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Not changing the status quo cements the LPC/CPC status as A/B parties, and prevents upstarts from gaining any traction. Convincing half a riding to switch from their party of choice to your new no name party is difficult, but getting 2-4% of the popular vote is possible/easier.
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Risky Bisquick posted:Not changing the status quo cements the LPC/CPC status as A/B parties, and prevents upstarts from gaining any traction. Convincing half a riding to switch from their party of choice to your new no name party is difficult, but getting 2-4% of the popular vote is possible/easier. And they know conservative policy won't be popular long term and will engender a backlash. At least that the what they bank on. Government as performative theatre, both parties swearing fealty to industry who are the real masters
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I don't consider always him an entirely reliable narrator but this Warren Kinsella piece seems quite believable and certainly helps fill in the picture of how Trudeau and Butts operate. This account also gains a lot of plausibility from the fact almost every Liberal backbencher seems to despise Trudeau and Butts for giving them the high hat: [Trigger warning for Toronto Sun style no more than two sentence per paragraph prose] quote:Riddle time. Guess who? Not that I really care about any of the specific grievances here - disrespecting Chretien, oh no!  - but all the same this is clearly a leadership style that was really efficient at alienating people and pissing off subordinates.
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“The meetings he attends as prime minister are not business meetings. Rather, they are high-level meetings centred on relationship building and ensuring that all parties are moving forward together. Specific issues or details are worked out before, subsequently or independently of any meeting he attends.”
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Did Charlie Angus do something today that spurred on this take? https://twitter.com/supriyadwivedi/status/1103348720119144448
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Pinterest Mom posted:“The meetings he attends as prime minister are not business meetings. Rather, they are high-level meetings centred on relationship building and ensuring that all parties are moving forward together. Specific issues or details are worked out before, subsequently or independently of any meeting he attends.” Out of context this sounds like a government where the ministers have autonomy and aren't just lackeys for the party leader.
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Mar 6, 2019 19:20
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Question: what is with liberals including clover in their twitter handles?
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Master of Stealth posted:Question: what is with liberals including clover in their twitter handles? St. Patrick's Day next week?
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Okay I'm an idiot never mind, I just noticed it a lot when #istandwithtrudeau was trending lol
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Master of Stealth posted:Question: what is with liberals including clover in their twitter handles? In some cases it is to show support of a twitter user that Warren Kinsella was trying to dox so that he could sue them. I think they were criticizing Kinsella, and he didn't like that. And apparently all of those chickens and wine glasses in usernames are to show that you're blocked by Rempel!
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https://twitter.com/stephenlautens/status/1102403292238274565 It's to gently caress with Kinsella.
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Warren Kinsella is hilarious. I cannot think of another political communications/campaign guy who has had highly visible and public falling outs with at least half his prominent clients, sometimes before the election campaign is even over.
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Helsing posted:Warren Kinsella is hilarious. I cannot think of another political communications/campaign guy who has had highly visible and public falling outs with at least half his prominent clients, sometimes before the election campaign is even over. Well it wouldn’t be punk rock if he actually kept his clients/did his job competently!
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Blood Boils posted:Hahaha, yesss Fraser Canyon geography jokes That's just muddying things.
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cowofwar posted:I enjoy having to consult with my doctor every year to confirm that yes, I still need insulin for the disease with which I will die, because the pharmacist is too much of a loving tool to accept one iota of liability and my insurer is a profit seeking corporation. Come on down to BC, where I can renew your insulin prescription forever under my name
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Ugh https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/health-minister-says-system-changes-will-improve-care-while-jobs-may-be-lost quote:WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is planning major changes to the administration of the province’s health system and is promising better care will result.
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Spoiler alert: the consequences are privatization
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god-tier headline https://twitter.com/BnChronicle/status/1103340923109421056
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I think it's possible to enjoy your job a little too much.
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never realized what a good pun taint could be
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RBC posted:never realized what a good pun taint could be It was a good pun. Taint what it used to be.
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Putting mental health and addictions centres together instead of operating separately actually makes sense, but it's not like we don't know that's NOT the reason for the "efficiencies".
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Today in weirdo wonk corner, we find the elusive person lamenting the death of the OMB
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InfiniteZero posted:Putting mental health and addictions centres together instead of operating separately actually makes sense, but it's not like we don't know that's NOT the reason for the "efficiencies". Yeah it's frustrating when you see a conservative government do a thing that is actually good on paper, because you know that their end goal is basically to gently caress it all up to "prove" how it doesn't work and the private sector should really be handling it.
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You can also see that with UBI which, as predicted, is being touted by right-wingers as a way to cut back on welfare.
