NDP and LPC won't have the funds to do another election any time soon. A CPC minority will have 2 years where they can act like a majority and the LPC and NDP will simply not have all members vote on bills allowing them to pass. If the LPC loses this election they will have some pretty hefty internal issues to contend with along with a near empty war chest so they will want a leadership convention before triggering an election.
Effectively its a 2 year majority government no matter which party wins the minority.
I always assumed they were seeing this as MacKay would win without PP present and not O'Toole. That said I didn't see the CPC winning the last election I assumed it would be better to have a caretaker leader for one election and replace him prior to the next one. This lets you run a new platform and correct directions come next election while not pushing to many people away.
Watch porn on your second screen. Between the two screens you can achieve balance.
Really? We obviously have different memories of this period of time. I remember meta being very pro Bernier when the CPC leadership convention was occurring and having a full on theme dedicated to him becoming leader. I remember him being the popular choice and there being a pretty cold opinion when he lost.
This very much included the mod team at meta. I remember there being a pretty open conversation about the PPC and it going down hill exactly as Ham described it.
We have had vaccine requirements for travel since the dawn of the airlines industry.
https://www.who.int/ith/2016-ith-county-list.pdf
The list of required vaccinations is massive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccination_requirements_for_international_travel
Effectively everything in the southern hemisphere requires proof of yellow fever vaccinations. Europe previously had requirements depending on the country you were visiting and the country you were traveling from. Across Canada we require proof of vaccination to enroll a student in public schools and we have for decades.
So the question isn't "do you support a vaccine passport" it is "do you support an entirely new vaccine passport beyond the one currently accepted internationally". I have no issue with countries making the choice to require proof of vaccinations and as such if I want to visit them I need to get the vaccines and or have my documents up to date. But if the question is do we need a new document for this purpose I have to say a flat no because we already have it.
The only reason to create a new document is to use it for purposes other than enrolling in schools or international travel. The only reason to create this document is so that they can require it for more purposes and to me this is bullshit and something I am against.
Hmm this could be the largest divorce ever from a numbers perspective.
wow this is 100% not what this says at all!
So the CDC is looking for samples from people who have tested positive for COVID19 after having taken a vaccine with a cycle count below 28. These samples would have a very low false positive rate because of the lower cycle count and thus would provide a more accurate sample base.
They are specifically looking for samples that are POSITIVE at the lower threshold.
Factory work third world countries
I live in one of these! (no joke I live in a third world factory country). Our numbers are lower.
median age where I am 24 years male: 23 years female
median age in Canada women 39.6 years male: 41.4 years female
so my expectation based purely on age distribution of deaths would be Canada is fucked. I'd go a step further and say due to the fact that old people live back in the province while the kids works in the city and send money home old people who are at the most risk are safer here. There isn't critical mass and there isn't a high chance of spread once a case occurs due to the distributed nature.
I'd argue its demographics and that Hamilton is a poor comparison to global stats.
The media and politicians in Canada are losing their grip on the big lie narrative.
More than ever, it is critical for every canadian to stand up for truth.
Police are getting orders from the corrupt up top
We need citizens to come together across the country to end this
Every single data point validates that this is a scam
courts and politicians refuse to hear the evidence.
Be the change you want to see.
The message is more clear when you say just the meaningful parts and not the buzz and spin. The same message is present and I used your words without adding my own and without changing the order. This version I would listen to and engage the original leaves me pushing away.
If the goal is to get the common person to join a cause you need to drop the buzz and spin. Your message is solid enough to get people to nod their heads but you spoil it and make it something that will turn people off. Messaging like this is also dangerous in that it doesn't let calm cool collected people who generally agree with the point join in due to the buzzwords.
There are better ways to get support without changing the actual message.
https://ocasi.org/new-fact-sheets-show-growing-racial-disparities-canada
https://www.broadbentinstitute.ca/black_food_insecurity_in_canada
So ignoring the leftist sources for now and assuming they are being honest...
