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Donald Trump claims B.C.’s ‘very large faucet’ could help California’s water woes
  • A lot of people around here are acting like Kamala has already won, and that is actually fucking disastrous

    No better than every other person thinking Trump has already won. An ignoramus is an ignoramus, regardless of political stripes.

    Unless you are an American citizen and can actually do something about any of it, tend your own farm.

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    Donald Trump claims B.C.’s ‘very large faucet’ could help California’s water woes
  • Soon to be authoritarian leader of a heavily militarized state that wants your national resources? Who wouldn’t care?

    Soon to be eh? I was unaware November already went by, Trump won the election, and is waiting for January to assume office.

    What? That never happened?

    Almost fooled me.

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    CPC policy hypotheticals: Canadians see a balanced budget, longer jail time as ‘good’; defunding CBC as ‘bad’ -
  • I believe that his own words and actions are what is tying him to trump. He supports all the same causes and spouts all the same rhetoric, shakes all the same hands… He has created a “base” comprised of racists, white supremacists, fascists, misogynists and assholes. He is supported by rebel media an alt-right organization…

    You can keep calling names and trying to draw parallels, but the fact of the matter is Trump is not special. Trump is not doing anything different than Conservatives have been doing for years, and if anything, Trump is stealing from a play book that has been around for longer than either him or Poilievre has been alive.

    Poilievre also didn't "create a base" of racists, fascists, misogynists, and assholes. He merely tapped the base, which wasn't hard considering that is what the Conservative party is comprised of, and ran simple platitudes that they would understand as a "platform".

    I mean you could search for all of this…

    You can as well.

    If you stop being so pretentious, and "search" for a real point to make, that would be great too.

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    CPC policy hypotheticals: Canadians see a balanced budget, longer jail time as ‘good’; defunding CBC as ‘bad’ -
  • No need to tie him to Trump's nonsense.

    Poilievre is much more dangerous than Trump is because Poilievre is a seasoned Politician and not a complete idiot.

    If we want people to understand who this guy is we need to explain who he is. Not try and scare people by pointing south of the border. Poilievre has more than enough history to attack without importing other countries politics.

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    CPC policy hypotheticals: Canadians see a balanced budget, longer jail time as ‘good’; defunding CBC as ‘bad’ -
  • I really do not see the Conservative Parties agenda as "secret".

    If you want to know what Canada looks like under Poilievre, take a look at how Canada was under Harper. It will be exactly like that, but worse.

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    CPC policy hypotheticals: Canadians see a balanced budget, longer jail time as ‘good’; defunding CBC as ‘bad’ -
  • This is why the majority of people will never be happy.

    One cannot balance a budget with increased spending, lower taxes, and no reductions in spending. But one will tell you they can in order to grab power and that one shouldn't be listened to because that one is likely attempting to create a dictatorship.

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    Don't be surprised by the B.C. NDP consumer carbon tax step back - In 2008, NDP used ‘Axe the Tax’ slogan to oppose [BC] Liberals 1st-in-Canada broad-based carbon tax
  • It goes back to province and then where?

    You are literally communicating to me on a device that could answer your question. I also provided you a link with more information.

    I am not going to hand hold this conversation for you when all you are doing is speculating.

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    Taxpayers may be on the hook for B.C. United employees' severance
  • Regardless of if they want to call themselves BC United or BC Conservative, the BC Liberals aren't to be trusted and never should have been.

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    1st teen sentenced in Kenneth Lee case gets 15 months probation
  • As you have said ad nauseam.

    Try speaking to the points instead of hiding behind a violent criminals age. Might help you make an actual point here.

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    1st teen sentenced in Kenneth Lee case gets 15 months probation
  • What happened to her was wrong.

    That doesn't change the fact that she, and her friends, are murderers and deserve to spend a long time in a real correctional facility. They literally swarmed and murdered a man over a bottle of liquor at the ages of 13-16. They aren't children, they are teenagers, and absolutely knew what they were doing and thought they could get away with it.

    Low and behold, a light sentence for a violent criminal. With likely more light sentences to come for the rest of them.

    ADHD isn't an excuse for murder. Her age doesn't change the crime. Peer pressure is a bullshit excuse.

    Every person involved with strip searching a minor seven times, and not getting her to her court dates, should also face the full extent of the law. Which as you were already told is a separate issue from the murder that took place, and shouldn't impact the sentencing of a murderer.

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    15 days and 6 Indigenous people have died when coming in contact with police across Canada
  • Not one of your links is about all six deaths. In fact every one of them is about one death alone, without mentionaing any others.

    Do I need to source every single Indigenous death reported by every other outlet for you to get the point?

    This is a well known issue, and is going to be debated today in the House.

    http://parlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20240916/-1/42173?Language=English&Stream=Video

    15:44 if you want to watch for yourself.

