Brandon Proust posted:

Hubbert posted:

Putin ridicules Canada's former Speaker over Nazi incident

freeland provides comment at the very end

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It's not surprising that Putin, who repeatedly claims he is waging war on Ukraine in order to "de-Nazify" it, would seize on the scandal, but his remarks were prompted by a question from a Canadian, Radhika Desai, who is a professor in the department of political studies at the University of Manitoba.

quote:

The five largest grocery chains have delivered plans to stabilize food prices to the federal government, Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne said Thursday.

Champagne met with the heads of Loblaw, Sobeys, Metro, Costco and Walmart in Ottawa last month. The minister told them the government wanted to see their plans to stabilize prices by Thanksgiving.

The grocery chains are promising more discounts, price freezes and price-matching campaigns, Champagne said Thursday.

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The Competition Bureau reported in June that Canada's grocery sector lacks competition and is dominated by three domestic giants: Loblaw, Sobeys and Metro. It called on the government to encourage new market entrants to bring down prices.

Champagne was pushed by reporters to explain how he can be sure government pressure resulted in the actions grocers are now promising.

Metro told CBC News last year that annual price freeze campaigns between November and February are "industry practice."

In response, Champagne claimed the September meeting was the first time all five grocery CEOs had been brought together by the federal government in the same room.

"I think we've been a catalyst to bring [these actions] to the forefront," he said. "This is day one of a process … What we have achieved would be a catalyst for more measures, faster measures and long lasting measures.

Brandon Proust posted:

eXXon posted:

lol that the finger-wagging minister literally named Champagne was asked to explain how he expected his plan of "lower prices please" to work and his answer was well I asked them all at once instead of separately.

RealityWarCriminal posted:

this isnt going to be fixed by pleading

Isizzlehorn posted:

satire accounts looking increasingly nervous at their list of absurd article ideas

eXXon posted:

lol that the finger-wagging minister literally named Champagne was asked to explain how he expected his plan of "lower prices please" to work and his answer was well I asked them all at once instead of separately.

Isizzlehorn posted:

satire accounts looking increasingly nervous at their list of absurd article ideas

RealityWarCriminal posted:

this isnt going to be fixed by pleading

Randalor posted:

Clearly that just means the First Nations people can get plenty of practice trolling Nazis like the greatest soldier in North American history, nay, possibly the world.

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In August 1950 Prince returned to the Canadian Army to fight with the United Nations troops in the Korean War. "I owed something to my friends who died" in WWII, he stated.

PhilippAchtel posted:

Manitoba has a First Nations premier.

On the other hand we still publicly revere Nazis.

A land of contrasts

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“My nervousness is the Line 2 trains and the signal system that’s getting very, very frail,” TTC chief executive Rick Leary said at a board meeting last month. “We’re starting to take a real hard look at that.”

He said “having to shut things down because of the lack of funding — those are possibilities in the future.”

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As of June, the TTC estimated it needed about $2.5 billion to buy 80 new trains — 55 to replace Line 2’s aging fleet and 25 to allow for growth on Line 1. The city pledged to cover a third of the cost, but the provincial and federal governments did not step up.

A spokesperson for the provincial minister of transportation said the city did not engage with the province prior to issuing the request for proposals to buy new Line 2 trains.

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The TTC is short more than $10 billion over the next 15 years to maintain a state of good repair, according to a June 2023 report by the agency’s CEO. More than $25 billion of its 15-year, $38-billion capital investment plan — which includes state of good repair, as well as things like fleet replacement and maintenance — is unfunded.

ColdBlooded posted:

Tuesday's result was a good one ultimately - but even though the Manitoba Cons ran a bafflingly terrible campaign, they still got 42% of the popular vote which is only a 5% decrease from 2019. I fear that they could've ran the exact same campaign and won had they had a more charismatic leader.

drat horror queefs posted:

Bit of fun Toronto news for my local chums:

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/al...29f673f46e.html





Unfortunately the federal government needs that money to fund parades for Ukrainian nazis so you're just going to have to buy a car and drive on the 401 forever sorry I don't make the rules

CLAM DOWN posted:

lol everything i read about the toronto transit system make it sound like absolute dogshit

Houle posted:

Honestly it really shows how loving stupid they are. Literally now Putin has undoctored of the Canadian government saluting a Nazi. Putin can even just say "see, they are so ignorant of their own history how can they be so sure about the history going on here?". Watch Canada and its small fish in a big pond energy be the reason why Ukraine loses the PR war and with that support.

drat horror queefs posted:

Unfortunately the federal government needs that money to fund parades for Ukrainian nazis so you're just going to have to buy a car and drive on the 401 forever sorry I don't make the rules

infernal machines posted:

the ttc is simultaneously "not good" and "the best transit system in canada"

make of that what you will

CLAM DOWN posted:

lol everything i read about the toronto transit system make it sound like absolute dogshit

bunnyofdoom posted:

And yet Ottawa's is somehow worse

bunnyofdoom posted:

And yet Ottawa's is somehow worse

OldAlias posted:

ottawas sucks poo poo the train goes from nowhere to nowhere (at least was the case before I left over a decade ago) and the bus system takes at least 3x as long to get anywhere, especially cursed if you live outside of the city proper

infernal machines posted:

the ttc is simultaneously "not good" and "the best transit system in canada"

make of that what you will

DariusLikewise posted:

i wish winnipeg would have built the planned monorail back in the 60s

bunnyofdoom posted:

No we now have a second train running from Blair to tunneys that cost several billions and only works about 30% of the time now. And has made international headlines..... it literally doesn't work in wet weather

DariusLikewise posted:

i wish winnipeg would have built the planned monorail back in the 60s