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3 minutes ago, Mark H. said:
Waiting for the first livestock farmer...to stop using vaccines.
It's coming.
If you look at the venn diagram between farmers and anti-vaxxers, there's quite a lot of overlap. Thinking about the Winkler area in particular. Only a matter of time till they realize that Big Pharma is attempting to control their animals.
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7 hours ago, Wanna-B-Fanboy said:
Is it though?
That man is single-handedly responsible for so much of the average American getting ****** over... the state of the SCOTUS... women's rights, and so on...
The amount of needless suffering and inequality on his shoulders...
I feel no pity.
Moreso that it happens to anyone. Recently I've seen multiple people within my family go through cognitive decline and it really sucks. Not sure what is going on with Mitch, but it is sad to see someone with apparently diminished capacities trotted out in front of the media and his decline being a worldwide meme.
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9 minutes ago, MOBomberFan said:
Old Glitch McConnell is freezing up at pressers again. He's clearly sick and something is seriously wrong.
Definitely not a fan of the guy, but there's something incredibly sad about seeing that.
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3 hours ago, Noeller said:
Yeah, that's a bit of a touchy subject, but ya.... something in the water. I've had my battles with depression over the last 5 years that could have made me a statistic and thankfully didn't. But yes, at one point Pinawa had the highest suicide-per-capita rate in Canada. Not something anyone was proud of, in a town of only 1500 people that's only existed since 1963.
Mostly have lurked around here for years, but I appreciate your posts. Glad you didn't become one of those statistics.
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5 hours ago, Brandon said:
PC voters tend to be middle class to the rich folks. In the areas where their is less crime and higher incomes the people tend to frown upon any graffiti or crime or anything. When they see PC ads vandalized it re-inforces their desire or wants for more police and cleaning up the city. So yes it will re-inforce some who may be on the fence to vote for them.
I'm not sure if the NDP guy having a traitor thing spray painted will do much, it probably also will reinforce people to vote PC because they push "being more harsh to criminals" even if it's all just talk. In the end it just looks dumb and does nothing to help.
And it enforces that people that oppose the PCs are always the ones doing the vandalism. Dumb move.
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4 minutes ago, Wideleft said:
Such an incredibly stupid idea for so many reasons. Not enough for me to change votes, but I'm not the voter he's targeting with this - so I can see who's votes he's trying to buy here.
Agreed. I shook my head and was disappointed with this announcement. I guess it is better than trying to shift the blame to the feds and their evil carbon tax, but not much. Fiscally irresponsible attempt to buy votes.
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I've taught in many different schools across Manitoba and developed curricula for the province. My take on their promises:
The PCs list four new rights they would like to add, following consultations with parents and teachers:
- The right to be informed about curriculum - This is already available to everyone - Curriculum | Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning (gov.mb.ca). It even has sections devoted to parents.
- The right to be involved in addressing bullying and other behavioural changes. - Every school I've been in already does this. The vague nature pledge indicates one of two things: it is so vague that it is useless or it is a dog whistle for parents to read their own message into it. What are "other" behavioural changes?
- The right to advance notice about any presentations by people outside the school system. - Definitely a response to parents not wanting talk of gender diversity in schools. This is the only one of the four that isn't necessarily done by default in schools.
- The right to consent before any image of a child is made, shared or stored. This has already been happening for years. Parents need to sign to give the right to have pictures taken and used. Teachers/admin take this seriously.
The "new" rights show either a complete ignorance of what is going on in schools or an attempt to fool uninformed voters into these things actually being new.
I've had more dealings with this government than the average teacher and they really don't care about education outside of meddling in it for political power. The current education minister has frequently chosen to not be informed about educational issues. Pallister/Stefanson have really tried to stick their fingers in our educational system, including post-secondary education in ways that will not help student achievement in the least. Education in Manitoba has deteriorated quite a lot since they came to power.
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6 minutes ago, rebusrankin said:
Anybody seen the PC bus bench ads attacking Wab and saying crime will be worse under him? The candidate they have featured on them has tweeted in the past that BLM is a terrorist organization, Blue Lives Matter, that systemic racism doesn't exist within the police and has said that those who want to defund the police should not have access to 911 services.
Wab gave a good speech today about how his past helped shape him into who he is today.
Honestly, I'm tired of people bringing up Wab's past. Would not happen nearly as much if he was white. My proof, Scott Moe is Premier of Saskatchewan, how often do you hear about the fact he killed a woman because he was driving recklessly?
Just wait... A good source has said there is about to be a huge bombshell dropped about Wab before the election. It will be devastating! 😄
9 minutes ago, rebusrankin said:Would not happen nearly as much if he was white.
Absolutely. PCs are using it as a racist dog whistle that he is indigenous and dangerous.
