Rime posted:

unrelenting coverage of government fuckups sparks actual change

Hexigrammus posted:

Just heard that Tony Clements as Ontario Minister of Health during SARS was flying around the world arguing against a travel ban being imposed on Canada.

I wonder what changed.

Violet_Sky posted:

In other news, has the mayor who wanted to ban PDA been elected? I sure hope not.

Violet_Sky posted:

Who the gently caress does that? When I went to vote, there were signs everywhere holding your hand and showing you how not to gently caress up.

THC posted:

Looks like another win for Mayor DJ Gregor

Baronjutter posted:

Can anyone give me a simple run down on what was at stake and what will now happen in Vancouver? I always assumed the only differences between Vancouver politicans were how many PO-TO style condos they could suck off at once and if they believe in playing with the podium or just going for the tower.

eXXon posted:

Are online retailers allowed to refuse to sell an item due to a price error after the order has been processed and payment verified, but just before it is shipped? I even got an email with a shipping confirmation, but the tracking number isn't working so it clearly hadn't actually been sent out yet.

The website claims they can do this in the terms & conditions, but I'm wondering if there's any legislation at all concerning online orders. I don't think physical stores are allowed to refuse sales under similar circumstances. And no, the particular item is not even remotely worth fighting over, I'm just curious.

Baronjutter posted:

I can't imagine the sort that would be concerned about that, I'd imagine they'd be so xenophobic they wouldn't eat any "foreign food" at all and probably think pizza is a papist plot to turn everyone italian.

PittTheElder posted:

Initial D was a loving blight.

Helsing posted:

Are you really surprised? The media in this country is shameless when it comes to plugging a political agenda. They might not be as blatant about it as some American media but overall Canada has a media environment that is actually worse than Americas.

Most newspapers in this country are unprofitable and only actually exist to act as mouthpieces for their wealthy owners. During the latest Ontario election the editorial board of the Globe and Mail unanimously agreed to endorse the Liberals but they were unilaterally over ruled by Editor-in-Chief David Walmsley, who, at the behest of publisher Philip Crawley and the Thomson family (i.e. the people who own the Globe) forced them to instead write an endorsement of Tim Hudak's conservative.

Not that long ago newspapers were generally expected to have opinions that were broadly similar to the opinions of their readers. Yet in the latest Ontario election three of Toronto's four newspapers endorsed a political party that [i]has only won a single seat in Toronto in the last 15 years.[i] These papers no longer have any particular connection with their readership, they merely exist to service the vanities or economic interests of their owners.

Or there's this darkly comic memo from the Globe that was recently leaked where we found out that Globe writers are now expected to help generate "branded content" for advertisers.

And all this is without me even having talked about Quebecor or the Irvings. When it comes to media our country is a bad joke in search of a punchline.

infernal machines posted:

Are you sure it wasn't bought by one of the BIAs in an affected area? The Roncessvalles BIA did a big "buy local" push towards the end of the two year rolling shutdown of the street during the streetcar construction. I don't know if they had TV ads but there were print and TTC/transit stop signage.

Pinterest Mom posted:

I got Post-materialist Left

Helsing posted:

Another issue with this survey is that I had very little sense of how I should list my priorities. As far as I'm concerned poverty, inequality, jobs and the environment are all directly economic issues. I was also concerned that putting "jobs" high up on the list would be interpreted as "favours giving sloppy blowjobs to the job creators".

As far as political compasses go this one wasn't bad but if you happen to be someone whose political views are predicated on the assumption that the organization of the economy is the root cause of many of our problems then the survey actually does a pretty piss poor job of capturing your opinions because you're asked to choose between buzzwords that you see as largely meaningless.

Helsing posted:

I will be pleasantly surprised if we actually get some convictions out of this. It is a testament to how awful our other parties are that basically everyone knows the Ontario Provincial Liberals are hugely corrupt and yet they win anyway.

The Goon posted:

The fact that more people aren't up in arms over all the fuckery that Deepak Chopra has pulled to destroy Canada Post or even his link to the think tank that recommended all these "cost efficiencies" in the first place fills me with so much fury.

HookShot posted:

It's not ALL that though, I read an article a few years ago (so my memory is hazy and while the gist is correct I'm really making the numbers up) that Greeks with a swimming pool (so one would assume higher income) have to pay a tax on it every year. Something like 500 people paid that tax in the year before the article was written, but if you look at Google Earth of Athens there's like 15,000 pools.

Cultural Imperial posted:

You know what's loving weird? Not having portable electronic health records like in the NHS.

Sassafras posted:

This part is actually true though. It's like the accusations that much of the reason that the CRA has gone after people with large TFSAs for "conducting a business" inside their accounts with a few trades per month is just jealousy over them being too successful at trading. (Of course, TFSAs are problematic due to financial hijinks by more knowledgable investors, the old lifetime capital gains exclusion was probably a better system.) non profit groups who happen to say anything negative that could be remotely related to the Harper Government.

Sassafras posted:

See! Vindictive politicians and bureaucrats! Everywhere! (Point re: hypocrisy granted)

Pinterest Mom posted:

And OLP ONDP HQ has more complete results out - 150/238 polls and Thibeault is ahead by 200

supersnowman posted:

I keep remembering telling student on strike how even if hey "won" their battle to block raise on tuition cost, they would just be shoveling the problem a bit further down the line because at some point cuts raising revenues would have to be made at large.

bunnyofdoom posted:

All 8000 of them.

Scaramouche posted:

Maybe I'm missing something, but where are all of the eco-terrorist crimes against Canada that are obviously happening to cause this crackdown? I mean Wiebo had that reign of terror that included hundreds of deaths, ones of economies damaged, and so on, but that was a while ago. As the Glob said "There is a growing, highly organized and well-financed anti-Canada petroleum movement that consists of peaceful activists, militants and violent extremists who are opposed to society’s reliance on fossil fuels". Where? Who? What violence has occurred? Since when is 'anti-petroleum' 'anti-Canada'?

Baronjutter posted: