My guess would be that Charlie Angus was calling for Wilson-Raybould to be fired from the Justice portfolio back in December (Wilson-Raybould is @Puglaas in that tweet, which I had to look up), and is probably now criticizing Trudeau for removing her from the Justice portfolio.
Oh yeah sorry having spent a bunch of time no twitter where other people probably have not I should've explained that @Puglaas is JWR. While I'm not supposed to be surprised by hypocrisy in politics it's still fun to point it out.
In a move that should surprise no one, Scheer's initial statement on the tragedy in New Zealand described it as an attack on "freedom" and "peaceful worshippers" without ever once mentioning it was, you know, Muslims. Because he has supporters that are basically AOK with attacks on Muslims and he didn't wanna seem too specifically sympathetic to them.
After getting shit on for a few hours, he had to issue an updated statement that specifically mentioned that the attack was on Muslims.
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer issued two statements on the terrorist attacks in New Zealand on Friday -- the second after being criticized for not mentioning in the first that the attack was against Muslims at mosques during their Friday prayers.
Scheer posted to Twitter and Facebook late Thursday evening in Canada as news of the attacks was reported, saying "freedom has come under attack" and mentioning "peaceful worshippers" and a "despicable act of evil."
But the statement was condemned quickly online for failing to specify that the attack was on Muslims, during prayers at mosques. Some pointed to the fact he did name Coptic Christians and call out anti-Semitism in previous tweets when killers attacked Egyptian churches in 2017 and a synagogue in Pittsburgh last fall.
The National Council of Canadian Muslims criticized the omission in a statement Friday afternoon.
Scheer's office did not respond to an initial query about the statement's not mentioning Muslims but after being asked about the statement from the National Council of Canadian Muslims, his spokesman responded with a link to a new statement on Scheer's Facebook page.
"As Canadians are learning the horrific details of last night's terror attack at two New Zealand mosques, I wish to express both my deep sadness at the tragic loss of innocent life and my profound condemnation of this cowardly and hateful attack on the Muslim community," it said.
It said Conservatives stand with Muslims around the world to "reaffirm our commitment to building a world where every people, of every faith, can live in freedom and peace together."
Kevin Vickers, the Sergeant at Arms who foiled a shooter on Parliament Hill in 2014, will seek the New Brunswick Liberal leadership. While I will need to read up on him to get a sense of his actual policies and attitudes, he'll almost definitely be better than the previous dud, and on first glance he certainly seems to have a decent chance at both the leadership and the premiership.
More on this as it develops, I suppose.
So Brian Mulroney was on Tout le monde en parle, a very popular politics show on Radio-Canada. During his interview, he said his daughter (who signed off on Doug Ford's plan to defund Ontario's francophone university without question or argument) was the best person to defend Ontario's francophone community, and dismissed Amanda Simard (who resigned from the OPC over it) as a "little girl".
So Brian Mulroney was on Tout le monde en parle, a very popular politics show on Radio-Canada. During his interview, he said his daughter (who signed off on Doug Ford's plan to defund Ontario's francophone university without question or argument) was the best person to defend Ontario's francophone community, and dismissed Amanda Simard (who resigned from the OPC over it) as a "little girl".
My guess would be that Charlie Angus was calling for Wilson-Raybould to be fired from the Justice portfolio back in December (Wilson-Raybould is @Puglaas in that tweet, which I had to look up), and is probably now criticizing Trudeau for removing her from the Justice portfolio.
Him and 20 others. Star or G&M had an article about it and the general failure of the opposition to be useful or meaningful.
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Lots of backroom politics coming to light in Alberta, though I don't know how much impact it will actually have on the election. Jason Kenney basically co-ordinated the torpedoing of his main leadership challenger's campaign.
Lots of backroom politics coming to light in Alberta, though I don't know how much impact it will actually have on the election. Jason Kenney basically co-ordinated the torpedoing of his main leadership challenger's campaign.
So Brian Mulroney was on Tout le monde en parle, a very popular politics show on Radio-Canada. During his interview, he said his daughter (who signed off on Doug Ford's plan to defund Ontario's francophone university without question or argument) was the best person to defend Ontario's francophone community, and dismissed Amanda Simard (who resigned from the OPC over it) as a "little girl".
