Michael Hardner
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Thanks 🙏 for the positive note.
I feel like all parties will be changing now, except maybe for the Green Party.
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45 minutes ago, robosmith said:
It's entirely irrelevant to our future life support and infrastructure damages.
And it actually proves the point they're against: See ? Volcanoes spewing CO2 for years caused the temperature to go way up and everything was fine... Everything meaning the massive ferns and bugs that lorded over the hot rocks.
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51 minutes ago, robosmith said:
Disingenuous or ignorance or both.
It's a strange point to make. Temperatures being at deadly levels when humans weren't around isn't reassuring to me, for one.
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5 hours ago, Scott75 said:
I think a good start would be to stop allowing banks the ability to create money out of nothing. If anyone should have that power, it should be the government itself, as it would essentially be a tax, which governments do anyway. A good documentary on the economic system that the world uses, focusing in on the U.S. can be seen here:
Kind of a super socialist idea, that people can't lend out the money they have on hand. Fractional reserve banking has been around forever.
It's another one of those issues like the gold standard... Where somebody talks about how it influences everything but nobody is really sure why. And conventional economists barely mention this stuff.
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As typified by the "who cares" responses, Climate Change's big impact is that it revealed a public sphere that can't coalise on problem solving.
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5 hours ago, Moonlight Graham said:
China can suck it. They're our enemy too. It's Europe or nothing.
At this point, everybody needs a deal. The question everyone's asking is, who can I deal with that will keep their word?
The US is off the table. They make up agreements, then tear them up on a whim. Europe is culturally, politically, strategically the best alignment but they're not geographically close.m
China? We have done deals with them, and to my mind they kept them... But those weren't great deals for us IMO. Trudeau actually canceled some because of security concerns, if you can believe that.
There is lots of money in the system to be aligned towards hard-working Canadians. How to do that, keeping productivity and efficiency as a priority, and rewarding the investor class... Will take a lot of brains and politics.
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16 minutes ago, Moonlight Graham said:
Michael Chong and Erin O'Toole aren't chuds. Nor Mitt Romney.
Nor Harper...
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On 4/25/2025 at 4:41 PM, Queenmandy85 said:
Okay. The election in on Monday and the votes have not been counted. Mr. Poilievre has been giving the Liberals a head start but I have promised the CPC will win 183 seats. I admit to being a bit apprehensive. He is leaving it very late in the race to surge past the Prime Minister, but he will do it.
Kudos to you, Queen, I should never be as brave as you to make any prediction let alone one is bold as this.
I do agree that anything can happen in these turbulent times...
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7 minutes ago, herbie said:
AAGGGHHH the streets are full of zombie psycho killers - don't open your front door! Use that crystal ball to lock up anyone with mental problems before anything happens so that we're safe! AAIIIIEEEE!
But if a conservative gets into office, people will stop reporting individual incidents and blaming the PM for everything that happens. So we'll be safe at that point.
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16 minutes ago, SpankyMcFarland said:
There is a sociological element to this change that we should be honest about. People with chronic psychotic disorders are not politically powerful. They don’t have the advocates for their care that sick children or breast cancer patients have.
Indeed, this is true and I suspect that The political power of those who don't want these people to be an eyesore.... Camping in our Parks... Or existing for that matter... Far outweighs the power of the afflicted.
And yet, this system of collaborative and coordinated neglect is how we run all of our public institutions. So we get Rock bottom public costs, and problems not being solved, sometimes getting worse.
And somehow this lowest common denominator still becomes fuel for populism.
Once in awhile there's a huge event and everybody gets out of their chairs and starts yelling for a couple of weeks, then we go back to it.
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3 minutes ago, herbie said:
Amazingly he managed to attend the Pope's funeral service and commit only two internationally embarrassing things, wear a blue suit instead of black to a funeral and sat with Zelensky talking politics inside the Vatican.
He Zelensky even wore his customary digs in black, and managed to get a cheer from the crowd and a handshake from the French President, two things the Butterscotch Buffoon didn't.
He also nodded off, looking quite slovenly...
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Sad icon, for being a sore winner... Or expecting to be one.
We have a conservative PM, no reason to think he wouldn't have run for the CPC just as Doug Ford, Patrick Brown etc.
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1 hour ago, TreeBeard said:
You’re a big Trump person, no?
Where has this love of the truth been all this time?
