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Cultural Imperial posted:
An economist, as in a person who has performed economic research and analysis in a professional capacity.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 17:23 |
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So when did Rachel Notley piss in Stephen's corn flakes? He's been taking swings at her and yet I don't see her behaving like Wynne. Yeah. I know the obvious reason here.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 17:25 |
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Whiskey Sours posted:An economist, as in a person who has performed economic research and analysis in a professional capacity. Literally anyone who posted in r/bitcoin is now an economist. I guess American exceptionalism had to arrive in Canada at some point. Now anyone, no matter how loving dumb is an expert in something because he tweeted it out.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 17:32 |
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Femtosecond posted:Brand new electoral map for Saskatchewan The gerrymandered to crap ridings are gone. Good for you Saskatchewan.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 17:34 |
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Cultural Imperial posted:Literally anyone who posted in r/bitcoin is now an economist. I guess American exceptionalism had to arrive in Canada at some point. Now anyone, no matter how loving dumb is an expert in something because he tweeted it out. It makes a lot more sense when you see economics as a religion rather than a science.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 17:38 |
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sbaldrick posted:The gerrymandered to crap ridings are gone. Its still heavily weighted on rural ridings when the population is centered on two cities. http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/demo62i-eng.htm
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 17:56 |
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OSI bean dip posted:So when did Rachel Notley piss in Stephen's corn flakes? He's been taking swings at her and yet I don't see her behaving like Wynne. Considering the federal Tories even abandoned the Alberta PCs for being insufficiently dedicated to their ideology, the stench of fear on May 6 must have been palpable.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 17:59 |
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Femtosecond posted:Brand new electoral map for Saskatchewan So glad the riding commission stuck to their guns on that one. It was almost funny to see all the conservatives come in screaming once they realized some sensible boundaries were going to be drawn finally.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 18:08 |
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Melian Dialogue posted:Has there been any Canadian leader, or an opposition leader that you think was a viable leftist? Under current conditions where politicians tend to assemble their team through targeted micro-policy announcements its very hard for social movements to organically propel their own leaders to the top or to effectively police leaders, so I tend to have a very dim view of most Canadian politicians because typically the healthy relationship between the leader and the movement gets reversed. Ideally the party leadership would merely be developing a strategy to execute the demands of the larger party or movement rather than treating their party like footsoldiers in an army. As for historically viable leftists, Tommy Douglas did a pretty good job.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 18:19 |
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Historically who would be regarded as the most "left wing" PM -- Pearson? Though I guess it's a bit of a tough question as what constitutes left-wing would be somewhat fluid over the last 150 years.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 18:30 |
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Cultural Imperial posted:Literally anyone who posted in r/bitcoin is now an economist. I guess American exceptionalism had to arrive in Canada at some point. Now anyone, no matter how loving dumb is an expert in something because he tweeted it out. Is your bike not working today or something?
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 18:31 |
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PT6A posted:This kind of hyperbole is very unhelpful. I don't like Stephen Harper and I won't be voting Conservative, but to suggest that he's anything worse than a bog standard lovely politician only serves to drag the political discourse in this country downward. Stephen Harper isn't a tinpot dictator, Mulcair is not actually a communist, Justin Trudeau is not a mimbo, and Elizabeth May probably doesn't suffer from an actual mental illness. I'm sorry that I couldn't help you
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 18:35 |
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colonel_korn posted:Historically who would be regarded as the most "left wing" PM -- Pearson? Though I guess it's a bit of a tough question as what constitutes left-wing would be somewhat fluid over the last 150 years. He'd be my bet. 40 hour work week, healthcare and minimum wage. Not too shabby.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 18:36 |
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a primate posted:He'd be my bet. 40 hour work week, healthcare and minimum wage. Not too shabby. And CPP
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 18:39 |
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jm20 posted:Its still heavily weighted on rural ridings when the population is centered on two cities. It's not really so bad, Regina and Saskatoon have ~37% of the population and now have 6/14 (~43%) of the Ridings. Well, more like 5.5, that one of Saskatoons kinda explodes out a bit. Sure, people who live in Lloydminster, Prince Albert, etc. might be technically urban, but that's a pretty loose definition of "urban" when those towns mostly have well under 40k people.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 18:48 |
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Kafka Esq. posted:Is your bike not working today or something? I don't know why you guys keep expecting more from Ethnically Han Holden Caulfield.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 18:52 |
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jm20 posted:Its still heavily weighted on rural ridings when the population is centered on two cities. It's seriously better then it was when they basically divided up the cities to the point where the rural areas had more say.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 19:04 |
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Hal_2005 posted:Do you honestly think Justin Trudeau or Mulcair know the difference between a tax credit and a tax deferment? or a chargeback vs. a expense ? I doubt it, and I doubt you are much better. Juul-Whip has issued a correction as of 20:04 on Aug 5, 2015 |
# ? Aug 5, 2015 19:52 |
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bunnyofdoom posted:And CPP And he had the support of the SoCreds
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 20:03 |
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Melian Dialogue posted:The people who happened to have paranoia about bill C-51 probably wouldn't have voted for the Liberals anyway. Considering the huge backlash from the party itself, I think this is not true.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 20:06 |
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Justin???? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH5I96BcVMk
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 20:22 |
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If the NDP want to steal another idea for an ad: If the Conservatives only problem with Justin is that he's just not ready - why is he running for the Liberal party? edit: "I'm not saying never, but just not yet" is basically an endorsement.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 20:26 |
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Yeah I can think of a few people who were ready to vote Liberal because of weed and changed their minds after C-51.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 20:30 |
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Pinterest Mom posted:Justin???? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ THAT'S WHAT THE GREEK GOVERNMENT THOUGHT!