He negotiated our nation's first free-trade deal before the WTO even was a thing, introduced the GST because we needed it even though creating a new national tax was hugely unpopular, tried to update the constitution which failed but still required vision and guts, and he stood up to Reagan and Tatcher when they wanted to label Mandela a terrorist.
I doubt this will do anything to quell the questions from the SNC Lavalin issue.
Also I have to say I really hate that Kenney is just such a sure shot to win the election...outside of some massive mistakes it's annoying how Alberta just sticks with the Conservatives.
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I doubt this will do anything to quell the questions from the SNC Lavalin issue.
Also I have to say I really hate that Kenney is just such a sure shot to win the election...outside of some massive mistakes it's annoying how Alberta just sticks with the Conservatives.
Albertans, in my experience as one, have done a fantastic job of self-propagandizing. There is absolute belief in the corrupt nature of Liberals, of the pipe dreaming of the NDP, that the only practical option is the Conservative party. It's all total horseshit, of course, but it's an unshakeable belief. Believe me, I've tried.
EDIT: Like, I'm STILL shocked that the NDP won the last provincial election. I was utterly stunned at that result, and I have absolutely zero hope of a repeat.
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I know there were a lot of reasons behind the NDP victory in Alberta, but some of the standout moments were things like the Wildrose "lake of fire" crazies scaring people away as well as Prentice basically shooting his party in the foot by blaming Albertans for the poor economy in the final run up to the election. So there is still a chance that the UCP could trip all over themselves in a similar manner, but I think the NDP will still have a strong showing since they've got a lot of support in the cities...they just need to stay away from shooting themselves in the foot while making sure people are aware of the UCP shenanigans.
Is it wrong to want the election to come faster just so that I don't have to read about this stupid SNC-Lavalin issue anymore?
Like I get that JWR will more than likely not get a second chance to give testimony. I get that the Liberals will keep on trying other forms on damage control until something else big enough lands to distract from the issue. Until one of those two things happen I'm just going to have to read about it on the frontpage of the CBC/Toronto Star while more important things keep from being covered.
Remember, Alberta had a Premier who got drunk, got driven to a homeless shelter, threw money at the residents while yelling at them to get a job. After an incredibly paint by numbers apology, he was re-elected.
To be fair, look at who my province elected, a rich bloke who thinks that if the Liberals passed ‘don’t punch babies’ legislation, he’d repeal it.
I know there were a lot of reasons behind the NDP victory in Alberta, but some of the standout moments were things like the Wildrose "lake of fire" crazies scaring people away as well as Prentice basically shooting his party in the foot by blaming Albertans for the poor economy in the final run up to the election. So there is still a chance that the UCP could trip all over themselves in a similar manner, but I think the NDP will still have a strong showing since they've got a lot of support in the cities...they just need to stay away from shooting themselves in the foot while making sure people are aware of the UCP shenanigans.
Kenney is awful, and his hand-picked candidates keep making news for all the wrong reasons.
Albertans -are- majority conservative, but a lot of us claim it's entirely about taxes and spending, not social conservatism. Like, I'm preparing for a UCP government, but I no longer think it's the sure thing it was two years ago.
In my solid blue riding I'm going to have to vote Liberal. I've heard the NDP doesn't tend to run strong candidates here anyway, so it's pretty much either Liberal or Conservative on the federal level.
My next provincial election might be interesting. My MPP is Darryl Plecas, the BC Liberal (remember: conservative) who broke ranks with the party when he agreed to be Speaker of the House, giving the NDP/Green alliance a majority vote. I don't know if he's planning to run again, but if he does, it'll probably have to be as an independent. He's burned all bridges with the BC Liberals at this point and they'll absolutely try to run a different candidate. Abby voters are pretty stubborn, though, so the right-leaning vote might split in that case.
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AB Election was called yesterday! Notley smells blood in the water, but will it be enough?! Ipsos doesn't think so, but neither did anybody else in 2015!
Advance polls open April 9-13, and election day is April 16!
It’s assumed Alberta’s other parties also responded to the election being called, but no one attended their press conferences so it’s impossible to know.
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I don't have a link but an article on the Alberta election said that most polling organizations aren't doing anything with the Alberta election because it is too unpredictable, aka they screwed up their predictions so bad in the last few elections they don't want egg on their face again.
