Lord of Oop North Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 1 hour ago, maarsen said: Another slap down for Doug Ford. This time by the courts finding that Bill 124 is unconstitutional in limiting pay increases in the public service to 1%. I hope Ford beats Harper's record in getting bills and laws ruled unconstitutional. I read just now they plan to appeal. I think this one will go to the SCC, and Ontario Government will get a smackdown. JGP 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord of Oop North Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-premier-danielle-smith-sovereignty-act-1.6668175 Quote Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's signature legislation would grant her cabinet new powers to bypass the legislative assembly and unilaterally amend provincial laws. The measure is described in Bill 1, the Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act, introduced Tuesday in the provincial legislature. The bill describes how the Alberta government plans to not enforce federal legislation, policies or programs it decides are "harmful" to Alberta's interests or infringe on the division of powers in the Constitution. .... Under existing rules, cabinet has the power to make and change regulations through orders in council. Giving the power to unilaterally change legislation is normally allowed during emergency situations. .... Any measures made by cabinet must be in line with the Constitution, nor can they undermine Indigenous rights. The government says it will respect court rulings that find its actions are unconstitutional. JGP 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGP Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 Just incredible. Do you think she knows she fluked into it and is just trying to make it as messy as possible to clean up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paxter Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 Crazy stuff in AB. I note that Kenney quit politics altogether today. I feel a bit despondent about the current state of politics here ATM. JGP 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGP Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 When even Kenney himself nopes lol Lord of Oop North 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord of Oop North Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 Don't worry - this is like if one of your kids declared their bedroom to be sovereign territory. Good luck to her and these morons. JGP, maarsen and Fragile Bird 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 I'm sure all you here know about this already -- but I just encountered the news. Canada: hopes rise for landfill search where Indigenous women’s bodies believed to be buried Manitoba site pauses operations, raising prospect that search for bodies of Long Plain First Nation women could be possible https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/09/canada-landfill-indigenous-women-bodies-manitoba Anyway, this news makes me appreciate all the more the arc theme that seems designed to connect from one plot to another in Amazon Prime's adaptation from Louise Penny's Gamache novels - Three Pines. maarsen 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGP Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 That situation has been aggravating for me, can't even imagine how retraumatizing it is to Indigenous communities whether directly tied to this serial killer or no. Goes to how pissy Provinces can be to not fund ground penetrating radar to further the search for Indigenous children that died in the residential school system. I hate this country sometimes. Zorral 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGP Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 For real though, @Zorral. Canada can't even do the fucking least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 (edited) 44 minutes ago, JGP said: For real though, @Zorral. I meant how sad I am that the power is not "funding the least." In the meantime, check the Watching thread, for some things Canadian people did do, heroically, against the nazis. Nazis in whatever flavor, under whatever mask, including xtian, are all our enemies. Everywhere. They must be called out everywhere for they are. Nazis, fascists, mono authoritarians, where ever, need to be called out in public. Why ever is free speech to belong only to Them, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm? Edited December 10, 2022 by Zorral Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGP Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 (edited) 55 minutes ago, Zorral said: I meant how sad I am that the power is not "funding the least." In the meantime, check the Watching thread, for some things Canadian people did do, heroically, against the nazis. Nazis in whatever flavor, under whatever mask, including xtian, are all our enemies. Everywhere. They must be called out everywhere for they are. Nazis, fascists, mono authoritarians, where ever, need to be called out in public. Why ever is free speech to belong only to Them, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm? I know Canadians aren't all bad. I'm not all good. You're getting into the rub of life leaving off there. Everyone has stuff going on. The news and the personal can't always be grossly reflective of each other. People are out learning. Growing. Earning. Enjoying. Struggling. Fighting. Failing. Crushed. I can't say we, but me, I got no inhibitions confronting hateful shit. I had an interaction just the other day that had the counter staff of the outdoors shop tittering about the last time they saw a death stare lol But then, with very helpful staff, I had to finish replacing the ski gear my youngest had outgrown. As a Canadian in many ways I'm spoiled but ok I got an hour and half until I have to pick up her older sister and make chili, and at some point later that night, I actually pause to debate whether I want to catch up on cable news or not. So you say why free speech v fascism, and I say Canada has freedom of expression, so should crack down harder. We don't have the 1st amendment cripple, yet still manage to fuck it sideways anyway. Ha. Ha. But this has little to do with why Canadians permit what we do. We're individualistic. No we're not. Ritualistic. Sometimes. We're also voyeurs, with a chilling side effect of seeing first hand what will eventually come down here. And it does. Almost every time. And ah fuck, the chili So you see how it goes. Edited December 10, 2022 by JGP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGP Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 Swear to god, only in Alberta lol Lord of Oop North and Fragile Bird 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 Demented. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 (edited) nvm - board vagaries, got the post in the wrong thread. Edited December 17, 2022 by Zorral Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGP Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Everyone always trying to reinvent themselves around the New Year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGP Posted January 6, 2023 Share Posted January 6, 2023 "Alberta farmer Anthony Bilodeau has been sentenced to life in prison with no parole for at least 13 years for killing Métis hunters Jacob Sansom and Maurice Cardinal. He was convicted of manslaughter and 2nd degree murder, respectively, for his role in the mens’ deaths." -from le twitter And may he never get parole. Fragile Bird and Zorral 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maarsen Posted January 7, 2023 Author Share Posted January 7, 2023 On 12/30/2022 at 3:48 PM, JGP said: Everyone always trying to reinvent themselves around the New Year. Covid made the Conservatives look bad? Maybe the fact people really did not like your party in times of crisis is the really important bit. JGP 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Arryn Posted January 7, 2023 Share Posted January 7, 2023 (edited) To me, the way people/politicians handled Covid said a lot about where they stand on the humans vs. money spectrum. Like in Ontario, Ford very briefly surprised me by apparently prioritizing the former…but that didn’t last long and we got back to ‘traditional conservative values’…ie money…pretty quickly. Of all that emerged during Covid, the decision certain administrations made to officially stop recording medical information, for example in Ontario they ruled to stop schools recording the number of cases amongst their students, is the epitome of money>people. There is zero benefit to people in knowing less about the affect Covid is having on us, it’s scientifically bankrupt to want less information during a pandemic, and the reasons given pretty openly expressed a desire to avoid the effect of people having that information on the economy. That’s…vile. Edited January 7, 2023 by James Arryn maarsen, Fragile Bird, SpaceChampion and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 So, Hazel McCallion died yesterday, at the age of 101. The developers’ dream mayor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord of Oop North Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 Most overrated Mayor in Canada, that's for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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