• Moderators, please send me a PM if you are unable to access mod permissions. Thanks, Habsy.

OT: The News Thread

As an aside, what a shitshow Brexit has become. May has no plan yet is pushing forward.

It is clear the Leave side broke electoral laws.

Even the British govt says the UK will suffer massively from Brexit.

So silly
 
giphy.gif
 
MindzEye said:
Every bit helps. That's the point. There is no silver bullet solution, just incremental improvement towards significant reduction in harm.



The fewer lost/stolen guns that make it into circulation on the streets, the higher the price for those smuggled guns. Or at the minimum, the higher the demand for the smuggling to increase which allows assets to be focused on the smuggling supply channel rather than investigating and tracking down lost/stolens



I don't think you have to "start" with stopping shipments at all. You start the lowest hanging fruit, the easiest combination of assets utilized for effective gain. With the massive flow of goods between the US & Canada, it's obviously a massive challenge to identify and co opt small shipments of illegal weapons. It takes a pretty significant amount of police assets to investigate the groups who are bringing these weapons into Canada and stop the shipments. It takes very little to add to existing legislation.
Click to expand...

Some good points for sure.

Let’s see if they do anything at all. And if so how it effects the numbers. I don’t think it will but hey I’ve been wrong many times before.
 
HabsFan1 said:
Some good points for sure.

Let’s see if they do anything at all. And if so how it effects the numbers. I don’t think it will but hey I’ve been wrong many times before.
Click to expand...

whoa whoa whoa

FI rule #1 never admit you have been wrong about anything... ever
 
So Ford is going to let weed go to private retailers and scrapping the lcbo plan to sell weed. Maybe he won't be such a bad premier after all.
 
UWHabs said:
So Ford is going to let weed go to private retailers and scrapping the lcbo plan to sell weed. Maybe he won't be such a bad premier after all.
Click to expand...

In the long term, this might turn out being worth a term of Ford.

That sound you hear is the entire Canadian MJ industry jerking off simultaneously.
 
MindzEye said:
In the long term, this might turn out being worth a term of Ford.

That sound you hear is the entire Canadian MJ industry jerking off simultaneously.
Click to expand...
I'm not sure I'd go as far as saying it'll be "worth it". Because there's going to be a real mountain of shit that's going to come along with "Premier Ford". The garbage he pulled this morning by arbitrarily slashing Toronto council in half months before a municipal election clearly for no other reason than revenge and spite is just an appetizer of what his reign will be like.

But it would certainly be a nice consolation if he murders the idea of an LCBO-run "Cannabis Control Board of Ontario" that has a total monopoly on legal marijuana sales, and does nothing but sell dried bud out of a pathetically small number of storefronts. If he allows a whole industry of privately-run dispensaries to open up and sell refined products like edibles & concentrates to go along with regular bud, then by the time he's booted out of office and the Liberals get back in to power, there won't be any putting that horse back in the barn.

Ending the Beer Store & LBCO monopolies over beer & liquor sales in the province would be a nice bonus as well.
 
I think I'm going to move to Nova Scotia. Harris was enough. This is disgusting watching a fascist run the provincial government and dictate shit for Toronto. By fascist, I mean thug ... which is what fascists are.
 
BeLeafer said:
I think I'm going to move to Nova Scotia. Harris was enough. This is disgusting watching a fascist run the provincial government and dictate shit for Toronto. By fascist, I mean thug ... which is what fascists are.
Click to expand...

Move to the States, no fascists here. Just good ole 'Mericuns.
 
BeLeafer said:
I think I'm going to move to Nova Scotia. Harris was enough. This is disgusting watching a fascist run the provincial government and dictate shit for Toronto. By fascist, I mean thug ... which is what fascists are.
Click to expand...

I moved back to Halifax shortly after the election (wish I could say it was because of Doug, but the move was already planned before the election). It's pretty nice out here. And ocean or lakefront property can be had for relative peanuts.

But let's not pretend that much of rural NS is not filled with Ford/Trumpesque supporters...
 
Anyone remember that Toronto spa for women only that didn't allow Pre Op trans women in?

Not about them, but that same issue is popping up again.

Women versus Trans women, it's going to be a interesting societal battle as women with penises enter spaces where women don't want penises.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canad...s-complaint-transgender-woman-toronto-shelter

Hanna, 37, is a former paramedic who has lately worked in the service industry, and has been struggling with the lingering effects of sexual abuse and resulting problems with addiction to alcohol and cocaine. She described herself as an “active ally in the LGBTQ community,” but said this conflict has left her feeling as if vulnerable women are unable to voice their own gender-based rights for fear of violating someone else’s.

“It’s affecting everyone in the house. This can completely ruin your recovery, let alone your safety, let alone your life,” Hanna said in an interview.

She spent two nights sharing the room — constantly looking over to make sure her roommate was still in bed, she said — before taking an indefinite leave from the shelter. Hanna had lived for seven months at the central Toronto facility, located in an old Victorian house, but since last week has been staying with friends on couches, as a “transient,” she said. “Those two nights were hell for me.”

In her formal complaint to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, Hanna alleges the shelter “admitted a male bodied transgender into the safety of my home, bedroom and safe spaces.” She claims this has caused her stress, anxiety, rape flashbacks, symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and sleep deprivation.

“We were all choked by our own anxiety, our crippling PTSD symptoms. You could cut the tension in the house,” she said. She described other women having rape flashbacks, threatening suicide, and one requiring hospitalization.
Click to expand...

And I'm not going to lie, one societal issues where men(in the classic sense) aren't to blame is kind of interesting to watch from the sidelines.
 
It’s always fun when two social justice causes clash. what’s more important, respecting women’s safe spaces or tranny tolerance?? somebody has to win here
 
Volcanologist said:
It’s always fun when two social justice causes clash. what’s more important, respecting women’s safe spaces or tranny tolerance?? somebody has to win here
Click to expand...

Usually I just say the more marginalized group wins nice times out of ten, but women make up 50.4 percent of the population and as such aren't a group anyone really wants to alienate. Not to mention, after making great strides forward for women rights and safe spaces I don't think women are going to all that willing to make sacrifices on those gains for trans women.
 
Wayward DP said:
I moved back to Halifax shortly after the election (wish I could say it was because of Doug, but the move was already planned before the election). It's pretty nice out here. And ocean or lakefront property can be had for relative peanuts.

But let's not pretend that much of rural NS is not filled with Ford/Trumpesque supporters...
Click to expand...

It's been a while but my experience with rural NS is that they are much less redneck than you'd find here in rural Ontario. This was while being on travel with my two of my exes -- one Native American, the other Vietnamese. Much less racism there than here.

I also have friends in rural NS who are very progressive. In any event, I will likely move to Halifax but not for a few years, as I have a business that I'd have to prep for me to do this.
 
Don't kid yourself.

I lived in N.S. for a few years and found very little difference in attitude towards minorities than here in Ont.
One thing I did sense was that if you are not born a maritimer, you could live there for years but will still be considered an outsider.

That aside, I loved my time in living in Halifax and spending considerable time visiting friends and relatives in Antigonish.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top