mbow30
Spudmeister Supreme
eff you eat yourself
New Canadian Politics Thread
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MindzEye
Wayward Ditch Pig
You're not wealthy. Zeke will claim otherwise because of anti semetism, jew gold, etc but I know you're not.
hockeylover
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LeafGm
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Libraries are municipal. If they were under provincial jurisdiction, he’d be trying to shut them down or outsource them to Wal-Mart as well.
LeafGm
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…and actually, I almost forgot that when Dougie was a Toronto city councillor, he DID briefly go on a campaign to close a lot of Toronto public library branches.
He initially justified this by claiming that his own ward had “more library branches than Tim Horton’s”, barely anyone used them anyway, and he’d close them “in a heartbeat”.
Margaret Atwood then launched what quickly became a very popular campaign against library cuts. Dougie’s initial response was to petulantly say that he had no clue who she was and that she should have to run for and win public office before anyone cares about her opinion.
…before he eventually quietly gave up on the idea and never brought it up again.
He initially justified this by claiming that his own ward had “more library branches than Tim Horton’s”, barely anyone used them anyway, and he’d close them “in a heartbeat”.
Margaret Atwood then launched what quickly became a very popular campaign against library cuts. Dougie’s initial response was to petulantly say that he had no clue who she was and that she should have to run for and win public office before anyone cares about her opinion.
…before he eventually quietly gave up on the idea and never brought it up again.
zeke
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LeafGm
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So what’s the deal with Alberta’s grid being so shitty?
Of course, the blue checkmark brigade on Twitter are laying all the blame on the Alberta NDP (who’ve been out of power for five years now and followed 44 straight years of uninterrupted PC rule) for beginning a phase out of coal mining and coal-fired generating plants.
Curious what the actual story is.
zeke
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the coal plants were converted to natgas, so that's not it.
Preston
MBow30 alt account
zeke
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Wayward DP
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pesky facts, ruining all the best made up narratives
LeafGm
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It’s honestly so funny.
With the exception of 2015-2019, Alberta has been ruled by a monolithic, unbroken string of extremely conservative governments for 100 years.
And still these grifters and charlatans have the gall to make the NDP their scapegoat here.
zeke
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hockeylover
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my relatives re-posted it and attacked Trudeau for it. Something something electric vehicles.
LeafGm
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blkngldbabe
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I was coming to say this. All I hear from Redneckville, AB is how electric vehicles are the problem and fuck Trudeau for making people buy them and trying to outlaw gas vehicles.
. How about your wonderful provincial government get their shit together.
worm
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Probably doesn't impact this but Smith paused renewable energy projects.
Varcoe: Smith defends Alberta's pause on renewable projects to clean energy leaders as 'waiting game' continues
The premier's address to the Electricity Transformation Canada conference received polite, perfunctory applause
calgaryherald.com
worm
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It's funny because attack ads are aired out here for months saying our power will go out this winter because of Trudeau
trujaysfan
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It's essentially a death tax without the public getting any benefit from it. Private business finds a way to take all the wealth the prior generation has amassed.