this is so many levels of stupid on the part of Trudeau.
Especially on national unity in Canada. When traveling abroad, a Canadian Prime Minister must restrain himself from posturing with other foreign separatist activists.
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this is so many levels of stupid on the part of Trudeau.
Especially on national unity in Canada. When traveling abroad, a Canadian Prime Minister must restrain himself from posturing with other foreign separatist activists.
It would be nice to know who screwed up and how it happened, it should take more than a backbench MP requesting Atwal be added to some guest lists and for him to be able to stick on it given Atwal's past. Was it the High Commision to India, the RCMP, Foreign Affairs, or the PMO?
Paul Wells with a pretty critical piece on the trip overall, not just the Atwal invitations or the clothes:
Paul Wells with a pretty critical piece on the trip overall, not just the Atwal invitations or the clothes:
The scandal here should be that Brown thinks it's ok with how much he's paying toward servicing debts because it's in line with what other Ontarians play, while neglecting the obvious fact that it's incredibly problematic how in debt Canadians are in general in contrast with other developed countries.
On a similar topic, what's the deal with the chinese community* protesting alongside La Meute and Storm Alliance?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/la-meute-storm-alliance-protest-parliament-hill-1.4541519
Strange bedfellows. Also why do some chinese care that much about the "hijab hoax"? So some person somewhere said the fake attacker was "asian" and you feel personnaly targeted? Enough to organize protests? That's weird and it sounds like manufactured outrage.
*well, like a dozen people...
Urban White Liberals wear rose colored glasses when it comes to denying conservatism among some ethnic minority groups.
They don't believe it exists and think that all minorities are in the bag.
Iggnatief learned that the hard way when Jason Kenney courted various communities with "Your values are Conservative values"
They don't believe it exists and think that all minorities are in the bag.
Iggnatief learned that the hard way when Jason Kenney courted various communities with "Your values are Conservative values"
As someone who is part of the community i have no idea. I know from some asian friends that they vote conservative purely for the tax policy. But why these people would stand with La Meute makes no sense. I don't know much about the alt right groups in Canada so i don't know how they're resonating with the asian community.
It's the Chinese Canadian Alliance. Chinese can be racists too. It's another alt-right group but for Chinese Canadian. I don't know what's so mysterious about this.
Elliott is thinking of running in one of the safest ontario liberal ridings in the upcoming election now.
Also, tonight will be interesting.
Also, tonight will be interesting.
Thanks, never heard of them before. What is mysterious to me is why they would choose "hijab hoax" as an excuse to burst into the scene. Surely they have more pressing concerns? But if, like you said, it's an alt-right group for Chinese, maybe not.
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I feel like there's more to this than what the article presents... Considering this is a relatively new group with little known prior history that is cozy with Rebel chants... I would almost classify this group as foreign born immigrants that may harbour a simplistic view of race relations in western countries and are being exploited for political gain? I know my mother from time to time would attribute the plight in the middle east to muslims there, but not towards canadian muslims.
Still, there's something unsettling about this demonstration.
Most Asians (first generations and beyond) know to fight racism at all cost like myself. As the country could quickly turn on any one group of people due to global events.
Still, there's something unsettling about this demonstration.
Most Asians (first generations and beyond) know to fight racism at all cost like myself. As the country could quickly turn on any one group of people due to global events.
They were chanting about Rebel Media I don't think there is much doubt about them being alt-right or at the very least paid by Rebel Media. I would think they just wanted an excuse to do a demonstration for their first time as an official group. I mean on they even thanked La Meute for showing up. There isn't any doubt in my mind.
The toronto star has another story on brown.
https://www.thestar.com/news/queens...k-browns-house-and-mortgage-arrangements.html
https://www.thestar.com/news/queens...k-browns-house-and-mortgage-arrangements.html
I thought the choices for Federal government were bad, but being an Ontarian really is a fucking shit show when it comes to what we get to pick from.
You really don't understand why some people from a minority group might be upset that she implicated their race in a made-up attack when they already suffer from discrimination? Really?
Now I'm not saying they should be out there protesting with alt-right people, but you don't understand the sentiment as a whole at all?
What financial institution would give someone two million dollars in credit if they're going to have to pay 75% or their income servicing it? Like for real, I work for a bank and I have no idea how this scenario comes to pass.
