Yeah, this.
Irving owns NB, and if they want to kill a story or stop the government from looking into something, they’ll do it. I don’t think people outside of the Maritimes understand how bought-and-paid-for the media, the government and most businesses are by Irving.
I still remember public servants and teachers voting for Harris instead of Rae in 1995 and being absolutely incredulous about it.
Like, dude, his entire campaign platform is about firing you and people like you and salting the earth behind him so that your job doesn’t just not exist, it can’t exist because government will be so broken it won’t be able to build a yurt. And you’re voting for him because you’re mad that the guy who made you take one unpaid vacation day every once in a while so that those jobs–yours included–would be saved.
Nope, “Common Sense” and suchlike…
Maybe, and just hear me out, maybe they should have spent money on things that help regular Canadians, instead of things that further enrich the rich.
Of course, that implies that the point wasn’t to further enrich the rich, and that the Liberals wouldn’t prefer to switch seats with the Conservatives every few years, as long as the money train keeps running.
They’ve always done this: they require a membership, and they check that when you go, and scan it when you check out.
If you don’t want to shop at a store that doesn’t use a membership system, there’s other options who also treat you like a criminal. Loblaw, for example, has man-traps at the exit, which is a lot worse than a perky co-worker drawing a smiley on your receipt.
I won’t say I didn’t have a bit of schadenfreude when Fort McMurray burned.
I agree, but to some degree, people own their government, and this government is, more than many, responsible for much of the causes of climate change.
I’d say the same thing if Florida sinks into the sea, or South Texas and Louisiana are swamped, or north Alberta catches fire.
Apropos of nothing, Saudi Arabia is the definition of a petro-state.
Chickens. Coming home. Roosting. Etc.
It’s hysterical to hear right-wing commentary about how New York Democrats are socialist Marxist communist hippies when the reality has much more goose-stepping to it.
It’s amazing how only one side doesn’t want to appear partisan, while the other one is openly talking about jailing opponents, dissidents and the media…
…and we’re still getting “both sides” bullshit.
There’s parking In Montreal?
I suppose that’s what potholes are for…
I don’t like to say crass stuff like this, but in this case it’s worth sharing: I’ve been tail-thwacked in the testicles by my happy dog, who’s about this size.
That tail’s lethal. We’ve lost drinking glasses, food and all sorts of knick knacks to an excited tail swipe. You learn to put things high up.
They don’t think of working class people as people.
They’re things, abstracted away from empathy.
There’s a solution for this: socialized medicine.
It works literally everywhere else in the world.
They are playing the same game they always have: use carrots like this to get voters to the polls, and hold off on those carrots until an election year.
The problem is that it doesn’t reliably work. Progressive voters just see three and half years of very little progress and six months of fearmongering and pandering, which causes as much or more apathy than it does engagement.
If you look at what the Right does, by comparison, it’s interesting. They throw red meat to their base on day one, and keep it up for the entire term. They know that they need to keep the base pumped and expecting results, which is a big reason why conservative voters turn out at much higher rates: they feel listened to.
Doesn’t Mint use native packages where Ubuntu is snap-happy?
He became the big climate change guy after he lost.
I’d also point out that he only looks like a big climate change guy now. Back in 2000, the right wing hadn’t gone all-in on climate denialism yet. You could easily find Reagan and Bush people who didn’t think it was controversial.
Gore ran to the left? The guy who picked Lieberman as his VP?
Apparently we have:
But can we spend $2M to fix the immediate issue with the Science Centre’s roof? Nope, no money for that. Can we find $6M to fix it completely? Nope. But they can spend $75M on shuttle buses because they don’t want to spend $60M to fix the bridge into the building.
Tell me again how Conservatives are good with money? I mean, other than giving public money to private companies and/or their own pockets?