Randalor posted:

I'm honestly wondering if we can quarantine Winkler until they actually get vaccinated. Sadly I don't think we can do it for the surrounding area, but what's the population of the surrounding area vs the population of Winkler itself?

Goosed it. posted:

He's speaking authoritatively on topics that are well beyond his area of expertise. He's not a doctor. He's a science teacher with no formal training in medicine or in public health. He appears to be a coauthor on some microbiology papers in the late aughts but nothing that he has led and, prior to COVID, nothing since then.

He also has a treated POC, and esp WOC, poorly throughout the pandemic.

Gros Tarla posted:

https://www.thestar.com/politics/fe...in-toronto.html

Looks like the Greens are gonna fumble this all the way to the end. Is being wiped entirely from the electoral map their objective? Probably.

infernal machines posted:

I'm very curious how you envision a "successful" coup playing out in Canada

bub spank posted:

In fun news, some ladies in Saskatoon started a really obvious ponzi scheme that not only had the benefit of ripping off investors, but also creating a giant bubble in Saskatoon's low-income housing market:

https://saskatoon.ctvnews.ca/failed-saskatoon-real-estate-company-was-using-new-money-to-pay-old-money-lawyer-1.5848048

I have 0 sympathy for these people. The business model of the company was to buy up single-family homes in Saskatoon's core neighbourhoods, and then rent them out to the people they had priced out of the market. It's basically people from B.C., upset about what foreign ownership has done to the housing market in the Vancouver area, decided to do the same thing to Saskatoon. These poor people are now stuck with the terrifying responsibility of being landlords for the properties that they bought.

It'll be interesting to see what happens to Saskatoon's housing market if 500 small single family homes come up for sale at once.

eXXon posted:

Just average out David Suzuki and Don Cherry and crown Nick Suzuki.

stab posted:

Welp, as predicted, the CAQ won Quebec's election with a crushing majority (probably the biggest in Quebec history)

Yay for 4 more years of right wing xenophobia and rural vote pandering!!!

tagesschau posted:

You know the provinces do actually have a ton of explicit authority that the states don't, right?

Powershift posted:

He was fighting forces in public that he was firing up in private to maintain power.

He played with fire and burned down the province. Doesn't deserve an ounce of sympathy or respect. He doesn't deserve to show his face in public.

PT6A posted:

You have no right to bitch that the system doesn't work, because you refuse to participate in it. It is your right to choose not to participate, but you can't then piss and moan about the results of a lack of participation.

infernal machines posted:

Toronto Ward 2 and the provincial ward are a fun case, because there have been a number of good alternative candidates with extensive ties to local communities who have run strong campaigns both municipally and provincially and have barely managed a rounding error of votes in the face of a Ford brand candidate. Bonus: The various fords have won their seats with 60-70% of the vote, with less than 30% turnout, for like 15 years.

My recommendation would be to get out of Ward 2, but I realize that's not really practical.

Mr. Mercury posted:

Why are we even having this discussion with FPTP

Hand Knit posted:

While that wasn't how I spelled out that point (which was in my post previous to that) there's still a few things worth making explicit as a response:

(1) The popularity of ideas can be affected by political organization and advocacy campaigns. Such that different segments of the population (and different political groups) have greatly different ability to engage in organization and advocacy, an idea's lack of popularity can be the result of a poorly- or non-functioning democracy.

(2) Popular ideas can also not make it into public policy. In fact, research from the US on affective polarization and political efficacy suggests that there's very little correlation between popularity and enactment such that a lot of very popular policies do not get enacted.

(As a kind of (2a), I think that you've inserted "less popular" for yourself, and none of myself nor cat botherer nor bleck nor anyone else has committed to that.)

(3) The lack of implementation of certain sorts of policies is absolutely evidence for some kind of democratic deficit. It's not conclusive, of course, but a relative lack of implementation of policies which, for example, benefit renters rather than landlords is certainly evidence that the interests of some group of people (in this case renters) are having trouble finding democratic expression.

DaysBefore posted:

Housing shortage (not real) instead of housing-cost crisis (real, murdering the poor and lower middle class) is I'm sure a very deliberate choice of terminology. Anyway that's awful but suburb developers and their elected buddies win everytime so oh well, Ontario stays losing.

Here in NS the premier recently passed a bill to allow him to gently caress with municipal decisions too which is pretty epic. It's starting with Halifax council's ban on construction after 8pm and I can't wait to see where it goes next!. Shame too, the HRM has some actually okay plans for city planning even if they are still extremely over-reliant on condos and luxury apartments.

Edit: Houston forcing the private power monopoly to stick to a 1.2% rate increase (NS Power was asking for like 22% lmfao) is okay I guess though. Better to just nationalise NS Power and give their executives a booklet on how to apply for EI but not even the NDP would dare suggest acting against the monopoly.

