tagesschau posted:

I'm starting to think that Doug Ford's inability to stop doing stupid stuff this close to the federal election (see: municipal funding cuts today) might actually be a factor if it torpedoes Scheer in Ontario.

infernal machines posted:

Okay, if you're going to keep repeating this do you have anything to demonstrate it as being true? Because otherwise it reads a lot like a "PC culture madness" dogwhistle, and I'm sure that's not what you intend.

littleorv posted:

I'm very excited about the prospects of a Con majority government and possibly losing my job

Pinterest Mom posted:

I guess Pierre Nantel got over his aversion to party leaders wearing religious symbols.

Pinterest Mom posted:

I guess Pierre Nantel got over his aversion to party leaders wearing religious symbols.

littleorv posted:

My riding is blue as gently caress but I'll still go and unenthusiastically vote for the least bad option anyways.

NDP got 2500 votes here last time

EvidenceBasedQuack posted:

https://twitter.com/compartycanada/status/1163222380011036674?s=19

infernal machines posted:

Okay, if you're going to keep repeating this do you have anything to demonstrate it as being true? Because otherwise it reads a lot like a "PC culture madness" dogwhistle, and I'm sure that's not what you intend.

Helsing posted:

The Butcher posted:

Culture isn't race. It's actually OK to criticize specific cultures for being lovely, when they are in fact lovely.

Mainland China has a lovely culture. Saudi Arabia has a lovely culture. Angola has a lovely culture. The American South has a lovely culture.

None of that has anything to do with race, and we give lovely cultures like that a free pass when we falsely attach criticisms of racism to it to shut down discussion.

Raenir Salazar posted:

I'd say that this is in fact, pretty lowkey racist; and moreso than lowkey ignorance like, "If you hate porn and women expressing themselves with their bodies then you should go learn Arabic".

I can't speak for Saudi Arabia or Angola, though we all know that SA's issues probably have more to do with being a theocratic dictatorship with medieval monarchistic trappings than because of "culture".

But Mainland China has great culture, great food, great cinema, and so on, I've never been but everyone I know who is from there, or regularly visits, provide more than enough evidence to me that visiting would be a great thing to do. I bet Shanghai in particular is great, and Nanjing especially for food.

A lot of mainlander Chinese people I've spoken to are just so amazingly blunt and seem to always speak their minds and are so honest, it's great and refreshing. If you've made some Chinese friends you wouldn't be saying this.

Albino Squirrel posted:

'Blindsided': UCP blasted for mass appointments to boards, commissions


I don't think you can call this 'corruption' as it's perfectly legal, but it's irritating and shady as hell.

I happen to be a (volunteer) member of one of the affected boards. Our board chair, who was excellent, was fired. I was kind of expecting everyone to go, but mostly they just didn't renew the mandates of anyone whose term is expiring - unfortunately, that included a couple of very competent subcommittee chairs. I don't expect to be renewed when my term expires next year. (Traditionally, board members for Alberta institutions are appointed for a three-year term with a pretty-much-automatic three-year renewal). At least our new chair seems vaguely apolitical and has some relevant experience.

I'll tell ya, though, there's nothing I love more than finding out that my volunteer commitments have been turned upside down via press release.

zapplez posted:

I'm glad you said something because I was super creeped out by this post.

Yeah I have no clue what that guy was saying about "mainland china" having a bad culture. They have had a run of lovely governments, but the people and the culture is loving fantastic. Sounds like that poster had some personal hangups about chinese people.

Raenir Salazar posted:

You're being sarcastic right.

infernal machines posted:

God I loving hope so.

Did you read any of the thread leading up to this?

Raenir Salazar posted:

good at pretending to care about environmental issues, and can generally expect them to be half-decent stewards of representing Canada abroad

Raenir Salazar posted:

I go in and out. I am mostly laser focused on USPol because the US is basically Azathoth the Blind Idiot God and we're just one of the dancing courtiers keeping it asleep; but when it twitches we die.

Not that Canadian politics doesn't matter; but I feel like in most years it gets easily eclipsed and as we head closer to election season I shift my gaze closer to our own elections and thus have only recently glanced at the thread to see what's up.

I don't *like* the Liberals, but I can at least tolerate them compared to the Cons and are at least good at pretending to care about environmental issues, and can generally expect them to be half-decent stewards of representing Canada abroad, regardless of my seething disgust at them ditching the Alternative Vote and thus letting the Cons have another chance at majority government.

vyelkin posted:

when I think "good at pretending to care about environmental issues" I think about giving billions of dollars to a US oil company to nationalize a pipeline so that it can be rammed through despite environmental concerns

when I think "good at representing Canada abroad" I think about selling weapons to genocidal dictators and sabotaging climate change accords

quote:

Once among the largest landholders in the oilsands, industrial conglomerate Koch Industries Inc. has sold off its upstream leases and abandoned licences in the heavy oil play, joining a stream of foreign companies exiting the bitumen-bearing formation.

quote:

Koch’s departure from the oilsands continues a trend of exits by foreign companies from the play, following multi-billion-dollar divestments by Shell Canada Ltd., ConocoPhillips Co., Devon Energy Corp., Marathon Oil Corp., Statoil SA, Total SA and others since 2017 to sell off producing and non-producing assets in the heavy oil formation, as a lack of new export pipelines made developing the area more difficult and lucrative plays like the Permian basin in Texas wooed investors away from Canada.

