PT6A posted:

No one except Saskatchewan gives the faintest gently caress about CFL, just so you know.

brucio posted:

How are Brad Wall's prospects in next spring's provincial election? Any credible challenge?

Cultural Imperial posted:

Did you guys see Albertans are calling for Notley to be murdered for passing some farm labor safety bill? loving lol. If Albertans aren't the worst loving scum on earth I don't know what is

Ikantski posted:

So far Trudeau was off by 60% on refugees they'd get in this year, 40% off on revenue from 1% tax hike, the mortgage changes today were a joke, he changed the $10b deficit promise to a goal and bizarrely asked a bunch of civil servants to voluntarily resign so he could appoint his own shills. The guy is good at symbolic gestures and photo ops. There's lots of money to spend now, give him a few years of Buttsing the debt and the austerity will come just like Ontario.

Edit: And he's going to cancel mincome for parents.

ductonius posted:

I would like to say that I have no idea what the "alberta farm bill" entails but I do know that it has pissed off a bunch of farmers and having done work for farmers in the past I can say they are collectively the cruelest, meanest most swindling cunts on the planet and anything that might somehow attempt to force them to live in the modern world and join society as a whole in giving a single sloppy poo poo about their fellow human beings can only be a good thing.

Jordan7hm posted:

That's pretty much it yeah.

What really bugs me about that sentence is actually the short ban from driving.

Professor Shark posted:

I hope everyone is enjoying a very green, Climate Change Christmas!

Jordan7hm posted:

I don't think the people who go to the middle of nowhere with the goal of getting a job with a city police force are pin-dicked morons or even lovely officers, I just think they're doing what they need to do to get a better job.

RCMP officers don't get paid enough to make those jobs desirable.

Albino Squirrel posted:

That's funny, the Globe thought we needed them in October.

Ikantski posted:

No goddamit I'm not a socialist. If he wants to spend 10% of his gross salary on a vacation, yes do it in fact let's all do it. He's setting the lead, being the Joneses and hopefully getting those Porsche SUV driving Torontonian #WelcomeRefugee tweeters to spend more. It motivates me to work harder, get more money and live the Canadian dream of escaping Canada for 10 days in the winter. It's great to know that $35,000 vacations are within grasp in Canada, I think that would be sweet. This is the best thing Trudeau's done for the economy since taking office.

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Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale tells CBC News that changes made by the previous government to the criminal pardons system were punitive and that his department could reverse them.

Under the Conservatives, pardons were replaced with "record suspensions." The application fee was quadrupled and the number of years needed to be eligible to request a record suspension was doubled for some people.

"The previous government had a certain ideology and a certain approach that needs to be re-examined as to whether it was then or continues now to be appropriate," Goodale said of the overhau

The changes came into effect almost four years ago. Immediately, the number of people who applied plummeted.

In 2011-12, the Parole Board of Canada received 29,829 pardon applications. Last year, it received 12,743 requests for a record suspension.

Offenders also have to wait much longer to be eligible to apply. For summary offences such as possession of marijuana, people must wait five years to prove they are now law-abiding citizens. For more severe offences such as robbery, the wait time is a decade.

The higher fees don't help either. In 2012 they jumped from $150 to $631.

"It looks to me that what was done was far beyond any measure of practical cost-recovery. It was in fact a punitive measure, and I think with the appropriate authorities within the government we need to re-examine that decision to see if it was appropriate," said Goodale.

Ottawa criminal defence lawyer Norm Boxall hopes Goodale will reverse all the changes made by the Conservatives.

"With the almost necessity of getting a criminal record check for every job, every employer, every volunteer group is sending people down to the police station to get criminal record checks forms completed, it means that people are essentially unemployable."

Boxall said many employers don't distinguish between offences, ruling out hiring anyone who's been convicted.

"It's a real tragedy, especially for young persons who could be charged at 18, 19 years old on an offence and not be eligible for a pardon until their mid-30s," he said.

Goodale said even the name change from pardon to "record suspension" will be under review.

That's welcome news to Kim Pate, executive director of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, which helps female offenders.

"Pardon indicates that someone has moved on from where they were, not just that we're hanging it over your head like a big dagger about to drop down on you if we perceive you've done something wrong," she told CBC News.

The Parole Board says pardons are designed to support rehabilitation and reintegration into the community. Goodale said the Conservative government had an ideology he isn't sure was aimed to achieve those objectives.

"Protecting the public is important, but we also need to look at the issue of balance and fairness and proportionality, and we will examine all of those things in reference to this issue."

Chicken posted:

Brad Wall used to be relatively left wing. He didn't get along with Harper, he didn't shut down any crown corporations, didn't lower taxes too much (if at all?) during the resource boom, wasn't overtly racist. Exactly what you'd expect from somebody on the center-right. Since Notley and Trudeau, he seems to have gone a little crazy.

Ikantski posted:

Toronto gets more federal money than Regina, its bullshit, they're both cities!!

jm20 posted:

Reva Seth, a lawyer and best-selling author, wrote about what she says was her own violent encounter with Ghomeshi on The Huffington Post. In her post, Seth anticipates the victim-blaming question of why she didn’t do anything about the assault in the immediate aftermath: “As a lawyer, I'm well aware that the scenario was just a ‘he said/she said’ situation. I was aware that I, as a woman who had had a drink or two, shared a joint, had gone to his house willingly and had a sexual past, would be eviscerated.”

Maybe they are trying to shake him down like those Cosby accusers, that guy is a quaalude saint.

