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2024-09-03 15:35:15

Corporate BC doesn’t like democracy “Kevin Falcon, leader of the BC United Party, threw his support to the rival BC Conservatives this week after intense pressure from the business community .. The movement in the business community is based not on an ideological preference for John Rustad’s untested BC Conservatives, Mr. Stowe noted, but on economic calculations that they will fare better if the NDP loses the next election. #bcpoli #cdnpoli https://archive.is/ksvMh

2024-08-11 01:33:37

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@npub16xr…qzyf The Cult of Trump, written by former cult member https://www.simonandschuster.ca/books/The-Cult-of-Trump/Steven-Hassan/9781982127343

2024-08-01 05:01:37

“Canada’s unaffordability crisis has little to do with the carbon tax; the real drivers are a volatile fuel market and corporate profiteering.” #cdnpoli https://www.taxfairness.ca/en/resources/news-views/corporate-profits-not-carbon-tax-blame-canadas-affordability-woes

2024-07-28 19:00:26

The Dead Hand of Neoliberalism Is Blocking Green Growth. Canada? #cdnpoli https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/neoliberal-economic-trade-rules-tying-developing-countries-hands-by-laura-carvalho-1-2024-07

2024-07-16 16:29:01

TC Energy's $15-billion Keystone XL lawsuit gets thrown out TC's investor protection mechanism fails in US with NAFTA was replaced by USMCA. But Canada still protects Chinese investors with FIPA. Would TC have been successful with investor protection if it was a Chinese corp?
#abpoli #cdnpoli
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/07/16/news/tc-energys-15-billion-keystone-xl-lawsuit-gets-thrown-out
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada-China_Promotion_and_Reciprocal_Protection_of_Investments_Agreement

2024-07-15 01:08:44

“In all the reactions from political leaders the world over, I can find no other expressing such lipsmacking satisfaction at the violent death of another human being. While others appeal for calm, Poilievre rejoices in retribution.” "the only thing I can think of for Canada: stop treating Poilievre’s radicalism as normal" #cdnpoli https://markhamhislop.substack.com/p/stop-treating-poilievre-and-trump

2024-07-11 04:00:39

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@npub14ka…um78 Calgary’s Rick Bell? https://albertapolitics.ca/2024/06/columnist-calgary-mayor-walks-on-water-we-have-proof-she-cant-swim/

2024-06-30 19:15:46

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@npub14ka…um78 Will be revealing to see how Manitoba responds. I expect it won’t follow the incompetence by design of AB & SK healthcare

2024-06-30 16:41:03

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@npub14ka…um78 Still a huge demand for drs. in BC. Where will new doctors decide to go in Canada? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-doctor-new-payment-model-1.7107681

2024-06-29 05:29:28

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@npub1f2y…m58m it’s lame but its just alliterate the assinine…https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alliteration

2024-06-27 19:49:04

Once a hallowed institution devoted to physical science, the SRC (Saskatchewan Research Council) today has been reduced to nothing more than a funnel through which public dollars flow to private companies, with virtually non-existent public transparency or Opposition scrutiny. #skpoli #canpoli https://substack.com/home/post/p-145990841

2024-05-24 21:09:51

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@npub1v0s…u5nn While UCP will ignore demonstrators in Edmonton, they will look carefully at the numbers elsewhere, but never acknowledge them. They are well aware their majority is very thin.

2024-05-09 03:46:35

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@npub1sgm…gmkr common has become the meanest, most selfish, most ignorant ...

2024-05-02 17:42:15

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@npub14ka…um78 But my father and my grandfather and their communities were willfully ignorant, I must do the same to be loyal and honor my family and community?

2024-03-29 23:48:42

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@npub1k4q…3lsq Ouch, even in pathetic Sk I was able to get a CPAP machine via sask Health once I was diagnosed & upgraded to a better machine once when I left for BC (via work health benefits)

2024-03-18 20:35:35

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@npub1mmf…eknq That a ceasefire supports Hammas?: Yuval Diskin, former head of Israel's Shin Bet security service, told the daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth in 2013 that "if we look at it over the years, one of the main people contributing to Hamas's strengthening has been Bibi Netanyahu, since his first term as prime minister." " Netanyahu's "strategy is to keep Hamas alive and kicking" https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/netanyahu-israel-gaza-hamas-1.7010035