Coxswain Balls posted:

Rookie polling firm recants initial claim, now says PCs well ahead in Manitoba

lol whoops

Vintersorg posted:

We're so hosed.

quote:

Solar panels $200
Electric cars $150
Carbon tax rebates $800
Pipelines $3,600
Recycling $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my environment is dying

quote:

climate change may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,

quote:

so long suckers! i rev up my motorcylce and create a huge cloud of co2. when the cloud dissipates im lying completely dead on the pavement

quote:

another day volunteering at the mangrove forest. everyone keeps asking me if they can gently caress the mangrove. buddy, they wont even let me gently caress it

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who the gently caress is scraeming "GREEN NEW DEAL" at my house. show yourself, coward. i will never green new deal

Raenir Salazar posted:

Yeah but Conservatives were 100x worse than this, and if elected, would be 1000x worse.

cowofwar posted:

Wont someone please think of the maligned 1.4 billion ethnic Han Chinese who continue to be persecuted by the Tibetans and Uyghur Muslims. Their dwindling population cannot survive the cultural and economic pushes of African nations in addition to the soft power reaches of the rest of the world through student/cultural/charity organizations. Their innovative culture continues to be sabotaged by US spying and IP theft and tourists from the UK keep pissing in their elevators, making GBS threads out in the open, and generally covering all their responsibly managed and occupied real estate in a veneer of spit.

There are a few friendly nations who respect their cultural right to smuggle money out of the country from falsified business loans, who provide support for their definitely producing 100% factories according to ethically impressive quarterly reports, and who support the hard working basement farmers’ fentanyl harvests.

The world truly has much to learn from the Chinese cultural tradition of focusing on ethics, charity, and social collaboration over profit-seeking or conspicuous consumption of material wealth. The Chinese are so generous that they are willing to donate their organs to the state to help Party members, provide free transportation in lethal injection vans, and voluntarily compensate the Party for expenses incurred when executing their family members.

It is absolutely imperative that behaviour and cultural norms be conflated with race and that ethnic Han Chinese receive the affirmative benefits of other persecuted visible minorities from other economically disadvantaged countries, so that China, the largest country and second largest economy in the world, can escape from the oppressive boots of Nigeria and Angola, and finally achieve freedom to operate without the yolk of regulations and laws abroad.

我有一個夢想

cowofwar posted:

Chinese students and Saudi students are the absolute loving worst. They bring money but holy poo poo do they also bring a dumpster of rear end-backward poo poo that makes other Canadians suffer.

cowofwar posted:

Wont someone please think of the maligned 1.4 billion ethnic Han Chinese who continue to be persecuted by the Tibetans and Uyghur Muslims. Their dwindling population cannot survive the cultural and economic pushes of African nations in addition to the soft power reaches of the rest of the world through student/cultural/charity organizations. Their innovative culture continues to be sabotaged by US spying and IP theft and tourists from the UK keep pissing in their elevators, making GBS threads out in the open, and generally covering all their responsibly managed and occupied real estate in a veneer of spit.

There are a few friendly nations who respect their cultural right to smuggle money out of the country from falsified business loans, who provide support for their definitely producing 100% factories according to ethically impressive quarterly reports, and who support the hard working basement farmers’ fentanyl harvests.

The world truly has much to learn from the Chinese cultural tradition of focusing on ethics, charity, and social collaboration over profit-seeking or conspicuous consumption of material wealth. The Chinese are so generous that they are willing to donate their organs to the state to help Party members, provide free transportation in lethal injection vans, and voluntarily compensate the Party for expenses incurred when executing their family members.

It is absolutely imperative that behaviour and cultural norms be conflated with race and that ethnic Han Chinese receive the affirmative benefits of other persecuted visible minorities from other economically disadvantaged countries, so that China, the largest country and second largest economy in the world, can escape from the oppressive boots of Nigeria and Angola, and finally achieve freedom to operate without the yolk of regulations and laws abroad.

我有一個夢想

Postess with the Mostest posted:

Under Stephen Harper, there were so many people unhappy with the government and their approach that people were saying, ‘It will take electoral reform to no longer have a government we don’t like’. But under the current system, they now have a government they’re more satisfied with and the motivation to change the electoral system is less compelling