I care! And, wow, this is nuts: interprovincial trade war??
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 15:14 (six years ago) link
good breakdown of that issue + likely outcomeshttps://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156189465332822&id=516917821
― Simon H., Tuesday, 17 April 2018 17:38 (six years ago) link
i have really no hope for this country politically.
trade war will possibly destroy this provincial gov - or at least assure it's a one term thing. BC Liberals will be back in. Alberta will vote provincial NDP out next year for sure, conservatives back in forever there. Liberals may well lose to the Tories in the next federal election - they're ahead in current polling.
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
And locally - Vancouver's centre and left may well vote split in the municipal elections this year and we could have an NPA city hall.
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 17:45 (six years ago) link
Don't forget Ford Nation
― while my dirk gently weeps (symsymsym), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 17:46 (six years ago) link
oh yeah totally, that's bound to happen!
kill me now
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 17:48 (six years ago) link
I think Carr has a really good chance for mayor if she runs, none of the NPA candidates seem like much
― while my dirk gently weeps (symsymsym), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 17:48 (six years ago) link
there's bound to be a vision adjacent candidate and a left candidate in addition to Carr - if she runs - surely?
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 17:51 (six years ago) link
I also really think Trudeau will be PM forever, for better or for worse. He's up in some polls now, and the Cons have a difficult electoral map unless they show some ability to break into Canada's three largest cities. The LIbs should be able to at least get a minority gov't.
― while my dirk gently weeps (symsymsym), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 17:52 (six years ago) link
I also really think Trudeau will be PM forever, for better or for worse.
...barring a major scandal or a significant economic downturn, neither of which I would rule out.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 17 April 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link
Yeah I guess Sylvester is the Vision-affiliated "independent," and maybe COPE will run a mayor too...but nobody approaches Carr's record or name recognition, and I doubt the COPE brand means much these days. I think she can win votes from Westside NIMBYs as well as the left.
― while my dirk gently weeps (symsymsym), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link
yeah that's what it took to get the Liberals out last time xp
― while my dirk gently weeps (symsymsym), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
I am not too thrilled about any of the apparent choices for mayor, I might just leave that ballot blank and just vote for council
― while my dirk gently weeps (symsymsym), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 17:57 (six years ago) link
xps. ok, good info, bud. you're talking me off the ledge here lol
I'm thinking a COPEish person like Jean Swanson, a Vision affiliated independent, and possibly OneCity fielding a candidate, plus the Greens obv. There's no way in that situation I see a good outcome
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 17:58 (six years ago) link
Totally understand having no hope for this country politically speaking. Trudeau's a mess but he can hold on. I doubt the BC Liberals will return soon. We have a winnable electoral reform referendum. And I'm hopeful about Vancouver. There will not be more than one candidate for mayor left of Vision. It's going to be either Carr or someone who has not yet declared and has barely been mentioned yet. The NPA are not looking good imo. These density bros think they can win via social media but their base has nothing to do with Twitter and will recoil with horror at talk of rezoning west of Granville.
― everything, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link
Sorry was going to put "But" at the start of my second sentence.
― everything, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 18:00 (six years ago) link
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156189465332822&id=516917821
This is clearly coming from one ideological perspective but it is still helpful. I get that Notley is Premier of Alberta and is not going to actively sabotage her province's main industry but I had been confused about why she and the Alberta NDP are this aggressively invested in getting a pipeline built. If it's true that capital ("oil barons") had been threatening to strike if the NDP increased their royalties, I wonder what would have happened if the NDP just called their bluff and went ahead. Surely the only reason they were doing business in AB in the first place was because it was extremely profitable for them (even with a modest increase in taxes and/or royalties), which they would miss out on if they pulled out altogether.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link
yeah I mean obviously he's a comrade and all but I think the predictions for how this plays out are pretty sound
― Simon H., Tuesday, 17 April 2018 18:15 (six years ago) link
Jean Swanson isn't running for mayor (unfortunately). I really doubt OneCity will. I'm glad the continued success of some nominally left neoliberal government can get you off the ledge! It is better than the alternative, despite everything
― while my dirk gently weeps (symsymsym), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 18:31 (six years ago) link
These parties are all being very careful about this election. There's a lot of talk between them. Predict Swanson will join COPE, giving them a bit of energy again. And also predict a familiar NDP-related person will emerge as an independent as the only candidate left of Vision for mayor. Or Carr will run unopposed. Whichever, all the parties will support.
