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Sashimi posted:Common sense leadership really worked out well for Toronto in the 90s. A white nationalist mayor of the most diverse city in the country, it's just common sense.
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Who needs some good news today? https://twitter.com/goldsbie/status/1042420569357119488
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Just for the sake of laughing I opened Faith Goldy's platformquote:Extremist Audit Xenophobia, check quote:Defund Non-Inclusive Parades Homophobia, check quote:Heritage Protection Program The ends justify the means, check quote:Ban on Face Masks Oooo Burqa ban 2018 version, check Let's travel back in time quote:STE-CATHERINE-DE-LA-JACQUES-CARTIER, Que. — Faced with the prospect of losing votes in Quebec, Tom Mulcair is digging in on his position that women should have a right to wear a veil at citizenship ceremonies. Risky Bisquick fucked around with this message at 18:58 on Sep 19, 2018 |
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Sep 19, 2018 18:54
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Reince Penis posted:Who needs some good news today? Watching Rebel grift Nazis is pretty hilarious, but if they went there was always the chance the boat would have sunk with them all aboard.
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Sep 19, 2018 18:56
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Banning Toronto Pride and turning it into an illegal guerrilla march instead of a pep rally for the local Business Improvement Association is possibly the one thing that could make the parade interesting again.
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Operation: Save Ontario Alliance Party
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https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4829403 "I think Ford is being abrupt, but im still a loyal conservative!'
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Sep 19, 2018 20:48
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So does the council slashing bill have anything in it that mandates a mandatory time frame for having 25 wards? In other words, is there anything stopping us from going back to 47 wards once Ford is out of office?
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Sep 19, 2018 21:35
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Edgar Quintero posted:So does the council slashing bill have anything in it that mandates a mandatory time frame for having 25 wards? In other words, is there anything stopping us from going back to 47 wards once Ford is out of office? Generally speaking, no government can constrain future governments. Each new government can totally reverse everything the previous one did.
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Lobok posted:Generally speaking, no government can constrain future governments. Each new government can totally reverse everything the previous one did. How restrictive is this bill though? Does it stop Council from trying to expand again completely and utterly until the next provincial government says its okay?
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Sep 19, 2018 21:55
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Lobok posted:Generally speaking, no government can constrain future governments. Each new government can totally reverse everything the previous one did. How does that work with things like the constitution or charter? A 50%+1 wouldn’t be enough to change everything right?
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Evis posted:How does that work with things like the constitution or charter? A 50%+1 wouldn’t be enough to change everything right? The Charter amending formula generally speaking is Majority HoC+Majority Senate+Royal Assent+7/10 provinces approval that represent more than 50% of the countries population
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Sep 19, 2018 21:57
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DariusLikewise posted:How restrictive is this bill though? Does it stop Council from trying to expand again completely and utterly until the next provincial government says its okay? Council can't do any of that itself because those laws are Provincial. Any time Toronto governance has changed in rules or structure or size it's been the Ontario government making the changes. Evis posted:How does that work with things like the constitution or charter? A 50%+1 wouldn’t be enough to change everything right? Everything ultimately just comes down to varying levels of requirements for support. Majority of votes in a legislature, majority/supermajority of votes from provinces, etc. So if there's enough support there's nothing that stops previous laws from being rewritten or wiped out. Canada could wholly remake itself every year if we all wanted to.
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Sep 19, 2018 22:01
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infernal machines posted:A white nationalist mayor of the most diverse city in the country, it's just common sense. The guy who said that is from Boissevain, Manitoba which is a former town of about 1500 people that is dying and was only notable for being a place that hosted turtle races once a year so he's probably not exactly an expert on diversity or the needs of large cities.
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Small town Manitoba really is the loving worst
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A Typical Goon posted:Small town Manitoba really is the loving worst I see that and raise you: Small town Ontario https://twitter.com/goldsbie/status/1042239677946839041
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A Typical Goon posted:Small town Manitoba really is the loving worst I'm having trouble choosing between the stretches of highway around Morden and Winkler that are covered in anti-abortion signs, or how the residents of Morris first chased out a gay couple who ran a bakery in the town, and then did the same to the black lady who opened a restaurant in the same spot as being the finest example of southern Manitoba redneckism.
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A Typical Goon posted:Small town Manitoba really is the loving worst Last time I was in Portage la Prairie I saw a white couple just completely butt ahead of some first nations people in line at the Dairy Queen. The natives just like, sullenly bowed their heads and stepped back. I always try to tell people "no really, south west Manitoba is like 1950s Alabama" and they think I'm exaggerating.
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https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2018/09/19/doug-ford-dines-at-trump-hotel-on-his-nafta-visit-to-washington.html Because of course. This province is beyond redemption.
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It warmed my heart when I heard that despite the fact that it was restricted to the sidewalk, Steinbach's pride parade brought in like 10x the support they were expecting. We would have gone but we were tied up. And ya, small town Manitoba does seem pretty loving backwards. Even small town Northern Ontario is way less lovely.