She was going to run for UCP in my riding and she was doing door to door campaigning. My wife talked to her briefly but told her due to the UCPs position on many social issues we would never vote for them.
Love the fact that Kenney recruited her personally and got her to move from Ontario to run in Calgary.
The same writer has a piece up today about how all the grannies in Alberta will be so happy when the evil carbon tax stops.
Excuse me while my eyes roll out of my head.
The reality is that the NDP policies are, by and large, widely popular if you strip the party affiliation from them.
The carbon tax is the one that isn't, because people hear 'tax' and immediately have heart palpitations.
So carbon tax, and hammering on the 'the NDP have the worst economic record since the great depression!' (not true) are the UCP's best way forward.
Their biggest struggle is that Notley is more popular than Kenney, even if the UCP are more popular than the NDP. Very few people like him or trust him. But they see him as 'tough' which I imagine means they're expecting him to hold his breath until the rest of Canada lets us have our pipelines. They also rank him slightly higher in terms of 'competence', which is why the UCP needs to keep pretending that the NDP have been massive failures. Luckily for them, aside from the Star, the media in Alberta is all too willing to help him out.
Québec provincial budget is in! Still going over it, but highlights include a budget surplus somewhere between $2B and $5B, depending on who you ask, and plans to stay in the black for their entire mandate. There's a new pilot program to help driving schools move to electric vehicles, which according to the electric-car advocates in my newsfeed will greatly speed up transition to electric cars because "once you drive an electric car, you can't go back to fuel". Also a new service to facilitate access to government databanks for researchers, which is good news because, frankly, Québec has been lagging in that respect compared to other provinces.
EDIT: There's $100M for AI research channeled through four major research agencies.
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Québec provincial budget is in! Still going over it, but highlights include a budget surplus somewhere between $2B and $5B, depending on who you ask, and plans to stay in the black for their entire mandate. There's a new pilot program to help driving schools move to electric vehicles, which according to the electric-car advocates in my newsfeed will greatly speed up transition to electric cars because "once you drive an electric car, you can't go back to fuel". Also a new service to facilitate access to government databanks for researchers, which is good news because, frankly, Québec has been lagging in that respect compared to other provinces.
Light Googling says that Quebec has a right(ish) wing government? What's the catch here?
Shut up, Mr. Burton! You were not brought upon this world to get it!
Québec provincial budget is in! Still going over it, but highlights include a budget surplus somewhere between $2B and $5B, depending on who you ask, and plans to stay in the black for their entire mandate. There's a new pilot program to help driving schools move to electric vehicles, which according to the electric-car advocates in my newsfeed will greatly speed up transition to electric cars because "once you drive an electric car, you can't go back to fuel". Also a new service to facilitate access to government databanks for researchers, which is good news because, frankly, Québec has been lagging in that respect compared to other provinces.
Light Googling says that Quebec has a right(ish) wing government? What's the catch here?
They are right-wing, but not alt-right. They're akin to the PC of olden days.
Québec provincial budget is in! Still going over it, but highlights include a budget surplus somewhere between $2B and $5B, depending on who you ask, and plans to stay in the black for their entire mandate. There's a new pilot program to help driving schools move to electric vehicles, which according to the electric-car advocates in my newsfeed will greatly speed up transition to electric cars because "once you drive an electric car, you can't go back to fuel". Also a new service to facilitate access to government databanks for researchers, which is good news because, frankly, Québec has been lagging in that respect compared to other provinces.
Light Googling says that Quebec has a right(ish) wing government? What's the catch here?
They are right-wing, but not alt-right. They're akin to the PC of olden days.
Eh, even without the raging 'crush the other' coming out of the US right-wing, I'm still not seeing the massive budget deficits and deregulation that I'm used to.
Just saying, I'm jealous of you guys.
Shut up, Mr. Burton! You were not brought upon this world to get it!
EDIT: There's $100M for AI research channeled through four major research agencies.
That would be very good for AI research and maintaining Montréal's dominance if they were not also making it harder to bring and keep researchers here.
EDIT: There's $100M for AI research channeled through four major research agencies.
That would be very good for AI research and maintaining Montréal's dominance if they were not also making it harder to bring and keep researchers here.
How do you mean? I see $38M over five years earmarked explicitly for attracting AI researchers and supporting doctoral and post-doctoral AI training. The accompanying text explicitly says international competition for these people is increasing and Québec must step up to remain competitive.
