Canada General Discussion 1.5: The Countdown Begins

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Hash, are you stuck on campus? I think I'm outside the lockdown zone. Kinda scary.

No, the lockdown only involves locking classroom doors afaik (although all classes are cancelled until it's lifted and they're telling us not to walk about). Most campus buildings don't seem to be closed, and buses still operating on the Transitway after Lees station.

edit: Jason Kenney tweeted that the soldier shot has died. Tragic and barbaric.

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I first thought it was Hashemite, who decided to off Harper for good.

Terrorism and cold-blooded murder of innocents isn't funny, you sick freak.

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Great job, Wikipedia:

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Oh, the irony of an Islamic extremist named "Michael".

Apparently it's supposed to be pronounced 'Mickaël', although I really don't care about the correct name pronunciations of terrorist scumbags and murderers.

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I was a mile away from the events, and at no point yesterday was I ever in "terror".

Well, it's the first terrorist event of such a magnitude in Canada since basically 1970 (if you exclude shooting sprees like Polytechnique) taking place in the symbolic heart of Canadian democracy, so people abroad are obviously going to take notice and many will overreact (understandably) as it happens. My friend was quite panicky yesterday afternoon, but having lived through May 2003 and its aftermaths in Riyadh I am a bit more 'accustomed' to such events and was never scared yesterday.

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Go away NewYorkExpress, you're a pest.

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2. Two Liberal MPs (Scott Andrews, Avalon, NL and Massimo Pacetti, Saint-Léonard--Saint-Michel, QC) are suspended from the party after two female NDP MPs complained about sexual harassment from them.

That's ironic, because Biebertrudeau is the biggest one.

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They'll be gone next year.

Saint Leonard-Saint Michel has elected some pretty odious MP's, no?

Yes, this rapist's predecessor was Gagliano.

In local political news: Biebertrudeau has apparently blocked a nomination meeting here in Ottawa-Orléans, to impose his star candidate Andrew Leslie (a retired CF Lt. Gen.) over the 2011 candidate/local lawyer David Bertschi (a good guy), who is now pretty peeved.

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No surprise there, Saint-Léonard is horrible.

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I hate Harper more than anything else (almost) and I think he's doing serious damage to Canada, including our democratic institutions, but the notion that Harper is Erdogan and is hard at work to turn Canada into some theocratic authoritarian state is tinfoil hat nonsense. Calm down and get a grip people.

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lol Forum

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Eve Adams just crossed the floor. She's holding a presser with Trudeau at NPC right now. Good riddance.

With the amount of fluff, nonsense and bullsh**t in her remarks today, it's clear she's going to make a great member of the Biebertrudeau Liberals.

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The Ontario PCs have gone totally bonkers, and it's lovely.

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A not totally surprising entry in the May Chronicles.

She's a complete lunatic. So cringe.