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4 hours ago, GCn20 said:
any big increase in wages will get passed on to the consumers
Yes! As a business owner I'd like my customers to have more money in their pockets. If businesses are relying on employees to work below the poverty line, that indicates a problem.
Trickle down economics has been thoroughly disproven and we are realizing that a race to the bottom only helps the very few at the top. Recent policy by international agreements to raise the minimum corporate income tax demonstrates this.
The London School of Economics, along with a number of studies have destroyed any credibility of trickle down economics. I'd provide links, but really, it will obviously be cast aside as academic hogwash. I'm sure your personal experience is much more valid than the opinion of distinguished economists. Justinflation, right?
4 hours ago, GCn20 said:Getting some responsible government during an inflationary crisis might help but that's not what this particular forum wants to hear.
The issue with this is not that member on this forum are biased against your opinion, the issue is that you disregard highly credible information in favour of biased sources and personal anecdotes. It is hard to persuade someone when you disregard evidence and only offer personal experience and biased sources to back up your arguments.
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27 minutes ago, JCon said:
I thought they were revamping it? They just had a manager position posted for $13 an hour.
Good Local cleaned out the pool of funds intended to help small businesses.
Could be revamping it, its not really clear. Having a position for a manager would indicate something different is in the works. Still wondering how the $500,000 has been spent and how much of that went into Obby's pockets or his campaign. Coulda, woulda, shoulda I guess.
18 minutes ago, Noeller said:Similarly, I saw a job posting for "Manager" of The Common at The Forks and it was about $15/hour I think. That's just insanity. How do people live in Winnipeg with salaries like that? Your housing situation is more or less the same as Alberta's, but the pay here (while still too low) is nowhere near as low as Winnipeg seems to be. I just can't figure it out...people must have to work 2 or 3 jobs at a time to make it all work......??
PC party is fortunately making some rumblings of increasing the minimum wage, currently scheduled to bump up to $12.35 an hour in October I believe. With Sask raising their minimum wage we will be the lowest in Canada.
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So it looks like Obby Khan has shut down Good Local.
Timeline
- Obby considers running in provincial politics, but unsure of what party
- PC party gives his business $500,000 (More than all other businesses received from the program combined)
- Obby declares he will run for PC party to replace Pallister
- Obby wins election
- Obby shuts down Good Local
Would love to know how that money was spent. There have also been reports that Obby was using Good Local staff for his campaign in Fort Whyte.
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20 minutes ago, Bigblue204 said:
But won't this inevitably lead to the teams with the best Canadians getting more Canadian talent. I'm not sure it's a solution to anything, but I do see it creating more problems
Possibly. It could also lead to the team willing to develop Canadians the most getting access to more developmental Canadians. Other Canadians that are already developed and past their rookie contracts are free to sign with another team after.
I'm not a fan of the quirkiness of the new deal, but something which benefits teams that put effort into developing and playing Canadians could be good. And its likely something needed to push the deal through. Still wish there was no push to change the ratio at all and the negotiations from the start were just about finances, insurance, etc.
I don't see much of a risk of tanking and fielding random CIS'ers. Not too many teams way out of playoff contention in the CFL the way we see in the NHL. And tanking for a 2nd round pick.... don't see that as likely.
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I'm guessing the decrease in popularity was also some of her own turning on her. The PC leadership was contentious, even with allegations of impropriety and unfair elections from within, and it recently emerged that she broke an election finance rule in her bid for leader. There was a pretty big Glover camp that was inflated by anti-vaxxers. I'm sure they don't feel all that positive towards Stefanson now, especially with all her missteps.
Another "oops" financial oversight moment.
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1 hour ago, Mark F said:
Britain announced a 25% windfall tax on oil and gas producers’ profits on Thursday, alongside a 15 billion pound ($18.9 billion) package of support for households struggling to meet soaring energy bills."
This is what needs to be done rather than cutting taxes on gas (Alberta). Use the funds that the ultra-rich are benefitting from to support increased prices rather than taking it out of public coffers and encouraging more use of a limited resource.
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peopleanyone outside the upper class celebrate less money going into public funds like education property tax rebate (Manitoba) and gas tax cut (Alberta) when there is no plan to replace the funds. -
1 hour ago, JCon said:
So, once Canadians have been removed from the league, why not just change the rules to align with the NFL? You want to attract NFL rejects, at least play the same rules. Easy peasy. Then, we're seeing the "best" rejects, all Americans, playing the sport by the rules they grew up with.
They've been continuously flirting with changing towards more NFL rules in some fashion or another for a while now, so I think could be another attempt to push us in that direction. A change in the amount of Cdn/US players in the PA would also push the PA to have less say from Canadians in the future.
If CFL leadership had been steadfast in never adopting NFL rules, this may not be as big of a concern.
