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[Canadian Politics] No, we're never going to stop talking about pot legalization.
I don't listen to the Sunday edition but I caught part of that this morning. Those write-ins were so cringey and "get off my lawn" that I changed the station.
I don't listen to the Sunday edition but I caught part of that this morning. Those write-ins were so cringey and "get off my lawn" that I changed the station.
I literally never listen to live radio anymore (yay spotify!) but forgot my phone on the way to see Avengers yesterday and caught that segment...
I don't listen to the Sunday edition but I caught part of that this morning. Those write-ins were so cringey and "get off my lawn" that I changed the station.
I literally never listen to live radio anymore (yay spotify!) but forgot my phone on the way to see Avengers yesterday and caught that segment...
That was a lot of angry old people!
It's radio, "angry old people" is like two thirds of their demographic. They have to compete with newspapers
Doug Ford has privately assured developers he will “open a big chunk” of protected land in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area to housing if the Progressive Conservatives win the June 7 election.
In a video recorded Feb. 12 and shared with the media Monday by the governing Liberals, Ford said the 800,000-hectare swath of environmentally sensitive and agricultural land known as the Greenbelt is “just farmer fields.”
“It’s right beside a community. We need to open that up and create a larger supply,” he said, noting that will lead to “price drops” in housing in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.
His lack of understanding of, well, anything aside, I've seen very little reaction from Conservatives...and most of what I have seen has been negative. Then again, #NeverTrump amirite?
Doug Ford has privately assured developers he will “open a big chunk” of protected land in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area to housing if the Progressive Conservatives win the June 7 election.
In a video recorded Feb. 12 and shared with the media Monday by the governing Liberals, Ford said the 800,000-hectare swath of environmentally sensitive and agricultural land known as the Greenbelt is “just farmer fields.”
“It’s right beside a community. We need to open that up and create a larger supply,” he said, noting that will lead to “price drops” in housing in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.
His lack of understanding of, well, anything aside, I've seen very little reaction from Conservatives...and most of what I have seen has been negative. Then again, #NeverTrump amirite?
Where does he think food comes from, a magic suitcase?
Doug Ford has privately assured developers he will “open a big chunk” of protected land in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area to housing if the Progressive Conservatives win the June 7 election.
In a video recorded Feb. 12 and shared with the media Monday by the governing Liberals, Ford said the 800,000-hectare swath of environmentally sensitive and agricultural land known as the Greenbelt is “just farmer fields.”
“It’s right beside a community. We need to open that up and create a larger supply,” he said, noting that will lead to “price drops” in housing in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.
His lack of understanding of, well, anything aside, I've seen very little reaction from Conservatives...and most of what I have seen has been negative. Then again, #NeverTrump amirite?
Where does he think food comes from, a magic suitcase?
From money.
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Doug Ford has privately assured developers he will “open a big chunk” of protected land in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area to housing if the Progressive Conservatives win the June 7 election.
In a video recorded Feb. 12 and shared with the media Monday by the governing Liberals, Ford said the 800,000-hectare swath of environmentally sensitive and agricultural land known as the Greenbelt is “just farmer fields.”
“It’s right beside a community. We need to open that up and create a larger supply,” he said, noting that will lead to “price drops” in housing in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.
His lack of understanding of, well, anything aside, I've seen very little reaction from Conservatives...and most of what I have seen has been negative. Then again, #NeverTrump amirite?
Where does he think food comes from, a magic suitcase?
Food comes from McDonalds and KFC, sometimes from Pizza Hut.
Doug Ford has privately assured developers he will “open a big chunk” of protected land in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area to housing if the Progressive Conservatives win the June 7 election.
In a video recorded Feb. 12 and shared with the media Monday by the governing Liberals, Ford said the 800,000-hectare swath of environmentally sensitive and agricultural land known as the Greenbelt is “just farmer fields.”
“It’s right beside a community. We need to open that up and create a larger supply,” he said, noting that will lead to “price drops” in housing in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.
