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I don't trust us to govern
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May 19, 2023 17:52
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Charles Bukowski posted:I don't trust us to govern I dunno, I trust every CanPol poster to govern more than I do any current elected one. 
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May 19, 2023 18:00
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Unfortunately, the country already has a new idiot king.
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May 19, 2023 18:10
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eXXon posted:Unfortunately, the country already has a new idiot king. Only one?
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May 19, 2023 18:20
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Fidelitious posted:Yeah, I know less than poo poo about Peel Region (I assume it's some Toronto thing) but I'm generally in favour of municipal government structures that actually govern at least vaguely similar areas so that there aren't untenable competing interests. If the Province isn’t bringing regional governments back any time soon, an interim measure that Councils could do would be to organize their committees to better recognize regions. We already sort of do that in Ottawa with the Agricultural and Rural Affairs committee. Could also have two planning/transportation committees: one for inside the Greenbelt and one for outside.
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May 19, 2023 18:40
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/supreme-court-of-canada-barry-neufeld-glen-hansman-defemation-suit-decision-1.6849071quote:The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) has sided with a lower B.C. court in dismissing a defamation suit brought in 2018 by a then Chilliwack school board trustee against a former teachers' union leader, who described comments made by the trustee as bigoted, transphobic and hateful. Eat poo poo, Barry. It brought me so much joy to see him get ousted in the last election.
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May 19, 2023 18:43
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Fidelitious posted:Yeah, I know less than poo poo about Peel Region (I assume it's some Toronto thing) but I'm generally in favour of municipal government structures that actually govern at least vaguely similar areas so that there aren't untenable competing interests. The issue is that geographic separation doesn't necessarily mean that two or more areas are not interconnected or that a jurisdiction generating a lot of tax revenue doesn't depend on another jurisdiction to generate that tax revenue. Peel is this hypothetical regional government that handles supposedly region-wide concerns. The issue in this case is about Sauga coming to the conclusion rightly or wrongly that a bunch of stuff that Peel governs is no longer a "region-wide concern" based on the fact that it is paying out more than its supposed fair share. I generally don't like a collection of small jurisdictions because while it may trample local concerns, it also has more of a chance to bulldoze past NIMBYism and get poo poo done. I am not informed about the economics of the region but it may not be a stretch to say the 'Sauga's economic prospects in the past 20 years relied on Brampton to supply the housing needed for the workers and businesses in the city itself since 'Sauga had long since exhausted its land availability in the Hazel days. The construction of a passenger rail line running from Brampton to 'Sauga does suggest that the two cities are very interconnected and the math extends beyond simple tax into the region > expenditures within the city limits that the current mayor keeps bitching about.
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May 19, 2023 22:40
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The only good thing about Brampton is the Canada Soccer player maker factory they got going over there
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May 20, 2023 00:05
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Some of the food is pretty good too.
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May 20, 2023 00:12
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Lain Iwakura posted:https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/supreme-court-of-canada-barry-neufeld-glen-hansman-defemation-suit-decision-1.6849071 And that he was replaced by a trans man 
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May 20, 2023 02:23
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Blood Boils posted:And that he was replaced by a trans man That is delightful
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May 20, 2023 04:31
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Recently, an OPP officer was killed in a shooting in Bourget, Ontario, near Ottawa, and there was a whole regimental police funeral at the Canadian Tire Centre and everything, but someone sent me this little thing today and is it just me or is this in kind of poor taste? https://twitter.com/OPPAssociation/status/1659988846870777857 They say it's got sign-off from the family but, like, this is merch for a dead cop, right? Has any police force/police union ever done this before? This just seems extremely weird to me.
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May 21, 2023 21:42
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cops arent exactly the most socially aware people, or smart
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May 21, 2023 22:49
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Charles Bukowski posted:I don't trust us to govern Democracy is diluting the dumb, so that we get a random mix of everyone's dumb decisions instead of just one person's particular brand of dumb decisions. It's still stupid, and there's still potential for greater stupidity, but at least on average it should be a bit less stupid... maybe.
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May 21, 2023 23:24
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100% of people buying that shirt are doing so planning to wear it to their next field sobriety test to get out of a DUI
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May 21, 2023 23:35
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RBC posted:cops arent exactly the most socially aware people, or smart Doug Ford planning on making sure the second part of that statement rings truer than ever. 
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May 22, 2023 00:23
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https://nationalpost.com/opinion/someone-in-charge-finally-needs-to-say-no-to-high-speed-rail/wcm/fcd914e6-c11c-428c-b619-0ffdf66af225/amp/ Some needs to finally say no to high speed rail, that thing that is apparently happening too much
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May 22, 2023 01:51
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Oh yah I remember high speed railing way back in 2019, took me a blazing fast 12 hours to get from Montreal to Toronto at which point the gave up trying to high speed rail and high speed bused me back to Kitchener.
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May 22, 2023 02:32
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HackensackBackpack posted:They say it's got sign-off from the family but, like, this is merch for a dead cop, right? Has any police force/police union ever done this before? This just seems extremely weird to me. Growing up, we used to get regularly shaken down for contributions to the Policeman’s Widows Fund, so not exactly the same thing, but in a time honoured tradition.
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May 22, 2023 02:53
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Guy ain’t getting any deader and the family needs to feed themselves, in terms of Cop Things I don’t have much of an argument against it outside of people shouldn’t have to sell shirts of dead relatives to help survive
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May 22, 2023 03:10
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A Quick Google search posted:"The typical Ontario Provincial Police Police Officer salary is $106,578 per year. Police Officer salaries at Ontario Provincial Police can range from $72,435 - $130,000 per year. Mar 30, 2023"
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May 22, 2023 03:49
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Don't cop widows get some kind of cop pension or cop life insurance if they die in the line of duty?
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May 22, 2023 03:52
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Yeah but maybe it's getting diluted through a series of exes
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May 22, 2023 03:58
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TheKingofSprings posted:Guy ain’t getting any deader and the family needs to feed themselves, in terms of Cop Things I don’t have much of an argument against it outside of people shouldn’t have to sell shirts of dead relatives to help survive it's not going to the family if you look at the tweet it's going to the opp youth program or some poo poo family is definitely taken care of
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May 22, 2023 03:59
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COPE 27 posted:https://nationalpost.com/opinion/someone-in-charge-finally-needs-to-say-no-to-high-speed-rail/wcm/fcd914e6-c11c-428c-b619-0ffdf66af225/amp/ The article posted:Now imagine the wailing and gnashing of teeth when HSR’s proponents discovered that it’s more expensive than flying. To the first point, I don't think anyone is under any illusions that HSR would naturally be cheaper than flying unless it were heavily subsidized à la the kind of trains you see in Europe. That said, trains are simply so much better than flying along the Windsor-Québec corridor: you can show up ten minutes before it leaves; no security queue; bigger seats and legroom; if you get business class from MTL to TOR it costs the same as an economy flight but you get a meal and drinks and you only spend an hour or so extra. The second point is unfortunately true given the dire state of the electorate in this country. I did enjoy the part where they lamented how small townships along the main CN rail line might have to pay to support this new infrastructure (for an unspecified amount because they have no actual numbers or data to present), and brought up the fast ferries in BC, something I hadn't thought about in like ten years. Good to know that Canada has a history of "boondoggles" when it comes to mass transit solutions, but nothing's wrong with all the highways we have in the country -- by implication we should really be spending more of our money on them, I guess.
