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the libs are gonna introduce a punitive tax on fuel and use the proceeds to build the pipeline themselves. win/win
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EvilJoven posted:Why? Our own woke bae prime minister has just said that come hell or high water that pipeline's getting built. Sounds like the Alberta oil economy is going to get a helping hand, even if our socially conscious progressive government has to step on the neck of anyone opposed to it. Just like he promised the end of FPTP right?
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Rich people wouldn't make money off of ending FPTP and it wouldn't directly benefit the LPC. But now there's money to be made.
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vyelkin posted:Can't wait for Trudeau to force the pipeline through only to get even fewer votes in Alberta than he got in 2015. There are few certainties in life but I think this outcome is close to being one.
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vyelkin posted:This was going to happen anyway, don't burden the rest of the country with a lovely pipeline to try and save an NDP government that has a zero percent chance of reelection. Yeah, that's true. It just feels like the nail in the coffin for Alberta in terms of having even a marginally progressive government.
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Temp agencies in Ontario routinely and flagrantly violate labour law, water is wet, news at 11.
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RE: Winners and losers of HSR in Ontario, the analysis is almost a year old, but it makes some good points. The upshot being, HSR while shiny and new and expensive, will have fairly limited impact on southern Ontario outside of a few specific cities. Overall, money could be much better spent improving existing rail infrastructure and expanding the GO rail and bus networks to improve inter-city/town connections in the region. It would cost significantly less and immediately improve access and viability for commuter transit. Of course, if you rightly believe Toronto is the only place worth being in Ontario, then at least HSR promises to get you there as quickly as possible, assuming you start in London or Waterloo.
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gently caress high speed rail in southern Ontario Just make commuter rail priority over cargo rails between the hours of 5am-10pm and tell CN rail to eat a tanker car full of dicks.
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CN owns the tracks tho...
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MikeSevigny posted:I would still love to see the newly sovereign Republic of Alberta trying to negotiate with/invade British Columbia to get their oil to port. Jason Kenney in a Napoleon getup, loading a homemade artillery gun in the back of an F350. C’mon man - quit this bullshit. Everyone knows a Toyota truck is better for mounting a machine gun. Also, Jordan Peterson from a non-Canadian point of view: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/04/08/jordan-peterson-beating-pundits-own-game-217773
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MA-Horus posted:gently caress high speed rail in southern Ontario Speaking as someone who has to deal with railcar deliveries of tank cars you are living in a fantasy world. The demand for rail transport is rammed to the gills. The USA threw us a big gently caress you when they introduced mandatory electronic logging systems on transport trucks. The effect is after 10-12 hours of being on duty the truck automatically shuts down. It used to be that the truckers had a legal log book and a hidden log book where theyd exclude the times they spent waiting for loads or waiting to get dispatched. Essentially a lot of US truckers won’t even go to Canada and what takes a week to arrive from Illinois now takes longer. With trucking even less favourable we’re trying to get as much intermodal and tank car business as we can.
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infernal machines posted:CN owns the tracks tho... CN is a crown corporation....
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Kraftwerk posted:Speaking as someone who has to deal with railcar deliveries of tank cars you are living in a fantasy world. This sounds like a good safety measure
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Postess with the Mostest posted:This sounds like a good safety measure This is like Albertan farmers bitching about having to abide by labour laws.
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cougar cub posted:Also, Jordan Peterson from a non-Canadian point of view: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/04/08/jordan-peterson-beating-pundits-own-game-217773 A perspective on Jordan Peterson from a Canadian writing for Americans. CLAM DOWN posted:CN is a crown corporation.... And? So is VIA, see how well they cooperate.
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Whaddya mean I can't drive 18 hours straight I'll just take this little bump, rail a lot lizard and I'm GOOD TO GO BOSS! *causes accident, blocks Skyway bridge for 5 hours*
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RIP ever getting a Liberal MP elected in BC next time around
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The Butcher posted:RIP ever getting a Liberal MP elected in BC next time around You act like Canadian voters remember things???
