I don’t think you would get any unwelcoming. Calgary and area is full of USA plates. Lake louise was full of out of province plates all last winter. Albertans don’t care! We are all happy to see you! Ski away!Quote:
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I don’t think you would get any unwelcoming. Calgary and area is full of USA plates. Lake louise was full of out of province plates all last winter. Albertans don’t care! We are all happy to see you! Ski away!Quote:
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Its 'berta, tdirt and all the other redneck immunologists will welcome you with open arms, sans mask of course. Pitch in and do a hospital protest and spit on a nurse or 3 and theyll probably buy your beer or ivermectin shooters. YummmQuote:
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Shits about to get real in alberta
Dina Henshaw tried to fall on her sword by taking the responsibility except nobody believes it was her idea to open up alberta last spring so this is all on the UCP and Jason Kenny
shit is also real up here in Narthern BC
Interesting that you thought this post was about you when it was not....I guess u relate?Quote:
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1 more useless post, I would expect nothing less. 14k is coming fast congrats!!Quote:
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I guess it shows that you can't lower restrictions until you get to 90% vaxxed fully . Well I wished them well do thought that vax rate wasn't high enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
Has the surge in cases/ hospitalizations/ICU caused an uptick in vaxx rates? Passport rollout does but do rates of bad things happening to people? Or is still not real? Not being able to go to a bar or restaurant is real.
Ugh, this thread's been shit for pages.
Turning it back to politics, I read a story today that O'Toole was neck in neck with Justin. Does he really have a chance? Is Singh pulling off too many votes and splitting the left?
Scheer and Trudeau was also a "dead heat" up until the actual election IIRC.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ted Striker
338 has them basically tied for votes, but that doesn't translate in to seats. It's looking like we'll end up with the exact same situation as before - minority Liberal government with the Bloc/NDP holding the balance of power.
Thanks, Obama Trudeau.
So, are the doctors and nurses in this video full of shit?
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/corona...ated-1.5587419
Fuckin' scary, man. The very last tidbit of information at the end is awesome.
Jason Kenny has been swearing up and down all year that Alberta will never have a vaccine passport, illegal, unconstitutional Yada, Yada. He must have seen some serious shit to have suddenly gone back on that, given how much blow back that is going to earn him from a lot of his party and supporters. Although in typical UCP fashion, they didn’t just declare a mandate, they made it ‘optional’ by offering you a choice: follow restrictions IE no Indoor dining, or use the vaccine passport and continue on as ‘normal’. So they can spin it that they gave businesses the choice to not require passports.
Going to be interesting. Pick the least worst guy (girl), weigh that with choosing a party that somewhat aligns with your beliefs and of course compare the virtues of your local candidates to not pick an idiot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ted Striker
This one's particularly tough for me. The liberals reneged on a promise to bring in proportional representation, though they did legalize devil's lettuce. The NDP fiscal policy is hair-brained and their leader is not worthy, the conservatives have a bunch of sketchy opinioned morans in their party (not our local candidate) and overall lean a little too far right for my liking. Voting for the Greens here is a wasted vote (since we don't have proportional representation in this country (yet)). The other 2 parties in my riding are fringe and do not warrant comment.
Speaking of proportional representation - I recently hung 250 door hanger signs on behalf of a non-partisan/non-profit tasked with getting this system inacted in our country. The Greens and the NDP have come out in favour of this system; the Conservatives have suggested they'll have a national referendum to decide if we'll finally rid our selves of the "first past the post" system of election. The Liberals had put proportional representation on their platform last election, then got elected and decided that it wasn't in our (read their) best interest to proceed. I'm a bit pissed about that.
I'm going to listen to the candidates forum tonight (for Skeena/Bulkley Valley) and perhaps that will help make my mind up.
