this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2023
77 points (98.7% liked)

Canada

9613 readers
2224 users here now

What's going on Canada?



Related Communities


🍁 Meta


πŸ—ΊοΈ Provinces / Territories


πŸ™οΈ Cities / Local Communities

Sorted alphabetically by city name.


πŸ’ SportsHockey

Football (NFL): incomplete

Football (CFL): incomplete

Baseball

Basketball

Soccer


πŸ’» Schools / Universities

Sorted by province, then by total full-time enrolment.


πŸ’΅ Finance, Shopping, Sales


πŸ—£οΈ Politics


🍁 Social / Culture


Rules

  1. Keep the original title when submitting an article. You can put your own commentary in the body of the post or in the comment section.

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca


founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Wasn't he the cocaine guy from a few years ago?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No, that's his brother. This is the hash dealer.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Well, it was crack, but ~~yes. He went from being a mayor to a premier.~~ And people are shocked that the corrupt asshole is acting all corrput.

Edit: It was his brother, as the commentor below points out. But Dougie was known to be shitty before he was premier.

[–] canis_majoris 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No, that was his brother. Rob Ford was mayor of Toronto and died a few years back.

Doug Ford is his brother who used Rob's popularity and name to propel himself to premiership.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My mistake. Thank you for the correction. Still a corrupt shitbag though.

[–] canis_majoris 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He won with less than 23% voter turnout, the lowest turnout in Ontario's entire history.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yep. 18% of all eligible voters in Ontario gave this guy a Majority government.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fed up citizens HATE this one dirty trick that shouldn't be allowed

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I don't understand why elections don't have quorums. My condo can't do something obvious (fix AC chiller) without having enough owners agree, yet we can be governed by a party that gets a majority after most voters actually sat out with the attitude, "they all suck."

If a quorum isn't met in an election, all candidates for that riding should be barred from running again, and a new election should be called.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I love that we have a perfect analogy to help drive home the point the next time a Party whines it would make it to hard to win or whatever the fuck is holding us up yet

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I thought it was weed. Please, elaborate/cite so I can add this to my routine

[–] canis_majoris 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Rob Ford was mayor of Toronto, and he was filmed on video smoking crack.

He was an extremely conservative mayor who axed a lot of social programs and privatized things like garbage collection.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And this is Doug, Rob's (who passed away) brother. Doug likely got Rob into drugs in the first place, as he's a known former dealer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wonder if he has any guilt over it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Have you not seen his default shit-eating grin expression that he has all the time? The man is scum and regrets nothing that doesn't actively lose him money.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Doesn't he kinda lose himself money?. Like, their little sticker factory isnt printing many stackz these days

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The most hilarious (and sad) thing about our province is that it's run by a sticker salesman who both doesn't want to sell profitable stickers (license plate renewals), and who sold defective stickers (blue license plate stickers).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The blue things...they weren't Decko or whatever the fuck his magic sticker factory is named?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That must have annoyed him to watch all that money leaving the tableβ€”unless they made it worth his "wiles" lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think he was just utterly flabbergasted that something could leave the table. I mean, it must be absolutely yuge. EVERYTHING is always on it..

"It's all on the table, folks!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

http://www.piped.video/watch?v=jHFTATeWH5g

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Still my fave mayor of all time /s

Edit: I lied! Its Mayor Adam West ;)

[–] canis_majoris 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I will say the casting was amazing for Adam West and I also deeply appreciate the performance and casting of his spiritual successor, Sam Elliott as Mayor West II

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They seriously privatized that? Fuck. Is it a disaster or did it actually "work out", what's the verdict?

[–] Polar 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just wait until you hear about what his brother wants to do. Privatize healthcare. And conservatives are jumping for joy about it.

Kinda weird that conservatives bitch non stop about a few bucks in taxes, but think paying $15,000 out of pocket for an x-ray is the way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sadly, I don't see public healthcare surviving into the 2030s in this country. Too many people subscribe to the IDU-funded propaganda that two-tier is a "good thing", and that's the leading edge of a slippery slope to a sheer cliff.. The Provinces (mostly run by Cons) are bleeding the system. PP will deliver the death blow unless he's stopped from getting into power.