There is a disturbing amount of alt-right Chinese out there. I've seen it first hand in my communities -- primarily in lower-class blue collar immigrants or in self-segregated communities.
Like, what the fuck. I understand that alt-right sentiments foster in low-information systems, but still.
Depends on the CO2 mix in the economy. I know the In the US, transportation overtook electricity production, so the hit would be more on the transportation side. I imagine for Ontario would be even more heavy on transportation since electricity generation is hydro or nuclear. Don't know how it looks in practice though.
Like Randomly Generated said, there's something really fishy about Brown. He's been an elected official for 12 years, meaning he's had a six-figure salary for that long, in addition to a housing allowance. But according to the affidavit he released yesterday (which, itself, was all kinds of weird), his parents gave him $375k for his down payment, on the exact same day that an apparent "business deal" between him and a PC candidate fell through that happened to be for the exact same amount.
Plus there are all those donations and memberships that went into the party that don't match up, if what Fedeli said is true. And, of course, Hillier's complaint reinforced a lot of that, AND it came out today that the Integrity Commissioner was already investigating him. So...maybe it's all a series of misunderstandings, but it feels like there's way too much smoke for their to be no fire.
I remember reading years ago that, post-Tiananmen Square, as left-wing groups started reaching out to their counterparts in China/Chinese dissidents started fleeing more to the West, there was a lot of surprise at how comfortable the Chinese generally were with authoritarianism, even if they held other beliefs that were radically left-wing (even though, obviously, neither the right nor the left has a monopoly on authoritarians). If that's still true, then I could see how there'd be inroads for the alt-right into ethnic Chinese communities.
But alt-right Chinese have nothing to do with authoritarianism. Growing up as an overseas Chinese, my parents routinely called brown people in places like Malayasia "natives" and Chinese people are always referred to as 'our people' as opposed to those other people who aren't us. This was endemic in the language used by all the little pockets of overseas Chinese. And we're supposed to be the 'democrats' and westernized Chinese.
The language is still loaded with racist overtones. Culturally Chinese are very very ethnocentric and not PC.
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Horwarth and the Ontario NDP seems okay, but I do wish her party was a bit more bold and visible. They also need to develop a decent platform in the next few months or so. The other two main Ontario parties are just awful. They are scandal prone, filled with corruption and a lot of their policy choices are questionable. A part of me does not want to see the Ontario PC's to see how groups like Ontario Proud react to the PC's losing.
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First rule, don't privatize it.
Their public transportation program was a huge and expensive upfront investment that the government paid for, continued to sink more money into it to constantly improve reliability, speed and performance, which brought more ridership. It now funds itself in ticket/pass purchases and actually makes the Japanese government money, one of the only (if not the only) major metro public transport systems to operate at a profit, even after paying to re-invest in the infrastructure. Which is why they can afford to operate a train line for a single person in a remote region of Hokkaido.
An Ontario PC committee member is now complaining about the vetting process used to vet Brown for PC leader earlier this week.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/new...t-ontario-pc-leadership-race/article38063657/
Even though the wrong article title is in the link it should still link to the correct article.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/new...t-ontario-pc-leadership-race/article38063657/
Even though the wrong article title is in the link it should still link to the correct article.
It's funny, I have my suspicions with my mother, but i can't understand what her youtube videos are saying when I do visit her at home. Occasionally Trump's name is brought up but only briefly.
I know one of my parent's radio shows is garbage because it plays this trash propaganda song with lyrics that go like
"I support Trump
who will make America greaaaaat!!
God support Trump and the USAAAAAAAA"
and something about fighting the biased media. like holy crap, how do they escape from communist rule and get sucked back into this level of stupid.
So basically, it's a business loan... without the securities of a typical business loan.
Patrick Brown will probably invest the remaining 25% of his income.
I'm a bit baffled that the Rebel fund would be able to get regulatory approval. I did searching and found this about unit trusts.
The Act being referred to is the Income Tax Act. The third of the conditions mentioned in the quote above is about trusts predating 1993, which I feel safe in assuming isn't relevant here.
