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Pruitt wrote: Wed Jun 20, 2018 5:44 am NDP In Quebec - Back To Single Digits

Nice takedown of Jagmeet Singh's inability to say anything.
i don't understand why he didn't go into the house of commons immediately. He could be yelling at Trudeau everyday.
People still don't know who he is nearly a year.
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degenerasian wrote: Wed Jun 20, 2018 11:41 am
Pruitt wrote: Wed Jun 20, 2018 5:44 am NDP In Quebec - Back To Single Digits

Nice takedown of Jagmeet Singh's inability to say anything.
i don't understand why he didn't go into the house of commons immediately. He could be yelling at Trudeau everyday.
People still don't know who he is nearly a year.
Perhaps because there isn;t a single safe NDP seat?
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Well, this ruling is not good.

Trans Mountain pipeline ruling a disaster for NDP government
A stunned, nay, devastated Alberta government is staying silent for now, perhaps wondering how its candidates can run election campaigns from the fetal position.
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Trudeau In Alberta

Something about this catty passage from the story is very fitting...
At an event at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, a technical college, where he’d donned a lab coat and purple nitrile gloves to look at test tubes of clay...
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what a joke.
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degenerasian wrote: Thu Sep 06, 2018 10:02 am what a joke.
You know, I love Trudeau when he appears in the media outside Canada. When all that matters is that he represents Canada's better angels.

The reality though - as pointed out in Macleans recently, is that his government has accomplished nothing. For all his talk and tears and apologies to the indigineous population, the fact that they weren;t consulted properly on the pipeline project is an inexcusable bureaucratic oversight. Maybe if he spent more time at his desk instead of making cutesy photo ops, this wouldn't have happened.
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They overlooked an entire section! Tanker Traffic!
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degenerasian wrote: Thu Sep 06, 2018 5:10 pm They overlooked an entire section! Tanker Traffic!
As we say in Ontario - "Oy vey izmir!"

Let's remember to recycle some of this when the Americans are wondering how the world's favourite handsome politician lost the next federal election.
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Pruitt wrote: Thu Sep 06, 2018 7:28 pm
degenerasian wrote: Thu Sep 06, 2018 5:10 pm They overlooked an entire section! Tanker Traffic!
As we say in Ontario - "Oy vey izmir!"

Let's remember to recycle some of this when the Americans are wondering how the world's favourite handsome politician lost the next federal election.
He's not going to lose the next election because the other two leaders are "Schmucks" as you would say.

Now if Bernier can fund raise like a mad man and get a new party going with good candidates then that might get interesting. He's got over a year to do it and he recently campaigned across the country during the Conservative Leadership Race that he ended up losing on a stupid ranked ballot.
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Pruitt wrote: Thu Sep 06, 2018 7:28 pm
degenerasian wrote: Thu Sep 06, 2018 5:10 pm They overlooked an entire section! Tanker Traffic!
As we say in Ontario - "Oy vey izmir!"

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On one hand I keep hearing the Liberals are coming out with a plan to fast track the pipeline, but on the other Trudeau has a tense meeting with Notley and a long grab-ass session with Horgan in Surrey.

Why is Trudeau hugging Horgan like he's an NFL draft pick walking the stage to Goodell?
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Real or hypothetical, Alberta separation angst bound to grow
Alberta separation talk is not intended as a threat. Yet.

It's the sort of grumble which rumbles when Albertans feel they're undervalued as a mere gas tank for Canada's economic engine.

But the man who wants to be Alberta premier if the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion stays above ground told Power Play that the volume of separation talk is suddenly way up and Alberta MPs echo United Conservative leader Jason Kenney's pointed observation.
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degenerasian wrote: Fri Sep 07, 2018 12:02 pm Real or hypothetical, Alberta separation angst bound to grow
Alberta separation talk is not intended as a threat. Yet.

It's the sort of grumble which rumbles when Albertans feel they're undervalued as a mere gas tank for Canada's economic engine.

But the man who wants to be Alberta premier if the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion stays above ground told Power Play that the volume of separation talk is suddenly way up and Alberta MPs echo United Conservative leader Jason Kenney's pointed observation.
Trudeaus and the west... crazy to see history repeating itself.
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Former PM Stephen Harper's take on current events.

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From the Toronto Police twitter account...

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Tony Clement? Sexting?

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4894889
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FOH. Check back in a week.
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A_B wrote: Tue Nov 06, 2018 9:56 pm FOH. Check back in a week.
But it's a great story...

Sexting M.P. Had Just Received Higher Security Clearance
Just a day earlier it was revealed Clement was among the 10 MPs named to the new National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, which provides oversight of Canada’s national security and intelligence agencies. As one national security expert noted, Clement’s behaviour and the blackmail attempt is a devastating blow to an oversight body already facing skepticism from security agencies.
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I’ll allow it!
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A_B wrote: Thu Nov 08, 2018 7:28 amI’ll allow it!
Fun part is that he's a former cabinet minister who (for a Canadian politician) often played the morality card.

But reports now say that he wasn't targeted because of his place on the Security Committee.

From the Globe and Mail:
Two federal security sources said there are no indications at this point that Mr. Clement was preyed upon because he was a politician or for his work on the committee, which he officially left on Wednesday. Instead, Mr. Clement was likely the victim of an individual or group that baited him for financial profit, said the two sources who were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

Rachel Curran, a former senior Conservative aide in the Harper government, said Mr. Clement was known for sending “multiple unsolicited” direct messages to young women, characterizing the behaviour as “harassment.”
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"Gambling Problem?" or Money Laundering?

