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Powershift posted:The UCP are going to give millions to their donors for studies and millions to their donors for surveys and millions to their donors for propaganda and then get smacked the gently caress down in the referendum. What is the mechanism for withdrawing from the CPP? Does Alberta actually have a claim on more than %population of it?
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Sep 22, 2023 01:37
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Another Sikh separatist just got murdered, this time in Winnipeg what the christ
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Sep 22, 2023 01:40
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MA-Horus posted:Another Sikh separatist just got murdered, this time in Winnipeg If this keeps up we're going to have to write a strongly worded letter.
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Sep 22, 2023 01:53
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Another Bill posted:I'm wonder what this means for the Bradford Bypass. Ah, the highway that had its proposed route altered to go around a golf course part-owned by the father of a sitting MPP:  ... which the integrity commissioner had no problem with.
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Sep 22, 2023 02:04
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eXXon posted:Ah, the highway that had its proposed route altered to go around a golf course part-owned by the father of a sitting MPP: God it owns how obvious all this stuff is and how little anyone actually cares. Looking forward to that MPP's succesful reelection
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Sep 22, 2023 02:12
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tagesschau posted:It really is Canada's Texas, isn't it? Where do you think most of the American brain rot has been seeping in from?
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Sep 22, 2023 02:17
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CBC is reporting that the government has human and signals intelligence implicating the Indian government in the Nijjar assassination, including intercepted communications between Indian diplomats . Also, the US is clearly pissed off and is declaring their support for Canada. Sullivan was calling out the press reports that implied a wedge between us in his press briefing today. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/sikh-nijjar-india-canada-trudeau-modi-1.6974607 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K7TQUcM3BVU&pp=ygUmamFrZSBzdWxsaXZhbiBwcmVzcyBicmllZmluZyBpbmRpYSBjdHY%3D In other news - get rekt Doug Ford.
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Sep 22, 2023 02:30
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Another Bill posted:Great news! No other conservative politician that I'm aware of seems to be willing to do anything resembling Ford Fest, so you may be on to something. If anything, I could see Poilievre doing a "Skippy Event", which is literally him just skipping an event. (I know that's a bad joke, but unfortunately Andrew Scheer is no longer leader so I can't try a "Scheer's Not Here").
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Sep 22, 2023 02:31
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Fornax Disaster posted:https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/sikh-nijjar-india-canada-trudeau-modi-1.6974607  He'll do to you what he did to Ontario!
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Sep 22, 2023 02:58
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MA-Horus posted:Another Sikh separatist just got murdered, this time in Winnipeg A Google search on this brings up a bunch of Indian media calling him a gangster. This seems pretty coordinated, why would they care about the death of a criminal in another country, with all the articles being released within a few hours of each other. The headlines make him sound like he’s India’s Dillinger. E: Sukhdool Singh Gill, is the victim in Winnipeg. Unclear if he’s another Sikh separatist or just wanted in India for criminal activity. https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/winnipeg/2023/9/21/1_6571959.amp.html Fornax Disaster fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Sep 22, 2023 |
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Sep 22, 2023 03:01
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infernal machines posted:
Can India afford Rae Days?!
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Sep 22, 2023 03:08
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McGavin posted:Called it. bullying works! now how are we going to do that in Alberta?
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Sep 22, 2023 03:13
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infernal machines posted:
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Sep 22, 2023 11:36
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MA-Horus posted:Another Sikh separatist just got murdered, this time in Winnipeg After reading a bunch of articles any link to Khalistan movement seems very tenuous besides being from Punjab. And most of the very little information from police/RCMP seems quite certain that this is just run-of-the-mill gang killing. It seems to just be blowing up because he was on a list of most wanted that India put out. I'm not ruling it out or anything but it's feeling very unlikely to me at the moment.
