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I know the best CanLit generator results should be the ones that sound hilariously close to the truth but I just love the incoherent ones the best. I forget the exact quotes but they were something like:quote:A fur trapper escapes the Draft in 1897 because it's 2016. quote:A group of writers have to leave Frobisher Bay during the Great Fire of Toronto to help take care of their family during the harsh winter.
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Aug 24, 2016 16:26
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A couple of summer weekends we've spent at a friend's cottage were pretty much CanLit bingo. Let's see, a downtown Toronto couple disillusioned with the pace and emptiness of urban living travel with a young scion of the Atkinson family to an island cabin on a Group of Seven lake where they find a novel about maybe having sex with a bear -- unless that was a dream, I can never tell. (Our friend did in fact have an original copy of Bear by Marian Engel at this cabin of hers.)
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Aug 24, 2016 18:07
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Mad Hamish posted:Edit: my God, imagine these as pitches for a garbage sitcom on CBC - you know, one of the painfully unfunny ones. One of the sentence fragments is "but in a funny, Little Mosque on the Prairie kind of way" so the CanLit generator already has you covered.
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Aug 24, 2016 19:00
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brucio posted:This is like the 4th story this month fed to the media from the Conservative party. Gotta hand it to them; they're playing the media like a fiddle, they love ATIPs Am I wrong in thinking that a better strategy would be to wait to release these stories until Parliament is back doing stuff to counter-program or attempt to drown out Trudeau's policies? Nobody's switching their vote to Conservatives because of some plane tickets.
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Aug 25, 2016 14:29
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Mozi posted:Surely I'm not the only self-lactating male around here? Nothing better than getting by on your own supply. Nah, not with Mom right upstairs.
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Aug 26, 2016 17:28
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CLAM DOWN posted:Maybe he's going to run an orphan kitten sanctuary. He's a consultant now. He's done with politics! (But advising people on how to manipulate politicians.) MA-Horus posted:Just what I want in my home in Canadian winters, concrete w/ no radiant in-floor heating. Sometimes I wonder if my growth was stunted from having spent so much time growing up in our cold-rear end, mostly-unfinished, uninsulated concrete floor basement. But I'm okay if it was just my intelligence what was hurted.
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Aug 26, 2016 19:01
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OSI bean dip posted:Let's be honest here: nobody gives a gently caress about Ottawa. What about in 2112 when the US attacks? 
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Aug 28, 2016 00:49
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Professor Shark posted:Is this from a comic? Yeah, "We Stand On Guard". Came out last year.
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Aug 28, 2016 22:08
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quote:When signing the Japanese copy, Col. Cosgrave – perhaps owing to blindness in one eye – placed his scrawl below the line reserved for the Canadian signature and instead signed on the line of the French representative. In the official timeline of the ceremony, a brief but noticeable delay appears after Col. Cosgrave’s signing – the French delegate no doubt perplexed as to where to place his signature.
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Aug 31, 2016 15:23
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Also, sometimes (or approaching "all the time") you're exposed to it as part of other drugs that you may or may not be addicted to:
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Aug 31, 2016 18:06
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Now that Cho's gone from City Council, we'll have another by-election. Which means someone from the school board will drop their job like a hot potato and try running. Toronto District School Board: Helping Kids Only Until Something Better Comes Along
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Sep 2, 2016 14:31
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flakeloaf posted:There should be such a thing as an electoral quorum. 28% is embarrassing. You're talking about turnout but the plurality percentages can be shameful as well. One of Toronto's Councillors won with 17% of the vote.
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Sep 2, 2016 15:16
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namaste faggots posted:you don't think there's anything disingenuous about being a right wing shithead and a gay like baird, leitch and brown? If you're like Michael Chong who thinks being a Conservative is mostly about "pocketbook issues" then I guess you could try to compartmentalize and not go nuts from the cognitive dissonance.
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Sep 3, 2016 14:21
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Fluffy Chainsaw posted:Things are likely to get worse before they get better: Sales are down but most of the price measures are still going up. Housing affordability is not so easy a dragon to slay.
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Sep 4, 2016 21:39
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Furnaceface posted:How long has northern Ontario been planning to separate and become its own province? How am I just hearing about this now? What the hell would they call it? They should take a page from the Virginias and Irelands and call it Northern Ontario just to make it really confusing. "Where do you live?" "I live in norther-- uh, north Ontario." "Northern Ontario?" "No, the north of regular Ontario, but very close to Northern Ontario."
