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Pinterest Mom posted:the courts this charitably assumes that what they want to do will be ruled unconstitutional/illegal because they will do it, and they'll spend millions litigating the issue after the fact
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I mean, I also genuinely don't think a parliament with a CPC majority is a parliament with a majority to do anything on abortion.
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If we didn't live in a Hellworld there would be a carrier that would make it cheaper for shipping to happen between provinces. If you're a small business/manufacturer trying to sell directly to consumers it's loving impossible to turn a profit if you're shipping within Canada. The big reason I think is because China post is so heavily subsidized just the shipping costs inter provincially make it cheaper to have the loving thing you're making made in China and shipped to your customer's door. It's super hosed up and I think it's a big reason we don't have these cottage industries like the USA. CBC has really good local news but overall the neoliberal bent of their articles makes them almost worthless as a news outlet. The overt party biases and pandering to a certain upper middle class demographic really take away from the actual good reporting they sometimes can do. For every one actual original news story there are a dozen thinly veiled neoliberal propaganda pieces, so I'm really conflicted with defunding the CBC. On the one hand, gently caress 'em but on the other the remaining mass-media news outlets are somehow even worse.
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autism ZX spectrum posted:China post is so heavily subsidized And guess who'll complain about us being anticompetitive if we returned the favour
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autism ZX spectrum posted:If we didn't live in a Hellworld there would be a carrier that would make it cheaper for shipping to happen between provinces. If you're a small business/manufacturer trying to sell directly to consumers it's loving impossible to turn a profit if you're shipping within Canada. The big reason I think is because China post is so heavily subsidized just the shipping costs inter provincially make it cheaper to have the loving thing you're making made in China and shipped to your customer's door. It's super hosed up and I think it's a big reason we don't have these cottage industries like the USA. 
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flakeloaf posted:And guess who'll complain about us being anticompetitive if we returned the favour The US?
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I'd have accepted literally any answer that was the name of a country, so yay you win
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autism ZX spectrum posted:Has there ever been an actual leftist party in Canada? The NDP started out as a failed Marxist revolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1_oKcXn8vs Rutibex has issued a correction as of 16:55 on May 30, 2019 |
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infernal machines posted:is there another kind? what?
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...of marxist revolution
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lol the prop rep referendum in bc failed. old news i know. this whole country is dumb as a rock.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/cra-kmpg-settlement-taxes-1.5154610quote:The Canada Revenue Agency has once again made a secret out-of-court settlement with wealthy KPMG clients caught using what the CRA itself had alleged was a "grossly negligent" offshore "sham" set up to avoid detection by tax authorities, CBC's The Fifth Estate and Radio-Canada's Enquête have learned. glad the libs can't stop libbing long enough to stop the cons from conning for the next 5 years
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quote:Several KPMG executives had been named to testify in the spring of 2016, but Liberal MPs voted to shut down the inquiry, arguing that any more testimony and documents should be produced in court and not in Parliament. Oh wow who could have guessed that would happen.
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Health Services posted:Oh wow who could have guessed that would happen. Liberals gonna Liberal
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THC posted:https://twitter.com/daveanthony/status/1134142652557844480 Remember that time... when Fort MacMurray burned down and Albertans were tripping over themselves to deny any link to climate change 
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THC posted:https://twitter.com/daveanthony/status/1134142652557844480 This is fine
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Reality Winter posted:lol the prop rep referendum in bc failed. old news i know. this whole country is dumb as a rock. the rich spent a lot of fuckin money to make sure that didn't go through
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finally, conservatives are back in the drivers' seat and it's time for alberta to return to prosperity *THE PROVINCE IMMEDIATELY BURSTS INTO FLAMES*
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You would think that something so on-the-nose would give people pause, something appearing like nothing less than a plague visited upon us by God. But any lesson just stops dead before it gets halfway through people's skulls. They'll never learn a thing. In 30 years we'll be choking on the smoke from April to October, there will be adults who don't remember a time before the smoke. But they will remember the Job Killing Carbon Tax and how we must never not be be Open for Business
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THC posted:https://twitter.com/daveanthony/status/1134142652557844480 Anyone have a link to the VOD?
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Yinlock posted:the rich spent a lot of fuckin money to make sure that didn't go through They had help from the centrists within the NDP. They could have just passed it with the greens, but they tricked Weaver (extremely easy to do) into thinking referendums are good expressions of the people, as opposed to polls or election votes. My friends who work within the dipper apparatus confirmed that there was very little enthusiasm or effort put towards it. Like the party wanted it to fail 
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What the gently caress is KPMG anyway? I can't help but imagine some borderline illuminati bullshit. KPMG says close the hospitals, we close the hospitals. KPMG makes it okay to hide money offshore, etc etc.
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autism ZX spectrum posted:What the gently caress is KPMG anyway? I can't help but imagine some borderline illuminati bullshit. KPMG says close the hospitals, we close the hospitals. KPMG makes it okay to hide money offshore, etc etc. Iirc KPMG absorbed Arthur Anderson, who you might recall collapsed after their company's hands were all over the Enron / Worldcom accounting scandals. So yeah, thats whos brainstorming austerity at the govt level
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i'm watching the NBA Finals and i just saw a commercial from the Ontario government bitching about the federal government's carbon tax
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idk having gas pumps that just give you a shitload of nickels would be pretty nice
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How does a group like KPMG end up getting into everything like that?
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KPMG (iirc) was hired by the BC Teachers Federation to do an audit and ended up finding millions of bucks that were owed to the union. The last general meeting I attended had a debate over whether we should give them the boot as our accounting firm on account that Panama papers shenanigans means evaded taxes are siphoned from public school systems. No one cared and it was voted down.
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Awfully early for wildfires. buckle up.
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Reality Winter posted:Awfully early for wildfires. buckle up. It's insane lmao
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Jehde posted:idk having gas pumps that just give you a shitload of nickels would be pretty nice
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To explain an idea you must first understand it.
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jesse brown is totally not mad that the federal government isnt joining his patreon. now let him tell you why unifor and unions are bad
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Blood Boils posted:They had help from the centrists within the NDP. They could have just passed it with the greens, but they tricked Weaver (extremely easy to do) into thinking referendums are good expressions of the people, as opposed to polls or election votes. Based on the Green party's actions in government I really don't see why we should want to give them a permanent place in the legislature honestly. I think progressives really fetishize proportional representation as some kind of panacea for our problems when the truth is most of the actions we need the government to be taking right now are likely to be deeply unpopular and will, if anything, be hindered by a more representative political system. I feel like a lot of beloved progressive ideas like basic income and proportional representation basically exist as substitutes for real policy solutions. "If we just had more democracy and more purchasing power then the economy and political system would function the way they are supposed to!" is a dream and its time we woke up from that dream. DariusLikewise posted:jesse brown is totally not mad that the federal government isnt joining his patreon. now let him tell you why unifor and unions are bad As much as I hate the media bailout I will never forget how one of Jesse Brown's big complaints about the idea of bailing out newspapers was that as a small business owner he was looking forward to the chance to hire journalists for cheap when their current jobs exploded and he didn't appreciate the government making that harder with subsidies. It sucks that the only real media criticism we have in Canada is some libertarian jerkoff who spends half of every episode selling mattresses and Keurigs.
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Helsing posted:I think progressives really fetishize proportional representation as some kind of panacea for our problems when the truth is most of the actions we need the government to be taking right now are likely to be deeply unpopular and will, if anything, be hindered by a more representative political system. i agree, the rabble must be controlled. we should bring back the property qualifications to vote to further enhance the governments effectiveness. maybe even absolute monarchy.
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