Canadian Politics

[Tracker]

2 hours ago, blue_gold_84 said:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-throne-speech-stefanson-2022-1.6652101

Ugh.

This is a desperate gesture by a failing government and will not end well.

[WildPath]

4 hours ago, blue_gold_84 said:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-throne-speech-stefanson-2022-1.6652101

Ugh.

Where is the shocked reaction when you need it? Who could have predicted the PCs would respond to a healthcare crisis by moving towards more private hands in the healthcare system. It is almost like all the healthcare cuts were intended to produce this outcome....

Now if only we could privatize our telecom system to ensure better service for all.

[JCon]

Continue to underfund and demoralize the healthcare system, privatize as much as you can. Con mantra. 

[blue_gold_84]

https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/alberta-premier-danielle-smith-says-she-has-cherokee-roots-but-the-records-dont-back-that-up/

She is such a ******* ghoul.

[HardCoreBlue]

1 hour ago, blue_gold_84 said:

https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/alberta-premier-danielle-smith-says-she-has-cherokee-roots-but-the-records-dont-back-that-up/

She is such a ******* ghoul.

That seems to be our current environment for some, just muse and lie about something to get something they want or in this case lie to get out of something, move on to their next lie, half truth, embellishment etc and pay no consequences other than a fact check here a fact check there and/or some twitter shames by blue checkers that amount to nothing.

[Noeller]

9 minutes ago, HardCoreBlue said:

That seems to be our current environment for some, just muse and lie about something to get something they want or in this case lie to get out of something, move on to their next lie, half truth, embellishment etc and pay no consequences other than a fact check here a fact check there and/or some twitter shames by blue checkers that amount to nothing.

it's all because of Trump. When he started doing, it opened the door for all other Crazy Con's to try the same thing.......

[HardCoreBlue]

Just now, Noeller said:

it's all because of Trump. When he started doing, it opened the door for all other Crazy Con's to try the same thing.......

Trump is not the inventor of this but he sure is the high influence enabler of this.

[blue_gold_84]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbsa-blockade-threat-1.6652530

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The Canada Border Services Agency received a death threat against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and inquiries about how to import bullets during last winter's convoy protests, the Emergencies Act inquiry heard Wednesday.

CBSA said two threats from the same client were sent online through the CBSA's "contact us" form. 

One message sent to CBSA on Feb 7 reads: "We would like to come to Ottawa to support the protest and if you want a war on your people we are prepared to die to stop you. No border of yours will hold us back! Liberty or death. You Choose!"

A second email, sent to CBSA on Feb. 12., said that if the Canadian government continued on its "destructive path," the writers were prepared to come to Canada to oppose government tyranny.

"We will donate a gallows to the people of Canada to assemble for Justin's hanging," the email reads.

A lawyer for the government of Canada entered the threats — contained in a CBSA border operations centre report — into evidence Wednesday during cross-examination of former CBSA president John Ossowski.

Ossowski said the threats were a source of concern at the agency.

"People were asking for information particularly on armour-piercing Teflon-coated bullets and what it would take to import those into Canada," he said.

So many stupid idiots in this country.

[HardCoreBlue]

56 minutes ago, blue_gold_84 said:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbsa-blockade-threat-1.6652530

So many stupid idiots in this country.

Freeeedom. Muh rights don’t stop at your fears dictator. No one tells me what to jab in my body especially when it’s about control and fake news. Freedom of speech, Pro life, my right to beat arms you Communists, Socialists. You sheep.  F Trudeau. Libtards, radical lefties trying to be the thought police.  I’m a Christian.

What I miss?

[Tracker]

7 hours ago, blue_gold_84 said:

https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/alberta-premier-danielle-smith-says-she-has-cherokee-roots-but-the-records-dont-back-that-up/

She is such a ******* ghoul.

And currently competing with our premier for "most disliked/icky premier in Canada). 
 

[Mark H.]

Anyone else catching clips of the Emergency Measures inquiry?

I don't know who's coaching the 'convoy leaders', but even Pat King sounds reasonable and polished

 

 

[17to85]

12 hours ago, Tracker said:

And currently competing with our premier for "most disliked/icky premier in Canada). 
 

Ugh I'd take manitobas premier over Smith any day. Smith is acting like winning the ucp leadership with 54% of the vote and winning a hand picked riding in a by-election (by 6% less votes than the back bench candidate got in the general election) means she has a huge mandate to pursue a bunch of stupid **** no one wants. Buckle up we are about to see how much one person can **** up a province in a few months.

[HardCoreBlue]

12 hours ago, Tracker said:

And currently competing with our premier for "most disliked/icky premier in Canada). 
 

I’d also put Premier in quotes.

[blue_gold_84]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-crypto-explainer-1.6653739

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As cryptocurrency prices plunge and some of the exchanges they trade on pause withdrawals, the federal Liberal government is eager to remind voters that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre once touted the asset class as a way to "opt out" of inflation.

Cryptocurrencies surged during the pandemic as investors pumped stimulus cheques into the market. But the whole industry faces an uncertain future now that FTX, one of the largest crypto exchanges, is in bankruptcy and its disgraced founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, is facing a series of regulatory probes.

Another exchange, BlockFi, is in disarray. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is also reportedly investigating other major crypto players, Binance and Coinbase, following the FTX implosion.

The result has been massive price pressure on bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies like ethereum.

