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Aberdeen said:
Does anyone else find it kind of weird how Bell has branded mental health awareness?
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It's basically a full day of advertising for them. They look like heroes, and have every media, politician, celebrity tweeting out about them. And nobody can really say a bad thing, because it is overall a good venture.
 
I mean we all secretly text our friends #bellletstalk today just for shits and giggles, no?

Or am I just the asshole as usual?
 
They announced the number of dose given as opposed to the number of completed (2 shots) given. IMO since they quickly corrected the error It’s not a very big deal.

For me bigger issue is the time being wasted because of shortage of vaccine available to be given.
 
Leger Poll out today

LPC - 37
CPC - 28
NDP - 22
BQ - 7
GR -5

- 86% of Canadians agree with travel restrictions (snowbirds, we see you)
- 87% answered yes to "should we ban international travel until end of covid"
- 75% of Quebecers think their curfew is working
- 70% intend on getting vaccincated. 15% do not intend, 15% to not know (vs 56% Y, 30% N, 14% DNK in the US.....we might be fucked)
- Intent to vaccinate is up 8% in Canada since October
- 68% expect covid safety measures (masks in public, social distancing, etc) to remain in place after covid
- 78% do not believe vaccines to be dangerous. 9% do, 13% DNK (19% anti vaxx in the US)
- 60% afraid of contracting covid, 37% not afraid
- 54% very or somwhat satisfied with Federal Government response, decline from high 60's for most of the covid crisis
- 53% of Ontarians very or somewhat satisfied with Team Dougie's response, this is a significant decline from months ago, down from the low 80's
- 26% of Albertans satisfied with Kenney's response

The voting intent breakdown is interesting. LPC is winning Ontario 42%-28% over the CPC at the moment, that's fucking yuge. Alberta is vote splitting away from moving away from being such a CPC fortress. 48% CPC support, 25% Liberal support, 24% NDP support.

- O'toole doing terribly with women, 25%
 
MindzEye said:
Leger Poll out today

LPC - 37
CPC - 28
NDP - 22
BQ - 7
GR -5

- 86% of Canadians agree with travel restrictions (snowbirds, we see you)
- 87% answered yes to "should we ban international travel until end of covid"
- 75% of Quebecers think their curfew is working
- 70% intend on getting vaccincated. 15% do not intend, 15% to not know (vs 56% Y, 30% N, 14% DNK in the US.....we might be fucked)
- Intent to vaccinate is up 8% in Canada since October
- 68% expect covid safety measures (masks in public, social distancing, etc) to remain in place after covid
- 78% do not believe vaccines to be dangerous. 9% do, 13% DNK (19% anti vaxx in the US)
- 60% afraid of contracting covid, 37% not afraid
- 54% very or somwhat satisfied with Federal Government response, decline from high 60's for most of the covid crisis
- 53% of Ontarians very or somewhat satisfied with Team Dougie's response, this is a significant decline from months ago, down from the low 80's
- 26% of Albertans satisfied with Kenney's response

The voting intent breakdown is interesting. LPC is winning Ontario 42%-28% over the CPC at the moment, that's fucking yuge. Alberta is vote splitting away from moving away from being such a CPC fortress. 48% CPC support, 25% Liberal support, 24% NDP support.

- O'toole doing terribly with women, 25%
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Man... The only time I feel any semblance of patriotism is when I see shit like that. Crazy how different we our than our neighbors down below.
 
i'm very interested in seeing how trump's defeat echoes around the world.

there's already promising signs in russia. hope to see more.
 
