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Canada PoliERA |OT| Two Years of Sunny Days? That’s Scheer Madness!
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Oh good, it's not just me either. 😕
Remember: Justin Trudeau was quoting Laurier when he proclaimed "Sunny ways" in his victory speech.
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Laurier was the originator of the "sunny ways" thing. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/wilfrid-laurier-the-sunny-way-speech-1895
Lol yeah I agree. If we are headed to a market crash fingers crossed everyone in this thread is unaffected at work and can buy up some equity on discount.
My bad.
Speaking of terrible, the Ford government continues to be so: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-leaves-oma-arbitration-1.4942105
Hopefully this is just a small correction then. Oil's prospects have a definite effect on my near term future but my emergency fund is fairly well funded. Debating liquidating my TFSA for additional reserve funds though.
Calling Mattamy's sorry excuse of a house "Mcmansion" is a compliment to Mattamy TBH.
I wouldn't wish a Mattamy home on my worst enemy.
True story! McCookie Cutter Shanty more like it. I've heard so many Mattamy horror stories from Calgary/Airdrie and I live in Edmonton lol.
"Look at these Elites trying to take the hard earned money from regular folks."
Man, I thought he'd go for the nurses first. Ford of course said hold my buck a beer and went straight for the jugular. God is he inept. He really thinks his small time Toronto council crap is going to work/fly at this level and then he actually goes up against of these groups/unions/etc and he's not able to pull the wool over every ones eyes fast enough and we end up with nonsense like this.
Oof. That's another Constitutional Challenge in the works right there.
Man, Conservatives really are making those Lawyers and Supreme Court Justice's earn their pay; What with all the bullshit cases he's dragging them into.
I guess this was released without much fanfare.
Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer is predicting much bigger deficit than what the government announced.
Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer is predicting much bigger deficit than what the government announced.
I'm getting a bit sick of this deficit talk. I'm aware this will come off a bit selfish but there's so much deficit spending and I don't feel particularly benefited by it. Hopefully others in this thread can chime in about how it's benefiting them otherwise it just worries me that when we see the inevitable recession we are going to be in for a fucking bad time.
I also assume the deficit spending plays a lot into the crazy amount of advertising I hear everyday on the radio from the feds to make sure everyone is reupping on their Canada savings bonds.
I also assume the deficit spending plays a lot into the crazy amount of advertising I hear everyday on the radio from the feds to make sure everyone is reupping on their Canada savings bonds.
And you would be completely valid in thinking that. Half the reason we have the fucking thing Federally, and in most provinces Provincially as well, is because we keep on kneecapping ourselves by lowering taxes, or making new taxes revenue neutral off of a moving, decreasing target that ultimately results in us kneecapping ourselves. If we stopped doing this years ago, we would be nowhere close to a deficit right now. A lot of it is structural in nature.
But alas, things are the way they are, and at the very least Federally we seem to be putting the deficit money to good usage by building new Transit and Infrastructure. And granted we aren't going as far as we should be to eliminate some major bottlenecks in our economy around the logistics of making it easier to move people and products around, we are making progress. Even if minor.
And while Alberta bitches and moans about Oil movement and them losing billions from not being able to move that, Ontario, for decades, has been dealing with Toronto, The GTA and Companies in the region bitching and moaning about gridlock on the 401 which costs the country billions
But still. The same old arguments apply. Interest rates are low, the debt is manageable, yadayadayada. You've probably heard it a million times already. Just have to tune out of the discussions about it, because they are only there to rile you up about a problem that right now, is nowhere close to critical, let alone existing.
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Lol yes, bitching about oil prices is second nature out here. I should have applied some critical thinking to my venting earlier; there's a hospital going up in two years or so about 5 minutes from my house and obviously the federal government is chipping in big bucks for that. Without deficit spending maybe that project would be one that wouldn't happen. I believe they're also chipping in money for the LRT extension in Edmonton that will pop down that way as well, and both of those things should bring a bump in my property value.
My own take on that logic is more about how investing in public infrastructure often seems to lead to deficit and how it's accepted as natural. Some hospitals and schools are aging badly and provinces will need to invest a lot to refresh them and the population is also aging which means it requires more services and more healthcare and thus more spending. It seems more like we are shoveling forward the bill to the next generations just like baby boomers did to us and no one thought about putting money asides/investing to keep public infrastructure at a good quality level.
I guess pack it now before the Conservatives inevitably take over and ignore the whole "non-partisan senate" thing.
Insert more Westminster whining here. lol
Yup. The government opted to build a new hospital instead of replacing the Mis.