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EvilJoven posted:Even small town Northern Ontario is way less lovely. do Kenora and Thunder Bay count as small towns? I grew up in Manitoba and I've been to a lot of pretty rural areas for work but Thunder Bay is the only place a car literally drove by and threw rocks at us yelling "HIPPIE FAGGOTS!". And that's me and random early 20s non-status people, who aren't affected by Thunder Bay's more notorious problems.. like this. I really, really want Canadaland to actually make that Thunder Bay episode they keep fundraising for. Edgar Quintero fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Sep 20, 2018 |
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Kenora is full of people who think they're salt of the earth despite the fact that it's now mostly a tourist destination for people from Manitoba and the USA, and also for some reason Kenora has way nicer roads than anywhere else in Ontario from what I've seen, and I think that's just a way for Ontario to thumb it's nose at MB. Like seriously even the Ontario side of PR312 is super nice with fresh pavement even though it's just a road to a town that's like a dozen houses and a boat launch. Thunder Bay I can't comment on because I've only ever been there once and we just stopped for lunch and the city looked kinda lovely. Like Sudbury but even uglier.
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Sep 20, 2018 04:50
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EvilJoven posted:Like Sudbury but even uglier. Peterborough?
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Vancouver/Southern BC goons, what's the deal with Tsawwassen Mills? Went there earlier tonight and it was a total ghost town, to the point that most stores were probably losing money by staying open. Does it get insanely busy on the weekends or is it a failed mall?
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SHAQ4PREZ posted:Vancouver/Southern BC goons, what's the deal with Tsawwassen Mills? Apparently it gets busy on weekend afternoons? I dunno, it's been a joke since inception.
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Furnaceface posted:Peterborough? Uh, well, at least they have a university
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SHAQ4PREZ posted:Vancouver/Southern BC goons, what's the deal with Tsawwassen Mills? It was built at the height of "The supply of crazy rich asians is unlimited and exponential!" and "million dollar ladner houses!!!" so some idiots decided a astoundingly large amount of rich farmland should be paved over for the region's, perhaps even country's, worst big box mall. I hope it's a run down ghost mall within the next decade.
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infernal machines posted:Uh, well, at least they have a university So do both Sudbury and Thunder Bay.
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Baronjutter posted:I hope it's a run down ghost mall within the next decade. Wouldn't surprise me if stores start closing in the next 2-3. It's a total failure.
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They couldn't get people to come to their job fair because it's in the middle of nowhere (and obviously the wages were poo poo)
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Also, I drove through Sudbury and Thubderbay once.
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Called it on the court granting a stay and Ford not needing to use the notwithstanding clause! I think most of us here agreed that the lower court ruling was a bit of a stretch anyway. But hey, don't worry, we'll get some more shenanigans soon! The Human Rights Tribunal decision on midwives will come down soon. In what I think is the biggest case ever handled by the tribunal, midwives have had a litany of complaints. Medical students are paid while they work, but midwifery students are forced to work for free. OBs get paid vastly more than midwives for performing exactly the same procedures (obviously OBs also do a lot that midwives can't do, but there is no reason to pay one group vastly more for all the many basic routine tests and procedures that midwives are qualified to do). And a bunch of other stuff. Midwives make the case that the disparity is institutional sexism (see also nurses and nurse practitioners). They are correct. I expect the tribunal to give the midwives at least a decent chunk of what they're asking for. I expect the Ford government to say no. Ford has some likely responses: Appeal just to waste time and push things back. Appeal while simultaneously using the power of parliament to gut the HRTO and stack things in his own favor. Just say no, stonewall forever, and eventually either run out the clock til the libs get back in or use the notwithstanding clause when it comes down to it. Actually pay midwives fairly. (lol yeah right)
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That’s just bait to draw out the next CI alt.
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Stickarts posted:That’s just bait to draw out the next CI alt. You have to use the summoning words My doula makes the best kale chips Now just wait for the next person to use the word fuerdai
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Say it 3 times in the mirror with the lights off - prices can only go up Prices can only go up Prices can only go up
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Doulas are useful. Midwives are downright dangerous because they don’t know what they don’t know, and by the time they call in the OB they have been in over their head for hours. (I’m not a doctor, this is just what OBs have told me) The sexism angle is weird to me because I don’t know any male OBs. From the sounds of it midwives should be paid to not be midwives and we’d all be better off.
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Evis posted:The sexism angle is weird to me because I don’t know any male OBs. So uh are you just assuming that they don't exist or what? I mean, you could take 5 whole seconds to google it.
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Jimbozig posted:either run out the clock til the NDP get back in Fixed that for you. NDP lost 2nd place to the PC by less than 500 votes in like a dozen ridings.
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Jimbozig posted:Medical students are paid while they work, but midwifery students are forced to work for free. Medical students absolutely do not get paid. They actively lose money while they work. I don't even mean they spend more money than they make. The income is $0.
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