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13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Back to school (II) · 1 reply · +2 points

The random text generator is fritzing out again. I've reported the bugs so we can fix them for the next release of psiclone.pl.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Hey look: a story as l... · 0 replies · +1 points

Lucky me, I've got a couple of long flights this weekend. I'll be picking this up at the newsstand tomorrow, as it looks like fascinating reading.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - The departed · 4 replies · +4 points

Very sad to see Siobhan Coady and Marlene Jennings lose. Some of the others, too...

But a lot of the names in that list are the sorts of Liberals I'm not sad to see go (the slimy, anything-for-power types who have turned the party into a never-ending series of sponsorship and other scandals). If the Liberals are ever to rebuild, they'll be much better off with this cleaned-out caucus.

Some surprisingly important names in the Conservative list as well.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Your seat projections ... · 0 replies · +3 points

Agreed. For my own judgment: Lispop's numbers seem out of left field; ElectionAlmanac's methods seem ridiculously dubious, at best; and Ekos is included in 308's. So personally, I'd cancel all three of those out and just stick with 308.

This is the first time I've seen Ewoc/Tabatha Southey's epithet, and it's genius. Thank you for including that, Mr Coyne.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Your seat projections ... · 1 reply · +4 points

If you click through, the Ekos model has that one Hermit in Quebec, so presumably André Arthur.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Layton's version · 6 replies · -1 points

this may be the first time I've agreed with Dennis_F, but Ignatieff's signature is on it, too. The entire 2008 Liberal caucus signed. It may have been Dion's document, but Ignatieff did sign it.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - The Commons: Good morn... · 3 replies · +8 points

Say what you will about his politics; Mr. Ignatieff has at least made the correct choice of bagel. :D

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - The Commons: So it ends · 8 replies · +17 points

So what you're actually saying is, we should tell the people of Quebec (and any other province that might someday have a regional party) that they don't have the right to elect whom they wish, and must instead vote within your parameters?

Your form of democracy is frightening.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Stuck in traffic · 9 replies · +20 points

My commute: a 20-minute walk, each way. Haven't owned a car in years.

If you choose to live some ridiculous distance from where you work, you choose to deal with the traffic. If you want less traffic, I agree with Andrew: let the market handle it, pay congestion tolls and such. Or live nearer to where you work -- in all of Canada's major cities, there are affordable, livable parts of those cities -- and check out of the whole thing. It's healthier, too.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - On rhetoric · 5 replies · +5 points

Well, first, you're making an assumption about the politics and ideology of someone you've never met (me), so your statement is already flawed. If you would like civility, you could start by not attacking people for things they never said.

All I was pointing out is that it wasn't a liberal government going after its political opponents; it was a conservative government looking at terror threats, both foreign and domestic. It has nothing to do with some sort of purge of the right wing, and everything to do with trying to identify threats to the government. (Remember, for example, Oklahoma City.)

Extremists on both sides of the divide are harmful. A left-wing group took out a building at my university when I was in second year, destroying decades of research. A right-wing group took out a federal office building a number of years ago. Just to pick one example of each.

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