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  1. captloadie

    Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???

    I have a skewed view I believe on some of the Liberal policies that have encouraged larger families, was wondering if anyone was seeing something different. From my perspective, the childcare benefit has assisted parents in making a decision to have more children, as the cost of daycare is...
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    Seniors Benefits Discussion- split from Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???

    But was that not the same period of time where we still cared for our elder parents in our own homes? So the question arises why was grandma living alone and penniless? And I don't think times have changed that much among the Anglo-Saxon part of the Canadian population. My wife has an aunt, in...
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    Seniors Benefits Discussion- split from Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???

    Is it all not just cyclical? Has there been a period of time where the cohort of seniors have not been the wealthiest and the younger people have been those who have had to struggle to build their wealth, until they have become the wealthier senior cohort? Is the poverty level among young people...
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    Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???

    We put so much emphasis on the names "Conservative" and "Liberal" tying all past iterations of the parties to their current positions. I believe that if Mark Carney were wearing a blue tie, and leading the current government, making all the same decisions, most of the anti-liberal posters would...
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    Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???

    It is interesting that no one has asked why they don't expropriate the current rail corridors from the railway companies and make them more efficient, rather than expropriating private lands. I know, this would cause more harm than good to the economy, but you'd think someone would at least do...
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    Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???

    Living in the area, I have heard all the negative comments about this, and it is pure NIMBYism and self interest driving the arguments. These same individuals would argue against new hydro lines, pipelines, or highways. The biggest argument being made is how it may impact property values, and...
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    Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???

    Why is there this constant attempt to link everything Carney is doing as Brookfield pulling the strings in the background? After a quick search, there are no former MPs sitting on Brookfield boards, with the exception of the PM. There are eight current MPs who have financial links to Brookfield...
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    Iran Super Thread- Merged

    It would appear while the story is real, the image is was ai generated.
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    Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???

    I get the hostility towards China, as they go beyond trying to just control former Chinese citizens living abroad, and putting down dissent/criticism. India is a more interesting case. Why are we really mad at them? Because they assassinated what they deemed a threat on Cdn soil and got caught...
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    The Great Gun Control Debate- 2.0

    Hey, I'm not saying I believe that one guy did something wrong, so ban everything. I'm saying that for hot button issues, it doesn't help when one side provides more ammo to the opponents argument. And as long as the pro-gun side relies on the drunk driver, what about knives, or its illegal guns...
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    The Great Gun Control Debate- 2.0

    I'm not sure if this was posted somewhere else in the forums, but I think it is actions like those that resulted in this court martial here provide fuel for the anti-gun fire. They will point to the fact that even trained legal gun owners don't follow the rules, and therefore why should anyone...
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    The Great Gun Control Debate- 2.0

    I did a pretty deep dive using copilot on this, trying to find if there would be any legal arguments that had a chance of success. While there are potential arguments that would be successful in gaining appropriate compensation for any prohibited weapons, without an amendment to the OIC no legal...
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    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    We are always shitting on Irving as a company (and maybe they deserve that) and the level of work their shipyard employees put out. But if you look at it from the workers point of view, maybe the reasons make things more understandable. East coast workers, like many other areas of Canada, don't...
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    Police Folk Allegedly Behaving Badly

    There is a large difference though between arrested and charged/convicted. Given the interdepartmental frictions that exist, and ICE/CBP to assumptions as Federal agents they don't always need to notify local law enforcement they are operating in their backyard, they are probably quite often...
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    Public service employment has grown by 31 per cent

    Legally per the various CA, they can't do it that way. They must decide which activities are no longer going to be done, or which sections reduced in size, and then delete boxes, not people. IE, you have a policy section of 20 personnel working on 5 different files, and you need to eliminate 10...
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    Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???

    From a practical standpoint, and given the capacity of a rail line to Churchill, how much more economical and efficient from a time perspective would it be to go that route, rather than to other east coast ports?
  17. captloadie

    Trump administration 2024-2028

    I am not Pro-Trump in any manner. And I believe that he has done more bad than good. But I think we need to be honest about the fact that these statements are inaccurate. His education included: High School: New York Military Academy (NYMA). Undergraduate Studies: Fordham University...
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    Religion in Schools (split fm Islamic Terrorism)

    My kids have gone through the Catholic school board system in two provinces. When they started in Alberta, (2012ish) the school board accepted all faiths at the grade school level. Parents had to acknowledge that the curriculum was faith based (which really only meant that they talked about God...
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    CAF Member Arrested and Charged Relating to Foreign Interference

    When I first saw the story this weekend, and saw it was an MWO, my first thoughts went to maybe he was providing information to foreign nationals he had worked with on previous deployments to help them with their cause. After being told to stop releasing said information he continued, thus the...
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    In Defense Bill, Congress Rejects Bid to Retire A-10s, F-15Es

    But the politicians aren't pushing to keep them for their value in combat, its to save the potential closing of airfields in their constituencies. Perhaps they should be convincing the USAF to put different assets in those locations.
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