2024-03-15 20:50:43

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@npub1k4q…3lsq What a strange coincidence, a certain set of political followers appear conditioned to be willing and ready to be manipulated, are they real or merely bots? While bots can't vote they "work hard" to influence

2024-03-11 21:12:02

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@npub1k4q…3lsq @npub1855…kyza @npub1r5j…ky3p @npub1pfv…fepy For those unaware, BC Liberal party is an extraordinarily conservative party (now known as BC United). BC Carbon pricing, no rebate is given, pricing is used to decrease provinicial income tax. NDP continued adding a low income bracket of 5.06% While Yukon is lowest, 2nd is BC til $128,000 income @ 14%
https://www.nerdwallet.com/ca/personal-finance/provincial-tax-rates

2024-03-11 18:32:24

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@npub1p7v…m2wl @npub1pfv…fepy @npub1r5j…ky3p @npub1k4q…3lsq They should be called _flints_ hard, narrow, ancient, a crude primitive tool, but still capable of significant harm.

2024-03-11 17:44:57

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@npub1p7v…m2wl @npub1pfv…fepy @npub1r5j…ky3p @npub1k4q…3lsq https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tory

2024-03-11 17:42:03

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@npub1pfv…fepy @npub1k4q…3lsq @npub1r5j…ky3p "ignorant prejudiced fool" won't be met kindly by some ...

2024-03-11 17:35:31

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@npub1k4q…3lsq @npub1r5j…ky3p @npub1pfv…fepy Conservative in Canada have offered nothing but fear ignorance and prejudice after Joe Clark's brief appearance.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Clark

2024-03-11 17:23:39

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@npub1r5j…ky3p @npub1k4q…3lsq @npub1pfv…fepy Carbon pricing fundamentally is a market based mechanism to reflect the cost of carbon polution. That conservatives oppose it is a fundamental contradiction. "If you’re a Conservative who opposes carbon pricing, are you really a conservative? https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-if-youre-a-conservative-who-opposes-carbon-pricing-are-you-really-a/

2024-03-11 17:08:45

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@npub1r5j…ky3p @npub1k4q…3lsq @npub1pfv…fepy I'd argue the we would be better off in the long term decreasing the GST to something like 1 or 2% and have a subsequent increase in carbon pricing. For the majority, their overall tax burden would decrease. With that establish appropriate timed adaptive transition supports for heavy carbon users to adopt low consumption.

2024-03-11 16:20:46

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@npub1r5j…ky3p @npub1k4q…3lsq @npub1pfv…fepy Poili is the politician for every entitled 12 year old voter in Canada. Adults recognize unpleasant things like taxes are necessary, I'd like to have it to be fair and effective, rather than pretend its unnecessary and let it be broken and unfair.

2024-03-09 22:44:24

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@npub1mmf…eknq While most of Europe has highly competitive grocery cooperatives, Canadian’s are only now beginning to question the highly integrated and extraordinarily profitable grocery giants. As they become more successful alternatives become less feasible.

2024-03-02 20:16:28

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@npub1k2m…mcf7 2 online tools, Onedrive for ebooks allows one to borrow an electronic book from a library. Kanopy uses a library card to access a wide range of documentaries and off the main stream movies https://help.kanopy.com/en-us/home.htm https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017677053-Borrow-eBooks-from-the-public-library-using-your-Kobo-eReader

2024-02-23 22:50:41

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@npub1mmf…eknq
NDP MPs raise idea of guaranteed livable income with Nanaimo residents
https://www.nanaimobulletin.com/local-news/ndp-mps-raise-idea-of-guaranteed-livable-income-with-nanaimo-residents-7298855

2024-02-23 21:51:09

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@npub176y…fj2k That Time Canada Had a Public Lab that Made Life-saving Drugs #cdnpoli https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/11/08/Canada-Public-Lab-Life-Saving-Drugs/

2024-02-23 20:26:07

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@npub1mmf…eknq If minority gov'ts have been most successful, where collaboration & compromise is demanded. I argue proportional representation is the political system that continually demands collaboration and compromise. In the recent vote on a citizens coalition, all but one conservative voted against, most Liberals voted against, Every NDP, Bloc Québécois & Green voted to support having ordinary Canadians understand and recommend. #cdnpoli https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/votes/44/1/634

2024-02-23 19:48:35

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@npub1mmf…eknq Yes, well aware of that :)

2024-02-23 19:45:48

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@npub1mmf…eknq Minority govt's have given Canadians medicare, student loans and the Pension Program, and now pharmacare... #cdnpoli
https://theconversation.com/why-minority-governments-have-been-good-and-sometimes-bad-for-canada-168018

2024-02-23 19:31:59

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says Liberals and New Democrats have a deal on pharmacare #cdnpoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberals-ndp-pharmacare-deal-1.7123952

2024-02-18 06:56:48

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@npub14ka…um78 Conservatives have traded their alleged “honesty and integrity” for the far more profitable convenient and effective, fear ignorance and prejudice. Honesty & integrity takes stamina and perseverance , while ignorance is effortless, fear is held by all and prejudice are the ideas of weakest lamest minds.

2024-02-18 03:28:14

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@npub1r5j…ky3p Every province in Canada must compete with BC’s doctor funding model and MB for health care workers . BC worked with doctors to identify what Drs. need. https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7107681 https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/prime-minister-and-manitoba-premier-announce-633m-in-health-funding-1.6770216

2024-02-15 01:00:02

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@npub1mmf…eknq Buried at the end of Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, Registry of Lobbyists document is their statement on war crimes and dishonesty. "persons found in Canada who lied about their records in the Second World War or more recent conflicts and the prosecution of war criminals when sufficient evidence is adduced.)" https://lobbycanada.gc.ca/app/secure/ocl/lrs/do/clntSmmry?clientOrgCorpNumber=111

2024-02-03 02:09:44

Former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi considering bid for Alberta NDP leadership
. #abpoli https://calgaryherald.com/news/politics/naheed-nenshi-considering-bid-alberta-ndp-leadership

2024-01-27 22:13:32

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 “The Cult of Ignorance.” http://thehappyneuron.com/2021/02/isaac-asimov-was-dead-right-about-our-cult-of-ignorance/

2024-01-23 03:29:36

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@npub1mmf…eknq Canada abandoned public housing, no solution until govt expands it (austerity & municipal punishment is not a solution) https://bowislandcommentator.com/editorial/2023/09/07/canada-dawdles-behind-oecd-members-in-public-housing-stock-30-years-after-liberals-abandon-public-housing-strategy/

2024-01-23 02:58:49

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@npub1mmf…eknq Canada’s tax policy rewards real earnings investment trusts and other financializations, and our politicians are dumbfounded for solutions. https://policyalternatives.ca/publications/commentary/financialization-housing-must-be-confronted#

2024-01-20 21:29:07

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@npub1h3e…eklu Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Monday he has no plans to remove from his caucus three members of Parliament who recently met with a German politician from a far-right party #cdnpoli https://beta.ctvnews.ca/national/politics/2023/3/6/1_6300925.amp.html

2024-01-14 22:07:22

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@npub14ka…um78 @npub1jvc…pedh UCP is a well supported effort to use noting but fear ignorance and prejudice to meet political goals. Well reflected in choosing Danielle Smith as a leader, who interned at Fraser Institute, an organization dedicated to using and creating and manipulating misinformation, dishonesty and prejudice as political fodder #abpoli
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fraser_Institute
https://policyalternatives.ca/publications/commentary/fraser-institute-ranking-fails-measure-school-quality
https://web.archive.org/web/20150813191417/http://www.vancouverobserver.com/sustainability/dramatic-turnaround-leading-climate-change-skeptic-blows-open-debate

2024-01-02 16:58:58

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@npub1hjg…dh78 Any journalist that offers Fraser Institute content, their integrity should be flagged the same as Fraser "Flawed, Incoherent" Should they be required to read this aloud to their editor & cohorts? Tax Freedom Day (Fraser Institute as a whole?)
A Flawed, Incoherent, and Pernicious Concept #cdnpoli https://policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National_Office_Pubs/2005/tax_freedom_day.pdf

2023-12-28 15:56:36

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@npub1yd8…8u8e Former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is a partner of AWZ Ventures that works with Israeli intelligence #cdnpoli https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stephen-harper-fadden-israel-awz-cybersecurity-1.5989054

2023-12-25 22:11:57

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@npub1k4q…3lsq For the curious Kitchen presents his legal motivation from here (I recommend using an enhanced privacy browser, their site does use some privacy compromising tech )
https://libertycoalitioncanada.com/liberty-defense-fund/our-legal-strategy/

