AbsolutSurgen
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That's the point, the source of guns used in crime is overwhelming from the US. These actions are all for show, and won't actually do anything. -
Again. Nothing bad happened in Canada. Just like when there was a Supreme Court decision leak in the US a while back, nothing happened to attack abortion rights in Canada. Canada's homicide rate is about 1/3 of the US. What happens there is not indicative of what happens here. There aren't good statistics on the source of guns in crime, but when the Toronto Police Service looked at the source of guns used in crime, more than 80% did not originate from sales within Canada. These laws would not have prevented the largest "massacres" in Canada (by # of deaths) over the last 30 or so years: 2020 Nova Scotia Attacks (22 dead) -- Killer had numerous illegally obtained weapons from the US 1989 Ecole Polytechnique Massacre (15 dead) -- Killer used a rifle that is perfectly legal under the current proposed legislation 2018 Toronto Van Attack (11 dead) -- killer used a van to run people over
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NDP -- 23.7% of popular vote is probably the pinnacle of where they can be. The only times they have been higher than this is 2015 and 1990. It's significantly better than their share of the popular vote in the 2021 Federal election. Liberal -- Complete disaster of an election. Del Duca didn't even win his own seat. They need to figure out what they are. Progressive Conservatives -- 41% of the vote is the highest since McGuinty's second election in 2007 (at 42%), and the first time an encumbant party has had their popular vote% go up since Mike Harris in '99. Reflective of how well he handled the pandemic. A right-of-centre party now forms the government in all provinces except BC and Newfoundland.
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Andrea Horwath is pointing out that the majority of Ontarians did not vote for Doug Ford. The OPC currently has 41 % of the popular vote. Justin Trudeau’s Federal Liberals got 33% of the popular vote last year.
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That chicken suit was REALLY dumb.
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CBC has already declared a majority with a third of the seats yet to report. Only question is whether Liberals will regain official party status.
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15 minutes in. Polls seem to be spot on.
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True, Justin Trudeau is fantastic at good politics.
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Bill Morneau was Trudeau's Finance Minister from 2015-2020. Bill Morneau is 'much more worried' about Canada's economic prospects now than when Trudeau was first elected OTTAWACITIZEN.COM The ex-finance minister gave a series of critiques of his former government’s economic policies in his first public speech since leaving office in 2020
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I am suggesting that Governments frequently announce news to distract the media from other news. Companies do this too. I am suggesting that based on how poorly planned this announcement was (and lacking in detail), that it was rushed.
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1) Because those mass killings didn't happen in Canada. They happened in a country that has very different gun laws than Canada. Mass killings are exceedingly rare in Canada, and typically don't involve legally obtained hand guns. 2) You don't believe that politicians time their news to distract from "bad news"?
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Complete coincidence that they announced this days after shootings in the US and 2 days before a 50bps hike in interest rates.
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My friends/family/acquaintances must be the healthiest people on the planet. Everyone I know who has caught Covid in the last 6 months had mild symptoms and nothing lasting over 2 weeks.
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Yes. Unless the federal government gets involved (which they won't, because Bill 96 is so popular in Quebec), they can.
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Their issue is the polls have them getting ~26% of the vote. Federal polling did not show a majority of NDP/Liberal supporters having the other party as their #2 choice in the last election.
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If the election comes out like the polls suggest, it is time for the Ontario Liberal Party to do some soul searching. They have become disconnected from the electorate in Ontario (in a similar way that the federal Conservatives have). Having two strong centrist parties is really important for Canadian Democracy.
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There were about 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis, or about 50% of the pre-war population. I generally think analogies that compare things to the Holocaust typically minimize the horror that was the Holocaust.
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The year of the graves: How the world’s media got it wrong on residential school graves NATIONALPOST.COM The coverage triggered protests, church arsons and condemnation from Canada’s bad-faith rivals, but last summer’s reporting on the country's long-acknowledged… Not sure how I feel about this OpEd. I've got to think about it more.
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PC Valve drops a Tim Epic-approved steamer!
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That's literally what the data suggests Liberal voters are intending to do in Ontario. Only ~50% of people intending on voting Liberal think that Del Duca would make the best Premier. On a tangent: What the Literal Fuck where they thinking.
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It's time for the Liberals in Ontario to do some serious rebranding.
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