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10 hours ago, Noeller said:
it takes some real effort to have a lower approval than Jason Kenney, my stars....
Talk about your privileged son's private school hockey championship when asked about the death of an indigenous woman basically at the hands of your government's incompetence and that might hit your approval rating. She also inherited a party that was incredibly unpopular and didn't do herself any favours out of the starting gates.
Kenney was at least chosen by his constituents and they should have known what they were getting.
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1 hour ago, SpeedFlex27 said:
Eli. not the smartest knife in the drawer. Put himself ahead of the team. You know there were guiys who probably didn't want to get the jab but did it anyway because to them the team meant more. Just a selfish move on his part. With Liam Dobson signing, any fans outside Winnipeg who think this team won't have a chance to 3 peat is living in a fantasy world.
This is what I thought I heard about Eli too and that the other guys basically had nothing to do with him after. But I also heard that he got the first shot and had a bad reaction and was not advised to have the second shot. Just going off hearsay.
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47 minutes ago, Tracker said:
Its a darned good thing that our beloved provincial government has assured us that the pandemic is over and we can ease up on restrictions.
To be fair, that isn't 66 from this week alone, but rather 16 from this past week. The huge number is an increase from numbers underreported before. Of course the province also tampers with definitions of Covid infections/deaths to make things fit the message that Covid is over.
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7 minutes ago, GCn20 said:
Gun legislation. gun legislation. gun legislation. gun legislation. Followed by carbon tax. Did I mention gun legislation yet? I am not going to get into a debate about the pros and cons of the government legislation, just throwing it out there that rural people look at gun control a LOT differently than urban people.
Especially ironic because you were originally responding to someone who was pointing out a conversation with a rural person saying that Trudeau should be shot.
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33 minutes ago, GCn20 said:
Sad but true. You will find this exact same conversation in pretty much every rural community East of Toronto. Trudeau's policies are not popular in rural Canada.
You read that and your primary take is that Trudeau isn't popular in rural Canada? Wow
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45 minutes ago, Tracker said:
A friend of ours has just had her dog diagnosed with Lyme disease and her vet told her there is an outbreak here in Winnipeg, and presumably in adjacent areas.
Lyme disease is transmitted to dogs through the bite of a deer tick. Once in the blood stream, the bacteria that causes Lyme disease is carried to many parts of the body and commonly localizes in the joints and kidneys. Deer ticks range from the Midwest to the Eastern United States and throughout Canada with the highest numbers found east of Manitoba. Not all deer ticks carry the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, but certain areas have been identified as higher risk areas for Lyme disease. Check with your veterinarian to find out if your area is a high-risk area.
Dogs cannot transmit Lyme disease to one another or to humans. The infection always comes directly from a tick bite.
In dogs, signs of Lyme disease can take 2-5 months to appear. Lameness and joint pain, especially in the knee and elbow joints, are often the first signs noticed with Lyme disease. This lameness may shift from leg to leg or may occur intermittently. Dogs may also have a fever. In some cases, the disease resolves on its own, but in other cases it may be long-term and may affect the kidneys and heart resulting in death. Some dogs don’t have any obvious signs so yearly testing for Lyme disease, along with heartworm testing, is highly recommended.
While there is treatment available for Lyme disease, it can be difficult to treat, especially if it’s not caught early. Prevention is always easier than treatment.Many different tick preventives are available, and your veterinarian will help you chose a preventive that suits you and your pet’s lifestyle. Options include topical preventives (typically applied on a pet’s skin and at the back of the neck) such as Frontline® Plus, Bravecto® Topical Solution, and Advantix®. Chewable preventives include NexGard®, Simparica®, and Bravecto® Chew.
Check your pets daily for ticks, especially if you live a high-risk area. Give your dog a full once over, but be sure to focus on the following areas: in and around the ears, around the eyelids, under the collar, between the toes, around the tail, between the back legs, and under the front legs. If you find a tick on your pet, it’s important to remove it right away. The bacteria that causes Lyme disease can pass through small cuts or wounds in your skin, so be sure to wear disposable gloves when removing ticks. Juvenile deer ticks are about the size of a pinhead but are more obvious in the adult phase and after feeding on a bloodmeal. If you find a tick attached to your pet, grasp it with tweezers near the dog’s skin and firmly pull it straight out. Pull the tick with even, steady pressure—it may take a minute of two for the tick to release its grip. If you are unable or unsure of how to remove the tick, or if the tick’s body breaks away from its head, leaving the head in the skin, contact your veterinarian.
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Ticks are out now too, damn annoying little things. I usually get around 100 on me per year, fortunately I catch most before they bite. Believe it or not body hair helps a lot, not in deterring bites, but in being able to feel them crawling before they attach. They don't really bug me all that much other than the thought of Lyme disease and that is horrifying.
