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Zeeman posted:Man, these are all so terrible, but I really want to call attention to the dream team of Nigel Farage and Mark Steyn dominating their debate on April 1, 2016, because holy poo poo, what is wrong with the audience of these debates Tony Blair and Chris Hitchens doesn't merit a mention?
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Zeeman posted:Man, these are all so terrible, but I really want to call attention to the dream team of Nigel Farage and Mark Steyn dominating their debate on April 1, 2016, because holy poo poo, what is wrong with the audience of these debates They're the kind of people that would willingly attend a debate featuring the dream team of Nigel Farage and Mark Steyn.
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Nov 9, 2018 06:38
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vyelkin posted:oohhh no, I said steamed pro rep, that's what I call proportional representation
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vyelkin posted:oohhh no, I said steamed pro rep, that's what I call proportional representation Thread title please
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Government should seize Bombardier assets until the value of the bailout is recouped
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Government should seize my god damned balls
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The Butcher posted:Government should seize my god damned balls They are taking mine very soon and I could not be happier. Turns out OHIP does a pretty okay job of making sure you have the support you need for major surgery even if it’s in another province.
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Arivia posted:They are taking mine very soon and I could not be happier. OHIP is far from perfect but its also one of the better provincial healthcare systems Ive had to deal with. Quebec's was the most stress inducing, though Ive been told BCs got worse under the last Liberal government. Really not looking forward to the inevitable loving the healthcare system is going to get from the Ford government over the next few years. 
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vyelkin posted:oohhh no, I said steamed pro rep, that's what I call proportional representation
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jet sanchEz posted:Can Doug Ford speak French? Probably not,. If not, he probably won't learn. Used to be party leadership candidates would learn out of courtesy and respect, but given that  has been long flung out the window, his supporters will either not care at best, or actively support this at worst.
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jet sanchEz posted:Can Doug Ford speak French?
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jet sanchEz posted:Can Doug Ford speak French? Only in the sense of "pardon my french"
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So not speaking French basically means he will never be pm, no?
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jet sanchEz posted:So not speaking French basically means he will never be pm, no? Normally his being a complete and utter idiot would be disqualifying but here we are. e: One of John Tory's first moves since being re-elected is to setup a new Toronto transit czar with a $2 million budget in order to facilitate uhhh doing the things that the TTC and Metrolinx already have plenty of staff assigned to do but not enough actual funding. Okay then! Precambrian Video Games fucked around with this message at 17:50 on Nov 9, 2018 |
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jet sanchEz posted:So not speaking French basically means he will never be pm, no? If a party finds one weird trick to get elected without taking a lot of seats in Quebec, french suddenly won't be the federal career killer it's traditionally been. Or as culture and attitudes change, voters in Quebec might end up giving less and less of a poo poo about what languages a potential PM speaks.
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eXXon posted:One of John Tory's first moves since being re-elected is to setup a new Toronto transit czar with a $2 million budget in order to facilitate uhhh doing the things that the TTC and Metrolinx already have plenty of staff assigned to do but not enough actual funding. Okay then! It's not even that they're underfunded, they're basically already doing what they need to do and there's no clear rationale behind this position at all. For example, it appears to create a distinction between city hall and the TTC, but there isn't and should be one.
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Baronjutter posted:If a party finds one weird trick to get elected without taking a lot of seats in Quebec, french suddenly won't be the federal career killer it's traditionally been. Or as culture and attitudes change, voters in Quebec might end up giving less and less of a poo poo about what languages a potential PM speaks. Harper won a 12-seat majority in 2011 with only 5 seats in Quebec, so that one weird trick has already been tried and succeeded when Harper figured out how to combine Western alienation, suburban FYGM, and immigrant conservatism, which is not coincidentally also exactly the kind of electoral coalition Ford could probably win with.
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John Horgan and pals are at the HEU convention today to get their asses kissed for repealing Bill 29. He said the lit thing again, and attempted to floss. I did not get a picture of that, but in the spirit of this week’s discussion, here is an unsolicited Dix pic (co-starring everyone’s favourite MLA)
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I just had the mental image of a federal party leader's debate where they hit the French portion and Dougie just stands there looking like the dumb greasy gently caress he is.
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I can easily imagine Ford winning against JT and Jagmeet, there's no way half of Quebec's going to vote for a brown person wearing a turban anyways so that's jagmeet right out, and all JT has to do is say something about how people should be allowed to wear burqas at the right time and that's everyone mad at him as well. If the whole province is split and every other province goes totally blue except BC then it'd be easy enough for Ford to win.
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MikeSevigny posted:John Horgan and pals are at the HEU convention today to get their asses kissed for repealing Bill 29. He said the lit thing again, and attempted to floss. I did not get a picture of that, but in the spirit of this week’s discussion, here is an unsolicited Dix pic (co-starring everyone’s favourite MLA) image is broke pls fix
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Jesus christ that debate was hard to watch, does Wilkinson just talk continuously for the whole hour? I'm sure his base eats that poo poo up too. Oh to have a moderation team that actually intervened to drive an actual conversation.
