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large hands posted:we need to ban back yard pools and trampolines, think of the children And yet, I can't fill my bathtub up all the way, for my own safety. 
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Helsing posted:I think this can be seen as a teachable moment regarding how our political parties end up behaving in the ways that they do. My biggest issue with the Green Party has always been my suspicion that the closer they get to influence and power, the more they'll come to resemble the other political parties. Wait, the green party is close to power? 
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P.d0t posted:Wait, the green party is close to power? It wouldn't be impossible for them to have the balance of power in a minority government situation. Or BC will vote in the Greens next election because they can't possibly be worse than Christy Clark or the BCNDP.
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P.d0t posted:Wait, the green party is close to power? Not in the sense of forming government or even influencing policy, but the national party is an established enough brand that controlling it confers certain advantages to at least a handful of people.
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Sep 29, 2016 08:07
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Helsing posted:That seems to be one small part of a larger story about an internal power struggle over the party's relationship to the BDS movement though? If the story is the entire BDS kerfuffle, I don't know how the takeaway can be "the Greens are behaving too much like a competent party". There was a contentious resolution at convention. Instead of organising to defeat it like any other normal party establishment would have, by lining up speakers and validators and all the things parties do to get the results they want at conventions, the GPC just kinda ignored that it was going on and then was blindsided by a result their only MP wouldn't accept and got a few bad news stories out of it. That's not too much professionalisation, it's too little. And really, it's not much of a struggle - one side holds all the cards. Elizabeth May does not need the Green Party for anything other than fundraising between elections, but the Greens really need Elizabeth May. She just kinda gets to do whatever she wants and dare the membership to remove her, without any kind of counterbalance like caucus or regional players to rein her in. The story was brought up today, though, as evidence that May is screwing up somehow, but she's just doing what's best for her by refusing to publicly engage with Ricochet over the really pathetically silly issue of her saying that Alex is not worth engaging with in emails. Ethan publishing an op-ed that's just a long whine about The Tyee getting an interview while he doesn't and how it's a disrespect to the 12,000 people who read his explosive #greenleaks story is not even close to a serious issue for her.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/09/28/ontario-minister-says-opposition-to-nestle-water-taking-based-on-misinformation_n_12235180.html Wow guys Liz Sandals is here to explain how we're all dumb for disliking Nestle and actually they're just a poor plucky little misunderstand megacorporation.
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Oh wow even canlit got involved!!! Don't gently caress with Margaret Atwood's water u guys
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crackton posted:Shank my dog, I'll eat your kid. See you're joking but I'm not, I'd get a suspended sentence or community service and a 'fine'  actually come to think of it, you can simply  accidentally hit someone with a car then drink a bunch of booze following the accident to blow over the limit. #realchange #drewjitsu Risky Bisquick fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Sep 29, 2016 |
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Sep 29, 2016 15:32
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Risky Bisquick posted:See you're joking but I'm not, I'd get a suspended sentence or community service and a 'fine' Or just be a cop when you hit someone with your car. quote:Just after 5:00 p.m., the subject officer had finished escorting some vehicles through the debris when he proceeded south on the highway to just before the intersection of 25 Sideroad and parked on the west side of the southbound lanes, straddling the curb lane and the shoulder of the highway. http://www.siu.on.ca/en/news_template.php?nrid=2806
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vyelkin posted:http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/09/28/ontario-minister-says-opposition-to-nestle-water-taking-based-on-misinformation_n_12235180.html Bunch of rural nimbys. Bloo windmills are loud, boo electricity is too expensive, bloo I can't have 8 showers a day. My condo in Toronto has tons of water, rurals are dumb. Risky Bisquick posted:See you're joking but I'm not, I'd get a suspended sentence or community service and a 'fine' I don't think you'd get charged with anything for shanking a dog that was actively attacking your kid. The big one to watch out for would be having a shiv in the first place, maybe you carry a utility knife for work or something. Ontario case law is pretty lenient towards people who kill dogs, it's flat out perfectly legal to murder a dog that's attacking your livestock so I imagine kids would be okay too. e: not a lawyer, looked into it a lot when I was having problems with trespassing dogs. You can't shoot them just for that. Unless they're in your crops but alas I have no crops. Postess with the Mostest fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Sep 29, 2016 |
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Sep 29, 2016 15:44
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Lobok posted:Or just be a cop when you hit someone with your car.
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Honestly I'd just use an asp, which is legal to conceal carry in ON.
