I know you love ScheerGutter: you keep asking over and over and over what JWR's endgame is.
Here's a crazy idea for you to try to wrap your head around: she was doing her mother fucking job.
I know you love ScheerGutter: you keep asking over and over and over what JWR's endgame is.
Here's a crazy idea for you to try to wrap your head around: she was doing her mother fucking job.
I love Scheer as much as I love Harper, which is slightly more than I love Dubya or Trump.
I'm just blind to to understand why anyone would want the Conservatives to have a better chance at anythingI love Scheer as much as I love Harper, which is slightly more than I love Dubya or Trump.
My post history makes my political views obvious, but you're such an ideologue who views anyone who does not fall in line with the LPC as a Conservative supporter that you are blind to anything but the party line.
I'm just blind to to understand why anyone would want the Conservatives to have a better chance at anything
For AbertERA your hopium: http://www.ekospolitics.com/index.php/2019/03/rachel-notley-closing-gap-on-jason-kenney/
Being ahead by a mere 4 points, coupled with a commanding lead in Edmonton, shows that Kenney being crowned Lord of the Oil is not assured.
We are just too tired about the bullshit that Ford is doing.Anyways, no one is talking about 3 men in a hot tub around here?
This week is advance voting, Election Day is Tuesday the 16th.Don't tease me like that. When's voting time again? I thought I remembered soon.
Anyways, no one is talking about 3 men in a hot tub around here?
Trudeau threatens Scheer with lawsuit over SNC-Lavalin comments
For someone who desperately wants to move on from this story, Trudeau and the LPC sure are doing everything they possibly can to make sure it stays in the media.
The Prime Minister's Office since February 7th:
Gutter should be asking questions about Trudeau's motives.
Ousted ex-Liberal MP Jody Wilson-Raybould is still "thinking about options" about her political future — but would beat Liberals in her Vancouver-Granville riding by nearly double digits in an election now, according to a new opinion poll.
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if an election were held today, Wilson-Raybould would beat still-unnamed Liberal, NDP and Conservative candidates in that riding.
According to the April 4-5 survey, 33 per cent of her riding's voters would cast their ballot for her as an independent, trailed by the Liberals' 24 per cent support, the NDP's 21 per cent and Tories' 15 per cent.
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The larger 514-voter sample of the city found that Wilson-Raybould enjoys 68 per cent support among Vancouverites, more than double the 28 per cent who side with Trudeau.
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That survey, released last week, found one-third of 2015 Liberal voters in B.C. think a different leader than Trudeau would do things better while one in four thought "a different party would do things better in Ottawa as a government than the Liberals." (That poll included 800 people, with a 3.5 per cent margin of error).
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I saw this and laughed. Everyone is playing 4D chess with this thing, clearly. lolTrudeau threatens Scheer with lawsuit over SNC-Lavalin comments
For someone who desperately wants to move on from this story, Trudeau and the LPC sure are doing everything they possibly can to make sure it stays in the media.
The broken electoral reform promise is shit but did CPC or NDP promise it? Do the NDP share some blame for what's to come for over half a century of failing to convince people they're a credible alternative? Do the 30+% of Canadians who willingly vote CPC not share any of the blame?
the NDP share some blame for what's to come for over half a century of failing to convince people they're a credible alternative
At the very least. They can fall back to their bread and butter by proposing and making popular progressive policies so that the Liberals can steal them when they get high profile enough. That and Minority Governments where they can knock off a whole set at once.I certainly don't disagree with you Kernel but that's a hurdle the NDP need to overcome if they want to elbow their way to a seat at the table.
This NDP surge in Metro Vancouver is interesting but I'm assuming Hedy Fry will retain her decades long seat. You never know though.
Yep there are always options for slow progress. It's a shame they're always the bridesmaid, never the bride though.At the very least. They can fall back to their bread and butter by proposing and making popular progressive policies so that the Liberals can steal them when they get high profile enough. That and Minority Governments where they can knock off a whole set at once.
I mean, if the people aren't going to give them a chance. If people don't want the people who propose popular policies to implement them. And if all forces are acting against them. Atleast they still have options available to them to accomplish their goals.
It took Facebook way too long to do this:
Do we have a thread on this? If not, i'll go ahead and make one.
It took Facebook way too long to do this:
Do we have a thread on this? If not, i'll go ahead and make one.
It took Facebook way too long to do this:
Do we have a thread on this? If not, i'll go ahead and make one.
Doug Ford. Complaining about government costing you money while his government costs you money.
Just so everybody else knows what's being talked about:Someone should go around putting stickers over it that state how much Ford has wasted on stickers/other moronic ideas.
I too believe he will use his family's own company to produce the stickers too, in an act of blatant corruption.
Stickers over stickers would be hilarious. Too meta. Not hard to imagine he will contract his company, he's so Trumpian.Someone should go around putting stickers over it that state how much Ford has wasted on stickers/other moronic ideas.
