Canada General Discussion

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NDP in 2nd place.... in PEI!!! http://cra.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13-1-PE-Political-Press-Release1.pdf

...dafuq?

Rogue poll or perhaps something big is starting on the island...

If you believe their polling, the NDP has been steadily gaining over the past year (their results go 11-18-18-22-26, Feb-May-Aug-Nov-Feb, for the NDP). 26% (and 16% for the PCs) may be an outlier, but they definitely seem to have gained considerable ground.

The PCs are between leaders at the moment, though. Who knows what will happen when they get a new leader.

The PCs have been in a massive clusterfark for the last month or so, basically with their leader not being Leader of the Opposition at the same time and the dude who is Leader of the Opposition not recognizing the dude who is party leader. Shouldn't be surprising that they've sunk so low (16% in this poll btw, against 26% for the NDP and 51% for the Liberals who are having a field day).

So unprecedented leadership drama/bitching in addition to the PEI PCs being a useless Moderate Hero party...

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Ugh. Couillard is basically what's wrong with contemporary politics.

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Porter, healthcare, opportunism (or as the PLQ has it, prodigal son returns)? All of the above?

All of the above. Hopefully he goes down in flames as any scumbag of his type should, but voters are morons.

As for this 'major' cabinet shuffle, is this actually going to be a 'major' one or another of the usual yearly replacement of whichever minister turned out to be too much of a retard or a crook since the last shuffle?

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Boulerice's comments make him an epic freedom fighter. I didn't know it was illegal to hold critical historical perspectives from the accepted 'norm', though from this government I'm not shocked. How about we go through what some Purgatories might have written in their earlier days. Probably some much more serious stuff than a Marxist perspective on World War I.

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Peladeau has been appointed Hydro-Quebec chair.

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I feel sick and disgusted.

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The Purgatory war on science continues: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/05/13/canada_and_science_nrc_will_now_only_do_science_that_promotes_economic_gain.html?fb_ref=sm_fb_share_blogpost

Science is only good if you can make money off of it.

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I'm pretty sure 'we' can beat Ford on policy, given how incompetent and horrible he's been as mayor.

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Is this the usual stuff from posters, or is there serious speculation about John 'por favor' Tory actually running?

He hosts a radio show now? It's interesting how radio/television gigs are the main retirement options for failed politicians.

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Liberal-voting allophones/immigrants might also tend to be quite/very socially conservative, particularly Italian Catholics, Arabs or Haitians (Catholics). But they're very rarely vocal about that kind of stuff so they're not really noteworthy.

And obviously the Orthodox Jews would be very socially conservative.

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Why is my 700 years old Frankenstein MP wearing a beret?

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Another "anti-corruption crusader" bites the dust as he turns out to be a corrupt crook. Good riddance.

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Trudeaumania already dying down, especially in QC.

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La Presse reporting that Bernier may get promoted

what is this i don't even

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Couillard will run in Roberval at the next election.

That's a risky bet.

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Don't the Greens have leadership elections every 2 years? Or did E-May drop those?

Well the crazy lady has basically turned the party into some personalist party/personality cult.

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Massive respect for Nenshi for taking on that scumbag waste of oxygen Ezra Levant.

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Tragic and awful

Apparently, the crossing signals were up and everything- the bus just didn't stop.

 Some drivers really are idiots.

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Bus never slowed down... apparently passengers were yelling at the driver asking him to stop.

What a moron. It continues to be incredible how dumb some of these drivers are. I can't say his apparent death is tragic, considering he was a reckless moron who killed people because he can't drive properly.

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Well, some French newspaper called John Baird 'MP for the constituency of Ottawa'.

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List of the victims have been released: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-bus-crash-victims-include-students-public-servants-1.1860438: besides the driver, 2 Carleton U students (both my age), 2 public servants, one person with cerebral palsy.

One of my dad's colleague was apparently at the stop right next to the bus, and saw the train barrier go down, the lights flash and the train's horn was blowing; the bus drove right into the bus and didn't know what the hell was going on. He pulled the body of one of the victims from the bus (though he was still alive). I can't imagine what it must be like to have to do that, I would certainly be traumatized if I had pulled a dead/dying body from wreckage.

It's absolutely sickening, devastatingly sad and heart-wrenching - like any tragedy - but this one even moreso because it's in your community, and these people are people like me and many others - students/public servants, going to work in the morning on a regular commute. You never assume that your regular commute would be your last; I couldn't help but feel a little weirder and different riding the bus yesterday and today. You never know when your 'last day' is and it's horrible. Enjoy life.

I want to know what happened, and why it happened. I don't know what to think about the driver, but admittedly I can't say that I'm on 'his side' with all those eyewitness reports.

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-level-crossing-gate-down-25-seconds-before-crash-1.1861628

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A whole slew of bullsh**t, reactionary policies, right-wing wanking and continued destruction of the public sector in today's Throne Speech, but we can all agree that this one takes the prize:

A law to ensure for every federal regulation added, one must be removed.

Seriously?

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Only thing that interested me was interprovincial liquor carriage. Rest bores me to tears.

Brave and visionary policy from Our Dear Leader.

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People started loving Biebertrudeau and the Liberaliebers again?!

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Ugh Biebertrudeau and the Liberaliebers are horrible.