― everything, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 18:45 (six years ago) link
xp. i work with someone who is heavily involved with OneCity, guess I could ask her
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link
There's an open secret about who's going to run if Carr won't.
― everything, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 19:21 (six years ago) link
.....
― while my dirk gently weeps (symsymsym), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 19:22 (six years ago) link
well, i hear the vp of the bc ndp has been working with the three left-of-vision parties and they're close to supporting a labour-backed candidate for mayor
― everything, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 19:53 (six years ago) link
and indeed I see that she just shared this on Twitter.
I am happy to share that I am engaged in dialogue with Vancouver's civic parties and regional stakeholders as I explore running for mayor in 2018 as a progressive unity candidate. Discussions so far are encouraging.#StayTuned #vanpoli #vanelxnhttps://t.co/vSQ4475AqM— Morgane Oger (@MorganeOgerBC) April 17, 2018
― everything, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 20:07 (six years ago) link
cool!
― while my dirk gently weeps (symsymsym), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 01:50 (six years ago) link
My whole life I have believed the equation was that all Canadians care about the other Canadian provinces except the maritimes, no one cares about the maritimes unfortunately.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:48 (six years ago) link
― everything, Tuesday, April 17, 2018 1:59 PM (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Just you wait for the CAQ and their right wing nationalist islamophobic brand win in Quebec + Ford in Ontario. This is the mess awaiting us.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:50 (six years ago) link
The possibility of Ford winning in Ontario scares the shit out of me, and I just wish that everyone in the province would vote strategically, rather than ideologically, this time.
― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 03:10 (six years ago) link
I was just talking to my partner and we feel the same way, except that we're not sure what the strategic choice would be, or even the ideological one, for that matter.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 03:19 (six years ago) link
Legault is going to be Duplessis redux, down to his ambiguous brand of nationalism that caters to the PQ base's barely contained xenophobia even as he shies away from full separatism because granting undivided attention to statistically insignificant Muslim practices is the key to contemporary politics.
Btw, I care more about the Maritimes than I do about Saskatchewan. Alberta would leave me indifferent if it didn't irritate me most of the time.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 12:20 (six years ago) link
I'm not convinced there *is* a strategic vote this time out. I'm not advocating for giving up but you might want to mentally prepare yourself for the possibility that we're fucked.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 18 April 2018 12:25 (six years ago) link
Kevin Taft's take on what's going on with Notley: https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/04/19/opinion/kevin-taft-what-turned-rachel-notley-crusading-critic-big-oil-crusader
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 20 April 2018 03:32 (six years ago) link
that's a good piece
― while my dirk gently weeps (symsymsym), Friday, 20 April 2018 03:58 (six years ago) link
That's a great piece. The royalties almost beggar belief.
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Friday, 20 April 2018 04:49 (six years ago) link
drill baby drill eh
meanwhile mining companies are hiring environmental science grads from the university of waterloo
wonder what they're up to
― F# A# (∞), Friday, 20 April 2018 05:16 (six years ago) link
Wow:http://pressprogress.ca/a-leaked-memo-exposed-the-toronto-suns-secret-plan-to-manufacture-a-right-wing-culture-war/http://www.canadalandshow.com/toronto-sun-provincial-election-plans/
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 27 April 2018 00:06 (six years ago) link
fuck postmedia forever
article about the ndp and oil in jacobin:
https://jacobinmag.com/2018/04/the-ndps-oil-problem
― Daniel Johns Hopkins (jim in vancouver), Friday, 27 April 2018 18:39 (six years ago) link
singh has legit been a disappointment on KM
― while my dirk gently weeps (symsymsym), Friday, 27 April 2018 20:53 (six years ago) link
wish ashton had won :c
― Daniel Johns Hopkins (jim in vancouver), Friday, 27 April 2018 20:57 (six years ago) link
Ugh: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-election-campaign-fundraising-party-donations-1.4638698?cmp=rss
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 29 April 2018 15:33 (six years ago) link
As someone who voted for him, I agree that Singh is a little disappointing on KM btw.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 29 April 2018 15:34 (six years ago) link
I too wish Ashton had won (I voted for her and the lefties I run with endorsed her) but I'm not sure she wouldn't have capitulated on KM
― Simon H., Sunday, 29 April 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
Between this and the fucker who brandished a nazi flag during the May Day protest, I'm pretty pissed at my city right now: http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/major-neo-nazi-figure-recruiting-in-montreal
― pomenitul, Friday, 4 May 2018 18:04 (six years ago) link
One person does not make a city.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 4 May 2018 18:06 (six years ago) link
Of course, of course. If anything, the response has been exactly as it should. But I'm still a little disappointed.
