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Isn't northern Ontario still solid orange? It's like four seats, but they're all NDP
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# ? Jul 6, 2021 18:27 |
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# ? Jun 7, 2024 10:46 |
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Saskatchewan’s NDP is associated with austerity measures from the 90s and has never been able to shake that monkey off their back.
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# ? Jul 6, 2021 18:41 |
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CopywrightMMXI posted:Saskatchewan’s NDP is associated with austerity measures from the 90s and has never been able to shake that monkey off their back. Ontario's NDP is associated with actual real good-results orientated austerity measures from the early 90s and will never hear the end of it. RAE DAYS RAE DAYS RAE DAYS As if the Cons would'nt have a worship plaque if they came up with that scheme.
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# ? Jul 6, 2021 18:42 |
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infernal machines posted:Isn't northern Ontario still solid orange? No, the seats around Thunder Bay all went Liberal (Patty Hajdu won TB-Superior-North after Bruce Hyer quit in huff over gun registration or something) and Kenora went blue.
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# ? Jul 6, 2021 18:48 |
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Slotducks posted:Ontario's NDP is associated with actual real good-results orientated austerity measures from the early 90s and will never hear the end of it. I mean, Saskatchewan is the same. Before the past decade or so, the history of Saskatchewan was the NDP providing stable, fiscally responsible, competent government, and then the PC's (and the Liberals once in the 70's) coming in every 10 years or so to blow things up, privatize everything in sight, and run massive defecits. Grant Devine's PC government in the 80's put Saskatchewan into a massive hole, and sold off really profitable Crown corporations that would have helped the province climb out of that hole. When the NDP got back in power in the 90's, the Romanow/Calvert governments had to impose massive austerity measures, and as part of that they closed/consolidated a bunch of rural hospitals, pissing off a number of their formerly safe rural seats. The province was back in a surplus by the 2000's, and then the Sask Party came in and blew everything up again. Only this time, people don't really seem to care that the Sask Party is incompetent.
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# ? Jul 6, 2021 19:28 |
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David Chartrand from the MMF is calling Pallister on a lot of poo poo right now.
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# ? Jul 6, 2021 19:45 |
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Arcsquad12 posted:David Chartrand from the MMF is calling Pallister on a lot of poo poo right now. Where can I read about this? David Chartrand is kind of a dumbass leader of our people who tends to lick boots to whichever federal party is in power, so it's interesting when he actually stands up and acts like some kind of leader (which does occasionally happen)
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# ? Jul 6, 2021 20:10 |
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Willatron posted:Where can I read about this? David Chartrand is kind of a dumbass leader of our people who tends to lick boots to whichever federal party is in power, so it's interesting when he actually stands up and acts like some kind of leader (which does occasionally happen) Oh he was in total rear end licking mode today talking about how amazing Trudeau has been for the Metis, but he was also screaming bloody murder at Pallister. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVSwdPiegEw About halfway through he went on his tirade.
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# ? Jul 6, 2021 20:19 |
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Arcsquad12 posted:Oh he was in total rear end licking mode today talking about how amazing Trudeau has been for the Metis, but he was also screaming bloody murder at Pallister. You know what, gently caress it. This is a great step forward, we finally achieved recognized self-governance and while I wouldn't have voted for him Chartrand is the elected leader of a recognized Metis Nation of Manitoba. If he got it through bootlicking to the feds, so be it, maybe they wouldn't have conceded this to us if they didn't have a puppet like him at the helm, but now I can register as a citizen of the Metis Nation and maybe actually feel like it's worth voting for someone else. I'll give him props for securing this for us.
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# ? Jul 6, 2021 21:24 |
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Entropic posted:No, the seats around Thunder Bay all went Liberal (Patty Hajdu won TB-Superior-North after Bruce Hyer quit in huff over gun registration or something) and Kenora went blue. Kenora is very weird in comparison to the rest of Northern Ontario voting tendencies.