For those that don't live in the Edmonton region, the Mis is the Misericordia Hospital, and is so old and ill-maintained that the ER and various areas have to be shut down due to flooding and other such things.
The stuff you see in there is sometimes straight out of a dystopian novel.
I don't understand why replacing the Mis would be such an endeavor. The old hospital is only a few stories with reasonable facilities. The replacement doesn't have to be cutting edge.
That goes back to the point of government projects needing ceremony and ribbon cutting. A hospital is supposed to provide services and space, not glamour.
And people wonder why there's a bed shortage in Alberta.
I feel like there really should be a Provincial Agency whose sole job is to determine need and get projects built, outside of political interference. Something like the Federal Infrastructure Bank, but with a more dedicated source of funding that doesn't just rely on courting Private Sector investment.
Like the reason Metrolinx is so effective in Ontario is because for the most part, they stay out of political decisions and are just a Money In Result Out organization where given their set budget they will plan, build or repair Public Transit. And yeah, while Metrolinx has its problems, but it is getting things done and keeping things in the public agenda. Things are finally getting built under them.
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In other news, the BC NDP is looking to pick up from where the Ontario NDP failed. Premier John Horgan opens door to including dental coverage within B.C.'s health care system
Hopefully BC can succeed and do good by it's populace where the rest of the country has turned a blind eye and failed to admit there is even a problem to begin with.
Hopefully BC can succeed and do good by it's populace where the rest of the country has turned a blind eye and failed to admit there is even a problem to begin with.
Article implies Canada will ban Huawei and ZTE within weeks.
Interesting.
What's the end game with China though? We still need them for all our cheap shit, and they still need us to buy all their cheap shit, so we just keep having these public pissing matches where people do a song and dance to stroke their own citizens' nationalist sentiments?
Thanks for that link. That was a very interesting article.
Wynne forcing the Ford PC's to cut revenue, they knew even while in power theyd force heir PC successors to be economic morons those devils!
Interesting read, but it makes me think they're going to arrest a lot more Canadians for bs reasons in the near future
While the ABndp gave more funding to midwivers recently.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-midwive-legislation-hoffman-1.4943921
Nah. He actually supports what the ABNDP annouced recently for midwives.
Huwawei should be banned from Canada, they are espionage devices
I can't believe that they are permitted to plaster their adverts all over Hockey Night in Canada and in our Subway/Metro stations
this puts into question big money incoming from despotic dictatorships and how they skew Western Democracies when a dollars get sprinkled to blur our vision.
I can't believe that they are permitted to plaster their adverts all over Hockey Night in Canada and in our Subway/Metro stations
this puts into question big money incoming from despotic dictatorships and how they skew Western Democracies when a dollars get sprinkled to blur our vision.
Is there any actual evidence they're as bad as recent press makes them seem?
As expected, the Yellow Vests protests across Canada were a complete bust, but you wouldn't really know it from the media. Look at the Global front page : Yellow vest protesters come out across Canada in support of French movement. Then look at the videos, there's like a dozen people there. Is it really a protest when it's just some dude, his wife and their neighbours?
Global are hacks. Had no idea there were anti UN protests happening downtown here though. And lmao at global saying "about half the protestors were right leaning. The other half was left leaning!"... both sides!!
Hmm. Interesting. I'm looking forward to seeing what he actually supports compared to what he says he supports.
Definitely not but I think the answer lies in switching perspective around and what we know of previous experiences. Pretty sure it means Samsung and Apple phones can actually spy on you and the government around the world have a way to get what they want from them. It was possible with Blackberry and when the info went public it kind of helped (among other problems) in killing the company. So it's definitely possible. Hence the possibility that China, the obvious next superpower will use the 5G network to its advantage. China is actually spying in Universities around the world and stealing patent. Recently a teacher at McGill's was accused of spying for China for instance.
Huawei is on a big marketing push right now in Canada both in English and French media with printed ads in newpapers, ads on TV, ads on PT and even online.
nothing is 100% Private in China without having the Communist Party of China on the hook.
Ren Zhengfei (Huwawei founder) has ties with China's military and the Communist Party.
Is there a difference between being a member of the Community Party in China and paying for thousand dollar dinners with Scheer or Trudeau?
People keep saying "false equivalency" as a way to deflect against criticism of the corporate-political oligarchies that exist in Western Democracies, but it's all the same shell game.
I still don't understand why Bell, Rogers, and Telus aren't considered in collusion and manipulating the telecom market for example.
Bell and Rogers are not on the hook with the Chinese Military and Espionage
Since when has Global not been terrible? They're easily the worst out of the major broadcasters.
And yes, worse than CTV.
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