HonoredMule

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Are we just scapegoating the gov now?

As always, but only when the other side is in power.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Based on the window flashing/framing shown, I'd wager not a super long time nor terribly well insulated. But $7,500. A significant number of them is likely to get destroyed no matter how well built, so optimizing for cost is probably the right choice.

I do wonder why they're not made like "strip malls" or designed to connect with an enclosed cavity between. That would substantially reduce the area of direct outdoor thermal interface.

 

LeBrun describes the new model as a "rapidly deployable, courtyard-style housing model" made up of 14 individual units with communal bathrooms and showers. Wrap-around services and community support are also integral to his vision, as LeBrun looks to house the nearly 200 people living rough in Fredericton.

It's important that the units be "ultra-low barrier," he said.

"You take away all the reasons why people choose to stay outside. There's no curfew, you have a private space that's lockable, you don't have to leave during the daytime.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I'm no expert on international trade relations, but this feels like a meaningful reciprocation of our earlier outreach. It's heartening.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

"Don't assume a specific individual isn't among the 30% who tried" isn't a "both sides" argument. Neither is there any pragmatism in proactively excluding someone who might already be your ally, nor in purity testing those who wish to be.

No matter how angry you are today, that anger will fade. I hope your decisions are being driven by something more steadfast.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The principle remains: judge the group for its collective behavior, but don't stereotype the individual.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm not terribly familiar with Brazil's politics or economics, but I'd wager they're implying the hazards of becoming a direct, unambiguous threat to (external/private) capitalism. Canada's not too big to become a banana republic, if enough forces get behind manufacturing consent for ~~war~~ special military operations.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

It's "linguistic repositioning" at its finest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm sure Modi will be delighted to join a coalition against authoritarianism. India would make a pretty tenuous ally -- to put it mildly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

Maybe men should start supporting each other. You know, as long as admitting to having feelings isn't too gay or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I was waiting for some context like this before forming an opinion. Thank you for surfacing it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

The article seems to be rather incomplete. Just off the top of my head I notice the absence of anything regarding foreign affairs at all, let alone tariffs, and no mention of sales tax, national defense, food safety and supply management…

Presumably, it's pruned to focus on the things people confuse. But these days that's likely to include foreign affairs and trade. I don't think premiers are normally anywhere near as involved in that as currently, and I don't have a solid understanding of provincial authority there myself.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Earning condemnation from Campaign Life Coalition is an extremely low bar. Case in point: even Poilievre cleared it. I don't know what could possibly warrant even mentioning the opinion of a gossamer-masked hate group.

 

If you don't want accusations "going there" (despite constantly doing it to the other parties yourselves with groundless, disingenuous FUD), don't lead the way with your own actions. You, Danielle Smith, have thoroughly disgraced yourself, as does Lisa Raitt and any other double-speaking conservative apologist trying to gaslight away a bald-faced plea for foreign interference.

You asked a foreign -- and currently hostile -- government to act in a manner benefitting your preferred party's electoral outcome. By extension, you implicitly acknowledged that doing otherwise is demonstrating to voters why your guy shouldn't win, and that you want breathing room so voter attention can be redirected. You even sold it in a manner that implied stronger influence over Canada at best, and outright quid pro quo at worst -- literal collusion from our highest office with a hostile foreign entity against Canada.

Neither option so much as entertains the possibility Poilievre could actually be fit to defend Canada's national interests. That's why you like him, isn't it? What is Canada to you but an obstacle to your Oil & Gas masters? Every word of that interview carried layers damning all that Poilievre's CPC and your UCP represent, from values to character to political objectives to even basic loyalty to your own nation and for that matter the ecological future of the planet itself.

I didn't think there could be a Canadian politician worse than Poilievre, yet here you are and this incident is all about you, Smith.

You put yourself on tape directly confessing and doing far worse than everything you and the entire Conservative movement have managed to conjure as insinuations against everyone else combined. You literally betrayed our entire nation for a chance at personal gain. If there's any coming back from that at all, then my faith in the basic cognitive capacity of our average Canadian voter is seriously shaken.

If no laws were broken, there will be new ones named after you.

Resign.
Emigrate.
Shred your passport.
You have no business standing on Canadian soil.

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