Canada General Discussion 1.5: The Countdown Begins

[MaxQue]

Stephen Harper begins to ban charities opposed to his ideas.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/dying-with-dignity-loses-charitable-status-after-political-activity-probe-1.2919706

How many years before we become a Christian Turkey?

[MaxQue]

Canada is about to have its 2nd gay Premier. Wade McLaughlin was the only candidate to run for leader of the Liberals, so he will become Premier in February.

In which province?

Whoops. PEI.

Oh. Then it's Wade MacLaughlan, not McLaughlin.

[DC Al Fine]

Stephen Harper begins to ban charities opposed to his ideas.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/dying-with-dignity-loses-charitable-status-after-political-activity-probe-1.2919706

How many years before we become a Christian Turkey?

Speaking as an accountant, your assessment is completely wrong.

Here's a quick rundown:

1) The interpretation bulletin which guides the audits was released in the Chretien administration and is based on legislation and case law from even earlier.
2) Charities are notoriously bad at their accounting and staying within CRA guidelines.
3) Dying with Dignity themselves admit that they overspent on political activities!

Frankly, the fact that only two charities have had their status revoked is a minor miracle and hardly indicative of a Harper-Tory conspiracy.

[MaxQue]

Stephen Harper begins to ban charities opposed to his ideas.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/dying-with-dignity-loses-charitable-status-after-political-activity-probe-1.2919706

How many years before we become a Christian Turkey?

Speaking as an accountant, your assessment is completely wrong.

Here's a quick rundown:

1) The interpretation bulletin which guides the audits was released in the Chretien administration and is based on legislation and case law from even earlier.
2) Charities are notoriously bad at their accounting and staying within CRA guidelines.
3) Dying with Dignity themselves admit that they overspent on political activities!

Frankly, the fact that only two charities have had their status revoked is a minor miracle and hardly indicative of a Harper-Tory conspiracy.

I'll believe you when a conservative charity loses its status too.

[DC Al Fine]

Stephen Harper begins to ban charities opposed to his ideas.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/dying-with-dignity-loses-charitable-status-after-political-activity-probe-1.2919706

How many years before we become a Christian Turkey?

Speaking as an accountant, your assessment is completely wrong.

Here's a quick rundown:

1) The interpretation bulletin which guides the audits was released in the Chretien administration and is based on legislation and case law from even earlier.
2) Charities are notoriously bad at their accounting and staying within CRA guidelines.
3) Dying with Dignity themselves admit that they overspent on political activities!

Frankly, the fact that only two charities have had their status revoked is a minor miracle and hardly indicative of a Harper-Tory conspiracy.

I'll believe you when a conservative charity loses its status too.

I don't know what else to tell you. You're veering off into conspiracy land.

[Hash]

I hate Harper more than anything else (almost) and I think he's doing serious damage to Canada, including our democratic institutions, but the notion that Harper is Erdogan and is hard at work to turn Canada into some theocratic authoritarian state is tinfoil hat nonsense. Calm down and get a grip people.

[RogueBeaver]

Maclean's names Winnipeg our most racist city.

Always-classy PQ says Couillard is "impregnated with Saudi values."


Trudeau: carbon taxing should be provincial.

[You kip if you want to...]

Always-classy PQ says Couillard is "impregnated with Saudi values."

"Left-wing" nationalism

[MaxQue]

Always-classy PQ says Couillard is "impregnated with Saudi values."

"Left-wing" nationalism

Well, that is very crass, but Couillard has worrying with Saudi Arabia. Someone accepting to work for the Saudi regime has quite dubious morals, I would say.

All of that is related to his refusal to meet with a Saudi prince during the economical summit at Davos about the blogger who was sentenced to 1000 whip lashes for blogging things the regime didn't liked (his family fled to Quebec). Let's say it's a lack of courage, which isn't surprising coming from Couillard. He spent the whole term hiding behind his ministers.

[VPH]

Is the PQ truly left wing anymore? I mean, PKP is no leftist, and he seems to have some influence in the PQ. I figured on the provincial level that truly left wing Francophones have migrated to QS.

[RogueBeaver]

CBC on-air journalistic employees are banned from paid appearances, effective immediately.


PQ: Still social democratic, but the splinter parties exist for reasons, some of which date to Bouchard's "deficit zero."

[RogueBeaver]

Half-apology from Bedard.


[url=http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2015/01/22/impregne-des-valeurs-saoudiennes--le-cabinet-du-pm-denonce-un-manque-de-jugement]Prominent shock jock compares Couillard's Saudi work to Nazi collaboration. He'll apologize tomorrow.

[useful idiot]

Lisée dropped out of the PQ leadership race

He was in last place. I haven't been following Quebec politics for a long time but he seemed like a more credible and affable candidate than the others and wasn't afraid to attack PKP. Maybe I'm mistaken, my French isn't great and I don't get into the local French media much, so he may have serious flaws that I'm missing.

[RogueBeaver]

Lisee barely got the required signatures to file. He's overrated as a candidate. Longer term they should go with Alex Cloutier or Veronique Hivon. PKP's rivals won't attack him because they know he'll win and he's a vindictive megalomaniac.

[RogueBeaver]

The PQ will not acknowledge their serious structural issues, nor does anyone have any idea how to fix them. Some of the gallery's top writers have been chewing on said issues (to name one prominent sovereigntist: Josée Legault) for over a decade.

[MaxQue]

Various news reports about Sun News (the Canadian Fox News) closing in two months if Quebecor doesn't find a buyer. They apparently lost 47 millions in three years since its launch.

[RogueBeaver]

Harper to Trudeau in QP: Not everyone can rely on a personal trust fund. Back to 2004.

[RogueBeaver]

Ivison on how QP previews the leaders' debates.

[RogueBeaver]

ROFLMAO: Selinger might not even make the second ballot in March. Either way he's an underdog to keep his leadership. Pallister's election will be as easy as Prentice's. I can't think of a precedent for an incumbent premier being voted out at convention. Closest would be Smallwood, but he was already out.

[Boston Bread]

Various news reports about Sun News (the Canadian Fox News) closing in two months if Quebecor doesn't find a buyer. They apparently lost 47 millions in three years since its launch.

Good riddance. Or should I say, welcome to hell! They provided some good tears in June but that's their sole purpose for existing.

[Hatman 🍁]

ROFLMAO: Selinger might not even make the second ballot in March. Either way he's an underdog to keep his leadership. Pallister's election will be as easy as Prentice's. I can't think of a precedent for an incumbent premier being voted out at convention. Closest would be Smallwood, but he was already out.

Common in Australia, but they're more quick with the knives, and they don't poll the party members.

[RogueBeaver]

There was a halfhearted attempt to get a second ballot agreement between Selinger and Oswald last week which flopped.

[andrew_c]

Common in Australia, but they're more quick with the knives, and they don't poll the party members.

Depends which party.  I know for a fact that Labor polls the party members.

[Hatman 🍁]

Common in Australia, but they're more quick with the knives, and they don't poll the party members.

Depends which party.  I know for a fact that Labor polls the party members.

Those Labor spills didn't happen at a leadership convention.

[Smid]

Common in Australia, but they're more quick with the knives, and they don't poll the party members.

Depends which party.  I know for a fact that Labor polls the party members.

Those Labor spills didn't happen at a leadership convention.

Yes, as Hatman notes, spills aren't triggered by party members, and the leadership vote was only extended to Labor members (rather than just MPs) for the first time prior to the most recent one.