Yep, weak effort to try and save face, although I appreciate that there's an option to gain entry with a negative test within the past 72 hours. $13 a day pussy tax for not getting vaxxed seems reasonable.Quote:
Originally Posted by eldereldo
Jason Kenny has been lying/ forcing/ bull-in-a-china-shopping his way thru the oil downturn and he is trying the same thing with COVID, but covid doesnt care, so after trying everything else they may have to do the right thing and listen to the epidemiologist
I mentioned on local FB that the Christian school had a big infestation and was told the school is actualy closed with about 40 cases
Telkwa BBQ is a big drunk fest every fall, maybe a classic rock band, bunch of god heads and rednecks out thar,
the same focus group ( unfocus?) would have also attended the rodeo with rodeo dancing no distancing no masks
and this week we have the highest figures in BC
Me I pulled back 2 weeks ago skipping the above ^^ carnage, the music at the craft brew,
my buddies at the folk music society wisely made the difficult decision to cancel & return money
I believe the Liberal candidate is a nobody that was parachuted into the riding, has almost zero chance, so its either going to be Taylor bike rack the NDP guy for another term or that chick with all the shit in her face running for the consQuote:
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Yeah, nice move on the Liberals part. Dipshits.Quote:
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I think the non con choice here locally is the ndp so i voted for wayne. The tool is getting roasted for supporting kenny only a couple days ago. I can see votes melting away with that, so another lib minority gov't with the ndp keeping check on them which works for me/fingers crossed
Playboy wanna be moron bernier stealing the anti vax hicks from the cons big time after this kenny walk back and the tool having to dbl down on vaxx because of it
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Both the cons and liberals have run Candidates in other ridings who do not live in the riding and have absolutely zero chance so i am wondering what the point is ?
> 30 % of Bulkley Stikine is FN and they have usually voted NDP for like the last 4 elections both federaly and provincially
that con chick with all the shit in her face is a reformed drug addict
while that bike rack guy is just a reformed telemarker,
so when he was mayor a lot of people were pissed off that Taylor spent money to make the town a better place by instaling bike racks, but we actualy got them for 1/2 price cuz the fabricator screwed up something minor on the order so the Fabricator said just keep them and we will send you the right racks
I think Taylor Bachrach will probably be re-elected,
And that matters why Al? I talked to her at length last election and she was well spoken, informed on the issues and was an entrepreneur who started her own business and was successful at it. Yeah, she has some piercings but who under 30 doesn't these days. Remember the old "judging a book by it's cover" proverb here dude. You're being pretty fucking judgemental harping on the chick's face metal. But whatev man, it's your vote.Quote:
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Cute, but who gives a fuck.Quote:
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No going out on a limb at all by saying this. The NDP has been elected here since Nathan came to town. And, what has that got us up here. I really really liked Nathan, and still do. Voted for him more than once, but seriously - continuous voting in of opposition parties (in our current first past the post system, which I believe is FUCKED) does your riding nothing. Other than voting in a nice man, or woman... who may or may not have telemarked, or have a face piercing or two.Quote:
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Our political system is broken and we can do better.
After watching Vince on pulp fiction I think that same thing anytime I see facewear
but seriuosly the NDP candidate is the most likely to win
And at least he is not a snow boarder
you should probably put me on ignore just on principle
I prefer to think of them as skiers that are weak-kneed.Quote:
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As for the lady with the piercings, politics in our ill-informed, under-educated, and increasing lack of fellow-feeling democracy, such appearances matter. It's a fucking popularity contest. The only reason the system doesn't collapse is that the bureaucracy, as bloated and cumbersome as it is, actually has some smart people all through the ranks, that keep the ship on an even keel despite the ineptitudes of our elected leaders. And remember, when money or policy is moving really fast in government systems as large as our western democracies take a good hard look at the process - there be corruption in there somewhere.
I can't get past the face piercing in anybody without seeing Vince ask the question
but I am probably a little more accepting than the average nartherner so how does shit-in-face play if she knocks on a door to ask for a vote even tho she is actualy well spoken ?
Taylor wears really nice suits, rides a cargo bike wearing a white helmet, kind of a Justin trudeau knockoff fashion wise, which I think drove the local conservatives wild when he was mayor
buddy was a pretty good telemarker, but mostly he is working insted of skiing cuz In a riding the size of bulkley/ stikine the job is 90 hrs a week almost half that is traveling up/down/ sideway and to ottawa
I'm sorry but that has to be one of the dumber things about Canada posted on TGR. Every ranking of political system puts Canada near the top better than 90% of countries with PR. PR has merits but its very complex , exit polling in Germany showed that the majority of people didn't have an understanding of what their 2nd vote really did. For PR to work you need smarter people, for democracy to work better you need smarter people. PR will not make anyone's dick bigger or their ass smaller so don't believe the crap that Fair Vote Canada tell you. Its too bad that this election more than others seems to be very South Parkesk between a giant douche , a shit sandwich ( but with O'Toole moving to centre maybe less so) and what do I call Singh? lying cunt who knows almost all of his posturing is lying BS. But he will never be PM and so his promises of populist BS are meaningless. Don't get me wrong the BC NDP are doing a pretty good job.Quote:
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Holy polyass guys… when’s the border opening?
