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jm20 posted:We need quality jobs for every joe lumberjack and to end some of this bullshit part time forever business. I think the long term trends are indicating that those days are behind us for good. Globalization, automation, inequality, population growth, etc. The whole perpetual race to the bottom combined with the assumption/mandate of continual growth of profits, year after year after year. There just aren't going to be enough quality jobs to go around for every joe and jane to live comfortable and fulfilling lives off of. Which is why we are going to need a basic income if we want to make our lovely dystopian future somewhat less lovely and dystopian. I know what I'm talking about because I bought an egg McMuffin from a robot this morning.
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flakeloaf posted:Her: We're going to have meetings to talk about finding the way to a plan to go to the grocery store. *3 years later* The test project has indicated that there would in fact be a net benefit to going to the grocery store to buy eggs. Unfortunately seeing as this is an election year we will not be able to proceed with the project at this time. Should we be reelected, we will prioritize going to the store.
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So in all these heart wrenching articles where Albertan's are weeping about how the rest of Canada is turning their backs on them and now it's the governments turn to help them out... What help are they asking for exactly? Seeing a whole lot of "government should be helpinnnngggg" but nobody actually articulating what it is they want. Like do these folks literally want the government to pay to maintain their overstretched standards of living until tar sands oil is profitable again and the jobs all come back?
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Mar 16, 2016 00:26
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Marijuana Nihilist posted:"why won't you let us build a pipeline through your backyards?! You communist bullies!" To be fair that's the one complaint I've seen clearly articulated but I'm not really getting how that would fix their economy. OK so the PM greenlights the pipeline tomorrow w/ no environmental assessments or restrictions at all, tosses in a few billion of subsidy money, and any protesters will be shot on sight. We can break ground next week. You get a few thousand jobs for guys actually laying the pipe, but if the shits still not profitable to extract, what's the point of the pipe right now? I dig it's cheaper and more efficient then rail or road transport but there's no way that efficiency gets you back to even breaking even at current prices. And once the initial construction jobs are done with the maintenance and ops only take a fraction of that amount of people to run. infernal machines posted:Maybe they want the Federal and Provincial governments to start buying Albertan oil at $80/barrel Tochiazuma posted:Maybe some sort of national energy program Wait a minute... You guys might be onto something here. The government has made a commitment to fighting climate change, and also wants to stimulate the economy with infrastructure funding. We can kill two birds with one stone! So here me out here... We pay to dig a giant concrete underground storage bunker, and the government buys the oil @ $80, and then we lock it away in the bunker. Lots of construction jobs, the oil patch is back online, and the oil stays in the ground instead of getting burned. Everyone wins! Eagerly awaiting my Order of Canada for solving the crisis. The Butcher fucked around with this message at 02:09 on Mar 16, 2016 |
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Cultural Imperial posted:The CBC is going to require commenters use real names. CBC posted:"CBC has heard from a number of Canadians concerned about our commenting space, the use of pseudonyms, and some audience submissions that violated our guidelines around hate speech, particularly with respect to the francophone community in New Brunswick," "Complete and utter racist bile on any article remotely to do with natives or muslims? Eh, par for the course. Offending french speakers in New Brunswick?!? THIS WILL NOT STAND!"
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Mar 18, 2016 19:03
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infernal machines posted:You work in IT, this is a fair description of what you do now. That's not fair. The trinkets are fairly expensive and are provided to the workers by the company. 
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Mar 19, 2016 19:08
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Kafka Esq. posted:poo poo, I forgot about that. He needs a loving power wedgie. They only make him stronger.
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Mar 20, 2016 20:02
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CLAM DOWN posted:"He's the mayor of heaven now" smoking rocks with the angels 
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Mar 31, 2016 18:28
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Cultural Imperial posted:Then stop voting. I get that this is your thing, but what's your actual reasoning behind this? Like what benefit do you think that will achieve in the long term? Even if we accept that all parties and politicians are garbage, choosing not to participate will never change that. It just entrenches the status quo further. Why not vote for the lesser evil (or whatever appears to be the lesser evil at that time)?
