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Yeah, it’s sort of a failure of their education system that these people can’t put 2 and 2 together. I really hope they’re smart enough not to FAFO on a referendum, but the fact that Smith keeps pushing for it is a big deal.

I believe that she could stir up enough fervor that the province votes to leave because they’re high on false promises. If they do, there’s no “take-backsies.” It’s a one-way ticket out of the country no matter how many people suffer for it.

Eat shit, Doug. We’re not an autocracy or a dictatorship. You should know that since you’ve (unfortunately) done this fucking job before.

On Wednesday, Ford dismissed the idea of judicial independence and denounced judges who he sees as not tough enough on crime.

“You know something, that’s a joke as far as I’m concerned,” he said. "There’s no judge appointed anywhere in this country, anywhere in the United States, anywhere in the world, that’s not a political appointment. Simple as that. You think these judges just come out of the blue?

Then why do you sound so surprised/angry that these judges, who were appointed by another party, don’t just vibe with everything you do? Obviously, you just want to be able to move around/fire these judges so they’re not inconvenient for you. That’s despotism.

What year was that? I was in high school from 2009 to 2013 and I got sent a lot of photos. It really never occurred to me to share them with anyone else because they were private, but yeah.

I’m sort of hoping they do leave just because they don’t seem to understand that they are an economically weak province outside of oil. All of their eggs are in one basket and they think that, because it’s a lucrative basket, it makes them important and powerful. It doesn’t. The point of our confederation is that we, together, are strong in a wide variety of industries.

Danielle Smith is going to find out very quickly that she and Alberta need the rest of Canada a lot more than Canada needs Alberta. Also, say goodbye to your CPP, OAS, and EI contributions. The impact on schools, water treatment, pharmaceuticals, food safety, and road regulations alone are significant cause for concern. I guess she just doesn’t care whether Albertans are safe, educated, and healthy, she only cares about oil.

The Bloc Quebecois and the NDP both took 6.3 per cent of the vote, and will hold 22 and seven seats, respectively.

Our electoral system is fundamentally misrepresentative by design. We desperately need proportional representation.

I like Busuu. But like Duolingo, using it by itself isn’t a good idea; you need to study grammar and vocabulary separately to learn at a decent pace.

Busuu’s best feature is its community corrections from native speakers, but they’ve been nerfed a lot in the past decade. You can still get something out of it though, just don’t pay for premium (even on sale) because it’s not really worth it.

Thanks for finally doing the right thing, Jagmeet! It only took your complete and utter defeat and losing official party status… but I guess it’s better late than never. (Please elect a socialist leader now.)

Okay, well a national entity of some kind is the one issuing these certificates, from my understanding. If you lived in Scotland, it would be issued by the government of Scotland. In my country, we use the term federal because we are a confederation.

is it illegal to use a single serve wrapped slice of Kraft cheese as a postcard?

It is literally a question of making a postcard.

It’ll be all torn up inside one of the machines, probably rip open the package and create a bunch of plastic shreds, and ruin the day of one of their equipment technicians. USPS is not easy on lettermail, their equipment manhandles it.

Just use the back of a cereal box or something.

being secretive for no reason

You’re not being secretive for no reason. You’re being secretive to avoid harassment from someone you care about. Seems like they don’t really return the favour, they just make fun of you.

Oh, you know, the right to being legally recognized as the gender on your official Gender Recognition Certificate, which cost money and was issued by the federal government (and was explicitly stated on government websites to be legally equivalent to being born the stated gender).

Sorry, the NDP can’t be “the left” when they’ve not had socialism as a core part of their party identity for years now. They have to find some other grift now that they’ve ignored both what the country needs as well as the people that have supported them for decades.

I can’t keep voting NDP when they spit in my face and let Singh continue as leader after proving he doesn’t have what it takes. They are in a grave of their own making and it’s hard to feel bad for them. If you want to be the left, fucking act like leftists.

Dude, that’s so fucking weird. Neither of my parents ever went to college and I did, but I don’t obsess over it. “Everything” is a terrible answer.

Outside of university admissions, what’s the purpose of this? “Underrepresented” how? Do you really think society is a meritocracy?

Derek deVries likes to spend more time with his head up his ass than his nose in his Bible if he truly believes that this means he can’t Jesus any more.

Honest question: do you work for Fair Vote? I get their emails, so I am down with the goal, but I see you explicitly link to the community (where you’re a mod) a lot.

Funny how all the promises to imprison people for the rest of their lives are never broken but the promises to keep water clean are always broken. Interesting that most extraction projects run across indigenous land, isn’t it?

Omg, shorting RIM in 2009 would have been really stupid even though yes, the writing was on the wall.

There was a lot of national interest in keeping RIM afloat because it was basically our (Canada’s) first modern tech company to have wild success beyond our own borders. A lot of random people had very positive views of the company.

I didn’t really see a huge dip in support for RIM in the media until around 2012 or so. That would have been a way better time to short. But as you say, most people should never short a stock – it isn’t simple or easy to tell when to do it or when to stop.

Honestly, this is kind of the thing that confused me a lot in school during social studies and history. Indigenous people get to say no, but when they say no, the government gets to do it anyway. How is that legal? Why aren’t we bound by the law only when it comes to indigenous sovereignty?

Also, we’ve fucking failed as a country when we haven’t even implemented all of the articles of UNDRIP. That shit was first adopted in 2007 (Canada voted against it at first), and all we have now is a 5-year “action plan” for 2023-2028 where the goal is to “work towards” implementing the declaration.

And none of it is legally binding at all.

“The GDP warrants were designed for a world that no longer exists,” said Ukraine’s finance ministry on Thursday.

While that’s true, unfortunately you still issued them and powerful people hold them. Billionaires, with or without the IMF, will gleefully wring every dollar from your bones if they have to.

The “investors” even say in the article that if they can’t pay the $2.6B soon they’ll have to pay $6.6B later, so it should be a simple decision for Ukraine. Yes… a simple decision to put your people into poverty for the horrible crime of being invaded.

As we all know, nothing bad has ever happened when a country has an exorbitant debt after the conclusion of a years-long military conflict. So everything will be swell after Ukraine gives away nearly $3B instead of rebuilding the country.