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Cultural Imperial posted:Is WiFi more dangerous than smoked salmon That depends on whether the salmon is gluten-free or not.
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THC posted:If it werent for the acceptance of gay people, won by decades of struggle, Baird would probably have never risen almost to the top of our government. He'd be a nobody. And what did he do? He went to bat for a racist party that shits on poor people and refugees, and claims that trans people are predators. Remember this? https://youtu.be/ZV1i8LWb9hY?t=1m32s
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Cultural Imperial posted:Why do we need national security when there's nothing worth protecting in this country I am in this country and I am worth protecting. However, I am not worth attacking and neither is anything else in Canada.
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HappyHippo posted:But I thought Chris Alexander was a smart dude who only sounded like a stupid brat because he had to toe the party line??? I think he was the only person in DFAIT dumb enough to want to be ambassador to Afghanistan.
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JohnnyCanuck posted:Ahahaha IT BEGINS  Even if he's being facetious this is remarkably stupid, even for an economics professor.
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Pinterest Mom posted:Oh my god. JawKnee posted:not to mention JTs promises of patronage-free, non-partisan senate appointments Justin Trudeau is going to bring the Senate Liberals back into the LPC caucus, and then appoint 22 failed candidates and party insiders to give himself a Senate majority. Canadians won't care in 4 years.
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PT6A posted:No one except Saskatchewan gives the faintest gently caress about CFL, just so you know. Then why did BC spend $500 million on a roof for BC Place? Don't tell me somebody actually watches the White Caps.
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EngineerJoe posted:I finally watched that video explaining mpp and I finally understand it. It seems alright in general and better that fptp but I don't like how it makes political parties a real thing and I really don't like how candidate who lose in their ridings can win via the party vote. Would the party rank list be finalized ahead of time? Is it possible for a fringe party to exhaust their list? Party lists can be created after the election, from the top runners-up in every riding. For example, if a riding result was 46/45/9 for LPC/CPC/NDP, the LPC candidate would win, and the CPC candidate would go near the top of the list for proportional seats.
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PT6A posted:The fact is that, no thanks to their policies, Canada weathered the 2008 crisis decently if you measure it by how many CPC voters fared. I don't for a second believe Trudeau would've done worse, and I think in an alternate reality where he were PM, he may well have done better, but I can't say that the CPC were "loving terrible" either. Refusing to acknowledge that is one significant step toward handing the CPC another victory. None of the reasons Canada fared better than other countries in 2008 had anything to do with Harper or his policies. Brannock posted:It's still absolutely baffling that Harper actually did away with the goddamn census. It's not, when you consider that damaging government's ability to govern effectively strengthens the argument that government is inherently incompetent. See also: http://ipolitics.ca/2015/10/11/kevin-pages-pre-election-fiscal-warning-the-process-has-been-completely-broken-2/ tl;dr: The government cut spending, but doesn't actually know what they cut spending on.
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cowofwar posted:gently caress you guys for making me read through three pages of this terrible derail. I normally just scroll past everything until I see a Helsing post, but he got in on this derail so I think I'm just going to go outside.
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PT6A posted:The economy is doing pretty well, eh? Could've loving fooled me. Pinterest Mom posted:Sorry about your province I guess. Apparently after nine years of Harper the center of the universe moved from Toronto to Calgary.
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crowoutofcontext posted:http://ipolitics.ca/2015/11/11/tepid-tom-the-new-democrats-survey-the-wreckage/ Wow, Craig Scott is still really mad about this.
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vyelkin posted:That's in Justice: That statement is missing an Oxford comma.
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PT6A posted:Theocracy is inherently anti-democratic and fundamentally incompatible with any notion of a free society, regardless of how it gained power in the first place. So are military dictatorships. The difference is that secular military dictatorships are better aligned with the West's political interests.
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Count Roland posted:I'm kinda split on the training mission. Western governments arm and train the Kurds. The Kurds declare war on Turkey, a member of NATO. Western governments declare war on the Kurds.
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THC posted:According to the budget the Conservatives tabled back in April or whatever, oil was supposed to be back at $80/barrel by now. The current prices of a barrel of oil is as close to $80 as it is to free.
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Ikantski posted:I'm inclined to think the hospital staff was doing what they thought was overwhelmingly best for the woman, child and future children rather than secretly embarking on an aboriginal eugenics campaign but hey, gently caress doctors. You could say the same about residential schools. And for god's sake, don't read the comments.
