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brucio posted:Double post, but interesting thoughts from Peter Stoffer:
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# ¿ Oct 27, 2015 13:32 |
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# ¿ May 1, 2024 20:04 |
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Chicken posted:How do you design an MMP system where this isn't true? How do you design any system where urban and rural are fairly balanced? Right now rural is over represented. With the existing system as the baseline for the regional representation map under MMP this will still be true whether or not weird cases like Saskatchewan sometimes reverse it locally. You have pointed out to an added virtue of MMP though, in that it might actually balance each party's rural/urban split.
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# ¿ Nov 2, 2015 15:44 |
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Reason #768 I'm glad I don't live in Manitoba:Manitoba PC Leader Brian Pallister posted:I hate Halloween. I always have. I don't like the deceit of it. I don't like the holiday and I never will. I don't like trick or treat. I think it's–I don't think it's good for the integrity of the kids.
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# ¿ Nov 2, 2015 16:26 |
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Canadians have long had a strange inferiority/superiority complex feedback loop, the dirty little secret is we're really just slightly toned down Americans (and not by much).
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# ¿ Nov 3, 2015 19:30 |
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This story comes out every year, it is absurdly easy to nominate anyone for a Nobel Peace Prize, any elected official or academic can nominate anyone they like. Supposedly even the professor of modern Israel studies at Canada Christian College who nominates Harper every year (but I doubt it).
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# ¿ Nov 6, 2015 19:27 |
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EvilJoven posted:I'm still waiting for the Libs to start Libbing but so far I'm having to work really hard to keep myself from becoming more than cautiously optimistic. It's a perfectly sensible policy but not one that limits them from spending as much on p3s as they like. They can expect more gratitude now when they do dole out p3 patronage, since it's not mandatory.
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# ¿ Nov 19, 2015 14:31 |
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Kafka Esq. posted:You mean 2010, and Saskatoon has drastically reduced the amount of times the procedure is performed on anyone since then. Reduced it to 25% of the number of procedures they were performing before, that makes for 74 unnecessary surgeries a year prior to someone raising a stink.
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# ¿ Nov 19, 2015 14:45 |
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Jan posted:
The "loving promise" was usually stated as tax cuts for the middle class, how loving stupid of the plebs making the median income to think they qualified as the middle class. The platform piece your quoting is misleading in itself, everyone with income between 45K and 200k will see their income tax fall.
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# ¿ Dec 11, 2015 19:35 |
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cowofwar posted:The LPC campaigned to make every vote count which is an important distinction being ignored by Pinterest Mom. Did they explicitly say that? Because ranked ballots do not even attempt to make every vote count (and Trudeau's recent statements make it pretty explicit that ranked ballots are the only reform on offer).
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# ¿ Dec 31, 2015 18:08 |
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A vote for the party that comes in second place in a riding does not count any more under a ranked ballot than it does under FPTP. They'll still elect zero members of parliament and get tossed in the same recycling bin.
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# ¿ Dec 31, 2015 18:21 |
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eXXon posted:All votes are counted even under FPTP. But ignore that amount of pedantry, let's not forget that there are proportional ranked ballot systems (STV) and non-proportional ones (IRV). Yeah, I'm using "ranked ballot" as short hand for IRV since there is a zero percent chance of the Liberals introducing any sort of proportional system.
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# ¿ Dec 31, 2015 18:37 |
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Giving women the vote was a much more dramatic change to our electoral system and that didn't require a referendum.
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# ¿ Dec 31, 2015 19:29 |
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Reminder Horwath got 78% in a similar situation (where her tactical decisions were an even more obvious cause of the defeat), the difference is Tom really never had understanding of party organization if he did he`d have at least avoided this public humiliation.
