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« Reply #1475 on: June 13, 2013, 08:54:17 PM »

Here's the Wallin transcript.
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« Reply #1476 on: June 14, 2013, 08:47:00 AM »

FIFA rules in favour of turbans. Smiley
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« Reply #1477 on: June 14, 2013, 10:40:16 AM »

QSF has backed down. Cheesy
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« Reply #1478 on: June 14, 2013, 01:54:19 PM »


It's not like if they had any choice. They claimed they were having that position until FIFA decision.
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« Reply #1479 on: June 14, 2013, 03:35:10 PM »
« Edited: June 14, 2013, 03:39:27 PM by RogueBeaver »

Looks like Trudeau has some charitable trouble. Kenney and Poilievre had a field day with this one in QP today.

Natynczyk will be the new CSA president starting in August.
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« Reply #1480 on: June 14, 2013, 03:52:27 PM »

Meanwhile here in Montreal, a bus driver beats up a senior. I'll leave it at "depraved" to avoid death points.
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« Reply #1481 on: June 15, 2013, 01:12:12 AM »

Well, if anyone in the NDP would have that personality, it'd easily be Mulcair.
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« Reply #1482 on: June 15, 2013, 02:10:59 AM »

Well, if anyone in the NDP would have that personality, it'd easily be Mulcair.

Isn't NDP full of union leaders? At least, in Quebec, they tend to have terrible personalities (the union leaders).
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« Reply #1483 on: June 15, 2013, 07:43:52 AM »

Let's not overestimate this too much, merely some proverbial egg on face which will be forgotten once the session ends next week.

On another subject, here's an interview with McLachlin. Didn't realize she's now our longest-serving Chief Justice.
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« Reply #1484 on: June 15, 2013, 03:39:23 PM »

Can someone give their opinion on an offline argument I'm having?

Suppose Peter MacKay & Stephen Harper waited until after the 2004 election to initiate merger talks. Would the Liberals have won a majority?
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« Reply #1485 on: June 16, 2013, 08:54:14 AM »

Since Adscam is still happening... quite possible Liberals win a 1997 wafer-thin majority. IRL before the merger both conservative parties were barely cracking 25% combined. Granted that's before Adscam, but best case scenario where Harper's Alliance benefits most, you get a strong Liberal minority because the Alliance can't reach beyond the MB/ON border.
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« Reply #1486 on: June 16, 2013, 11:05:05 AM »

Trudeau has offered to return the speaking fees in question. RDI reports that QSF knew of FIFA rules permitting turbans since last September.
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« Reply #1487 on: June 16, 2013, 02:15:43 PM »

Can someone give their opinion on an offline argument I'm having?

Suppose Peter MacKay & Stephen Harper waited until after the 2004 election to initiate merger talks. Would the Liberals have won a majority?

Yes. Agree it would be like 1997. Except, the NDP would have won more seats (in fact, probably more so than in RL)
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« Reply #1488 on: June 17, 2013, 09:19:14 AM »

Applebaum was arrested a few hours ago by UPAC and charged with 14 counts of conspiracy, abuse of public trust, fraud and municipal corruption. Also arrested was former executive committeeman Saulie Zajdel on unspecified charges, better known as the 2011 Tory candidate against Cotler in Mount-Royal. The opposition doesn't want trusteeship (last imposed when Montreal defaulted in 1940) but the provincial government's watching closely. In other Quebec news, construction's on strike and the PQ wants a negotiated settlement.
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« Reply #1489 on: June 17, 2013, 09:55:08 AM »

I thought Applebaum was supposed to be Montreal's saviour?

So, does this mean he is  no longer mayor?

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« Reply #1490 on: June 17, 2013, 10:00:21 AM »

Executive committee, which is reorganizing itself around the new parties right now, will have to elect another interim mayor. These charges relate to six-digit real estate transactions he made when he was NDG borough mayor in the 2006-11 period.
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« Reply #1491 on: June 17, 2013, 11:14:09 AM »

The hilarious thing is that he planned to run for reelection as borough mayor (which he's held since 2002) until this happened.
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« Reply #1492 on: June 17, 2013, 01:36:52 PM »

hahaha
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« Reply #1493 on: June 17, 2013, 02:23:39 PM »

QP was also hilarious: Trudeau needs remedial debating lessons, because in a leaders' debate that would've been a self-nuke given how badly Moore pwned him (most non-Grits were literally facepalming), and Leitch needs to learn French if she wants a Cabinet post. Translator didn't even translate. The issues were Senate, Zajdel and charities.

Meanwhile Harper will probably come back without an FTA since both sides have tariff walls and various other things they don't want to tear down. Ugh.
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« Reply #1494 on: June 17, 2013, 02:50:51 PM »

QP was also hilarious: Trudeau needs remedial debating lessons, because in a leaders' debate that would've been a self-nuke given how badly Moore pwned him (most non-Grits were literally facepalming)

Do you have a link or can you give a recap of what they said?
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« Reply #1495 on: June 17, 2013, 03:25:59 PM »

I assume CPAC will have it up later. Questions were OK, but he was "leading with his chin", as Moore put it, by opening himself up for attack on the speaking fees issue. "Literally raising the bar" is where the facepalming happened, and Moore cracked a joke about raising the thermometer bar at those charity fundraisers.

Meanwhile Applebaum was just released from custody after spending most of the day in custody (dragged out of bed at 6 AM and interrogated most of the time since), no comment from him. Marois has demanded he resign but says there won't be trusteeship because Montreal has a director-general and opposition parties, which Laval didn't. There is legislation that allows the government to remove him directly but Marois said she hopes he resigns.
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« Reply #1496 on: June 18, 2013, 02:32:08 PM »

Applebaum is resigning right now.
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« Reply #1497 on: June 18, 2013, 02:52:32 PM »

Another "anti-corruption crusader" bites the dust as he turns out to be a corrupt crook. Good riddance.
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« Reply #1498 on: June 18, 2013, 03:02:47 PM »

True. My assumption is that no one's clean. In other news, Glover has bowed to the EC ruling and filed amended returns.  
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« Reply #1499 on: June 18, 2013, 03:06:05 PM »

Another "anti-corruption crusader" bites the dust as he turns out to be a corrupt crook. Good riddance.

It's hilarious how often that turns out to be the case, isn't it? One of the classics is still Swansea in the 1970s, of course: corruption scandals saw an entrenched Labour administration lose power in 1977 to a group of heroic anti-corruption independents. It soon emerged that many of these heroic anti-corruption independents were the same local businessmen who had been bribing members of the previous administration...
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