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Mar 31, 2016 18:36
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ZShakespeare posted:I'm saying that it will impede the government's ability to claim that it's a democracy. If the government can't make that claim, and we value democracy (that's the real question here), then change will necessarily happen from without the system. [citation needed]
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Mar 31, 2016 20:12
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sliderule posted:If that's the case, consider me misinformed. I would super recommend checking out the Canadian Finance thread in BFC if you want to get your adulting on and get a handle on all this stuff. Tons of useful info there and people happy to help with "dumb" questions. Go figure a poo poo-postin' comedy forum would be what helped me get my financial house in order, but hey! 
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infernal machines posted:Frankly I'm amazed that hasn't happened already. Considering the barrier to a "prescription" is a 5 minute consultation with a naturopath over Skype, I'm surprised we don't have more newbies overdosing on edibles and showing up in the ER freaking out. Pretty sure I've seen some studies based on the Netherlands that showed moving to a legal distribution model didn't do much to actually increase the % of people that consume it. From what I hear most people saying, it's "sure will be nice to buy weed legally from a store instead of a sketchcase dealer" and not "I can't wait for it to be legal so I can try for the first time." Anyone who wants to use it probably already does.
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Apr 27, 2016 20:46
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Gaia the Earth Mother has spoken. vote green
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May 4, 2016 07:45
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Helsing posted:Canadians would probably lap it up if Trudeau pulled a Putin and had CBC film him piloting a waterbomber over the flames. I'm thinking a shot of him digging a firebreak, topless and gleaming with sweat, a look of cold determination in his eyes as he stares down the encroaching flames.
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May 4, 2016 19:45
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Beaverton's been on point lately.http://www.thebeaverton.com/national/item/2655-tories-reinstated-mandatory-census-is-unfair-to-however-many-canadians-there-are posted:Tories: ‘Reinstated mandatory census is unfair to however many Canadians there are’
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May 5, 2016 00:02
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Was lookin' pretty hairy earlier:  But it seems whatever that structure fire on the outskirts was is done now:  Probably not that huge a deal if other structures and equipment at the airport were lost I'd imagine. The runway will still be there after the fires pass and the military could take over radar / air traffic control for whatever emergency flights are needed for the time being. Forest fires suck but they do make really pretty sunsets. The Butcher fucked around with this message at 03:55 on May 5, 2016 |
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May 5, 2016 03:50
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Helsing posted:Try to imagine what the thread's reaction would be to a massive earthquake tossing Vancouver into the sea. That would probably kill a lot of people, so I'd imagine it would take an extra day or two for the sick burns to begin. The Butcher fucked around with this message at 20:28 on May 5, 2016 |
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May 5, 2016 20:23
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Baronjutter posted:Yeah, this is "getting involved with the ndp.txt" fyi this is getting involved with any political party.txt
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May 6, 2016 05:03
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BallsFalls posted:Turns out the Saudi National Guard (who we're selling LAVs to, and who also happen to be the successor organization to the Ikhwan) does exactly what they were meant to do, suppress internal dissent. Who would have thought? But the Saudi's promised they wouldn't do that! 
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May 11, 2016 19:37
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PT6A posted:What do you disagree with? We're selling arms to a poo poo government for no other reason than to make money. I'm not going to say we should continue with it,but as long as we do continue with it there's no reason to make it out as anything other than what it is. I've got to agree with PT6A on this one actually. The government's weak rear end excuses and dancing around are insulting. I'd have a lot more respect for them if they came out and said "times are tough and we need to protect those jobs right now".
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Subjunctive posted:"Robocop" is a word-filter result for "social justice warrior", abbreviated. Man I thought I was just getting behind on my hip youth slang.
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jm20 posted:The Liberals on the committee were quick to accuse Godfrey of contradicting himself. Postmedia has been among the strongest critics of government spending on advertising, said Liberal MP Adam Vaughan.  jm20 posted:Godfrey responded by saying Postmedia columnists are given leeway to write articles that contradict their own company's positions on political and other issues. Unless said articles happen to be endorsements for political parties. Does take some gall to give the finger to the Liberals for the entire election campaign and then come back with hands outstretched later.
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jm20 posted:http://ipolitics.ca/2016/05/12/postmedias-godfrey-makes-urgent-plea-for-government-help/ To paraphrase one of the choice ones: "The 2015 election will be remembered as the election Paul Godfrey soaked postmedia in gasoline and set a match to it. All for a token amount of revenue."
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May 13, 2016 19:19
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Still a bunch of pages back but I gotta say this is the funniest CanPol has been in awhile.
