Wideleft

The Golden Age of burning rivers, residential schools, for-profit health care, acid rain and 70 hour work-weeks were absolutely to-die for.

Potato/po-tah-to. The thing is low tax/small government was tried in Kansas as a grand GOP experiment and it failed miserably. https://www.forbes.com/sites/beltway/2017/06/07/the-great-kansas-tax-cut-experiment-crashes-and-burns/?sh=247f60e15508

Because your position is nonsensical.

It sounds like you don't want government at all. Good luck finding a party that will dissolve themselves after winning an election. It's bad enough that the right has become anti-government, but it's even more discouraging that people would vote for those people.

Too many people think smaller government is so great because they're thinking about guys in suits b.s.'ing all day. The cuts are actually to the public service which makes government less efficient, less responsive and usually results in the public being less safe.

While enjoying all the benefits of belonging to one.

I'd argue that he was an expert in using wedge issues and omnibus bills in order to try and get the things he wanted. Fortunately, the Supreme Court shut him down over and over again. He did not work with the opposition and he wouldn't even meet with Premiers.

Yay "for limited and less intrusive government"!

I can translate: "Less rules for the wealthy in order to make it easier to exploit the poor."

I know right! Damn fresh air and a paltry 40-hour work week are making it hard for a guy to get a solid 8-hour sleep each night. I think I need more exhaustion and pollution in my "diet",

I've been following it and it doesn't make sense. The motivations stated are entirely counter-intuitive. Could be another Maher Arar journalistic disaster, but I need more information. https://thewalrus.ca/hear-no-evil-write-no-lies/

"Fortunately, the asteroid will remain about 107,500 miles (173,000 kilometers) from Earth, according to the Virtual Telescope Project. Given what is known about 2023 DZ2's orbit right now, there is a 1-in-430 chance that it will impact Earth on March 27, 2026. However, according to EarthSky, that slight chance is likely to vanish as astronomers learn more about the asteroid's trajectory. The space rock orbits the sun every 3.17 years."

Trudeau also committed to a positive campaign and stuck with it. We hadn't seen a non-negative campaign in quite a while.

Tweaking/eliminating the ratio isn't going to change the fact that the best players are in the NFL. God no.

Because the motion wasn't limited to China. PP needs Russian help.

Yup!

BuT wE cAn'T rEnAmE tHiNgS!!! BLACKSTONE, Va. — Pickett. For as long as anyone here can remember, that is how the sprawling military base neighboring this tidy little town in southern Virginia has been known. Named for Confederate General George Pickett, it was first established as Camp Pickett when the Army built it as a combat training ground soon after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Then, in 1974, the then nearly 45,000-acre facility was renamed Fort Pickett. But the Pickett era ends Friday when the name will come down as part of a sweeping congressional order to the Defense Department to remove Confederate names from its installations and assets. Pickett, which has been operated by the Virginia National Guard since 1997, will be renamed Fort Barfoot after Col. Van T. Barfoot, a World War II Medal of Honor recipient who lived in nearby Amelia. ...... Seidule, a Virginia native who served as vice chair on the federal Naming Commission tasked with identifying Confederate names in military locations and recommending new ones, said Pickett was thoroughly undeserving of the honor of having a base named for him. “Pickett was a war criminal who summarily executed 23 U.S. Army soldiers in 1864 and then skedaddled to Canada because he was fearful of being hanged,” Seidule said. ............... Barfoot was awarded the medal for his actions in May of 1944 with the 45th Infantry Division in Italy confronting German soldiers and tanks. In a single battle he neutralized two machine gun nests, captured 17 enemy soldiers, disabled a tank with a bazooka and led his fellow soldiers who were wounded to safety. He remained in the military for 34 years and served tours in Korea and Vietnam, according to a Virginia National Guard press release. Barfoot, whose grandmother was a member of the Choctaw Nation, will also have his Native American heritage honored at Friday’s renaming ceremony with members of the Choctaw Nation and Virginia-based tribes participating in ceremonial songs and dance. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/21/confederate-name-change-army-base-virginia/

