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UnknownMercenary
Nov 1, 2011

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I am glad canpol dril made it along to the new thread

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apatheticman posted:

Roll up the rim to reconcile

Excuse me we make you play it on the phone app now :eng101: (thank god, one of the positive changes from covid).

UnknownMercenary fucked around with this message at 00:00 on May 31, 2021

UnknownMercenary
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I hate linking chuds here but this guys is basically the press office for Ford.

https://twitter.com/brianlilley/status/1402704399932309506

Can't wait to get spammed with bullshit Ontario Proud ads once they overturn this.

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https://twitter.com/AndersenAngus/status/1403671144197206016

UnknownMercenary
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Not at all surprising that American Evangelicals are peddling their bullshit here, but more that it's actually gained traction in Parliament. Charlie Angus being a huge advocate for this bullshit is disappointing.

https://twitter.com/GustavoTurnerX/status/1405600307254489089

UnknownMercenary
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If I have learned anything from the past year it's not to underestimate Canada's capacity for naked racism. You should assume the worst.

UnknownMercenary
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The petit bourgeoisie are truly awful. Also imagine complaining about loving CERB when it's been over for almost a year, find a new thing to blame you loving losers.

UnknownMercenary
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Oh lovely, I wasn't able to book my second dose sooner than a day after they open up Ontario.

UnknownMercenary
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I figured they were bringing the chuds back into the fold after Bernier imploded last time.

UnknownMercenary
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Stop comparing bullshit to Vimy and Juno challenge.

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large hands posted:

The Landlord Class and those Working to Join It

New thread title IMO.

UnknownMercenary
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The way I see it the hardcore antivaxx problem is going to take care itself as they all liquify their insides with horse medicine.

UnknownMercenary
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Hating fascists is cool and good, actually.

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MatchaZed posted:

PPC. They could run rightward, and make the political scene even funnier.

Fascism hasn't worked in other Western countries, but it might just work for us.

UnknownMercenary
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I understood that reference.

UnknownMercenary
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The Harris government did way more to gently caress up the province but I will never hear endlessly about Rae Days.

UnknownMercenary
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Given how many braying chuds there are on Canadian subreddits they probably figured it would go well for them.

UnknownMercenary
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What was that tweet? It's gone now.

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egg tats posted:

https://twitter.com/CTVNews/status/1439247782485938176

this is just the funniest poo poo lmfao no one who wants this believes you JT why bother

They got tired of promising and not giving us pharmacare.

UnknownMercenary
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They're really gonna whitewash who this fucker was huh.

https://twitter.com/socialistraptor/status/1441107171287048198

UnknownMercenary
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I can't wait to watch the most breathlessly stupid spy movie about it in 30 years.

UnknownMercenary
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Why aren't they fining these fucks out of existence instead of... you know, not doing anything? loving worthless.

https://twitter.com/TorontoStar/status/1443217421511413774

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There were restrictions? I thought everything already opened up entirely once they started doing those again.

I wanted to get Mitski tickets and was worried about how crowded Massey Hall might be, but they were all gone in the pre-sale.

UnknownMercenary
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I maybe heard the "how old are you now" a few times, never the counting. Southern Ontario.

UnknownMercenary
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Once again I'm just speaking anecdotally, but, LMAO what capacity limits?

It was a slow trickle but we've increasingly had more and more people sit in for dining and it gets really packed on weekends. People were hesitant at first with the vaccine passport stuff but they got used to it and now it's packed as it was pre-COVID.

I picked a good time to take some time off at least.

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https://twitter.com/robertbenzie/status/1455316933415522314

:laffo:

Still going to vote your rear end out.

UnknownMercenary
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Fidelitious posted:

At this point $15/hour is obsolete and is not a living wage in most places. I'm guessing that it should be closer to $20 now.
Automatic inflation increases is nice though.

The only reason Wynne campaigned on 15 was because Canadian politics always has to take cues from American politics and there's been a long time fight to raise the American minimum wage to $15. $15 isn't enough in either country; IIRC it should be something closer to $25 USD if wages kept pace with inflation since the 70s, which is ~$31 CAD. People here already poo poo themselves when it went up to $14 and I legit had co-workers mad that their pay went up because bosses cut hours.

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Normal military.

Canadian officials who met with Ukrainian unit linked to neo-Nazis feared exposure by news media: documents

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A year before the meeting, Canada’s Joint Task Force Ukraine produced a briefing on the Azov Battalion, acknowledging its links to Nazi ideology.
Author of the article:
David Pugliese • Ottawa Citizen
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Nov 08, 2021 • 6 hours ago • 4 minute read

Canadian officials who met with members of a Ukrainian battalion linked to neo-Nazis didn’t denounce the unit, but were instead concerned the media would expose details of the get-together, according to newly released documents.

The Canadians met with and were briefed by leaders from the Azov Battalion in June 2018. The officers and diplomats did not object to the meeting and instead allowed themselves to be photographed with battalion officials despite previous warnings that the unit saw itself as pro-Nazi. The Azov Battalion then used those photos for its online propaganda, pointing out the Canadian delegation expressed “hopes for further fruitful co-operation.”
Canadian officials who met with Ukrainian unit linked to neo-Nazis feared exposure by news media: documents

After a journalist asked the Canadian Forces about the Azov social media postings, officers scrambled to come up with a response, according to documents obtained by this newspaper through Access to Information law.

