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The Dark One posted:Who's the goon who specifically argued with with about his love of Voyager? That's me. We had to "take it outside" at the pub where his election party was and he brought his "nerd cabinet" with him. It was delightful, he's a fun dude with a serious passion for trek and rugby. The rare jock nerd.
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Furnaceface posted:Sorry I work with some really awful people who exist to be nothing more than spite and racism golems and today I ended up having not one or two but three of them all smugly walk up to me today and announce their love of Ford's leaked attempts to privatize everything and the incoming Scheer majority. Sounds like you should find another job. Or just become as combative as you can and hopefully they shut up.
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Arivia posted:How’s Tabitha Southey on the bad takes scale? I can’t remember if she was bad or okay Maclean’s essay. People in this thread seem to hate her because they're a bunch of catty mean girls that personalize everything.
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The Globe & Mail seems to have a new opinion piece ever half hour about how Trudeau has lost all moral authority to lead the country or how he has put Canada on a slippery slope to becoming an authoritarian dictatorship. edit - I’ve heard some hot takes today about how the SNC story proves that Trudeau is “racist towards English Canada” because he didn’t try and intervene when GM announced it was closing the Oshawa assembly plant or when oil patch workers were being laid off during the oil price collapse. Mr. Apollo fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Mar 1, 2019 |
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I wonder how many conservative column writers have had to go to their doctor for priapism. Gotta be at least all of them. Even the women.
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Mr. Apollo posted:edit - I’ve heard some hot takes today about how the SNC story proves that Trudeau is “racist towards English Canada” because he didn’t try and intervene when GM announced it was closing the Oshawa assembly plant or when oil patch workers were being laid off during the oil price collapse. It ain't a race thing but going by JWR's testimony the rest of Canada does have reason to be upset. Quebec is the Liberals heartland and the way they were talking you could tell they view the 2019 election as primarily being determined by their ability to hold strong there (not an unreasonable calculus).
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Mr. Apollo posted:The Globe & Mail seems to have a new opinion piece ever half hour about how Trudeau has lost all moral authority to lead the country or how he has put Canada on a slippery slope to becoming an authoritarian dictatorship. Here you go: https://calgaryherald.com/news/politics/braid-one-law-for-quebec-interests-another-against-the-west quote:Braid: One law for Quebec interests, another against the West I'm not going to quote any more of this turd. Why does every statement have its own paragraph? What a lovely writer. Someone gets paid to produce this?
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DynamicSloth posted:It ain't a race thing but going by JWR's testimony the rest of Canada does have reason to be upset. Quebec is the Liberals heartland and the way they were talking you could tell they view the 2019 election as primarily being determined by their ability to hold strong there (not an unreasonable calculus). Is this actually true? I find it hard to believe Quebec is the heartland of anything in politics
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Furnaceface posted:Sorry I work with some really awful people who exist to be nothing more than spite and racism golems and today I ended up having not one or two but three of them all smugly walk up to me today and announce their love of Ford's leaked attempts to privatize everything and the incoming Scheer majority. I talk politics with a Russian who detests socialism to the bone for his terrible life start in the USSR, and the trump/PPC guy all the time. Find common ground, there has to be some issue you both agree on, but perhaps don’t agree on the implementation. They might be trying to get a rise out of you if you get worked up easily.
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PhilippAchtel posted:Here you go: Well when you see Rick Bell in your newsroom for like 900 years skating by on worse poo poo than that why put any effort in at all?
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xtal posted:Is this actually true? I find it hard to believe Quebec is the heartland of anything in politics "I don't know how to count" is a weird admission but ok
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Risky Bisquick posted:I talk politics with a Russian who detests socialism to the bone for his terrible life start in the USSR, and the trump/PPC guy all the time. Find common ground, there has to be some issue you both agree on, but perhaps don’t agree on the implementation. They might be trying to get a rise out of you if you get worked up easily. Yeah, I've got the same thing with an elderly Czech neighbour who had to flee when he got on the wrong side of the occupying Russian forces. He's actually quite progressive on a lot of things but he definitely enjoys trolling me. He hates fascists more than he hates socialists, so that makes life a little easier.
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The Liberals literally broke the law by pushing to build the pipeline too fast. The pipeline that they bought out when it started looking like private financing might not be there for the project. What exactly is it that these people think the Liberals aren't doing for the west?