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Sep 8, 2016 14:57
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I assume we'll also be administering this test to all current residents as well? We can't have anyone guilty of thoughtcrime.
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Sep 10, 2016 16:23
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Brannock posted:I'm not sure I follow PK loving SUBBAN's thinking here. It's racist to determine whether or not someone is a good cultural fit for Canada? Like, let me toss out a few "Canadian values" that I think almost everyone in this thread would agree with: sexuality shouldn't be legislated against, maple syrup should be consumed, women should be treated fairly and equally. Presumably someone who thinks that the gays should be illegal, maple syrup should be tossed out, and women should be subjugated would not be a good fit for Canada. And what of all the people in this country who don't agree with those values? What are they? Do they get a pass? Or how about since this is a Conservative plan, are we all cool letting Conservatives determine what it means to be Canadian?
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Sep 10, 2016 17:50
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Brannock posted:I don't think they should get a pass, but I'm sure you know that it's much easier to go "No thanks, we don't think you'll be a good fit for our country" than to expel a citizen to Somewhere Else. (Or to throw them in jail, or to fine them for thoughtcrime, or whatever.) Much easier to keep people out than throw them out, but if it's so important that everybody adhere to these values there are a lot more options than deportation. Is every public employee expected to pass this test? Politicians? What of the Canadian organizations the government does business with? Should we incorporate it into our citizenship tests, income tax returns, the census? If we're going to make a stand on what Canadian values are then it's hard not to read it as xenophobic lip service if we're just using it on immigrants that the same political party just last year tried to demonize.
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Sep 10, 2016 18:47
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Everyone loves Littlest Hobo. 
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Sep 12, 2016 15:27
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A list will be provided of 100 values and the immigrant will be asked to identify which ones define Canada. If they pick "better than the US" as the only one they get handed citizenship status right then and there.
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Sep 12, 2016 18:08
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Judging a book by its cover and remembering all the times Doug has lied or made a mountain out of a molehill, I doubt the section on the seedy goings-on of other politicians or reporters is going to be long. It's going to be a small section in a book mostly about Rob Ford because Doug Ford is nothing and needs to build himself up by associating himself with his dead younger brother in this Audacity of Hope-style push for higher public office.
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Sep 13, 2016 18:31
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Haha, the big epic discoveries of shipwrecks whose locations were a mystery (to white people) for 150+ years.
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Sep 14, 2016 00:28
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El Scotch posted:Who would have thought the Terror would be in Terror Bay. There was an Inuit guy who was added to the crew and on his second day aboard the search vessel he told them that years ago he saw a mast sticking up out of Terror Bay, took pictures of it, lost the camera, then kept it to himself because losing the camera was a bad omen.
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Sep 14, 2016 01:10
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The goddamn Charizard... I mean I know Pokemon is popular with people in their 20s and 30s but it's hard not to see that sign and think these banks are trying to rip off children.
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Sep 14, 2016 16:16
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mojo1701a posted:Charmander. Do you see wings? Yeah yeah I don't know all the pokey-mans.
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Sep 14, 2016 17:39
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EvilJoven posted:Someone needs to find a way to get Trudeau to just eat a lot of loving cheese or something. I bet a fat ugly Trudeau wouldn't get himself a second term. You mean like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMeKSm481LA
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Sep 14, 2016 22:40
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CLAM DOWN posted:Vader guilty of 2nd degree murder (times two) But on appeal might only get manslaughter. Read bottom-up: 
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Sep 15, 2016 18:54
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Vegans are not okay with wild honey, because that would be stealing from bears.
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Sep 15, 2016 19:41
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Stickarts posted:I'm largely a vegetarian except for animals that I kill and dress myself. There's a whole bunch of valid reasons why one would want to significantly curtail their intake of meat. In my more fanatical days I was a vegan but I still ate honey and wore wool. I guess this means I'm hated by both camps. No, I agree with you. I'm not a vegetarian but there are ethical and nutritional reasons why it's fine/good to be one. Having to eat as much meat in every meal every day and from terrible sources and practices is hosed. Being a vegan though is step too far I cannot relate to.
