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You have to love these pretend-andians like Adam’s, Neil Young or Mike Myers.
They show up once a decade, wave a Canadian flag and then fuck off back to where they live full time.
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The same Brian Adams whose music the CRTC determined did not qualify as Canadian Content?
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Total garbage. @DonBraid is literally just regurgitating exactly what is NDP buddies are telling him. Would be nice if he represented both sides of an issue for once.
One of the most respected court of appeal justices in Alberta history is chairing the boundary committee. It’s a lie to say that it’s the UCP. The maps aren’t even available yet (though clearly leaked to the NDP by someone).
In addition, Judge Miller and half the NDP caucus complained that there should be 2 additional seats added to account for population growth. So that was done and left to the independent judge-led committee to figure out how to do it. I assume they have done so.
Further, last election the NDP lost the popular vote by almost 10 percent and still almost ended up winning the most seats. So obviously they don’t want any change whatsoever that could level the playing field.
How do you explain that Don? Did the NDP gerrymander the map last go around under Notley? Was the 2023 election undemocratic too?
The UCP isn’t making that claim because it’s disrespectful of the people - including the judge - who did the hard work of determining those past boundaries.
Your bias is so clear Don. It’s disturbing.
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It is not going to make me feel any better when Liberal idiots eventually sheepishly admit that, yeah, Carney spending us into oblivion to try to join the Eurozone was a mistake.
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I welcome an open discussion of the Indian Act in Canada.
Many of the benefits people assume are treaty rights are actually legislative. They can be removed and repealed if the government has the will, without violating treaties.
The act itself is inherently racist.
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‼️The Prime Minister is borrowing at a pace not seen in generations.
And when we ask the simplest question: How are you going to repay it? The response is, “How dare you talk down the Canadian economy!”
Asking how the government intends to repay its debt is not talking down the economy. It's demanding accountability for the Canadians who will be buried under the mountain of debt.
#cdnpoli
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I said this when asked why some on Council are obsessed with attacking the Province.
“Picking a fight with the province makes it look like you’re standing up for the people while you jam a bunch of tax hikes down their throats.”
NEW. Battle lines being drawn. Calgary council won't budge on bike lanes. calgaryherald.com/opinion/co… via @calgaryherald
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Councillor Pantazopoulos needs to decide who he works for: the bureaucracy or Calgarians. If he wants to run to be mayor next term, he has to answer that question fast.
He fought hardest against the government employee disclosure list and is now opposing basic financial transparency. When public-sector unions and administrators push back against sunlight, the pattern is clear: protect the machine, not the people paying for it. Basic economics is not complicated. When taxpayers and businesses leave for greener grass, the tax base shrinks. That means less money for infrastructure and less capacity to fund the vanity projects he supports.
His vote against a modest 2.4% reduction across five departments last November is what prompted a closer look at how the money is actually spent. Getting data from a single department took months. What turned up shows that far more than 2.4% can be cut without touching frontline services. That is not speculation; it is what the partial records already reveal.
A one-time $100,000 and a 150K annual review of a multi-billion-dollar operating budget is cheap insurance before Council locks in a four-year plan that will raise property taxes and utility rates for families and businesses. Livestreamed meetings and published votes provide process transparency. They let the public watch Council debate administration’s summaries. They do not replace Council actually seeing the line items so it can ask better questions and direct limited dollars to the highest priorities.
If the current materials were sufficient to identify savings, the non-priority spending already visible in the partial data would not have stood out so clearly. Rejecting a line-by-line view means heading into budget deliberations with incomplete evidence.
Taxpayers in Ward 6 and across Calgary will live with the consequences if Council approves spending requests it has not fully scrutinized.
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Hello new immigrants to Canada, welcome!
I’m not sure how much you learned about Canada before you showed up at our borders with 47 members of your immediate family, so I’ve put this list of “things-to-know” together for you.
Canadians keep different types of pets at home, including cats and dogs and sometimes pigs or skunks. Often we will walk our pets. If this offends you, you’re welcome to go home.
Many Canadians enjoy bacon. And ham and sausage and other parts of pig. Sometimes they will send these meats as part of their children’s lunch to school. If this offends you, you’re welcome to go home.
On Oct. 31 every year, a large number of Canadians participate in activities for Halloween, including dressing up, going trick-or-treating and decorating their homes. If this offends you, you’re welcome to go home.
Canada is home to people of many different backgrounds, cultures and religions. Canada allows everyone to practice their religions and enjoy their cultures, so long as they don’t impede on the freedoms of others. If this offends you, you’re welcome to go home.
Canadians practice various religions, and a number of them pray. They pray in places of worship or their homes or in other private, safe places. They don’t pray where they’re blocking traffic and impeding emergency vehicles, which is against the law here. If this offends you, you’re welcome to go home.
Canada allows for same-sex marriage, and allows people to love who they choose. If this offends you, you’re welcome to go home.
Canada has laws against rape, including sexual contact with children. If this offends you, you’re welcome to go home.
I promise I will never move to your country, and try to get your country to change its laws or customs or values to accommodate me.
And I promise if you try to do that here, I will do everything in my power to try and have you removed.
Canada has warmly welcomed new immigrants for decades, including my grandparents and the parents and grandparents of many people I know. None of them tried to turn Canada into the countries they were fleeing.
Attempting to change Canada isn’t immigration. It’s invasion. And we won’t accept it.
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It would be one thing if Hagi was just some isolated and deranged Olivia Chow supporter living in Toronto Centre.
This is a 35-year-old woman who has written for seemingly every major publication, suggesting that a major mayoral candidate end his life.
Hate driven worldview.
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Nobody elected this clown, he speaks for himself only. Heriditary chief is a fictional term. He’s not a mayor, he’s not the Premier, he’s not the Prime Minister, and he’s not a king.
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You agree with inciting somebody to commit suicide, which is a criminal offense. Got it.
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She tried to coax a candidate to killing himself.
I expect the CBC will give her a show of her own.
CBC contributor tells Bradford to give in to dark thoughts after mayoral loss
westernstandard.news/news/cb…
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Who is completely unsurprised this is a gender studies prof at @SFU?
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Carney sounds a lot like a dictator. The sooner we get rid of him the better.
#BREAKING: Corrupt Mark Carney BANNED Quebec Premier, Plamondon, from speaking at Canada-European Union Summit in Montreal this week. He also refuses to allow Quebec to organize a reception on the sidelines of the Summit.
@PaulPlamondon @MarkCarney_Ego @MarkJCarney
@DefundCBC
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How's that GDP per capita looking?
You know.
That measure of individual prosperity?
