Yep, two reasons I’m out.

I think even a Starbucks sugar bomb sundae thing isn’t $12 in Canada.

Carmel

Isn’t that where Clint Eastwood was mayor?

The last month or so haven’t been good for Mark’s electability. He should really lay low a bit until the attack ad potential dies down. I’d hate to see more morons choosing Milhouse.

(I haven’t seen a good explanation of why we needed to increase the public sector by 20% since then, nor of what we got out of that. If you have anything, I’d love to read it!)

Here’s an easy explanation: we didn’t have enough.

Wait times are no fun, right? Need more people to process the things, or you need to remove some of the regulatory steps involved. Both those, the doing of the work and the fruitless “just make it faster” boondoggles, need meatbags to do the doing.

You now how we can tell we didn’t have enough? WAIT TIMES. When it’s zero, you may have too many staff. When it’s a day, you’re probably just right. Show me a wait time report and I’ll show you 12 months in processing delays that we should have avoided by grabbing an intelligent peon and making them do some things of the things that need doing – because processing delays and wait times are absolutely the shits right now.

QED

Yeah, he’s gonna get blocked on a lot, but if he accomplishes one thing on the list, he’ll be ahead of the game. The bar for actually leading is just so low, he can only succeed.

Alaska has apparently been doing RC for yeeears (but not for regional/federal elections).

Alaska. If Sarah Palin’s state can do it, we’re kinda out of excuses.

All racism is stereotyping, but maybe not all stereotyping is racist.

Moose would sound like John Goodman doing a decent accent.

Canada Geese could sound like peewee herman on meth.

Bears? Dunno.

Would it be like “totes mid, fr, fr”? THAT pidgin?

So you’re hating on all of us because one person generalized? Curious.

And I mean everyone

The Dems don’t play favourites, as they’re rules-based and not loyalty-based. That’s why ignoring the process has worked so well for the GoP, and why the Dems won’t favour their loyalists.

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Downvote.

It is so easy to go out there and support our canola farmers through tariffs on olive oil and other cooking oils, as well as marketing campaigns to Canadian consumers, yet that doesn’t happen.

You’d not only run more tariffs - already usually a mistake - just to prop up a sector so people don’t have to switch crops?

I was educated in Calgary, but I worry they’ve slipped.

the province has no plan B

Want some irony? The NDP held Alberta for a long time, until Peter Lougheed won it for the conservatives on a platform of diversifying away from oil to build a healthy and resilient economy.

Then they elected him and threw out the plan, suckling at the oil teat that much harder.

They don’t realize the colors are arbitrary. Many don’t realize the internet spans the world.

Socialism and democracy are good words in some countries. Socialism is how my sister in law gets to retire at 55 and in excellent health, and democracy is how they got that.

And don’t forget the salmon on their heads. They do it all in style.

You know the response would be “I don’t know. I have someone who does that for me,” and his base wouldn’t hear the problem with that.

It was GLS way back when.

It was GLASS in college.

maybe at some point we need a better term for gender-non-conforming people as a group.

By then we will discover that EVERYONE is in a group somewhere and we’ll have used the entire alphabet but everyone will be a member.

It’s weird how private email and verified senders are a problem solved like 20 years ago. And we still can’t figure it out?