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# ? Jul 6, 2021 22:37 |
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Arcsquad12 posted:The Dunn's Diner nonsense was a funny local shitshow. Just wish there were Diners that didn't have poo poo service. Zak's takes thirty minutes to get a milkshake and Elgin Street Diner's only saving grace is 24 hour service for drunk Ottawa U students. and no matter what flavour you order you get fuckin strawberry because they don't rinse the machine between servings Gringo Heisenberg posted:I did Pfizer then Moderna. Had a wicked headache for most of the night I got the shot, but Tylenol cleared it right up. Also had a fever most of the night too, but I ended up coming down with a cold at the same time so hard to say what it was from. Most of the people I work with did Pfizer -> Moderna too and most of them didn't miss work for any side effects. Do know a couple people who were out for a couple days with fatigue, but doesn't seem too common. My wife and I went AZ-Moderna, got our second shots yesterday afternoon, and last night suuuuuucked. Usually, neo citran puts me out for hours and gives me weird dreams. Last night I had the weird dreams while mostly-wide-awake, which might've been fun without the headaches and sweating and freezing and feeling pain from every part of me that'd ever hurt and having snippets of old songs playing on repeat for hours on end. Also we walked like animatronic 90-year-olds. I didn't get out of bed much before two this afternoon. My arm's still 3 degrees warmer than the rest of me and my joints and back hurt but eeh, it's better than covid.
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# ? Jul 6, 2021 23:51 |
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AegisP posted:Kenora is very weird in comparison to the rest of Northern Ontario voting tendencies. And let's not forget everyone's favourite senator Lynn Beyak is from Dryden.
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# ? Jul 7, 2021 00:03 |
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https://twitter.com/KyleHarrietha/status/1412550408283820043?s=19 Ha ha rip Greens
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# ? Jul 7, 2021 00:17 |
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Moderna's oddly kicked my rear end like twice... fatigue hits about 6 days after the shot and sticks around for about 4 or 5... starting the second wave of it after my second shot and hopefully its not as bad as the first. Real hard doing a 2-hour presentation when you can barely keep your eyes open.
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# ? Jul 7, 2021 00:31 |
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Ah yes, the 'long covid vaccine"
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# ? Jul 7, 2021 00:39 |
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bunnyofdoom posted:https://twitter.com/KyleHarrietha/status/1412550408283820043?s=19 Can someone post this?
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# ? Jul 7, 2021 01:30 |
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flakeloaf posted:Ah yes, the 'long covid vaccine" Imagining a 10 foot needle.
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# ? Jul 7, 2021 01:57 |
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Jam Band Death Cult posted:Can someone post this? Green Leader Annamie Paul muted in virtual meeting as she argued against sweeping cuts to party staff posted:OTTAWA—With the prospect of a federal election looming, the Green party’s interim executive director convened a virtual staff meeting last Wednesday to announce that nearly half of the party’s employees would soon be out of a job.
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# ? Jul 7, 2021 02:36 |
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In what sense is the prospect of a federal election looming, at least in any way that it hasn't been since October 21, 2019?
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# ? Jul 7, 2021 02:41 |
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infernal machines posted:In what sense is the prospect of a federal election looming, at least in any way that it hasn't been since October 21, 2019? The appointment of a new governor General is step one since they need one before an election can be called. Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 03:17 on Jul 7, 2021 |
# ? Jul 7, 2021 02:53 |
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infernal machines posted:In what sense is the prospect of a federal election looming, at least in any way that it hasn't been since October 21, 2019? I think it might honestly be the case of everyone expecting it so much that everyone is going through the motions regardless. Like I can see why the Liberals would want to have one, aside from the legislation gridlock that usually triggers one, but that can be made up overnight if they really want to get the ball rolling. Not the worst idea for the opposition be pro-active, unless of course the thing doesn't actually happen and you end up wasting those resources. But the media drumming it up is probably because COVID is ending, and Trump is gone, so they'll have a dearth of big stories in the near future and want to get ahead of that.
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# ? Jul 7, 2021 02:56 |
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Arcsquad12 posted:The appointment of a new governor General is step once since they need one before an election can be called. Oh, that hadn't occurred to me, but yeah. I guess it being literally impossible to dissolve the government would make it harder.
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# ? Jul 7, 2021 02:57 |
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“There will be an election this Winter!” “Oh boy, we better purchase some ad time!” “Nuh huh. Not so fast. I didn’t say Simon Says.”
