Unless the voters are dumb enough
Over 1/2 the eligible voters in Ontario couldn't even be arsed to show up to the last election. We're so, SO dumb.
That, and they know none of them will see effective penalties for voter intimidation and coercion. Maybe a fine. Maybe a year in jail. Maybe both.
In a just world, these donors would get a year for every employee who took the survey. Just to serve as a deterrent to other multi-millionaire bosses. More likely they'll weasel out of anything but lawyers fees and a statement on their website.
Lovely idea. What a gift for the next people who move in.
I'm kinda tempted to let runners take over the yard next spring just to do this.
The rest of the ballot is full of things [...] like local representatives, education leaders, district judges etc.
Maybe OT, but I've been watching a lot of voting advice on twitter, reddit, etc this year, and whenever someone mentions how important it is to get educated about your local options on the ballot, they get a flood of comments accusing them of encouraging people to abstain from voting or to vote 3rd party. It appears to be one limb of an aggressive anti-vote apathy or disinfo campaign.
early vote ballot drop-offs are burning
omfjc... Thanks for the heads up. Link for anyone else who blinked and missed this on Monday.
Authorities, including the FBI, were investigating Monday after early morning fires were set in U.S. ballot drop boxes in Portland, Ore., and in nearby Vancouver, Wash., where hundreds of ballots were destroyed.
jfc... racist humour is always so stupid and lazy.
Hinchcliffe also referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean” and made a remark about Black people who “carved watermelons” instead of pumpkins for Halloween.
A politician having trash like this warm the crowd for them should be shocking.
If I understand it right, convenience stores are exempt from recycling requirements, and it looks like the real losers in this deal are independent grocers.
Mike Sharpe, who runs a store in Campbellford, got one of the new licences set to take effect Thursday. But after seeing the new rules, he said he will not be participating.
"The idea of having a huge back room where we're sorting and doing this makes no sense," he said.
"Everything sounded great, so we applied, and then every day since they've issued a licence, the deal has gotten worse for us."
>Ontario grocery stores — particularly smaller, independent shops — say new bottle return requirements that were sprung on them a week before they're set to take effect may make it impossible to participate in Premier Doug Ford's expansion of alcohol sales. [...]
>Grocery stores [...] that sell alcohol will also have to accept empties.
>Having the smell of stale beer mingling with the smell of fresh food — and having to put not-quite-entirely-empty bottles that become fruit-fly magnets near produce sections — would not be good for business, they said.
>But with new and detailed requirements communicated to them this week by the Liquor Control Board of Ontario just days before they begin, retailers say they don't know how they will make it work, and some are planning to hand back their licences.
Should be embarrassing, but it looks like business as usual. Someone obviously decided fines must just be easier to pay if they can't even be arsed to get a city permit to store the sodium hydroxide (highly corrosive to animal and vegetable) in the first place.
Even the story they've come out with - that it's all good because a fire hydrant JUST HAPPENED to open up upstream at the same time as the coolant non-toxic waste was dumped, and it really diluted all that harmless DYE so our bad for taking too long to tell you about it - is shameless.
Olivia Chow has been abscent from this discussion since it started.
Chow says she can fix the "irritants" that residents in the area have flagged, including concerns about parking and taking away car lanes.
Bringing in provincial legislation to tackle those issues is "like using a big hammer to go after a fly," she said. CBC - Oct 11 '24
And as someone who actually cycles to her job, she has stonewalled CycleTO.
Stonewalled? cycleTO is rightly focusing on the provincial govt and they understand that DoFo is using this as a demonstration of the municipal powers he can yoink at any time, and they know Chow is pushing back against that. I don't know where you're getting your facts.
She’s going out of her way to not present herself as a cycling mayor for some reason.
The mayor, often seen using a bicycle and who ran on adding more bike infrastructure in her 2023 election campaign, told CBC Radio's Metro Morning this week that she's asked the premier to hit pause on potential new legislation for the moment.
"I've asked the premier to give me some time to work on it and I'm working on it flat out," she said. "I could show him that I could help mediate and find a solution that works for everyone."
"I'm trying to come up with a compromise that would re-open some car lanes but keep the bike lanes…so make the design work better," the mayor said. As for what that might look like, she didn't say.
Chow says she and a fellow councillor and city staff met with the Kingsway Business Improvement Area and local residents on Oct. 7 for multiple hours to discuss the issue.
....................................................... To anyone reading, the petition to the Provincial Government that CycleTo put together is here.
DoFo in campaign mode is the slimiest.
He's also straight up virtue signalling for the O&G industry. War On Cars and all that.
So far I've only heard about this one boss, so CT still has time to get in front of it. If they don't go beyond "we're shocked and looking into it" I'll be the second to join your boycott though.
Even just to renew their brand image, wouldn't now be a great time for the CT corporation to come out publicly against hiring outside of the country; make it policy? Could even put together a happy workforce montage advert with a “we’re hiring local” voiceover to publicize the change.
imo the source of the problem is the TFW program itself.
Defense for programs that enable debt bondage and human trafficking hasn't changed much since the early 1900s either: agriculture would collapse, industry in general would be in ruins, it's a lot of money to Them, local workers are too lazy, and "if you don't want to go back to slavery, this is the best we can do."
We can do better than what the guys in this news bit describe.
She says Jan 6 was about "love" directly in the face of a woman whose life she previously threatened on that day. But she has to say it, because that's what the cult told her last.
"Nothing done wrong at all," Trump said.
"There were no guns down there. We didn’t have guns. The others had guns, but we didn’t have guns.
"And when I say we, these are people that walked down - this was a tiny percentage of the overall which nobody sees and nobody, nobody shows. But that was a day of love."
These individuals need deprogrammers, not debate.
Closed work permits are part of Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker program, empowering exploitative bosses across the country. This story focuses on one franchise owner, but juxtaposes one worker who was able to get an open permit with another who's stuck in his precarious situation.
>On Jan. 6, 2021, an angry mob of Donald Trump supporters swarmed a CBC News crew working near Capitol Hill. Nearly four years later, reporter Katie Nicholson tracked down one of the people who surrounded her that day to find out what she’s thinking heading into another volatile U.S. presidential election.
Was worth the watch for the emotional contortions the supporter twists herself into when confronted by one of the people she threatened, her Democrat-voting husband dealing with it all, and that messed up Trump paraphernalia store.
I'm turning into a fan of the Lincoln Project's work. Does the heart good to see conservatives working against the worst the country has to offer.
Anyone else think this is a direct reaction to Dave Bautista calling him a whiny little bitch? Masculinity by proxy/osmosis??? The fuck is this...
"Arnold Palmer was all man, and I say that in all due respect to women,” Trump said. “This is a guy that was all man.” [...]
“When he took the showers with other pros, they came out of there. They said, ‘Oh my God. That’s unbelievable,’” Trump said with a laugh. “I had to say. We have women that are highly sophisticated here, but they used to look at Arnold as a man.”
Whole thing was a good read. Thanks for linking it.
So there are eligible voters in the USA literally afraid to try voting in case they're jailed for it. It's not just confusion.
Fear also drives reluctance. In the face of confusing eligibility regulations, people who are trying to put a criminal conviction behind them often don’t want to risk making a mistake that could send them back to prison. In Florida, several people faced that exact possibility in 2022, after an office set up by Gov. Ron DeSantis began arresting voters who allegedly cast ballots while ineligible to do so.
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For example, in Nebraska, the bill legislators passed this year changed state law to allow anyone with a felony conviction to register to vote upon completion of their sentence. This modified a 2005 law that automatically restored voting rights for people with felony convictions but required a two-year waiting period upon completion of a sentence.
But then a non-binding opinion by Attorney General Mike Hilgers suggested that not only this year’s law but also the prior 2005 law were unconstitutional, creating a significant cloud of uncertainty for impacted people until this week’s state Supreme Court ruling.
“We were getting lots of calls from people, ‘I’m not going to bother. It worries me too much, and I’m not going to go back to prison,’” said Smith, with Civic Nebraska.