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  1. Canadian Politics

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    6 minutes ago, Noeller said:

    how do they figure they know the interest rates are going to spike 3 years from now?? Everything I've heard/read/seen, says that they're going to start coming back down in the final quarter of '23.....

    They don't. It's simply a facet of rage-baiting meant to keep useful idiots afraid.

  3. The Airline Thread

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    https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/wetsjet-pilots-eleventh-hour-deal-1.6848875

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    WestJet and its pilots' union reached a last-minute deal late Thursday, averting a strike ahead of the May long weekend, but hundreds of the carrier's Friday flights were cancelled. 

    As of Friday morning, the carrier had cancelled 107 flights, or 29 per cent of those scheduled for the day, according to tracking service FlightAware. The vast majority were out of Calgary or Toronto, with affected routes ranging from London to Las Vegas, Phoenix and Saskatoon.

    The company said it's now ramping up operations "as quickly and efficiently as possible. However, the full resumption of operations will take time."

    A deal-in-principle was reached late Thursday night after more than nine months of negotiations, the Air Line Pilots Association said in a news release shortly after 10 p.m. PT.

    Pilots were bargaining for higher pay and better job security and scheduling, according to the union, which said they currently make about half as some U.S. counterparts. WestJet pilots also wanted better scheduling.

    The tentative agreement provides "meaningful improvements" to job security, working conditions and wages, WestJet CEO Alexis von Hoensbroech said in a statement.

    "Congratulations to both parties and our federal mediators on a good deal made," federal Labour Minister Seamus O'Regan tweeted shortly after the announcement of an agreement

     

  4. Canadian Politics

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    11 hours ago, 17to85 said:

    I just don't understand why people think a guy who's only career has been pointing out what others are doing wrong is fotnto lead anything.

    Because there's nothing rational about any of it. His fervent supporters are as outrage-addicted, uninformed, depraved, and vacuous as he is.

    Case in point:

    Despite being a career politician, he seems to have no idea how anything actually functions related to the PMO.

    Everything "wrong" with the country is the fault of a single elected official according to him and his braindead acolytes.

    He presents no solutions because he has none. All he has is fabricated outrage and they gobble it up with demented glee.

  7. Canadian Politics

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    Poilievre doubles down: https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/fake-job-poilievre-won-t-meet-foreign-interference-special-rapporteur-1.6404306

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    OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Thursday that he has chosen not to meet with former governor general David Johnston, who is investigating allegations that China has meddled in Canada's elections and other matters, while former party staffers called for political unity over foreign interference.

    Poilievre told reporters Thursday that he sent a letter to Johnston asking how he can investigate the organization independently, but did not receive a response.

    "He is Justin Trudeau's ski buddy, his cottage neighbour, his family friend and a member of the Trudeau Foundation, which got $140,000 from Beijing," Poilievre said.

    "He has a fake job and he's unable to do it impartially. He needs to simply hand it over and allow an independent public inquiry into Beijing's interference."

    Poilievre said Canada needs to move on from the "special rapporteur distraction" and get on with a public inquiry to investigate allegations of Chinese foreign interference.

  14. Canadian Politics

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    11 hours ago, WildPath said:

    Not only is she making a disgusting comparison, she's also dismissing the value of high academic standards.

    She doesn't know what those bolded words mean.

    5 minutes ago, HardCoreBlue said:

    That’s what happens when a group believes in a Trump approach. It makes them feel good inside. It’s who they are as people. They are not true conservatives. They’re knuckle draggers who have seized on an opportunity.

    I feel like the mask has come off true conservatism in the last decade or so. And it's a pretty hideous visage underneath.

  16. Canadian Politics

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    https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/johnston-meets-party-leaders-china-1.6846235

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    Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has declined to meet with the government's special rapporteur on foreign interference, citing an inability to find a mutually convenient time, a spokesperson for Poilievre said Wednesday.

    Poilievre has mocked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's decision to appoint former governor general David Johnston to look into the matter of foreign interference, calling it nothing more than a delay tactic to avoid calling a public inquiry and describing Johnston as Trudeau's "neighbour, family friend and ski buddy."

    The prime minister has decried criticisms of Johnston as "horrific, partisan attacks against a man of extraordinary integrity."

    Poilievre has also cited Johnston's past work with the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, named after the prime minister's father, as evidence Johnston is ill-suited for the role.

    Still, Poilievre's director of media relations, Sebastian Skamski, said the Opposition leader's office has complied with an email request for information about any past experiences with potential foreign interference.

    Those experiences are limited, given that Poilievre has only been Opposition leader for a matter of months and hasn't yet led the party in a general election, said the spokesperson.

    Typical. Nothing but excuses.

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    Johnston is set to make a call on a public inquiry into foreign election interference by next Tuesday, along with other recommendations. The government has said it will abide by all of his decisions. 

  19. Canadian Politics

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    https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/blaikie-confidence-prorogation-analysis-wherry-1.6845378

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    Some of the basic rules of Canadian democracy exist not as laws or regulations, but as unwritten conventions. That's supposed to be a feature, not a bug — a way of allowing for a useful degree of adaptability and flexibility. 

    But perhaps a few things would be better off written down.

    "To have a lack of clarity around these issues that are so central to the proper functioning of our democracy is to invite the kind of toxic debates and intractable disputes that we see too often now in western democracies," NDP MP Daniel Blaikie told the House of Commons last week.

    "The way to defend this is to seek the maximum amount of clarity before we are in a crisis."

    Blaikie has tabled a motion in the House of Commons that would put some big things in writing — most importantly, the confidence convention.

    Under his motion, the standing orders of the House — the rules by which the House governs its own business — would be amended to require an explicit vote of confidence either before or immediately after Parliament is prorogued. 

    In theory, that might force a prime minister to think twice before walking over to Rideau Hall. And the guarantee of a confidence vote offers some assurance that a government won't escape judgment.

    When Blaikie opened debate on his motion last Friday, he led with the issue of prorogation — perhaps for a good reason. Questionable uses of prorogation in 2008, 2010 and 2020 have turned what should be a relatively benign procedure into a source of controversy.

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