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American imperialists coming into our thread and forcing Andrew Scheer on us again. Don't you know that hard butter is the dairy issue of the day? Who cares about milk!
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May 28, 2021 19:08
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Yes why do we spend so much time on the bad opinions of one thread poster when the bad opinions of every premier/elected government are way worse and actually impact our lives
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May 29, 2021 15:08
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InfiniteZero posted:If by "blue collar" you mean racist rednecks then yes, you are correct in your summary of why the CFL is so popular in places like Winnipeg and Saskatchewan. My experience has always been that CFL fans are the people who find the NHL far too diverse and "woke". Everyone I know who goes regularly to CFL games is from working class families in Elmwood, Transcona etc. Everyone I know who goes regularly to NHL games is from upper middle class families in the suburbs. I know lots of people who like the CFL who have great politics, and lots of people who like the NHL who also have great politics, but the difference in in-person attendance seems to be income.
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Jun 2, 2021 01:21
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It seems like Ontario is going to vaccinate close to 2 million people this week, and cases are the lowest they've been since last summer
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Jun 29, 2021 16:53
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Any idea what the timeline is for the 5 to 12 group? Would be good to get them vaccinated before school starts
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Jun 29, 2021 18:51
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Madkal posted:Let me know when China has a TRC. At least Canada is acknowledging is screwed up racist history and as stated China is acting in the most cynical way possible and people are willing to accept it. Canada is selling weapons to Saudi Arabia. How can you possibly see any statement the Canadian government makes about any countries human rights record as anything other than cynically self serving. How are you willing to accept it.
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Jun 30, 2021 22:02
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Madkal posted:I'm willing to accept that bad things can be bad things despite where they are committed. Saying you can't condemn one bad thing because of another bad thing is just reductive. I don't think anyone is saying you can't condemn the bad thing. Are you a representative of the Canadian government? That's what this conversation is about unless I'm mistaken. The issue is that governments use these sorts of statements and supporting media blitz to build support to push their economic or political agenda, which often has very bad humanitarian consequences, sometimes even worse than the issue used as propaganda support. Questioning governments foreign policy statements and pointing out issues like this is important. Western governments are clearly creating certain countries as a new Axis of Evil, and they will use real causes to justify trade wars, economic sanctions and even regular wars that have humanitarian consequences themselves. Condemn the genocide, but also condemn western governments response to it as self serving propaganda
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Jun 30, 2021 22:27
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People keep saying 'we' and 'you'. I'm talking about the governments international relations, not some broad public zeitgeist or whatever. The Canadian government isn't calling out china for altruistic reasons. They are calling them out to further their international economic and political programs. Those programs are imperialist, capitalist etc etc. The Canadian governments foreign policy motivations are bad things and they result in bad things. E. The American state department used feminism to build support for the war in Afghanistan. Do feminists therefore have to support that war, or can we rightly see that as self serving Duck Rodgers fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Jun 30, 2021 |
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Jun 30, 2021 22:35
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Muscle Tracer posted:Does the fact that some countries are cynical or hypocrtical in calling out the Uyghur genocide make that genocide any less real or reprehensible? The Canadian government is not calling out China because of concern for Uyghurs, or even because of your hypothetical fairness in genocide. They are calling out China because it aligns with the governments current economic and political goals. Those political and economic goals also include support for mining companies that commit humanitarian attrocities all over the world, selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, support for Israel etc etc. The Canadian government isn't a force for good in the world. Also it's weird that people keep using a broad brush 'we' 'you' 'Canada' etc. That's nationalism.
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Jul 1, 2021 00:38
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Muscle Tracer posted:how else do you think the Canadian government should refer to the actions of a large number of Canadian government employees? you would prefer "they"? I mean the people in this thread, who seem to be associating themselves with the Canadian state, as if the Canadian government is confronting China on their behalf. It is possible to condemn what China is doing, while also condemning the Canadian imperialist state apparatus that is trying to use the ongoing crisis in order to advance it's imperialist program
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Jul 1, 2021 01:00
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Arcsquad12 posted:Has Chartrand denounced the new cabinet minister yet? I haven't seen anything yet. The MMF is normally pretty quick with statements sent to all citizens so we'll see if there's anything today. Red river echoes is a Metis group with a more radical perspective and critical of Chartrand. Give them a follow if you do that sort of thing
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Jul 16, 2021 14:16
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Somebody posted a tweet by Dimitri Lascaris yesterday and I saw he and some others are starting an ecosocialist action group of some sort. Might be most relevant if the Greens do turf their leader. I imagine they will get involved in the NDP as well though. I know that Radhika Desai knows a number of Manitoba NDP people. Looks like accepting members in August https://greenleft.ca/en/home/
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Jul 19, 2021 12:18
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PT6A posted:It's entirely ridiculous to compare Doug Ford, who speaks exactly one language, to Mary Simon, who speaks two languages, one of which is a language spoken in the territory now known as Canada well before some pale fuckin' settlers decided to step foot anywhere near it; a language which has endured, despite attempts to commit cultural genocide by those same settlers. ...what?
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Jul 21, 2021 18:12
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I believe the CFL introduced a rule that if your team has an outbreak and less than 85 percent of the players are vaccinated you forfeit the game and don't get paid that week. A fine basically
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Aug 5, 2021 17:07
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I think most people won't start paying attention until after the labour day weekend. Polls and lack of candidates mean nothing until then
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Aug 29, 2021 19:29
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I wonder if they saw the back lash to provincial premiers handling of the third wave and cynically bet that the premiers would handle the fourth wave just as badly, and that would give the liberals a boost. People hated Ford at the peak of the 3rd wave. He's been hiding but will need to come out at some point. Unless he pulls a Kenney and hides forever. But people don't like that either. If things go bad the liberals will say "do you want a conservative federal government on top of the conservative provincial governments you have?"
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Aug 31, 2021 18:45
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It's interesting to me that licensed weddings need to respect the vaccine mandate in Manitoba, but there seems to be an exemption for dry weddings. I wonder why that could be...
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Sep 3, 2021 19:30
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Powershift posted:It absolutely is. Absolutely. There would still be party politics, but parties would actually have to become mass movements with widespread engagement because you never know who's going to be selected so you have to get as many on board as possible. Instead of blast emails asking for money and no other engagement
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Sep 4, 2021 01:08
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ChickenDoodle posted:Also: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-floods-update-dec-15-1.6287474 Don't you mean that their response has been to fiddle while Rome burns?
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Dec 16, 2021 18:29
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I think in general this strain is just not as good at infecting the lungs. Really good at infecting the throat though. Ontario is saying Omicron is 50% less likely to result in hospitalization or death than Delta. But its infecting so many people that the hospitals could still be overwhelmed.
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Dec 30, 2021 21:09
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Has there been any sort of policy change or support announced for people who need to go to work, have symptoms but can't get tested? It's easy to say people should just assume they have it and isolate, but how many people can just miss out on close to 2 weeks of pay? How many people could get fired for missing work without a positive test?
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Dec 30, 2021 21:38
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An expat is a white person from a rich country going to live in a developing country. An immigrant is a racialized person from a developing country going to live in a rich country. At least that's how they're generally used in my experience. Ex pats generally don't have to worry about their official status or try to fit in at all. They can live in a country for decades without trying to get citizenship, not learning the language etc etc and still expecting to be catered to
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Jan 10, 2022 19:24
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Fried Watermelon posted:A person who dies from a heart attack because covid destroyed their lungs a few weeks ago will no longer be a covid death Would this have been a covid death before? Surely it should be but it must take longer to determine, is that why they update after the fact sometimes?
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Jan 20, 2022 15:30
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There's a bunch of them parked on the sir John a parkway out front of the war museum, I assume sleeping in their trucks and RVs. It's annoying cause I live close and hear them constantly laying on the horn. But also there's not really anything disruptive about that spot. That road is normally closed weekends anyway
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Jan 30, 2022 01:37
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I grew up in Manitoba and live in Ottawa now and was shocked that no one plugs in their car in Ontario. Ontario friends mostly didn't even know what a block heater was
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Jan 30, 2022 05:22
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I don't understand why you don't just take apart the illegally constructed shed instead of delivering it to their base camp
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Feb 7, 2022 04:27
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Ontario and Quebec are both pursuing energy storage. Ontario is doing bids for private projects and Quebec hydro started their own company. But it will probably be awhile before that has an impact on peak/off peak prices. Most projects now are more about emergency backup and system stability
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Mar 4, 2022 14:50
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Suncor with a combination tailings pond / nuclear waste containment pool sounds like a nightmare scenario
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Mar 31, 2022 15:15
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Who will run for NDP leadership? For the Liberals?
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Jun 3, 2022 16:00
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What about the timing of a Fourth dose after a covid infection? I'm seeing to wait 3 months. Is that real?
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Jul 20, 2022 16:59
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Charles Bukowski posted:Also the man was in prison for nearly 2 years, how did they not have his fingerprints already? Sounds like the cops thought the funeral was an elaborate hoax. Wiebo is hanging out somewhere with Elvis and Tupac
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Apr 10, 2023 20:30
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Wonder what Jagmeet will do if Trudeau does legislate them back to work
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Apr 19, 2023 02:16
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Willatron posted:Is good music an option? I'm laughing. Haha haha ha ha
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Jun 16, 2023 18:02
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My favorite part of the election coverage was how much the liberal panelist and liberal leader complained about strategic voting. And then the panelist complained that the NDP won't implement voter reform. Hahaha get hosed
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Oct 4, 2023 18:35
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