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9 hours ago, JCon said:
Liberals tend to do well in by-elections, as they can focus all their limited resources. In the general election, they'll focus only on those that they have a legitimate chance to win. That will not be too many seats.
Is it also possible that knowing the broader political landscape limits the "strategic voting" during byelections? NDP/Liberal winning the byelection where Obby won would not have had meaningful impacts on ruling party or majority/minority and those votes were fairly split if I recall. Same with the one that Kevin Klein recently won. I'm wondering if people choosing "anything but PCs" would limit Liberal support in close ridings.
3 hours ago, bustamente said:The current Premier and the current Health Minister are incompetent boobs, they would run a lemonade stand into the ground. The former Premier and Health Minister were not much better, but the NDP have a problem with Wab either precieved or real he just rubs people the wrong way and is a bit of a hot head. Liberals are about as popular as the Green party. Not much to choose from in the upcoming elections.
Maybe I'm not recalling at the moment, but has Wab really done all that much as a party leader that shows he is a hothead, or just his past? I was surprised at his restrained response while Lagimodiere defended residential schools in front of him when he was named as Minister of Indigenous Relations. I don't think many who have had a parent in residential schools would say "we're willing to give you a chance" after what Lagimodiere was saying.
While I was confirming that Wab's dad attended residential schools, I found this article where Wab mentions his anger issues: Wab Kinew on the legacy of residential schools | CBC Radio | CBC Radio
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11 hours ago, rebusrankin said:
The National Post is majority owned (66%) by a US Hedge fund that has close ties to the Republican Party aka they are not an unbiased source.
If someone can't tell they are far from an unbiased source based on their headlines and "reporting", providing facts like this is useless.
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11 hours ago, JCon said:
Absolutely! They paid him $500k for him to join.
If only it was them that paid him. We paid him. I wouldn't have much of a problem with it if the funds came from the PC Party.
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1 hour ago, rebusrankin said:
My gut is that Obby is lying. Feels like the PCs are going for Smear Wab and dog whistle to the racists.
I'm willing to wait to see if there's any evidence presented, but I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to leverage the ethnicity of Obby and the ethnicity/history of Wab in this situation. Wab's history with assault is at the very least questionable and they'd love to use it to smear him without having to come out and say it directly.
Obby was a huge pickup for them due to race and ethnicity. They've previously prided themselves on "the most diverse cabinet" of mainly white men because they had people(men) representing a bunch of different European ancestries. I'm sure they'll attempt to leverage Obby's race explicitly in some way.
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2 hours ago, 17to85 said:
You do realize that these two ideals are often incompatible right? Tax cuts or failing to increase taxes is a sure fire road to fiscal irresponsibility
Surely you've never heard of trickle down economics. Tax cuts for the rich benefit everyone!
Fifty years of tax cuts for rich did not trickle down - study concludes (thelondoneconomic.com)
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1 hour ago, rebusrankin said:
PP was asked in the house to define woke. He went onto claim its a bunch of things designed to divide Canadians further along racial, religious, vaccine status lines. One thats not a definition and more importantly how much time does one need to realize that the statement is false and ignorant and yet another reason not to vote for him?
What he means is well-educated and informed. Most informed and educated voters don't sit well with him and his antics so he needs to borrow a term from the US to refer to that segment of the population pejoratively so his followers have a negative term to identify and throw their hate at.
Also, is there a clip of this somewhere? I'd love to hear his definition.
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16 minutes ago, Mark H. said:
It could be the fact that Stephenson just barely won that nomination.
Or maybe didn't even win if you believe Glover and co..... I do think Bergen makes sense as she represents a large part of the ideology within the party. It just doesn't seem like a good strategic choice for appealing to Manitobans that generally don't identify with her politics.
Rural PC strongholds will vote for the most leftist PC candidate, but battleground ridings will shy away from candidates that are too far to the right. Maybe she'll stay far behind the scenes and she might be good at that, but picking someone like her that clearly represents the rural right doesn't seem to be a good look for electability.
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2 hours ago, rebusrankin said:
I could see her running to replace Heather.
Funniest thing is she talks about uniting the MB PCs but she was one of the people who stabbed OToole in the back and forced him out.
Also having a convoy supporter as your campaign chair is a bad look. Guess it sells to your base but hurts you like hell in Winnipeg where you trail but 23 points.
It does seem like a strange strategical choice for the PCs. Definitely not the direction they should be looking if they want to win the election. Rural nutcase that's well known for being to the right side of the party. They already dodged that bullet when Stefanson won the leadership from Glover.
They aren't losing any support from the right side of the party, so you'd think they'd at least try to look on the surface that they are sliding left before the election.