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19 minutes ago, Noeller said:
Pinawa, born and raised.... no better place to have grown up. Right in the heart of pure Canadiana...
I used to spend a lot of time in Pinawa every summer. It was a great place. Seems a lot different now. A lot more people seem to have discovered the gem that it was. Huge lineups for a float down the channel when I used to rip my kayak up and down the channel and barely see anyone.
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4 hours ago, Wideleft said:
But in seizing on those feelings without an evident shred of real empathy, perspective or authenticity, Mr. Poilievre seems to see them as smouldering embers of resentment to be fanned for his own purposes, rather than a set of real problems in need of solving.
PP in a nutshell.
4 hours ago, Wideleft said:What it also means is that so-called common people are not idiots. They know very well when they’re being patronized – or when someone is pretending.
Disagree. I am continually amazed to see the support PP gets despite how poorly acted and thinly veiled his contempt for "common people" is.
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28 minutes ago, Mark F said:
and maybe this:
"While working on a piece I wrote last month about a Canadian gold mine being shut down by protesters in Kyrgyzstan, I came across a statistic that I thought must have been a mistake. With all of the noise and criticism both domestically and internationally of Alberta’s Tar Sands, it seemed to me shockingly underreported that 75% of the world’s mining companies are headquartered in Canada.
All over the world, companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and run out of lawyer’s offices on Bay Street or skyscrapers in downtown Vancouver (whose real financiers may live in Australia or Nevada) are handling the mining game at home, throughout parts of Asia, South America and surprisingly, even with all the talk of China’s investment in Africa, it turns out that it’s Canada, not China, who is quietly dominating and exploiting African mining. All told, almost 1,300 mining companies based out of Canada are investing hundreds of billions of dollars in over 100 countries around the world."
vice
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wdb4j5/75-of-the-worlds-mining-companies-are-based-in-canada
I bet you can correctly guess why.
My wife is from South America. Canada has a reputation there for mining and it is not good. Very complicit in destruction of the Amazon.
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1 hour ago, Goalie said:
but here in Canada we don't produce much bad stuff
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I listened to this episode of Front Burner today and found it interesting - What's driving polarization in Canadian politics? | CBC Radio
I never really saw how the importance of getting a viral clip to engage donors is a driving force of polarization, but it made sense to me. Unfortunately this is leading to a lot of enraging supporters to share clips and solicit donations rather than working together.
I haven't yet read the report this was based on, but linked for those who are interested (it seems intriguing) - TheRiseOfPolarizationInCanada-PPF-AUG2023-EN-1.pdf (ppforum.ca)
@Mark F tagging because of polarization mentioned in US thread.
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2 hours ago, Mark F said:
there are a lot of good things happening, in America, but you have to look for it. cause it is not in the headlines.
I think they are on a good path finally. the Democrats seem to have finally woken up, and are dealing with the horrendous problems they and we have, dragging the crazy people along.
I hope you are right and I was surprised at the Inflation Reduction Act. I intentionally don't follow what is going on in the US too closely as I see so much disappointment and despair and it leaves me frustrated. To see that a guy like Trump has a chance to lead, again, even with just what has been confirmed publicly, is horrible. Very low regard for democracy.
The parties are definitely polarized, but it seems like people rigidly hold to whatever beliefs the party tells them are important. It is cult-like how people choose to get their values from whatever political party they are part of rather than developing values outside of the political party and voting for a party that fits. I see this happening more in Canada too.
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14 minutes ago, Mark F said:
America has always been deeply divided in a few ways. and very violent.
in the past, to a greater extent than now. voting rights, civil rights, somewhat recent for some people there.
black doctor? judge?
unthinkable not long ago.
and what more could they do with Trump and his goons?
show trial, summary conviction and immediate firing squad?
They will continue as they always have....and survive as a democracy.
Ezra Klein wrote a book Why We're Polarized that discusses how the political parties in the US are more polarized than ever before. The differences between Republican and Democrat were not always as stark and obvious as they are right now. The stuff that I'm seeing coming out of the US is scary to me and I'm not sure it will just be a bump in the road. They've even had their credit rating downgraded yesterday in large part to political instability and polarization.
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48 minutes ago, Brandon said:
Google? They have dozens and dozens of articles about gender identity and cultural self identification. You find me one article in which they present the story of someone self identifying as something other then biologically what they were born as in a negative light. Every article I've read is in a positive light which isn't necessarily a bad thing for the most part but in certain situations (such as the controversial shops teacher who identified as a female and came to school wearing a completely in appropriate outfit and body suit) that I find ridiculous.