MNIMWA posted:

Moscrop is a decent follow (though he does sweet a lot), and I think this take on Doug Fordism is generally correct

https://twitter.com/David_Moscrop/status/1590007571100110854

I'm not smart enough to point out how this might be used as a way to defeat him in the next election, other than to say if you can drive a wedge between him (or the OPC in general) and some of those client communities, it might help to weaken his support enough - if there's a suitable replacement

DaysBefore posted:

Dreaming wistfully of how much cooler Halifax could've been if they didn't amalgamate the entire loving county into the HRM (probably not that much cooler tbh but at least the vast majority of our city council wouldn't have been suburbs and rural villages)

Guest2553 posted:

F16s have been operating in the Arctic for literal decades without issue and the internal fuel of the 35 is significantly better than the 18 even before considering the effect of internal stores. What are the fuel and weather issues you speak of that wouldn't affect any other air platform?

Guest2553 posted:

Assuming this isn't a trollint collection attempt, what does that actually mean? I would legit like to have recent sources on this.

1) MDLM =/= Boeing. Even if it was the same company, the workers and checks between "multinational defense bid" and "money grab pitched by that rear end in a top hat MBA" are worlds apart.

2) Baseline F16 was fly by wire and has only received more computer since. Modern single seat combat aircraft cannot be safely flown, effectively employ mission systems, and be expected to survive without computer assistance.

There are issues yeah but if these are the quality of spears you have to throw we probably disagree on a more fundamental level like "what do air forces actually do" and "should Canada have one"

Tighclops posted:

So everybody that thinks getting involved militarily must be a tankie that supports Putin and thinks what Russia is doing is justified, right? Just like you jerk yourself off to reruns of Red Dawn and that one where Clint Eastwood steals the prototype fighter jet from the soviets, right? I'm sure that's a fair characterization, yeah?

Bleck posted:

Would you like to elaborate in what capacities you believe Ethiopia is less relevant to Canada than Ukraine?

Nilbop posted:

What "prequalifications" do you see in "Any other conflicts?"

Canada has a larger population of European heritage than Ethiopia by several magnitudes. It has closer ties to Europe, and longer ties, and more complex ties, involving immigration, trade, investment, military cooperation and just about every conceivable facet of international relations.

Bleck posted:

Your reflexive association between "people that cops murder" and "our enemy, the Russians" is more damning than anything I could post in response, frankly.

TrueChaos posted:

For what it's worth, security on construction sites is frequently incredibly lax, to the point where they'll leave keys in the ignition of heavy equipment. While in university, on the way home one evening rather drunk, we found the construction site near our apartment unlocked. We re-arranged all the equipment, because the keys were just sitting in the ignition.

I see it all the time on construction sites these days. We were having problems at one site recently, with reports of unauthorized access. The contractor was adamant nothing was wrong, so I asked them to meet me on site an hour after the site closed for the day. I got there 10 minutes early and had been listening to the radio in the excavator (with the engine going) for 7 of those minutes when the contractor showed up.

Causing damage with heavy equipment is very easy. Using said equipment for actual construction works takes skill. While I completely agree it's very unlikely that the protesters actually did do that, it is generally easy & potentially not all that difficult to do.

Rockstar Massacre posted:

yeah he was an RCMP fanboy who was sheltering someone who i *think* was an informant. i'm not sure, believe it or not they haven't made that information super available

Mr. Apollo posted:

Looks like she hasn’t voted on anything since December 7, 2023

https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/kirsty-duncan(58877)/votes

edit - She took medical leave in January 2023 for a “personal health challenge”. No idea if she’s still on leave.

Less Fat Luke posted:

Jama was in the ONDP and right after the Oct 7th attack made a post saying that the occupation of Palestine should end. Ford's government then censured her and Stiles' NDP kicked her out.

Edit: here's more

Segue posted:

The Liberals hosed up but given that education and health are provincial responsibilities, it's frustrating this all fell on their wishy washy asses. They realized far too late they have a stick they can use, and it's too little too late.

A big part of the post-secondary crisis in Ontario was Ford opening up colleges to just sell syllabuses to scam institutions, which the Wynne government had expressly vetoed. Ford has frozen the payment system for family doctors so all the slots go unfilled because there's no monetary gain.

After years of being mismanaged it's kind of remarkable to see the good vibes coming out of BC and Manitoba as their Premiers jump on with federal funding and look to meaningfully improve lives. While Ontario is running record deficits for no material benefit whatsoever.

And given the low information voters that re-elected Ford, I'm confident Poilievre will benefit from the same, dismantle institutions, and make things much worse but face little pushback from his supporters because he justifies their identity politics. It's not great times!

Also, the one thing I think a lot of people will notice is he and his supporters are very anti-CBC and he's ideologically committed to cutting all its funding. With the lack of rural news and Canadian content (mid as it is) that's gonna be a hard thing to bring back

Another Bill posted:

Also no matter what they say leading up to election day, the Conservatives will 100% try to roll back abortion access in Canada if they form the next government. A plurality of their constituency and their MPs watch Fox News daily, have seen the repeal of Roe v Wade and will want to do the same to women here.

I imagine it will be the same argument, but replace "states' rights" with "healthcare is provincial jurisdiction."

Blood Boils posted:

Say what you will about his music, but he donated a few million bucks to Gaza aid

I mean, you don't have to listen to me, but if you really hate the grits and are in such a close riding you might want to consider voting dipper. Not that they're truly good obviously, but they are objectively less lovely than the alternative

Bleck posted:

Hot take: the Liberals are religious fascists

ZShakespeare posted: