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First step, kick Harper to the curb. Second step, deport Nickleback. Third step, make Kim Mitchell's "Patio Lanterns" the new national anthem.
Happiness.
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Given the bumbling ways of Iggy McEyebrows, I don't expect the Tory Reign of Terror to end any time soon.
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They in turn have bent over so willingly that there literally is no seriously critical coverage of Harper's government.
(Our current minister of Defense in fact married a producer at CTV news, one of our only national news outlets. In fact, there's a long and sick history of Canadian reporters dating parlimentarians. See: Krista Erickson).
This prank, plus the organized climbing of the parliament buildings a few days ago, are basically the only free press our country honestly has.
And we deserve to get humiliated on this issue. Our citizens are basically tacitly convinced that we're an environmental country because everyone went camping as children. We're fucking idiots.
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Holy Hockey, Pontiff, that comment just gave me morning wood.
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And your crying over the fact that the Conservatives are getting no tough coverage is laughable. Ever heard of the left-wing Globe & Mail (Canada's #1 newspaper)? The even-further left Toronto Star (#1 local paper)? CBC News? Hello??
But feel free to carry on with your gross exaggerations...
(and don't paint us Canadians with the "idiot" brush. Thanks)
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And the Globe is ANYTHING but left wing. For you to think that just shows how perverted you are to the genuine political spectrum. Maybe it seems leftist because it's one of the only genuinely centrist papers in the country, while Canwest and Sun media chains are rabidly right wing.
The Globe publishes idiot, semi-catatonic retard right-wingers Margaret Wente and Rex Murphy along with a few others (blatchford). Then they have a stable of left-wing columnists to balance it out. The CBC is hardly left wing. It's also reasonably centrist. The Toronto Star is slightly left, but that doesn't really make much difference. Torstar isn't really a national paper, or link to any national chains. it's mostly just toronto. But it's still reasonably balanced.
The Globe and the Star are the only papers with enough monetary resources to actually stay balanced. And maybe the Journal de Montreal, which is a great paper but I never read it.
And yeah, Harper will take a reasonable hit on this issue. He takes a hit on any issue that he's not utterly and totally in control of all possible information on. His government coasts along precisely because of the total void of any real information or scandal. They're basically a non-government because they know that's fundamentally what the ageing, complacent population wants. People can then fool themselves into thinking anything they want about our country - like we have a good overseas reputation and we're a stand up member of the international community. But when an issue like this comes out, and the world rises up and spits at us, maybe now we'll have to face the facts that this government has done shit all.
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I do wish that Harper were indeed getting killed; he's coasting, because...Iggy's too busy gunning for top job at the UN to bother putting up any opposition. God, we thought Dion was lame, but at least Dion was BORN lame; Iggy's just acting that way.
I, personally, plan to stay warm by burning conservatives all winter.
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Oh yeah, the Conservatives are up 2% in the weekly/daily tracking polls since the Copenhagen summit began....while the Fiberals are down.
Oops.
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The Tories aren't losing any face right now because people still don't give a shit. BUT nobody really likes them. Out in Alberta, the traditional conservative stronghold, the party is down in the polls to the Wildrose party by something heavy like... 20%.
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I love this: 'We Albertans have some work to do to account for the damage the oil sands are creating,..' Are you fucking kidding me? If it wasn't so disgusting it would be laughable. The home that you're so proud of is the province to give Canada both Preston Manning AND Stephen Harper. The tar sands aren't the only thing you Texas wannabes need to clean up.
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Like tears in rain. #fashion
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@dandles: Take a look. #fashion
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Thanks for the pic. I just crossed "visit Vancouver" off my bucket list. #fashion
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