His lack of understanding of, well, anything aside, I've seen very little reaction from Conservatives...and most of what I have seen has been negative. Then again, #NeverTrump amirite?
Well, I guess it gives me the opportunity to make the thread title an obscure Moxy Fruvous reference. I dedicate it to three of the band's four members.
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Doug Ford has privately assured developers he will “open a big chunk” of protected land in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area to housing if the Progressive Conservatives win the June 7 election.
In a video recorded Feb. 12 and shared with the media Monday by the governing Liberals, Ford said the 800,000-hectare swath of environmentally sensitive and agricultural land known as the Greenbelt is “just farmer fields.”
“It’s right beside a community. We need to open that up and create a larger supply,” he said, noting that will lead to “price drops” in housing in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.
His lack of understanding of, well, anything aside, I've seen very little reaction from Conservatives...and most of what I have seen has been negative. Then again, #NeverTrump amirite?
Well, I guess it gives me the opportunity to make the thread title an obscure Moxy Fruvous reference. I dedicate it to three of the band's four members.
Hey! My friend's bands covered that song. I think that's the only place I've heard it despite actually listening to Moxy Fruvous when I was a kid
Another public servant has confirmed that the Liberals put Kinder Morgan on the fast track to approval before they were finished the consultation process, which they campaigned on being better than when the Conservatives were in government:
“I guess that's something that wouldn't have fazed me at all if the Harper government was still in power, But given the change in government, seeing as how we were told to provide serious advice, I was rather shocked..."
And to head off slander of the National Observer as being equivalent news website with National Enquirer bat boy aficionados, here is what mediabiasfactcheck.com has to say about them: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/national-observer-canada/
Factual Reporting: HIGH
This is been ignored by the thread. Can't speak for anyone else, but for me it's because I don't find it the least bit surprising.
So it sounds like the Trudeau government is finally getting around to fixing some of the bugs in our electoral system. Still keeping FPTP, but at least they want to avoid Trump-Russia collusion and Cambridge Analytica-style manipulations by forcing disclosure on what information parties collect from voters, limiting spending by third parties, and reinforcing the ban on foreign involvement. They'll also limit the length of the campaign period and ban all political ads in the months leading up to the campaign, and remove the restrictions on voter identifications, thus eliminating some of the more dishonest tricks the Harper Conservatives had used to win.
I'd like to know more about how they're going to compel foreign-owned entities like Facebook to abide by the new advertising laws. I suspect that the biggest foreign-intervention threat in our next election will come from right down south of the border. The Rebel has gotten the US alt-right all frothed up about Trudeau and I wouldn't be surprised to see a full-on fake news and memepocalypse online during the next election. The ad laws don't even cover that stuff, but it'd at least be nice to ensure that Canadians aren't being served up Koch-funded anti-progressive ads as well.
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Doug Ford has privately assured developers he will “open a big chunk” of protected land in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area to housing if the Progressive Conservatives win the June 7 election.
In a video recorded Feb. 12 and shared with the media Monday by the governing Liberals, Ford said the 800,000-hectare swath of environmentally sensitive and agricultural land known as the Greenbelt is “just farmer fields.”
“It’s right beside a community. We need to open that up and create a larger supply,” he said, noting that will lead to “price drops” in housing in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.
His lack of understanding of, well, anything aside, I've seen very little reaction from Conservatives...and most of what I have seen has been negative. Then again, #NeverTrump amirite?
It's funny that this is still on the same page, because Doug Ford has already abandoned this position and now does not favour developing the greenbelt.
But as Liberal MP and former Toronto police chief Bill Blair said at a recent conference on the legalization of marijuana, that’s “out of proportion with the offence that we were trying to control.”
This does not sound like the Bill Blair I remember. Still, it's nice to see this conversation happening, even if the article also mentions the senate is dragging its heels and wants to delay legalization out another damned year.
But as Liberal MP and former Toronto police chief Bill Blair said at a recent conference on the legalization of marijuana, that’s “out of proportion with the offence that we were trying to control.”
