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Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


https://edmontonjournal.com/news/lo...78f235a78e/amp/

rip the Beaverton.

Even they couldn’t come up with something this loving ridiculous.

QR code passports with no way to read them.

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Cacator
Aug 6, 2005

You're quite good at turning me on.

Powershift posted:

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/lo...78f235a78e/amp/

rip the Beaverton.

Even they couldn’t come up with something this loving ridiculous.

QR code passports with no way to read them.

Hey give the UCP a break, it's not like any other provinces released an app that could read QR codes when they introduced vaccine passports. That sort of thing requires planning and foresight!

StealthArcher
Jan 10, 2010




nine-gear crow posted:

"My opponent literally killed thousands of people through horrifying incompetence." [loses in historic landslide]

I mean, your unspoken takes on that are:

NDP Voters/Lean:"Well thank gently caress theres something different."

Con Voters/Lean:"Are you calling me a stupid dupe!? You loving *devolves into incoherent anger*"

Which do you think is a stronger driving force

apatheticman
May 13, 2003

Wedge Regret
The province of Alberta IT staff should sue the government for destroying their careers.

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


apatheticman posted:

The province of Alberta IT staff should sue the government for destroying their careers.

The province of Alberta IT is probably all contracted out to a UCP donor owned company that sold cowboy hats and belt buckles on Etsy before getting the $300 million dollar contract.

half cocaine
Jul 22, 2019


Powershift posted:

The province of Alberta IT is probably all contracted out to a UCP donor owned company that sold cowboy hats and belt buckles on Etsy before getting the $300 million dollar contract.

hahaha are you serious
I can't tell anymore

PT6A
Jan 5, 2006

Public school teachers are callous dictators who won't lift a finger to stop children from peeing in my plane

half cocaine posted:

hahaha are you serious
I can't tell anymore

This is closer to the truth than “they made an oversight,” I promise you.

JawKnee
Mar 24, 2007





You'll take the ride to leave this town along that yellow line

Powershift posted:

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/lo...78f235a78e/amp/

rip the Beaverton.

Even they couldn’t come up with something this loving ridiculous.

QR code passports with no way to read them.

Are they using SHC like BC/Quebec?

Legit Businessman
Sep 2, 2007


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Legit Businessman fucked around with this message at 01:10 on Sep 10, 2022

PittTheElder
Feb 13, 2012

:geno: Yes, it's like a lava lamp.

Powershift posted:

The province of Alberta IT is probably all contracted out to a UCP donor owned company that sold cowboy hats and belt buckles on Etsy before getting the $300 million dollar contract.

Yeah I have no evidence to suggest this is true, and yet I'm 100% sure it's true.

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


PittTheElder posted:

Yeah I have no evidence to suggest this is true, and yet I'm 100% sure it's true.

I did my own research and came to that conclusion, therefore it is true.

apatheticman
May 13, 2003

Wedge Regret
I accept that

ZeeBoi
Jan 17, 2001

So at first twitter was full of #tofinotrudeau posts and now there's #CdnMediaFailed because the media was more interested in Trudeau's whereabouts rather than the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and people are now lashing out for that.

ZeeBoi fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Oct 2, 2021

Wistful of Dollars
Aug 25, 2009

The last West of Centre podcast was a compete roast of Kenney, Rick Bell included.

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


Wistful of Dollars posted:

The last West of Centre podcast was a compete roast of Kenney, Rick Bell included.

https://mobile.twitter.com/CBCFletch/status/1444413239182315520

How these two chucklefucks haven’t resigned yet is beyond me.

ChickenDoodle
Oct 22, 2020

ZeeBoi posted:

So at first twitter was full of #tofinotrudeau posts and now there's #CdnMediaFailed because the media was more interested in Trudeau's whereabouts rather than the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and people are now lashing out for that.

I got married in Tofino two years ago and was genuinely concerned about him randomly showing up. :j:

He did visit with First Nations while there so it’s not like he did nothing. But it did prove a big distraction on what is supposed to be a solemn holiday. Imagine he hosed off to Aruba on Remembrance Day - it feels like the same thing.

I’m all for smacking the media around for caring more about a vacation than the people the day is for.