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Risky Bisquick posted:Honestly I'd just use an asp, which is legal to conceal carry in ON.
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Risky Bisquick posted:Honestly I'd just use an asp, which is legal to conceal carry in ON. Are they actually legal? Durham police says conceal is nono but it's old, http://www.drps.ca/internet_explorer/guest_book/guest_book_view.asp?ID=583&Page=21 Regardless, your baton's not gonna do anything to an angry pit bull unless maybe the absurdity confuses it momentarily. quote:Toronto Police shot and killed a pit bull on Saturday just after 4 p.m. when it attacked a shih tzu and held the small dog down with a “locked-jaw grip,” police said.
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An asp will break bones, so break some legs For pitbulls just take a pic and report each one to 311/police and follow up to make sure they investigated.
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Postess with the Mostest posted:Bunch of rural nimbys. Bloo windmills are loud, boo electricity is too expensive, bloo I can't have 8 showers a day. My condo in Toronto has tons of water, rurals are dumb. This about sums it up, yeah.
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peter banana posted:Nominating this post to be the first of the next thread. Aww  That's me putting my Communication Studies degree to good use after living in a small city dominated by rural/suburban whitebread-as-gently caress people.
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It worked for Cpl Robinson, but he has the cop thing to fall back on
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I have been summoned as a potential juror, I shall remain impartial until I vote guilty.
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Postess with the Mostest posted:Are they actually legal? Durham police says conceal is nono but it's old, http://www.drps.ca/internet_explorer/guest_book/guest_book_view.asp?ID=583&Page=21 quote:“The dog that was shot was actually a really friendly dog,” he added. quote:Milena J. Szwaczynska-Dwyer · Eastern Michigan University Brannock fucked around with this message at 17:14 on Sep 29, 2016 |
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Oh are we talking about police killings? How about his guy, acquitted for hitting and killing a "jaywalker" while speeding after a van because he was, uh, late for a non-urgent surveillance mission: https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2016/09/21/york-cop-acquitted-in-2014-death-of-jaywalker.html Also not lol at repeatedly calling the victim a jaywalker for not using a crosswalk 70 metres away when TPS notes that 30m is the standard definition and that it's not actually a meaningful legal term. Oops.
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eXXon posted:Oh are we talking about police killings? How about his guy, acquitted for hitting and killing a "jaywalker" while speeding after a van because he was, uh, late for a non-urgent surveillance mission: The other part that I hated hearing was this, from the defence lawyer, which is straight out of the pedestrian-blaming playbook that always gets used: quote:She was wearing dark clothes and possibly had headphones on, he said. On Twitter whenever there's a story about a car crashing into a building or patio you can count on people to ask "was the building wearing dark clothing?"
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That was always weird when I used to cycle in downtown Toronto andI would periodically get clipped by cars and taxis. I always called the cops and told the driver to wait. Then the cops would show up and tell me off for calling because I wasn't injured or the damgae wasn't over $600. Like, I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to hit anyone with your car at any time. Not even just a little bit.
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Lobok posted:On Twitter whenever there's a story about a car crashing into a building or patio you can count on people to ask "was the building wearing dark clothing?" That slutty building should have kept its legs together
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peter banana posted:That was always weird when I used to cycle in downtown Toronto andI would periodically get clipped by cars and taxis. I always called the cops and told the driver to wait. Then the cops would show up and tell me off for calling because I wasn't injured or the damgae wasn't over $600. Like, I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to hit anyone with your car at any time. Not even just a little bit.
