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Furnaceface posted:Im more shocked that The Keg is considered high end dining. You can go to your local Land Registry Office and look up the address or PIN to see the deeds I believe, that'll show you who the owner is or the numbered corporation. It was free to look when I did it but you had to pay to print. You can use the city's GIS site to get the roll# and other info before you go. Not sure if you can still do this, I had to do it like a decade ago but the people who worked there were pretty helpful. Also, according to that article, the keg is a ritzy steakhouse.
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May 24, 2022 20:39
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quote:the constituency filed between $5,000 and $11,000 each year in sit-down dinner expenses that the party is defending as “legitimate.” who gives a gently caress, what a stupid thing to care about I do think there's something fundamentally different from meals and entertainment to which multiple people participate, and childcare for MPPs, but mostly just that the Liberals are dumb for making a big deal about things that they themselves obviously also do.
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May 24, 2022 20:43
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Postess with the Mostest posted:Also, according to that article, the keg is a ritzy steakhouse. The Keg is whatever you want it to be when you're writing the article. Jordan7hm posted:who gives a gently caress, what a stupid thing to care about Del Duca and Mitzie Hunter clutching pearls over PCPO malfeasance will continue to be absolutely ridiculous. Again, it's only been four years, we haven't forgotten the Liberal's previous 14 years in power.
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May 24, 2022 20:45
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infernal machines posted:The Keg is whatever you want it to be
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May 24, 2022 20:46
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infernal machines posted:The Keg is whatever you want it to be when you're writing the article. also you can do this whether or not you're in power apparently mostly that article just makes me think that Horwath is a sucker
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May 24, 2022 20:49
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Jordan7hm posted:also you can do this whether or not you're in power apparently The ONDP are just way too uninteresting to get caught doing anything anyone would care about. I'm loving the PCPO attack ads telling me Andrea Horwath and the ONDP would be an "expensive mistake for Ontario, just like they always have been", you know, like that one single time nearly 30 years ago, when they held any kind of power in the province
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May 24, 2022 20:55
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I went to vote today and the advanced voting place was empty. The workers there said only about 15 people had been in to vote today.
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May 24, 2022 21:02
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Mr. Apollo posted:I went to vote today and the advanced voting place was empty. The workers there said only about 15 people had been in to vote today. Isnt that usually great news for the Cons? Low turnout always favours their voting base.
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May 24, 2022 21:07
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Furnaceface posted:Isnt that usually great news for the Cons? Low turnout always favours their voting base. 
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May 24, 2022 21:12
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Mr. Apollo posted:I went to vote today and the advanced voting place was empty. The workers there said only about 15 people had been in to vote today. I went on Saturday, and it was pretty packed full of olds.
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May 24, 2022 21:35
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infernal machines posted:I'm loving the PCPO attack ads telling me Andrea Horwath and the ONDP would be an "expensive mistake for Ontario, just like they always have been", you know, like that one single time nearly 30 years ago, when they held any kind of power in the province Also the one thing that apparently disqualifies the NDP to this day is a cost-cutting measure.
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May 24, 2022 21:37
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infernal machines posted:The ONDP are just way too uninteresting to get caught doing anything anyone would care about. I don't know why, but this reminded me when the senate spending audit cost $23M to reveal less than $1M in questionable expenses. Kinda missing those pre-Trump days.
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May 24, 2022 21:42
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Which garbage party should I throw my vote away for in the Ontario provincial election? My riding is deep blue, so nothing I do matters. I am considering dehumanizing myself and voting Green. 
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May 25, 2022 00:05
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I'm gonna check beside whatever box is orange but dang if I haven't already resigned myself to ten more years of Dougie the Hutt
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May 25, 2022 00:36
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The guy tried to make the opp his own private army with his incompetent crony as its leader but sure, let's have a go at him for an eighty dollar orange juice
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May 25, 2022 01:18
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McGavin posted:Which garbage party should I throw my vote away for in the Ontario provincial election? Do you have a Rhino party candidate? Whatever, vote Green, it'll be hilarious if they ever have more than like two seats in legislature I'm voting for Marit Stiles again because she met the high bar of both existing for her entire term, and not pissing me off in any way that I'm aware of. infernal machines fucked around with this message at 01:45 on May 25, 2022 |
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May 25, 2022 01:42
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If ~strategic considerations~ are irrelevant, just vote for the best candidate, and use the party as a tie breaker. I suppose I've been lucky to always have at least one decent choice even if certain low-budget parties had extremely minimal betting procedures for the alternatives.