Liberal Member of Parliament in big trouble.
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There is so much going on with this government right now.
pipelines, GM, Canada Post, french services in ontario etc....
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Pruitt wrote: Wed Nov 28, 2018 6:51 am "Gambling Problem?" or Money Laundering?

Liberal Member of Parliament in big trouble.
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Rams Fanny wrote: Wed Nov 28, 2018 1:00 pm
Pruitt wrote: Wed Nov 28, 2018 6:51 am "Gambling Problem?" or Money Laundering?

Liberal Member of Parliament in big trouble.
Looks like someone really loved "Owning Mahoney"
Mahoney was a genius in hiding his tracks compared to this moron.

The casino he was gambling (or cleaning) all that money in is maybe 10 minutes from Parliament Hill.
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degenerasian wrote: Wed Nov 28, 2018 11:27 am There is so much going on with this government right now.
pipelines, GM, Canada Post, french services in ontario etc....
Not to defend the federal liberals, but isn't the French services uproar a provincial thing?
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Pruitt wrote: Wed Nov 28, 2018 2:25 pm
degenerasian wrote: Wed Nov 28, 2018 11:27 am There is so much going on with this government right now.
pipelines, GM, Canada Post, french services in ontario etc....
Not to defend the federal liberals, but isn't the French services uproar a provincial thing?
yeah but the federal parties are meeting over it. The Feds may try to save/fund the french university.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudea ... -1.4923288
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degenerasian wrote: Wed Nov 28, 2018 4:04 pm
Pruitt wrote: Wed Nov 28, 2018 2:25 pm
degenerasian wrote: Wed Nov 28, 2018 11:27 am There is so much going on with this government right now.
pipelines, GM, Canada Post, french services in ontario etc....
Not to defend the federal liberals, but isn't the French services uproar a provincial thing?
yeah but the federal parties are meeting over it. The Feds may try to save/fund the french university.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudea ... -1.4923288
Either way, I'll be supporting it! (Financially that is)
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China threatens Canada with "grave consequences", Canadians are like "How grave, eh? Do your worse. Perhaps all the astronaut families will repatriate and we'll have our affordable housing back?"

Australia should arrest some Chinese billionaire next.
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degenerasian wrote: Tue Dec 11, 2018 7:23 am China threatens Canada with "grave consequences", Canadians are like "How grave, eh? Do your worse. Perhaps all the astronaut families will repatriate and we'll have our affordable housing back?"

Australia should arrest some Chinese billionaire next.
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A Canadian history of by-elections

The NDP leader Jagmeet Singh still has no seat in the house. He runs in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby in a few weeks.
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degenerasian wrote: Thu Jan 03, 2019 11:30 am
The NDP leader Jagmeet Singh still has no seat in the house. He runs in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby in a few weeks.
He reminds me of an unprepared student trying to bluff his way through an assignment...

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Theatre Of The Absurd In Burnaby

The big political news north of the border is out west where a federal by-election is being held. One that is getting lot of attention because the leader of the NDP (our 3rd party) is running for the seat (even though he lives 2,500 miles away.

The Liberal Candidate is the daughter of Chinese immigrants. She caused a fuss in a message to her supporters when she pointed out that the NDP candidate is of Indian heritage.

Yes, politics up here is this small-time!
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Pruitt wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 6:55 am Theatre Of The Absurd In Burnaby

The big political news north of the border is out west where a federal by-election is being held. One that is getting lot of attention because the leader of the NDP (our 3rd party) is running for the seat (even though he lives 2,500 miles away.

The Liberal Candidate is the daughter of Chinese immigrants. She caused a fuss in a message to her supporters when she pointed out that the NDP candidate is of Indian heritage.

Yes, politics up here is this small-time!
I was about to pose the question why would any in Burnaby vote for Singh? A guy parachuted in to get a seat in the house, over the Liberal candidate Wang who has worked in the Burnaby community for years. I thought she would win for sure.

Until this happened. She's so dumb. Burnaby is 30% Chinese. She didn't have to say a thing.
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degenerasian wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 5:46 pm
Pruitt wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 6:55 am Theatre Of The Absurd In Burnaby

The big political news north of the border is out west where a federal by-election is being held. One that is getting lot of attention because the leader of the NDP (our 3rd party) is running for the seat (even though he lives 2,500 miles away.

The Liberal Candidate is the daughter of Chinese immigrants. She caused a fuss in a message to her supporters when she pointed out that the NDP candidate is of Indian heritage.

Yes, politics up here is this small-time!
I was about to pose the question why would any in Burnaby vote for Singh? A guy parachuted in to get a seat in the house, over the Liberal candidate Wang who has worked in the Burnaby community for years. I thought she would win for sure.

Until this happened. She's so dumb. Burnaby is 30% Chinese. She didn't have to say a thing.
Well, there's more than ethnicity at play, but you could be right.

Just looked it up - it's a fairly new riding that (according to Elections Canada) voted 44% NDP to 40% Conservative in 2011. 35% NDP 34% Liberal last time out (when the NDP spent way more than the other 2 parties combined to narrowly hold on to the seat...)

I guess this is as safe a seat as there is for the NDP these days.
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degenerasian wrote: Tue Nov 06, 2018 9:50 pm Tony Clement? Sexting?

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4894889
Arrests Made in Tony Clement Sexting/Extortion Attempt

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