shiftfocus99.bsky.social
Treaty 7. ✝️, social-gospel leftist, 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ally. Bird-app refugee. Cranky & triggered by idiots and disinfo. Blocks 🤖🧌facsists, MAGAts on sight. No🇺🇸Anchluss.
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She’s confused. The vaccine works fine. It’s her government that doesn’t work particularly well.
In fact, it doesn’t work at all.
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His Jim Halpert faces are gold, though.
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Exactly.
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Curious your take on the choice of utilities over more formal uniforms.
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Not just the marching.
Would you go to your 25th anniversary party in jeans and a T?
That was a choice.
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To say the least
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Looks like the CF-18s had some work to do.
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It’s both.
I understand your perspective, but in this case I disagree.
Good conversation. Thanks.
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Except it was a G8…
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I recall they had them for the 2002 G7, also in Calgary.
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Agree completely.
My issue, again, is that slapping a label on someone *isn’t* analysis. It pigeonholes people, and short-circuits what could be useful discussion, turning it into shouting match worthy of a school playground.
We can do so much better.
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And someone NOBODY would call a conservative.
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Oh come on. Based on the election results he was also popular with New Democrats. Does that also make him a social democrat?
It’s lazy analysis, and just polarizes the discussion.
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21st Prime Minister, and Chretien’s finance minister for a decade.
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Kinda like Paul Martin.
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Which is exactly my point.
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Which is actually my point.
The labels do not help the analysis.
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And the Alberta NDP espouse decidedly market friendly policies.
Are they Conservatives?
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Hilarious you think I’m a Liberal.
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Interested in your take on Paul Martin.
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Yet it’s a bar Canadian conservatives fail to meet.
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Thanks for reinforcing my point.
Labelling someone also reinforces polarization.
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It’s a feature, not an oversight
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In my part of the country, PCs are a quaint relic of the past.
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He. Raised. The. Pride. Flag.
He’s not a Conservative.
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People already “in the market” do not face the same barriers to entry as first time buyers. I don’t see how this would do anything to increase supply, let alone reduce the price of entry.
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If you watch him without the sound on, he looks like he’s announcing the arrival of the clown at a birthday party, and is almost overwhelmed by the sheer excitement of it.
Telling.
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Okay, but this is not what you accused Smith of doing.
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Something something “pristine viewscapes”
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Heavens! What a dreadful suggestion!!!
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Since the fire I know AB has played politics with the recovery and reconstruction, to their shame. But that’s a different matter.
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Is there anything to actually suggest that AB was dragging their feet on that request? Or that and earlier request would have made a difference?
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I completely disagree. Parks Canada was the lead agency, and their timeline indicates they were working with Alberta Wildfire and AEMA on Jul 23, <24 hours after the fires started and evacuations were ordered. AB requested assistance from GoC Jul 24, the same day the fires reached the town.
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Yup
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Would be interesting to know if Brian Jean has asked said indigenous in-laws their thoughts of being downstream of coal mines. Or oil sands for that matter.
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Rest assured we know.
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Folks understood the assignment.
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158 Canadians in uniform, along with a few civilians, came back from Afghanistan in coffins. Their blood was just as red as those of the Americans.
Hegseth can go f*** himself.
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And my own kids. In both cases, their jobs came via personal connections which bypassed portions of the conventional application process. One of them took the better part of 2 years.
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Nothing quite like victim blaming when you need to deflect attention from your own responsibility.