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#Wexit Founders Are Far-Right Conspiracy Theorists VoteWexit.com creator Peter Downing is an ex-cop who thinks PM Justin Trudeau is “normalizing pedophelia.” By Steven Zhou Oct 30 2019, 6:54am "Two main organizers behind #Wexit, the campaign calling for Canada’s prairie provinces to secede, have a prolific history of pushing far-right and anti-Muslim conspiracy theories. Over the past year, Peter Downing, an ex-RCMP officer and Patrick King, a self-styled journalist, have accused Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government of “normalizing pedophilia,” tolerating ISIS terrorists penetrating the country apparently disguised as refugees, and pursuing an immigration policy aimed to “depopulate the white, Anglo-Saxon race.”" https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/59na9q/wexit-founders-are-far-right-conspiracy-theorists

Biggest Private Coal Miner Goes Bust as Trump Rescue Fails By Steven Church,Will Wade, and Jeremy Hill October 29, 2019, 5:26 AM CDT Updated on October 29, 2019, 7:13 AM CDT Robert E. Murray, the U.S. coal baron who pressed the Trump administration to help save America’s struggling miners, placed his company into bankruptcy as demand for the fossil fuel continues to weaken. Murray Energy Holdings Co. filed for Chapter 11 protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Columbus, Ohio, to restructure more than $2.7 billion of debt. The miner -- the largest privately owned U.S. coal company -- reached a restructuring support agreement with a group of lenders that provides a new $350 million loan to keep operations going during the reorganization, according to the court filing. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-29/biggest-private-coal-miner-goes-bust-after-trump-rescue-fails

Agreed, but Kyrie Wilson has been a more than adequate replacement.

It's getting harder and harder to convince myself that Fajardo actually sucks.

Listen to yourself. Rather than offering any kind of ideas promoting unity, you instead provide excuses to justify your bitching. Talk to Kenney about equalization. He and Harper wrote that agreement. And you wonder why Alberta can't get any respect.

It's a figure of speech, but you hear what you want to hear. I don't hate Alberta, but I will call out the faux victimhood expressed by so many on the right. You on the right just elected a premier who gave a 4.5 billion dollar tax cut to the rich just so Shell could lay off a bunch of people. He then cut services and tax-paying civil servant positions to pay for it because taxes are so freaking evil in Wild Rose country. Trickle down economics never works. If you're so concerned about fellow struggling Albertans, why do you support a party that preys on them? Why did you and Sask vote out your federal reps and then complain you have no voice at the table? It's almost like you don't care about consequences. Which brings us to climate change. What kind of message are you sending to kids? Not even from a climate point of view, but from a long-term economic point of view. The right is selling false hope that there's a long term future for oil and gas and kids will pay in more ways than one for that. Even farmers who are so inextricably tied to their land and lifestyle are more honest with their kids about the future. If you want respect from the rest of Canada, start acting like Canadians first and Albertans second instead of the other way around.

I'm on record as wearing that badge with pride. Also :

Trump Education Official to Resign and Call for Mass Student-Loan Forgiveness A. Wayne Johnson, appointed by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, calls the student-loan system ‘fundamentally broken’ By Josh Mitchell Oct. 24, 2019 5:30 am ET WASHINGTON—A senior student-loan official in the Trump administration said he would resign Thursday and endorse canceling most of the nation’s outstanding student debt, calling the student-loan system “fundamentally broken.” https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-education-official-to-resign-and-call-for-mass-student-loan-forgiveness-11571909400 Also yesterday, Education Secretary Betsy Devos was found in contempt of court and the Department was ordered to pay a $100,000 fine.

Alberta has lost more jobs to global oil prices, automation, Wall Street/shareholders and a refusal to plan or diversify than they have or will ever lose because of Trudeau. They need to tune out the Rebel, The Sun, The Fraser Institute, The Manning Institute and whatever Canada Proud is posting on Facebook and see the situation for what it is. Even Jim Prentice told them they needed to look in the mirror, but they didn't seem to like the sound of that either. Edit: Sorry I missed your joke on the first go-round.

