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Another Bill posted:I was joking but it's happened twice more in the last 10 mins. Someone's trying to get in my email for some reason. E: probably not my posting let's be real Someone still working their way through the Ashley Madison dump.
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Crow Buddy posted:Someone once called me a bad poster. I reminded them that since I wasn't currently holding a gun to their head making them read my posts, that meant that I was in fact a good poster. That's weird, this newly registered account is speaking like they're always been here
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The Ruskies just voted in Wheatland county to demand changes to confederation or else they will hold a referendum on secession. https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/wheatland-county-passes-resolution-calling-for-alberta-independence-referendum-1.4673649 quote:CALGARY -- A southeastern Alberta county passed a resolution Tuesday calling for changes to the confederation — or Alberta would hold an independence referendum.
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I wonder what they think a referendum on independence will accomplish
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I mean they kind of said it themselves there, this is pissing in the wind. It just turns out that the media is gladly standing where they're aiming.
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Oh, I thought the resolution was pissing in the wind.
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If the resolution is pissing in the wind (as they said it was just about airing their frustrations) I think it's fair to say they didn't think hard about independence referendums and that would be pissing in the wind as well. Until an actual vote happens and it passes and fucks us over like the UK.
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I wouldn't worry too much, Alberta is not leaving confederation any time soon. This isn't a Brexit scenario, no matter how much they like to use that reference.
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infernal machines posted:I wouldn't worry too much, Alberta is not leaving confederation any time soon. This isn't a Brexit scenario, no matter how much they like to use that reference. What are you going to do, stab me?
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I mean, if they think they're going to pass their own Clarity Act in the HoC, sure, but as it is that doesn't exist for Alberta. AFAIK The feds have no obligation to negotiate sovereignty with Alberta just because they hold a successful referendum vote. infernal machines fucked around with this message at 06:00 on Nov 8, 2019 |
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Hexigrammus posted:For some reason "Boatman's Whistle" enrages me more than the kid's pink camo t shirt. You'd think a museum might get a technical detail like "Boatswain" or "Bos'n" correct? BOATMAN??? 1) The boatman's whistle looks nothing like a bos'n's call, which is so goddamned dumb given that those are still being manufactured. 2) No travel necessary-- everything can be accessed from the comfort of your own home! The personnel records of the CEF were digitized early in this century. They can be accessed here: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/personnel-records/Pages/personnel-records.aspx The war diaries are a slightly more convoluted search, but can be accessed here: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/Pages/war-diaries.aspx In the case of service records, the more information you have on a specific person you are looking for, the easier it is to find them. Also, do not be afraid to try alternate spellings of names-- you'd be shocked how often people's names are misspelled.
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infernal machines posted:I mean, if they think they're going to pass their own Clarity Act in the HoC, sure, but as it is that doesn't exist for Alberta. As far as I know the current Clarity Act applies to any province that might want to leave, not just Quebec.
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:As far as I know the current Clarity Act applies to any province that might want to leave, not just Quebec. My mistake then, I've only ever seen it referenced in terms of Quebec sovereignty, I thought it was more specifically written. In that case, good luck to our Albertan brethren. May the fair winds of freedom fill your sails. ...oh, right, no ports.
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Booourns posted:That's weird, this newly registered account is speaking like they're always been here If I can make a recommendation to anyone thinking to toxx for the NDP. Ensure you didn't misspelled your email when you last updated it.
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Fearless posted:2) No travel necessary-- everything can be accessed from the comfort of your own home! Thanks! I haven't had a problem with the service records but I got thrown off when I tried to search for specific regimental stuff. I was a little worried their search function had been programmed by whomever is responsible for Phoenix. I had one WWI ancestor who changes ranks several times as well as acting positions. His pay records show numerous strike-outs and corrections getting his wife at home in Victoria her proper spousal allowance. If the Phoenix standard had existed back then she and her daughter would have starved to death.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/globeandmail/status/1192616109167398913 I'll see your moment of gamer silence and raise you a whatever the solemn gently caress this is
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Hexigrammus posted:Thanks! I haven't had a problem with the service records but I got thrown off when I tried to search for specific regimental stuff. I was a little worried their search function had been programmed by whomever is responsible for Phoenix. One of my great grandfathers was declared dead for a couple of weeks (he was wounded at Vimy and was in aid station). That particular hiccup is in his records.