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# ? Jul 7, 2021 03:00 |
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infernal machines posted:Oh, that hadn't occurred to me, but yeah. I guess it being literally impossible to dissolve the government would make it harder. I think the chief justice of the supreme court was covering for the formal duties in the meantime. There’s a lawyer on local talk radio and he mentioned the only problem with that arrangement would be possibly being put in the position of giving royal assent to a bill and then later on finding it unconstitutional.
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# ? Jul 7, 2021 07:20 |
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infernal machines posted:In what sense is the prospect of a federal election looming, at least in any way that it hasn't been since October 21, 2019? JT shaved his beard
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# ? Jul 7, 2021 07:32 |
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liberals want to spend 15 billion dollars on a train through peterborough lol train promises = election so it has always been
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# ? Jul 7, 2021 12:02 |
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thehoodie posted:JT shaved his beard He did?! Oh thank god, this entire time he looked like my ex-roommate and I kept wanting to punch his face in. Now I can do that because he looks like JT. What a relief.
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# ? Jul 7, 2021 12:44 |
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Beards make it harder to do full blackface
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# ? Jul 7, 2021 12:48 |
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Starks posted:Wait we have an ambassador for circumpolar affairs? What? We did, not since 2006 though. It was a pretty short-lived position. From what I can tell the role was to represent Canada on the Arctic Council in a more permanent way, and with someone who's actually from the northern regions of Canada and knows what's going on. They cut it for financial reasons and because there was a lot of overlap with existing ambassadors to the nations in the Council. The relevant duties are just done by some civil servant now.
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# ? Jul 7, 2021 13:43 |
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thehoodie posted:JT shaved his beard He's back to looking like a nerd again.
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# ? Jul 7, 2021 14:03 |
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RBC posted:liberals want to spend 15 billion dollars on a train through peterborough lol I would like there to be a train to Peterborough. It would make visiting my friends a lot easier and as long as it's GO, be significantly cheaper than taking VIA to Belleville. Also, just in general, I'd like to see a lot more rail infrastructure through rural Ontario
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# ? Jul 7, 2021 14:09 |
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linoleum floors posted:Beards make it harder to do full blackface Also, it is well known that beards are a gateway drug to full-blown socialism.
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# ? Jul 7, 2021 16:13 |
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Pallister is up spewing bullshit. "We're not a perfect country but compared to others we're much better." "To the people tearing down statues, we need to build better." "The people who came to this country didn't come here to destroy, they came here to build better."
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# ? Jul 7, 2021 17:08 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYOA_ciyS6c
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# ? Jul 7, 2021 17:09 |
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We don't need to celebrate our failures, we need to show how we're complex people!
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# ? Jul 7, 2021 17:10 |
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Arcsquad12 posted:Pallister is up spewing bullshit. I'm so loving sick of this catchphrase
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# ? Jul 7, 2021 17:43 |
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"Violent protests aren't effective" says the man in charge of the Province that famously hosted the General Strike of 1919 which involved street battles with police and military personnel, property damage and ushered in new labour legislation as a result. For gently caress's sake, an overturned streetcar is now a monument itself to a very effective violent protest.
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# ? Jul 7, 2021 17:58 |
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infernal machines posted:I would like there to be a train to Peterborough. It would make visiting my friends a lot easier and as long as it's GO, be significantly cheaper than taking VIA to Belleville. I would like it too. Still makes no sense whatsoever. It's 100% a carrot to hang for people to vote liberal in a bellwether riding. Just like it was when Del Mastro promised it ten years ago.
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# ? Jul 7, 2021 18:23 |
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Willatron posted:"Violent protests aren't effective" says the man in charge of the Province that famously hosted the General Strike of 1919 which involved street battles with police and military personnel, property damage and ushered in new labour legislation as a result. For gently caress's sake, an overturned streetcar is now a monument itself to a very effective violent protest.
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# ? Jul 7, 2021 18:24 |
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# ? Jun 7, 2024 10:46 |
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Willatron posted:"Violent protests aren't effective" says the man in charge of the Province that famously hosted the General Strike of 1919 which involved street battles with police and military personnel, property damage and ushered in new labour legislation as a result. For gently caress's sake, an overturned streetcar is now a monument itself to a very effective violent protest. Says the man who rules a province that literally only exists due to one.
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# ? Jul 7, 2021 18:33 |