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# ¿ Apr 10, 2016 20:06 |
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Pinterest Mom posted:So um I`ve heard good things, but can`t really judge myself. It must be at least as good as Cullen`s
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# ¿ Apr 10, 2016 20:14 |
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Drunk Canuck posted:The NDP Socialist Caucus is cool and good, now they have 24 months to vet a perfect leader to stop Trudeau The NDP Socialist "caucus" is like 12 dorks in Toronto, none of whom have actually sat in an elected caucus anywhere in Canada. They will have marginal influence on any NDP Leadership contest.
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# ¿ Apr 11, 2016 03:14 |
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The difference between Niki Ashton saying something dumb and Justin Trudeau throwing a manic hissy fit in front of cameras because he was late for a reception is that one of them came in seventh of seven in their party's leadership contest and the other is imbued with total control over the legislative and executive branches of government.
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# ¿ May 19, 2016 14:16 |
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bunnyofdoom posted:Or what actually happened which was the ndp mps was blocking the conservative whip from getting to his seat. Yeah they're the minority opposition in a Westminster Parliament pissant stalling tactics are literally the only thing they can do, not really a good excuse for the Prime Minister to lose his head.
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# ¿ May 19, 2016 14:44 |
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bunnyofdoom posted:I was referring to the spin that it happened because trudeau was late to reception and was trying to force his way through Why did he lose it then? The NDP had a zero percent chance of actually stopping any government business.
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# ¿ May 19, 2016 15:09 |
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PK loving SUBBAN posted:If my wife was been dumped on unfairly in every newspaper for weeks, I might lose my temper at work too. I'm not sure "Prime Minister loses it because his wife is a public figure" is much of a defence either, since she's not going anywhere and he still has to be the Prime Minister everyday.
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# ¿ May 19, 2016 15:16 |
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Brannock posted:An explanation is not a defense, please learn the difference. He literally said he was defending Trudeau in the post I quoted.
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# ¿ May 19, 2016 15:20 |
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If you are freaking out that this will be the fall of the house of Trudeau I'd say relax you are the only one. Trudeau's handlers remains as professional as ever and the quick apology was smart. If you don't realize why his behavior merited an apology though I can't help you.
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# ¿ May 19, 2016 15:33 |
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ZShakespeare posted:The only behaviour that is really stupid here is the NDP blowing this up in a vain attempt to remind Canada that they still exist. Thats what we should be getting an apology for. Then why did Trudeau apoligize?
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# ¿ May 19, 2016 15:40 |
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Dallan Invictus posted:I'm pretty sure everybody realises why his behaviour merited an apology, and I agree with you that it won't do any lasting damage, but what I struggle to understand is why it merits the utterly insane overreaction from the entire Opposition (save Elizabeth May who, and I never dreamed I would say this, is being the model of restraint) and, to a certain extent, the media. If my boss walked into the office kitchen, yelled at your coworker to "get the gently caress out of the way" and grabbed another coworker by the arm because he was late for a meeting, we probably wouldn't be talking about much else that day either.
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# ¿ May 19, 2016 15:45 |
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Dallan Invictus posted:I'm pretty sure everybody realises why his behaviour merited an apology, Which thread are you reading?
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# ¿ May 19, 2016 15:51 |
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Brannock posted:Where I'm from, inadvertently bumping into someone warrants an apology, at the very least polite if not sincere He's also issued at least three formal apologies (which again I agree is the right thing to do). DynamicSloth fucked around with this message at 16:10 on May 19, 2016 |
# ¿ May 19, 2016 16:05 |
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Brannock posted:
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# ¿ May 19, 2016 16:25 |
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Vintersorg posted:Because Trudeau was sick of the childish bullshit Mulcair and that other fucker were causing. The NDP were not sent to Parliament to facilitate the Liberal agenda, not sure why the opposition doing precisely what there name suggests is their job would bother you or the Prime Minister so much, the Liberals were always going to get their way at the end of the day. Amgard posted:How it played out is open for discussion, but if you think Trudeau's primary goal was to beat up some opposition: you're definitely drinking the kool-aid the media is mixing. My position is precisely that of the PMO, that the Prime Minister's behavior in the house was unacceptable and warranted an apology. Drinking the kool-aid is refusing to admit the guy did anything wrong after he's issued three formal apologies.
