To paraphrase Terry Pratchett, once you think the problem is that you have the wrong kind of people, you shouldn't be a leader
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Ugh, no.
The problem is that the LPC has little or no bench strength. Freeland was probably the best option and she's been Hillary'ed by the CPC and the right-wing media over the last four years. After her, the bench is very thin: O'Reagan's similarly tained, Carney is a corporate tool, Leblanc isn't far behind. It gets pretty thin after that. I think they're looking at another Dion/Ignatieff-style wasteland as they try to figure out how to find a leader who's cool and popular without worrying about them doing anything.
The NDP has it worse. They really should have kept Mulcair or selected Angus. They'd be in a much better place now, if they had, though even then the media would just try hard not to cover them, like they're doing with Stiles in Ontario, who is very good but doesn't get any airplay.
“Duped” is doing some heavy lifting in that sentence.
I highly suggest you look at the history of medicine leading up to and into late 1800s and early 1900s
There’s a reason why we have regulations, and those reasons are horrifying.
Oh, this won’t end badly at all.
^^^ This.
The problem is that the LTB is completely sandbagged. This is, of course, by design because the Ford government would much prefer to further dismantle the state and set up a system that gives more power to landlords.
Again, this was about rich people making money.
That it's net-negative for all of Ontario doesn't matter--what matters is that it was lucrative "for stakeholders".
Spend enough time in business, especially small and medium businesses like Deco--and you'll see this sort of stakeholder-driven decisionmaking a lot. Management is great at focusing on specific metrics and goals to rationalize decisions, even if it hurts the organization as a whole.
You have to frame this decision this way: "How does it make money for Couche-Tard?"
Just like the (terrible) Staples/Service Ontario deal, this is Doug being Doug and "doing deals". He's only ever been a small-business failson whose enablers cover for him at every turn, and he loves playing business and loves it when everyone gets a win. Everyone, that is, except citizens of Ontario.
I'm sure that Couche-Tard, even without the Harper connection, saw him coming a mile away.
Russia comes to mind.
You really should read Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance to understand why this is important, and why "the only way to counter speech is with more speech" isn't just wrong, it's actually counterproductive.
Here's the short version, if it helps.
Yeah, XP was pretty good.
I was a young sysadmin during this era, I don't know if I agree with this sentiment. It got tolerable by the time of the last service pack, but it was a security nightmare otherwise and didn't offer much over Win2k.
That said, I'm not a Windows fan in general, but I'd class the following as the "good" ones:
- NT 3.5 (user-mode GDI FTW!)
- Phone 7.0 (this was probably what I'd call the Practically Perfect version of Windows. WP7 is just so good)
- NT 3.1 gets an honourable mention
- 8 (after WP7, this is the first version of Windows that was pretty much stable on day one. Say what you will about the UI, the core was the best Microsoft has ever one; ditto fir Server 2012)
- 10 (8 but with refinement; I'm cautious putting it here because you can see the genesis of the decisions that gave us 11)
- Vista (a lot of what people like about 7 really came from Vista, like the WDDM driver model and the improved security infrastructure; Vista, like NT, came out before hardware was commonly available that could run it)
Anchoring the bottom
- 98 & ME (IE integrated everywhere and the security nightmare it begat deserves a special place in hell)
- 1.0 (you had to be there, but this thing made Atari TOS look sophisticated)
- 95 pre-OSR2 (VxDs, DLLs and a login screen you could bypass with an escape key!)
- NT4 (it wasn't bad, per se, but I still resent how unstable it was versus 3.5)
- CE and pre-5.0 Mobile (hey, guess what, replacing your battery wipes your device because we didn't implement persistent storage!)
- 11 (10 without most of the redeeming features, plus an Android launcher for a Start menu. Now with extra spyware!)
A lot of people really like 7 and 2000, but I tend to think of those as polish releases of Vista and NT4. They're Microsoft eventually fixing their mistakes, after having everyone drag on them for years.
Trudeau's moment, really, was when he didn't seem to think it was his job to do anything about housing or inflation.
I don't think you can pin the LPC's fall on that, but just coincidentally that's when the bottom fell out of their numbers and they scrambled off to a retreat to try and figure out how to get people to like them. Unfortunately, all of the solutions would require them to abandon neoliberalism.
I think they're really hoping for the kind of moment that got Keir Starmer in, or that saved Macron's bacon. Centrist and centre-left parties really, really want it to be the late 90s again, when you could lower taxes, be entertained by billionaires, play the sax on stage, fingerbang an intern and still be thought of as cool and progressive because you inhaled pot smoke one time.