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Old Posted Mar 10, 2015, 11:56 PM
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He made his bed as a social conservative when he ditched the PC's and joined the Canadian Alliance. That alone will always come back to haunt him in Winnipeg. He was a social conservative in 2008 but isn't now? Either way that's going to be tough to campaign on. He waffles on his beliefs or his beliefs on many fundamental issues don't align with the majority of the electorate.
Wow, it seems a certain sect of the "progressive" movement see an Elmer Gantry in every person who is a little to the "right" of them.
Much better to keep those tired ass-clowns in government in Winnipeg because they aren't "Scary".

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Old Posted Mar 11, 2015, 12:55 AM
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Wow, imagine if he was tall and black. Would he be twice as unlikeable then?

If you discriminate against someone because of a physical feature that someone has no control over, that makes you a sick fuck.
That was a joke, referencing your earlier comment. I don't care that he's tall. In fact, some of my best friends are tall. I personally don't see height... I just see people.
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Old Posted Mar 11, 2015, 4:39 AM
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That was a joke, referencing your earlier comment. I don't care that he's tall. In fact, some of my best friends are tall. I personally don't see height... I just see people.
Pallister needs to own the height issue by taking on the NDP's basketball whiz Kevin Chief in a game of one-on-one and then pulling off a sick one-handed slam to win it.
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Pallister needs to own the height issue by taking on the NDP's basketball whiz Kevin Chief in a game of one-on-one and then pulling off a sick one-handed slam to win it.
Come, let's have a fair fight. I'd like to see Pallister and Andrew Swan go one-on-one on the court. Swan lacks the speed and agility of Chief, but he's got the vertical leap.
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Old Posted Mar 11, 2015, 1:28 PM
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^ Good point. Andrew Swan is pretty much the Dikembe Mutombo of the NDP caucus.
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So is the Steve Ashton tendering controversy going to be the death blow for the NDP's chances in the next election?

I got the sense that despite the general fatigue with the NDP and their foibles, especially under Selinger, as compared to Doer who ran a tight ship, that voters weren't quite ready to give them the boot. But with an outrageous and easy-to-understand scandal, it's often enough to bring matters to a head and push voters over a tipping point.
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So is the Steve Ashton tendering controversy going to be the death blow for the NDP's chances in the next election?

I got the sense that despite the general fatigue with the NDP and their foibles, especially under Selinger, as compared to Doer who ran a tight ship, that voters weren't quite ready to give them the boot. But with an outrageous and easy-to-understand scandal, it's often enough to bring matters to a head and push voters over a tipping point.
The worst thing that can happen to a government is just general eye-rolling and malaise from its electorate. And my god has the NDP succeeded in generating that. It's impossible to even care anymore because the rats skittering off the sinking ship are coming in almost weekly installments at this point and they're all doing exit interviews. Now we're at un-tendered flood fighting equipment from donors to the minister of Infrastructure? There have gotta be fifty more of these in the pipeline.

Just sit back and enjoy the implosion.
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Old Posted Jun 18, 2015, 11:00 PM
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as a union man i hope the ndp read this from us younger everything they do is a joke theyve destroyed mantioba to the point where the credit rating has been lowered twice in 2 years costing us 500 million in interest alone they think we havent noticed, well we did i cant believe the amount of government employee's theyve hired cost us 250 in the past 2 years our deficit continues to explode no grow its shocking.
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Agreed. Let's fill as many lots with small-scale, charming buildings, and when another party replaces the NDP, creates a business-friendly environment, and the need warrants it, taller towers can replace eyesores.
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Agreed. Let's fill as many lots with small-scale, charming buildings, and when another party replaces the NDP, creates a business-friendly environment, and the need warrants it, taller towers can replace eyesores.
This isn't really the place for a political discussion, but it has taken Winnipeg a good fifteen years to recover from our last "business friendly" provincial government.
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Amusing. The province is now more uncompetitive than it has ever been. Anyway, once the socialists are booted from Broadway, one of the other parties will have the arduous task of getting the province on the right track, thus more investment, thus more construction downtown.
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Amusing. The province is now more uncompetitive than it has ever been.
Manitoba has a growing economy and population. It's per capita GDP is nearly on par with BC and Ontario. We're finally eating away at our infrastructure deficit. That seems to be a baseless statement.
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Wow. This is funny.
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Manitoba has a growing economy and population. It's per capita GDP is nearly on par with BC and Ontario. We're finally eating away at our infrastructure deficit. That seems to be a baseless statement.
If by growing economy you mean a growing civil service / welfare state..

And, if by growing population you mean the parade of underemployed single moms pushing strollers in front of Portage place then I'm inclined to agree.

For those interested, take a look at the stats from this Free Press piece that appears earlier this month..

Atrocious.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opi...339177012.html

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A Statistics Canada report released this week on recent changes in demographic trends in Canada paints a flattering picture of Manitoba’s population growth from international migrants. The provincial nominee program has been one of the great triumphs of this NDP government, which should be applauded for attracting families from all over the world.

But examining population growth through the interprovincial migration metric paints a very different picture. TD Economics’s most recent data on the subject show at a rate of -0.3 per cent, we beat out only P.E.I. for the worst interprovincial migration rate in Canada. The most recent Statistics Canada figures show Manitoba lost 4,212 residents to other provinces in 2012. In fact, since 1976, Manitoba has had the highest net loss of residents to interprovincial migration in Canada — a whopping 170,000 plus — the highest in the nation by a significant margin. What’s most worrisome is the age of those who are most likely to leave: young adults between the ages of 20 and 27.
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Wow. This is funny.
Little Pallister! Right on cue
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If by growing economy you mean a growing civil service / welfare state..

And, if by growing population you mean the parade of underemployed single moms pushing strollers in front of Portage place then I'm inclined to agree.

For those interested, take a look at the stats from this Free Press piece that appears earlier this month..

Atrocious.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opi...339177012.html
That study reflects trends at the height of the energy boom. Let's see what the 2015 numbers look like..
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People move to other provinces too. Manitoba has always been a place people move away from and it always will be.
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Little Pallister! Right on cue
Thanks for the compiment little Stalinger.

A great job your buddies are doing.

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Old Posted Nov 20, 2015, 3:25 PM
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People move to other provinces too. Manitoba has always been a place people move away from and it always will be.
Something tells me you really enjoy displaying the negative, Schadenfreude-like mentality.
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http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/loc...351954191.html

Let's hear it for more ham-handed government control over things that should be handled by private retailers!
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