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5 hours ago, the watcher said:
It is getting weird/ scary. I was fuelling up a slip tank at a cardlock yesterday. A guy about my age that I didn't know pulled in to fuel his pickup and came over to talk which is normal in a small town.
Dude : Getting rready to go to the field
Me: If it ever dries up
Dude: Boy I wonder what that will cost you when you get the bill ?
Me : I don't know but it won't be cheap.
And this is where the conversation went right off the wall.
Dude : Well, I hate to say it ( looking around ) but someone should shoot that Trudeau
Me : ( after a few shocked seconds ) You mean because of the carbon tax , because that's got nothing to do with why the fuel price rocketing up. It's just whats going on in the Ukraine and that being used as an excuse to charge more money here.
Dude: Well Trudeau is sending them fuel ! ( Edit : He also said they are trying to make us drive electric cars like it was some horrible thing)
At that point I gave him a whatever and got busy strapping my tank down. But I find it unnerving that a random stranger would assume it was OK to say that to me about ANY leader. The world is collectively going off its nut.
Totally goes with the authoritarian-follower profile that the book describes. Looking to follow a strong leader, able to compartmentalize incompatible views, no critical thinking regarding their own views, angry and willing to accept attributions by those who cast themselves as a strong leader that will stick up for their interests (PP), willing to use violence to have their interests win out.
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22 minutes ago, Tracker said:
If we as Canadians and our representatives do not forcefully condemn this, we are headed down the same path as the US.
Currently reading an interesting book - Authoritarian Nightmare about the rise of Trump and why people follow him. Very interesting stuff, especially the part about the psychology of his followers. Co-authored by Manitoba's own Bob Altemeyer, an expert on authoritarianism. Canada is at risk too.
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6 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:
Curious to know if Charest stepped up and said the same thing when Trudeau was harassed last election and he wasn't running for PC leadership. He's right in condemning this and I'd like to see more people across the political spectrum call this out, I just hope he feels the same way when speaking out doesn't benefit him specifically by taking a shot at a rival.
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16 minutes ago, Fatty Liver said:
Enough is enough, these stupid rednecks are fundamentally altering the way our political system operates. Social media has given them a platform to organize their protests, and unless steps are taken to crack down on this vulgar behaviour, public appearances by political representatives will revert to the Harper model, were public appearances are in fact private controlled events for invited guests only. Which would also exclude any press that might ask unscripted questions or shine a bad light on the political candidate. These idiots have nothing to contribute to democracy, other than spewing vitriol and white noise.
"Stay the f*ck out of Peterborough": Jagmeet Singh harassed at NDP event
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/singh-peterborough-campaign-harrasment-1.6449729
@the watcher this is mostly what I was referring to a ways back in the thread. Hostility like this, often based on conspiracies and misinformation, emboldened by many members of our opposition party. Like the US needed true Republicans to stamp out Trumpism and didn't, we need real conservatives to harshly criticize stuff like this and call it for what it is rather than use it for political gain.
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1 hour ago, JCon said:
I think more than anything, we can see where the threats are coming from. We'll maintain strong connections to Europe but we're going to be further and further isolated from our nearest neighbours.
Both Dems and GOP pose a threat. Traditionally, Dems have used economic means to attack Canada (protectionist) but the GOP valued our strategic partnership. However, with the recent antidemocratic, pro-fascist actions by the GOP, we're going to be in tough.
That poison is seeping into our country and a major political party is mouthing the same rhetoric.
The US is a threat to our democracy aa they turn away from it.
Couldn't agree more. Canada is in danger with the political situation in the south. It is disappointing to see a strong ally get torn apart from the inside out and a shame to see it spreading to Canada. Before WW2 we were much more under the British sphere of influence and while I still see us maintaining a strong connection to the US, I think it might be wiser for us to strengthen relations where sanity prevails.
I'd be interested to see how European countries have shifted economically and politically in their relationship with the US in the past 5 years.
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5 hours ago, blue_gold_84 said:
Our COVIDiot of the day is none other than Derek Sloan!
Not sure if I posted it here already, but Sloan really reminds me of the guy from Handmaids Tale (the show) for multiple reasons.
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21 minutes ago, the watcher said:
So have I missed that the Cons have said that in the house brecause it would indeed be idiotic. But the years of Harper has a hidden agenda fit in exactly to my point. There was no hidden agenda, he was very upfront about his policies, like them or not. And that is disinformation. Just like when Trudeau was running against Andrew Sheer ( weasel that he was ) it was widely promoted that Sheer spoke at a rally with the leader of the far right yellow vesters. It was BS. It was outright disinformation. Its done by all parties unfortunately.