A reasonable argument would be that BIPOC in the Hamilton area are more likely to work jobs which force them to be exposed to sources of COVID. More likely to work in the service sector and more likely to work in informal work categories with limited choice. They would through this argument be less likely to self isolate and less likely to have a job that lets them work from home.
So assuming again that the above is true and that COVID is 1/4 as infectious and dangerous as they suggest it is this would suggest that BIPOC face more risk while also providing a greater risk of transfer. I would also suggest that likely there is a difference in living accommodations with whites living in less dense homes with more space and again reduced chance for COVID transfer.
Again making the assumption that this is not for the express purpose of moronic racism a solid argument could be made that there would be a disproportionate rate of infection and thus targeted deployment would make sense.
if you believe in critical race theory this is simply proof they know it is dangerous
I was down at the condo pool yesterday with the wife. We were chilling out and relaxing pool side in one corner about a third of the way around was a mother and daughter who we knew but they are chinese and pretend we don't exist, we were neighbors for 3 years before we moved to the unit directly above them but to date she pretends we don't exist. In the pool was an aussie dude and his 3 year old daughter, cute as a button. She kept on saying high to me and the wife and then splashing around with her smiling away.
The other little girl (I'm guessing 5ish) was playing on her scooter and her mom was talking on the phone and the 3 year old saw her and said HI like a normal kid would do, the little chinese girl looked a little taken aback but waved back a second later. She went to go to the side of the pool where the little girl was and mommy calls out in mandarin called out "come here" (I understand simple mandarin due to work) so the girl come on over with her head held down a little as it was obvious she was getting scolded. Mom continues her call and little girl stands patiently beside her both of them wearing their masks and face shields like idiots.
So little 3 year old girl gets out of the pool and slowly walks towards the other girl standing with her mom. Fuck me you would think she had the god damn plague the way this woman reacted and pulled her daughter against her leg. Jesus poor chinese girl probably hasn't seen a kid remotely close to her age in over a year due to the lockdowns over here and while shy she clearly needs it but moma would have none of that.
These kids are being traumatized by their parents who will never be able to let go and get back to normal. The ones with half a brain will grow up thinking their parents are as insane as the kids who flee religious nutbag parents. But for ever one that does that I bet there will be another kid that is so useless to humanity they would have been better off having caught the damn covid of legend that was going to kill us all.
Does this actually effect normal people? I haven't had a job since I was like 20 that I couldn't occasionally call in a hangover day and stay home and get paid. Christ I once had my boss crashing at the corporate pad I was crashing at and we laughed at 9am joking we were both to drunk to go into work and offered to trade hookers instead.
As an aside if your high school guidance councilor didn't suggest a career with corporate sex pads and all night benders and you have a penis its proof your guidance councilors were as useless as mine. I never met someone who's guidance councilor suggested the fulfilling career of vacation hotspot photographer (have a buddy who does this for a living) or Strip Club manager (oddly not the happiest guy I know but in the top ten) or professional baccarat money launderer (got paid $30 dollar an hour for that gig and worked 12 hour days).
If you can't take a paid sick day its because you suck and listened to an idiot in high school so dumb they worked in a high school!
they call it a double double same as in Canada.
its sold by Tim Hortons same as in Canada.
it is served by a filipino same as in Canada.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliovirus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubella
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_fever
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria
Are real and vaccines have been very effective against all but malaria. I'm not forcing anyone to take them but these absolutely work and we are better for having them.
https://www.healthline.com/health/viral-gastroenteritis
If you wonder why you get sick less as an adult then you did as a kid? well half of it comes from the ones listed above. Many of these have a greater effect on children as their body does not have a coping mechanism for them yet. As you age you no longer get sick from many of these guys. This is part of the reason why kids from places with dubious water have higher incidences of childhood death but once they hit their preteen years they level off with the first world. It is also why if you visit these same regions you come down with the same diseases listed above. Add to this that as children you are in closer contact with other children all day who all have the same undeveloped immunity and for obvious reasons you got sick more often as a kid than you will as an adult.