The price of bitcoin is a fraction of what it was when Poilievre announced in March his plan to make Canada the "blockchain capital of the world" — a reference to the system that records bitcoin and other cryptocurrency transactions.

Bitcoin is trading at roughly $16,500 US — nearly 75 per cent lower than its value in November 2021.

That means if you invested $10,000 in bitcoin at this time last year, you'd have just $2,500 left of that initial investment — an eye-popping loss of value for any financial product.

If Poilievre still owns a piece of the bitcoin ETF, his investment would be worth 60 per cent less than what it traded for in May, when he first disclosed the holding.

Poilievre's office did not respond to a request for comment about his current bitcoin ownership.

 

[blue_gold_84]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/convoy-protest-donations-refunds-1.6654063

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More than half of the donors to the GiveSendGo convoy protest crowdfunding campaign who have not yet received refunds are Americans, CBC News has learned.

CBC analyzed documents tabled by the commission of inquiry into the convoy protest that paralyzed downtown Ottawa for three weeks, and the donations data made public when the GiveSendGo Freedom Convoy crowdfunding website was hacked.

That analysis shows that an estimated 59 per cent of donations — accounting for 46 per cent of the GiveSendGo Freedom Convoy money that was frozen by a Canadian court order — came from donors with postal codes indicating they lived in the United States. An estimated 35 per cent of the donations and 50 per cent of the frozen funds came from donors with Canadian postal codes.

The remainder of the money from the crowdfunding campaign, now sitting in an escrow account, came from donors outside Canada or the U.S.

[WildPath]

10 hours ago, blue_gold_84 said:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-crypto-explainer-1.6653739

 

Guaranteed his followers still blindly accept him as a financial genius and this has little impact on him. The benefits of pandering to idiots with no critical thinking skills is that you don't face the consequences of a blunder that exposes your incompetence. I shudder to think if he was the leader and went all-in on crypto similar to El-Salvador. Canada could be in the worst financial situation anyone has ever seen in this country.

[HardCoreBlue]

54 minutes ago, WildPath said:

Guaranteed his followers still blindly accept him as a financial genius and this has little impact on him. The benefits of pandering to idiots with no critical thinking skills is that you don't face the consequences of a blunder that exposes your incompetence. I shudder to think if he was the leader and went all-in on crypto similar to El-Salvador. Canada could be in the worst financial situation anyone has ever seen in this country.

Blindly accepting while proudly displaying their middle finger F Trudeau sticker with their Canadian flag on a hockey stick itching for an argument with a radical libtard lefty socialist who is an idiot controlled by the establishment.

[Fatty Liver]

On 2022-11-16 at 5:37 PM, Mark H. said:

Anyone else catching clips of the Emergency Measures inquiry?

I don't know who's coaching the 'convoy leaders', but even Pat King sounds reasonable and polished

 

 

I have listened to most of it, the only organizer that seemed to have a clue what they were doing was Benjamin Dichter, the rest are simpletons that just happened to be at the right place at the right time in an event that grew well beyond their control.  

[blue_gold_84]

15 minutes ago, Fatty Liver said:

I have listened to most of it, the only organizer that seemed to have a clue what they were doing was Benjamin Dichter, the rest are simpletons that just happened to be at the right place at the right time in an event that grew well beyond their control.  

Agreed. There was nothing about **** King's "testimony" that was even remotely reasonable or polished. The guy is human garbage and he only solidified that with his comments at the inquiry.

[HardCoreBlue]

18 minutes ago, Fatty Liver said:

I have listened to most of it, the only organizer that seemed to have a clue what they were doing was Benjamin Dichter, the rest are simpletons that just happened to be at the right place at the right time in an event that grew well beyond their control.  

I would argue your above description could describe any event that is well-attended by knuckle dragging self absorbed morons.

[Fatty Liver]

Wowsers, just listen to these two talk, Peterson preens and pontificates like a prima ballerina and Smith goes on and on endlessly without a clue of the implications of her actions.  Have to hand it to her, she lays it all out there with nothing to hide, it's up to Albertans to listen and decide their future, there is no excuse not to understand her direct motives.  She once was a Fraser Institute apprentice, well what a surprise!

 

 

[Tracker]

1 minute ago, Fatty Liver said:

Wowsers, just listen to these two talk, Peterson preens and pontificates like a prima ballerina and Smith goes on and on endlessly without a clue of the implications of her actions.  Have to hand it to her, she lays it all out there with nothing to hide, it's up to Albertans to listen and decide their future, there is no excuse not to understand her direct motives.  She once was a Fraser Institute apprentice, well what a surprise!

 

 

A stunning display of stupidity and a dearth of self-awareness or awareness in general.

[Mark H.]

2 hours ago, Fatty Liver said:

I have listened to most of it, the only organizer that seemed to have a clue what they were doing was Benjamin Dichter, the rest are simpletons that just happened to be at the right place at the right time in an event that grew well beyond their control.  

Oh, I didn't think he was making any good points, just that he wasn't telling anyone off, which I was expecting. 

[HardCoreBlue]

1 hour ago, Tracker said:

A stunning display of stupidity and a dearth of self-awareness or awareness in general.

I’d also add the real danger is not only what is being said here but how it’s being said. Look at their body posture, how articulate they are with this drivel. That has and will continue to drag in the knuckle dragging self absorbed morons into their web.

[iHeart]

welp she's back on as green party leader