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Baronjutter posted:I still don't know if that's real or the Times Colonist's april fools joke. The hotel PR people have confirmed it via long time staff lore.
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EimiYoshikawa posted:Well, I mean, half the population lives in those two seemingly tiny yellow/orange spots on the map. Calgary has 1.2 million in its metro area, Edmonton has 1.1 million, and the third largest city, at 98,000, is Red Deer, and the whole province is around 4 million (up from 3.65 in 2011) gently caress rural Alberta. And gently caress The Rural Alberta Advantage, while we're at it. Waiting Up There For Your song to end, more like it.
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infernal machines posted:I refuse to believe it's possible for Lethbridge to have suburbs If they're anything like the "suburbs" of other smaller Alberta cities, then they're really just communities that spring up outside city limits to take advantage of the County's lower taxes. (while still expecting full municipal services from the city)
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Franks Happy Place posted:The hotel PR people have confirmed it via long time staff lore. Right, so says an article posted on april 1st. But on the other hand the TC has pretty much zero writing talent so I don't they could afford to have someone spend the time to type up the story rather than copypaste from another source. My seagull story isn't as dramatic but it's still pretty good. This house had a sun-room with a bunch of big doors that could open up and turn it into more of an outdoor space. They had a bunch of food and snacks set up for a nice summer BBQ party and decided to use the sunroom for condiments and buns and all that. They had most of the doors closed as well as the door between the sun room and the rest of the house. There was a worry they didn't have enough propane so the husband goes out to get another tank while wife and friends decide to chill out in the kitchen which is on the opposite side of the house to the sun room. They eventually hear what they think is someone knocking on the sun room door but arrive to find no one. Art has been pull off the walls, an antique standing lamp has been tipped over and smashed. Porcelain figures and all sorts of knickknacks are broken on the floor. They thought some burgles or lovely teens had gotten in and smashed the place up but then they noticed the seagull poo poo all over the place as well as some feathers. No believed a single seagull could have caused so much damage in such a short amount of time. Also none of the food was missing. It must have gotten in and flipped out before it could even eat.
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Baronjutter posted:My seagull story A cat hanging around can help reduce birds getting in yer stuff. Just need to make sure you trust the cat to not get into the food.
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Does anybody know of any good left-wing organizations that could use volunteers in Winnipeg? I have tons of free time at the moment and everything Pallister does makes me want to punch a wall. I was thinking of signing up with the NDP but their last federal election campaign sucked so hard that I reconsidered.
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Your provincial NDP is not run by the same people as the federal NDP.
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the Conservative party is now openly collaborating with Jefferson Beauregard "NAACP Is An Anti-American Commie Pinko Organization Out To Get White People" Sessions in their desperate attempt to kill the cannabis bill libs are just as bad as tories durr i am very smatr 
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Hey look, the Star wrote something not-lovely about campus free speech! Choice excerpt: quote:The free speech erosion bogeyman, then, becomes the elite equivalent of the “It’s OK to be white” posters. It frames identity-based intolerance in innocuous or righteous terms that anybody can get on board with. In reality it’s code for affirming the status quo or pushing back against resistance. It allows opposition to certain topics to be framed as opposition to the concept, in this case free speech.
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Blisster posted:Does anybody know of any good left-wing organizations that could use volunteers in Winnipeg? I have tons of free time at the moment and everything Pallister does makes me want to punch a wall. I was thinking of signing up with the NDP but their last federal election campaign sucked so hard that I reconsidered. Pallister also makes me want to punch a wall. We have so much in common let’s be friends.
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Blisster posted:Does anybody know of any good left-wing organizations that could use volunteers in Winnipeg? I have tons of free time at the moment and everything Pallister does makes me want to punch a wall. I was thinking of signing up with the NDP but their last federal election campaign sucked so hard that I reconsidered. The Manitoba NDP and Federal NDP are pretty different entities. Based on what's going on right now the NDP have the best shot at beating Pallister in the next election, but the MB Liberals may get some boost in the upcoming By-Election in St. Boniface(Greg Selingers former riding) if their new leader can pull of a win. I'm not sure what kind of volunteer work either party is looking for 2 years before an election, probably just bugging people for money I guess.
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Hungry Computer posted:If they're anything like the "suburbs" of other smaller Alberta cities, then they're really just communities that spring up outside city limits to take advantage of the County's lower taxes. (while still expecting full municipal services from the city) Yeah, I really should have written "suburb" rather than suburb, I was even thinking "well, it's not really close enough that you'd typically get the 'burbs popping up, but it's that weird Alberta thing there tiny ramshackle communities form around cities to leech off them while paying lower taxes", but for simplicity's sake...my bad.