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What is this palEcon thing that Faith Goldie believes in?
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Another Bill posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/globeandmail/status/1192616109167398913 Cheering for that time when Commonwealth soldiers put explosives under a trench at Ypres and killed 10,000 Germans at once. Hooray. They should do the next one about that time a cpl lost two legs and an arm in Afghanistan and then the government fought with him to try and kick him off his disability pension back home.
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Fun headline for the day: Young, low-income women less likely to use effective birth control: UBC study Sure, whatever, seems uncontroversial, let's see what sort of welfare queen talk is inside / in comments.quote:Canada is one of the only countries that has universal healthcare, but doesn't have universal access to contraception for women. The United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia all have universal contraceptive care. Some Australian site says "For example, while residents of the UK receive the contraceptive pill for free on the NHS, those in Australia have to pay between $35 and $290 for a year’s supply", so universal apparently still permits a rather sliding scale of means-testing (on whom?). quote:Researchers found that household income below $80,000 per year was linked to decreased use of oral contraceptives and dual methods. Instead, reliance on injectable contraceptives and condoms only was increased, as was the risk of not using contraceptives at all. Coincidentally, since we love talking about tax cuts for the middle class, I found this while googling - not enough income stats exclude all those pesky lingering old people: "Excluding senior families, median market income (which includes employment income, private pensions, and investment income) rose by 2.7% in 2017 to $92,400, primarily due to a strong job market, StatsCan says. At the same time, the implementation of the new Canada Child Benefit (CCB) in 2017 boosted median after-tax income for families by $1,500, it notes." quote:Condoms are about $1 each, but they are only 85 per cent effective in real-life conditions, which means 15 out of 100 people who only use condoms will get pregnant annually. Overall, though, this position paper re: Universal access to no-cost contraception for youth in Canada [May 2019], from the Canadian Paediatric Society, looks to be the best discussion of the current situation in Canada. It touches on the existing partial coverage for people on welfare, somewhat underplays how broad the NIHB coverage is... Interesting to me how hard they're pushing IUDs for young people because there is (used to be?) massive resistance from most doctors to giving them to women who haven't already had children based on my and others' past anecdotal experience. <-- avatar/post combo
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Another Bill posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/globeandmail/status/1192616109167398913 Hell yes. e: quote:Remembrance Island, a custom Fortnite island launched by the veterans’ organization, features First World War trenches, D-Day beaches and the Vimy Ridge cenotaph. Unlike Fortnite, there is no violence on this island. To be fair, "fortnight but not violence" isn't the least subversive thing they could do. Hand Knit fucked around with this message at 15:18 on Nov 8, 2019 |
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Tapez le F pour respecter les anciens combatants
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Booourns posted:That's weird, this newly registered account is speaking like they're always been here Permaban re-regs are a CanPol tradition dating back many years.
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they are all CI they have always been CI they will always be CI you will know him by his trigger. Jenny Kwan.
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James Baud posted:
I'm curious what your point is here. Are you implying that condom are actually a lot more effective? Or a lot worse?
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Helsing posted:Don't you think it kind of matters that the closest thing to actual evidence they cite is described by its own authors as inconclusive? I'm also annoyed by the contingent that treat Russia like it's magic to the extent that it's used as a shortcut to dismiss real phenomena as being the result of something foreign to the body politic, but, idk, I think it's also probably the only instance of "be skeptical about your information diet" that's broken through in the mainstream wrt to social media posts. I think "yes, Russia is doing this, and also be skeptical because a whole lot of other actors are" is a more promising jumping off point than "if Russia is doing this, so what." Given your general attitude towards empiricism and identification in the social sciences, I would think that you appreciate the fact that the writers here are careful to not make unjustified causal claims, instead of using the fact that they're careful about what causal claims they can or can't make to dismiss the descriptive work they do.
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infernal machines posted:I wonder what they think a referendum on independence will accomplish I think the line of thinking goes 'Quebec threatened to leave Canada and now they get a lot of special treatment. We should threaten to leave and then we'll get special treatment!' Of course it's not true at all, but it's a very easy way to win over low information voters who have internalized the Alberta victim complex.