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Sep 22, 2023 14:08
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Another Ontario cabinet minister, Monte McNaughton, just resigned his office. Third one this month! e: I'm not going to toxx it, but I'm thinking by November 15 Doug Ford has resigned as well. Another Bill fucked around with this message at 14:18 on Sep 22, 2023 |
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Sep 22, 2023 14:16
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Gonna need Doug Ford to carpet bomb Dundas Street or make the GO Train exclusively for landlords or something lest actual consequences keep happening and Bill gets too smug
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Sep 22, 2023 14:18
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Another Bill posted:Another Ontario cabinet minister, Monte McNaughton, just resigned his office. There's a lot of cabinet shuffling going on but everyone so far is staying on as MPP. IDK what it would take for Doug Ford to resign, but I'd bet it would be "actual criminal charges". It's good that they're resigning from the cabinet, OTOH, this is not meaningfully changing the makeup of the government, beyond pulling some back benchers up from riding the pine. Whether or not putting people who were not previously considered cabinet material in Doug Ford's government in charge of things will have any kind of positive outcome, remains to be seen. infernal machines fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Sep 22, 2023 |
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Sep 22, 2023 14:20
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infernal machines posted:There's a lot of cabinet shuffling going on but everyone so far is staying on as MPP. IDK what it would take for Doug Ford to resign, but I'd bet it would be "actual criminal charges". McNaughton is leaving for the private sector, so he’ll have to resign as an MPP.
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Sep 22, 2023 14:22
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Attack of conscience or preemptively making it harder to FOIA their emails/RCMP search their file cabinets? You decide!
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Sep 22, 2023 14:24
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eXXon posted:Attack of conscience or preemptively making it harder to FOIA their emails/RCMP search their file cabinets? You decide! If they had a conscience they wouldn't be in this position to begin with, so decidedly the latter.
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Sep 22, 2023 14:26
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“The buck stops here, folks” refers only to actual dollars passed in envelopes, not like, consequences or responsibilities.
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Sep 22, 2023 14:40
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Syfe posted:Ford reversing plans to touch the greenbelt, admitted he said he wouldn't touch it. I wonder how this will play out next.
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Sep 22, 2023 15:03
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teethgrinder posted:https://www.thebeaverton.com/2023/09/greenbelt-developers-invite-ford-to-4am-no-hard-feelings-party-at-the-docks/ This doesn't count for bills prediction
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Sep 22, 2023 15:06
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StealthArcher posted:This doesn't count for bills prediction Tbh I'm dying to see what happens next. Probably a few more MPPs jumping ship for the private sector (ie to run for PP next election) at least.
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Sep 22, 2023 15:12
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Another Bill posted:Another Ontario cabinet minister, Monte McNaughton, just resigned his office. A lovely thought. And thanks for the links, I probably shouldn't read about Harper's political machinations before I've had morning coffee though.  
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Sep 22, 2023 15:51
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Another Bill posted:Another Ontario cabinet minister, Monte McNaughton, just resigned his office. Manifesting this!
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Sep 22, 2023 16:21
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https://twitter.com/YourAlberta/status/1704933513646985660?t=3mcpaN731zhTCJ3--7MxBg&s=19 If the referendum goes ahead, they will probably win. Lol i hate this lovely province so much Even with family and a mortgage and all this bullshit, that might finally force us to move. That's taking away so many people's retirement. It is so insanely hosed up.
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Sep 22, 2023 19:44
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So what exactly happens if the APP forms? Is there an actual process for Alberta to extract money from the CPP, and who decides exactly how much Alberta can take from it? Or will it pass, Alberta goes to the Federal government and demands 125% of the CPP, and the Federal government goes "ROFL gently caress no go away" and suddenly the rest of not-Quebec Canada has a slightly larger CPP share?
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Sep 22, 2023 19:51
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Randalor posted:So what exactly happens if the APP forms? Is there an actual process for Alberta to extract money from the CPP, and who decides exactly how much Alberta can take from it? Apparently it's determined by the federal government via negotiation with the province withdrawing as per the CBC article: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-pension-plan-danielle-smith-change-minds-analysis-dinning-1.6974719 CBC News posted:In Tombe's own newly published paper, he estimates Alberta would be more reasonably entitled to 20 or 25 per cent of CPP's present assets. CPPIB has not worked out its own figure, but Leduc said Tombe's math is much closer to a realistic figure, though even that may be high.