That's exactly the rationale that Trudeau has given for buying TMX, but Conservatives somehow think that means he's going to institute Sharia Law,

You are not helping your cause with questions like that. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/04/4-charts-that-show-the-rise-of-renewables/

Another example of hearing what you want to hear. Here is the actual quote from your link: "We can't shut down the oil sands tomorrow. We need to phase them out," he said. "We need to manage the transition off our dependence on fossil fuels." Apparently, Brian Jean has the same comprehension challenges: "If Mr Trudeau wants to shut down Alberta's oil sands, and my hometown, let him be warned: He'll have to go through me and four million Albertans first," said Brian Jean" Surely you don't think that the transition isn't going to happen (given that it's already under way). This is one example where Trudeau should have been praised for his honesty.

Rios has been victimized a few too many times, but I think he's got a lot of upside if he keeps learning.

Strategy: create straw man Alberta leaving Canada, get people really worked up and saying they want to leave, and then argue you will not let Trudeau, who never said anything about AB being pushed out, have it with both barrels. This man is a menace https://t.co/DX2Vc4HYAi — Allan W. Gregory (@awg_allan) October 24, 2019

I'm for proportional representation, but given the amount of strategic voting that occurred in the election, I'm not sure how accurately these results reflect actual voter preferences. The ABC vote was especially effective on Monday and people will still be smart enough to game the vote once they figure out what the rules are. It would not upset me to see more Greens and NDP in HOC, but the trade-off is the loons from the PPC getting a voice (albeit small) on the floor. That's democracy, I guess.

Holding grudges doesn't make for good diplomacy. The anger comment is interesting because I don't recall any of the leaders bashing or mocking Alberta, nor can I find any evidence of it. I even did an advance search of Gerald Butts' twitter account and couldn't find one negative thing. On the other hand, did you know that the Liberals made it easier to ship Alberta beef to Mexico? Meanwhile, Albertans voted for a premier who is going to cut services to the bone today and will still somehow direct their anger somewhere between the clouds and the east.

Is taxing wealth and the super-wealthy really such a bad idea?

This notion that Canada voted against Alberta is ludicrous. I voted against a party that rejects science, wanted to cut services, mused at defunding the CBC, consorted with racists and campaigned on anger and with no real platform. Apparently, 2/3's of Canada did the same. It had nothing to do with sticking it to Alberta.

Not crapping on Milt at all - just pointing out that Grey Cups and playoff wins isn't the only measure that counts for a player.

Without looking it up, how many playoff wins did Milt Stegall have?

Actually, I don't think most Albertans do feel that way, but the loudmouths are tarnishing the province's reputation. The one's that do feel the way they do seem to think they're entitled to a $100,000 truck and a $700,000 house at the age of 25. Alberta STILL has the highest average household income in the country and the lowest taxation to allow the employed to hoard that wealth. Maybe just maybe, Albertans could look at helping each other before they demand Canada save their asses. I feel bad for you if you are personally struggling, but there's a lot of misplaced and unwarranted victimhood coming out of that province.

But not all life and not even all human life. Extinction of species is already accelerating. Without unprecedented spending in mitigation (sea walls, raised roads, reintroduction of wetlands, replanting of forests and grasslands) things will get worse. There will be massive migrations of people which almost always leads to some kind of war or genocide. And I do think Greta Thunberg is a reliable source when she says "listen to scientists". Anyways, Speedflex doesn't seem to understand why 2030 is important (unfortunately he will assume that means January 1, 2030 because that's easier to argue against). “Global emissions could peak within the next five years ― and it is extremely important that, indeed, they peak earlier than that,” he told HuffPost. This is important not just for investment decisions but for bending the curve of humanity’s emissions downward. Climate scientists say that we can only emit another 800 gigatonnes of carbon ― or 20 years of business-as-usual pollution ― if we are to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius. Anything more could trigger domino effects set off by rising temperatures that reinforce further warming as escalating feedback loops push the Earth into a “hothouse” state, according to a terrifying report by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) published last month. This could involve melting Arctic sea ice creating areas of dark water that absorb more heat, or thawing permafrost releasing methane hydrates that in turn speed up the global warming process. https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/runaway-climate-change-2030-report_n_5b8ecba3e4b0162f4727a09f?ri18n=true

I've blocked Pig, but sometimes I just have to see what lies are being peddled. Kind of like looking at the sun when I was a kid even though I knew it wasn't good for my eyes.