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The various Stampeders games I've been to have been much more fun than Flames games. CFL is pretty fun
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Jun 1, 2021 19:59
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Still so mad that nobody will ask why he's organizing a referendum against the formula he helped write.
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Jun 10, 2021 23:31
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Jun 14, 2021 22:08
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DariusLikewise posted:Why does the Green Party even exist? It's the party for people who want more preservation of natural areas, while avoiding any changes to the social order, so that they can maximize their access to said areas.
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Jun 15, 2021 19:14
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Vancouver apparently considering charging $1000 or $500 fees for parking permits for High or Moderately polluting vehicles with a model year later than 2022. That policy honestly kinda rules. However they are also considering a $45/year fee for everybody parking on the street overnight, and $3/night for visitors to an area, which seems much stupider. https://www.citynews1130.com/2021/06/14/vancouver-parking-permits/
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Jun 17, 2021 19:16
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eXXon posted:Why? $45/year for street parking is a pittance; there's no way that covers more than a tiny fraction of the maintenance costs. Well it's mostly the visitor parking fee thing since it sounds like they want to charge it everywhere. Seems like it'll be a lot of work to ever administrate and enforce in exchange for a pittance of a fee, in addition to being very annoying for road users.
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Jun 17, 2021 20:12
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The obvious critique of Georgist LVT is that it only taxes one form of rent-seeking, and there are many kinds of economic rents.
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Jun 17, 2021 23:19
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DariusLikewise posted:I'm confused about Alberta and Saskatchewan completely dropping restrictions so soon, seems ill-advised with whats happening with the Delta Variant in the UK? You're not wrong, but also have you considered that's it Stampede time? Kenney has clearly made some sort of deal with a rodeo devil, he is constantly talking about how important rodeo is. When the deniers held a super spreader rodeo event, Kenney made sure to explain that it's fine because it wasn't hosted by an official rodeo organization. Cacator posted:I got my second Moderna shot yesterday and went to bed fine, then woke up feeling like I got hit by a truck! Yeah this was my experience with second Moderna too. Chills and muscle soreness (some in my arm, but mostly in my back for some reason) until about 24 hours after the injection.
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Jun 22, 2021 18:52
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Yea Stampede 2021 is going to be 100% a celebration of the right wing chud way of life
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Jun 23, 2021 02:21
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Probably be cheaper to just build treatment facilities on site. I think the main problem is that it's very hard to find workers to operate the plants, and training the locals to do it is impossible because racism or something
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Jun 25, 2021 00:56
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It's almost as if we need the federal government to do what governments are supposed to do, and spend the money required to operate those plants.
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Jun 26, 2021 03:00
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Arcsquad12 posted:So what was the heritage fund supposed to be used for? Is this related to those rumors that Kenney forced public service workers to pay into a retirement fund that was backed by the canceled oil pipelines? It was supposed to be a dividend returning sovereign wealth fund that would continue to generate cash whenever the oil money inevitably ran out. Was started by a PC premier even. See: Norway. But our generations worth of conservative governments were so loving stupid that they decided it would be better to not charge any royalties on the oil, AND pilfer the fund so that we could maintain a flat tax.
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Jun 27, 2021 01:54
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Chillyrabbit posted:I can't remember if the heritage fund is the same as the pension fund, but all they might have done is heavily invest in Alberta Oil companies Nah the heritage fund is the older one and seperate from the pension funds, but yes they absolutely did that with the pension plans and almost certainly did that with the heritage fund. The teachers used to be able to invest their own pension fund, but as of 2019 the UCP legislated that they must use AIMCo (who also manages the Heritage Fund) and as you say they absolutely used that money to try and prop up failing UCP aligned businesses. PittTheElder fucked around with this message at 05:10 on Jun 27, 2021 |
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Jun 27, 2021 05:06
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flakeloaf posted:the cop who wore a blackface costume wasn't a racist  lol holy gently caress. hopefully the crown is going to ap quote:Kafi was Black, and while there was no evidence presented at trial that the assault was motivated by racism  how is our judicial system this useless and ineffectual?
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Jun 30, 2021 04:38
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Is there some culturally known way to signal to a driver behind you to turn off their loving highbeams? I saw at least three such people driving with them on in the middle of the day today; it was not dark, it was just raining. I really wish I had some sort of mirror system that reflects the light that would hit my rearview camera right back to the windshield of the car behind me.
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Jul 5, 2021 05:34
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Goosed it. posted:I can't tell if this is a joke or not. Can't you toggle your rearview mirror to do just that? It's 90% serious. That tab does do the dimming of the rear which is nice but does little to reduce the light coming in from the side mirrors, and as far as I know it's not particularly visible to the guy driving behind me.
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Jul 5, 2021 14:37
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuQhNdpX2GA seriously though you're not wrong
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Jul 7, 2021 19:06
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sitchensis posted:tl;dr version: the usual pap about toxic politics She specifically called out FPTP, concentration of power in the PMO, and lack of representation for minorities. Did you want her to write a thesis about it?
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Jul 8, 2021 22:12
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infernal machines posted:https://twitter.com/CityNews/status/1413512766644625410 Lol you say that as if Alberta hadn't removed all restrictions over a week ago, and doesn't have the Calgary Stampede in a couple days.
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Jul 9, 2021 16:30
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The particularly galling thing to me has been the cities discarding their mask mandates so fast. Masks are such a tiny, insignificant thing, that protect a large part of the non-vaccinated population (which at this point is still most of the population). Just stick to your guns and require them indoors until the second vaccination rate comes up. 