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Québec provincial budget is in! Still going over it, but highlights include a budget surplus somewhere between $2B and $5B, depending on who you ask, and plans to stay in the black for their entire mandate. There's a new pilot program to help driving schools move to electric vehicles, which according to the electric-car advocates in my newsfeed will greatly speed up transition to electric cars because "once you drive an electric car, you can't go back to fuel". Also a new service to facilitate access to government databanks for researchers, which is good news because, frankly, Québec has been lagging in that respect compared to other provinces.
Light Googling says that Quebec has a right(ish) wing government? What's the catch here?
They are right-wing, but not alt-right. They're akin to the PC of olden days.
Eh, even without the raging 'crush the other' coming out of the US right-wing, I'm still not seeing the massive budget deficits and deregulation that I'm used to.
Just saying, I'm jealous of you guys.
Oh if you want see that, just look a little to the west at Ontario. Last I checked, Ford’s trying to privatize our healthcare or drive us closer to that than we currently are.
Québec provincial budget is in! Still going over it, but highlights include a budget surplus somewhere between $2B and $5B, depending on who you ask, and plans to stay in the black for their entire mandate. There's a new pilot program to help driving schools move to electric vehicles, which according to the electric-car advocates in my newsfeed will greatly speed up transition to electric cars because "once you drive an electric car, you can't go back to fuel". Also a new service to facilitate access to government databanks for researchers, which is good news because, frankly, Québec has been lagging in that respect compared to other provinces.
Light Googling says that Quebec has a right(ish) wing government? What's the catch here?
They are right-wing, but not alt-right. They're akin to the PC of olden days.
Eh, even without the raging 'crush the other' coming out of the US right-wing, I'm still not seeing the massive budget deficits and deregulation that I'm used to.
Just saying, I'm jealous of you guys.
Oh if you want see that, just look a little to the west at Ontario. Last I checked, Ford’s trying to privatize our healthcare or drive us closer to that than we currently are.
EDIT: There's $100M for AI research channeled through four major research agencies.
That would be very good for AI research and maintaining Montréal's dominance if they were not also making it harder to bring and keep researchers here.
How do you mean? I see $38M over five years earmarked explicitly for attracting AI researchers and supporting doctoral and post-doctoral AI training. The accompanying text explicitly says international competition for these people is increasing and Québec must step up to remain competitive.
Then they try to stay in Québec, and can't, because the same government is preventing them from getting their PR. Even if they got their PhD here.
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Any extra context to this?
My guess would be that Charlie Angus was calling for Wilson-Raybould to be fired from the Justice portfolio back in December (Wilson-Raybould is @Puglaas in that tweet, which I had to look up), and is probably now criticizing Trudeau for removing her from the Justice portfolio.
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After getting shit on for a few hours, he had to issue an updated statement that specifically mentioned that the attack was on Muslims.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/after-criticism-scheer-adds-word-muslim-to-statement-on-new-zealand-mosque-attacks-1.4338025
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/kevin-vickers-running-liberal-leadership-1.5057728
Kevin Vickers, the Sergeant at Arms who foiled a shooter on Parliament Hill in 2014, will seek the New Brunswick Liberal leadership. While I will need to read up on him to get a sense of his actual policies and attitudes, he'll almost definitely be better than the previous dud, and on first glance he certainly seems to have a decent chance at both the leadership and the premiership.
More on this as it develops, I suppose.
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There goes the respect I used to have for him.
You had respect for him? Why?
Him and 20 others. Star or G&M had an article about it and the general failure of the opposition to be useful or meaningful.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/kenney-callaway-campaigns-collaborated-against-brian-jean-1.5059899
He's still going to get in.
God I hate this province sometimes.
He negotiated our nation's first free-trade deal before the WTO even was a thing, introduced the GST because we needed it even though creating a new national tax was hugely unpopular, tried to update the constitution which failed but still required vision and guts, and he stood up to Reagan and Tatcher when they wanted to label Mandela a terrorist.
I doubt this will do anything to quell the questions from the SNC Lavalin issue.
Also I have to say I really hate that Kenney is just such a sure shot to win the election...outside of some massive mistakes it's annoying how Alberta just sticks with the Conservatives.