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Sep 15, 2016 21:28
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David Corbett posted:I'm not a lawyer, but I'm not sure how you could interpret the circumstances of the crime - abandoning a pair of almost-octogenarians in the woods, at least one of whom you have severely injured and is bleeding, after depriving them of all their resources, including their methods of communication, transportation, and shelter - as anything other than having a reasonably foreseeable outcome of death. If Vader *didn't* kill them in the commission of his crime, then surely he left them in a position where their deaths were inevitable; after all, it was evidently so isolated and desolate that to this day, six years later, their bodies still haven't been found. Circumstances aside, that law prof talks about how the judge's decision is based on, and explicitly cites, a section of the Criminal Code that is unconstitutional. He is quite flabbergasted that a judge could make that mistake.
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Sep 15, 2016 23:51
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Monaghan posted:I'm looking forward to the ontario conservatives somehow managing to gently caress up the next election. Brown is trying to sabotage the Ontario Conservatives wellllll ahead of the next election, don't you worry: @btaplatt "Holy cow. The Campaign Life Coalition is releasing emails Patrick Brown sent them on sex ed during the leader race" @JamesValcke "Devastating. PC Leader @brownbarrie email promise on sex-ed to pro-life group during LDR race 'I will repeal it!' http://www.torontosun.com/2016/09/19/ontario-pc-leader-patrick-browns-supporters-upset-with-his-sex-ed-curriculum-flip-flop
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Sep 19, 2016 20:08
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Dreylad posted:A lot of homeschool kids don't get socialized properly and end up...weird. When you say "a lot", how many is that? Because there were also "a lot" of kids throughout my schooling (which was all public) who were just as weird.
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Sep 21, 2016 19:47
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Dreylad posted:We're all chucking around personal anecdotes around so I wasn't really trying to say my sample size is representative. But they're a different kind of weird, one that normally gets teased and bullied out of kids in public school. Not saying that's a good thing, just how it seems to go. This also affects post-secondary learning. There were a lot of reasons I preferred the courses at my university lasting only a semester but one way it wasn't as good as two-semester courses was because of having to re-learn material. If "Stats" existed at one school but was broken up into "Stats 1" and "Stats 2" at my school a student could take them back to back and have only a few weeks of break but they could also leave a few semesters in between.
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Sep 21, 2016 20:14
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JVNO posted:Is there a situation where privatizing a profitable crown corporation is ever a good move? Is it a difficult process to do, and are there any regulations preventing such moves? Toronto's fool mayor is going to try and sell off parts of Toronto Hydro but there is a 10% tax on it that he wants the Premier to waive or remove so that's one hurdle that could prevent the move.
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Sep 24, 2016 12:22
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flakeloaf posted:
Netflix doesn't have it because of Shomi.
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Sep 27, 2016 00:06
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I like it. They have a bunch of things that Netflix doesn't.
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Helsing posted:I'm not saying they aren't cutting spending in some areas --just look at their continuation of Harper's cuts to health transfer payments -- but not all of the deficit is going to "middle class" tax cuts.. Is it a cut to health transfer payments or are they slowing the growth of the payments? There's a difference between "I was going to give you 10 but now I'm only giving you 9" and "I was going to raise your payments from 10 to 12 but now I'm only raising them to 11". When people hear "cuts" they think of the former.
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Sep 27, 2016 01:36
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Brannock posted:Seeing Hillary Clinton talk last night about how America will be the #1 superpower for clean energy made me feel bad for Canada. Y'all missed your chance to be relevant as an energy leader in the 21st century, instead pinning your future on tar sands. Imagine if instead Canada had invested heavily in alternative forms of energy, and could be instructing the rest of the world right now on how to build all the necessary infrastructure and having its experts consulted on all this stuff. I dunno man, I think it was worth using all that oil wealth to turn Alberta into the opulent paradise it is today.
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Sep 27, 2016 16:54
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MA-Horus posted:
"What's that word?" -"Hittites." "Hittites..." 
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Sep 27, 2016 23:21
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Pitbull laws are always terrible because the law is so vague in describing which dogs (as if there's a perfect taxonomy anyway) and because the breeds that cause trouble change through the years anyway.
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Sep 28, 2016 18:36
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Risky Bisquick posted:See you're joking but I'm not, I'd get a suspended sentence or community service and a 'fine' Or just be a cop when you hit someone with your car. quote:Just after 5:00 p.m., the subject officer had finished escorting some vehicles through the debris when he proceeded south on the highway to just before the intersection of 25 Sideroad and parked on the west side of the southbound lanes, straddling the curb lane and the shoulder of the highway. http://www.siu.on.ca/en/news_template.php?nrid=2806
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Sep 29, 2016 15:41
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accidentally