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Cycling is safe guysquote:Cars hit 1,083[reported] Toronto pedestrians, cyclists since June
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PittTheElder posted:It can be, but it won't be. No it cannot lol
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Pinterest Mom posted:If the story is the entire BDS kerfuffle, I don't know how the takeaway can be "the Greens are behaving too much like a competent party". There was a contentious resolution at convention. Instead of organising to defeat it like any other normal party establishment would have, by lining up speakers and validators and all the things parties do to get the results they want at conventions, the GPC just kinda ignored that it was going on and then was blindsided by a result their only MP wouldn't accept and got a few bad news stories out of it. That's not too much professionalisation, it's too little. Your only take on this entire incident is critiquing how efficiently the party insiders gutted (or in this case failed to gut) a popular resolution coming from the rank and file. No wonder you didn't see this as a relevant part of the story, it's basically invisible to you I guess. Are you really that indifferent to the actual conflict over issues or the question of what the relationship should be between party MPs and party members? Do you really directly equate "efficiently containing or screwing over the membership" with "professionalism" and "competence"? quote:And really, it's not much of a struggle - one side holds all the cards. Elizabeth May does not need the Green Party for anything other than fundraising between elections, but the Greens really need Elizabeth May. She just kinda gets to do whatever she wants and dare the membership to remove her, without any kind of counterbalance like caucus or regional players to rein her in. This kind of imbalance is what I was alluding to earlier, so I guess on this point we agree. As a small party begins to gain a bit of traction in the electoral system it becomes dependent on recognizable representatives, much in the way the Green party has grown to depend on Elizabeth May. The result can be the tail wagging the dog -- the MP gets to dictate things to the party membership, when many would feel the relationship ought to go the other way. But from what I can gather this just doesn't interest you because the idea a political party would be pushing an issue-based agenda rather than just trying to grow its parliamentary representation is obviously not something you think is feasible. quote:The story was brought up today, though, as evidence that May is screwing up somehow, but she's just doing what's best for her by refusing to publicly engage with Ricochet over the really pathetically silly issue of her saying that Alex is not worth engaging with in emails. Ethan publishing an op-ed that's just a long whine about The Tyee getting an interview while he doesn't and how it's a disrespect to the 12,000 people who read his explosive #greenleaks story is not even close to a serious issue for her. Jesus dude, "screwing up somehow"? Did it occur to you that maybe there's an actual ideological conflict here about how the party should be run and what issues it should represent? When the story was posted me take-away was that the Green's, now having won an actual seat, are already getting as indifferent to party democracy as any of the other parties (the "competent" ones by your reading, though I would not attach that word to the NDP), and in particular that their leader seems way to the right of the party on the Israel-Palestine issue. That to me is not really a story about whether Elizabeth May "screwed up" any more than Harper's bad decisions weren't really about him "screwing up". Not every news story needs to be analyzed through the cliche lense of "did this politician commit a gaffe that we can chuckle over?"
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What should I be looking for. Faces of sadness byways of lost earning potential? Be specific so I can make notes
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Dudes, we've finally made it as a country, Adrienne Clarkson is quoted in Civ VI when you discover Iron Working! We can pack it up and kill each other to the last with cars or bicycles or whatever you dour fucks are bitching about today.
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jfood posted:Dudes, we've finally made it as a country, Adrienne Clarkson is quoted in Civ VI when you discover Iron Working! Call me when we're an actual, commercially released Civilization in the game and not just 'The City State of Toronto'
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JVNO posted:Call me when we're an actual, commercially released Civilization in the game and not just 'The City State of Toronto' Britain's already in the game though 
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Here's your semi-regular reminder for the day that Saudi Arabia is the worst:quote:Saudi Arabia arrests teenage YouTube star over 'enticing' videos with female American blogger This isn't really comparable to how they're using famine and white phosphorus as weapons of war in Yemen or exporting terrible Wahhabi beliefs all around the world but I imagine a lot of Canadians have an easier time imagining what it's like to be prosecuted for a youtube video than what it's like to be on the wrong end of a nasty counter insurgency campaign.
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JVNO posted:Call me when we're an actual, commercially released Civilization in the game Play as the British and take over one of France's far-flung settlements.
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Brannock posted:Britain's already in the game though America though. I mean, yeah, revolutionary war and all that but still, you could potentially use this argument to exclude them (and any other countries borne through independence from a parent civilization). I suppose it's nice to have a representative of the modern era, but a not-insignificant part of the motivation for including America is sheer commercial appeal. Lobok posted:Play as the British and take over one of France's far-flung settlements. Hahaha... Ahah...
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jfood posted:Dudes, we've finally made it as a country, Adrienne Clarkson is quoted in Civ VI when you discover Iron Working! what's the quotation
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vyelkin posted:http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/09/28/ontario-minister-says-opposition-to-nestle-water-taking-based-on-misinformation_n_12235180.html So, what's the misinformation - that Nestle is an untrustworthy corporate evil-doer that's had an active role in killing third world babies and harming the health of millions/billions world-wide? How about sourcing cocoa beans from child slave plantations or seafood from slave ships? The Wynne government and Nestle interacting? This deeply concerns me. One wrong move by Wynne, et al and our water belongs to NAFTA. I like Elon Musk's idea for a one-way Mars colonization ship. Maybe we could persuade these one percenters to pay for their own tickets and impress the hell out of us with their superior ingenuity and work ethic from a safe distance.
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