The defense got 19 of the 20 jurors they wanted. https://www.hcn.org/issues/48.20/the-bundy-family-on-trial The "authorities" have been scared of actually enforcing the law against the right wing nut jobs since Ruby Ridge. The initial Bundy showdown was in many ways, even scarier. https://abcnews.go.com/US/standoff-nevada-years-ago-set-militia-movement-crash/story?id=82051940

That defense worked for the knob at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge standoff. https://katu.com/news/local/prosecutors-move-to-dismiss-case-against-pete-santilli-in-refuge-standoff

I can't say I even remember seeing those ads, but you're not alone in your thinking: "The Manitoba Nurses Union is accusing the province of laying a guilt trip on the public for backed-up Winnipeg emergency rooms when government austerity is to blame. Since last year, government ads saying close to 40 per cent of such patients could get the care they need sooner at a family doctor’s office or walk-in clinic have been running online. This week, the nurses union is pointing to Canadian Institute for Health Information data that show there were many more low-acuity patients going to the ER in 2016-17 (48 per cent), while wait times were shorter. Five years later, with fewer lower-acuity patients and a lower volume of visits, ER waits are worse — and the nurses blame Tory belt-tightening for it. “I think it has a lot to do with the austerity agenda of this government,” said MNU president Darlene Jackson. When the Progressive Conservatives took power in 2016, they embarked on a hospital consolidation plan to streamline services. The massive reform resulted in the closure of three of Winnipeg’s six emergency rooms. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, there was no fat left to trim and ERs and ICUs were overwhelmed, the MNU said. Emergency rooms remain backed up with long waits, although Shared Health released data Thursday showing a drop in ER visits and waits in the month of December. In 2016-2017, there were 329,910 Manitoba ER visits. In 2021-22, there were 273,384. In the first nine months of fiscal 2022-23, there were 193,352. In April 2016, ER wait times were five hours; in October 2022, waits were nearly eight hours. Lengths of stay are up in the ER, as well, as patients wait for a staffed medicine bed on a ward or a personal care home bed to become available. Longer ER stays contribute to illness and death, according to Manitoba’s 2017 wait time reduction task force report. In 2016-17, the average length of stay in an ER was 11.9 hours. In 2021-22, it was 20.6 hours — the longest in Canada among the eight provinces and territories that participated in a CIHI study. The average was 12.4 hours. Such data show the root of the ER problem began before the pandemic, MNU said, and it wants the PC government to acknowledge that and the fact patients seeking non-urgent care are not the root cause. “What I’m taking exception to is patient-blaming,” Jackson said of the push for Winnipeggers to go to a walk-in clinic or a family doctor for non-urgent issues rather than a hospital ER. Jackson said she is especially concerned about inner-city residents, for whom the Health Sciences Centre emergency room may be their only or best primary care option. “A lot of these patients don’t have a family doctor… and the ability to get to a different facility doesn’t happen,” Jackson said. “You can’t close the door on options for these individuals and not provide a different, reasonable option, in a place they can access it, and then turn around and blame the patients.” Health Minister Audrey Gordon did not respond to a request for comment. The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority defended the ads launched in October. “It’s important to note this campaign was never intended to be a cure-all for emergency and urgent care wait times,” a WRHA spokesperson said in an email. The WRHA hasn’t tracked how many patients have heeded the message. However, the Walk-In Connected Care and Walk-In Clinic websites have received more than 320,000 page views combined, and the MyRightCare.ca site had 1.3 million views since it launched in October. The government campaign nudging patients to seek non-urgent care at a clinic or doctor’s office is a “disingenuous” tactic that’s been used before by provinces to divert attention from deeper, more complex problems that need to be addressed, a MNU statement said. A position paper by the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (cited in the 2017 wait time reduction task force report) acknowledged “inappropriate use of the (emergency department) across Canada” was getting a lot of media attention. However, “the primary cause” was hospital crowding — or “access block” — the inability of patients in the ER to access inpatient beds when they need to be admitted to hospital." https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2023/01/27/nurses-take-issue-with-tories-patient-blaming

Not just twitter, if you know what I'm getting at.

All in the name of "freedom".

No surprise that he is MAGA.