04-30-2024, 02:42 PM
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#19201
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Loves Teh Chat!
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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
The Alberta Advantage............
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Can't even pay for low income bus passes but yeah, we're going to invest billions in rail some mystical day in the future.
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04-30-2024, 02:44 PM
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#19202
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sylvan Lake
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Torture
Can't even pay for low income bus passes but yeah, we're going to invest billions in rail some mystical day in the future.
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The working poor can walk to work if they wanna keep their lowing job.
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04-30-2024, 02:50 PM
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#19203
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Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Pickle Jar Lake
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Quote:
Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
The working poor can walk to work if they wanna keep their lowing job.
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The working poor can pound some railway spikes if they want to earn enough for a ticket.
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04-30-2024, 03:04 PM
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#19204
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sylvan Lake
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fuzz
The working poor can pound some railway spikes if they want to earn enough for a ticket.
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Oh the working poor are getting pounded alright...........
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04-30-2024, 03:23 PM
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#19205
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: SW Calgary
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Makes sense, low income people can't afford to donate to the UCP, and that's how the UCP operates
Absolute scumbags
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04-30-2024, 03:27 PM
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#19206
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Franchise Player
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How much do other provinces fund low income transit passes for their respective major cities as a comparison? (BC, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec)
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04-30-2024, 03:33 PM
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#19207
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Pickle Jar Lake
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This is just a continuation of the province downloading costs to municipalities. I think we can expect to see a lot more of this stuff, they've been at it for awhile. This way, they can scold/remove city councils who are forced to raise taxes to cover these costs, eventually achieving their libertarian ideal as municipalities are left to deem that pretty much every public service is unaffordable.
Pretty cool future they are building for us, eh?
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04-30-2024, 03:40 PM
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#19208
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Posted the 6 millionth post!
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A good chunk of low-income transit riders will continue to vote UCP despite either now having to pay out-of-pocket or pay higher taxes for the City to fill the gap.
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04-30-2024, 04:29 PM
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#19209
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Auckland, NZ
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The UCP is downright evil at this point.
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04-30-2024, 04:48 PM
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#19210
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: California
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lubicon
How much do other provinces fund low income transit passes for their respective major cities as a comparison? (BC, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec)
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A quick google suggests that BC runs a BC bus pass program that is good for all transit systems in BC
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/g...s-pass-program
Not sure who funds this program though.
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04-30-2024, 05:12 PM
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#19211
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by GGG
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I didn't have much time to dig into details. Most major cities seem to have some sort of low income pass but it's not always clear where the funding is coming from.
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04-30-2024, 05:14 PM
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#19212
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Posted the 6 millionth post!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Muta
The UCP is downright evil at this point.
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They don't even know what they are at this point.
https://twitter.com/user/status/1785407805899378883
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04-30-2024, 05:21 PM
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#19213
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Auckland, NZ
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They're not even hiding their disdain for losing the cities last election now. Instead of looking in the mirror, they're taking it out on some of Calgary and Edmonton's most vulnerable. This is just spite.
Worst government in Canadian history. Trudeau's government looks like all-stars compared to these fascist dunderheads.
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04-30-2024, 06:12 PM
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#19214
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Calgary
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For trains but against transit?
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04-30-2024, 06:42 PM
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#19215
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Monster Storm
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Calgary
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Transit is too close to trans, therefore they are against it.
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04-30-2024, 06:47 PM
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#19216
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by surferguy
Transit is too close to trans, therefore they are against it.
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BuT wHaT aBOuT TRANS-mOuNtAin?
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04-30-2024, 06:51 PM
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#19217
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: SW Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Flames0910
For trains but against transit?
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For expensive trains, against low income transit
Now that low-income or people collecting AISH can't afford to go to appointments, I imagine conservatives just hope they die off and go away. I'm sure in their eyes this just cleans transit of "undesirables"
But let's be real and call it what it is, an attack on people who didn't vote for them. This just hurts the major cities and low-earners, which is the idea
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04-30-2024, 07:14 PM
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#19218
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Scoring Winger
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Izzle
BuT wHaT aBOuT TRANS-mOuNtAin?
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They just say TMX so they don’t have to say the word trans.
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04-30-2024, 09:02 PM
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#19219
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Raekwon
Anyone up for a canoe trip before they flood it? Nothing bad ever happened on a Canoe trip.
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Jon Voigt and Ned Beatty would disagree.
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04-30-2024, 10:03 PM
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#19220
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Referee
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Calgary
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Going to paint UCP and a lot of their supporters with a broad brush here, so let me acknowledge that, but I think one of the underlying reasons for their disdain for low-income Albertans comes from a belief that if you are poor you are a) lazy b) unqualified/uneducated (nice way of saying dumb), c) not righteous, or d) all of the above.
Just my personal experience recently: I've run into more of a certain type of religious people who believe that the only way you can have this temporal success is by being super pious, and those folks who are struggling financially are, in effect, less righteous.
With the TBA idiots and their home-schooled zealot leadership, I wouldn't be surprised if that was an underlying part of their cruelty: "we aren't punishing the poor because they are poor, but because they haven't been blessed enough."
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