Is Ontario headed for another Wynne win?
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yuppers
how people feel is how people feel...and what people believe and value r what they believe and value...
wether they are muslim or christian or none of the above or whatever...
i've also been listening to some peeps who have problems with public schooling in US and Canada as indoctrinating children into what the gov't du jour wants, teaching by "experts" and such...
an interesting choice...interesting ideas...
i would guess that some people who don't think that the muslims who are having issues with these sex ed changes r just religious nuts and not Islamophobic...
crazy...
yuppers
how people feel is how people feel...and what people believe and value r what they believe and value...
wether they are muslim or christian or none of the above or whatever...
i've also been listening to some peeps who have problems with public schooling in US and Canada as indoctrinating children into what the gov't du jour wants, teaching by "experts" and such...
an interesting choice...interesting ideas...
i would guess that some people who don't think that the muslims who are having issues with these sex ed changes r just religious nuts and not Islamophobic...
crazy...
Craziness goes on ...
It is the greater narrative on human behaviour because of the lack of getting it together concisely ... then all would be convened as the same ... but if crap ... pure shitz ... material for Zoe Yah in smears ...
Fix ... a suggested move to institutions ?????????
Mendalla
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@Jae said in another thread:
Which reminds me that it's probably time to bump this thread since the end is drawing near for the PCs mercifully short leadership contest.
It seems to be turning into a two horse race between Ford and Elliott. I just hope for the sake of our province that, for once, the horse who crosses the line first is Elliott's. Maybe third time will be the charm for her, eh? A Ford as leader is really NOT what the PCs need just as they are finally poised to seriously challenge the Liberals.
Which reminds me that it's probably time to bump this thread since the end is drawing near for the PCs mercifully short leadership contest.
It seems to be turning into a two horse race between Ford and Elliott. I just hope for the sake of our province that, for once, the horse who crosses the line first is Elliott's. Maybe third time will be the charm for her, eh? A Ford as leader is really NOT what the PCs need just as they are finally poised to seriously challenge the Liberals.
A race between Wynne and Ford would be entertaining. Kind of like Trump and Clinton. Two deeply-flawed candidates going at it.
Ritafee
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Entertainment is what it is all about - jolly good show ... Meanwhile back on the reservation:
Randy Keeper is sick of building coffins. A wiry fellow who looks younger than his 49 years, Keeper is proud of his job as a carpenter and crew leader, saying he’s built 25 houses from scratch over 17 years in Pikangikum, the reserve in northwestern Ontario where he has lived his whole life. But when it comes to the wooden boxes he builds for Pikangikum’s dead, he draws a blank. “I don’t count them,” he says from his daughter’s dining room table. He remembers the last ones, though. They were in December. “I had to make two in one day, one for an elder and one for a younger person.”
The dreams started a couple of weeks after that. In one, he’s lying face up in a freshly dug grave, watching as a coffin is slowly lowered toward him. He doesn’t know if there’s anyone inside, but he recognizes his handiwork: 100 lb. of plywood, treated pine and nails, a simple enough thing that takes him no more than 90 minutes to build. In the dream he’s alive but can’t move as it comes down on his chest, smothering him. Then he wakes up. “The elders told me to stop making them,” he says, “but I have no choice because I work for the band. I get nervous, shaky. Once the dreams happened I’d say yes out of respect for chief and council, but sometimes I don’t show up.”
Keeper is in high demand. Pikangikum, a fly-in reserve located about 300 km northeast of Winnipeg, is a place constantly haunted by the spectre of suicide. Over nearly four decades, the people of Pikangikum have seen dozens upon dozens of their friends and family members take their own lives. Last year, six people from the Ojibwa First Nations community killed themselves in as many weeks. In 2011, the community of roughly 2,400 had a suicide rate equivalent to 250 per 100,000—nearly 20 times that of Canada, and far and away the highest in the world. It has been so for 20 nearly uninterrupted years.
Randy Keeper is sick of building coffins. A wiry fellow who looks younger than his 49 years, Keeper is proud of his job as a carpenter and crew leader, saying he’s built 25 houses from scratch over 17 years in Pikangikum, the reserve in northwestern Ontario where he has lived his whole life. But when it comes to the wooden boxes he builds for Pikangikum’s dead, he draws a blank. “I don’t count them,” he says from his daughter’s dining room table. He remembers the last ones, though. They were in December. “I had to make two in one day, one for an elder and one for a younger person.”
The dreams started a couple of weeks after that. In one, he’s lying face up in a freshly dug grave, watching as a coffin is slowly lowered toward him. He doesn’t know if there’s anyone inside, but he recognizes his handiwork: 100 lb. of plywood, treated pine and nails, a simple enough thing that takes him no more than 90 minutes to build. In the dream he’s alive but can’t move as it comes down on his chest, smothering him. Then he wakes up. “The elders told me to stop making them,” he says, “but I have no choice because I work for the band. I get nervous, shaky. Once the dreams happened I’d say yes out of respect for chief and council, but sometimes I don’t show up.”
Keeper is in high demand. Pikangikum, a fly-in reserve located about 300 km northeast of Winnipeg, is a place constantly haunted by the spectre of suicide. Over nearly four decades, the people of Pikangikum have seen dozens upon dozens of their friends and family members take their own lives. Last year, six people from the Ojibwa First Nations community killed themselves in as many weeks. In 2011, the community of roughly 2,400 had a suicide rate equivalent to 250 per 100,000—nearly 20 times that of Canada, and far and away the highest in the world. It has been so for 20 nearly uninterrupted years.
revsdd
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My good Lord. I'll have to think about voting Liberal now. I would have voted PC with Patrick Brown as leader. Or Christine Elliott. Or Caroline Mulroney. But I don't think I could possibly in my worst nightmare mark a ballot for the candidate of a party led by Doug Ford - even though I truly do like my current PC MPP.
BetteTheRed
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Hey, rev, come to the Green side...
revsdd
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I've voted Green in the past. I'm not wedded to any political party. Between federal and provincial elections I've voted for 5 different parties over the years. I vote election by election, based on issues, leader, local candidates, gut feeling. Not necessarily in that order of importance. I was pretty settled on the PCs for the last couple of years. I think the Liberals are a tired government - out of ideas, pursuing some bad policies and increasingly corrupt (all of which happen to parties who've held power for a long time - 15 years now for the Ontario Liberals.) It's time for a change, but Doug Ford does not represent the kind of change I want to see.
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