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May 25, 2022 03:12
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kaom posted:Re. BC museum I thought “that seems like a lot,” then thought about the fact that it’s a giant collection that needs specialized storage and access controls, has to be reasonably future-proofed, needs to withstand an earthquake, is being built over nearly a decade… I mean, maybe they just actually costed a project correctly for once instead of announcing it will cost 25% of the actual final price tag. In addition to the asbestos and seismic standards, I've heard the below-sea level basement has been prone to flooding since the darn thing was built. https://www.timescolonist.com/opini...tm_campaign=snd It's sounding more and more like they just totally bungled the PR side of the announcement.
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May 25, 2022 05:03
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Facebook Aunt posted:In addition to the asbestos and seismic standards, I've heard the below-sea level basement has been prone to flooding since the darn thing was built. https://www.timescolonist.com/opini...tm_campaign=snd It seems more and more like the BCNDP was so high on their own farts they thought the public would be thrilled to spend nearly a billion dollars on decolonizing the museum, instead of going with "Holy poo poo, we need a billion dollars to stop the museum from falling apart!"
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May 25, 2022 12:18
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RBC posted:lol 8k at the keg. what a waste Further down it says the spending over the entire time period at the Keg was 14.5 thousand dollars. Back when corporate travel was a thing we obviously had questionable spending (read: borderline corporate expense fraud), but we certainly didn't waste it on the drat Keg. Keg is in line with Kelsey's, Milestones, and Montana's BBQ. But yeah, Liberals doing their thing. Do they think that anyone actually cares about incredibly minor spending at the riding association level? Honestly.
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May 25, 2022 14:09
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Fidelitious posted:Do they think that anyone actually cares about incredibly minor spending at the riding association level? Honestly. 
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May 25, 2022 14:57
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How much did she spend on those props? Did they have craft services for the crew?
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May 25, 2022 14:58
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infernal machines posted:How much did she spend on those props? at least $12, maybe $13
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May 25, 2022 15:11
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I wonder how many separate times in all of the CanPol threads has The Keg chat happened? I swear they are renting free space in all our brains for some reason. Or is it just because The Keg is more symbolic of how terrible many Canadians' perception of "fancy" is?
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May 25, 2022 22:01
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https://twitter.com/david_moscrop/status/1529448374361116673?s=21&t=j8qcLbsITWbCK4VGbRknFQ
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May 25, 2022 22:03
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Wistful of Dollars posted:https://twitter.com/david_moscrop/status/1529448374361116673?s=21&t=j8qcLbsITWbCK4VGbRknFQ Wait up a sec. Is Patrick Brown running to be (potentially) Canada's mayor? He can't do that, that's reserved for current Ontario's mayor for when he decides to move up.
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May 25, 2022 22:17
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Xaranthius posted:Wait up a sec. Is Patrick Brown running to be (potentially) Canada's mayor? He can't do that, that's reserved for current Ontario's mayor for when he decides to move up. They need a place holder until Doug "Git R Done" Ford is ready.
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May 25, 2022 22:38
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Mr. Apollo posted:They need a place holder until Doug "Git R Done" Ford is ready. Ah, the Theresa May to our Bojo
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May 26, 2022 01:00
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Xaranthius posted:I wonder how many separate times in all of the CanPol threads has The Keg chat happened? I swear they are renting free space in all our brains for some reason. Or is it just because The Keg is more symbolic of how terrible many Canadians' perception of "fancy" is? Imagine a world where a Cara brands staple is the fanciest restaurant you can think of. This is a reality for millions of Canadians every day.
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May 26, 2022 01:20
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Is Ruth's Chris too obvious that you're deliberately running up the bill?
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May 26, 2022 02:49
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Quit judging people who bought houses at the peak of the real estate market and overpaid Lol I will never stop judging them
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May 26, 2022 03:14
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Aces High posted:Is Ruth's Chris too obvious that you're deliberately running up the bill? Yes. Also there's like two of them left
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May 26, 2022 03:14
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evilpicard posted:Quit judging people who bought houses at the peak of the real estate market and overpaid Is it even a real problem? There is a correction now, but prices will go up again eventually. If you sell in 10 years you should be fine. If you were an investor planning to flip it next year you're hosed (as flippers should be).