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Don't let the door hit you: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ron-taverner-withdraws-from-consideration-for-opp-commissioner-1.5046120 quote:Ron Taverner has requested that his name be withdrawn from consideration for commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police.
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i'm glad the guy who snitched about doug's van got fired. give doug the van
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Dreylad posted:You can also see that with UB which, as predicted, is being touted by right-wingers as a way to cut back on welfare.
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love when pro-business libs are like "oh, you say I'm right wing? would a 'right winger' support venture entrepreneur Andrew Yang and his UBI plan???"
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THC posted:love when pro-business libs are like "oh, you say I'm right wing? would a 'right winger' support venture entrepreneur Andrew Yang and his UBI plan???"
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Eej posted:Come on down to BC, where I can renew your insulin prescription forever under my name Do pharmacists in BC have access to patient lab results? Can they order new lab tests? You cant in Ontario which is why a pharmacist cant renew an insulin prescription indefinitely. OCP wants to expand the scope of practice to include stuff like this, CPSO not so much. 
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Dreylad posted:You can also see that with UBI which, as predicted, is being touted by right-wingers as a way to cut back on welfare. "As predicted" because that has been, from the very beginning, the entire point of UBI? Especially the way that we implemented it in Ontario, which is not a basic income by strict definitions, because it is specifically for people currently on welfare, as a replacement for welfare. xtal fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Mar 7, 2019 |
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Mr. Apollo posted:I’ve been told by multiple UBI supporters that Andrew Yang is actually the most progressive candidate because he is an engineer and therefore his UBI ideas are totally without bias and are only presented as a way to help humanity. lmao. whatever, more candidates to split the Not-Sanders vote even further
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xtal posted:"As predicted" because that has been, from the very beginning, the entire point of UBI? Especially the way that we implemented it in Ontario, which is not a basic income by strict definitions, because it is specifically for people currently on welfare, as a replacement for welfare.
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also Yang's stated plan to pay for UBI is... a sales tax
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I'm surprised Taverner is trying to back out of this. I imagine with how Blair got the opp under the microscope recently Taverner wants to quietly duck out before his friendship with Ford gets him in some poo poo. ONDP should be hammering on this if they aren't already.
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THC posted:also Yang's stated plan to pay for UBI is... a sales tax
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Dreylad posted:You can also see that with UBI which, as predicted, is being touted by right-wingers as a way to cut back on welfare. xtal posted:"As predicted" because that has been, from the very beginning, the entire point of UBI? Especially the way that we implemented it in Ontario, which is not a basic income by strict definitions, because it is specifically for people currently on welfare, as a replacement for welfare. If you have access to piracy, there's a 3 part series that airs in the UK called "Skint Britain Friends Without Benefits" that profiles people in Hartlepool where the Conservative's party's experiment to combine all the various benefit programs into one system and it's pretty eye opening. Like most of those programs, it seems to seek out the most "unlikable" claimaints, people who will look into the camera angry and scream "where's my money" and such, but for somebody who isn't a complete ghoul, it's heartbreaking to see the damage being done. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Credit Just look at that fuckin "criticism" section. Under the old benefits system, people's rent was being paid directly to their landlords, under the new one it's paid to them and they have to pay the landlords. That's perfect for addicts, because they don't pay, get evicted, become homeless, and can't receive any more cheques. The landlords they featured on the show complained that they used to get one big cheque from the government for all their tenants, and now have to chase or evict everybody, and even said they would never rent to anybody on benefits again. If they claimants can't prove they're looking for work 35 hours a week, they get "sanctioned" which usually removes around half of their benefits. this is for people getting around £700/month and paying more than half to rent. People on disability are constantly re-assessed and get sanctioned if they don't cooperate or of someone says they can work and don't spend 35 hours a week looking for work. There's also a mandatory 5 week wait for benefits to start, as if the people on disability have any sort of savings to live on in the transition. It's consistently described as "pointlessly cruel" by everybody except Tory MPs That's the "UBI" the conservatives dream of, and probably the future under Scheer/Kenney/Ford Powershift fucked around with this message at 05:39 on Mar 7, 2019 |
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Mr. Apollo posted:This comes from a guy who grew up very poor but lucked out massively thanks to the dot com boom in the late 1990s and stock options. Those must be those bootstraps I keep hearing great things about
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Danaru posted:Those must be those bootstraps I keep hearing great things about The dot com boom is a great demonstration of survivor bias because you get all the Bezos defenders talking about him like he deserves all his billions for being such a visionary and investing in retail but on the internet... as if there weren't a thousand other websites doing the exact same thing and he was just the one lucky enough to survive.
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