Politics in 2018

[FJAG]

"Service Canada moves away from calling Canadians Mr., Mrs., or Miss"

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/service-canada-gender-neutral-1.4585629

:facepalm:

 

[jollyjacktar]

It's a great day for Peoplekind everywhere.  They might as well, they have trouble delivering satisfactory services anyhow.  They're driving down the highway to irrelevancy it would seem.

 

[Loachman]

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/03/20/trudeau-approval-rating-trump-right-wing-parties-surge-canada/

Justin Trudeau Approval Rating Now Below President Trump as Right Wing Parties Surge In Canada

by Chris Tomlinson20 Mar 20181448
 
The popularity of Canadian Liberal Party Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is on a steady decline as his approval ratings have fallen below U.S. President Trump in polls as right-wing parties surge across the country.

Data from polling firm Angus Reid shows that 56 per cent of Canadians now disapprove of Prime Minister Trudeau while only 40 per cent approve, while polling firm Rassmussen shows U.S. President Donald Trump with a 47 per cent approval rating.

 

[jollyjacktar]

Has there been any other PM in the past who has beaten this dismal record of performance in his first time at bat and survived party scrutiny?  Or is he being a pathfinder and blazing a new trail of selfie glory?  Kind of like a meteor flashing in the night sky.

 

[dimsum]

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/03/20/trudeau-approval-rating-trump-right-wing-parties-surge-canada/

Justin Trudeau Approval Rating Now Below President Trump as Right Wing Parties Surge In Canada

by Chris Tomlinson20 Mar 20181448
 
The popularity of Canadian Liberal Party Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is on a steady decline as his approval ratings have fallen below U.S. President Trump in polls as right-wing parties surge across the country.

Data from polling firm Angus Reid shows that 56 per cent of Canadians now disapprove of Prime Minister Trudeau while only 40 per cent approve, while polling firm Rassmussen shows U.S. President Donald Trump with a 47 per cent approval rating.

I'm immediately wary of the stats when the source is Breitbart, a site with definitely no bias.    :

But, PMJT has dipped below 50% in the approval ratings.  Not sure about Trump.

 

[Altair]

I'm immediately wary of the stats when the source is Breitbart, a site with definitely no bias.    :

But, PMJT has dipped below 50% in the approval ratings.  Not sure about Trump.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/08/politics/trump-marist-poll-approval-rating-march/index.html

A new Marist poll puts President Donald Trump's job approval rating at 42%, his highest in that poll since he took office.

The poll, which was conducted Monday and Tuesday, found that some 50% disapproved of the President's job performance.

Marist's polling is a slightly more positive assessment of Trump's job performance than other recent polls using the same methodology, though only by a few points.
A Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday pegged the number at 38% approval with 56% disapproving among registered voters, and a Monmouth University poll of adults put it at 39% approval, with 54% disapproving. Gallup's most recent weekly read on the President stands at 39% approval with 55% disapproval.

 

[OldSolduer]

Has there been any other PM in the past who has beaten this dismal record of performance in his first time at bat and survived party scrutiny?  Or is he being a pathfinder and blazing a new trail of selfie glory?  Kind of like a meteor flashing in the night sky.

I’ve been around a few years....just a couple... but even JTs father wasn’t as narcissistic as JT himself. Nice socks though....

 

[McG]

... as Right Wing Parties Surge In Canada

Parties? Plural? Is this a deliberate inaccuracy?

 

[Journeyman]

I'm immediately wary of the stats when the source is Breitbart, a site with definitely no bias.    :

When presented with an opportunity to praise Trump and trash Trudeau in one fell swoop, credible statistics is a minor concern.


Mind you, as noted in a previous post, credibility itself is of no concern for some people.  :nod:

 

[Fishbone Jones]

I'm immediately wary of the stats when the source is Breitbart, a site with definitely no bias.    :

But, PMJT has dipped below 50% in the approval ratings.  Not sure about Trump.

Breitbart used data from Canadian polling firm Angus-Reid and shows no bias. They simply explain the A-R polling numbers without blame or cause. There is no commentary in it. Simply new stats and historical data. The Breitbart staff were neutral in assessment. No right. No left. That was my reading of it.

 

[Loachman]

The US poll used by Breitbart is the Rassmussen one, generally the one most favourable to President Trump and therefore the most natural one to use for the purpose of the article quoted.

As (almost) all polls consistently underrated him during the US election campaign, I expect them to continue doing so.

 

[Loachman]

http://www.kelownadailycourier.ca/news/national_news/article_5c984ed6-420d-5d56-9817-8967c3eff3f2.html

Liberals offer details of try-out with man at centre of Facebook data controversy 

Liberals offer details of Wylie pilot project

Mar 21, 2018 Updated 14 min ago

OTTAWA - Federal Liberals are sharing details about a pilot project undertaken for their caucus research bureau by the Canadian data scientist at the centre of an international uproar over allegations that Facebook users' data was inappropriately harvested for political gain.