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2 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:
Cons need to offer me more then 250 to vote for them. $1000 would do it
If you own property that is valuable enough, they've probably already done that.
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10 hours ago, blue_gold_84 said:
It seems like these war criminals forgot what happened a year ago when they tried to push further Ukraine and had to retreat.
******* ghouls.
"You better give us more territory or we're going to start actually trying."
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4 hours ago, Wideleft said:
Because the motion wasn't limited to China. PP needs Russian help.
I don't understand this as I haven't been closely following the story. The tweet doesn't really give much background story. Any help as to why he didn't vote?
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@Wideleft any opinion on the ads telling Manitobans where to go for which type of ailment they suffer (My Right Care)? I don't necessarily have any problem with them, but I've always thought they are likely an attempt to blame poor healthcare outcomes on citizens using the wrong system rather than budget cuts.
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34 minutes ago, Tracker said:
Putin is a psychopath from all reports- he will not respond to any logic and, like Hitler may not be attached to reality.
I wasn't referring to anything Putin would do if he lost Crimea, but what will be done to him if he loses it. Many of powerful elite in that country are seeing their power and wealth dwindle as a result of Putin's leadership.
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8 hours ago, Tracker said:
We’re One Step Closer to Putin’s Crimea Nightmare
Since the outset of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, Western leaders have privately been warning Kyiv against kicking Russia out of Crimea, the peninsula Russian President Vladimir Putin seized from Ukraine in 2014, out of a fear of triggering a nuclear flashpoint.But now, over one year into the invasion, the tide appears to be turning—at least from Kyiv’s perspective.
Western leaders have started warming to the idea that Ukraine can take back Crimea in spite of Russian nuclear threats, Tamila Tasheva, the Ukrainian government official in charge of Crimea, told The Daily Beast in an exclusive interview.
“We heard from Western leaders that… if we come back to Crimea, that there would be an unavoidable escalation, that might even provoke a nuclear conflict,” Tasheva said, noting that those warnings have faded in recent weeks. “The rhetoric has been changing since we explain more and more what Crimea is, what it means for Russia, and how things are connected around Crimea,” she said referring to the way Russia has been using Crimea as a launchpad and key supply route for the war.
In the fall, The Daily Beast reported that Western officials were privately urging Ukraine’s government to back away from the idea of taking back Crimea. At the time, they expressed concerns to Tasheva that Putin, who had derived huge domestic support from seizing the Ukrainian peninsula in 2014, would view a Ukrainian campaign to take it back as an attack on Russia proper and respond with massive escalation.
Tasheva believes that concern has started melting away now that Ukraine is arguing that Crimea is key to a victory against Putin both because Russia continues to use it as a launchpad for the war, and because Putin views it as key to his political legitimacy in Russia.
Ukraine hopes its plan to kick Russia out of Crimea—as well as the other territory it has stolen—is finally gaining momentum.
It’s a dramatic shift from the early days of the war, when Ukraine’s goals were focused on defending against Russia’s invasion and forcing Russia out of Ukrainian land captured in 2022. As Ukraine’s forces have staged successful counteroffensives, though, Kyiv has gained confidence it might be able to push Russia out of territory it stole in 2014, including Crimea.
Now, with a Ukrainian counteroffensive likely targeted at southern Ukraine looming, the path to Crimea is becoming clearer.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/were-one-step-closer-to-putins-crimea-nightmare?ref=home
Wonder if Western leaders might be changing their tune regarding Crimea as they realize how much pressure would be put on Putin if/when he loses territory he originally started the war with.
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4 hours ago, blue_gold_84 said:
He's nothing more than a manufactured outrage mouthpiece at this point.
The whiny posterchild of conservativism* in this country.
* not even sure what that is or stands for anymore
QuoteConservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Tuesday the Liberal government's inaction on alleged election meddling by China has some Canadian voters wondering whether recent election results can be trusted.
Trudeau has 'inspired a lot of suspicion' about election results, Poilievre says | CBC News
Yup, you got it. Alluding to the idea that the election was fraudulent and the wrong party is in power. I've seen this show somewhere before. I wonder if he'll play the Trump card if the next election doesn't go his way.
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4 hours ago, JCon said:
It's always someone else's fault. Oops.
The coulda, woulda, shoulda party. Ah well.
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5 hours ago, blue_gold_84 said:
Truth and facts don't matter. Point the finger, get the soundbite out, raise alarm, cause divisions based on misinformation. All in the desire for power and control.
It doesn't really matter if you are proven completely incorrect as the followers dismiss that as bias. The damage has already been done.