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I'll sum it up for you guys. The inventor of Bitstrips postulates that JBP is tricking Americans into acting like typical Canadian beta males instead of rugged American individuals.
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https://www.thebeaverton.com/2018/04/protesters-shocked-actually-managed-halt-trans-mountain-pipeline/
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Postess with the Mostest posted:I'll sum it up for you guys. The inventor of Bitstrips postulates that JBP is tricking Americans into acting like typical Canadian beta males instead of rugged American individuals. Spicy hot take! Now do this one
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I thought CN ceased being a Crown Corp when it was privatized in the 90s.
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MikeSevigny posted:Alternately, I guess now Alberta is offering to invest in the pipeline for Kinder-Morgan, which some people on Twitter are aghast at because that would be GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP, so I guess they'll have to just buy KM their pipeline and let KM keep it for free. now they're going to invest the money they have now in dirty energy, and that's it! 
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Wistful of Dollars posted:I thought CN ceased being a Crown Corp when it was privatized in the 90s. So they did, I didn't know that.
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Wistful of Dollars posted:I thought CN ceased being a Crown Corp when it was privatized in the 90s. I didn't know that either, but the point remains that they wouldn't own all the rail they do without the government and taxpayers.
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That's true, but I'm not sure how that's "the point" though. They do own almost all the rail and we either have to build our own for transit or negotiate special access agreements to theirs. They're not going to give Metrolinx and VIA priority right of way to the detriment of their own profitable rail freight traffic. It wouldn't matter if they were still a Crown corp or not.
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CLAM DOWN posted:I didn't know that either, but the point remains that they wouldn't own all the rail they do without the government and taxpayers. Privatization in a nutshell.
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infernal machines posted:That's true, but I'm not sure how that's "the point" though. They do own almost all the rail and we either have to build our own for transit or negotiate special access agreements to theirs. They're not going to give Metrolinx and VIA priority right of way to the detriment of their own profitable rail freight traffic. It wouldn't matter if they were still a Crown corp or not. I guess I think that they shouldn't be have that option, and should be forced to give way to Via/Metrolinx/West Coast Express/RTM/etc.
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infernal machines posted:Spicy hot take! "I've never met a nice South African."
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infernal machines posted:Spicy hot take! Dreylad wins. Y'all need to align though, this guy is saying it's "a to-do list for a generation of tiki torch-wielding neo-Klansmen" death cult where most are saying it's just banal generic self help stuff from a guy riding a wave made of cash instead of water. Like JBP writing for his audience, that article is definitely what your white south african crowd would want to read. They'll give it a solid head nod, receive a moderate dose of moral licensing, stand up and go turn on the electric fence surrounding their house.
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Align what? I just liked "the Darth Maul of tenured campus bad boys". We're doing hot takes right?
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Apr 9, 2018 19:52
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infernal machines posted:Align what? I just liked "the Darth Maul of tenured campus bad boys". We're doing hot takes right? but Darth Maul said pretty much nothing and then got cut in half and fell down a hole. (and then later came back with mechanical spider legs.)
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I think the review is funny but not terribly substantive. I'm not sure if there's much left to say about Peterson, mainly because there isn't much substance to his non-psychological arguments.
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Dreylad posted:I think the review is funny but not terribly substantive. That was the idea, I mean if it has "scorching" right in the title and opens with a 20 year old pop culture reference, I'd assume it's aiming for style over substance.
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It certainly makes jbp look reasonable in comparison but that's the only reason we're still talking about him, articles like that are his bread and butter.
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Dreylad posted:"I've never met a nice South African." Idgi 
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cougar cub posted:Idgi I think it's a reference to the Spitting Image song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxEweP2TiMk And if it isn't at least you've been introduced to Spitting Image, which is good
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cougar cub posted:Idgi Yeah, I don't blame you. Spitting Image never made it over to Canada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeDk6ZeGNnU
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Catchy - pretty sure that song will be stuck in my head for the rest of the day.
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