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  • Most Albertans Will Soon Have to Get Out Their Wallets for COVID Shots

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  • Uh-huh, I'm sure societies really thrive when their people abandon reality and embrace arrogant magical thinking.

  • Most Albertans Will Soon Have to Get Out Their Wallets for COVID Shots

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  • Some of us make medical decisions based on evidence rather than listening to online grifters who make money from creating rage-bait content.

    Evidence-based decisions doesn't mean we're LiViNg In FeAr. I barely think about it.

    How much online content do you consume about vaccines?

  • St. John's hospital doctors submit mass resignation, warn of 'impending crisis'

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  • I live in Newfoundland -- our healthcare system doesn't suck because of right wing assholes exactly, in my opinion, it sucks because Newfoundland politics is rife with nepotism and cronyism.

    I would still rather this than a world where my family can be bankrupted if someone gets the wrong sickness at the wrong time.

  • Carney: "Iran’s nuclear programme is a grave threat to international security, and Canada has been consistently clear that Iran can never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon."

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  • PP came out with even stronger statements backing Israel, so...

  • For some, it's #MeToo vs. #HimToo at the Hockey Canada sexual assault trial

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  • Yeah, that's fair

  • For some, it's #MeToo vs. #HimToo at the Hockey Canada sexual assault trial

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  • Where... are you seeing "kill all men" discourse in Canada?

  • For some, it's #MeToo vs. #HimToo at the Hockey Canada sexual assault trial

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  • I don't know that I agree that social definitions always have to match legal definitions.

    Legal systems tend to be conservative and it's social progressive groups that push the public consciousness enough to eventually shift the legal system.

    Until 1983, marital rape wasn't legally considered rape in Canada. The social understanding that you could rape a spouse needed to exist before the laws could follow.

    I agree that it's nuanced and people need to be educated on the difference between legal definitions and social definitions, but I don't think what you're proposing is the only way.

  • Election Day Discussion thread [Monday April 28]

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  • Lol, I'm a dummy. Thanks for the info. I live in a province that has never had an NDP premier, so my brain didn't think to check.

  • Election Day Discussion thread [Monday April 28]

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  • If this election has shown us one thing, it's that the Conservative party is willing to ignore evidence to double-down on a bad idea.

  • Election Day Discussion thread [Monday April 28]

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  • I like and respect him as a politician, but is he NDP-leaning? He strikes me as more centre.

  • Mainstreet polling, April 13

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  • An amazing number of people think "I'm mad at Liberals" = "The cons must be better"

  • Carney slams Poilievre's 'irresponsible' lack of security clearance after reports India meddled in leadership

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  • Yeah, not a valid excuse in my mind. It shows a disturbing lack of responsibility/accountability.

  • Mainstreet polling, Mar 25

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  • I mean, I'm probably voting Liberal (the NDP have had a strong showing in my riding in the past, so I'm not entirely decided), but I kind of believe this.

    Carney is obviously the least comfortable out of the main candidates in speaking in French. I don't believe the cost is a real factor. Maybe "afraid" isn't the right word, but it does seem to be strategic in a way that avoids potential negative exposure for him. I have mixed feelings about it.

  • Mainstreet polling, Mar 25

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  • Carney declined to do a common/popular debate in Quebec.

  • Mainstreet polling, updated Mar 24

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  • Yep, this is where I am too.

    I'm annoyed at having to vote Liberal, to be honest, but I hope this election makes it clear that cozying up to American populists is a losing strategy in Canada.

  • PM Mark Carney Announces Elimination of GST on New Homes

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  • lol Were you just looking for a comment so you could flex about your property deals?

    Personally, I'm a millennial and I'm okay -- we recently sold our starter home and we got way more than we were expecting for it. But it didn't make me feel "smart" it made me feel gross that the market seems so rigged.

    I'm not talking about individuals, I'm talking about trends. The priority for housing should first and foremost be to house people.

  • PM Mark Carney Announces Elimination of GST on New Homes

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  • Yeah, Boomers getting special protections is kind of annoying.

    A generation of millenials were told to go to post secondary no matter the cost and then when we did and incurred a ton of debt but the good jobs that were promised to us weren't there, the reaction was "oops, oh well, get fucked I guess".

    Maybe if we stopped funneling a billion dollars into "managing" our CPP plan into poorer performance and used that money to increase CPP payouts instead, boomers could afford more of a hit on their housing.

    I do wonder if another large contributing factor is that most of our MPs have conflicts of interest when it comes to the real estate market.

  • Donald Trump says 'nasty' Canada 'meant to be 51st state'

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  • Is there a practical component to your argument or are you just sticking with ideal hypotheticals.

  • The Problem with CPP Investments

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  • I think the solution is having these agencies be accountable to the accountability metrics that they set up.

    Normalizing mismanagement seems short-sighted to me and ultimately only supports the argument that government is "useless" or "broken".

    That extra billion going towards healthcare or education or even back into the pension fund could do a world of good.

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    The Problem with CPP Investments