brucio posted:

Ezra's trying to get YYC named after Harper

http://www.therebel.media/harperairport

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It looks like the Conservative Party of Canada was preparing cartoon-like illustrations of a man jailed on terrorism offences several days before Jason Kenney publicly revealed his citizenship was going to be revoked.

The Conservatives later used those illustrations as part of their campaign's outreach and fundraising activities.

On September 26, 2015, Kenney confirmed to the National Post that the Government of Canada had notified Zakaria Amara his citizenship was going to be revoked. Kenney said Amara was informed a day earlier.

The government was using new powers under the controversial Bill C-24 – the first example of its kind.

At the time, opposition leaders questioned the timing of Kenney's announcement in the middle of an election. It also came two days before a leaders debate on foreign policy that saw C-24 generate headlines.

Shortly after, the Conservatives rolled out an online petition with dark imagery, including an illustration of Amara as its background:

terror-petition.jpg

But it turns out the Conservatives' imagery was actually prepared before the government formally revoked Amara's citizenship.

Because no one decided to hide the directory on the Conservative.ca website, anyone on the internet can access the website's many files and folders simply by removing words from the website's URL. You can even see hidden files and folders.

For example, tucked away in a folder on the Conservative website named "2011" are several files uploaded on the afternoon of September 22, 2015:

http://www.conservative.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/

terror-subdirectory.jpg

Those files point to two illustrations of Amara in an orange prisoner jumpsuit, evidently mimicking a court-room sketch drawing:


Interestingly, one of the images includes text that reads "this convicted terrorist just lost his Canadian citizenship," although the image was uploaded to the Conservative website four days before Kenney made that information public.

Did partisan sketch artists at Conservative HQ learn about the government's citizenship revocation decisions several days before the rest of us or was the timing simply a coincidence?

The current citizenship revocation process lays out that the "vast majority" of decisions on citizenship revocation are decided by the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, which would include "the date the person's citizenship is revoked."

The final decision came nearly a month after the earliest date Amara's 60-day notice may have expired. There appears to be no record the notice was publicly disclosed in the first place.

C-24 has been criticized as unconstitutional by a wide range of voices including the BC Civil Liberties Association, the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers and Amnesty International.

Following last month's election results, Harper's former Parliamentary Secretary Paul Calandra pointed to C-24 as one reason new Canadians had become nervous of voting Conservative, which was also echoed by Alberta Conservative MP Deepak Obhrai, who said it cost the Conservatives votes in immigrant communities.

"I do not believe any government has a right to take citizenship away," Obhrai said. "Anything that needs to be addressed for a crime should be applying equally to all Canadian

Cultural Imperial posted:

Heyyyyy SJWs defend this



http://calgaryherald.com/business/energy/alberta-shrugs-off-obama-decision-to-reject-keystone-xl-pipeline

Cultural Imperial posted:

u mad your NDP hugbox just got smashed

Slightly Toasted posted:

Oh man I don't expect that to happen but that would just be christmas

Excelzior posted:

we're about due for a derail on weed now

did CI get banned

PT6A posted:

Christ these people must be thick as all gently caress. If Daesh wants to slip a terrorist in now, they'll just send a woman or a family instead of a single guy. Like I said: we should treat these people like the dangerous but reasonably cunning lunatics they are, not like morons.

I also fear this will hinder the attempt of gay men to seek resettlement, as gay marriage is obviously not recognized in Syria, and they are one of the groups most in need of protection and resettlement (and, being honest, probably least likely to subscribe to Islamic extremism).

jm20 posted:

Notley is going to ruin my business

Cultural Imperial posted:

Hey when Mike Duffy gets acquitted of everything, do you think he could find a job somewhere as minister of health

PT6A posted:

Or they could produce a porno that would be used to punish Canada's worst and most heinous criminals, Clockwork Orange-style.

HookShot posted:

And according to CIBC it's the cyclist's fault when a drunk driver swerves completely onto the wrong side of the road and kills two cyclists and his passenger.




PT6A have you ever actually seen a drunk driver? Because even on rural roads, they're incapable of staying in their lane, driving at a consistent speed or doing anything remotely safe.

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Canada’s Minister of Immigration and Citizenship says the country’s resettlement program for Syrian refugees could double its intake by the end of next year to 50,000.

John McCallum was in the Jordanian capital of Amman on Sunday, meeting with Syrian families preparing to board flights to Canada. He told one family: “Everyone in Canada is waiting to meet you.”

Canada’s new Liberal government is pushing forward with its pledge to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of February. McCallum says Canada hopes to settle 35,000 to 50,000 Syrian refugees by the end of 2016, with the UN refugee agency, the Jordanian government and the International Organization for Migration assisting with the vetting process.

McCallum told several of his provincial counterparts earlier this month that Canada hoped to bring in more refugees later in 2016.

McCallum also toured development projects and refugee facilities during his two-day stop in Jordan.

THC posted:

I repeat:


And again:


This is coming from a professor of political science, at an accredited university. You see, the NDP didn't really win the May 5th 2015 Albertan election. I mean they did, but

THC posted:

Moody's Investors Service has changed its outlook on the Alberta economy from "stable" to "negative" and says the situation will get worse unless the province's NDP government takes action.

I wonder what action the government could possibly take to reverse the trend? No wait, let me guess: cut everything, and when that doesn't help, implement more cuts.

Cultural Imperial posted:

ITT guns are a deescalation tool

Cultural Imperial posted:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rcmp-fentanyl-trade-1.3415673


Legalize fentanyl problem solved . Stop the war on drugs!!!!

Stretch Marx posted:

How to Defeat the Purpose of Regulation: 101

Make the drug prohibitively expensive so people go back to black market resources.

bunnyofdoom posted:

Helsing posted:

I wish Canada had one investigative program that was half as good as Frontline.

Cultural Imperial posted:

At this point, Ghomeshi deserves to get off because these women were so loving stupid.

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I always thought of professional downsizers as ghosts.

These are the people who haunt corporate headquarters during a downturn, travelling from office to office, seemingly appearing out of thin air.

Their job is to assist employers who suddenly decide they have too many employees.


I always imagined these people as carrying a huge, negative energy field around them. People in black suits. People no one wishes to see, ever.

I was lucky that these people avoided my office for more than 10 years, but in my heart I believed somehow, one day, they would come and pay me a visit.

And I promised myself that, once they finally did, I would take a selfie with them.

6th sense

For a year, most of my friends lost their jobs, one by one. My sixth sense told me that my moment was coming soon.

All facts, numbers and circumstances made it clear that it would take a miracle in the oil and gas industry to avoid that magic visit.

And then, it came.

My manager delivered the news, and the mood was tense for a few seconds, but we very quickly shook hands and I thanked him for the past five years.

I told him I fully accepted management's decision in this difficult time for the industry.

The ghost arrives

Then, my manager asked when I was ready to meet the stranger who would guide me out of this life I had known for so long and onto the next.

"Immediately," I replied.

So, the ghost entered and we shook hands and started talking.

The mood was soft and easy.

I found this man I had never met before to be a genuinely nice person. He was warm, caring and empathetic with employees who just had been told their services are no longer needed.

I always remembered the faces of the main characters in the movie Up In The Air — cold, emotionless, and neutral — as they carried out what was depicted as the grim work of a professional downsizer.

My experience was nothing like that. It was a friendly chat about how things would proceed from here, now that I was no longer employed at the company.

Before he left, I asked my man — my ghost — if I could take a selfie with him, so we could remember this moment.

He agreed. He was, after all, just doing his job to the best of his ability, and he did it very well.

It's nothing personal

No matter how we feel in the moment of being laid off, we must accept that it happened and try to move on.

The future, it has been said, is what it is and could not be otherwise. The journey might be difficult and the coming storm may be strong, but always there is light at the end of the tunnel as long as we still possess the most valuable asset we have — that we are still healthy.

Many people who are laid off don't accept management's decision to let them go. From the employee's perspective, it often seems like the wrong choice, or at least not fair.

Some consider the layoff as personal slight. "Why are you doing this to me?" they might think. "How dare you? How could you?"

But the reality is managers hire us because it's their job, and people like my ghost help lay us off because it's their job, too.

It's nothing personal. You would do the same if you were in Grant's shoes.

PT6A posted:

Ezra Levant is a dead-set oval office and doing anything that makes his life less pleasant is imperative on all good people.

PT6A posted:

Oh hey look: Calgary is being pants on head retarded again, refusing to follow Edmonton's eminently reasonable example with regards to Uber.

http://t.uber.com/YYCBylaw

gently caress Nenshi and gently caress the City of Calgary. The regulations don't even address the very real problems with Uber like tax collection and employee exploitation anyway!

THC posted:

Most Airbnb listings are illegal short-term rentals.

THC posted:

It's nice to know you don't hate the lower-income people and families who must compete for a smaller share of residential housing stock while you enjoy slightly cheaper holiday accommodations.

PT6A posted:

The sprawl has been getting far worse throughout Nenshi's mayorship, and he was mayor when noted stupid oval office Druh Farrell, who's always been an ally of his, forced through the fluoride removal. He's a complete loving idiot, and ultimately a bad politician, who's inexplicably popular despite being as useless as tits on a bull.

Femtosecond posted:

Last article I read about the fluoride thing made it sound like it was a last administration thing? Nenshi was totally opposed to it and said he was in favour of reopening the issue. Calgary has made a ton of really terrible decisions in the past (crazy sprawl is one of those) but from the outsider looking in it seems like they have the right guy in charge at the moment.

PT6A posted:

No, I hate Druh Farrell because she's a miserable bitch who wants to ban smoking everywhere she can, she's making dumb decisions based on feelings instead of good science with regards to fluoride, and she wants to lower speed limits to 40 km/h because apparently that will stop drivers from being morons who hit pedestrians in crosswalks. All the while acting unbearably smug, I might add.

She is an utterly heinous human being and I came to that conclusion all on my own, thank you very much.

PK loving SUBBAN posted:

This has nothing to do with smoking fyi this is OCD

BallsFalls posted:

Don't worry, RCMP will win this one.

EvilJoven posted:

Nah man theres all the great camping and poo poo and Gimli can be fun. Biking to the Viking, stuff going on at the drag strip, the Iclandic festival.

Also, apparently Churchill is amazing.

As for the bugs, ya, they're loving insane. I grew up in northern Ontario. There are loving SONGS written about the bugs in my neck of the woods. Manitoba bugs are worse. IDGAF any more though, I bought a bug suit. poo poo owns.