Trump's different, because everyone knows he doesn't mean what he says.
🤔
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5 minutes ago, Nationalist said:
Well we won't get it with a liar and a thief at the helm.
I don't know how old you are, but an early lesson in politics is to learn that politicians lie.
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5 hours ago, WestCanMan said:
when all they can do is mutilate their bodies and end up permanently trapped between sexes, and unable to ever procreate.
They can also wear makeup and dresses, and call themselves by a girl's name though right?
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7 hours ago, August1991 said:
Faced with Carney, Poilievre had the potential win of Diefenbaker in 1958, Mulroney in 1984.
Carney was a WEF bureaucrat. An easy target.
All Poilievre had to do is wave the flag. Stop talking about taxes.
Unbelievable own goal.
Canada is a highly educated country, maybe they didn't care about the wef nonsense, maybe they didn't care about wives.
Maybe they didn't like Trudeau because of his condescending attitude and continued mismanagement.
Maybe Canada just wants proper governance?
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41 minutes ago, TreeBeard said:
Thats the problem though…. China is probably not interested in building plants using Canadian workers. They want to sell Canada the finished product. I’m sure there is a deal to be made, but it’s not going to look great. It’s going to take some brutal compromises, I think.
We’re not going to be negotiating from a position of strength, or even with a nation that would see us as an equal partner hoping for a win-win.
Given the reported LOW sale price for said vehicles, what would be the issue with additional Canadian labour component even if it drives the price up a little?
This topic screams for an industry expert
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Interesting idea.
3 hours ago, eyeball said:I'm all for it so long as China starts making substantial inroads on respecting human rights at home and abroad.
Otherwise forget it.
I assume the bar is lower, now that our number one trading partner kidnaps people and deports them without due process.
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35 minutes ago, SpankyMcFarland said:
I see he’s ranting about the ‘China loving Wall Street Journal’ now.
Amazing... After all Rupert has done for him
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3 minutes ago, TreeBeard said:
If you couldn’t save some coin from being in a decade long real estate boom for the inevitable downturn, I’m not going to shed any tears for you.
I do feel sorry for dumb people who make decisions that go against their interests.
This is why I weep for the chuds. You can find Trump fans online waiting for things to turn around any day now... -
Just now, TreeBeard said:
1. Has Canada ever had a holy grail of a political leader? Sounds to me like your expectations might be a tad high.
2. If the Cons do pull it off, I don’t think we have much to worry about. I think Poilievre would be scared to death of governing in a way where he is compared to Trump. It would make his government a brief minority, or a single term majority.
1. My expectations are spot on. I am waiting on something that I don't expect to see in my lifetime. Sir John A. was pretty good. Sir Mackenzie Bowell was pretty bad.
2. Agreed. I don't think a lifetime as an MP is a good place to start for making wholesale changes. As for Carney... while I do think he understands economic matters, I wonder if he knows how to govern.
I think we're in for a bad few years, in all likelihood. My prayers are with you if you work in small business, real estate or anything to do with that business, startups ... -
2 minutes ago, TreeBeard said:
I don’t think @Michael Hardner is scared of something so far fetched.
It doesn't matter much to me. I haven't heard anything from these leaders that tell me they're the Holy Grail I have been waiting on.
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5 minutes ago, BeaverFever said:
But it definitely highlights how Canada sometimes subsidizes innovation that ends up creating wealth abroad, rather than building domestic industries.
I think this works the same throughout the west as a way of 'attracting' investment, tech etc.
The thing is you can't change the rules of such things unilaterally or you will lose out.
This is called 'the race to the bottom'.
In the end, we will see that the populists are whiffing at the truth of the matter after all: working people with low skillset and few options are 100% shafted by western governments who treat them like chattel. The big surprise: getting Trump to tariff all of the cheap goods they rely upon to live is not the answer. -
21 minutes ago, BeaverFever said:
But as Balsille pointed out even when the research is done here, we give away the IP anyways or allow it to be privately sold for peanuts For example Tesla battery technology was developed at Dalhousie U with a large taxpayer funded endowment but we allowed tesla who also contributed funds to walk away with the IP
I think this example needs a deep dive.
Here's some "in the know" chatter (Reddit obv) which indicates that the Dalhousie Researcher is filing their own patents:
Liberal Mark Carney wins Canadian PM election, so suck on that CONS
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Sore winners 😔