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The Dark One posted:What exactly is it that these people think the Liberals aren't doing for the west? Buying their garbage oil at above market rates? I'm sure carbon taxes or something mean they'll have to sell the kids' Seadoo and one of the snowmobiles
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Entorwellian posted:Not that it exonerates him, but I think he mentioned this a long time ago before the election happened. he did and he's right
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Baronjutter posted:I love how BC keeps voting worse and worse every PR referendum. We do not deserve nice things. Referendums brings out the worst in BC. For some reason the people here see referendums as a go ahead to vote for the worst thing possible thinking there won't be any consequences because "it isn't a real vote" edit: Also it is weird to see my Conservative supporting dad supporting the Liberals because "everyone makes bribes" and "it saved thousands of jobs and jobs are the best". I might ask him if Sheer's opposition to the whole thing might get him to vote liberal/against the Conservatives. Madkal fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Mar 1, 2019 |
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Madkal posted:edit: Also it is weird to see my Conservative supporting dad supporting the Liberals because "everyone makes bribes" and "it saved thousands of jobs and jobs are the best". I might ask him if Sheer's opposition to the whole thing might get him to vote liberal/against the Conservatives. Sounds like something someone who engages in bribery would say
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infernal machines posted:Sounds like something someone who engages in bribery would say Good conservatives vote for best conservatives. https://twitter.com/TheEagleist/status/1101131165782757379
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Postess with the Mostest posted:Good conservatives vote for best conservatives. Ah yes, the capital-L Left. Noted for supporting the Liberals in this scandal.
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As a Leftist grrrrr gosh darn it I sure do hate it when corporations and politicians are held accountable for crimes, I sure would be extremely owned and triggered if MORE corporations and politicians were held legally accountable!
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Mar 1, 2019 05:26
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UnknownMercenary posted:Not enough racism?  ”
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Mar 1, 2019 05:48
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Mr. Apollo posted:Usually some variant of “Trudeau is letting in too many refugees I sometimes wonder if the people who say this have ever seen a map of Canada.
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infernal machines posted:I sometimes wonder if the people who say this have ever seen a map of Canada.
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Well, I finally joined the NDP. When will I be able to vote for more progressive policies?
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yippee cahier posted:Well, I finally joined the NDP. When will I be able to vote for more progressive policies?
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yippee cahier posted:Well, I finally joined the NDP. When will I be able to vote for more progressive policies? Bad news, you can't, you're part of the problem now.
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infernal machines posted:Bad news, you can't, you're part of the problem now. After four years of membership I can confirm this.
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gently caress. Glad I manually entered a $0 additional donation because it wasn’t a selectable option. “Our” website is the equivalent of change.org. I seriously won’t get something in the mail where I can vote internally? My gas station co-op is better than this.
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yippee cahier posted:gently caress. Glad I manually entered a $0 additional donation because it wasn’t a selectable option. “Our” website is the equivalent of change.org. I seriously won’t get something in the mail where I can vote internally? My gas station co-op is better than this. Nah your only option is to pay to go to the NDP convention and have your resolution not called to a vote if it in any way spooks the party establishment.
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yippee cahier posted:Well, I finally joined the NDP. When will I be able to vote for more progressive policies? Could try joining Courage Coalition and trying to organize within the NDP. Or supporting candidates that sign onto socialist policy.
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vyelkin posted:Ah yes, the capital-L Left. Noted for supporting the Liberals in this scandal. Walking Eagle News is basically the Indigenous Beaverton so this is definitely tongue in cheek.
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The Dark One posted:The Liberals literally broke the law by pushing to build the pipeline too fast. The pipeline that they bought out when it started looking like private financing might not be there for the project. You'll never hear them say it out loud, but it's literally "issue permits to build the pipeline right now. If First Nations or environmentalists object, gently caress 'em, this is my jawb we're talking about". But yeah that one guy who posted a rant on LinkedIn about how we need a program to buy Alberta oil and refine it to sell to Eastern Canada must take the cake. Hmm lets se, we could call it the um... national... energy... program! That'll do! PittTheElder fucked around with this message at 09:10 on Mar 1, 2019 |
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Yes, then was privatized in 1990 as Canadian political parties inevitably do. They're now the retail and wholesale marketing side of Suncor Energy.
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Welp. Hiring freeze in education ahead of new contract negotiations. Hope y'all child havers are ready for some labour action.
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How bad is the poo poo coming out about the Ford Health care reforms in Ont.?
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Ron Paul Atreides posted:How bad is the poo poo coming out about the Ford Health care reforms in Ont.? It's all just whispers right now but they seem to have already pulled funding for trans surgery.
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Also fun, news about a cabinet shuffle leaked yesterday, PCPO is unamused https://twitter.com/Travisdhanraj/status/1101496005709705217 If you click through a few of the tweets there are multiple PCPO staffers demanding they name names. Ron Paul Atreides posted:How bad is the poo poo coming out about the Ford Health care reforms in Ont.?  If nothing else it'll be an administrative mess. It's a global reorg of health services in the province. Even at the best of times it would be difficult to manage without having at least temporary negative impacts on patient care, but also this is the Ford government, so it's reasonable to assume that no one within a million miles of this file has any goddamn clue what they're doing. infernal machines fucked around with this message at 16:20 on Mar 1, 2019 |
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infernal machines posted:Welp. Hiring freeze in education ahead of new contract negotiations. Hope y'all child havers are ready for some labour action. We are getting close to the no job cuts
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