Christopher Wylie came forward in recent days with accusations that a voter-profiling company improperly collected private information from some 50 million Facebook users in order to help seal 2016 victories for Donald Trump's presidential campaign in the U.S. and in the U.K.'s Brexit referendum.

 

[Loachman]

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-former-top-canadian-security-officials-join-call-for-ottawa-to-nix/

Former top Canadian security officials warn Ottawa to sever links with China’s Huawei

Robert Fife  and Steven Chase

OTTAWA

Published 2 days ago

Updated 2 days ago

Three former directors of Canada’s key national security agencies are urging the federal government to heed the warnings of U.S. intelligence services and cut Canadian ties with Huawei, the giant Chinese smartphone and telecom equipment maker.

Ward Elcock, John Adams and Richard Fadden are weighing in on the matter after the heads of the CIA, FBI, National Security Agency and the Defence Intelligence Agency recently told the U.S. Senate intelligence committee that Huawei poses a cybersecurity threat to American customers. U.S. spymasters say Huawei’s smartphones and networking equipment could be used to conduct undetected espionage, especially the next, advanced generation of 5G technology.

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale told The Globe and Mail in a statement on Friday that Huawei is being monitored and does not pose a risk to Canada’s cybersecurity.

But Mr. Elcock, a former CSIS director, deputy minister of National Defence, and Security and Intelligence Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council, said he shares U.S. concerns about Huawei, which was founded by a former engineer in the People’s Liberation Army and has been accused of acting as an arm of Beijing.

“I have a pretty good idea of how signal-intelligence agencies work and the rules under which they work and their various operations and … I would not want to see Huawei equipment being incorporated into a 5G network in Canada,” Mr. Elcock told The Globe. Signals intelligence is the monitoring and interception of predominantly foreign communications by national security agencies.

 

[Loachman]

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-environment-minister-catherine-mckenna-says-pipeline-fight-puts/

Environment minister Catherine McKenna says pipeline fight puts national climate plan in peril

Justine Hunter

VICTORIA

Published March 18, 2018

Updated 2 days ago

Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, faced with the threat of a growing number of Canadian provinces balking at her government’s climate action plan, is pleading for a truce in the pipeline dispute between the B.C. and Alberta governments.

Continued support for Kinder Morgan Canada Inc.’s pipeline-expansion project was the trade-off Ottawa made to bring the Alberta NDP government on board for a national price on carbon.

Now, with B.C.’s NDP government seeking to block the pipeline, Ms. McKenna sees the potential for Alberta’s crucial support unravelling.
The Globe and Mail

“We are now in a situation where we have two progressive governments, NDP governments, who believe in climate change ... and we could lose our climate plan because you have other politicians who are waiting in the wings who don’t believe in climate change, who don’t believe in climate action, who want to reverse all these policies,” she said. “And that’s not just in one province, that’s in a number of provinces.”

 

[Jarnhamar]

Something to strive for in Canada?

A page out of Wynnes book maybe.

Nurses in Australia have to apologise for being white before treating indigenous patients.
https://www.todaytonightadelaide.com.au/stories/nurses-code

 

[jollyjacktar]

Something to strive for in Canada?

A page out of Wynnes book maybe.

Nurses in Australia have to apologise for being white before treating indigenous patients.
https://www.todaytonightadelaide.com.au/stories/nurses-code

FFS, this shit is really starting to get out of hand.  Wait until PM Virtue Signalling hears about this.  We'll all be doing it here too.

 

[YZT580]

To whom it may concern, you will be pleased to know that this bomb that has destroyed your factory was constructed in a factory staffed by Canadian indigenous peoples, packed by individuals of Asian descent and the aircraft is flown by a direct descendant of a zulu warrior.   

 

[George Wallace]

FFS, this shit is really starting to get out of hand.  Wait until PM Virtue Signalling hears about this.  We'll all be doing it here too.

QUIET YOU!  Don't be giving them any ideas.

 

[Jarnhamar]

FFS, this shit is really starting to get out of hand.  Wait until PM Virtue Signalling hears about this.  We'll all be doing it here too.

It's not that bad. Before teaching students you should apologize for your whiteness and acknowledge that you're standing before your class in a position of advantage not because of your experience and authority but white privilege and acknowledgement that anyone not a white cis male is at a disadvantage. 

I know I'm annoying but I'm not bitter, it's humorous in a self-destructive way at this point

 

[PPCLI Guy]

To whom it may concern, you will be pleased to know that this bomb that has destroyed your factory was constructed in a factory staffed by Canadian indigenous peoples, packed by individuals of Asian descent and the aircraft is flown by a direct descendant of a zulu warrior. 

I am at a loss as to what your point is :dunno: