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5 minutes ago, GCn20 said:
when interest rates are back between 1-3%
You realize that today's announcement raised the rate to 1%, right? And the plan is to raise it firmly within the range within a short amount of time.
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31 minutes ago, GCn20 said:
The Bank of Canada needs to raise interest rates
You have been paying attention to interest rates, right? That they are rising and planning to rise in the future and that they rose, today, by the greatest amount in over 20 years?
So despite having one of the best inflation statistics in the world, the Liberals are doing what you suggest. I'm assuming you will certainly applaud Trudeau as a fantastic leader for our inflation numbers and the interest rate increases? If these are important metrics to judge a leader by, he should be big in your books.
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24 minutes ago, rebusrankin said:
If he focused on the rising cost of housing, food etc, PP could do all right. I think the support of the Trucker Convoy, the embrace of crypto, the giving back your freedom nonsense and the general lack of substance hurts him with centrist voters. You need to do more than posting the same digs multiple times a day aka Justininflation. Is Justin responsible for inflation in the USA and Australia too, PP?
Is it at all strange that the same people who are most likely to label others as "sheep" flock together for PP rallies and repeat his phrases such as Justinflation?
Again, Canada has done far better than the US and better than most of the developed world with inflation numbers. This is readily available in easy to find data. He knows his followers are uninformed, don't want to be informed and will hang on his every word and suggestion.
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29 minutes ago, GCn20 said:
but there is also a large faction of the centre of the political spectrum just waiting for a reason to dump Trudeau. I know that Liberals on here think that's crazy talk but it really isn't.
If PP is finally the great saviour that will cause people at the CENTRE of the political spectrum to dump Trudeau, then PP is doing a horrible job campaigning on his true centrist values. I also can't recall any posters on here identifying themselves as Liberals.
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4 hours ago, Wideleft said:
Even the best operators can lose their touch after 8, 10, 16 hours at the controls. It's mentally exhausting to be so precise for hours.
I'm also against privatization.
My grandpa did snow clearing for the city way back. During a snowstorm he would log an insane amount of hours. Work super long shifts (I think even up to 20 hours), go home for a 2-4 hour sleep and get back out. Of course he'd get paid pretty good overtime for working so many hours. I remember seeing a cheque he kept from a big snowstorm (I'm guessing 70s). I have two degrees, he didn't finish elementary school. His cheque was bigger than what I was making about 10 years ago when I saw his cheque and that's not even taking inflation into account.
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7 hours ago, blue_gold_84 said:
Maybe I'm wrong, but this seems about the best time for Finland to join NATO. Russians are already fighting a war they had tons of time to prepare for, but obviously didn't do a good job. They are somewhat weakened and I can't imagine they'd be able to put together a solid plan of attack for Finland without considerable time, especially while under increasingly harsh sanctions.
It seems like Russia's invasion of Ukraine has really backfired. Instead of weakening NATO, it has done the opposite. More nations are now looking to NATO for protection as they realize what happens without it. The nations currently in NATO have strengthened their bond and defenses more than I can recall as well.
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Sometimes I just wonder if everyone around the table laughed when someone suggested they say they tell the press they have improved the data released by only letting people know what is relevant. I'm sure there were people around the table that scoffed and thought Manitobans are never dumb enough to believe that, but I guess consensus thought they could hide data and convince Manitobans it was better that way.
I'd think its obvious to just about everyone that they are deliberately hiding data in order to hide how bad of a job they're doing and prevent their reputation from going down even further. To think they can fool Manitobans shows just how poorly they think of us. They have the information and are trying to convince us that its better we don't have it despite how that may affect our health-related decisions and knowledge of how bad our hospital situation is.
But our Minister of Health is planning 'couch visits' with her constituents (yes, literally bringing a couch around with her so people can meet with her in parks) 😆 - Couching health-care criticisms - Winnipeg Free Press
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Manitoba keeps the size of COVID outbreaks at personal care homes under wraps | CBC News
"On Wednesday, Stefanson planned to announce $15 million in new provincial funding for personal care homes at River Park Gardens, a seniors' facility in Winnipeg's Royalwood neighbourhood.
The event was moved to the Manitoba legislative building because of a COVID-19 outbreak at the home.
The province informed the media of the venue change one hour before the scheduled announcement.
The severity of this outbreak is unknown, because the province no longer discloses how many people are infected at care homes."
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6 hours ago, Tracker said:
The provincial PCs seem to think that Manitobans are mushrooms- they feed us bullshit, keep us in the dark and expect us to thrive.
Again you're being too kind. Like they care if we thrive or not. There is a concerted effort to hide valuable information from us in order to make them look better and get on forgetting Covid exists. Not sure if I hope this or not, but it would be pretty deserving to have one of those in power who have decided to withhold information get a really bad case of Covid.
Somewhat concerned about the reports of younger kids with lingering symptoms with my baby. I remember reading from Mayo Clinic that kids under 1 are in the same risk level as 40-50 year olds (could be wrong, but its close to that at least). Hope all your kids make a full rebound quickly.
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3 hours ago, Mark F said:
Bill clinton.. the great lefty boogie man....
.. Nafta..... which moved american factory jobs to mexicohe twisted arms to get that passed. It was very unpopular.
welfare "reform" ..... threw millions off of social assitance
"three strikes law".......locked people up for stealing a candy bar
deregulated media ownership.... local radio bought out and closed.
Deregulated wall street leading to 2008 financial meltdown.
his chief of staff rahm emanuel called the democratic party progressive wing,
"dirty f----ing hippies"... now us ambassador to china.
Obama favourite and most respected President... Reagan.
deregulated oil and gas.
tried to cut Social security. Lol. He tried hard, and really wanted to do this.
let the banks ceos walk,after they committex one of histories greatest frauds.
the pass this guy gets is comical. He is a complete fraud.
The Democrats supported invasion of Iraq. They vote for every single increase in American military budget. They closed none of the 109 american overseas military bases.mthey did not close guantanamo. They ended no foreign wars. They invaded libya.
Only western industrialized country without universal healthcare.
There is no left wing in American politics.
Not to mention the highest incarceration rate in the world! 6 times what our incarceration rate is in Canada!
That stat would look even worse when incarcerations are broken down by race and poverty levels. But private prisons are good money there, so they need customers.
Incarceration Rates by Country 2022 (worldpopulationreview.com)
North Korea holding strong with 0 people incarcerated...
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25 minutes ago, Mark F said:
you might think that two such events in three years would sink in, but ..... nope.
The thinking goes - if we had fires and floods in the past, there's no way they could be caused by humans in any way. We see this logic in "the earth has always gone through periods of warming and cooling - this isn't caused by humans" Unfortunately people in power use this to prevent efforts to help with climate change.
Really low-level thinking that I'm pretty sure is intentionally blinding at times (people cling to beliefs when reality means they have personal responsibility and their way of life needs to change) and is definitely used as propaganda.
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33 minutes ago, Sard said:
This is the 2nd time that I've heard her speak (the first time was regarding the convoy protest or something else related to the pandemic, I can't remember at the moment exactly what it was). I have a lot of respect for her. This is the type of person who is good to have in a position of power within the goverment.
She is great. Someone else posted something in here from her before, I think it was about the wackiness of the convoy. Unfortunately the ones that really need to come out with a speech like this, people like Bergen, Bernier, Pollievre, etc., will not do it. Hearing it from a senator nominated by Trudeau will just add to the paranoia.
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3 hours ago, JCon said:
PP loves money laundering, tax evasion and volatile commodities.
Salvadoran President Bukele's Latest Bitcoin Venture Is Another Distraction (foreignpolicy.com)
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s experiment in making Bitcoin an official national currency alongside the U.S. dollar, which has been the currency since 2001, has not gone well. But when a con artist’s grift starts to fall apart, he knows to move onto the next one fast. The same goes for fast-talking presidents.
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1 hour ago, Mark F said:
The entire country has shifted right. Remember "red tories" ?
there is no such thing now. People here are saying jason kenney is the normal person in that party. Good god.
The Conservatives are now john birch /Alex Jones right wing crackpots, the NDP now would have been centre right in the past.
The NDP in British Columbia is promoting LNG gas, logging old growth, beating up, pepper spraying protesters,
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"RE: Call to action to call BC Timber Sales at 604-702-5700 and call for 60-day extension of consultation for a five-year Pest Management Plan including herbicide spraying in the South Coast forestry covering Squamish to Hope
We find it unbelievable in this day and age of carbon credits, environmental toxin awareness, greenhouse emissions, air quality indexes, and awareness of the historical effects of herbicide spraying both to the ecosystem and humans, that a government is planning a mass forestry herbicide spraying against native plants.."
Probably not as bad as what came before them, but hardly what once was left wing.
really, everything is going the wrong way, world wide.
Side note - Strong recommendation for 'Finding the Mother Tree' by Suzanne Simard for insight into how forests should be managed and some fascinating info on trees communicating with one another. Sounds out there, but I am somewhat in the field and its not. But it is a compelling read.
Also, the left in Canada becoming the radical left was my laugh of the day. Another example of how beliefs espoused by politicians can become accepted as fact.
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1 hour ago, Fatty Liver said:
Whatever, it's up to the party to realize their problems and correct them, if they don't they'll continue to kick the can down the road and will never get elected. At some point a strong conservative group in the East will get nostalgic for the old PC brand and divorce themselves from the Western crackpots who stole the banner in 1993 when Preston Manning ejaculated upon Canada. As far as this **** goes, the finger always points back to origins in Alberta, the home of dumb politics.
I agree to some extent, but I also think they influence beliefs of people rather than just reflect the beliefs of people. When people see our official opposition saying things like 'dictator' I'm worried more people will think that is a credible belief.
I'd like nothing more to see the party crash and burn, but I think they are doing a lot of damage along the way. Trumpism in the United States made anti-democracy and racism acceptable, I'm worried we may be going down that path thanks to a spineless CPC party and populists like Pollievre.
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4 hours ago, JCon said:
CPCs sink, again, to a new low.
That party needs to publicly denounce stuff like this for any hope of credibility. They've gone so far off the deep end and I'm concerned they're dragging down a section of people who vote conservative no matter what with them. There's people who believe this garbage BECAUSE they hear it from the politicians.
Unfortunately they won't denounce it, at least not as strongly as they should. For god sakes, they've embraced Bergen of all people as their interim leader and Pollievre is a front-runner for next leader.
I saw this tweet recently which sums up how I feel right now:
The very sad state of conservativism in Canada 2022. Jason Kenney, Scott Moe, Doug Ford, Pierre Poilievre, Candice Bergen: This is their best. Their very best.
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13 minutes ago, Tracker said:
When you look at the performance of the Russian military, its not hard to imagine that the GRU could screw this up. Besides, the point may have been to scare off negotiators so as to give the military time to complete their sweep of Ukraine.
This is my thinking - it could be intentional or pure Russian incompetence. But it seems like killing someone with poison is pretty hard to screw up.
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2 hours ago, Tracker said:
The point of this apparent poisoning by Russia was to disrupt things so that there would be an excuse for Russia to abort the proceedings. Making people sick would be a convenient reason without raising too much alarm.
But was about the other poisonings? Skripal & Navalny for example. Seems obvious to me that it was an attempt on their lives, not sure why it didn't succeed.
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Honest question. Why are so many victims not dying when they are poisoned by the Russians? It seems like a pretty easy thing to get the dosage right to kill someone, you don't really have to worry about dosing too much. Is the intent just to scare?
Skripal, Navalny, Abramovich....
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4 minutes ago, MOBomberFan said:
Yes definitely and my hyperbole doesn't help the conversation I get that. I'm just thinking if there is such a thing as lazy optimists then surely there are lazy alarmists out there quick to share unrealized nightmare scenarios for clicks (not to say nature.com is clickbait... hello alternet!)
It's fair and accurate for the author to say "there is no predestined evolutionary outcome for a virus to become more benign" but that's only because we do not operate in a vaccuum; demos, populations density, vaccination rates, so many factors contribute. It just seems alarmist to essentially say 'it technically COULD get worse though empirically most don't' but I will (grimly) change my opinion on the matter if we can ID a single virus that persists today that is more deadly, transmissible and vaccine resistant than it was when we discovered it
Again, it doesn't need to evolve all 3 (severity, transmissibility, vaccine resistance). Any one of the 3 could put us in a much worse place and hoping that it evolves less severity is not a great strategy according the the author. Again, if evolution would have stopped with Delta and we never would have got Omicron, we would be in a much better place. And that was from an evolution that was, thankfully, less severe.
The article itself is from Nature which is highly respected and the author is a world leader on virus evolution. I think he's rightly concerned about how we are assuming endemic means Covid is petering out and coming to an end and is tempering that lazy optimism he sees. I think it is natural to really hope everything is good and will only get better. I had more or less that view when we were really rolling out vaccines and it seemed like everything would be normal again. Unfortunately the virus evolved (with less severity no less) and the situation changed for the worse.
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10 hours ago, MOBomberFan said:
Lazy optimism ffs its the natural course of virtually all viruses. Remind me again which virus known kept mutating til it was so unstoppable it wiped out all life on the planet
I think the lazy optimism part is about getting rid of all restrictions and assuming everything will be okay as well as assuming we will mutate our way out of Covid and be done with it. I've mostly had the assumption that every subsequent evolution will be less severe, which according to the author who is a professor of viral evolution and genomics at Oxford, is not the case. After reading the article, I'd say the next evolution of the virus is likely to be even more transmissible, more likely to evade vaccines and if this is combined with increased severity, we are in big trouble.
There's a big difference between a more severe strain of the virus and wiping out all life on the planet. Any one of the 3 - increased transmission, increased vaccine evasion or increased severity is a bad outcome. Assuming each evolution of the virus will be better on all three fronts is lazy optimism. We'd be in a much different place if Omicron never evolved, despite the decrease in severity.
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"There is a widespread, rosy misconception that viruses evolve over time to become more benign. This is not the case: there is no predestined evolutionary outcome for a virus to become more benign, especially ones, such as SARS-CoV-2, in which most transmission happens before the virus causes severe disease. Consider that Alpha and Delta are more virulent than the strain first found in Wuhan, China. The second wave of the 1918 influenza pandemic was far more deadly than the first.
Much can be done to shift the evolutionary arms race in humanity’s favour. First, we must set aside lazy optimism. Second, we must be realistic about the likely levels of death, disability and sickness. Targets set for reduction should consider that circulating virus risks giving rise to new variants. Third, we must use — globally — the formidable weapons available: effective vaccines, antiviral medications, diagnostic tests and a better understanding of how to stop an airborne virus through mask wearing, distancing, and air ventilation and filtration. Fourth, we must invest in vaccines that protect against a broader range of variants."
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Would you stop with these facts already? Trudeau is clearly the reason we have inflation to begin with, but is not the reason our inflation numbers are better than most of the developed world.