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9 hours ago, Wideleft said:
Read an article about the potential political pitfalls of this idea just yesterday:
It sounds like something out of science fiction: A country suffering from heat, flooding or crop failures decides on its own to send out a fleet of aircraft to spray a fine, sun-blocking mist into the earth’s atmosphere, reducing temperatures and providing relief to parched populations. Other countries view it as a threat to their own citizens and ready a military response.
But members of the U.S. intelligence community and other national security officials were worried enough last year to plot how to avert a war triggered by this kind of climate engineering. In a role-playing exercise, they practiced managing the tensions that would be unleashed, according to people familiar with the exercise, a sign that they see it as a credible threat in need of a strategy.The practice, known as solar geoengineering, is theoretically possible. And as the world’s most vulnerable populations suffer more sharply from rising temperatures, global decision-makers will likely come under heavy pressure to deploy the technology, scientists and policymakers say. Compared to other methods to combat the effects of climate change, it’s likely to be cheaper and faster.
Because the technique could weaken the sun’s power across the globe — not just above whichever country decided to deploy it — security officials are concerned about the potential to spark conflict, since a single capital could make decisions that shape the entire world’s fate.
“Parts of the U.S. government are rightfully focused on trying better to understand this,” said Sherri Goodman, a senior fellow at the Wilson Center, referencing last year’s geoengineering exercise. “If you don’t understand it, you can’t manage it.”
The science is evolving, said Goodman, a longtime expert on the intersection of climate change and security. But global discussions haven’t kept up, leaving a powerful technology largely unregulated internationally.
“It could be weaponized by a country to either try to improve the climate and reduce the temperatures in their own location or against an adversary,” Goodman said. “It could be threatened in a way that could cause fear or panic among populations.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/02/27/geoengineering-security-war/
This is represented in Kim Stanley Robinson's excellent 'The Ministry of the Future'. A great sci-fi read that is very much grounded in science and what the near future could look like.
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9 hours ago, blue_gold_84 said:
That is a pretty incredible statistic.
I would like to further poll the remaining 51% to see how they split between 1) incompetence, 2) indifference, 3) they are doing the best they can despite the evil Federal government.
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The whole 15 minute cities thing is bizarre. Fortunately, I heard it here first which may be indicative of the lack of steam it produces. I'm wondering where this conspiracy originates. Does big oil go into propaganda and covertly send it out through social media groups or do the groups and politicians make that connection and assume what their overlords want?
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7 hours ago, blue_gold_84 said:
I've always thought that China could end the war whenever they wanted to, perhaps even India. If Russia lost one of those two markets, they would really feel the economic consequences. If Russia could be stopped through economic means, they wouldn't need billions in military support and lives would be saved.
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8 hours ago, blue_gold_84 said:
He wrote that moments of urgency require leaders of governments at all levels "to rise above politics and collaborate for the common good."
He's putting way too much faith in the premiers. You just have to look at Stefanson silently requesting federal help for the convoy situation while publicly criticizing the Feds for shutting down the convoy.
3 hours ago, JohnnyAbonny said:There’s a group of around 20 freedom convoy Nazis at the corner of Plesis and Kildare today. Faaaar too close to home for my liking. I immaturely did a very slow flip off while passing them. чортів Russian assets. Smfh.
They are having a little playdate weekend at a farm "Camp Hope" in Dugald. World Unity rally 🙄, so watch out, you're about to be unified... by a population backed by Russian attempts to destroy Canadian democracy.
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56 minutes ago, Tracker said:
Monomaniacal tyrants rarely see reality. For Putin, because he is losing the war of attrition, its now or never because every day that passes without a victory is a day closer to his assassination or sudden death from "natural causes". Putin lost yet another general yesterday and since the military ousted the Kremlin leadership in 1989 after Matthias Rust flew his little plane across Russia undetected and humiliated Russia, the precedent has been set. So far, the killing of potentially problematic oligarchs has kept them in line, but that is not going to last as they are bleeding millions of rubles every day and are being denied trips to the Riviera.
Exactly. I don't think the goal is to outlast Russia. Body count does not phase Putin, he will keep throwing bodies with reckless abandon. It means nothing to him. The goal is to outlast Putin. Oligarchs losing privileges, power and money are likely putting some internal pressure on Putin.
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9 hours ago, blue_gold_84 said:
Pierre has to get in his soundbites: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-keep-health-care-deal-1.6741086
What a lying scumbag.
Pay the provinces in crypto, Pierre.
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One leader looks out for disadvantaged Canadians and the other looks out for himself. Not surprising. The more Pollievre can dissuade people from legitimate news sources like CBC, the more they rely on uncritically accepting what he says or listening to NP, Rebel, etc. I'm not sure how Canadians don't shake their heads en masse when he claims it is Trudeau's propaganda machine. The Trumpist tactics aren't even being veiled anymore.