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[FogPub]

NDP signs are making their rounds now.

Still haven't seen any, anywhere.  Saw a lot more Liberal signs out in Saanich this evening than were there yesterday, and - unsurprisingly - gobs of signs for the Greens.  In town, the only new sign I noticed was a Conserviative one outside my building - but it was pitch dark when I came home and watching the road kinda took priority.

[todd]

How do you back into a plane? Did the driver not know there was a $50 million object next to him?

 

 

Victoria airport manager 'perplexed' by Liberals' plane-bus scrape up

 

 A manager at Victoria International Airport says he doesn’t understand how a bus managed to damage Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s election plane. .....

 

.....Drivers and security personnel are briefed ahead of time on where to park on the tarmac. ...

 

.... 12 traffic cones around the plane, which exceeded the industry standard of having one each by the nose, tail and wings. ...

 

.... enough room for the bus ferrying media and a few Liberal staff on Wednesday night to go around the plane’s wing, but the driver chose to go under it and gouged the wing’s underside. .......

https://nationalpost...-wing-collision

[vortoozo]

It was, and its removal angered transit users, for sure.

I think we all know CBC is the voice of the Liberal Party. The SNC Lavalin scandal removed what thin veil was in place.

 

The credit only contributed to a 0.3% increase in transit ridership. As a tax credit, it wouldn't have helped anyone that has low/no income eg students. 

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...check-1.5282974

[RFS]

The credit only contributed to a 0.3% increase in transit ridership. As a tax credit, it wouldn't have helped anyone that has low/no income eg students.

https://www.cbc.ca/n...check-1.5282974

Yeah it's just good for normal, middle class transit users so naturally the left doesn't like it. Not woke enough.

[Victoria Watcher]

The credit only contributed to a 0.3% increase in transit ridership. As a tax credit, it wouldn't have helped anyone that has low/no income eg students. 

 

isn't it good enough that in this country that people with no or low income are already well taken care of?  first world problem. 

 

student with no income doesn't get transit tax credit.  but somehow is an adult living and eating and finding shelter and free healthcare and going to school all the while having no income.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 14 September 2019 - 06:40 PM.

[Sparky]

So here’s the thing about how elections are won (or not won if you don’t play the game) in the digital era. You’ve read about all the commotion about the re-tweeting of Help’s Christmas fan....here is a questionable example in our federal election campaign.

Pay attention because the devil lives in the details. A candidate can now continually bombard the population daily or even hourly for little or no cost. Gone are the days of printing up a flyer and mailing them out to the voters with your goals and ideas for the future. It’s also way more fun to criticize your opponent especially when you don’t criticize directly ...you re-tweet what someone else has puked up on the interweb. That way your supporters know you are thinking of them, informing them, enlightening them...whether the re-tweet is true or not...really doesn’t matter. Your supporters need something to tell their friends and families why they should vote for you...whether it’s true or not.

Case in point.

This little gem is a re-tweet by a local candidate originally posted by a sitting Member of Parliament. It states 3 important facts about the number of “meetings” that our sitting Prime Minister has had with 3 particular business sectors and then provides a summary of the outcomes of those meetings.



Note the “fact” that Justin Trudeau met with “Big oil” 1550 times resulting in “billions” in subsidies.

There are approximately 250 working days in a year for the average Canadian worker. Trudeau has been in office for 4 years or approximately 1,000 business days. This means he met with Big oil an average of one and a half times a day or two meetings every 3 days from the moment he took office....that’s if he worked a full year without travel or vacations. This math seems highly unlikely to achieve.

But there it is re-tweeted to supporters to spread the word and suggest that we need change.

This is how election campaigns are conducted these days. Just throw it out there in Twitter land.

It worked for Trump.

[Cats4Hire]

I have to say the anti-Scheer hashtags are more interesting. Currently have #ScheerDisaster on my timeline and have had stuff like #ScheerDesperation and #ScheerDisapointment. The Trudeau stuff is just #TrudeauNeedstogo and #TrudeauNeedstogotojail.

[Victoria Watcher]

nobody pays attention to or follows or seeks hashtags so they are of little importance.

[Sparky]

#metoo

[Cats4Hire]

nobody pays attention to or follows or seeks hashtags so they are of little importance.

they sure are being posted in quite frequently for something nobody pays attention to

[Victoria Watcher]

posted yes. But click one and see how many others have clicked. Near zero.

[Cats4Hire]

I don't really see what that has to do with which ones are more interesting. I'm not saying Trudeau will win because the anti-Scheer hashtags are more interesting or anything.

[Victoria Watcher]

hashtags are meant to direct you to similar tagged content for investigation. but they get clicks in the single digits per thousand seen. so they are next to useless and a waste of tine for the author even thinking then up or typing them in to a post.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 14 September 2019 - 08:45 PM.

[Mike K.]

I think their purpose is more to collate content rather than to be clicked. If you add a hashtag to your post that post will be picked up by the algorithm to enter the feed of your intended audience.

[lanforod]

This better not happen.

[Mike K.]

This is just the beginning.

There are other taxes related to primary residences in the works as well.

[Matt R.]

Is this legit?

Matt.

[Mike K.]

Yes: https://www.conserva...tax-homeowners/

“This new homeowner tax would cost Canadians who sell their homes thousands of dollars,” said Conservative Deputy Leader Lisa Raitt. “In public, Justin Trudeau pretends to want to help homeowners, but behind closed doors, his team is planning to hit them hard with a new tax that will cost them thousands. As usual, Trudeau is not as advertised.”

Behind closed doors, the Trudeau Liberals have also proposed soda tax that would increase the cost of some of the most popular drinks in Canada.

The Trudeau Liberals also have a secret plan to hike the carbon tax, which the Minister of Environment slipped up and made public. So-far, they have refused to answer any questions about just how high this carbon tax will go, but the independent Parliamentary Budget Officer found they would have to increase their carbon tax by five times in order to meet their Paris Targets.

“Justin Trudeau has spent the last four years making life harder and more expensive for Canadian families. If the Trudeau Liberals are re-elected, they are just going to dip back into the taxpayers’ pocket to pay for their out of control spending,” added Raitt. “Only Andrew Scheer and Canada’s Conservative have a plan to put more money in your pockets to help you get ahead.”

[Matt R.]

Haha, no, I mean is there a source for this info other than the conservatives website during an election.

Matt.

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