Alberta Politics & Government Thread 3.0

[TheIronMaiden]

Originally Posted by Barnes

Such a waste of time. Straw ban on sales comes into effect next year. I have rarely seen plastic straws at all nowadays on juice boxes or fast food restaurants over the past year. I cant think of a single microbrewery that hasn't already moved to boxes, paper ring carriers, or the reusable clip in ones. Macros will probably wait until the last second.

Move on Smith, everyone else has.

Most places that still use plastic are

1. taking advantage of how cheap they are now
2. using up old stock

[powderjunkie]

Originally Posted by The Fisher Account

So the using the sovereignty act to block the plastic straws ban discussion in the legislature yesterday was another new low..

Its very very very similar to the persecution imposed o Indigenous people by the federal gov't.

Paper straws = ripping children from their parents' arms to face physical/sexual/psychological abuse.

[Wormius]

Maybe we could use our wheat resources to make straws out of long tubular pasta. Problem solved. Better than paper.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Wormius

Maybe we could use our wheat resources to make straws out of long tubular pasta. Problem solved. Better than paper.

Ricardo’s used to do this. Maybe still do? It’s great actually. Though a truly terrible drunk snack after the 5th Pina Colada.

[Fuzz]

Not so good for celiac's...

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Not so good for celiac's...

God you people ruin everything.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

God you people ruin everything.

Particularly bathrooms after accidental gluten ingestion...

[SebC]

Originally Posted by surferguy

Montreal?? Hanging out in Montreal parks, being under constant threat of a Just for Laughs prank at any hour, no thank you.

I had a hand dryer in Montreal start talking to me to introduce itself and say that it would take about 3 minutes to boot up depending on the strength of the Wifi network. Wasn't sure if a camera crew was going to jump out at me or if that's just the world we live in now.

[Izzle]

Raheel Notley providing some insights into how she'd govern. So it's not all attacking Smith's horrible tenure. At this point, anyone saying that all Notley does is attack, is being willfully ignorant.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1602881767148761088

[Superflyer]

I was just listening to the radio and there was an ad for the UCP basically saying that if the NDP get elected they will work with Trudeau and the federal NDP. A couple ads later there was one for the NDP saying that the UCP are attacking healthcare with actual clips of Smith saying that people should pay for healthcare.

It was almost like it was two ads for the NDP.

[Looch City]

Yes but even her name scares me. Rache-- oh god, now I'm going to have nightmares.

[Ozy_Flame]

[Fuzz]

Aww lawdy, Notley just called Smith a racist, so expect those sounds bites forever.

She didn't actually say that, it was more along the lines of "some of them spend just a little bit too much time dabling in the same circles as folks who have some deeply offence and racist ideas" but you can guarantee we now get this tossed in the Rebel Media clip mangler. Around 18:30.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1603110148951932928

More importantly the rest of the press conference was laying out ideas, so Dion should tune in.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Aww lawdy, Notley just called Smith a racist, so expect those sounds bites forever.

She didn't actually say that, it was more along the lines of "some of them spend just a little bit too much time dabling in the same circles as folks who have some deeply offence and racist ideas" but you can guarantee we now get this tossed in the Rebel Media clip mangler. Around 18:30.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1603110148951932928

More importantly the rest of the press conference was laying out ideas, so Dion should tune in.

Narrator: he didn't.

[BlackArcher101]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Aww lawdy, Notley just called Smith a racist, so expect those sounds bites forever.

She didn't actually say that, it was more along the lines of "some of them spend just a little bit too much time dabling in the same circles as folks who have some deeply offence and racist ideas" but you can guarantee we now get this tossed in the Rebel Media clip mangler. Around 18:30.

Perfect, now get to hear people complain how divisive she is just like trudeau.

[Izzle]

Originally Posted by BlackArcher101

Perfect, now get to hear people complain how divisive she is just like trudeau.

And that will be enough for them to vote blue.

[TheIronMaiden]

A message of economic stability.

[CroCop]

Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden

A message of economic stability.

I’ll bet. An NDP idea of economic stability is doing absolutely nothing with the exception of dumping money and focus on anything green without thought. Not a way for Alberta to return to prosperity. Despite the tone or general sentiment in this thread I believe most Albertans know this and will ultimately be reluctant to vote Orange when push comes to shove this spring. They lucked into power in 2015 then promptly and soundly lost the next time out. They are more of a threat this time and the conservatives know it. Expect the Ucp to reign in the leader and tone down some of her personal view as they win back the moderate middle in the next 6 months.

[TheIronMaiden]

Originally Posted by CroCop

I’ll bet. An NDP idea of economic stability is doing absolutely nothing with the exception of dumping money and focus on anything green without thought. Not a way for Alberta to return to prosperity. Despite the tone or general sentiment in this thread I believe most Albertans know this and will ultimately be reluctant to vote Orange when push comes to shove this spring. They lucked into power in 2015 then promptly and soundly lost the next time out. They are more of a threat this time and the conservatives know it. Expect the Ucp to reign in the leader and tone down some of her personal view as they win back the moderate middle in the next 6 months.

Interesting you say this, while this press conference talks about the government working with International Oil and Gas companies to see what their needs are.

[stone hands]

Originally Posted by CroCop

I’ll bet. An NDP idea of economic stability is doing absolutely nothing with the exception of dumping money and focus on anything green without thought. Not a way for Alberta to return to prosperity. Despite the tone or general sentiment in this thread I believe most Albertans know this and will ultimately be reluctant to vote Orange when push comes to shove this spring. They lucked into power in 2015 then promptly and soundly lost the next time out. They are more of a threat this time and the conservatives know it. Expect the Ucp to reign in the leader and tone down some of her personal view as they win back the moderate middle in the next 6 months.

This is either very high quality green text or an example of why we cant have nice things in alberta