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Sep 22, 2023 20:21
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Yeah there's no established procedure on how withdrawal would work, and it's never been done so there's no precedent on how to do it. The $344B figure is ludicrous on the face of it, but honestly after skimming the act to see that there is no provision for provinces exiting, it's distinctly possible that Alberta's entitlement is $0, and we're just free to start our own from scratch if we want (with the requirement that the fund is up and running within 3 years and we match CPP payouts).
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Sep 22, 2023 20:33
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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I can't wait for Alberta to take their entitlement to the pension funds (likely 15%) and spend those funds like they did the HSTF.
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Sep 22, 2023 20:38
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I love that there's no explicit way to answer No in that rag of a survey. As soon as you choose what you think should be prioritized in the survey(again, no option to just say "leave it be"), they just assume that you're in support of it . UCP used toilet paper survey posted:As you indicated, you are in favour of increasing pension benefits under an Alberta Pension Plan Motherfucker, I'm in favour of not doing anything. It gets even better later on   Oh, and the cherry on top  This is a blatant attempt at pulling out of the CPP so they can use that money to invest in Oil and Gas and cut payroll costs for the wealthy. Oh, and of course, we've gotta let the private sector manage the investment too, I'm sure they've already got some of their Country Club buddies lined up to take up that contract. drat. I think I need to go out and touch grass today, I am getting pretty angry after having done this farce of a survey
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Sep 22, 2023 21:29
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Don’t forget the consultants are a subsidiary of Telus health, which manages pensions
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Sep 22, 2023 23:55
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Who wants some more good news! https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/canada-post-reviewing-use-of-address-data-following-criticism-from-privacy-watchdog-1.1975147 quote:Canada Post says it is reviewing how it uses data for tailored marketing campaigns after the federal privacy watchdog found the post office was breaking the law by gleaning information from the outsides of envelopes and packages. What the actual gently caress is Canada Post doing, selling this information to the highest bidder? No wonder I get such targeted mail spam, it's the loving post office doing the spying!
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Sep 23, 2023 00:01
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Mederlock posted:What the actual gently caress is Canada Post doing, selling this information to the highest bidder? No wonder I get such targeted mail spam, it's the loving post office doing the spying! This may help you: https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/support/kb/receiving/mail-delivery/how-to-stop-receiving-advertising-mail
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Sep 23, 2023 00:30
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ZShakespeare posted:This may help you: Also this: https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/info/mc/personal/tools/canadacomplete/default_en.jsf
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Sep 23, 2023 00:52
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ZShakespeare posted:This may help you: Appreciate thalose resources, thanks. But this sort of spying should be opt-in and clearly communicated with their clients(read: every individual and business with a fixed address) through a yearly heads up. I had absolutely no idea this was something you had to actively go out of your way to opt out of, and clearly the privacy commissioner thought their lack of notifying people was problematic as well.
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Sep 23, 2023 02:05
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Mederlock posted:Who wants some more good news! We had Canada Post forward my mother in law's mail to us after she died. Removed the forwarding label and wrote "deceased" on the outside of the forwarded envelopes then dropped them back in the mail so the senders could delete her from their databases. We're now getting letters from those same businesses addressed directly to Mom at our address. Looks like our suspicion about Canada Post selling the new address was correct. Wouldn't piss me off so much if snail spam was compostable.
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Sep 23, 2023 02:32
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Mederlock posted:Who wants some more good news! Buddy, Canada Post has been selling mailing lists for years, and for at least 2013-2016 they outsourced the arrangement of this to poorly-paid employees of an abusive and lovely call centre in Hamilton, Ontario. When that contract ended they dropped that call centre and went for an even cheaper and shittier one in Kingston (and did such a lovely job training them that they had us benighted Hamilton folks teach them how to do it) . Mailing lists were based on general demographic trends identifiable by postal code through uhhhhhhh PRIZM, I think, which I believe worked off census data, but it's been.....gently caress, seven years since I worked in that shithole. They certainly couldn't tell that C. M. Burns who lived at the corner of Croesus and Mammon had regular deliveries of foie gras or whatever, or at least they couldn't at the time, but that was a while ago.
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Sep 23, 2023 03:02
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Mederlock posted:Appreciate thalose resources, thanks. Oh, if it was opt in like it should be no one would want it and it wouldn't make as much money Almost like the post should be a public service instead of a profit seeking company
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