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Albertans, in my experience as one, have done a fantastic job of self-propagandizing. There is absolute belief in the corrupt nature of Liberals, of the pipe dreaming of the NDP, that the only practical option is the Conservative party. It's all total horseshit, of course, but it's an unshakeable belief. Believe me, I've tried.
EDIT: Like, I'm STILL shocked that the NDP won the last provincial election. I was utterly stunned at that result, and I have absolutely zero hope of a repeat.
Like I get that JWR will more than likely not get a second chance to give testimony. I get that the Liberals will keep on trying other forms on damage control until something else big enough lands to distract from the issue. Until one of those two things happen I'm just going to have to read about it on the frontpage of the CBC/Toronto Star while more important things keep from being covered.
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The big question is: Is Charlie Angus still in favour of Wernick losing his job, or has he changed his mind?
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Kenney is awful, and his hand-picked candidates keep making news for all the wrong reasons.
https://pressprogress.ca/ucp-candidate-complained-white-supremacist-terrorists-are-treated-unfairly-leaked-messages-show/
Albertans -are- majority conservative, but a lot of us claim it's entirely about taxes and spending, not social conservatism. Like, I'm preparing for a UCP government, but I no longer think it's the sure thing it was two years ago.
Also who the hell to go with federally?
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My next provincial election might be interesting. My MPP is Darryl Plecas, the BC Liberal (remember: conservative) who broke ranks with the party when he agreed to be Speaker of the House, giving the NDP/Green alliance a majority vote. I don't know if he's planning to run again, but if he does, it'll probably have to be as an independent. He's burned all bridges with the BC Liberals at this point and they'll absolutely try to run a different candidate. Abby voters are pretty stubborn, though, so the right-leaning vote might split in that case.
Advance polls open April 9-13, and election day is April 16!
https://elections.ab.ca/?gclid=CjwKCAjwycfkBRAFEiwAnLX5IWTmoRnjmcWo5cAUz3LyUxwMbLOFB-oKZ3Xa7Oh9KpG_Dve4jedBMBoCVBIQAvD_BwE
My favourite bit:
https://pressprogress.ca/ucp-candidate-complained-white-supremacist-terrorists-are-treated-unfairly-leaked-messages-show/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/caylan-ford-resigns-ucp-candidate-1.5062198
She was going to run for UCP in my riding and she was doing door to door campaigning. My wife talked to her briefly but told her due to the UCPs position on many social issues we would never vote for them.
Love the fact that Kenney recruited her personally and got her to move from Ontario to run in Calgary.
https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/corbella-from-human-rights-to-film-to-politics-caylan-ford-is-a-force-of-nature
Excuse me while my eyes roll out of my head.
The reality is that the NDP policies are, by and large, widely popular if you strip the party affiliation from them.
The carbon tax is the one that isn't, because people hear 'tax' and immediately have heart palpitations.
So carbon tax, and hammering on the 'the NDP have the worst economic record since the great depression!' (not true) are the UCP's best way forward.
Their biggest struggle is that Notley is more popular than Kenney, even if the UCP are more popular than the NDP. Very few people like him or trust him. But they see him as 'tough' which I imagine means they're expecting him to hold his breath until the rest of Canada lets us have our pipelines. They also rank him slightly higher in terms of 'competence', which is why the UCP needs to keep pretending that the NDP have been massive failures. Luckily for them, aside from the Star, the media in Alberta is all too willing to help him out.
EDIT: There's $100M for AI research channeled through four major research agencies.
Light Googling says that Quebec has a right(ish) wing government? What's the catch here?
They are right-wing, but not alt-right. They're akin to the PC of olden days.
Eh, even without the raging 'crush the other' coming out of the US right-wing, I'm still not seeing the massive budget deficits and deregulation that I'm used to.
Just saying, I'm jealous of you guys.
That would be very good for AI research and maintaining Montréal's dominance if they were not also making it harder to bring and keep researchers here.
How do you mean? I see $38M over five years earmarked explicitly for attracting AI researchers and supporting doctoral and post-doctoral AI training. The accompanying text explicitly says international competition for these people is increasing and Québec must step up to remain competitive.
Oh if you want see that, just look a little to the west at Ontario. Last I checked, Ford’s trying to privatize our healthcare or drive us closer to that than we currently are.
Also fucking with education.