ChickenDoodle fucked around with this message at 01:57 on Oct 3, 2021

Legit Businessman
Sep 2, 2007


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Legit Businessman fucked around with this message at 01:10 on Sep 10, 2022

apatheticman
May 13, 2003

Wedge Regret

ChickenDoodle posted:

I got married in Tofino two years ago and was genuinely concerned about him randomly showing up. :j:

He did visit with First Nations while there so it’s not like he did nothing. But it did prove a big distraction on what is supposed to be a solemn holiday. Imagine he hosed off to Aruba on Remembrance Day - it feels like the same thing.

I’m all for smacking the media around for caring more about a vacation than the people the day is for.

Some message is going around that it's a yearly trip to remember his dad and his brother.

That would be the most hilarious outcome.

Arivia
Mar 17, 2011
Elizabeth May has thrown Annamie Paul under the bus once and for all: https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/10/03/annamie-paul-told-me-to-stay-silent-but-now-i-must-say-something.html

B33rChiller
Aug 18, 2011





any chance of a non-paywalled version of the story?

Arivia
Mar 17, 2011

B33rChiller posted:

any chance of a non-paywalled version of the story?

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

Precambrian Video Games
Aug 19, 2002



B33rChiller posted:

any chance of a non-paywalled version of the story?

I am phoneposting and it's too much of a hassle to copy-paste after I closed the tab but I successfully used the advanced technology of 'stop loading the page before it gets to the paywall' to read it (about 80% through).

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/politics/elizabeth-may-won-t-be-green-interim-leader-says-annamie-paul-hurting-party-1.5608501

Annamie Paul still controls party communication and press releases and told Elizabeth May to shut the gently caress up and not take interviews during the election. Even though Paul said she's resigned as leader she's been preventing the Green Party from making press releases without her consent and the group's indigenous members are pissed that Paul didn't let the Greens release a Truth and Reconciliation Day statement.

ZeeBoi
Jan 17, 2001

B33rChiller posted:

any chance of a non-paywalled version of the story?

Paste the link into outline.com

Goosed it.
Nov 3, 2011

apatheticman posted:

Some message is going around that it's a yearly trip to remember his dad and his brother.

That would be the most hilarious outcome.

I keep seeing this too but I don't really see how it matters.

PET died on Sept 28 and Michel's birthday was Oct. 2nd. So leave on Oct. 1st?

He's the Prime Minister. He should realize that the day set aside to remember and reflect on literal genocide of Indigenous people is not the day to go away to think about his (very white and very privileged) family.

DynamicSloth
Jul 30, 2006

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."

Arc Hammer posted:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/politics/elizabeth-may-won-t-be-green-interim-leader-says-annamie-paul-hurting-party-1.5608501

Annamie Paul still controls party communication and press releases and told Elizabeth May to shut the gently caress up and not take interviews during the election. Even though Paul said she's resigned as leader she's been preventing the Green Party from making press releases without her consent and the group's indigenous members are pissed that Paul didn't let the Greens release a Truth and Reconciliation Day statement.

I do wonder if the eco-socialist faction has a chance in the upcoming leadership contest if the melt camp keeps this civil war going.

GonadTheBallbarian
Jul 23, 2007


DynamicSloth posted:

I do wonder if the eco-socialist faction has a chance in the upcoming leadership contest if the melt camp keeps this civil war going.

God willing. I'm tired of the greenwashed Tories

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
I believe Tesla Tories is the preferred name.

Alctel
Jan 16, 2004

I love snails


quote:

May says she offered to step aside in her riding of Saanich—Gulf Islands, so that Paul could run for her seat as an alternative to Toronto Centre.

Hmmm

Drunk Canuck
Jan 9, 2010

Robots ruin all the fun of a good adventure.

Elizabeth May was the most competent leader of the Green party in our generation.

T.C.
Feb 10, 2004

Believe.
Chaos energy "gently caress you, you can't make me be leader" Elizabeth May is pretty funny, though

InfiniteZero
Sep 11, 2004

PINK GUITAR FIRE ROBOT

College Slice
The Manitoba PCs hosed up their pandemic response horribly, declared a RESTARTMB! in the summer of 2020, made headlines as the pandemic hotspot not long after, was forced to fly patients to other provinces after gutting the health sector, and then Brian Pallister was unable to not go off script and argue that colonists were in fact very fine people, leading to his hasty resignation.

The PCs haven't even appointed a new leader and guess what? A rebound in support!

https://www.probe-research.com/polls/progressive-conservative-support-rebounds-manitoba

Way to go Manitoba! I'm assuming PC supporters were jealous of Alberta getting all the news for being dumb as gently caress.

