[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 35 points 4 months ago

This time will be different, honest. This time when we give billions of dollars of tax cuts to our rich donors and a hundred bucks to each of you our rich donors will turn those billions into better, higher paying jobs for everyone! We know that that has never happened ever anywhere in human history but this will be the first time. Vote for me, I'm not Justin Trudeau!

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 35 points 10 months ago

This isn't bait, this is accurate reporting of a decision by a Canadian court. Reality can be scary when you step out of the echo bunker.

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 36 points 11 months ago

"I'm curious as to how the CBC can then claim to be independent if they can't survive without government dollars," Thomas said.

Conservative MP can't understand that some people can't be bought.

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But your honour, it's devastating to our defense!

  • Occupiers lawyer.
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But your honour, it's devastating to our defense!

  • Occupiers lawyer.
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None of the local witnesses the court heard from this week had any contact with Lich or Barber, who are both accused of mischief and counselling others to commit mischief, among other charges.

If you organize a murder and encourage the person who commits the murder but don't have any contact with the murder victim are you free and clear?

Barber and Lich are garbage humans who organized and encouraged the violation of the people of Ottawa.

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Remember how canceling the gas plant was such a big deal? I bet the apologists will be out in force explaining how the fact that we are on the hook for this abjectly corrupt effort to transfer billions of dollars of unearned benefit to Ford's wealthy developer friends/donors is, "ToTaLlY dIfFeReNt."

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A cautionary tale for Canada (www.theguardian.com)
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An interesting article about the extreme right in the US and how they are not interested in governing or working for the people but are focused instead on tearing apart the US government, taking away rights and freedoms, and turning the country into a christofascist dictatorship with oligarchs in charge.

When we look at the now extreme Canadian right, with soaring food prices and housing prices and a failing healthcare system and faltering public education that is now focused on pronouns and hurting the most vulnerable Canadian children we cannot help but draw parallels. They don't have a platform other than TrUdEaU bAd, pronouns, drag queens, and we're going to fix everything, no we don't have a plan, no we can't tell you how, just trust us.

These people are focused on tearing apart the polices and services that make Canada among the best countries in the world to live in. Their base seethes with resentment about being made to feel ignorant, racist, and intolerance and that seething resentment is manipulated into fear, anger, and hatred toward those who make them feel bad about themselves.

We need to wake up and vote down this nonsense.

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French fries and homemade roasted turkey gravy topped with our own roasted Bronze Orlopp turkey, homemade bread dressing, and fried eggs from our backyard chickens.

Thanksgiving poutine!

Yum!

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McLaughlin compared the landfill ads to a plan by former federal Conservative leader Stephen Harper in 2015 to set up a telephone hotline for people to report "barbaric cultural practices." The idea met with widespread public backlash.

Swinging hard right will not win elections in Canada. You might gain a few extremist votes but polls always show that Canadians favour progressive social policy, not christofascists virtue signaling.

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My virtue signaling christofascist dictatorship cannot function without the blind obedience to the group thought by every member of this caucus.

  • Blaine Higgs

FTFY

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Woo!

Now to get rid of the christofascists in Saskatchewan and Alberta. Then Doug fucking Ford in Ontario.

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It's "basically saying to people, 'Look, you can do things that other people would say are immoral or unethical in terms of your voting decisions, and you can get away with it because the voting booth is private,'" Saunders said.

They said the quiet part out loud.

I've been dating this for a while. If you look at the things that the christofascists call people who disagree with them they tell the whole story.

Progressive - they're bad for looking forward and for making you feel bad for looking backwards.

Woke - they're bad for being aware of social issues and making your feel bad for being ignorant about them.

Intellectual elitists - they're bad for being smart and making you feel dumb.

Tolerant - they're bad for accepting that people who make you feel icky exist and making you feel bad for hating and fearing them.

It's all about how they feel about themselves and that they feel that they are constantly being avoided for being ignorant, intolerant, regressive hicks. It's about their seething resentment and manipulating it to convince them to vote against their own self-interest instead of helping them to be better.

So, vote your fear, anger, hatred, and intolerance like no one is watching.

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"We want our pilots to be entirely free from any financial consideration when they take a safety-related decision," WestJet CEO Alexis von Hoensbroech said

Safety related delays and cancelations are not the problem. The airlines not having enough staff to fly the planes is the problem. Poor planning by the airlines is the problem. Lying and calling those YOU problems safety problems IS the ptoblem.

The loophole is allowing airlines to call any delay or cancellation a "safety issue" to deny passengerd compensation.

We pay for a an agreed service at an agreed time. If the airlines don't provide the service as and when described we should be compensated. The government is just closing a loophole that allows the airlines to decide how, when, and even if they are going to provide the service we paid for. 

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Good.

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 year ago

He did the right thing, unlike that time that Pierre Polievre shook hands and took selfies with the well known white supremacist who later threatened to rape his wife.

Conservatives lie and cheat then change the rules to remove barriers to cheating. They have no shame.

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 year ago

You don't tell your MPs not to say things that most Canadian like and that will help you in the polls.

This is an admission that Candians don't support their neo-fascist policies and they they are trying to hide their true colours until they come to power.

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As Canadian citizens they have a Section 6 right to return to Canada. You know, the same Section 6 right that the fucking tantrumists thought was being taken away because no country would take them during the pandemic because they weren't vaccinated

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 year ago

The funny thing is that this wouldn't be a free speech issue in the US either. The WestJet union isn't the government.

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 year ago

I mean...Conservatives are upset about who people that they don't even know are having sex with, what women they don't even know are doing with their bodies, who is reading stories in libraries to children they don't even know, etc so there is that.

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not "peaceful".

There was nothing "peaceful" about the constant honking, the threats and intimidation, the insults and slurs. There was nothing peaceful about the harassment of small business that resulted in hundreds shutting down for three weeks putting thousands of hourly workers, many working paycheque to paycheque, with families to support out of work.

Everyone knows that when a child screams at the top of its lungs and refuses to move until it gets its way that it's throwing a temper tantrum. That's what the "protest" in Ottawa was. A bunch of full grown children throwing down, honking their horns and refusing to move until they got their way. They were tantrumists and they got spanked. Tammy Lich is going to get spanked harder than most.

I think that if you step out of your echo bunker and look around that the "many Canadians" you believe support her are actually a small, delusional minority. The rest of us are done with this fucking tantrumist false patriot bullshit.

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 year ago

Not a "hero". Not about "Freedom". Not a "patriot". An unintelligent delusional criminal.

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is classic right wing "humor". They get butt hurt because we make fun of them so they think that humor just means hurting the other guys. They try, and fail, and we laugh at them which makes them even more butt hurt.

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 year ago

It became a matter of political identity. Rejecting Covid, the science, the vaccine, and the reasonable public health measures became more important to them that life itself.

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