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May 20, 2016 20:04
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Femtosecond posted:Gregor and Vision occupy an interesting place on the political spectrum. At a glance it seems like a fairly centrist, pro development party, but they really push the environmentalist angle harder than you'd think. Given that there's going to be a lot of infrastructure money floating around in the next few years, you'd think Gregor would be trying hard to play nice and stay on Trudeau's good side, but environmental stuff really seems to rile Vision up. What's sort of weird about it is that it isn't even just the standard greenwashing stuff you'd imagine, they are actually spending a lot of effort and money on the "greenest city 2020" thing. Kind of surprised me. Big picture, maybe it's all a bit meaningless while the majority of the rest of the world doesn't give a gently caress, but I do kind of like that they've taken a stand on a difficult goal and actually are trying to make it happen. Not a fan of the constant handjobs/handouts for developers and NIMBYs, but we haven't in recent memory had a legitimate political contender who wouldn't do that as well. Strongest opposition last go was the NPA who basically ran on "everything exactly the same, but gently caress bikes and trees". Give me a party who likes bikes and trees, but promises a crusade on SFH zoning, oh my would I be in.
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What the gently caress are you doing Tom? How are the NDP this bad at politics? This is their whole job. They have been doing it for their whole careers. I don't loving get it.
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May 21, 2016 23:16
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I don't even know why she's so upset about it. How many people get to say "yeah the PM elbowed me in the tit once". Like that would be my go to drinking story forever.
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May 22, 2016 02:43
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Franks Happy Place posted:I will join a Vancouver goon meet, on the condition that CI do a dab with me in the spirit of chillaxing a bit. I would also be down to meet some of you damaged individuals for some beers in real life. Maybe just a puff for me and no dabs though, that stuff's yuuuge. 
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May 22, 2016 19:04
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Helsing posted:I know it's in poor taste for me to speculate on how a woman who got hit by a man could have played it better, but this is Something Awful so I'll do it anyway. Regardless of how she felt inside it likely would have been a much savvier play for Brousseau to make light of the incident, maybe make a joke about how she's a fighter and she can take it, and then perhaps a quip about Trudeau having anger issues or being petulant. The average person may think they sympathize with the weak but when they actually express their support it's almost always for the strong. Fuckin' bingo. Easy win, totally wasted.
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System appears to be working exactly as America intended?
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May 23, 2016 04:57
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PT6A posted:Why's it ignorant? You'll notice I'm not actually criticizing aboriginal place names, but rather the half-assed and ridiculous sounding approximations thereof that the British used to name things. Canada.
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May 23, 2016 07:08
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Yellow Ant posted:Ban lift kits across all provinces and territories. Problem solved! I like the giant metal bars you can put on the front of your suburban commuter truck so that when you run down a pedestrian or cyclist while texting you gently caress the poo poo out of them and don't even scratch the paint on your hood. Those are cool and good.
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May 24, 2016 02:44
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THC posted:
Yessssss! Crazy it will take till 2021 to get the tolls in place though. Distance based pricing I can see being trickier with a lot more technical and political hurdles, but just getting bridge tolls in place on every bridge at the very least seems pretty straightforward. It's not exactly newfangled tech.
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May 26, 2016 21:01
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Cultural Imperial posted:You can stop rewatching the hunt for red October Lt cndr dallaire This is a wrong opinion.
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Jun 1, 2016 18:13
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Oh cool we apparently sell ad space on government websites now.
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Arabian Jesus posted:Nathan Cullen announced that he won't be running for the leadership. gently caress. It's a huge bummer. He's one of those rare good politicians who are actually also good persons.
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Furnaceface posted:It goes without saying dont read the comments. Lol the top rated one contained the line "Harper was right." That's got a real nice ring to it... 
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brucio posted:https://twitter.com/rasselin66/status/745041009944387584 Man we just don't take pride in our official signed declarations anymore. Someone banged that out in Word in 10 minutes. Put some work into that poo poo jeez, at least make it a little cool looking. 
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the talent deficit posted:the VPD are awful in everyway so please don'tt disband the rcmp Honestly every encounter I've had with them has always been pretty pleasant and professional, even when I was maybe not being such a model citizen at the time. RCMP on the other hand...
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namaste faggots posted:http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opin...b3-812dd4a0a9c5 Bud we've been over this. 
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