That said…. This election is a 600 million dollar waste of time.
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True, don't fucking know, true.Quote:
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And DougW, I've said way stupider things on this board so fuck off.
if you don't like the democracy go back to russia,
in any case I think its just Gary's time of the month
I haven't been following this thread lately and I'm sorry if this was covered but this 24 hr turnaround by Kenney is something you don't see every day
https://globalnews.ca/video/8194570/...d-19-decisions
https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/i-apolog...plan-1.5587497
even the shittiest canadian pols are so much better than down south it's pretty amazing and yet my republican dad will send me every dumb article he can find about how the metric system sucks. thanks, dad.
Anyway, picked up the MIL from the airport, she was barely off the plane from Edmonton before launching into a tirade about it being sheer pandemonium over there (she's a retired nurse).
I hope it gets better for everyone, and especially her old coworkers.
Calgary mayyor Nanshi just roasted that blowhard kenney pretty hard. The mayor is a class act and not prone to attacks near as blunt. He said he's worked with 6 different premiers in his stint as cowtown mayor and the kenndy govt is the most incompetent he's ever seen. Mayors pulling no punches and he's ususlly quite measured and diplomatic
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USA back to 150k+ daily new cases and ~2000 deaths a day. Time to close the border again.
And Dougie calls another lock down in 5...4...3...argggghhhh! How are your kids getting along with this? I fear the fallout of school back in with Delta running amuck.Quote:
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Maybe a road trip to New Hampshire next year? I'm not getting any younger.
If Dougie calls a lockdown it'll spell the end for him.Quote:
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If they close schools again - the same.
Kids are fine - they wear their masks, they follow the rules, and every day they say they had a great day. In-person school has got to be a billion times better than online. We cannot go back to that shit. "outbreak" declared at my kids' school yesterday, but that just means they suspect there was transmission from one positive case to another person in the same cohort. Those students are isolating and doing whatever it is public health says to do. Everyone else carries on. Same thing happened last year a few times, it is what it is but please Dougie keep the schools open at all costs.
We just need to hang on until what - December? That's when Pfizer should be approved for 5+? I hope they bring nurses and needles right in to the gyms on Day 1.
Once kids are vaxxed we will probably head to VT for a few days. There are people there I miss.
Doug needs to limit the size of indoor gatherings and sell it in the name of keeping schools and businesses open.
If he could do from two weeks ago, that would be great.
The new cases numbers seemed to have peaked and are now going back down. Hopefully that trend continues.Quote:
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Hey at least he flip-flopped on the most obvious vaccine passport thing that everyone wanted him to do, and that starts Wednesday. Once he could #BlameTrudeau, of course.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Tortoise
Sharp jump in tests (probably school related), lower positivity rate, slight increase in cases, 7-day average cases is lower, hospitalizations and ICUs continue to remain flat. What does it all mean!
...I think it means the vaccines are working.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/poli...security-pact/
Got to purge the ones you can't trust.
Wow, I didn't mean to turn it this political, lolThat's what I thought too. Trudeau wins covid, wins election, border opens. Guess not.Quote:
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https://youtu.be/MTCqXlDjx18Quote:
Originally Posted by Asspen
So far Covid has not behaved as expected, why would it do so now ?
Hopefully after trying everything else the people in charge will do the right thing and listen to science
which is not infalible but its > politicians chasing money & votes
Trudeau is on record as saying that the one country that he admires most other than his own country, is China. But it is worse than that: unlike other G7 countries Canada refuses to prevent Huawei from becoming Canada's 5g provider.Quote:
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Indeed, Canada under the Trudeau Liberals is a security threat to our closest neighbours and allies.
https://globalnews.ca/news/3899392/t...ost-not-china/Quote:
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