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May 22, 2023 08:24
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Guest2553 posted:Yeah but maybe it's getting diluted through a series of victims
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May 22, 2023 09:07
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Petanque posted:To the first point, I don't think anyone is under any illusions that HSR would naturally be cheaper than flying unless it were heavily subsidized à la the kind of trains you see in Europe. That said, trains are simply so much better than flying along the Windsor-Québec corridor: you can show up ten minutes before it leaves; no security queue; bigger seats and legroom; if you get business class from MTL to TOR it costs the same as an economy flight but you get a meal and drinks and you only spend an hour or so extra. The last study I remember reading showed that the carbon footprint of high speed rail is also smaller than air and vehicle and given the expected increases oin population/travel along the corridor. The best and cheapest option is to nationalize the entire rail system in the country along side building HSR but that might ruffle a few conservative feathers.
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May 22, 2023 14:07
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COPE 27 posted:https://nationalpost.com/opinion/someone-in-charge-finally-needs-to-say-no-to-high-speed-rail/wcm/fcd914e6-c11c-428c-b619-0ffdf66af225/amp/ This opinion showed up in my google news feed thing yesterday and my body instinctively hit the buttons so that it would never show me anything from National Post ever again. I think I've saved my brain a lot of future damage here.
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May 22, 2023 14:26
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Weird how the list of transportation boondoggles had no room for the 407 ETR.
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May 22, 2023 14:36
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What boondoggle? It's generating hundreds of millions in revenue every year for its owners. Sounds like a success story to me...
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May 22, 2023 14:40
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Guest2553 posted:Yeah but maybe it's getting diluted through a series of exes 40% of it, for sure.
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May 22, 2023 16:53
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better things aren't possible!
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May 22, 2023 20:56
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HackensackBackpack posted:They say it's got sign-off from the family but, like, this is merch for a dead cop, right? Has any police force/police union ever done this before? This just seems extremely weird to me. Is it weird anymore though? After each weekly mass shooting in the USA, there's an industry of people making "Austin Strong" or "Las Vegas Strong" or "Pensacola Strong" t-shirts and stickers and hats. The same people who buy and wear that stuff would snap up dead cop merch too. Morally weird: yes. Abnormal: not anymore.
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May 23, 2023 13:33
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InfiniteZero posted:Is it weird anymore though? After each weekly mass shooting in the USA, there's an industry of people making "Austin Strong" or "Las Vegas Strong" or "Pensacola Strong" t-shirts and stickers and hats. The same people who buy and wear that stuff would snap up dead cop merch too. After enough commemorative t-shirt purchases you should be able to wear enough layers to actually form a bullet-proof barrier. Probably only needs about a month's worth of shootings.
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May 23, 2023 14:19
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InfiniteZero posted:Is it weird anymore though? After each weekly mass shooting in the USA, there's an industry of people making "Austin Strong" or "Las Vegas Strong" or "Pensacola Strong" t-shirts and stickers and hats. The same people who buy and wear that stuff would snap up dead cop merch too. Soon we will hear democrats argue that we can’t end shootings as it would cost too many jobs.
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May 23, 2023 14:40
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Fidelitious posted:After enough commemorative t-shirt purchases you should be able to wear enough layers to actually form a bullet-proof barrier. Probably only needs about a month's worth of shootings. ... and think of the added layers of emotional security knowing that you're strong enough to keep letting this kind of thing happen!
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May 23, 2023 19:23
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I voted. Pretty painless. walk in, get printout, fill in circle, stick in machine. Weren't many other voters there yet. there are a lot of NDP yard signs here. If Yard signs could vote i think the NDP would have it.
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May 23, 2023 21:34
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No public inquiry into foreign interference. Can’t wait to be bashed over the head with this inane yellow scare talking point forever until the next Federal election.
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May 23, 2023 23:42
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The headline snippet I read mentioned that there was effectively no way to have a public inquiry since all the supporting information was classified, which makes sense and is also the kind of thing that will be completely ignored as the CPC makes hay out of the report.
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May 24, 2023 00:41
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infernal machines posted:The headline snippet I read mentioned that there was effectively no way to have a public inquiry since all the supporting information was classified, which makes sense and is also the kind of thing that will be completely ignored as the CPC makes hay out of the report.
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May 24, 2023 00:48
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