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Definitely not a fan of the guy, but there's something incredibly sad about seeing that.

Mostly have lurked around here for years, but I appreciate your posts. Glad you didn't become one of those statistics.

And it enforces that people that oppose the PCs are always the ones doing the vandalism. Dumb move.

Agreed. I shook my head and was disappointed with this announcement. I guess it is better than trying to shift the blame to the feds and their evil carbon tax, but not much. Fiscally irresponsible attempt to buy votes.

No, no no. You have it all wrong. A Bomber fan forum clearly has an incredible liberal selection bias from the rest of the population 🙄

Sask also charges an EV tax to electric vehicle drivers. They need to stay as far away from progress as possible.

I've taught in many different schools across Manitoba and developed curricula for the province. My take on their promises: The PCs list four new rights they would like to add, following consultations with parents and teachers: The right to be informed about curriculum - This is already available to everyone - Curriculum | Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning (gov.mb.ca). It even has sections devoted to parents. The right to be involved in addressing bullying and other behavioural changes. - Every school I've been in already does this. The vague nature pledge indicates one of two things: it is so vague that it is useless or it is a dog whistle for parents to read their own message into it. What are "other" behavioural changes? The right to advance notice about any presentations by people outside the school system. - Definitely a response to parents not wanting talk of gender diversity in schools. This is the only one of the four that isn't necessarily done by default in schools. The right to consent before any image of a child is made, shared or stored. This has already been happening for years. Parents need to sign to give the right to have pictures taken and used. Teachers/admin take this seriously. The "new" rights show either a complete ignorance of what is going on in schools or an attempt to fool uninformed voters into these things actually being new. I've had more dealings with this government than the average teacher and they really don't care about education outside of meddling in it for political power. The current education minister has frequently chosen to not be informed about educational issues. Pallister/Stefanson have really tried to stick their fingers in our educational system, including post-secondary education in ways that will not help student achievement in the least. Education in Manitoba has deteriorated quite a lot since they came to power.

Just wait... A good source has said there is about to be a huge bombshell dropped about Wab before the election. It will be devastating! 😄 Absolutely. PCs are using it as a racist dog whistle that he is indigenous and dangerous.

I used to spend a lot of time in Pinawa every summer. It was a great place. Seems a lot different now. A lot more people seem to have discovered the gem that it was. Huge lineups for a float down the channel when I used to rip my kayak up and down the channel and barely see anyone.

When my wife worked at Subway, I percentage of the tips went to the restaurant owner. Seemed pretty shady to me and I'm pretty sure the customers did not realize that was the practice when they were giving the tip.

PP in a nutshell. Disagree. I am continually amazed to see the support PP gets despite how poorly acted and thinly veiled his contempt for "common people" is.

My wife is from South America. Canada has a reputation there for mining and it is not good. Very complicit in destruction of the Amazon.

List of countries by oil production - Wikipedia

I listened to this episode of Front Burner today and found it interesting - What's driving polarization in Canadian politics? | CBC Radio I never really saw how the importance of getting a viral clip to engage donors is a driving force of polarization, but it made sense to me. Unfortunately this is leading to a lot of enraging supporters to share clips and solicit donations rather than working together. I haven't yet read the report this was based on, but linked for those who are interested (it seems intriguing) - TheRiseOfPolarizationInCanada-PPF-AUG2023-EN-1.pdf (ppforum.ca) @Mark F tagging because of polarization mentioned in US thread.

I hope you are right and I was surprised at the Inflation Reduction Act. I intentionally don't follow what is going on in the US too closely as I see so much disappointment and despair and it leaves me frustrated. To see that a guy like Trump has a chance to lead, again, even with just what has been confirmed publicly, is horrible. Very low regard for democracy. The parties are definitely polarized, but it seems like people rigidly hold to whatever beliefs the party tells them are important. It is cult-like how people choose to get their values from whatever political party they are part of rather than developing values outside of the political party and voting for a party that fits. I see this happening more in Canada too.

Ezra Klein wrote a book Why We're Polarized that discusses how the political parties in the US are more polarized than ever before. The differences between Republican and Democrat were not always as stark and obvious as they are right now. The stuff that I'm seeing coming out of the US is scary to me and I'm not sure it will just be a bump in the road. They've even had their credit rating downgraded yesterday in large part to political instability and polarization.