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PittTheElder posted:Jesus christ that debate was hard to watch, does Wilkinson just talk continuously for the whole hour? I'm sure his base eats that poo poo up too. Oh to have a moderation team that actually intervened to drive an actual conversation. It's thirty minutes and he does. I thought he was effective in that he's asking disingenuous and impossible to answer questions over and over and over. It's the exact same stuff I've heard The Olds going on about. It's just too confusing. We can't trust the government to fill in the blanks of what happens next, etc etc.
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THC posted:image is broke pls fix I apologize for withholding TW for cultural imperial btw, in case he’s still reading somewhere
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PittTheElder posted:Jesus christ that debate was hard to watch, does Wilkinson just talk continuously for the whole hour? I'm sure his base eats that poo poo up too. Oh to have a moderation team that actually intervened to drive an actual conversation. wilkinson has no base. not even liberals like him
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James Baud posted:Arguably the best thing about making this a BC Liberal vs world vote is that the Liberals are not doing very well right now in the polls. problem with that is the liberals will team up with the conservatives in a heartbeat if it looks like the ndp will win anything
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vyelkin posted:Harper won a 12-seat majority in 2011 with only 5 seats in Quebec, so that one weird trick has already been tried and succeeded when Harper figured out how to combine Western alienation, suburban FYGM, and immigrant conservatism, which is not coincidentally also exactly the kind of electoral coalition Ford could probably win with. not perfectly, since in the end he was brought down by jumping the gun on islamophobia(though it totally would've worked given a few more years)
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James Baud posted:Arguably the best thing about making this a BC Liberal vs world vote is that the Liberals are not doing very well right now in the polls. I am so glad the provincial NDP don't view themselves like the federal Liberals view themselves and think that they've got a permanent handle on running things from now on. If NDP and Green supporters vote along party positions they'll easily have it in the bag.
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Yinlock posted:problem with that is the liberals will team up with the conservatives in a heartbeat if it looks like the ndp will win anything
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/soken-water-tower-removed-1.4899029 They should have just adopted SKODEN as the official town motto of Sudbury. It beats "Aedificemus".
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/soken-water-tower-removed-1.4899029 posted:"I want to light it up with LED lights and make it change colours not unlike the CN tower in Toronto," he said. Oh, that's just precious!
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Yinlock posted:not perfectly, since in the end he was brought down by jumping the gun on islamophobia(though it totally would've worked given a few more years) he lost the suburban FYGM vote to Trudeau in 2015 but that doesn't mean they'll stay Liberal forever
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look the nazis are flocking https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/adam-strashok-bernier-white-supremacist-1.4899778
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The soft jingoism is rolling out in volumes of emails to the public service today. Here's some choice quotes:DM Office / Bureau SM posted:Dear colleagues, TheCommissioner posted:One hundred years ago on Sunday, soldiers all across Europe laid down their weapons and celebrated the end of the Great War. To commemorate this moment, every year on November 11 Canadians from across the country take time to pause and remember the brave men and women who have served and continue to serve our country during times of war, peace and conflict.  ARE TROOPS! Thankyouforyourservice.Not a whisper of the tragically wasteful nature of war, nor the horrific cost to humanity in general. Pretty sure wearing my white poppy in uniform would invite a shitstorm of "disciplinary" actions. And they misspelled John McCrae.
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Arivia posted:look the nazis are flocking https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/adam-strashok-bernier-white-supremacist-1.4899778 everyone should call it "Bernier's People's Party" not "the People's Party" because it really is entirely about Bernier and his people
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quote:This year is especially significant, as it marks the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. In the last 100 days of the war, Canadians spearheaded the offensive campaign that ultimately ended the war, proving the mettle of our young country to the world Of course this is what they’d choose to remember.
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B33rChiller posted:The soft jingoism is rolling out in volumes of emails to the public service today. Here's some choice quotes: Yeah I used to wear a poppy on remembrance day and while I didn't exactly make a conscious choice to stop wearing one the overwhelmingly pro-war way Remembrance Day is done just got too grating. Also as someone recently pointed out there's actually something kind of surreal and disgusting about the idea that they reached an agreement in principle to stop fighting and then set it for the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month rather than just ordering an immediate cease fire. Really sucks for whatever poor bastards almost made it out alive and then got blown to bits at 10 past the hours because a bunch of gout and syphilis riddled in-bred aristocrats thought the poetic symmetry of doming something at 11/11/11 was just too beautiful to pass up. You might be reading this and thinking "surely they just fired a few token rounds after reaching a cease fire, surely they didn't actually continue to send men into combat after they knew the war was over". But you'd be wrong gentle reader: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Edwin_Ellison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustin_Tr%C3%A9buchon So yeah, even the whole 11/11/11 thing is kinda sick when you think about it. Yeah you can talk about how communications weren't as good back then and some kind of coordinated moment of disengagemetn was probably necessary but I'm pretty sure they could have at bare minimum ended the fighting at like 7AM that morning or something instead of choosing the prettiest date down to the minute to end this irrational slaughter.
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