Long and skinny of it, Klein can self identify as Metis and CBC shouldn't be investigating or putting him in a negative spotlight because that goes against what they normally do. If he were to do that then shouldn't they criticize everyone and anyone else who identifies as a different gender as well? It's a double standard. CBC should be reporting the news and allow the public to form their own opinion and shouldn't be slanting a news story for their own agenda.
I'm sure the vast majority of the public can see through Klein's lame attempt similar to when Brian Bowman used the Metis card. We don't need the CBC to go on a hunt to try to bring the guy down.
I did look and all I can find are stories that shine a negative light on cultural appropriation and faking indigenous heritage (as an example - Outrage brewing after U of S and CIHR support professor who falsely claimed to be Indigenous | CBC News)
Do you not think it is the job of news organizations to check the claims made by politicians? They clearly caught someone faking something that has been falsely used to gain support for the individual and the party. I think that is news doing what news should be doing. I don't see how it is slanting anything.
I also can't seem to find a CBC story on the shop teacher wearing a bodysuit. I find stories from National Post obviously and I know the incident you're talking about, but I can't find any CBC article on it, so I can't see where you get your evidence that they are endorsing that. I'm guessing you are just assigning CBC what you think is the "liberal perspective", but I remain open to you finding an article to prove me wrong.
It seems more that you have an issue with people who don't feel they fit into their birth sex or gender. I'm not sure how you see that as such a big slight to be on the same level as cultural appropriation and falsely claiming an identity to win political support.
36 minutes ago, Brandon said:Both groups biologically are one thing and mentally believe they are something else, that isn't apples and oranges. You can't pick and choose what is allowed and what is not when people self identify as something that they are biologically not.
The issue isn't that Klein "believes he is something else", it is that he and the party are falsely using the identity to gain power.
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8 minutes ago, Brandon said:
CBC is very progressive , to a point of ridiculousness. Hence why Klein could identify as Metis and they would normally spin a story like that as in it being a positive thing.
Really? Have they done that before with someone else? Do you have an example I could see?
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1 hour ago, GCn20 said:
His very named brother who was quoted in the paper today actually. Also CBC's "geneological" research is not research at all, it is completely and 100% without merit. Also, you say that his Metis group is unrecognized....well so is the MMF currently as they withdrew from the Metis National council. Are there red flags to his status, yes there are...just as there is for the thousands of Metis who lost their memberships following the Powell decision. Just because someone's heritage, particularly native heritage, was not something of daily life when he was raised is not even a factor in this. Just incredibly insensitive thing for media, or anyone, to use as proof of heritage. You don't act like a Metis, and weren't raised like a Metis, so you are not a Metis? After 200 years of trying to beat the indigenous out of all of us, white people need to be better than that. Just a grossly insensitive line of reasoning. Nothing worse than when white people come and question our heritage, when what they know about it could fit on the head of a pin.
By the Powell decision, do you actually mean the Powley Test?
1 hour ago, JCon said:And it works, obviously, or PCs wouldn't be using him as a prop.
"Diversity" for them is just that, a prop to win votes and to be able to defend themselves as not being racist by holding up "diverse" people. Pallister did it before by saying his white, mostly male cabinet was diverse because they came from different parts of Europe. That is why Obby was such a big win by them, because they actually had someone that was not white. Was that a big reason why his company received a large share of Covid funding for businesses from the PCs? I'm assuming that is why Audrey Gordon has such a large role despite being completely incompetent as well.
They hold up Alan Lagimodiere for his Metis status, but he is an outright racist against indigenous people. He even defended residential schools his first day on the job. The PC party doesn't care about diverse perspectives, they care about the optics and putting that little sticker of "diverse" on their chart.
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11 hours ago, GCn20 said:
I clearly did. I just do not support the research provided. If Klein is not of Metis heritage, then it sure is a slimy move to claim he is. I am not willing, based on what I know about aboriginal/Metis research into geneology, to jump to that conclusion based primarily on Canada census reports.
You need to understand that in neither of the censuses provided in your article was Metis/half breed even an option. The only censuses prior to 1981 that a Metis citizen could identify as one is the 1870, 1901, and 1941 censuses. In all other censuses you were identified either by your mother tongue or as Indian and the descrimination and possible repercussions that came with that designation in Canada's cruel colonial system. The journalism was lazy in that article. If you are going to paint someone as a liar...GET IT RIGHT.
The census "proof" is garbage, and David Chartrand's comments are for sure completely out of context to the MMF's position on how Metis citizenship should be applied.
It's unfortunate the writer didn't fact check his article before his hatchet job.
They did also check with his brother who said it is a sham and Klein does have a history of being a slimeball. The only reason he won his seat was because the NDP and Libs split votes in the riding.
Week 13 - Labour Day Classic, Bombers @ Riders
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Not sure what you're seeing. He keeps throwing it WAY over receivers. Can't get stronger than that.