Em Adespoton

I just assumed the hats had been faux fur since the 60s….

Just replace “Elections BC” with “BC Taxpayers” please… we’re the ones who foot that bill, despite never having told them to form a party in the first place (in fact, kind of the opposite)….

Vegan pets are being denied food?

Whoever is in charge when assessments start again is going to be instantly unpopular.

That’s not actually true… I can remember when Social Credit was elected, and not too long ago Green was required to form a coalition after the Liberals started to fall apart… because of the Conservatives.

In general, BC has been a 3-4 party system, with one of three being in power.

It’s the influence of the US mindset of “Elect the premier!” that’s shifted us towards a two party system in the recent cycle… well, that and the total collapse of the BC Libs. All of that has of course been enhanced by FPTP, which encourages adversarial politics.

Sure. If it were well made, had a good safety record, affordable replacement parts and didn’t phone home.

Same considerations I give to any other car.

The land may belong to the US, but Florida is filled with Canadians. Mostly old white Canadians who lean hard right.

Except for places with access cards and pin pads. You need to have both hands fully occupied and some sort of a clipped on badge for those.

I see no issues with the officer returning to active duty… assuming that duty is behind a desk and totally unrelated to anything that could cause a conflict of interest with this investigation.

Normally I’d say “put them on suspended leave until the investigation is complete” for everyone’s benefit — but I also want to make sure this investigation is thorough, which may take more time than it would take for the officer to go through rehabilitation and return to work.

If it is later found that the officer was negligent in their duties, then they should go to jail for manslaughter, just like anyone else. After all, they are supposedly trained to handle this sort of situation.

If the officer was following protocol at all times, then they need counselling and rehabilitation and the Edmonton Police need their protocols overhauled and some consequences including stricter oversight. If it turns out there were actual threats uttered and an indication of threat of immediate harm to the officer, then that information needs to be made public following the investigation.

Let me provide you with a short form history:

Palestine was an independent region.

After WWII, to provide a protected enclave for Jewish people, the Allies took part of that territory and gave it to the Jewish people.

The expected clashes arose, and the Jews and Palestinians in the region disputed what areas should belong to each group. Compromises were made, neither group was happy.

The nation of Israel was formed, as was the Palestinian territory. Israel refused to recognize Palestine as a political entity.

Then began a 70+ year push by Israel (not all Jewish people) to claw back and settle other bits of the Davidic Israel for the modern Israeli nation, taking this land from the Palestinians who lived there.

In one particular area, Israel controlled all access to Palestinian land, and set up Hamas to govern it in reaction to a terrorist organization that had been operating in the area. Palestinians elected Hamas to govern as they provided stability and protection from both Israel and the terrorists.

Then no more elections were held for over 20 years and Hamas turned into the exact organization they were set up to oppose.

Eventually, with the backing of Iran, Hamas moved to an all-out war on Israel, hiding within Palestinian citizenry.

Israel responded by actively destroying any location known to be linked to Hamas activity, regardless of the impact on innocent bystanders with nowhere to go.

So it doesn’t matter if you lay the blame for first move at Hamas’ feet… we’re talking about Israel destroying Palestinian infrastructure here.

Hamas has the entire Gaza Strip held hostage, and Israel is responding by killing those hostages and destroying their infrastructure, to root out Hamas insurgents that are hiding among them.

I think the logic goes like this:

Hamas is made up of Palestinian civilians. Therefore, any civilian infrastructure in a Palestinian area is de facto Hamas infrastructure and must be eliminated.

I would be more than happy if the two major federal parties were CF and the NDP, representing between them what the majority of Canadians actually want. Greens would be a good centrist party if they could keep enough strong leaders in the party.

What Conservatives and Liberals know how to do is sell themselves. Actually governing has become secondary.

Have the Canadian Future Party members looked at the NDP’s platform recently?

Does this include pollution from natural causes like wildfires?

Paywalled

Why on earth would we believe the Liberals this time just because they changed their name?

I still remember when they got voted in on a platform that included rejecting the HST… only to have them implement the HST without telling anyone.

And like was already mentioned… I WANT public healthcare, a functional road network, resource management that will still have resources to manage in a decade, and all the other things my tax dollars pay for. Income tax is already stratified and based on a percent of income in the tax bracket. Since we’re going to have to start footing a bigger bill each year to deal with global warming (wildfires, floods, slides, water shortages, electricity shortages, vanishing glaciers, migrating wildlife, viral outbreaks), I’d like there to be enough money flowing in to handle all that.

All fine until they’re the ones who don’t consent to something and they find themselves in Russia with no rights.

The problem is that stupid is an individual attribute. Natural selection doesn’t seem to care about it in the short term.

To be fair, if someone believes in a flat earth, they probably also believe in an infinite atmosphere….

This’ll get shortened to “Debbie blows $1mil cocaine on Florida Beach, US Border Patrol” in short order I’m sure….