MindzEye said:
Leger Poll out today

LPC - 37
CPC - 28
NDP - 22
BQ - 7
GR -5

- 86% of Canadians agree with travel restrictions (snowbirds, we see you)
- 87% answered yes to "should we ban international travel until end of covid"
- 75% of Quebecers think their curfew is working
- 70% intend on getting vaccincated. 15% do not intend, 15% to not know (vs 56% Y, 30% N, 14% DNK in the US.....we might be fucked)
- Intent to vaccinate is up 8% in Canada since October
- 68% expect covid safety measures (masks in public, social distancing, etc) to remain in place after covid
- 78% do not believe vaccines to be dangerous. 9% do, 13% DNK (19% anti vaxx in the US)
- 60% afraid of contracting covid, 37% not afraid
- 54% very or somwhat satisfied with Federal Government response, decline from high 60's for most of the covid crisis
- 53% of Ontarians very or somewhat satisfied with Team Dougie's response, this is a significant decline from months ago, down from the low 80's
- 26% of Albertans satisfied with Kenney's response

The voting intent breakdown is interesting. LPC is winning Ontario 42%-28% over the CPC at the moment, that's fucking yuge. Alberta is vote splitting away from moving away from being such a CPC fortress. 48% CPC support, 25% Liberal support, 24% NDP support.

- O'toole doing terribly with women, 25%
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the bolded number is mind-boggling. pretty confident in guaranteeing that if any of those 53% had spent a few weeks in a Maritime province they would reconsider.
 
Yeah, let's hope that our wobble towards fascism was only a temporary speed wobble that caught relatively polite society by surprise. The last gasp of retrograde bullshit.
 
also overall I'd say the results from that survey are very encouraging. especially when contrasted with our neighbours to the south.
 
Wayward DP said:
the bolded number is mind-boggling. pretty confident in guaranteeing that if any of those 53% had spent a few weeks in a Maritime province they would reconsider.
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I think Dougie still has a lot of glow from early on when we expected shit show, but got mostly deferrence to public health officials. Since then, Dougie has clearly had more and more influence over policy and we're seeing that early support steadily bleed out onto the ground. Trying to get schools open asap in the face of the pending UK variant takeover is going to be another zinger.
 
MindzEye said:
I think Dougie still has a lot of glow from early on when we expected shit show, but got mostly deferrence to public health officials. Since then, Dougie has clearly had more and more influence over policy and we're seeing that early support steadily bleed out onto the ground. Trying to get schools open asap in the face of the pending UK variant takeover is going to be another zinger.
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living in a province where the government has been extremely proactive in trying to stay ahead of the curve has really put a spotlight for me on Dougie's lack of foresight and refusal to take meaningful action basically until his hand is \forced. the contrast is fairly stark.

I also have lots of family in ON who keep me well updated on the 'lockdowns' etc.

but yeah, the longer this goes on I think the worse things look for Dougie.

something else I would be extremely interested in seeing is some sort of analysis of how different provinces coped with the virus based on the governing party (i.e. have Liberal premiers done a better job managing case numbers than Conservative ones?). just in the Maritimes, conservative Blaine Higgs has had a big recent spike in NB that has resulted in ongoing shutdowns and restrictions, while the two Liberal governments in NS and NL seem to be doing well. PEI has a PC premier and has also been amazing, so maybe I just undermined my theory, heh.
 
Wayward DP said:
living in a province where the government has been extremely proactive in trying to stay ahead of the curve has really put a spotlight for me on Dougie's lack of foresight and refusal to take meaningful action basically until his hand is \forced. the contrast is fairly stark.

I also have lots of family in ON who keep me well updated on the 'lockdowns' etc.

but yeah, the longer this goes on I think the worse things look for Dougie.

something else I would be extremely interested in seeing is some sort of analysis of how different provinces coped with the virus based on the governing party (i.e. have Liberal premiers done a better job managing case numbers than Conservative ones?). just in the Maritimes, conservative Blaine Higgs has had a big recent spike in NB that has resulted in ongoing shutdowns and restrictions, while the two Liberal governments in NS and NL seem to be doing well. PEI has a PC premier and has also been amazing, so maybe I just undermined my theory, heh.
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Well...Alberta has performed pretty terribly and Ontario has been mediocre at best to this point. I think you'll see some correlation there overall.
 
It’s not easy to compare the different provinces. Different populations and much different population densities. Just in Ont. and Que. the success at managing the spread have been much different outside of TO and Montreal areas.
 
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