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
Edit. Apparently this interview was on Friday, my bad.

Lol Jim Harris was on CTV straight up calling out Annamie Paul for deflecting criticisms of her leadership as racism and sexism. So that's two former Green leaders calling her out now.

Evan Solomon was pushing the "you're a white male leader so you're blind to the racism" and de-legitimizing her leadership. The media is going all in on the racism against Paul story.

Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Oct 4, 2021

TheKingofSprings
Oct 9, 2012

apatheticman posted:

Some message is going around that it's a yearly trip to remember his dad and his brother.

That would be the most hilarious outcome.

His dead, criminal brother, no less!

Furnaceface
Oct 21, 2004




Arc Hammer posted:

Edit. Apparently this interview was on Friday, my bad.

Lol Jim Harris was on CTV straight up calling out Annamie Paul for deflecting criticisms of her leadership as racism and sexism. So that's two former Green leaders calling her out now.

Evan Solomon was pushing the "you're a white male leader so you're blind to the racism" and de-legitimizing her leadership. The media is going all in on the racism against Paul story.

Racism and sexism are definitely part of the whole debacle given how pervasive both still are in Canadian politics. It doesnt need to be the sole reason in order to be a problem, nor should it be ignored just because someone happens to be terrible at their job.

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?

Furnaceface posted:

Racism and sexism are definitely part of the whole debacle given how pervasive both still are in Canadian politics. It doesnt need to be the sole reason in order to be a problem, nor should it be ignored just because someone happens to be terrible at their job.

You want nuance when you can have an easy bullseye? It's all about the racism, baby. In a career choice dominated by incompetent opportunists, you can't call the black person an incompetent opportunist. You have to set them up to fail from within.

Burn this whole party to the ground. Torch the other ones too.

Franks Happy Place
Mar 15, 2011

It is by weed alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the dank of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, stains become a warning. It is by weed alone I set my mind in motion.

Furnaceface posted:

Racism and sexism are definitely part of the whole debacle given how pervasive both still are in Canadian politics. It doesnt need to be the sole reason in order to be a problem, nor should it be ignored just because someone happens to be terrible at their job.

Exactly, she was an absolutely poo poo tier politician with a tin ear whose political career was covered with more hostility than most because of who she was. Both of these things can be simultaneously true.

Another Bill
Sep 27, 2018

I stumbled ass-backwards into a comfortable, easy life for reasons beyond my comprehension and now I think I'm better than you for it.

Arc Hammer posted:

Edit. Apparently this interview was on Friday, my bad.

Lol Jim Harris was on CTV straight up calling out Annamie Paul for deflecting criticisms of her leadership as racism and sexism. So that's two former Green leaders calling her out now.

Evan Solomon was pushing the "you're a white male leader so you're blind to the racism" and de-legitimizing her leadership. The media is going all in on the racism against Paul story.

I once saw Jim Harris give a stump/fundraising speech at a Green Party nomination meeting wearing a polo shirt and swim trunks.

There was no pool, hot tub or other swimming anywhere near the meeting.

McGavin
Sep 18, 2012

Jim Harris knows all the secret swimming holes.

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ColdBlooded
Jul 15, 2001

Ask me how to run a good team into the ground.

InfiniteZero posted:

The Manitoba PCs hosed up their pandemic response horribly, declared a RESTARTMB! in the summer of 2020, made headlines as the pandemic hotspot not long after, was forced to fly patients to other provinces after gutting the health sector, and then Brian Pallister was unable to not go off script and argue that colonists were in fact very fine people, leading to his hasty resignation.

The PCs haven't even appointed a new leader and guess what? A rebound in support!

https://www.probe-research.com/polls/progressive-conservative-support-rebounds-manitoba

Way to go Manitoba! I'm assuming PC supporters were jealous of Alberta getting all the news for being dumb as gently caress.

I feel like that previous Probe poll was a massive outlier, having the NDP up 18% seemed a bit off when no other recent poll has had them up more than 6% on the Cons. Like obviously the NDP should be up 20+% because of how objectively terrible our current government is but I don't think this is anything to freak out about.

If the NDP wins the popular vote by 7%, they're getting a comfortable majority in the next election.

Edit: An Angus Reid poll taken within the same time period of the previous Probe poll only had the NDP up 3% on the Cons.

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