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 20:37 |
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I'm curious about the "you can't borrow forever" line. Dollars to donuts that comes back as a line after a concerned focus group participant brings up Tom's mortgages.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 20:38 |
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apatheticman posted:Also apparently the taxpayer funded 24 hours propaganda series is now featured on the conservatives website. Elections Canada apparently is a laughing stock now
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 20:43 |
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Kafka Esq. posted:If the NDP want to steal another idea for an ad: Nah, that "Not never, but not now," is a great ad because it's a vague way of hitting Trudeau while acknowledging that most people have a positive idea of his father's legacy. It's one of those common sense appeals that gives 70s Liberals skeptical of Justin permission to vote for the Conservatives. Besides, why would the NDP want to come to Trudeau's defense? Every hit the Cons make to Trudeau's readiness implicitly legitimizes the NDP opposition.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 20:46 |
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PhilippAchtel posted:Nah, that "Not never, but not now," is a great ad because it's a vague way of hitting Trudeau while acknowledging that most people have a positive idea of his father's legacy. It's one of those common sense appeals that gives 70s Liberals skeptical of Justin permission to vote for the Conservatives. I'm saying that the Cons are basically saying they would be fine with Trudeau if he had a little more gray in his hair. As in, Liberal-Tory same old story.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 20:56 |
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Pinterest Mom posted:I'm curious about the "you can't borrow forever" line. Dollars to donuts that comes back as a line after a concerned focus group participant brings up Tom's mortgages. Sinister voice: "Thomas Mulcair has remortgaged his house eleven times and as recently as 2009. He won't tell us why but did you know he was ordered to pay over $100,000 in a defamation suit in 2005. That's on top of the $400,000 he owes Canadian taxpayers for the satellite offices. Right now, you're probably thinking Thomas Mulcair's mouth has a habit of writing cheques his rear end can't cash. It sure looks that way .... doesn't it?" Kafka Esq. posted:I'm saying that the Cons are basically saying they would be fine with Trudeau if he had a little more gray in his hair. As in, Liberal-Tory same old story. It's not effective for the cons to come out and advertise that he's a valueless, silver spoon sucking, parasitic opportunist. They've got to be nice and nudge people in the direction that they're already going. They aren't telling you what they think, they're telling you what you (statistically) already think.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 21:03 |
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Pinterest Mom posted:Justin???? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Should I be surprised that this ad features only white people?
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 22:44 |
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My favourite bit is the jab against the Greeks as if it'll be any different when the international banks come at us.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 22:47 |
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ZShakespeare posted:My favourite bit is the jab against the Greeks as if it'll be any different when the international banks come at us. Not to mention how the Harper regime is talking about tax cuts even though the federal budget will be running a deficit over the next few years.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 22:56 |
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 22:59 |
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What the gently caress is a Netflix tax
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 23:03 |
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<------------ Single Issue voting over Netflix, lives in a country where our politicians actually do this kind of thing
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 23:06 |
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Sexy Randal posted:What the gently caress is a Netflix tax It's how you protect your children on the internet. Just(not ready)in wants to expose your children to unregulated internet and netflix. Studies from Health Canada have shown that the internet causes death in 100% of people who use it. We need a steady hand in these uncertain times when faced with these death threats from Jihadi terrorists.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 23:07 |
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74 days to go
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 23:13 |
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Sexy Randal posted:What the gently caress is a Netflix tax yeah where the gently caress did this nonsense come from? This sounds like Telecom fuckery
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 23:21 |
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Someone please save that pic for the next CanPol thread
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 23:26 |
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Alctel posted:74 days to go I'll just assume Netflix knows nothing of this and wouldn't approve of their brand being used in this way.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 23:26 |