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Random question but does anyone know if delivering to a post-office via canada post gets it to you faster or slower than to your home address? Basically do they drop it off at the end of their route? Or does it take a more direct route?
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cowofwar posted:Random question but does anyone know if delivering to a post-office via canada post gets it to you faster or slower than to your home address? Basically do they drop it off at the end of their route? Or does it take a more direct route? Do you mean like using a flex delivery address? I find mine land in the middle of the day in time for me to pickup after work. Better than making a delivery attempt at my house, then sending it back to sort for delivery to the post office pickup the next business day.
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cowofwar posted:Random question but does anyone know if delivering to a post-office via canada post gets it to you faster or slower than to your home address? Basically do they drop it off at the end of their route? Or does it take a more direct route? its delivered to the post office in the morning and you can pick it up when the lazy minimum wage skeezebag at shoppers drug mart scans it after their 5th smoke break
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Mar 30, 2018 03:25
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To me, "vote buying" occurs when policies and government action target groups of people with strong messaging while at the same time doing very little to help them or at least those who are the most in need. The legal definition is however. Yet in my mind there's no doubt that the Ontario Liberals intend to get votes for cheap.
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Mar 30, 2018 03:57
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RBC posted:its delivered to the post office in the morning and you can pick it up when the lazy minimum wage skeezebag at shoppers drug mart scans it after their 5th smoke break Please do not malign the working class like this 
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Mar 30, 2018 04:31
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RBC posted:its delivered to the post office in the morning and you can pick it up when the lazy minimum wage skeezebag at shoppers drug mart scans it after their 5th smoke break The Canada Post desk at my rexall is staffed by a young woman who is very personable and helpful. I'll be sad when she graduates 
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Mar 30, 2018 05:55
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I've been selling poo poo on ebay and the canada post office near my office is run by a Korean family in their convience store. Super friendly and helpful all thr time.
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Mar 30, 2018 11:24
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The GLobe & Mail's long-winded obituary of Peter Munk had time to talk about his building of a fancy yacht port for Saudi princes in Montenegro and how he skiied with Prince Charles, but they couldn't find any room to discuss various murders, rapes and atrocities committed by Barrick and its subsidiaries.
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eXXon posted:The GLobe & Mail's long-winded obituary of Peter Munk had time to talk about his building of a fancy yacht port for Saudi princes in Montenegro and how he skiied with Prince Charles, but they couldn't find any room to discuss various murders, rapes and atrocities committed by Barrick and its subsidiaries. I https://www.barrick.com/responsibility/society/human-rights/security/default.aspx posted:As a result, we may have no choice but to enter into relationships with security forces that have questionable human rights records, over which we have no control. It's so hard to exploit nations, man
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eXXon posted:The GLobe & Mail's long-winded obituary of Peter Munk had time to talk about his building of a fancy yacht port for Saudi princes in Montenegro and how he skiied with Prince Charles, but they couldn't find any room to discuss various murders, rapes and atrocities committed by Barrick and its subsidiaries. I almost posted it to the thread. I detect a trend in thinking I’ve read before. quote:And as the company’s mining empire expanded, so too did the social criticism, with accusations of abuse at mines in Papua New Guinea and Tanzania drawing protests and reprimands.
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I dunno that's pretty refreshing compared to the normal PR smoke screen of how they're working with community stakeholders and blah blah blah instead of just being upfront about a business there to make money and the impact on other people is irrelevant. Good example of how capital externalizes costs so that there can be a net gain in material conditions elsewhere too.
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Stickarts posted:I almost posted it to the thread. I detect a trend in thinking I’ve read before. That was the shorter news article. Here's the longer one if you don't mind a fawning portrait of a kind moustache-twirling top-hatted capitalist: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-peter-munk-the-extraordinary-life-of-a-business-legend/
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I don't recall seeing this in the thread so if it's a repost sorry but I glanced at our feminist PM's exaltation of a dead man whose company was responsible for the rape of several hundred women and noticed a lot of people tweeting #DelayedIranianApplications and this turns out to be a hell of a problem for a lot of Iranian applicants: https://ipolitics.ca/2018/03/28/scores-of-iranians-living-in-canada-decry-lengthy-wait-times-for-permanent-residency/
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And just in case you were feeling good about today anyway, here's some reporting on more released OPP interviews with residential school survivors! https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/st-anne-residential-school-opp-documents love too read comments defending the school system where children choked themselves with a towel for a momentary escape
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Dreylad posted:And just in case you were feeling good about today anyway, here's some reporting on more released OPP interviews with residential school survivors! As long as it still produces journalism like this, don't defund the CBC imo.
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Welp. Here we go... e: tl;dr: The Liberals are looking to back-door privatize portions of the TTC in the same way they have the new LRT lines. infernal machines fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Mar 30, 2018 |
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Lol Ontario. I'm hoping that the train wreck that is the current privatization boondoggle serves to make people think twice of giving the conservatives a second term here.
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Does the NDP even have a real chance at being relevant in any capacity in Ontario? I was under the impression that they had no options other than Conservatives or conservatives there.
