StopTouchingYourPhone

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[–] StopTouchingYourPhone 2 points 10 hours ago

People are saying the wound-up violent douchecanoe was reportedly overheard saying, "Lineup?! NO! ME first! FIRST!"

[–] StopTouchingYourPhone 1 points 1 day ago

Unless the voters are dumb enough

Over 1/2 the eligible voters in Ontario couldn't even be arsed to show up to the last election. We're so, SO dumb.

[–] StopTouchingYourPhone 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That, and they know none of them will see effective penalties for voter intimidation and coercion. Maybe a fine. Maybe a year in jail. Maybe both.

In a just world, these donors would get a year for every employee who took the survey. Just to serve as a deterrent to other multi-millionaire bosses. More likely they'll weasel out of anything but lawyers fees and a statement on their website.

[–] StopTouchingYourPhone 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's giving Onward Christian toddlers

[–] StopTouchingYourPhone 7 points 2 days ago

I think you got the right place.

[–] StopTouchingYourPhone 3 points 2 days ago

Lovely idea. What a gift for the next people who move in.

I'm kinda tempted to let runners take over the yard next spring just to do this.

[–] StopTouchingYourPhone 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The rest of the ballot is full of things [...] like local representatives, education leaders, district judges etc.

Maybe OT, but I've been watching a lot of voting advice on twitter, reddit, etc this year, and whenever someone mentions how important it is to get educated about your local options on the ballot, they get a flood of comments accusing them of encouraging people to abstain from voting or to vote 3rd party. It appears to be one limb of an aggressive anti-vote apathy or disinfo campaign.

[–] StopTouchingYourPhone 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

early vote ballot drop-offs are burning

omfjc... Thanks for the heads up. Link for anyone else who blinked and missed this on Monday.

Authorities, including the FBI, were investigating Monday after early morning fires were set in U.S. ballot drop boxes in Portland, Ore., and in nearby Vancouver, Wash., where hundreds of ballots were destroyed.

[–] StopTouchingYourPhone 126 points 1 week ago (4 children)

jfc... racist humour is always so stupid and lazy.

Hinchcliffe also referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean” and made a remark about Black people who “carved watermelons” instead of pumpkins for Halloween.

A politician having trash like this warm the crowd for them should be shocking.

[–] StopTouchingYourPhone 15 points 1 week ago (7 children)

If I understand it right, convenience stores are exempt from recycling requirements, and it looks like the real losers in this deal are independent grocers.

Mike Sharpe, who runs a store in Campbellford, got one of the new licences set to take effect Thursday. But after seeing the new rules, he said he will not be participating.

"The idea of having a huge back room where we're sorting and doing this makes no sense," he said.

"Everything sounded great, so we applied, and then every day since they've issued a licence, the deal has gotten worse for us."

 

Ontario grocery stores — particularly smaller, independent shops — say new bottle return requirements that were sprung on them a week before they're set to take effect may make it impossible to participate in Premier Doug Ford's expansion of alcohol sales. [...]

Grocery stores [...] that sell alcohol will also have to accept empties.

Having the smell of stale beer mingling with the smell of fresh food — and having to put not-quite-entirely-empty bottles that become fruit-fly magnets near produce sections — would not be good for business, they said.

But with new and detailed requirements communicated to them this week by the Liquor Control Board of Ontario just days before they begin, retailers say they don't know how they will make it work, and some are planning to hand back their licences.

 

Closed work permits are part of Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker program, empowering exploitative bosses across the country. This story focuses on one franchise owner, but juxtaposes one worker who was able to get an open permit with another who's stuck in his precarious situation.

 

On Jan. 6, 2021, an angry mob of Donald Trump supporters swarmed a CBC News crew working near Capitol Hill. Nearly four years later, reporter Katie Nicholson tracked down one of the people who surrounded her that day to find out what she’s thinking heading into another volatile U.S. presidential election.

Was worth the watch for the emotional contortions the supporter twists herself into when confronted by one of the people she threatened, her Democrat-voting husband dealing with it all, and that messed up Trump paraphernalia store.

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