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Professor Shark posted:Church I grew up in- the guy who baptized me ran away with a much younger woman who was also a member I was baptized Catholic too.
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colonel_korn posted:Anyways here's the full list:  I would say the CPC is truly hosed if this is the best they have, but they've always had a shallow front bench.
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jsoh posted:please remember that the purpose of a leftist political party is to enact positive, progressive/socialist change. if the leftist party wins an election on a platform of being a moderate party then i dont want anything to do with it. The NDP's platform included national child care and pharmacare programs, the greatest expansion of the Canadian welfare state since the... 1960's? Parts of their platform were poo poo, and their rhetoric was centrist, but their platform was to the left of the Liberals.
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flakeloaf posted:Who cares if it's a step in the right direction, it's not a perfect solution that makes everything totally fair and rosy in an afternoon so we hate it, we're folding our arms and if you try to make us go we're going to throw such a tantrum. It's not really a step in the right direction. It does nothing to address the regional imbalance in the Senate, there's no way to ensure ahead of time that the appointment process will actually achieve its non-partisan goals, and it gives legitimacy to an outdated, undemocratic institution which makes future reforms more difficult. At best it's slightly better than the status quo.
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Franks Happy Place posted:Christy Clark getting national media attention by saying a bunch of vaguely stupid things about Trudeau's senate reform plan is just her laying groundwork for her run at the CPC leadership, hope this helps. 2017 can't come soon enough
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blah_blah posted:She is definitely less competent than Harper and her utter lack of principles and convictions make even the Federal Liberals look good in comparison. On the other hand she's probably unelectable federally.
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THC posted:Clark doesn't speak French and is probably too dumb to learn it. Which means she's more than qualified to follow in the footsteps of Preston Manning and Stockwell Day.
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Hexigrammus posted:Uhh... that was once believed to be the situation in B.C. as well. And if Adrian Dix replaces Tom Mulcair we'll really be in trouble.
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Abacus polled Conservative supporters on their preferences for the party's leadership: CBC News posted:Among those who say they currently support the Tories, however, MacKay still leads with 35 per cent. Wall comes second at 17 per cent. Kenney (12 per cent) and Charest (10 per cent) were the only other candidates to score in the double digits.
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Eej posted:What we need is Agreed.
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MonsieurChoc posted:poo poo, a public internet company sounds loving awesome. Where do I sign up? Saskatchewan or Prince Rupert.
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I also think Christy Clark should go into business in Malaysia.
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Pinterest Mom posted:It's Helsing's favourite time of the year I emailed the party this morning and told them I'm no longer giving them any money because of this loving poo poo.
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Cultural Imperial posted:And while we're at it, make them permit prayers with my dog. Is dog meat halal?
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Cultural Imperial posted:Dogs are haram you dumb fucks Somebody better tell Obama  Cultural Imperial posted:http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/politics/nimr-al-nimr-saudi-arabia-death-sentence-canada-1.3389209 Judging by Chris Alexander this is probably true.
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Heavy neutrino posted:Actually, I'd be baffled if TransCanada could win despite this: They're just assuring their investors that the project is still alive until President Cruz and Secretary of State Palin approve it in 2017.
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The RCMP spent $20 million dollars to trick two mentally ill drug addicts into committing a terrorist plot in order to create fear in the general populace and justify the need for more counter-terrorist funding?
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Furnaceface posted:Harper was really only known as Harper, PMSH, and Satan. Don't forget Dear Leader.
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Ex-Dragon Kevin O'Leary considerers run at Tory leadership My gut tells me that he's only doing this for attention, but that's what I said about Trump too. Of course the key difference between Trump and O'Leary is that Trump has built at least one successful business.
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PT6A posted:Remind me again why this is a thing we shouldn't treat with utmost contempt... It's not.
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Furnaceface posted:Nationalize all the telecom infrastructure. Its the only way to be safe. Isn't that a little extreme? Couldn't we just publicly execute their executives and board members?
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tekz posted:re: the Ontario death spiral people were talking about earlier. Could lower oil prices lead to a nicer year for the automotive industry and maybe a slightly better year for Ontario? Or is that industry not really relevant to the province anymore? What vyelkin said, but also keep in mind that most of the inputs to manufacturing an automobile are imported. Raw materials and components are more expensive for Canadian manufacturers, and manufacturing equipment is more expensive for anyone looking to add capacity. For existing plants the low Dollar only makes the labor, utilities and overhead components of the finished good cheaper for exports. For new capacity it's really only labor and utilities.
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