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infernal machines posted:Welp. Here we go... Oh cool maybe it will actually work then
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ChairMaster posted:Does the NDP even have a real chance at being relevant in any capacity in Ontario? I was under the impression that they had no options other than Conservatives or conservatives there. I guess it depends on what you mean by relevant. They aren't running a full slate of candidates, but they have the chance of maybe propping up a Liberal minority, or in the case of a PC minority, trying to bring down the government and for a coalition with the Liberals (lol, this will never happen). Of course since the Liberals will gladly prop up the PCs there's not much chance of either. Some of the MPPs are actually quite good though and put a lot of work into drafting and supporting progressive legislation (e.g. Cheri DiNovo, who unfortunately is not running again). But barring a massive plague wiping out southern Ontario, they will not be forming the government nor will they be the official opposition. infernal machines fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Mar 30, 2018 |
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EvilJoven posted:Lol Ontario. I'm hoping that the train wreck that is the current privatization boondoggle serves to make people think twice of giving the conservatives a second term here. This is Canada. People will double down on the cons because clearly whats needed is more privatization to make the initial privatization work properly!
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Southern Ontario is filled with people who not only don't understand that there's a world of important issues beyond "whatever cuts my commute to my cottage" or "pay as little tax as possible" but become visibly angry if anyone dares point this out to them. Typically, the only reason their lives have been as easy as they are, or at least haven't totally fallen apart is because of their families' connections, and money they inherited or borrowed and can never hope to pay back Unless there is some kind of massive plague that only targets suburbs there is no hope in this province
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Just wait it out eventually traffic in Southern Ontario will get so bad one morning a good chunk of the population will just die out in a traffic jam. Hopefully it'll be an afternoon die off of the more wealthy types who all tried to duck out of work a few hours early on a Friday to beat the traffic heading to Muskoka and got caught in an inescapable heat wave after some dickhead crashed his lambo just south of the lovely outlet mall in Cookstown.
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So the Ontario lib budget has apparently started to close the gap with the cons at the polls. Enough people are satisfied in the short term to prevent a majority PC government but not yet enough to stop dougie.
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http://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-cheers-for-the-meat-eating-hero-who-took-on-privileged-vegan-bullies I’m very conflicted. On one hand, I hate Rex Murphy. On the other hand, I really, really hate preachy vegans.
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vegan bullies.... right
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Not an unreasonable description in this context.
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It's hilarious. gently caress Rex Murphy, but it is very funny. They're specifically targeting the restaurant because of their marketing about foraging and free range game animals. There's a butcher shop literally across the street from the restaurant, which would seem a better target for a vegan protest, but whatever, someone's got a bug up their rear end about this guy specifically. They've held several protests outside Antler at this point, and more are planned. The upshot being a small but fairly successful specialty restaurant has got a ton of free marketing and reservations are through the roof. And, uh, people are aware that vegans don't like them, I guess.
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My aunt shares lots of weird poo poo on Facebook. One was an image of bacon at various levels of doneness captioned "which piece is cooked perfectly?" Queue 3000 comments of meat is murder and desperate claims that meatless alternatives taste "better", interspersed with the odd "geeze, I just wanted to talk about bacon" which all had 30+ replies of the same self righteous comments. Some of which implied that meat eaters would get cancer (and so, so deserve it). This wasn't like a meat lovers page or something, just the usual click bait "funny" page which market themselves to old white people. Apparently there is an army of vegans who search Facebook for any reference to meat?
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PT6A posted:http://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-cheers-for-the-meat-eating-hero-who-took-on-privileged-vegan-bullies Everyone in this story is goddamn retarded. "These tofu lads are a scary lot." Rex Murphy: legit terrified of vegans 
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yellowcar posted:Everyone in this story is goddamn retarded. Counterpoint: the chef seems to be an alright guy who's being hounded by a bunch of crazy people for no sane reason. It is extremely cool and good to mock and taunt preachy assholes of every stripe, but especially vegans.
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I don't know who's dumber: preachy vegans or people upset by preachy vegans It's both
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Ever get yelled at by a vegan wearing leather? It's loving precious when you point that out to them.
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Stdh.txt
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EvilJoven posted:Ever get yelled at by a vegan wearing leather? It's loving precious when you point that out to them. apparently there is such a thing as vegan leather. it's all goddamn bullshit, but they do swear by it being a thing
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Reince Penis posted:I cannot wait to see how fast that high PC vote intention nosedives now that Ford is the face of the party.  Oh yeah that's the stuff baby (Forum poll so feel free to disagree)
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Arivia posted:apparently there is such a thing as vegan leather. it's all goddamn bullshit, but they do swear by it being a thing Yes, it's made from vegan cows
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Vegan leather is just pleather, far as I know. I have a wallet made of the stuff, it's nice enough.
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As I said like 50 pages ago I completely get not eating meat because of the ethical concerns But it shouldn’t extend to eggs and dairy E: Also I hope it just quietly goes away in 10 years when we can actually effectively grow meat synthetically TheKingofSprings fucked around with this message at 00:18 on Mar 31, 2018 |
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