2023-12-25 19:31:53

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@npub1k4q…3lsq LaGrange's lawyer, James Kitchen works with Liberty Coalition Canada #abpoli #canpoli https://www.antihate.ca/excommunicated_politicians_partner_with_christian_nationalists_in_covid_conspiracy_movement

2023-12-16 22:02:07

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@npub14ka…um78 How often do Albertan's need reminding, is it just shy of 5000 votes that allows fear and ignorance to rule an entire province? https://mstdn.ca/@pinhman/111574903197169319

2023-11-23 20:34:13

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@npub1k4q…3lsq When journalists challenge Poilievre he will respond with "Bias, Fake news!" Ignorance Fear and Prejudice are politicians worn, old and rusty, yet still reliable tools. This always has, and always will be journalism's challenge.

2023-11-23 18:25:02

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@npub1k4q…3lsq It's First Nations who should decide whether Buffy is authentic. It should be CBC who thoroughly questions whether Canadian politicians are authentic. If CBC can't challenge the willfully ignorant Poilievre speaks to, it has failed its most essential task.

2023-11-23 17:43:17

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@npub14ka…um78 Next time Preston Manning blames foreign interference, every Canadian needs to know his Manning Cetre (now Canada "Strong and Free") is itself an instrument of American foreign interference. https://web.archive.org/web/20200619024718/https://www.atlasnetwork.org/partners/global-directory/canada

2023-11-15 19:00:28

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@npub1u2v…rj3z @npub14ka…um78 LaGrange's lawyer James Kittchen also work with Liberty Coalition Canada #cdnpoli #abpoli https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/fundamentalist-christian-movement-1.6793677

2023-11-15 18:57:58

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@npub1u2v…rj3z @npub14ka…um78 Monique LaGrange's lawyer, James Kitchen works with Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), this is an Atlas Network organization support by US anonymous wealth, No foreign interference here... #cdnpoli https://www.atlasnetwork.org/partners/global-directory/canada

2023-11-15 15:54:18

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@npub1u2v…rj3z @npub14ka…um78 https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/red-deer/alberta-school-trustee-who-compared-lgbtq2s-community-to-nazis-resigns-after-board-disqualifies-her-1.6645406

2023-11-02 17:48:23

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@npub1k4q…3lsq @npub12yj…dy60 DrakeLanding in Oktotoks AB is able to heat homes with stored thermal solar, only needing occasional carbon based energy. Why isn't this done more? https://www.dlsc.ca/

2023-11-02 17:43:10

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@npub1k4q…3lsq @npub12yj…dy60 Are Albertans collecting a fair share of oilsands wealth? Its an old article (2018) Alberta's Oil and Gas royalties are significantly lower than other countries, now even lower, but high heating costs are a problem its can't solve? Are Albertans collecting a fair share of oilsands wealth?

2023-11-02 16:44:31

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@npub1k4q…3lsq @npub12yj…dy60 The provinces complaining about home heating affordability? Taxation of natural resources is a provincial jurisdiction. These same provinces have cut|limited oil industry royalties/taxation exporting majority of their profits out of the country. Provinces are capable of passing portion of these profits back to their constituents, but they complain about Ottawa?

2023-11-01 18:42:47

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@npub1k4q…3lsq @npub12yj…dy60 Carbon Tax and affordability? Deferring dismissing the carbon tax is just fed gov't to helping the majority foreign owned oil industry. An excess wealth tax funded heating tax rebate would take the profits that leave the country and put it back in the hands of ordinary Canadians. Putting taxes back in the hands of ordinary Canadians should be winning idea for all Canadian parties. #cdnpoli

2023-11-01 15:14:05

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@npub1k4q…3lsq But Poilievre has been successful in making facts, inquiry analysis irrelevant. His platform is only directed to the willfully ignorant. A fact check would be another mark or “honorable scar” that would be taken as a token of anti-woke success. Poilievre has successfully insulated himself from any expectation of reason and knowledge. Facts are useless amongst fear ignorance and prejudice.

2023-10-17 17:33:23

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@npub1k4q…3lsq @npub1hjg…dh78 For example "Conservative Leadership Debate at Canada Strong and Free Networking Conference" https://cpac.ca/episode?id=8b267343-c6c9-438a-bc78-37c5a11e8016

2023-10-17 17:16:48

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@npub1k4q…3lsq @npub1hjg…dh78 It's more the voice of anonymous wealth, Canadian conservatives are active participants with Atlas Network, the biggest most effective voice for anonymous wealth, Kenny, Poilivere, Smith ... https://web.archive.org/web/20200619024718/https://www.atlasnetwork.org/partners/global-directory/canada

2023-10-06 20:47:11

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@npub1k4q…3lsq speaking of hard work,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9aJKDqqP4A

2023-10-02 20:31:22

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@npub14ka…um78 Politics must be surgically removed from health. Health should be independent agencies responsible to each legislature with mandates given by sound policy, not the governing party.

2023-09-29 22:07:43

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@npub1k4q…3lsq How much of this about parent(s) concern over "the opinion of others" in "highly conforming communites". is it about the parents' stature in these communities not the well-being of the child.

2023-09-29 19:21:31

Some unpleasant history, Ku Klux Klan in Canada "The organization was most successful in Saskatchewan, where it briefly influenced political activity and whose membership included a member of Parliament, Walter Davy Cowan." #cdnpoli #skpoli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan_in_Canada

2023-09-29 15:26:22

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@npub14ka…um78 This is in former premier Brad Wall’s (now Everett Hindley) Swift Current constituency.

2023-09-25 05:14:30

Housing Coops "‘An affordable and democratic alternative’ to the private market" #cdnpoli #bcpoli https://breachmedia.ca/solutions-canada-housing-crisis-co-ops/

2023-08-24 19:09:14

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@npub1k4q…3lsq When kids were young a new Tim's opened with a drive-through that thoroughly messed up morning traffic. Apparently not blocking traffic, yielding, stopping and other basic driving rules are entirely optional when approaching a drive through. My daughters would quip, "Don't these people know how to make coffee ?" The city sent a "Fix it or we'll shut down the business" order.

2023-08-23 22:45:40

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@npub1k4q…3lsq @npub1v0s…u5nn The only place ignorance is professionally sanctioned is politics. Ignorance and its noise is for politicians and their suroagtes without ideas or solutions.

2023-08-21 18:42:23

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@npub1k4q…3lsq @npub1258…3ud4 Its a conservative market based mechanism but the Liberals implemented it first so now a conservative market based idea is the most bad idea. The miracles and flexibility a platform of ignorance provides :) The trick is managing all the contradictions with anger and prejudice, Conservatives work hard on that.

2023-08-19 01:55:41

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@npub1r47…wytr It wouldn’t hurt to know something about what you write about. The majority of print media in Canada is foreign owned American media, https://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2016/07/08/Who-Believes-Postmedia-Canadian/

2023-08-18 14:48:10

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@npub1r5j…ky3p @npub1g8g…ua6r “ Canada’s main opposition Conservative party members have voted down a proposal to recognize the climate crisis as real” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/20/canada-conservative-party-climate-change-real

2023-08-14 15:08:41

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@npub1dm5…5sqe use mail art? merge with little art free art? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_art

2023-08-09 16:41:19

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@npub1k4q…3lsq @npub1kle…5u80 Look at all the AtlasNetwork entities in Canada. All supported by the wealthy in the US. Poilievre and the conservatives should be experts on propaganda with the frequency that they work with these "Think Tanks" or rather Fountains of Ignorance. https://web.archive.org/web/20201022153417/https://www.atlasnetwork.org/partners/global-directory/canada

2023-07-19 18:44:30

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@npub1wst…ez75 have you tried Suse package search site? https://search.opensuse.org/packages/

2023-07-17 20:58:07

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@npub1k4q…3lsq @npub19d5…7597 Just a friendly reminder that Fraser Institute an Atlas Network org. Atlas is abundantly supported by US Wealth https://web.archive.org/web/20201022153417/https://www.atlasnetwork.org/partners/global-directory/canada

2023-07-06 05:14:28

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@npub1r7v…qwpu We should feel proud, not old :))

2023-06-26 15:19:17

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@npub18hd…kf64 decades ago I started using Linux with a boxed set of Redhat 5? After numerous issues with packages, Redhat support just suggested I use the Suse packages, saying they were better a ‘/ rm -rf ‘ to redhat… If you still want an RPM packaged system look at opensuse

2023-04-30 16:47:18

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@npub1zvj…wvea @npub1t95…0kzy If one follows the idea that every gun owner is a law-abiding citizen and will never break the law, insurance would be a non-issue. But the insurance industry does research and statistics and that fantasy is quickly dismissed.