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True enough, but Pallister ran on reducing the retail sales tax by 1% and scrapping bipole III. Ford ran on $1 beer. Kenny ran on making oil great again. How'd that work out for everyone again?

Did they really, though?

Glad you got your second dose of AZ. I'm still 8 weeks away. I've always been naively optimistic about the human race, but the pandemic has been so revelatory that anyone with a single functioning brain cell in their head can see the truths that have always been plain to see - business will always be willing to sacrifice lives and livlihoods for the almighty dollar. The political parties that do their bidding will never do the right thing as far as protecting life and health. Workers are replaceable and disposable on that side of the spectrum. It will take years for all the truths to surface, but it will not reflect well on those that govern from the right and those voters who fear a 1% increase in a retail sales tax more than they value the functionaility of their health care system.

Yes, some people are stupid, but a lot more have to work low-paying jobs with little job security and no paid sick leave. We also don't have transparent data to tell us whether or not it's because people are stupid or Manitoba's COVID response was in fact wrong-headed. We might have had some interesting comparisons regarding COVID response to make if most of the country didn't vote in Conservative governments before this pandemic started.

No way to know how legit this poster is, but a lot of things lined up in their favour yesterday. https://www.reddit.com/r/Winnipeg/comments/nlhhdk/chaos_inside_the_pcs/

You know Trump really favours it if they actually get paid.

They count as a tax-free organization. Nothing more, nothing less.

To be fair, Morden's supersite was opened March 22 and Steinbach's only 2 days ago. Southern Health was the last region to get a vaccine supersite.

Perfect is the enemy of good, but Manitoba has not nearly been good. New Zealand was better than good, because they actually listened to their scientists even though they didn't like what the scientists were saying.

Having taken PHIA training, I would suggest that it does not.

They can't win. If a government wants to act pro-actively (ie climate change, foreign aid etc.) they are told there are more immediate priorities to address. If they try to stick with long range plans, they're booted out for their hairy fairy ideas.

Reps from orgs like the Lincoln Project are getting PAC money donations and taking their cut in admin fees. There are a lot of ways to monetize twitter.

I have a lot of respect for her and her writing. That tweet hit me like a ton of bricks.

I hope she's wrong, but she's probably right.

I'm beginning to understand why the anti-maskers and COVID deniers appear to be so angry and frustrated. Researchers report COVID-19 found in penile tissue could contribute to ED by University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine MAY 11, 2021 University of Miami Miller School of Medicine researchers are the first to demonstrate that COVID-19 can be present in the penis tissue long after men recover from the virus. The widespread blood vessel dysfunction, or endothelial dysfunction, that results from the COVID-19 infection could then contribute to erectile dysfunction, or ED, according to the study recently published in the World Journal of Men's Health. Endothelial dysfunction is a condition in which the lining of the small blood vessels fails to perform all of its functions normally. As a result, the tissues supplied by those vessels could undergo damage. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-05-covid-penile-tissue-contribute-ed.html

Going to make this really simple for you - only have to read the headline: Republican senators find no evidence of wrongdoing regarding Biden and Ukraine policy September 23, 2020 https://theweek.com/speedreads/939236/republican-senators-find-no-evidence-wrongdoing-regarding-biden-ukraine-policy https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/us/politics/biden-inquiry-republicans-johnson.html

If you can pay to jump the queue while others can't afford to, that is two-tier. You forgot to mention Benghazi, baby-eating and witchcraft.

Definitely open to interpretation.

This is what I was referring to" "However, in 2006, the Conservatives were elected federally on a platform that pushed for a mix of public and private health care, provided that health care stays publicly funded and universally accessible." https://www.cbc.ca/news2/background/healthcare/public_vs_private.html Harper was always a fan of privatization:

I'm not convinced a lot of their followers are against that idea. Far right parallels are everywhere.

I agree with a lot of what you're saying, but as far as your last point, I have one word - "Wexit".

The problem is that historically, this really isn't true either as far as implementing real change and progress goes. Republicans would not have implemented the Civil Rights Act. Canadian Conservatives would not have implemented Canadian Medicare (Harper campaigned on implementing 2-tier health care). "By 1964 the pro-Medicare forces in the country were riding the crest of public opinion during a period when the political culture was moving to the left. The political alignment of national parties saw six years of minority governments over three elections between 1962 and 1968, and this favoured those political forces attempting to move the country in a more progressive direction. The NDP was growing and this strengthened left Liberals who argued that their party must protect their left flank. This in turn encouraged the red Tories within the Progressive Conservatives, who argued that the party must move left to remain electorally competitive. All of this was occurring during a minority situation when an election might occur at any time and no party wanted to be caught on the wrong side of a popular issue like public Medicare. It took fierce struggles within both the Liberal and Progressive Conservative parliamentary parties, but in the end the party whips forced the right wing into submission. The National Medical Care Insurance Act was passed in the House of Commons on December 8, 1966, by an overwhelming vote of 177 to 2." https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/the-birth-of-medicare The nature of politics is to target minor malfeasances and the media is partially to blame for playing along and energizing small stories when good policy needs more attention. There are some politicians in all parties that push boundaries and break laws, but there is no question that the big picture proves which ideologies lead to which policies.

As far as promoting, protecting and preserving democracy goes, this is just about the most dangerous rhetoric someone can spew. "They" are not all the same and government isn't necessarily evil. It is also patently false. Not a noob - old enough to remember when Reagan started the slide by telling Americans that government can't help them.