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# ¿ May 19, 2016 17:15 |
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BattleMaster posted:Lol nice reasoning, "they are called 'opposition' so it's okay for them to body block people in parliament" It's okay in the sense that every minority opposition party busy themselves with penny ante delay tactics in the face of their complete functional impotence. Which is not to suggest the Speaker wouldn't have told them to move if anyone had bothered to ask.
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# ¿ May 19, 2016 17:33 |
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BattleMaster posted:okay please keep trying to whitewash the use of physical voter suppression Niki's got nothing on you.
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# ¿ May 19, 2016 17:38 |
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Trudeau said he did something wrong, not sure what is desperate about agreeing with his characterization of the altercation.
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# ¿ May 19, 2016 18:00 |
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But does every party have such a pathetic, chinless excuse for a man running for its leadership? Oh look he called for the incarceration of his party's interim leader as well: https://twitter.com/BradTrostCPC/status/806247094398976000
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# ¿ Dec 7, 2016 17:48 |
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Risky Bisquick posted:That's not how hashtags work. He's replying to Ambrose and tagging the #lockherup conversation not implying she should be locked up. I understand the confusion though, social media is awful. Seems ambiguous to me, I'll wait for Brad to explain precisely which women he intends to imprison in his dungeon.
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# ¿ Dec 7, 2016 18:24 |
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Kouvalis is really earning all those puff pieces MacLeans keeps publishing about him.
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# ¿ Jan 9, 2017 17:57 |
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CTV has a few more detailsquote:OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to give his year-old cabinet a facelift on Tuesday, shifting some weak ministers and promoting strong performers as his government braces for Donald Trump's imminent ascension to the U.S. presidency.
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# ¿ Jan 10, 2017 01:29 |
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Someone sure wanted to take a dump on Dion's reputation on the way out. Liberals are always nastiest to their own. Stéphane Dion’s poor communication skills led to cabinet ouster quote:Stéphane Dion, considered an unlikely diplomat by some fellow Liberals, was removed as foreign affairs minister after just 14 months on the job because the Trudeau government felt it needed someone more skilled at the delicate task of steering Canada-U.S. relations in the Trump era.
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# ¿ Jan 11, 2017 03:14 |
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Furnaceface posted:I thought he wasnt even getting a position as a diplomat and was basically being sent over to Europe to vanish from the public eye. Scuttlebutt is that he was offered a concurrent ambassadorship to the EU and Germany a sort of super ambassadorship, but also that he was given no advanced notification.
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# ¿ Jan 11, 2017 04:04 |
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Hal_2005 posted:He was given notification as per The Hill vs. Globe & Mail quote. Obviously he was informed at some point, but I think the fact that he was still making up his mind about whether to take the position yesterday indicates it wasn't like 2 weeks ago. Very clear from the Globe story he's still got a lot of enemies in the party, though I doubt Trudeau or his brain trust were directly responsible for the smear quotes.
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# ¿ Jan 11, 2017 14:51 |
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Am I just old, do people actually want to watch tv shows on their smart phones?
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# ¿ Jan 12, 2017 04:03 |
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How many Canadian did we send off to die to in Afghanistan in order to honour our NATO Article 5 treaty obligation to the United States? That same United States, incidentally, whose new President just informed the world that said treaty is now obsolete.
DynamicSloth fucked around with this message at 05:39 on Jan 16, 2017 |
# ¿ Jan 16, 2017 05:36 |
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Rime posted:Well he sucks a tremendous amount of dick in return for money, so I imagine the protein overload on top of whatever lavish meals he's buying is probably bad for the metabolism.
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# ¿ Jan 17, 2017 14:13 |