Lt. Col. Fraser Auld, commander of Canada’s Joint Task Force Ukraine, warned that a news article might be soon published and could result in questions being asked inside the Canadian government about why such a meeting took place.
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A year before the meeting, Canada’s Joint Task Force Ukraine produced a briefing on the Azov Battalion, acknowledging its links to Nazi ideology. “Multiple members of Azov have described themselves as Nazis,” the Canadian officers warned in their 2017 briefing.

Bernie Farber, head of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, said the Canadians should have immediately walked out of the Azov Battalion briefing. “Canadian armed forces personnel do not meet with Nazis; period, full stop,” Farber said. “This a horrendous mistake that shouldn’t have been made.”

Farber said it was also disturbing the Azov unit was able to use the Canadians in propaganda attempts to legitimize its far-right ideology. Besides its support of Nazi ideology, Azov members have been accused of war crimes and torture.
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One gathering that journalists didn’t find out about was a December 2018 event in Ukraine attended by then Canadian Army commander Lt.-Gen. Jean-Marc Lanthier, according to the documents.

Members of the Azov Battalion were present, but, again, instead of denouncing the battalion’s Nazi sympathies, the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces focused concern on the possibility that photos might have been taken showing Canadian soldiers with members of the Azov unit.

Chris Henderson, then assistant deputy minister for public affairs, emailed more than 20 DND public-relations officers, worried that photos might appear online. “Do we have a clear expression of CAF policy toward this group?” he asked of the Azov Battalion. “This may or may not prompt questions, but we need to be ready and not come across as being taken by surprise.”
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Jaime Kirzner-Roberts, policy director of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, said Canada had to make it a priority that its military personnel have no involvement with far-right fascist militias in Ukraine under any circumstances. “It’s concerning that, for the second time in a month, we have seen evidence of Canadian military officials engaging with Ukrainian neo-Nazi groups,” she added.

Kirzner-Roberts was referring to a recent report from an institute at George Washington University in the United States revealing that Centuria, a far-right group made up of Ukrainian soldiers linked to the Azov movement, boasted they received training from Canada and other NATO countries. Researchers with the university tracked social media accounts of Centuria, documenting its Ukrainian military members giving Nazi salutes, promoting white nationalism and praising members of Nazi SS units.
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In 2018, the U.S. Congress banned the use of U.S. funds to provide arms, training and other assistance to the Azov Battalion because of its links to the far-right and neo-Nazis.

National Defence spokesman Dan Le Bouthillier said the Canadian military was examining its policies on the vetting of foreign troops it trains as well as the information uncovered by the George Washington University report.

He had earlier noted that the 2018 meeting with Azov Battalion members was planned and organized by Ukrainian authorities. Canadian military representatives had no prior knowledge of those who would be attending, he added. Le Bouthillier noted it was the job of the Canadian defence attaché to assess the situation in the conflict zone. “Canada has not, does not, and will not be providing support to Azov and affiliated entities,” Le Bouthillier said.
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In 2019, the Soufan Center, created by former FBI agent Ali Soufan, who was involved in a number of counter-terrorism cases, warned about the connection between the Azov Battalion and white nationalists. “In Ukraine, the Azov Battalion has recruited foreign fighters motivated by white supremacy and neo-Nazi beliefs, including many from the West, to join its ranks and receive training, indoctrination and instruction in irregular warfare,” the report outlined.

The Azov Battalion has been formerly incorporated into the Ukrainian military, at least in theory, the Soufan Center report noted. But the battalion has cultivated a relationship with members of the Atomwaffen Division, a U.S.-based neo-Nazi terrorist network, it added.


UnknownMercenary
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The example with Nazi Germany's economy is just an outright lie perpetuated by white supremacists and to defend it all is immediately suspect.

UnknownMercenary
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The RCMP only ever uses force if you are indigenous and/or protesting pipelines.

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Why the LCBO, Doug? https://twitter.com/robertbenzie/status/1471213658642558982

UnknownMercenary
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Don't credit the liberals with anything until stuff actually gets done :laffo:

UnknownMercenary
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I agree, cops shouldn't be held to the same standards as the rest of us; they should be held to much higher standards.

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Drunk Canuck posted:

https://covid19.ontariohealth.ca/booking-home

They opened up bookings earlier than expected!

Maybe it's because of where I am but I basically can't get in at all. The Ontario portal just redirects me to the York Region portal and vice versa, and every pharmacy I've checked just says nothing is available and will put me on a waitlist.

UnknownMercenary
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The Wire is copaganda. It brings up very good points about how society is hosed systemically but it's still copaganda.

UnknownMercenary
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Freedom is when I can go to the local Tim Hortons maskless and vaccless and mouthbreathe all over the employees while I buy my triple triple.

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I still remember right in the leadup to the pandemic, Ontario teachers were striking because Ford was trying to gently caress with schools by implementing half-assed online learning. From all appearances, it seems like what they've done with the pandemic is what they would've done if Ford got his way, but I'm not a teacher so someone correct me on that if I'm wrong.

I agree that sitting kids in front of computers to do zoom calls all day sucks but the solution to that isn't dooming an entire generation to long COVID.

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TheCenturion posted:

TLDR: “I was on hold for three hours, this is proof that society is collapsing.”

It's blisteringly funny that he realizes that COVID is making all of our systems collapse, but his takeaway is that it's the pathetic public health measures we *are* taking rather that is the true cause and we need to let 'er rip.

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It certainly seems disingenuous to me to say COVID does not significantly spread via schools when the studies cited are about the wild type while we're dealing with the much more transmissable Omicron variant.

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Apologies if I missed it earlier, but where are Canadian goons ordering N95 masks from?

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