Conservatives have adopted the franchise model and applied it to politics. They conform themselves to head office (in this case Republicans in the US) and get to piggy back off the propaganda that gets put out by them. The US being the media powerhouse that it is, it’s pretty effective. Alberta is the most obvious example of this.

So, sortition? I’m not opposed to giving that a larger role in policy making. It would give voice to a wider range of life experiences than the lawyers and business owners who tend to dominate elected positions.

But that person only commented once.

People have been treating a Conservative majority as basically foretold for the last while, but the election is still over a year out. Personally, I’ve been much more reserved with my feelings about our current political trajectory. Recent events from south of the border should make it very clear that even a few months is forever in politics. We’re not in what I would consider an ideal position, but it’s much too early to assume the sky is going to fall.

I’ve said this before, but coming up with no ideas of your own except to crack your whip at other people until they do something is bad McDonald’s manager level of leadership. Housing is an issue country wide, expecting municipalities to each individually come with solutions for you instead of developing a country wide strategy is going to lead to extremely uneven results at best. Most likely it’s going to be a disaster everywhere because municipalities don’t have the power to deal with root causes like land speculation the way the federal and provincial governments do.

I also would bet money that if municipalities start getting homes built in ways the Conservatives don’t like, like public housing, they will be punished for that as well.

I think she’s just had better luck with her skin. Her hair looks like it’s got it’s share of grey, at least around her shoulders.

Better than yanks who you can depend on to drag you into a pointless war halfway across the world.

You’ve dragged us into more wars than you’ve defended us in. This idea that there are hordes of hostile countries just salivating at invading us across three oceans is a joke.

In fact, the most significant threat to our safety is your trainwreck of a country deciding it likes fascism actually and doing a Sudetanland to us.

No way that wasn’t intentional. They could have off centred it even just a bit to ruin the effect if they wanted.

Great news. I use this site far more than I used Netflix before I cancelled that service so I consider a monthly donation money well spent.

Thanks for the notice and also for keeping this whole enterprise functional.

Happy Canada Day to you as well.

Alongside banners commemorating missing and murdered Indigenous women and the victims of Canada’s residential school system, Confederate flags flap gently in the wind.

Wow, I hate everything about that.

With a little research these culture vultures could have used an actual local “rebel” flag, this one:

Red River Resistance

But of course they appropriate a white supremacist flag from American history.

No, you did.

Emphasis on the sometimes. If you regularly put 80+ hours a week in even doing something you enjoy, eventually you will burn yourself out and there’s a good chance you won’t enjoy the thing anymore on the other side of that. Not for a long while, at any rate. Burnout is no joke.

“We believe that the province’s commitment to fiscal discipline and stability has wavered in recent years as B.C. has materially increased its spending for both operations and capital investment to unparalleled levels, while economic growth is slowing,” S&P said in its analysis.

So, punishment for Keynesianism? Is this that foreign interference I’ve been hearing about?

Surely Moody’s would never utilize it’s credit ratings dishonestly.

Fantastic picture.

No, this is from Friday. The bit mentioning the January brownouts was making a comparison to those of yesterday.

Considering the emergency they are fleeing from is not over, one wonders whether that deadline will be extended?

According to a news release, the SIU says the incident began at around 1:30 p.m. when police made a traffic stop in the area of Churchill Avenue and Avondale Avenue. A 25-year-old woman got out of the car and ran away, the SIU said. An officer followed.

“At some point, the officer discharged his firearm and the woman was struck. She was transported to hospital for treatment. The woman is in critical condition,” the SIU said.

Doesn’t sound like she presented a threat to anyone. I don’t think stopping a suspect from running away is a reasonable excuse to shoot them.