I too believe he will use his family's own company to produce the stickers too, in an act of blatant corruption.
It took Facebook way too long to do this:
Do we have a thread on this? If not, i'll go ahead and make one.
Sorry to hear that. People can be such assholes. Why can't they just leave the damn signs alone. Why do people feel the need to harass others. It's stupid.Spent the weekend volunteering for the NDP in Calgary. I honestly thought it would be a good time, but a disproportionate amount of time was spent just fixing or replacing our signs. Most were kicked over, some were just outright destroyed or vandalized. Even had heard a couple groups were harassed physically. Alberta has been poisoned with alt-right tactics, and is going blue. I can feel it more each day, and it makes me sad.
Sorry to hear that. People can be such assholes. Why can't they just leave the damn signs alone. Why do people feel the need to harass others. It's stupid.
If anyone here kicked over one of Faith Goldy's signs during last year's mayoral election for Toronto, they got my backing for that decision because screw her and the two other white supremacists who ran.
After the Endorsement scandal during the last election, I just assume they are always up to some shit.
She had a lot of positive moments in her career and is notably infamous for being one of very few MPs to unseat a Prime Minister (even if it was Kim Campbell). She is well liked in her community, brings constituents' issues to Parliament even when they aren't a major party talking point (she might as well have had "safe injection sites" tattooed on her forehead, at some point). I'll agree that she's no superstar, but she's consistent, and sometimes that's all people want from a politician.There have been a lot of rumours going around about her resigning and high profile persons that might step in to run for her seat (eg. Former Mayor Gregor Robertson).
If the seat did open up then the contest would be wide open.
Hedy is imo a pretty weak to outright bad MP but she remains very popular for some reason.
Just insane that people could get that upset about gas prices. It's 112.9 in Edmonton today. I've paid 135+. My tank is 98 litres. 4 bucks a fill is a drop in the pond. What happens when gas is crazy expensive? I ride my bicycle and walk more, and use the truck more for work rather than work and leisure. It's almost as if monetary incentives actually change behaviours.
I won't dispute what can be considered a bad situation, but... "going" blue? It's been Tory Stronghold #1 for longer than I have been alive. If anything, I'd say that the existing conservative base there have just gotten more belligerently intolerant of non-conservative politics and voters, which I could certainly agree with.Spent the weekend volunteering for the NDP in Calgary. I honestly thought it would be a good time, but a disproportionate amount of time was spent just fixing or replacing our signs. Most were kicked over, some were just outright destroyed or vandalized. Even had heard a couple groups were harassed physically. Alberta has been poisoned with alt-right tactics, and is going blue. I can feel it more each day, and it makes me sad.
She had a lot of positive moments in her career and is notably infamous for being one of very few MPs to unseat a Prime Minister (even if it was Kim Campbell). She is well liked in her community, brings constituents' issues to Parliament even when they aren't a major party talking point (she might as well have had "safe injection sites" tattooed on her forehead, at some point). I'll agree that she's no superstar, but she's consistent, and sometimes that's all people want from a politician.
She occupies the same weird space in the Liberal Party as Goodale, and both of them will stay until they retire. Goodale's just had a higher profile for a longer period of time.
OTTAWA — Former cabinet minister Jane Philpott is asking the Speaker of the House of Commons to examine whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau violated the law when he expelled her and Jody Wilson-Raybould from the Liberal caucus.
Despite new rules laid out in the Parliament of Canada Act, MPs can't be kicked out of caucus without a vote, and yet Trudeau made a unilateral decision last week to eject her and Wilson-Raybould, Philpott declared Tuesday as she asked Speaker Geoff Regan to declare that their privileges were violated.
A set of amendments to the act, spearheaded by Conservative MP Michael Chong, was passed in 2015 in an effort to make it more difficult for MPs to be removed from caucus — part of an effort to decentralize political power on Parliament Hill and put it back in the hands of rank-and-file legislators.
If Trudeau had followed the rules, it would have taken 90 Liberal MPs to vote to kick her and Wilson-Raybould out, said Philpott — and yet no such recorded vote was held before the prime minister expelled the pair on the grounds that they had lost the trust of caucus.
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If you look at the prior elections in her riding, there's some major names the NDP brought in to run there, one being Kennedy Stewart. So honestly, the NDP shouldn't sink a lot of effort into winning the riding and just wait out Fry's retirement (which I don't imagine will happen in this election), there's other ridings to focus on.Right yeah she's very popular. I think in a large part because her riding contains Vancouver's "gay village", and she has always been very supportive of gay rights, even early on when the rest of the Liberal party was still ambivalent about things like gay marriage.
The criticism would be around her absurdly crying wolf about racism claiming there were burning crosses in rural BC (there weren't) and the feeling that she's been coasting. But yeah if she's genuinely retiring that's one thing but I'd be more critical if she runs again.