I did look and all I can find are stories that shine a negative light on cultural appropriation and faking indigenous heritage (as an example - Outrage brewing after U of S and CIHR support professor who falsely claimed to be Indigenous | CBC News) Do you not think it is the job of news organizations to check the claims made by politicians? They clearly caught someone faking something that has been falsely used to gain support for the individual and the party. I think that is news doing what news should be doing. I don't see how it is slanting anything. I also can't seem to find a CBC story on the shop teacher wearing a bodysuit. I find stories from National Post obviously and I know the incident you're talking about, but I can't find any CBC article on it, so I can't see where you get your evidence that they are endorsing that. I'm guessing you are just assigning CBC what you think is the "liberal perspective", but I remain open to you finding an article to prove me wrong. It seems more that you have an issue with people who don't feel they fit into their birth sex or gender. I'm not sure how you see that as such a big slight to be on the same level as cultural appropriation and falsely claiming an identity to win political support. The issue isn't that Klein "believes he is something else", it is that he and the party are falsely using the identity to gain power.

Really? Have they done that before with someone else? Do you have an example I could see?

What do you mean about "those kinds of things" Are they known to promote cultural appropriation?

By the Powell decision, do you actually mean the Powley Test? "Diversity" for them is just that, a prop to win votes and to be able to defend themselves as not being racist by holding up "diverse" people. Pallister did it before by saying his white, mostly male cabinet was diverse because they came from different parts of Europe. That is why Obby was such a big win by them, because they actually had someone that was not white. Was that a big reason why his company received a large share of Covid funding for businesses from the PCs? I'm assuming that is why Audrey Gordon has such a large role despite being completely incompetent as well. They hold up Alan Lagimodiere for his Metis status, but he is an outright racist against indigenous people. He even defended residential schools his first day on the job. The PC party doesn't care about diverse perspectives, they care about the optics and putting that little sticker of "diverse" on their chart.

They did also check with his brother who said it is a sham and Klein does have a history of being a slimeball. The only reason he won his seat was because the NDP and Libs split votes in the riding.

I am assuming that a connection exists between the two as well. Hoping that it won't lead to more corner cutting and bypassing environmental concerns that we have already seen with the Sio Silica project.

It is hard not to lose all optimism regarding our future climate. To get into a mental space of despair is easy with all the news and projections. I've shared it before, but one book that helped me have some optimism is The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. It is science-based fiction, but it is well researched and shows a fictional account of how climate disasters, some of which we are seeing already, can cause huge changes in behaviour (which we are not seeing). Unfortunately we are experiencing the hottest temperatures recorded and we are actually seeing some regression from climate pledges. P&G have recently cut their forestry pledge (Focus: P&G drops forest pledge, drawing ire of green groups, investors | Reuters) and other organizations are going back on carbon neutral pledges. I am hugely skeptical of any corporate announcements of carbon neutral by 2050 pledges. Both because it is too little too late, but also because it is easy to take the advantages of those announcements and then walk them back as it becomes obvious that it is too financially lucrative to abandon them.

Ottawa announces plan to phase out 'inefficient' fossil fuel subsidies | CBC News Doesn't go far enough, as expected, but at least it is something?

I like this even though I'm not into pro sports as much as I once was: Original: Tie Domi. Shawn Cronin going back to my earliest memories of hockey. Current: O'Shea? The guy was such a saviour from years of ridiculousness. He wins and does it the right way. No others that I can think of, but I do like the nod to Terry Fox, so I'll go with that too. I get emotional talking about him with students every year. Hero who let me down: Hmmm, Charles Roberts? Maybe just because I didn't realize at the time anything about how his off-field behaviour hurt his performance and the team. Though I still love to watch old clips and tell others about how exciting he was. Original villain: Pavel Bure / Mike Pringle. I also have faint memories of really disliking O'Shea because he seemed to always do well against the Bombers. Current villain: Max Verstappen (if racing counts), maybe Bo Levi/Dave Dickenson (I love to see them struggle after being so dominant) I'll probably update this after I put more thought into it. There's some dusty cobwebs in my head that might unearth more memories.