budget than they get back. Alberta is the only province that is a net contributor to that budget — by 2020, the number will exceed $20,000 per person, $40,000 per taxpayer. That will be the greatest wealth transfer in per capita terms in the Western world. The only other place we see things like that is in Saudi Arabia, where the oil-producing regions subsidize the rest of the country."

vyelkin posted:

loving lmao alberta wants to secede and join america

http://nationalpost.com/news/politics/why-leaving-canada-makes-sense-for-alberta-and-u-s-would-likely-welcome-a-new-state


as if all that success isn't built on importing unemployed newfies and then kicking them out when oil crashes

Jordan7hm posted:

This is an interesting way to describe an article from 2015 about an american’s book.

quote:

To be fair, encouraging more women to enter and stay in the labour force, as a number of measures in the budget propose to do, is not only about equality but growth: it is one way in which to offset the increasing numbers of retirees leaving the workforce. The same cannot be said for institutionalizing — for all future governments, this budget claims — the mix of ideological cant and bureaucratic busywork known as “gender-based analysis,” still less the fantastic anti-economics of “equal pay for work of equal value.”

There will be further opportunities to address this: the legislation is to be introduced this fall. For now it is worth noting that this is not about “equal pay for equal work” — that is, for the same jobs. This is about equalizing pay for different jobs — wholly different occupational categories, in fact — where one is thought to be “undervalued.” Or rather, where it is both “undervalued” and female-dominated, relative to a (presumably “overvalued”) male-dominated category.

Whether their work is in fact “undervalued” in some philosophical sense is an interesting question. Alas, it is how it is, in fact, valued by the people who might be willing to pay them. Theory and evidence both suggest the primary determinant of wages is supply and demand, not the pseudo-objective calculations of “skill, effort, responsibility and working conditions.” That won’t change just because the government fiddles about with pay scales.

http://nationalpost.com/opinion/andrew-coyne-the-liberals-deliver-a-federal-budget-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-budgeting-or-the-economy

DariusLikewise posted:

lmao this thread with a reply from a Canadian Senator, abolish the senate

https://twitter.com/kevinmilligan/status/968612913748439040

https://twitter.com/LarryWSmith36/status/968635652504895488

Reality Loser posted:

We are in a lot of trouble

namaste friends posted:

i think it'd be pretty cool to make the case that the government should treat its finances like a regular canadian household treats its finances

DariusLikewise posted:

parliament spent 350 million on the keg last year and everyone got new cars on 40 year leases

vyelkin posted:

loving lmao alberta wants to secede and join america

Jordan7hm posted:

This is an interesting way to describe an article from 2015 about an american’s book.

namaste friends posted:

I'm surprised that think piece wasn't written by a member of Canada's female opinion thought leaders

is wente really busy these days

Bilirubin posted:

I'm still having a hard time distinguishing her from Luba Goy