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quote:When I was in my 20s, I pitied the girls who galloped to the altar. I thought they were throwing away their lives. Marriage was a bourgeois, patriarchal institution that stifled women’s freedom, and I wanted no part of it. I believed, like Gloria Steinem, that a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. If I ever did get married, only Mr. Perfect would be good enough for me. Margaret Wente with a hot take on monogamy
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NZAmoeba posted:As someone new to the country who had to buy a lot of essentials all at once, Canadian Tire is the loving poo poo man. Its pretty depressing once you realize the "amazing deal" cookware set you got at Can Tire for 299.99 (on sale from 899.99!!!!) is actually sold for 147.77 at Walmart.
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patonthebach posted:Its pretty depressing once you realize the "amazing deal" cookware set you got at Can Tire for 299.99 (on sale from 899.99!!!!) is actually sold for 147.77 at Walmart. Yeah, but I hate Walmart even more.
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Hot tip never ever buy anything at Walmart unless it has the identical SKU and/or model number as something you'd find at another store. Any Walmart specific model, no matter the brand, is going to be a low quality piece of poo poo with cut corners. The only thing we ever go to Walmart for specifically is Rustler carpenter jeans because they are legit way more comfy to work in than any other jean and ever since Target folded Walmart is the only place to get em. Those pots and pans are probably subtly different when it comes to SKU and won't last as long. Either that or Walmart pressured the manufacturer into selling at a discount and the manufacturer is now regretting ever getting a contract at Walmart like that pickle company that almost went bankrupt because of they got into bed with the Waltons.
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Dukemont posted:Margaret Wente with a hot take on monogamy Stopped reading at Western Civilization invented monogamy. 
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So the NDP candidate for Peterborough is a 20 year old poli-sci student that goes to college in Oshawa. He's got to be a poster in this thread, right? https://www.kawartha411.ca/2018/05/07/zac-miller-nominated-as-local-ndp-candidate/
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How long do you have to be an MPP before you get a sweet full ride DB pension? I'd love to be a backbencher for 4 years and actually get to retire at 60 like a boomer.
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Dukemont posted:Margaret Wente with a hot take on monogamy Winners in this column: Jordan Peterson, getting Globe support for his desire for enforced monogamy Losers in this column: Wente's husband, being told via a nationally-run piece that she settled for him
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Lobok posted:Winners in this column: Jordan Peterson, getting Globe support for his desire for enforced monogamy I wish I could be paid to ramble stream-of-consciousness gibberish. I do it already and all I get in return is being asked to leave the library.
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Wistful of Dollars posted:I wish I could be paid to ramble stream-of-consciousness gibberish. No one's going to believe you have right-wing bona fides if you're constantly spotted in a library.
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patonthebach posted:So the NDP candidate for Peterborough is a 20 year old poli-sci student that goes to college in Oshawa. He's got to be a poster in this thread, right? lol everyone in this thread is at least 40 years old. Except for me of course.
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https://twitter.com/Colettod/status/1003266918667694080quote:"Almost half of Liberal supporters believed the Liberals and Kathleen Wynne were going to win the election prior to Ms. Wynne's announcement"
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patonthebach posted:So the NDP candidate for Peterborough is a 20 year old poli-sci student that goes to college in Oshawa. He's got to be a poster in this thread, right? Did they take that picture of him at a funeral?
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patonthebach posted:So the NDP candidate for Peterborough is a 20 year old poli-sci student that goes to college in Oshawa. He's got to be a poster in this thread, right? thats not the candidate for peterborough but w/e
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Strong, local LiberalsStrong, local LiberalsStrong, local LiberalsStrong, local Liberals
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It's going to be sad when all the liberals wake up on June 8th and remember that Liberals getting 20% of the votes doesn't mean they get 20% of the seats.
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EvilJoven posted:How long do you have to be an MPP before you get a sweet full ride DB pension? I'd love to be a backbencher for 4 years and actually get to retire at 60 like a boomer. Ontario MPPs don't get pensions
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The Ontario Liberal Party . Accountable. Yeah the public isn't buying that anymore.
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The Liberals announcing they won't win is one of those moves that seems so foolish that you instinctively find yourself wondering "what do they know that we don't?" But given the rest of the Liberal campaign maybe this really is a move that's as dumb as it seems.