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May 26, 2022 03:18
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evilpicard posted:Quit judging people who bought houses at the peak of the real estate market and overpaid Love the bit in there that renting is a steal and saving money for the future, what a pipe dream. Also just read a horrible article that the Calgary police will be allowed to wear the thin Blue line flag in plainclothes and lol, dress uniform, because that's respectful. It is also hilariously the most American cargo cult bullshit and on our flag literally divides the flag in half, Hm, how appropriate. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-police-service-thin-blue-line-commission-association-1.6465334 Syfe fucked around with this message at 03:40 on May 26, 2022 |
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May 26, 2022 03:30
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I haven't watched much of The Agenda recently, so I had a look at a recent episode on housing policy for the Ontario election, featuring Kristyn Wong-Tam for the Dippers (running in Toronto Centre if you haven't been paying attention), some newbie for the Liberals and a random Green. Apparently the PCP-O have been snubbing the communist public broadcaster TVO, presumably at the behest of Drug Ford (see what I did there, hahahaha). Anyway, it was not a complete waste of time because we got to hear that both the NDP and Greens support rent control and also vacancy control, which as it sounds like, is continuing rent control for vacant units. The millennial PMC-seeming Liberal candidate gave some canned answers about how terrible Doug Ford is, then explained that their housing policy has been carefully crafted in considered consultation with a cornucopia of stakeholders, including FIRE vampires, who determined that vacancy control is actually a bad, unbalanced policy. You see, if you stop incentivizing landlords evicting their tenants and jacking up rents by double digit percentages every year, they will simply pack up their houses and leave, or something? The other two guests threw shade at the Lib for obviously selling out to big donor and small mom-and-pop landlord interests, which she shrugged off with some more incoherent concern trolling about imbalanced policies ruining supply. Anyway, I lost interest pretty quickly after that but if you want a great reason to poo poo on the OLP and not vote for them, there you go. The only other thing I remember is the Liberal saying they'd solve the supply problem by starting another new agency that would be a Housing Accelerator working with developers and industry, which...  Oh, and some mostly superficial discussion of zoning policy.
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May 26, 2022 04:07
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Facebook Aunt posted:Is it even a real problem? There is a correction now, but prices will go up again eventually. If you sell in 10 years you should be fine. If you were an investor planning to flip it next year you're hosed (as flippers should be). We'll see in 4-5 years. Last year I renewed my mortgage at 1.65% for a 5 year fixed. If I was buying a new house last year our house would been around $1 million. At that rate it would be $16,000 a year in interest. With todays rates of 4.59% rates it would be about $45,000 in interest in the first year.
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May 26, 2022 04:19
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Facebook Aunt posted:Is it even a real problem? There is a correction now, but prices will go up again eventually. If you sell in 10 years you should be fine. If you were an investor planning to flip it next year you're hosed (as flippers should be). If you were someone relying on it for income in retirement, you're probably also somewhat hosed. Housing isn't capable of indefinitely growing faster than the economy at large. People who think they've discovered a perpetual motion machine are going to be sorely disappointed regardless of how judgmental I and others are.
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May 26, 2022 04:24
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Syfe posted:Love the bit in there that renting is a steal and saving money for the future, what a pipe dream. Hmm, what could the problem be quote:But he encouraged plainclothes officers to continue to wear the thin blue line pin provided by the union. Ah yes, that syndicate that should absolutely never exist
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May 26, 2022 04:57
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eXXon posted:I haven't watched much of The Agenda recently, so I had a look at a recent episode on housing policy for the Ontario election, featuring Kristyn Wong-Tam for the Dippers (running in Toronto Centre if you haven't been paying attention), some newbie for the Liberals and a random Green. Apparently the PCP-O have been snubbing the communist public broadcaster TVO, presumably at the behest of Drug Ford (see what I did there, hahahaha). "There's a supply problem!" I continue to scream as I am walled in by condo towers like some green glass Cask of Amontillado. It's good to know with absolute certainty that the OLP have learned nothing from their time in the wilderness, and still believe that they will somehow be elected simply because the PCPO is worse.
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May 26, 2022 12:37
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Xaranthius posted:I wonder how many separate times in all of the CanPol threads has The Keg chat happened? I swear they are renting free space in all our brains for some reason. Or is it just because The Keg is more symbolic of how terrible many Canadians' perception of "fancy" is? It's the frustration that somehow The goddamn Keg has successfully wormed the way into the brains of basic white middle-class Canadians as the place to go for a fancy night out, without even considering what top-notch local independents might be available. It's fine if you're in a smaller town that basically just has the one street of chain restaurants as choices, but if you're in a larger city? Come on now. Food (and restaurant) prices have been jacked up so much in the last few years that trying to save a few bucks by going to a cheaper restaurant is not worth attempting anymore.
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May 26, 2022 13:38
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