SpaceChampion Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 ugh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 7 hours ago, SpaceChampion said: ugh The Globe and Mail recently apologized to him for printing a false story that upended his leadership previously. I guess that was a green light. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 Disagreements and short tempers: The inside story of Justin Trudeau’s diplomatic scramble on Ukraine and Russia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord of Oop North Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 Yeah, not sure I understand the 'ugh'. His previous downfall was clearly a hit job by Ford's allies to get Brown ousted. (No way he wins anyway, IMO) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 13 hours ago, Lord of Oop North said: Yeah, not sure I understand the 'ugh'. His previous downfall was clearly a hit job by Ford's allies to get Brown ousted. (No way he wins anyway, IMO) He parachuted into Brampton after dropping out of the Ontario PC leadership race and was here only a few months before running for mayor. He doesn't know the city and now he doesn't want the job either. He just appointed a 2nd deputy mayor to actually do the job while he's running for CPC leader and drawing a salary from Brampton. He's been spending Brampton's money in ways that suggest corruption: work on the failed university bid began long before telling the council about it or approving the spending, and he hired consultants for it who have suspiciously close ties, paying them twice the amount that was actually eventually approved. Money seems to have disappeared into a black hole. https://globalnews.ca/news/8663741/failed-brampton-university-scheme/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord of Oop North Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 3 hours ago, SpaceChampion said: He parachuted into Brampton after dropping out of the Ontario PC leadership race and was here only a few months before running for mayor. He doesn't know the city and now he doesn't want the job either. He just appointed a 2nd deputy mayor to actually do the job while he's running for CPC leader and drawing a salary from Brampton. He's been spending Brampton's money in ways that suggest corruption: work on the failed university bid began long before telling the council about it or approving the spending, and he hired consultants for it who have suspiciously close ties, paying them twice the amount that was actually eventually approved. Money seems to have disappeared into a black hole. https://globalnews.ca/news/8663741/failed-brampton-university-scheme/ Thanks. That kind of stuff I did not know. Brampton politics is just a quagmire of bullshit, incompetence and corruption it seems. Fennell seems like she was wrapped in all that too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGP Posted March 22, 2022 Share Posted March 22, 2022 [low whistle] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maarsen Posted March 22, 2022 Share Posted March 22, 2022 Cue the Conservative party to lose their minds over this. Whoever wins the Conservative leadership race will now have plenty of time to fail before the next election. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord of Oop North Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 20 hours ago, maarsen said: Cue the Conservative party to lose their minds over this. Whoever wins the Conservative leadership race will now have plenty of time to fail before the next election. Bergen already started. Apparently this is a "callous attempt by Trudeau to hold power", "backdoor socialism", "government by blackmail", "secret deal making over parliamentary debate" What a wanker. This is clearly parliament working exactly as intended. The default shouldn't be that we keep having failing minority governments until we finally get a majority government. Coalitions are good. If the CPC were interested in working together, perhaps they too could have made a coalition with the LPC. The way I see it, this coalition represents at least 48.6% of the population. Hard to see what is not democratic about it. And let's not forget the Bloc, 7.64% of the vote in the last election, will support most of these same initiatives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maarsen Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 Don't forget the +2% who voted Green. Or would have if a candidate had run in their riding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord of Oop North Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 1 hour ago, maarsen said: Don't forget the +2% who voted Green. Or would have if a candidate had run in their riding. Yeah, them too. Greens likely support most of these same initiatives as well. So yeah, in actual fact: Liberal (32.62%), NDP (17.82%), Bloc (7.64%), Green (2.33%) = 60.51% of the population. But tyranny or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 Not only that, but Harper cut a deal with the NDP when he had minority governments, didn’t he? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 40 minutes ago, Fragile Bird said: Harper cut a deal with the NDP when he had minority governments So glad to 'see' you again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 'I regret going': Protester says he spent life savings to support Freedom Convoy Quote A protester who joined the so-called Freedom Convoy, which occupied downtown Ottawa for much of February, says he regrets taking part after he lost $13,000 and his home protesting something he never really "had a stance on." "I regret going,'' said Martin Joseph Anglehart, who spoke to CBC via Zoom from Hope, B.C. Anglehart said he has "nothing left" after spending his life savings on gas and food for the occupiers, who disrupted Ottawa's downtown core for more than three weeks. "I started delivering fuel and picking up laundry. Everything for the truckers." ] Quote While feelings of regret take over, there are also feelings of contrition. "I would like to apologize to [the] people in Ottawa," said Anglehart. "I'm sorry … All I wanted was to help people." Quote When hearing Anglehart's story, University of Ottawa law professor Joao Velloso said he was not surprised. Velloso conducted his research on the ground in Ottawa during the entirety of the occupation. He was examining the anthropological and sociological aspect of the protest. "You may have people that [were] seeking a sense of community," said Velloso. " Everybody was tired of the pandemic … And you see people for the first time in two years … I can totally understand that." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 Kind, very kind. Which They aren't and won't be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord of Oop North Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 I saw that story earlier. Definitely a dumb life decision on his part. But I feel bad for the guy. He is now homeless, and his bank account is frozen. That is a really shitty situation to be in, and potentially life altering. Not only is it bad for him, but it is bad for society to when people are put into those situations. Ultimately we all pay for that. I got roasted for saying this elsewhere, but no matter how much I might disagree with him, I don't think he deserves to be living on the streets in poverty. That's wrong, and not the kind of country I want Canada to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGP Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 That's something, I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGP Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 Some Indigenous activists going after the Pope, telling him to rescind the Doctrine of Discovery. Shit is wild, I love it lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGP Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 lol wrong thread, sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 This guy lies pretty much constantly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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