Stunning and Brave, Stunning and Brave
Seriously it is stunning and brave of the republican party to put forth the first openly transgender candidate in an election of this type. It shows how backwards and bigoted the Democrats really are when it comes to things like this how far behind the times they are bringing only 2 of the genders forward as candidates for key positions like this.
The reality is that Californian elections are a run off election. Over 100 jackasses and idiots will run in the first election the top 2 then square off in a real election.
What is your total count at now? I've been watching s your collection grows week after week so I'm assuming you must be in the $30,000 plus category at this point.
yeah it was a flippant comment on my part but the math (post below) surprisingly holds up better than you would think and I'd rather back up my flippant bullshit than just let it steam like a politician.
So quick story. few years back I went to this place linked above. They are massive swings over a gorge 50km's north of the drunken aussie area of beaches in Bali in an area know for yoga. This place is endless hoards of women wearing long dresses going on these swings of death in a third world country held together with 20 year old rotting ropes taking pictures of themselves not realizing the danger they are in for Instagram. For every guy there are literally 100 women in long ass dresses.
Me and the wife were there with 2 other couples not realizing the yoga nature of the area. The wives were all having spa day and the guys were getting drunk at one of the 8 pools (https://www.themansionbali.com/ like under $100 a night) and we were noticing that we were the only 3 guys at the entire hotel. like 150 women no men. We were having drinks bought for us we had food sent over to us and to be fair we are middle aged fat guys who are balding.
Due to the yoga nature of the region evidently straight men are not a common thing.
https://academic.oup.com/jtm/article-pdf/14/2/77/5080159/jtm14-0077.pdf
For some actual Canadian numbers the best I could find was this from 1996 - 2004. Effectively 2400 people over 8 years or 300 per year. Ignoring the 2/3rds that are natural deaths (old people do die on vacation) and focusing instead on the 100. Who died from accident or murder ... So we can do the per capita in 2 ways. Brute force is we take the 38,000,000 people and knock 2 zeros off and you have a 1:380 000 chance of death from unnatural causes while traveling abroad per year. But this is actually a bit of an under estimate, so what we really want is the number who traveled outside of Canada each year which unfortunately isn't easy to find...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/538674/canadians-travel-outside-north-america-income/
So lets call it an average of %50 of Canadians over 5 years but lets make the assumption that this is likely high as many won't ravel every year and kick it down to like %40 or give or take 15,000,000. This brings our per capita per year down around 1:150 000 or about the same as our domestic murder rate.
You have about the same chance of being murdered in Canada as being killed in a foreign country while on vacation.
Current wild guess on the AZ vaccine but blood clots in the 1:250 000 range or about %40 lower than ending up dead on a vacation.
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1053&context=hmsls_mastersprojects
https://time.com/4250811/travel-safety/
So this is one of those things people never really think about but it falls into that statistically more significant than you'd think kind of things. If we ignore people who through drunken/drugged stupidity end up dead for fucking the wrong hooker and getting killed for it and focus on just bad drivers, horrible roads, allergic reactions to insects and plants you'd never know you were allergic to or water born diseases going to tropical places is actually more dangerous than you would think.
https://www.outsideonline.com/2159481/just-how-dangerous-are-ziplines
Add in people doing more adventurous things than they would normally do at home on equipment built and run by people who have simply no concept of safety and you have an amazing amount of serious incidents each year.
I see people who come here (I spend most of my year in South east Asia) all the time and rent scooters. The roads are dreadful and there aren't laws in the same way we would expect in Canada. People don't signal lane changes or check blind spots, roads don't have shoulders or railings around turns on the sides of cliffs. So you take someone who likely last road a dirt bike on their uncles farm 10 years ago driving a scooter half drunk wearing flip flops at night with no road lights and a drunk girlfriend on the back and.... I think you get the picture.
I'm not disagreeing with your example on Joe Clark (met this guy a couple of times just walking around Toronto really nice guy) however elections simply didn't cost or have the funding nastiness back then. I think the better example is Stephen Harper 2006-2008 and 2008 - 2011. In both cases we see the LPC/NDP effectively forced to do exactly what I described.