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I don't feel particularly strongly about the issue, but I'd happily jettison the monarchy if it meant less royal visits to Canada. Drives me nuts every time a member of the royal family comes here and all our news outlets turn into royal-obsessed tabloids. I don't watch Power & Politics to find out what Prince Whatshisface is wearing.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Imperator Justinium Trudeaux, First of His Name. The big upside to Trudeau as leader in 2015 is the possibility of Warhammer 40k style Trudeau fan art.
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May 31, 2013 23:41
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Also, I just threw a dart at a map of Canada to determine which other region we could poo poo on, and Mr. Pointy recommends we be upset at Cut Knife, Saskatchewan. The entirety of Alberta always makes a good fallback plan. Never understood the Toronto hate. Everyone I grew up around has pretty neutral feelings about Ontario and reserves most of their real loathing for Calgary and Fort Mac.
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Jun 4, 2013 20:19
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Welp. Gawker says the Crackstarter was a bust. Video owner contacted Gawker saying the video is gone.
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Jun 4, 2013 23:14
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Holy poo poo. Christy Clark chose my riding (Westside-Kelowna) to run in a by-election in. It wasn't particularly close, the Liberal beat the New Democrat 13k to 7k, but damned if I won't see if we can do something to change that.
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Jun 5, 2013 21:39
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Rathgeber stating a lot of obvious things about the CPC's tight messaging control. Threw out a comment about the Duffy scandal as an example of the party's issues with accountability and transparency.
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Jun 6, 2013 18:10
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I didn't think it was particularly scandalous that the Conservatives have a rainy day slush fund. Plenty of other things to get up in arms about right now. Bookending the "trained seal" clip from Rathgeber with Chris Alexander on a panel was entertaining television.
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Jun 6, 2013 22:51
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Pretty strange the way the CPC are pushing back so hard on this "secret slush fund" situation. It's no big deal and they should just say it. Instead they're pushing this weird CBC conspiracy/left-wing media persecution angle and giving the thing life. Feels like they're jumping at shadows.
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Jun 7, 2013 22:06
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Helsing posted:Even if the fund is totally harmless and the kind of poo poo that any modern party would do, it really isn't the kind of story I can imagine the Conservatives would want to see appearing in the press right now. Freaking out, changing their message 24 hours later (Chris Alexander acknowledged the existence of the fund yesterday on P&P) and blasting the messenger is pretty much the worst thing you could do to put an end to this story. They're capable of the "no big deal, nothing to see here, these are not the droids you are looking for" response to a story like this, why they'd choose the "hair on fire, liberal media conspiracy" approach baffles me. It just gives this thing legs and makes it looks like they're hiding something. All I can guess is they'd rather have this thing on TV than more coverage of Duffy. Maybe blow this thing out of proportion knowing no wrongdoing will be found then point to it as "see? All these scandals are bullshit cause this was no big deal".
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Jun 7, 2013 22:29
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Fine-able Offense posted:The Senate, right now, today, does good and useful things for the Canadian people. I know this because I've testified before Senate committees, worked with Senators on important issues, and actually arsed myself to learn about what it is and how it works before making GBS threads all over myself in public on the topic. Could you give a few specific examples? It gets thrown out a lot as something proponents of the Senate feel to be completely uncontroversial, but I rarely hear "the Senate did this thing, this thing and this good thing in the last year". Not trying to imply those examples don't exist, just don't seem to hear specifics about the good things the Senate does. I'd love to see an MP stand up and offer a full throated defence of the Senate and the value of it, but it seems that'd be political suicide these days.
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Jun 11, 2013 21:00
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I don't have the time for an in depth response but thanks for the article Vyelkin and the example Fine. It's always been a little strange to me that people would talk about "all the good work the Senate does" but were so stingy with specifics. You'd think at a time like this every member of the Senate would be shouting from the rooftops about every halfway decent thing they ever did.
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THC posted:I hope they call it Refooooooorm Love dat word. Failing that I'm pretty sure Canadian Reform Alliance Party is still available.
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Thanks for the updates. Got someone in Okotoks who's having her family come stay with her, hoping they all make it there safely. Hoping things blow over with as little damage and danger as possible. Calgary you've got two months to clean up your city once this is all over, cause I'll be damned if I miss XFest!
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Excelsiortothemax posted:Such a good line up this year too! I do hope the grounds will be useable. Yeah it's going to be outstanding. Weezer and City & Colour alone are worth the price of admission to me. It's like getting to see AWOLnation, Blink 182 and The Sheepdogs for free with a ton of other bands I hardly know. Kind of blown away by how cheap the tickets are.
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Jun 21, 2013 02:39
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Is there a lot of call for volunteers to help clean up after a disaster like this? Any ideas who you'd even contact about something like that? I'm unemployed at the moment, but I can accomplish nearly as much on that front from a coffee shop with wifi as from here in town. Could pretty easily catch a Greyhound bus that way from here in BC when the flooding settles, extra set of hands and all that. Obviously would stay out of the way till the flooding gets under control.
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Jun 21, 2013 06:32
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Wasn't she laying the ground work for some sort of tax increase before the flood? I remember the weird little "balance the budget" game where you could implement a ton of heinous and awful cuts, or raise taxes a tiny amount.
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Jun 25, 2013 03:56
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Sadly we missed the submission deadline here in the Westside-Kelowna Byelection. Fortunately there are a bunch of awful candidates on the ballot.  Found out that they have eight candidates running in the Byelection. Gotta look up a list. Apparently they're getting lots of complaints about no Green Party candidate either, so BCNDP/BCLP/BCCon and 5x???
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Jun 26, 2013 02:01
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Paper Jam Dipper posted:Justin Trudeau knows his emails are annoying so the subject line for his last was, "It's me again" I liked the one where he thanked me for making him Liberal leader. Worked hard on that one. Those dog-ate-my-homework deadline jokes don't write themselves.
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Jun 27, 2013 01:05
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If it was all a secret conspiracy to take guns away, how many Canadians would actually care? 10%? 20%? The Canadian people have shown a remarkable ability to remain apathetic about much worse incidents than this. I get that I should probably be more bothered by RCMP overreach, but in this instance it's tough to work up much enthusiasm.
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Jun 28, 2013 22:28
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Man gun people are weird. I'm rapidly reaching the point where I want to see crazy gun control laws on the books just to troll the hell out of the gun owners. Maybe something where owning a gun requires you to get a forehead tattoo that reads "has a gun".
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Jun 29, 2013 06:29
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Now who will I tell everything? 
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Jul 8, 2013 18:40
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Clark is out to a big early lead of 1500ish votes with about half the polls reporting according to the Globe & Mail. The anti-Clark voters were certainly the most vocal at my polling station (lots of "here to stop Christy Clark" comments throughout the day") but the voting pool skewed heavily towards seniors so I'm not optimistic.
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Jul 11, 2013 05:31
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Meat Recital posted:It's good to see the Gov't upset at the telecoms, but at the same time Verizon already said they were pulling out of the bidding process so what's the point anymore? The Conservatives are jumping on "standing up to the telecoms" as part of their image rehab campaign. Kind of funny after the way they thrashed the crap out of the NDP for doing the same in the last election.
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Sep 23, 2013 21:39
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Personally I'm just hoping we get an ad about Stephen Harper costing Canada all of it's RIM jobs and a pledge to bring RIM jobs back.
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Sep 24, 2013 18:44
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Fine-able Offense posted:You ain't really Vancouver unless you remember those old The Captain commercials. I remember seeing those during Almost Live before SNL came on. Almost Live was amazing but only my Vancouver friends remember it.
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The TVs thing is especially hilarious. I bought a little 22" 1080p HDTV for $140 last May from Best Buy, hardly some sort of extravagant unattainable luxury purchase. Probably could have got one cheaper had I shopped around/dealt with a non-brick and mortar retailer. Haven't any of these people seen Oz? Even Oz had TV sets.
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Bloody Holly posted:ford just admitted he smokes crack In his defence it is part of a nutritious breakfast.
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Nov 5, 2013 18:35
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I can't wait for Rob Ford to come out against the vicious and slanderous rumours spread by Rob Ford. After all, that guy is on crack! Clearly he can't be trusted.
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JimboMaloi posted:He asked "Are you on crack right now?" and Ford walked out. It's a stupid question which served no clear purpose beyond antagonizing him (Ford was as coherent as he ever gets), so I can't actually begrudge Ford for walking out. Rosie Barton was tweeting about the rest of the reporters being livid with the reporter who made the joke. Pretty stupid giving him an out to walk away without answering questions.
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Squibbles posted:Haha oh NDP Got an email about these, freaking sold. I would totally collect MP and Senator trading cards though. I'll have to settle for a set of disgraced ones for now.
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Nov 6, 2013 01:40
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I really can't wait for the attack ads to shred this fool into a pile of tears and good hair.
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Nov 7, 2013 07:18
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Racism in the west is just usually directed at different groups. I've heard way too many rants about "Hongcouver" or people saying awful poo poo about natives in Winnipeg over the years.
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THC posted:I hope he shows up. I hope he shows up, and he ruins Christmas. You're a mean one, Mr Ford.
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Nov 14, 2013 10:32
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Clearly the solution is to ship all the kids off to Fort Mac and let the oil companies handle education. :economicactionplan:
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Nov 17, 2013 00:21
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My broooother is coooooming with many Fremen waaaaaariors. Poor Mayor.
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Nov 17, 2013 20:52
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Lumius posted:I really doubt they ever had any intention of doing more than a one episode deal, from the editing it seems like a "one time tv special" If this costs us a Rob & Doug Ford Christmas special I'll be thoroughly disappointed.
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Nov 20, 2013 07:09
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eXXon posted:
I missed the question but that's likely my MP Dan "The Karate Kid" Albas.  The Canadian version of the Romney money.jpg 
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Nov 20, 2013 20:29
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The Conservative MP from Okanagan thanks the government for replacing the boiler in some city's pool. It is more energy efficient and reliable. This is good governance. But he can't understand why a government would want to legalize a dangerous drug like marijuana. He concluded by saying that when he was in the pool, he prayed that his children would never live under a government willing to legalize marijuana. You can't make this poo poo up.
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Nov 20, 2013 21:02
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Oh my god the Bloc Québécois are expanding into Alberta and Naheed Nenshi is a member! 
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Calandra is the living embodiment of that Upton Sinclair quote: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Watching his interview on Power & Politics yesterday was just cringeworthy.
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