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I want to watch them mint their own currency. Alberta oil scrip is going to be
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What if our currency had, like, negative value?Another Bill posted:Being a bunch of self centred greedy jerks does not a distinct society make. Yeah, you also need to speak French. I kid, I kid PittTheElder posted:I think the line of thinking goes 'Quebec threatened to leave Canada and now they get a lot of special treatment. We should threaten to leave and then we'll get special treatment!' I had mistakenly thought the Clarity Act was rather narrowly written for Quebec, but it seems that no matter what the feds have significant leeway over deciding what constitutes a valid referendum and a clear majority, to the extent that it's probably very difficult to satisfy if they don't want to entertain separation. infernal machines fucked around with this message at 16:40 on Nov 8, 2019 |
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:As far as I know the current Clarity Act applies to any province that might want to leave, not just Quebec. From the Wiki article for the Clarity Act quote:- Giving the House of Commons the power to decide whether a proposed referendum question was considered clear before the public vote; Any province can initiate a referendum but it's up the federal government to decide if it was fair and if 50+1 is enough for if the province needs 67% or whatever. It actually does prevent a lot of the poo poo that went on with Brexit so Parliament has some foresight in this one.
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James Baud posted:Fun headline for the day: Young, low-income women less likely to use effective birth control: UBC study Sure, whatever, seems uncontroversial, let's see what sort of welfare queen talk is inside / in comments. I'm not 100% sure of the point you are trying to make, but I think I agree with you for once. BC pills shouldn't be pushed on people and neither should IUDs, which come with their own set of issues. But the BC pill for a lot of women isn't just for preventing pregnant and has a lot of practical health-related applications and should probably be the first step in a universal pharmacare program.
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infernal machines posted:I had mistakenly thought the Clarity Act was rather narrowly written for Quebec, but it seems that no matter what the feds have significant leeway over deciding what constitutes a valid referendum and a clear majority, to the extent that it's probably very difficult to satisfy if they don't want to entertain separation. You might be thinking of Reference re Secession of Québec. That was narrowly decided only re: Québec and only re: secession, though it's sometimes invoked for other purposes - Kenney invoked it when claiming that if Alberta passed an anti-equalisation referendum, the country would have an obligation to negotiate in good faith.
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Pinterest Mom posted:You might be thinking of Reference re Secession of Québec. That was narrowly decided only re: Québec and only re: secession, though it's sometimes invoked for other purposes - Kenney invoked it when claiming that if Alberta passed an anti-equalisation referendum, the country would have an obligation to negotiate in good faith. That is significantly more like what I was thinking of, I had mistakenly conflated it with the Clarity Act in my head.
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James Baud posted:Overall, though, this position paper re: Universal access to no-cost contraception for youth in Canada [May 2019], from the Canadian Paediatric Society, looks to be the best discussion of the current situation in Canada. It touches on the existing partial coverage for people on welfare, somewhat underplays how broad the NIHB coverage is... Interesting to me how hard they're pushing IUDs for young people because there is (used to be?) massive resistance from most doctors to giving them to women who haven't already had children based on my and others' past anecdotal experience.
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Pinterest Mom posted:... Kenney invoked it when claiming that if Alberta passed an anti-equalisation referendum, the country would have an obligation to negotiate in good faith. He knows better than that. When has the federal government ever lived up to their obligation to negotiate in good faith? Doesn't matter which team is running the show. They have done whatever they wanted, regardless of obligations. For reference: Any time an obligation existed to consult/negotiate with first nations, and public servant collective bargaining. My contract just came out of binding arbitration earlier this year. The moment the agreement was signed, it was already expired for a year. Team blue and team red both held power during the period where the contract was supposed to be negotiated. Both failed (either through malice, incompetence, or both) to negotiate at all, never mind in good faith.
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quote:Poppies are Red! Why does everything have to be about race or sexual orientation or whatever. As a military spouse this frustrates me a bit... sorry but it does!
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I've been meaning to make an etsy store that sells rainbow truck nuts tbh.
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CRISPYBABY posted:I've been meaning to make an etsy store that sells rainbow truck nuts tbh. Rainbow / Pink truck nuts with a [She / Her] pronoun tag hanging underneath them
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Lmao Cyara Bird had to protect her tweets because she got caught lying too many times in the past 24 hours
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