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Jul 9, 2021 18:37
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Just in case anybody is worried about second Moderna for some reason, it did indeed suck a lot, but symptoms for me and everyone I know have been limited to just 24 hours.
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Jul 12, 2021 17:47
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It seems real clear there's going to be a Fall of Saigon style exodus within a week or two, it'd probably be better to start collaborator evacs now (we won't do evacs and will absolutely leave them to die).
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Jul 13, 2021 23:54
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Is Andrew Coyne the one who hates the liberals because a his mom and a Trudeau hooked up once upon a time?
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Jul 15, 2021 06:22
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I did the same thing yesterday, and it really helped that the gym was still almost completely empty too.
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Jul 19, 2021 16:35
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Kraftwerk posted:Is there any credibility to there being an election this fall or is the news media just trying to kill some time and drum up a story? The NDP certainly believe there is going to be. They've been busily organizing even in the non-competitive ridings, I stopped paying attention when summer started but last I heard they were def expecting a fall election.
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Jul 22, 2021 06:06
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nine-gear crow posted:. At this point it's only a question of who's gonna eat more of O'Toole's lunch, Trudeau or Singh. And this I think is absolutely the relevant question. O'Toole obviously can't attract any more than the hardest core Tory voters, and so it's going to come down to whether NDP voters vote for Jagmeet cause they like him, or Trudeau because they're scared of O'Toole. Personally I suspect it'll be the former and we'll be right back where we started come November.
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Jul 22, 2021 07:44
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nine-gear crow posted:Georgia went blue last year, what's the odds on Orange Alberta? The NDP's literally within 5% of sending O'Toole to O'blivion at this rate. Without another right wing party to split with, probably zero. The ANDP are deeply right wing as far as the NDP goes, it seems unlikely that support would translate to the FNDP at a 1:1 rate.
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Jul 26, 2021 02:54
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Don't lament the death of Alberta contact tracing, it never worked in the first place.
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Jul 29, 2021 05:00
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Vasler posted:How the heck does Alberta justify fining students, of all people, for not disclosing their student status? Don't you see? By giving them a pay cut we're doing them a favor. They should want it. it's because they hate them PT6A posted:There was a time when he was just normal incompetent, like Boris Johnson or something. Neither of these people were ever normal incompetent. They were always awful and always knew what they were doing. PittTheElder fucked around with this message at 07:45 on Jul 30, 2021 |
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Jul 30, 2021 07:41
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You're vaccinated go to town
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Aug 2, 2021 03:51
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Well if you're all vaccinated the evidence suggests you also are not transmittable carriers, so the three year old would not be at heightened risk.
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Aug 2, 2021 04:40
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Scooters are great, and the parking problems have basically sorted themselves out over time in Calgary. They're pretty samey when compared to e-bikes but the scooters are way more popular so  Using them is also so much better now that the guidance is to use them in bike paths and side roads, rather than on sidewalks (where operating them is miserable and nobody wants to anyway).
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Aug 2, 2021 20:48
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Arcsquad12 posted:So hinshaw is deflecting criticism of the easing of Covid measures by releasing an Op Ed about the cost of not dealing with other ongoing medical dangers like the opioid crisis. Ah yes, that will make it easier to pursue the ongoing strategy of "do nothing and hope it goes away"
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Aug 5, 2021 00:53
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flakeloaf posted:https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/indigenous-boats-cut-from-wharf-weymouth-nova-scotia-1.6131510 I wonder how long it would take a jury to convict if one of these fishermen had "accidentally" murdered whoever cut them loose, Gerald Stanley style
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Aug 6, 2021 05:49
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InfiniteZero posted:What Beelzebufo said is probably what's happening here. It's a common thing to have happen. It's not normally a "FYGM" thing but rather a reaction, often unwarranted, to past experience. Sometimes it's also a naive belief that the destination country is a land of opportunity and that they are future millionaires who have a vested interest in supporting Conservatives. Also I would guess that "this country I've moved to is much better than the country I left (regardless of reason), let's not gently caress it up" is a common sentiment. A pretty lovely one, but still.
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Aug 11, 2021 18:34
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infernal machines posted:Yes Well the classic question that remains to be answered for this cycle is how many ABC voters, seeing that the conservatives are in shambles, decide to vote NDP rather than Liberal. The Liberals will surely win the election, but whether they come up with a majority is still very much an open question. For whatever it's worth (very little) the 338 Projection has them at 48% majority odds. Random newcomer CalculatedPolitics thinks the Liberals have a much better shot at a majority, but they also think the Liberals are going to pick up four seats in Alberta, which uhhh, lol. PittTheElder fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Aug 12, 2021 |
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Aug 12, 2021 20:03
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Yeah CBC is dropping the ball hard here going with "not Nazis" instead of the more accurate "enthusiastic Nazi collaborators".
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Aug 13, 2021 21:19
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To their credit that's the only photo of O'Toole I've seen where he doesn't look like a complete doofus.
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Aug 15, 2021 16:37
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:As someone who was in Morneau's old riding and voted in the by-election last year in the middle of the pandemic I'm assuming they might do what they did there but more widespread. Jesus what a poo poo idea, especially during a pandemic
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Aug 16, 2021 06:08
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pokeyman posted:He wants either vaccination or constant annoying testing. Call it anti-vax if you like but there's a bit more to it. Lol rapid test every time somebody wants to get on a bus. That truly is a sensible solution with no scaling problems, well done Mr O'Toole.
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Aug 16, 2021 17:07
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