The second is, I think (the legalese is really dense), about trusts whose units are traded on public exchanges. In any case of the requirements there is this:
It seems clear the Rebel fund isn't meeting this requirement. So it would have to qualify under the first of the 3 conditions:
So is the Rebel fund legal? I don't know (in an ideal world laws would be easier to grok), but it really shouldn't be. I'm guessing Levant can't get business loans from banks, so he's going to his audience for funding. But instead of doing an IPO or whatever else a business would normally do to get investment he's creating an investment fund that mostly only invests in his business.
The Act being referred to is the Income Tax Act. The third of the conditions mentioned in the quote above is about trusts predating 1993, which I feel safe in assuming isn't relevant here.
The second is, I think (the legalese is really dense), about trusts whose units are traded on public exchanges. In any case of the requirements there is this:
It seems clear the Rebel fund isn't meeting this requirement. So it would have to qualify under the first of the 3 conditions:
So is the Rebel fund legal? I don't know (in an ideal world laws would be easier to grok), but it really shouldn't be. I'm guessing Levant can't get business loans from banks, so he's going to his audience for funding. But instead of doing an IPO or whatever else a business would normally do to get investment he's creating an investment fund that mostly only invests in his business.
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I mean it's academic because if I vote for a candidate and not "none of the above", it'd be NDP by default anyway. But it's not like it matters. lol Yay FPTP!
I would be perfectly happy voting QS in Quebec at least. :p
I assume it's like the the British Anthem, where they just change the word based on the gender.
The real question is, is the constitution equipped to handle non-binary/gender-queer monarchs?
QS are separatist scum and embrace conspiracy theorist candidates and MNAs
MNA Amir Khadir is a 9/11 Truther
MNA Amir Khadir is a 9/11 Truther
You make that sound like they're worse than the BQ or the Liberals or the CAQ. ;)
all Quebec parties all suck. Here are my rankings
not voting >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>PLQ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>CAQ>QS>PQ
PLQ are a boring party with no ideas, there are just an establishment party of governance and doing an average to shit job at it. Federalist is a +. Them being highly interventionist is a -.
CAQ are a Natioanlist identy party and economical Center Right with a penchant of cutting services.
They have no idea what they stand for, their ideas change every year, they are not grounded, they are whatever.
They are also interventionist.
QS are Communists. I usually respect Left wing parties who fight for every-man but I have no respect for parties who are just a mouth piece for Union firsts then non-unionized workers 2nd. They are separatist commies.
PQ are interventionist authoritarian separatist and nationalist. They pretend to be Left but have been lead by Right Wing Premiers who engaged and massive gutting of public services. They are antagonistic and annoying.
I would respect a real Federalist Left Wing Party that fights for NON-unionized people. QS is just shit mouthpiece for the already powerful Quebec unions.
not voting >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>PLQ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>CAQ>QS>PQ
PLQ are a boring party with no ideas, there are just an establishment party of governance and doing an average to shit job at it. Federalist is a +. Them being highly interventionist is a -.
CAQ are a Natioanlist identy party and economical Center Right with a penchant of cutting services.
They have no idea what they stand for, their ideas change every year, they are not grounded, they are whatever.
They are also interventionist.
QS are Communists. I usually respect Left wing parties who fight for every-man but I have no respect for parties who are just a mouth piece for Union firsts then non-unionized workers 2nd. They are separatist commies.
PQ are interventionist authoritarian separatist and nationalist. They pretend to be Left but have been lead by Right Wing Premiers who engaged and massive gutting of public services. They are antagonistic and annoying.
I would respect a real Federalist Left Wing Party that fights for NON-unionized people. QS is just shit mouthpiece for the already powerful Quebec unions.
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Honestly "not voting" would win everywhere in Canada. In fact, the low turnout numbers kind of prove that the not voting party has been gaining ground.
It's like a choice between the status-quo, which is already bad, and total chaos, which is much worse but at least serves to expose the rotten nature of modern Democracy.
Amir Khadir is my MNA. Having a QS MNA is better than a PQ MNA but he is still a separatist scumbag and a conspiracy theorist.
The alternative was worse, before him, my MNA used to be a PQ constitutionalist and shit disturber; Daniel Turp.
The alternative was worse, before him, my MNA used to be a PQ constitutionalist and shit disturber; Daniel Turp.
I guess we live in the same riding, gutter_trash? Khadir is also in my riding and wins every time so w/e. I guess QS, much as I find them distasteful, are at least OK as "opposition". I would never want them to govern though.
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