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Helsing posted:The Liberals announcing they won't win is one of those moves that seems so foolish that you instinctively find yourself wondering "what do they know that we don't?" Given that we shifted from the worst timeline to the dumbest timeline its safe to always assume that the dumbest option is the one at play.
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$15 an hour minwage and an NDP government? Might be time to rethink my 'gently caress Ontario' policy. I'll never give up my 'gently caress the GTA' policy though.
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Canadian Tire isn't going anywhere any time soon. They have Mark's Work Ware (wear?)house, SportChek, and some other stores and gas stations. And they bought that Norwiegian Helly Hansen company. So they're doing well. Maybe in 10 years they'll get a new CEO to drive it into the ground
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EvilJoven posted:$15 an hour minwage and an NDP government? Might be time to rethink my 'gently caress Ontario' policy. Yeeeeaah, nah, it's gonna be a PC majority. https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/onvotes/poll-tracker/ even when the NDP was ahead in the popular vote the number of seats has never shifted once from a PC majority.
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Helsing posted:The Liberals announcing they won't win is one of those moves that seems so foolish that you instinctively find yourself wondering "what do they know that we don't?" I guess Trudeau really did scoop up the best talent from the OLP for the 2015 election and left them without anyone good at politics.
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Wirth1000 posted:Yeeeeaah, nah, it's gonna be a PC majority. Quoting Eric Grenier, that'll be 5 canpol demerits
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brucio posted:Quoting Eric Grenier, that'll be 5 canpol demerits Is he garbage? I had to look up who Eric Grenier is and didn't realize this entire time it said the CBC poll was maintained by him.
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Wirth1000 posted:Yeeeeaah, nah, it's gonna be a PC majority.  edit - beaten
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There's a good chance of a PC majority but polls have been pretty wobbly the last few years, with a lot of upsets in Canada in particular thanks to the fact that we don't have the kind of detailed riding level polling that makes seat counts predictable. There's regional polling and it's true that the PCs are leading in vote rich regions that should give them the edge even in a situation where they lose the popular vote by a few points, but it's hardly a lock and Grenier's hypothetical seat counts aren't very credible given his record. Also I can't think of many precedents where the governing centrist party in a three way race announces that they won't be able to form government but that you should still vote for them. That's a hard event to model but it could either be the hail mary pass that makes the Liberals the spoilers in a bunch of NDP leading ridings, or it could be the event that definitively pushes the OLP's vote share below 20% and gives all their remaining voters permission to go ahead and elect the NDP. What I'm saying is go volunteer on E-day, harass your friends to vote, toss the NDP 20 or 50 bucks if you can afford it.
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Helsing posted:What I'm saying is go volunteer on E-day, harass your friends to vote, toss the NDP 20 or 50 bucks if you can afford it. While providing false contact information, of course.
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I will do my part to blow quasi legal weed hoots in the general direction of the missile equipped drones when the occupation comes. Also the occupation will be disturbingly like pre-occupation life. Strange.
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Testikles posted:Canadian Tire isn't going anywhere any time soon. They have Mark's Work Ware (wear?)house, SportChek, and some other stores and gas stations. And they bought that Norwiegian Helly Hansen company. So they're doing well. Maybe in 10 years they'll get a new CEO to drive it into the ground I'm pretty amazed by how well Sportchek has turned itself around. You can actually pick up pretty decent stuff for most sports there now. It wasn't that long ago they were selling full plastic snowboards and CCM/supercycle bikes. You know, stuff that would kill your rear end if you tried to take it on challenging terrain.
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Sportchek still gets pissy if the guy they're paying minimum wage actually takes his time assembling bikes, so expect lovely poorly adjusted bearings and cross threaded pedals. But ya, now it's at least a step above department store trash.
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Per riding projections from provincewide data are completely meaningless. They're based on previous election results with scaling from current polling. That might be within some sort of useful margin when the results are a small change from previous results. They mean absolutely nothing when there is a fundamental voting shift. There's no way that method will reasonably project how liberal voters have shifted and what they're doing. Even if the person doing it had a demonstrated grasp of statistical modelling, there's too much of a difference. The model they're scaling from doesn't hold in relation to the current vote intentions. The only way to get a reasonable idea would be to sample a wide variety of ridings and recalibrate. Even then, it's pretty loving rough.
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