As posted above, the WEF conspiracy has entered the leadership race for the CPC. Pollievre has been engaging on dog whistle politics to appeal to those with wacky views. There's even been some that have been dumped from the party because of their ridiculous views.
With my comment a while back, I was mostly referring to those protestors/creeps during the last election that would scream and disrupt loudly during the last election campaign. Trudeau was visibly frustrated with them. The subject was originally about Trudeau dropping an f-bomb as it was insinuated by the CPC that military aircraft were flying over the freedom convoy as a means of surveillance when it clearly wasn't. To me the criticism is an appeal to the wackos that believe in the deep-state conspiracy that often includes vaccine conspiracies, world government conspiracies, etc.
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1 hour ago, the watcher said:
It not uncommon. Especially if they have held power for a lengthy period. And it happens regardless of political stripe. The " very scary " and " secret agenda " campaigns against Harper aren't alot different. Neither is the Conservatives continual fear tactics that NDP government will institute massive tax hikes. I don't like it but it is pretty common.
I think there is quite a big difference between pointing out the extremes of another party's political policy and outright disinformation like Trudeau is party of a WEF attempt to make people zombies through vaccine mandates. A lot of the extremely vocal anti-Trudeau crowd are that way because they believe wild things that just don't have any basis. Many citizens, regardless of where they place their vote, may be against Trudeau. The ones that disrupt campaign stops and do not allow him to speak are something else entirely.
Saying the Manitoba PCs are trying to privatize hydro at least has some basis in reality. They sold off MTS (look how that turned out) and have already sold off parts of hydro. Privatization is kind of their thing.
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39 minutes ago, Tracker said:
A month ago, there were reports that a broad-spectrum vaccine might be ready as soon as this fall.
I'm more specifically wondering whether any improved vaccine will be able to be thwarted as easily by the virus mutating. I remember reading that some virologists believe the virus won't continue to mutate at the pace we've seen and it will eventually reach a point of relative stability. If we're getting towards that with sub-variants rather than completely new variants, I wonder if that will make a new vaccine quite a bit more significant than what we currently have for both preventing hospitalization/deaths AND transmission. That would be pretty great.
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1 hour ago, Tracker said:
Why This 'Very, Very Contagious' Coronavirus Subvariant Is Causing Cases To Rise Again
The omicron subvariant BA.2.12.1 is poised to be the next dominant strain in the U.S. Mutations appear to have helped it replicate better and resist prior immunity.
After a weeks-long plateau, coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are once again rising in the U.S. as a new, highly transmissible omicron subvariant rapidly makes its way toward becoming the next dominant virus strain.The current seven-day rolling average of cases is back to where it was in February, with an average of 64,000 cases tallied Monday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s roughly three times what it was toward the end of March.
The seven-day average for hospitalizations is also up by 20%, with the CDC reporting an average of 2,215 admissions over the last seven days ― up from the prior week’s average of 1,845. Deaths from COVID-19 have stayed near record lows.
This drop in fatalities is likely thanks in part to current dominant variants appearing to be less deadly and vaccination rates being high in the U.S., Dr. Robert Garry, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Tulane University, told HuffPost. As of this week, roughly 66% of the U.S. population has been fully vaccinated, according to the CDC.
“The preexisting immunity lets your body handle the infection better, but these variants are so infectious they may not keep you from getting infected,” he said.
While the dominant omicron subvariant BA.2, which currently makes up nearly 62% of cases, appears to spread more easily than its predecessor, experts say another subvariant, BA.2.12.1, appears to be even more transmissible. BA.2.12.1 is spreading about 24% faster than BA.2 and, based on current rates, could become the dominant variant within the next few weeks, data shows.
I'm curious to know if these subvariants all developing along the Omicron line will be well covered if/when an Omicron-specific vaccine is released. I would imagine that could be a game changer if it does.
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2 hours ago, blue_gold_84 said:
This is comical. What pitiful pearl clutching by the CPC, especially after members proudly supported the Covidiot Clown Convoy with their F*ck Trudeau flags. Lousy hypocrites.
I can only imagine how frustrating it must be to be engaged in parliamentary debates when members opposite push conspiracies and misinformation. During the last election when Trudeau was subject to some really nasty abuse on campaign stops you could tell he was extremely frustrated. I'd imagine most politicians expect to encounter resistance and policy criticisms, but when you're being criticized based on conspiracy, that's gotta be another level.
I know of nothing other than the story posted above, but his response seems to confirm that he said it. That is unfortunate as the CPC will love getting under his skin and will likely continue to resort to the same tactics in the future if that works.
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I have and I do. I also have many friends who are small business owners and they agree the minimum wage should be raised. If I only relied on personal experience this would tell me all small business owners want to minimum wage to be raised.
Like JCon, I'm done. It is clear that fact and legitimate research won't sway your opinion. No point in continuing.