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Old 12-03-2022, 07:52 AM   #4721
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....all the while when stuff like this is going on...

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Old 12-03-2022, 08:00 AM   #4722
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ok smith supporters, i understand you think these ideas are good, do you think this team has the competency to pull it off? If so, what makes you think that?
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Ah, now there' a name I haven't heard in ages. Matt Wolf... an insecure, angry conversative who was the very definition of government waste. Of course, Yoho won't ever admit that.
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Old 12-03-2022, 08:25 AM   #4724
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OK Smith supporters, I understand you think these ideas are good, do you think this team has the competency to pull it off? If so, what makes you think that?
Bit x bit x bit she is going to walk all of it back (or portion thereof). Whomever is handling her is an idiot. Birds of a feather I suppose.
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Old 12-03-2022, 08:35 AM   #4726
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Imagine posting a Rex Murphy article and not trying to be ironic
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I mean Trudeau, Singh and the Toronto Media are also presumably against Kanye West...
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Old 12-03-2022, 08:35 AM   #4728
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Exactly! I mean just look at this!

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Old 12-03-2022, 08:45 AM   #4729
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"Canada, the US and the UK are all against Putin. So you know he must be doing something right."
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Sometimes Rex Murphy has decent articles but that one is a huge yikes. If he came with a little more balance / nuance he would be taken a lot more seriously.
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Old 12-03-2022, 09:38 AM   #4731
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Sometimes Rex Murphy has decent articles but that one is a huge yikes. If he came with a little more balance / nuance he would be taken a lot more seriously.
Rex has been a journalistic muppet for at least the past decade.
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Rex has been a journalistic muppet for at least the past decade.
He is like an older and somewhat weirder Jordan Peterson. On the fringe trying to find a place/build a brand.
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Old 12-03-2022, 10:01 AM   #4733
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Rex has been a journalistic muppet for at least the past decade.
I was about to post the same thing. I used to really like listening to Rex Murphy takes, but in the last number of years he has turned into a dumpster fire.
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For inclusion of extraordinary cabinet powers, they are going with the “we weren’t malicious, we were just incompetent!” defence. Incredible stuff.

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OMG, Rex Murphy.
He is the Don Cherry of political columnists. The sooner he's put out to pasture the better.

No one need a world in which Rex Murphy is relevant.
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Old 12-03-2022, 11:03 AM   #4736
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I don't understand what problem this sovereignty act is supposed to solve. What specific federal overreach does this address? It seems like it is an emotional appeal to some nebulous grievances Alberta has against the federal government, without any specifics as to how it will be used, and equally as important, how it would have been used in the past to show that it will be effective.

This is leaving aside the constitutional question of whether this bill concentrates too much power in the executive; that might be the more important issue, but to make any argument that this concentration is necessary, it seems to me the usefulness of the legislation should first be proven. If it is going to be ineffective or is never going to be invoked successfully, its purpose would seem to be only symbolic, with large negative side effects.

I don't think you have to be "leftist" to want a clear explanation of what this act is trying to accomplish. So far I haven't seen anything other than the aforementioned appeal to emotion.

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Rex could be the mascot for what’s gone wrong with our political climate.
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The internals on this poll are really interesting, especially when comparing to the last Leger poll (taken mid October, early in Smith's tenure). While the toplines didn't move much, the UCP actually gained ground by 3% each in rural Alberta and Edmonton, but lost 7% in Calgary. The only saving grace of that last Leger poll was that Calgary was still tight, but that's possibly no longer the case.

If the Calgary margins in the recent Janet Brown poll (6% NDP lead) and this one (10%) are accurate, then what happens in rural Alberta is probably irrelevant. If the NDP lead is more like 2-4% in Calgary, then NDP probably still need a significant number of pickups (around 5) in rural/small-city Alberta to win.
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Sometimes Rex Murphy has decent articles but that one is a huge yikes. If he came with a little more balance / nuance he would be taken a lot more seriously.
Not excusing him. I stopped reading his articles years ago. Yet I do sympathize with him.

He lived seeing what the Liberals did to the fishing industry. Collapsing the industry in his native Newfoundland, only to see foreign boats fish away. Then to see prosperity return early 2000s and collapse again, with the Liberals pushing more ideological restrictions on a hurting industry, while foreign groups drink our milkshake.

He comes from a hard work blue collar background and respects those principles. I think watching JT and Butts hail from privilege and mess with so many folks lives has pushed him to fight back against what he doesn’t respect.

I mean look at how the Liberals promised all that retraining for a green economy that hasn’t materialized, yet they are fairly happy to constrain Canadian livelihoods. Its a story he and all of us have seen before.
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Rex could be the mascot for what’s gone wrong with our political climate.
Don’t be lazy. The left has plenty ownership here. David “oil workers are slave trade sympathizers” Suzuki being one. Gerry “Oil execs are evil barrens” Butts.

The left always likes to be the victim, but they helped propagate this problem post Trump. Going all in on “everyone who votes Trump did so because racism”.

Rex is a product but not the cause by any means.

Last, did anyone see Gerry Butts quit Twitter? Threw insults at Elon Musk and then left on a “please be kind” note. Case in point.
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