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Blisster posted:Does anybody know of any good left-wing organizations that could use volunteers in Winnipeg? I have tons of free time at the moment and everything Pallister does makes me want to punch a wall. I was thinking of signing up with the NDP but their last federal election campaign sucked so hard that I reconsidered. I've heard and seen nothing but good things from the Bear Clan Patrol in the city. Extremely inclusive, tons of community engagement, and from the sound of things they're really making an impact on the community, especially when it comes to engaging with vulnerable street people. If you want to help the less priviliged get around the city, the community bike co-ops are gearing up to be extremely busy now that the snow is melting. Siloam mission usually needs people. If you check with them they probably have roles that need filling.
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Baronjutter posted:I still don't know if that's real or the Times Colonist's april fools joke. It's real. I actually know the guy in real life.
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THC posted:the Conservative party is now openly collaborating with Jefferson Beauregard "NAACP Is An Anti-American Commie Pinko Organization Out To Get White People" Sessions in their desperate attempt to kill the cannabis bill " "Faced with the Liberals' empty answers and broken record, we had to seek concrete and real facts right at the source."" loving lol. To the people in this thread saying the Libs and Cons are the same party, come defend this poo poo.
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They aren’t the same party but they’re both garbage and working for the same interests.
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M.McFly posted:" "Faced with the Liberals' empty answers and broken record, we had to seek concrete and real facts right at the source."" Bill Blair, Liberal extraordinaire
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THC posted:only one of them is working for a white supremacist death cult but ok You know cowofwar means business interests.
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This is a fun and easy way to discover that your relatives, bosses or co-workers donated to the erin o'toole leadership campaign http://special.nationalpost.com/follow-the-money/database
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vyelkin posted:Hey look, the Star wrote something not-lovely about campus free speech! It's funny, I was digging up an article written by a prof in the G&M about the free speech issue where he refutes a lot of the common criticisms about university campuses today and goes into a lot of the institutional politics at universities that are anything but radical. I was vague in my search so it picked up all the articles in the G&M about this issue in the past year. That op-ed was the only one critical of the campus free speech narrative. In comparison there was sixteen articles claiming that campuses were being overrun with illiberal, tyrannical students and faculty. I keep see-sawing on this narrative. I haven't been involved in academia for a few years, and I'm told things took a drastic turn after 2015 at a number of campuses where things really heated up politically. But then again I was at Concordia -- it's not an exaggeration to say that people were always protesting something every day -- and there had been massive student protests in Quebec before student protesting was seen as some form of creeping illiberalism. Because I'm not in that environment anymore it's hard to get a gauge on how much pressure there is on academics to tow the left-leaning line and I have to at least consider that it's a possibility. But given how hard this narrative has been pushed by the media and some public intellectuals, and the fact that this same narrative about radicalism in universities occurs every 10-20 years again and again from the 1950s onwards, means I return to the feeling that way too much ink is being spilled on something that isn't a problem. Dreylad fucked around with this message at 04:25 on Apr 6, 2018 |
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Argas posted:You know cowofwar means business interests. Even there, the Liberals are the party of Bay Street. With the finance minister running a bay street firm. The conservatives are the party of resource extraction and angry outsiders like used car sales people.
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https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/politics/tory-senators-talk-pot-legalization-with-jeff-sessions-in-d-c-1.3871239 I can’t believe we are going to trigger a constitutional crisis over pot
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folytopo posted:Even there, the Liberals are the party of Bay Street. With the finance minister running a bay street firm. The conservatives are the party of resource extraction and angry outsiders like used car sales people. I think it's fair to say that both are parties of maintaining or worsening inequalities. And unfortunately the NDP still needs to work on not just being orange Liberals in some aspects.
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You guys can not be surprised that a shitload of Canadians don't believe in climate change, dull-eyed satisfaction with the status quo and an unwillingness to entertain the notion that anything might be wrong or need changing is like our entire national character. I bet you half the people who know that climate change is real also think that it's a good thing for Canada and that we'll be able to grow tropical fruit on the 5 inches or so of lovely useless soil covering the Canadian shield. Even if the Conservatives are worse than the Liberals, it's hard to really give a poo poo which of them is in power when the Liberals are so loving awful anyways. I certainly don't think anyone still has any confidence in Canada to take meaningful action either way, we just had almost a decade of Conservative rule and we ended up doing nothing more than replacing them with conservatives. If all the Liberal Party has to do to stay in power is just be 10% better than the Conservatives, then it's hard to give a poo poo either way, especially when the NDP show no signs of getting any better and many signs of getting worse indefinitely. The trap of being stuck with an eternal conservative government kept in power by the threat of a Conservative government along with the lack of any real will to make a positive change makes caring about Canadian politics ultimately kinda pointless. ChairMaster fucked around with this message at 05:23 on Apr 6, 2018 |
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Postess with the Mostest posted:This is a fun and easy way to discover that your relatives, bosses or co-workers donated to the erin o'toole leadership campaign So far nothing surprising from my searches, but the quest continues
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Postess with the Mostest posted:This is a fun and easy way to discover that your relatives, bosses or co-workers donated to the erin o'toole leadership campaign I accidentally doxxed everyone in the thread by seeing who donated to the Marxist-Leninist Party. Sorry everyone. But I'd like to give a shout out to Comrade Champoux and Comrade Greig for donating $2,000 each.
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Blisster posted:Does anybody know of any good left-wing organizations that could use volunteers in Winnipeg? I have tons of free time at the moment and everything Pallister does makes me want to punch a wall. I was thinking of signing up with the NDP but their last federal election campaign sucked so hard that I reconsidered. I wholeheartedly believe that if you care about progressive politics or whatever, you should not volunteer for a political party, but instead volunteer for an organization that does meaningful work in an issue area. A Tenant's Union, anti-poverty organization, whatever. There are better ways to spend your time than dealing with the shitshow that is electoral politics.
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thehoodie posted:I wholeheartedly believe that if you care about progressive politics or whatever, you should not volunteer for a political party, but instead volunteer for an organization that does meaningful work in an issue area. A Tenant's Union, anti-poverty organization, whatever. There are better ways to spend your time than dealing with the shitshow that is electoral politics. Yeah, like previous posters mentioned volunteer at Bear Clan Patrol or Winnipeg Harvest or even the Salvation Army. Not the loving NDP. If you care about Left wing politics it’s best to get involved at a grassroots level rather than supporting a garbage neo-liberal political party
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Those 30% of people don’t even know what climate change is.
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A Typical Goon posted:If you care about Left wing politics it’s best to get involved at a grassroots level rather than supporting a garbage neo-liberal political party How can the party change without new blood and new ideas? I get that local volunteering is more rewarding in terms of direct impact on the community. Changing policies and regulations can affect a whole lot more people, but yeah it takes forever with politicians more worried about a constant stream of donor money than the the future of Canadians.
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M.McFly posted:" "Faced with the Liberals' empty answers and broken record, we had to seek concrete and real facts right at the source."" How can you compare heart disease to cancer, one is obviously worse than the other! Oh wait, they are both poo poo. Yes one is more poo poo, but they are both poo poo. Especially the ontario libs.
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patonthebach posted:How can you compare heart disease to cancer, one is obviously worse than the other! The Ontario Liberals are less poo poo than the federal ones, tyvm. They actually throw in some good policies that help people and keep some promises while they sell us out with neoliberal privatization bullshit. The Federal Liberals just say they'll do good stuff but always after the next election - they're too busy trying to build pipelines and sell weapons to dictators to get those promises done in this decade. The Federal Liberals also had a mandate to enact electoral reform that would prevent any chance of a future Conservative majority, and they decided that nah, we are cool with letting the Cons get their turn. So much for "anyone but conservatives". A vote for the Liberals is a vote for the Conservatives, plain and simple.
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Postess with the Mostest posted:Bill Blair, Liberal extraordinaire I told yall he'd gently caress it up.
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Lol the Calgary city council has banned public consumption of marijuana, because they're morons. My (good) councillor was one of the only people to point out how loving stupid it is, and how it basically fucks over renters and tourists and will inevitably be used to hassle minorities and other marginalized people. Druh Farrell and Nenshi, my arch-nemeses of municipal politics, both supported this stupid bylaw because they are stupid and bad. Why is our country this way? Why does it matter to anyone if people burn a wee bit of plant matter while walking down the street or sitting in a park?
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You nailed it earlier in your post: Legalization of weed removes a pretty well-worn excuse for harassing young people, vismins and Indigenous people. Something's gotta fill that void.
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I can't speak to Calgary, but in Toronto they did something similar because it basically matched our existing public smoking/drinking bylaws. They treat pot as both, of course.
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