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Angry Diplomat posted:I don't know much about flipping, other than that my... I guess uncle-in-law, if that's even a thing, does it for a living. Is it contributing to unreasonable property values/gentrification/the housing bubble in some way? I didn't think it was common enough to be a Thing. I think that it is a common enough dream among house owners that it might be loving up the markets to some degree. I've had many conversations with people who get misty-eyed talking about how this guy they know makes bank fixing up old houses, and how they would love to get into that sort of business as soon as they get their house all good and ready for the market in hopes of finally getting some startup capital.
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1 billion goes to Bombardier while the province apparently can't pay for healthcare or education. What a load of poo poo.
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Oct 31, 2015 05:48
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Sometimes, my facebook feed gives me such gifts
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Nov 15, 2015 04:05
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I saw this on my feed: Someone on my feed tried to argue that it is good to make your kids work on a farm, because when they turn 18 they'll be more experienced than an 18 year old that has not worked on a farm. Lots of "working on a farm will keep your kid from turning into a homo" kind of stuff, too.
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Nov 28, 2015 03:38
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Cultural Imperial posted:Look how is my small business supposed to prosper if I'm not allowed to enslave my employees? It's not fair that Tim Horton's franchisees get a pass and get to enslave will the Filipinos that they want. Don't these assholes get massive subsidies on their crops as well? It's like we're all supporting this way of life that doesn't make sense anymore. edit: another brilliant line from facebook - "it's not child labor, it's called chores!" Gorewar fucked around with this message at 09:05 on Nov 28, 2015 |
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Nov 28, 2015 08:41
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PT6A posted:Likewise, Shaw fucks me in the rear end monthly when my bill arrives, but the internet service, cable, and the tech support on the few occasions I've had to use it, have all been top-notch. Rogers cell-phone service has been the shittiest, and Bell has been fine for mobility. Montreal internet, much like Montreal pizza, is the worst in the country.
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Dec 10, 2015 03:50
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Rural Albertans are just shitheads, and used to being part of the main power structure. After all, rural interests dominated Albertan politics since the election of the UFA in 1921 and with subsequent rural-affiliated political dynasties. Of course, demographics have shifted a great deal in the last couple of decades and suddenly rural Albertans don't have the same kind of power that they used to, especially now that the big-tent Progressive Conservative party is on its way out. They just can't loving deal with the fact that they're no longer as relevant as they used to be. As a matter of fact, Premier Notley remains the third most popular premier in the country and ANDP is actually still the most favoured party in the province, according to polls.
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Heavy neutrino posted:At this point I think it's more likely that they'll go along with the idea of a referendum and let it fail. They don't particularly need to risk the terrible optics of what is objectively a power grab for the Liberals, and I'd be floored if they voluntarily gave up power by proposing some form of PR. I would similarly be surprised if the Liberals tried to push proportional representation. The funny thing about PR is that most of the scholarly work done on this topic shows that it, historically, has only been implemented in cases where labour parties were in a position to be elected to majority government. Here, conservative parties would push for this electoral system in order to keep labour from being able to pass reforms - the criticism that PR makes it difficult for governments to pass legislation was actually a feature, not a bug. It did mean that labour had a permanent seat in government, but it was worth it to conservatives at the time. After all, most of the adoption of PR among nations was around the turn of the 20th century, when socialist revolutions were perceived as a real threat. Manitoba and Alberta adopted proportional representation in the years following the Winnipeg general strike of 1919, so we're also a part of that. The fact that left-leaning parties now push for PR is more of a sign of how diminished the labour movement has become in the last century. Gorewar fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Jan 1, 2016 |
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Jan 1, 2016 19:33
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Some people unironically posted this to my feed.
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Feb 27, 2016 00:13
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Solenna posted:I'm on my phone and couldn't find this picture online, so please excuse the lovely quality. This is the calibre of people protesting Alberta's NDP government. Rachel Notley truly is too good for Alberta. I had some people posting about this on my facebook feed. My one hope is that the ANDP will get enough voters from Calgary and Edmonton to get re-elected, so that I can have a laugh at these peoples' expense.
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The fire in Fort MacMurray is worthy of addition to a SimCity2000 disaster scenario expansion
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Lassitude posted:Wow this is no time to get political, don't you see there are people going through a tragedy? Everything in Alberta is made of gold until, like, 6 - 8 months from now at least. A number of my family members and people on facebook are having a really hard time with the notion that this has something to do with climate change. I've seen a lot of "gently caress these environmentalist guys and their priuses" type commentary, as well as some stuff like "those so-called big bad oil companies did more for us in this situation than the government, the oil industry can do no wrong blah blah blah..."
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May 8, 2016 03:39
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The guy we want running things in this country is a musclebound, cigar-chomping badass who says things like "you gotta put down the purse and pass some legislation, wussies!"
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May 12, 2016 00:08
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On the bright side, apartments in the trendy parts of London are going to become much cheaper. It will be just like 1990s post-referendum Montreal!
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Fallen Hamprince posted:One thing that reassures me is that while Leitch can steal Trump's rhetoric she can't steal his personality; everything I've seen of her suggests she has the charisma of a wet towel and everything about her background means she'll struggle to sell 'anti-establishment'. But after the last few weeks I'm not going to rule anything out, vote y'all. Also didn't Harper already try the nativist campaign and lose? I mean they can try it again but it'll just have the same results as last time...
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Dreylad posted:What's the general feeling about Notely these days? The antichrist, if you ask people from where I grew up. Edmontonians still seem to be fans. Not sure about Calgarians.
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THC posted:I love Ontarian hydro tears Hydro Quebec charges me half this much
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if O'Leary becomes PM, bring on referendum #3. I will be ready.
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PT6A posted:$4.49 per litre??? it's a good thing that people will recognize this error and not go around quoting the $4.49 figure among themselves--hahahahahahaha never mind the people on my facebook back home are going to explode about this. It'll play well with the segment of my feed that only seem to post pictures of their kids, david wolf/aj+ videos, and memes about what pieces of human poo poo Rachel Notley and Justin Trudeau are. Gorewar fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Dec 27, 2016 |
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Dec 27, 2016 00:40
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CLAM DOWN posted:gently caress Alberta I mean really, why are people in my home province so dumb? Is this just a "all of the smart people went to university and moved out of province" thing or what?
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If the LPC is worried about an O'Leary government, maybe they should change the voting system like they said they would.
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Jan 21, 2017 06:42
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Is the existence of Canadian Muslims really that much of an imposition to people in Quebec?
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Once again, I'm going to point out that history shows us that PR generally only ever got implemented when the capital class became afraid of a majority electoral victory by a labour party/movement. Doing so diminished the power of labour and made it so that conservatives and the capital class were always guaranteed a seat at the negotiating table, and you see it happen throughout the institutional history of European democracies. In fact, when Manitoba and Alberta had PR it was only after the Winnipeg general strike that it was implemented. Of course, there was never a major labour movement in North America so that's why we never had it on a federal level here.
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THC posted:Radio is a perfectly fine medium, it's just that the private sector has to make the absolute worst out of everything it can get its hands on Pretty much. Bell/Rogers-run radio sucks, but CBC and your local university radio station are cool.
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Frosted Flake posted:Well, those stupid red hats were everywhere. I don't know if it means the same thing here, but visually it's a weird message to send. The fact that Canadian rednecks are so afraid of encroaching Islam is so weird, since all of the Muslims I have ever met are the least loving pushy people regarding religion. On the other hand, there were tons of people I knew who were Christian or Catholic when I was growing up in Northern Alberta who were anything but.
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Stockwell posted:Saw that shared on my facebook feed, and of course the first reply was this hot take I mean, I wouldn't put it past landlords deciding to kick people out of their rental units and then jack up the rent by a fair bit because of minimum wage increases, since landlords, as a class of people, are loving scum. This is the big important one, since rent is always the big expense that takes up most of the budget for low-income folks. I remember when I was working in a kitchen for minimum wage - I only ever had enough money to pay rent, hydro, my phone/internet bill, and maybe (maybe) really basic groceries like pasta or bread. I had one pair of jeans for the longest time, and it stressed the poo poo out of me whenever the pair of jeans I had at the time started to wear out. Generally though, I think that Ontario has ok enough legislation regarding rent increases to mitigate that, but other provinces, such as Alberta, who have no legislation on how much landlords can raise rent on their tenants might end up with a different story. Gorewar fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Jun 3, 2017 |
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A bunch of people from back home are making butthurt comments on my facebook feed about transfer payments, something must have happened with Energy East recently.
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Some idiot on my feed reblogged a post by Jason Kenney where he's telling people how he's going to use his super negotiation skills to try to re-negotiate the transfer payments. Like, how?
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It's still mindblowing, the hate people back home have for the ANDP. I mean you guys actually have an honest, hardworking administration making things better for people in the province, and actual good options to vote for on election day. Do you people have any idea of how much people in Quebec would like this? Like every party here has something deal-breakingly lovely about them.
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Oct 29, 2017 17:49
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Relatives from back home will be sad to find that she, too, is against pipelines. But yeah, I think people mostly voted for her because they were mad about the dog ban. The pink line is also a pretty cool idea, but the public's love for dogs is what brought people out.
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I just found out that JBP grew up in the same town as me. Sorry guys. Also, JBP and Rachel Notley totally went to primary/jr/sr high school together. I wonder if Rachel Notley has some grade 3 pants-making GBS threads stories about JBP.
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Nov 28, 2017 00:32
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Furnaceface posted:gently caress Bell gently caress Rogers nationalize it all and send their CEOs up north to wander the wilderness until they somehow find civilization or die in hand to hand combat with a polar bear. Crown telecoms like Sasktel or AGT should just be the norm in this country
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Feb 1, 2018 05:11
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A bunch of people I know in Vancouver are getting real excited about the upcoming JBP vs Sam harris debate there. Ugh what is even going on
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Feb 4, 2018 19:31
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EvidenceBasedQuack posted:"to people who sometimes mess up [customer's] food" I used to work back of house at a pub when I was in university. Front of house made way, way more than us. Anyway, I don't see why restaurants can't just pay their staff a living wage. Restaurants in France do it and somehow the food & beverage industry there manages to survive.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Wasn't there supposed to be some plan instituted to hold off on student loan repayments until someone was earning 25K/year? Whatever happened to that? Oh it's still there, and the Liberals made making that program more generous the first order of business. I sure as poo poo noticed, and am still appreciative. TBH I'm kinda glad that it just flies under the radar with most people...
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Just for reference, does anyone know how Chretien's first majority was doing in the polls around 1996? I mean yeah I know the party system was different back then, but I seem to recall that the approval ratings of every governing party tends to go in the toilet at this stage in a majority mandate.
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hoping for some of that patreon money I see
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Powershift posted:Canadian politics in 2019 maybe voting for the PQ isn't such a bad idea after all
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CLAM DOWN posted:Man, this thread sure changed topics since I last read it. Those last few pages were such a wonderful salve against all of the prairie people on my facebook posting endlessly about that dead hockey team. If I still lived in my hometown I don't know how I could deal with that poo poo. Gorewar fucked around with this message at 04:56 on Apr 12, 2018 |
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I mean let's face it, the whole humboldt thing got co-opted by right wing populists really quickly (I remember seeing some conservative fb page calling for the flags to be flown at half mast for 16 days or something), and we were headed toward a "trudeau/notley/etc didn't publicly express grief well enough, unlike our boy scheer/kenney/ford" type of territory to begin with.
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