Eej posted:

Oh hey I didn't realize it's been a year since the ruling on Physician Assisted Death by the Supreme Court and even though there's a four month extension to develop legislation for it, individuals can apply to the courts directly for access in the meantime. Since legislature is dragging their feet on this, I just got an email from the College (I assume the same thing is happening across all health professions in every province) with some guidelines to follow in the meantime and they can basically be summarized as "if you have a conscientous objection, deal with it".

e: I'm really jealous how much better the CPSO's PDF designs are compared to the OCP, shows you where all the money really is

David Corbett posted:

In the latest news from Calgary, Uber has taken its ball and gone home after city council passed a new bylaw that would have legalized its services.

The requirements, apparently, were as follows:

1) Drivers would have to pay $220 a year for licensing,
2) Drivers would have to pay $30 for a police background check before they started, and
3) Vehicles would need to be inspected at least every year, with a repeat inspection after 50,000 annual km and every 50,000 annual km afterward.

All of this was apparently so onerous that it totally destroys the business model of Uber, which is ostensibly a $50 billion dollar company, so they've abandoned the Calgary market and will now be supplanted by someone who actually wants to do business here.

e: apparently the city also wanted drivers to prove they had adequate insurance, which was probably the real issue here

smoke sumthin bitch posted:

anyone with a car should be able to provide transportation for money. taxi drivers already make less than the minimum wage I'm puzzled as to why they are taxed beyond reason. The obvious solution would be deregulation of the entire industry as it would profit both the workers and the consumers. Its a perfect example of how monopolies and cronyism is bad for the masses.

PT6A posted:

Uber's $5 million liability policy. As far as I can tell, the insurance grey area that everyone's so worried about is liability in the case that an Uber driver hits something or someone while not carrying a passenger -- Uber's policy will not pay, since it only takes effect when a passenger is in the car, and the driver's own insurance may claim that they were driving for commercial purposes, which isn't covered under a standard policy.

Since the City of Calgary has been freaking out about insurance so much, I wonder if they will do an enforcement blitz to make sure that every pizza delivery driver or Just-Eat driver is also commercially insured? It would only be logical, since apparently the insurance issue is the Most Amazingly Important Thing Ever!

smoke sumthin bitch posted:

no one should have their kids taken away from them for refusing vaccination you people cant be serious

Dreylad posted:

University courses are where that actually starts happening. Although Some of the revised curriculum I've seen in high schools have kids reading and interpreting primary sources which is a good start to getting towards the "Why?"

BattleMaster posted:

It astounds me that Albertans went from having high-earning tar sands jobs and laughing at everyone else to needing food banks and crying about having no future overnight. Like where did that money even go? Did no one think of saving money or investing it?

Frosted Flake posted:

Too bad you can't be convicted of being a creep.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/01/jian-ghomeshi-i-dated-him?CMP=share_btn_link

Having said that - the twitter lynch mob calling for a separate justice system for sexual assault is disturbing .

CountingCrows posted:

I'm always confused with cases like this because the judge literally said that he must acquit due to reasonable doubt. I don't disagree, but then it begs the question, in any case like this where it's primarily he said/she said, isn't it basically impossible to remove reasonable doubt? Does this judge ever convict in this case regardless of the witnesses perceived reliability?

Cultural Imperial posted:

So can big ears teddy now get repeated sued in civil court?

Kafka Esq. posted:

No, sir, you must be vigilant and show proper scorn for this man forever.

RBC posted:

hmm yes because remembering a car and being sexually assaulted are very similar

jm20 posted:

https://twitter.com/ThomasMulcair/status/715554567270739969

Odobenidae posted:

I've seen a lot of NDP lawn signs in the past few weeks if that means anything. I don't think their position can get much worse but I don't think they're going to win either.

EvilJoven posted:

Rectangle Province Party wins majority in Rectangle Province. Vows to continue doing all the things the way they've always been done. Rectangle Province suffers a bit because potash and oil aren't selling. Belts are tightened. Capital of Rectangle Province gets a Deadpool statue. It's super dumb.

This concludes the summary of what's going to happen in Saskatchewan over the next 4 years.

Pinterest Mom posted:

Oh, I guess not all the union leaders are supporting Tom:


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canadian-labour-congress-head-says-ndp-needs-new-leader/article29522865/

(Hassan also sits on the party exec as VP (labour).)

jm20 posted:

Oh health is back on the news radar, let's get some better statistics then.


Things are looking swell for our healthcare costs

THC posted:

PT6A posted:

And, let's face it, raping a kid is still way much better than raping a kid and then beating that kid until they have brain damage, and then leaving them for dead.

When you consider the relative seriousness of the two, the fact that this guy only got 10 years means that a person who just raped a 7-year-old would only deserve like a 5 year sentence. In fact, you'll find he was sentenced to only 4 years for the sexual assault and 6 years for the aggravated assault. It's self-evidently ridiculous. The only justification can be what Brannock brought up: that we must allow for this, lest we allow a miscarriage of justice in the other direction.

Vintersorg posted:

He's a article I liked re: Trudeau not flying down.

http://rs1-22.wix.com/theyegsbreakfast#!Trudeau-Doesnt-Know-What-Hes-Doing/c1kod/5731295f0cf2aaefd5f681c0

THC posted:

Saskatchewan Government Dubs Climate Change ‘Misguided Dogma’ in Throne Speech

The throne speech, delivered by Lieutenant Governor Vaughn Solomon Schofield, pointed to “oil and gas, coal and uranium, livestock and grains” as allegedly victimized sectors.

“They look at those jobs like they are somehow harming the country and the world,” she read. “To those people, my government has a message. You are wrong. You could not be more wrong.”