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Canadian Politics: <DBM> Incoming Election! Run Away From !Harper! </DBM>
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these parents may be on to something
Pretty sure the Luddites got the jump on them.
Its ok, pretty soon they'll convince themselves that electricity gives you cancer and they'll cut themselves off from the outside world.
Don't get me started on Tsawwassen and those fucking power lines.
No clue what that is. Canadian news gets zero play down here unless its you devious bastards trying to kill off our senior citizens with cheaper drugs.
Some shitty rural area outside of Vancouver. They wanted to upgrade power lines and the residents went all bananas about electro magnetism, and stood underneath the old lines with flourescent bulbs which lit up.
Bunch of voodoo.
Ooooo I am in Vancouver atm, tell me about this.
Vas is dis? Revaluation?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLfbtduLaho&feature=player_embedded
Awesome!
Don't think he is gay.
He isn't, but colour me impressed that he won. Can't wait to see if anything meaningful comes from his term in office.
MWO: Adamski
Dear god, they are taking over! Right in the Conservatives backyard!
Wouldnt purposely electing atheists in fact be caring about their [lack of] religion?
Unless that was snark, in which case my only excuse is the time of day.
MWO: Adamski
No it would be caring that they are smarter. /smug
As long as the politician gets the job done, I don't give a shit what religion or lack thereof they believe in. None of that is relevant to his/her intelligence and competence.
Him being a Muslim is only interesting insofar as Calgary is, obviously, a predominantly conservative city that would typically be seen as adverse to the notion of letting a Muslim run the city. I doubt that will have any bearing on how well he runs things.
Well, he's already openly Muslim. Azio has to smear him somehow, and gay's more believable than Nazi, pedophile, or witch.
The fact that he is Muslim is significant because the right wing in this country (especially out west) can barely conceal its hatred for Muslims. They think Islam is a political ideology. I know people who literally think all Muslims should be exiled to Iran or whatever. The commenters on the National Post are having a fit.
Anyway, looking at Naheed's platform and website he seems like a really cool guy. I'm glad he beat out the tarsands party candidates. Grats, Calgary.
We are pretty conservative but you seem to have no idea how anything works out here. You paint with such a wide brush I would hire you do do a barn.
Have you not met Captain Hyperbole before?
They promoted him to captain?
It's probably more to do with the large number of muslims living in Calgary. There are few exceptions to the rule that where there is money, you will find immigrant populations in large numbers. This is as true in Calgary as it is in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.
Yeah there is a shitload of evidence that essentially Harper thinks he is G. W. Bush, and he also thinks his party is the Republican party.
We've been dealing with that for a few years in America.
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/877471--hamilton-man-stands-up-to-officer-bubbles-over-comments
Not only did the cop get his panties in a bunch over some bubbles but he's now suing YouTube commenter for their hateful remarks against him.
seriously, suing people for youtube comments?
He did connect with young voters just by the fact the he was constantly using social media to talk to people. He put his campaign ideas on youtube and if you had any questions about his platform you could even text them in. I sent in a question and got a quick reply and a text on election day asking if I needed directions or a lift to go vote.