    As per the rest of your lying.

    Dedam is the third Indigenous person shot and killed by a police officer in New Brunswick in four years.

    The deaths of Chantel Moore and Rodney Levi, in June 2020, during wellness checks led to protests and calls for an inquiry into systemic racism in the justice system. The provincial government did not call that inquiry. The call for an inquiry arose again this week after Dedam's death.

    The death of Steve “Iggy” Dedam is the result of systemic racism, Chief Ross Perley of the Tobique First Nation, which is part of the Wolastoqey Nation, said in an interview Wednesday. Perley noted that two Indigenous people were killed by New Brunswick police in 2020 — 48-year-old Rodney Levi and 26-year-old Chantel Moore.

    You should read the links before you make statements about the content of them, and you should stop letting perfect be the enemy of good.

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    15 days and 6 Indigenous people have died when coming in contact with police across Canada
  • Their point was no one else is covering it and I clearly demonstrated that not only were they flat out lying, their own source covered it a day after every one of my sources published their articles.

    I’m with girlfreddy on this.

    Then you are equally wrong.

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    15 days and 6 Indigenous people have died when coming in contact with police across Canada
  • And silence from main street news.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/elsipogtog-march-killed-police-1.7324715

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/rcmp-shooting-elsipogtog-family-statement-1.7321343

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/wellness-check-rcmp-sirt-dedam-1.7322914

    Weird that you say that considering CBC has run three stories in the last few days, and broke it before your source did.

    But wait! There's more!

    https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/mi-kmaq-death-first-nation-wants-indigenous-representation-on-n-b-police-watchdog-1.7033973

    https://globalnews.ca/news/10750832/mikmaq-death-first-nation-wants-indigenous-representation-on-n-b-police-watchdog/

    Both sources broke it the day before your source published their article.

    It is a fucked up problem that needs to be addressed immediately and it will not be solved by lying in order to virtue signal.

    This country sucks.

    What exactly are you doing about it other than the aforementioned spread of misinformation?

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    Don't be surprised by the B.C. NDP consumer carbon tax step back - In 2008, NDP used ‘Axe the Tax’ slogan to oppose [BC] Liberals 1st-in-Canada broad-based carbon tax
  • Where the money goes

    The money is returned to the province or territory where it is collected. Provinces and territories with their own carbon pricing systems will use their proceeds as they see fit. The Government of Canada does not keep any direct proceeds from pollution pricing.

    https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/climate-change/pricing-pollution-how-it-will-work/putting-price-on-carbon-pollution.html

    Consumers also have a choice not to support companies as they see fit. Shopping locally sourced goods goes a very long way.

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    Don't be surprised by the B.C. NDP consumer carbon tax step back - In 2008, NDP used ‘Axe the Tax’ slogan to oppose [BC] Liberals 1st-in-Canada broad-based carbon tax
  • misinformation aside, tax the industry simply increase their cost and they can still just offset to the consumers no? since consumer don’t have others down the chain to offset that cost. I know on the sheet you can’t list tax as cost, but if the tax come when you buy the fuel, then it becomes part of the cost for say, a truck fleet company. If you tax the oil/fuel companies for how much they produced/shipped, they will have to raise the cost to account for the lost of potential tax to make the balance sheet or projection look nicer. I can’t think of a way to tax carbon and those cost won’t trickle down. But tax at the source would make overall consumption reduced since the gov artificially drive up the cost of that resource.

    In short, consumer would still foot the bill, but the goal to reduce carbon based fuel stays the same.

    The entire point of the tax is to increase the price so that individuals and industries will use alternatives. If companies raise the costs to offset the hit to their profits, assuming the Federal Cons win the next election and remove the federal tax causing the NDP to remove consumer side carbon tax, you as the consumer choose to use less of it or none at all.

    Which in the end is exactly the intent of a carbon tax. Make the products cost more so people aren't so inclined to use them.

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    Don't be surprised by the B.C. NDP consumer carbon tax step back - In 2008, NDP used ‘Axe the Tax’ slogan to oppose [BC] Liberals 1st-in-Canada broad-based carbon tax
  • A re-elected NDP government would scrap British Columbia's long-standing carbon tax and shift the burden to "big polluters" if the federal government dropped its requirement for the law, Premier David Eby said Thursday.

    At a campaign event in Vancouver, Eby said his government would end the provincial carbon tax on consumers if the federal "legal backstop" requiring the province to keep the tax in place is removed.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-ottawa-carbon-tax-1.7322033

    Who is surprised?

    Sounds like the stance is the same as it was in 2008, wanting to tax industry and not consumers, and the NDP aren't looking to be the only Government holding on to a program that has lost support of people in Canada because of a massive misinformation campaign about the tax.

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