This does not sound like the Bill Blair I remember. Still, it's nice to see this conversation happening, even if the article also mentions the senate is dragging its heels and wants to delay legalization out another damned year.
From what I heard on the CBC this morning, the Senate has a number of First Nations chiefs on-side. They want a share of the revenue for their own needs and to help with substance abuse problems in their territories. I don't blame them. My confidence in the revenue flowing from the provinces to the First Nations is zero.
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But as Liberal MP and former Toronto police chief Bill Blair said at a recent conference on the legalization of marijuana, that’s “out of proportion with the offence that we were trying to control.”
This does not sound like the Bill Blair I remember. Still, it's nice to see this conversation happening, even if the article also mentions the senate is dragging its heels and wants to delay legalization out another damned year.
From what I heard on the CBC this morning, the Senate has a number of First Nations chiefs on-side. They want a share of the revenue for their own needs and to help with substance abuse problems in their territories. I don't blame them. My confidence in the revenue flowing from the provinces to the First Nations is zero.
Why would they have special rights? I'm sure Calgary would love to pocket the revenue as well to use for social problems but that is unfortunately not how taxes work.
But as Liberal MP and former Toronto police chief Bill Blair said at a recent conference on the legalization of marijuana, that’s “out of proportion with the offence that we were trying to control.”
This does not sound like the Bill Blair I remember. Still, it's nice to see this conversation happening, even if the article also mentions the senate is dragging its heels and wants to delay legalization out another damned year.
From what I heard on the CBC this morning, the Senate has a number of First Nations chiefs on-side. They want a share of the revenue for their own needs and to help with substance abuse problems in their territories. I don't blame them. My confidence in the revenue flowing from the provinces to the First Nations is zero.
Why would they have special rights? I'm sure Calgary would love to pocket the revenue as well to use for social problems but that is unfortunately not how taxes work.
Because they presumably want the equivalent of a Hotel Sales Tax or whatever to be able to charge and collect taxes in their territory but they do not currently have that level of budget revenue capability under the Indian Act.
Its a pretty big part of why so many First Nations seek to be self governing, their discretion at choosing, funding, implementing, and staffing projects and programs locally runs through Ottawa's bureaucracy.
It suffers from the primary problem involved in so much of Centralization, the farther you live from the center of political power, the less likely your local challenges are to be addressed in a timely and sufficient manner. Where as Localization suffers from their simply being a much smaller pool of resources with which to take on the same challenges. Ideally, Federal would let decision makers act locally and autonomously, while doing the equivalent of equalization payments they do with the Provinces.
To some degree, if Canada is in a healthy place, the negotiation between territories federally never stops, its just part of the process of applying our resources in a way we mostly agree on. It would be my hope we stop calling it "special" rights and just recognize they have rights, as do all our provinces, regional districts, and municipalities. We will be richer for it because our base level will be more healthy in many facets across the board, there is unity and harmony here.
Canadian Senator David Adams Richards, a relative newbie in the upper house, took the time on Tuesday to give an official, on-the-record speech to his colleagues featuring a pretty spicy sports take: American announcers are ruining hockey.
Richards, an acclaimed novelist from New Brunswick who was appointed to the Senate by Justin Trudeau last year, took issue with the creeping intrusion of all kinds of unnatural American phrases into Canada’s favorite sport. They’re sweaters, not jerseys, he said. They’re dressing rooms, not locker rooms. They’re boards, not half-walls.
The statement continues on:
“We didn’t deny a shot; we actually saved it. We didn’t delay at the blue line; we stopped at the blue line. Nor did we take a wrister. What an insulting word. We took a wrist shot. Nor did we take a slapper. What an insulting word. We took a slapshot — and not the movie ...
“No U.S. commentator can speak about ‘magical mittens,’ because most of them never saw a mitten. But I have actually heard them say, ‘He loops it in like a real good dunk.’ These odious phrases are all momentary inventions by American play-by-play announcers who have never played or understood the game.”
My reaction while reading that went from "Oh come off it, nobody cares about jargon" to "If I hear someone call it a half-wall I'm throwing something at them"
My reaction while reading that went from "Oh come off it, nobody cares about jargon" to "If I hear someone call it a half-wall I'm throwing something at them"
Not much point: there's nothing you can do to them worse than what they already inflict on themselves.
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I literally never listen to live radio anymore (yay spotify!) but forgot my phone on the way to see Avengers yesterday and caught that segment...
That was a lot of angry old people!
It's radio, "angry old people" is like two thirds of their demographic. They have to compete with newspapers
Nope can only order them in sets of 9 VHS tapes
No no, it has to be older and shittier than that. Like, 8-tracks!
You have to wait until I get to you in person via horse drawn carriage and read it to you in an old timey voice off of a scroll
edit: "Hear ye, Hear ye, come one come all, I bring an important message"
"Butts"
Reminds me of the Bioshock Infinite gif where a kid hands you a telegram, and the text has been shopped to dickbutt
His lack of understanding of, well, anything aside, I've seen very little reaction from Conservatives...and most of what I have seen has been negative. Then again, #NeverTrump amirite?
Where does he think food comes from, a magic suitcase?
From money.
Food comes from McDonalds and KFC, sometimes from Pizza Hut.
Well, I guess it gives me the opportunity to make the thread title an obscure Moxy Fruvous reference. I dedicate it to three of the band's four members.
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Hey! My friend's bands covered that song. I think that's the only place I've heard it despite actually listening to Moxy Fruvous when I was a kid
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This is been ignored by the thread. Can't speak for anyone else, but for me it's because I don't find it the least bit surprising.
Environmental review has been and probably always will be cover for attacks from environmentalists.
When the Green party wins control nationally this might change.
Maybe.
Wonder if it will get in to apply for 2019.
It's funny that this is still on the same page, because Doug Ford has already abandoned this position and now does not favour developing the greenbelt.
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This does not sound like the Bill Blair I remember. Still, it's nice to see this conversation happening, even if the article also mentions the senate is dragging its heels and wants to delay legalization out another damned year.
From what I heard on the CBC this morning, the Senate has a number of First Nations chiefs on-side. They want a share of the revenue for their own needs and to help with substance abuse problems in their territories. I don't blame them. My confidence in the revenue flowing from the provinces to the First Nations is zero.
Why would they have special rights? I'm sure Calgary would love to pocket the revenue as well to use for social problems but that is unfortunately not how taxes work.
Because they presumably want the equivalent of a Hotel Sales Tax or whatever to be able to charge and collect taxes in their territory but they do not currently have that level of budget revenue capability under the Indian Act.
Its a pretty big part of why so many First Nations seek to be self governing, their discretion at choosing, funding, implementing, and staffing projects and programs locally runs through Ottawa's bureaucracy.
It suffers from the primary problem involved in so much of Centralization, the farther you live from the center of political power, the less likely your local challenges are to be addressed in a timely and sufficient manner. Where as Localization suffers from their simply being a much smaller pool of resources with which to take on the same challenges. Ideally, Federal would let decision makers act locally and autonomously, while doing the equivalent of equalization payments they do with the Provinces.
To some degree, if Canada is in a healthy place, the negotiation between territories federally never stops, its just part of the process of applying our resources in a way we mostly agree on. It would be my hope we stop calling it "special" rights and just recognize they have rights, as do all our provinces, regional districts, and municipalities. We will be richer for it because our base level will be more healthy in many facets across the board, there is unity and harmony here.
Are they going to change the penalty to "half-walling"?
If you can’t find it, they probably have the in shops next to the blue MOGA hats
Its easier for me if I pretend that's not a real thing.
MOGA hats? Seriously? SERIOUSLY?
Seriously.
There's also the argument that we live in the best possible timeline.
I dont know which is worse
That last one is worst. That one right there.