― pomenitul, Friday, 4 May 2018 18:09 (six years ago) link
Also, so long, Amir Khadir, I disliked lot of the posturing during the 2012 student protests and I can't shake the pro-indépendance stance of the party he belonged to but here's to someone who fully believed in equality. Plus you know, being a MPP in Quebec with that name was huge deal for lots of immigrant kids who dreamed of being in politics in 2008. I remember I was having a beer with a bud at Dieu Du Ciel! when he showed up to talk to people, beautiful day, my bud knew him well from the students protests and we discussed Krugman, I was just starting to read on economics and he was so sweet to point me to some directions and authors I would potentially enjoy. Shortly after he started speaking to another group of young students and he told 'you know I come from a country, Iran, that created the most beautiful thing in society', the students were curious to know what it was, he answered 'taxes', I thought that was brillant, and I told him to never say that on television and he laughed real hard.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 4 May 2018 18:15 (six years ago) link
Sometimes I do feel like the best and brightest and wisest of canadian politics are these unambitious MPPs.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 4 May 2018 18:19 (six years ago) link
Well put. He will be greatly missed indeed.
― pomenitul, Friday, 4 May 2018 18:27 (six years ago) link
published a couple days ago
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/technology/article-canada-facing-brain-drain-as-young-tech-talent-leaves-for-silicon/
Canada’s best and brightest computer engineering graduates are leaving for jobs in Silicon Valley at alarmingly high rates, fuelling a worse “brain drain” than the mass exodus by Canadian doctors two decades ago, according to a new study....(O)ne-in-four recent science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) graduates from three of the country’s top universities – University of Waterloo, University of British Columbia and U of T – were working outside Canada.The numbers were higher for graduates of computer engineering and computer science (30 per cent), engineering science (27 per cent) and software engineering, where two out three graduates were working outside Canada, mostly in the United States. Nearly 44 per cent of those working abroad were employed as software engineers, with Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Amazon listed as top employers....“When we see certain fields where upward of 65 per cent of a graduating class are leaving for the U.S., I think there should be concerns there that our homegrown companies aren’t even going to be able to access some of that talent. If we found in the 1960s that 60 per cent of our auto workers were leaving to work in other countries … we probably would have held a royal commission.”...A separate 2017 survey by students from that year’s graduating class of the University of Waterloo systems design engineering program found that 60 per cent were moving to the United States for work. “There’s a premium on California and New York jobs” among graduating students, said Joey Loi, one of the 2017 survey’s authors, who himself moved to San Francisco to work for Dropbox....
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(O)ne-in-four recent science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) graduates from three of the country’s top universities – University of Waterloo, University of British Columbia and U of T – were working outside Canada.
The numbers were higher for graduates of computer engineering and computer science (30 per cent), engineering science (27 per cent) and software engineering, where two out three graduates were working outside Canada, mostly in the United States. Nearly 44 per cent of those working abroad were employed as software engineers, with Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Amazon listed as top employers.
“When we see certain fields where upward of 65 per cent of a graduating class are leaving for the U.S., I think there should be concerns there that our homegrown companies aren’t even going to be able to access some of that talent. If we found in the 1960s that 60 per cent of our auto workers were leaving to work in other countries … we probably would have held a royal commission.”
A separate 2017 survey by students from that year’s graduating class of the University of Waterloo systems design engineering program found that 60 per cent were moving to the United States for work. “There’s a premium on California and New York jobs” among graduating students, said Joey Loi, one of the 2017 survey’s authors, who himself moved to San Francisco to work for Dropbox.
surprise, surprise
i remember a couple years ago saying my friends were all moving to the u.s. because they couldn't find work in canada and one ilxor had some deranged comments to say about that -- i don't remember your name unfortunately
but just to clarify, there *are* jobs in canada, but they're all low-paying ones and doing menial tasks, which a lot of people refuse to do, so, yes, they stay unemployed looking for better opportunities. this is what they mean when they say "i can't find work"
― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 5 May 2018 18:19 (six years ago) link