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And just what do you mean by that??

VIBC said:

And just what do you mean by that??

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I think it's past time for your nap.

JLM said:

I think it's past time for your nap.

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Nope. 20 min to news time ('news' - that's a laugh) then a wee dram at half time will see us through to bedtime. (Second highlight of the day, right behind dinner .)

Curious Cdn said:

Let's single out a known troll like pigs for derision. That's all that pigs deserves for the way that he treats most of his fellow posters.

He's a piece of garbage. What else can you say about pigs?

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Not half as much as I could say about you...…………………….TROLL!

Ignorant twat

Colpy said:

Glad to see you've fully embraced the spirit of the forum.


I mean that in the nicest possible way.


Flame wars abound.

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Hey, maybe I'm just practising!

Curious Cdn said:

Let's single out a known troll like pigs for derision. That's all that pigs deserves for the way that he treats most of his fellow posters.
He's a piece of garbage. What else can you say about pigs?

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Why are you acting like all your pedophile friends weiner?

You and I both could learn something about being a thoughtful gentleman from PGS.

VIBC said:

"Forum research" - is that Twin_Moose and spilledthebeer?

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VIBC said:

Nothing.

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VIBC said:

I don't know what either of you is talking about; or who or what you're talking about. I don't think you know, yourselves.

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VIBC said:

Why don't all 4 of you just shut up.

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VIBC said:

You too, stupid.

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VIBC said:

And just what do you mean by that??

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Nice everything you were lecturing us on you're guilty of, we see your true colours

Damn, LOL, true colors? HaHa, I though it was the same shrooms all the MSM news anchors have been eating lately.

So the buzz is transmissible via satellite?...who knew?

Canada has a A hole new meaning to stirring the pot now I guess.

WE ought to vote our thanks for the example to Trudeau in the fall (of).

Even blatant over-the-top sarcasm is too subtle for some folks; can't even recognise when they're being mimicked.

VIBC said:

Even blatant over-the-top sarcasm is too subtle for some folks; can't even recognise when they're being mimicked.

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More like blatant hypocrisy

Ah, 99% of the internet is either or
*sigh*

What they don't want is

Happy people don't NEED to spend money.
https://bestlifeonline.com/money-free-happiness/

...Just remember: Happiness can't buy debt based currency.


The pole I would like to see U.N.trudie go down on at this point is the Vlad pole.

Follow up to Petro's post yesterday

Liberals, Trudeau hit new low but poll suggests surging Tory support is soft

OTTAWA — A new poll suggests support for Justin Trudeau, his government and his party sank to a new low this month, just six months before Canadians will decide whether to re-elect the Liberals or give them the boot after just one term.
But it also provides a glimmer of hope for the beleaguered prime minister, suggesting that support for Andrew Scheer and the Conservatives is soft and could yet dwindle as the Oct. 21 election draws closer.
And it suggests the Liberals could rebound if the election plays out as a polarized choice between them and the Tories, squeezing out the NDP and Green party.
According to the Leger poll, conducted April 18-22 for The Canadian Press, just 27 per cent of respondents said they'd vote for Trudeau's Liberals — 13 points behind Scheer's front-running Conservatives, who, at 40 per cent, were in the range needed to win a majority of seats in the House of Commons.
The Tories led in every region except Quebec, where the Liberals enjoyed an eight-point lead with 31 per cent support; the Conservatives and Bloc Quebecois were tied at 23 per cent.
Nationally, the NDP had 12 per cent support, one point ahead of the Green party; Maxime Bernier's fledgling People's Party of Canada registered just three per cent.
Only 30 per cent of respondents said they were very or somewhat satisfied with the Trudeau government while 65 per cent said they were very or somewhat dissatisfied — worrying numbers for the prime minister that were reflected across every region and demographic group.
Moreover, Trudeau was five points behind Scheer on the question of who would make the best prime minister, with 20 per cent to the Conservative leader's 25 per cent.
Still, when asked if Canada would be better off with a Liberal or Conservative government, 30 per cent chose the Liberals and 25 per cent picked the Tories. Fully 45 per cent said they didn't know.
Among respondents who identified as primarily NDP or Green supporters, a Liberal government was preferred by 48 and 42 per cent respectively, compared to just 18 and 23 per cent who preferred a Conservative government.
"That again to me is sort of a yellow light for the Conservatives," said Leger executive vice-president Christian Bourque, adding that Conservative support appears to be "fairly soft."
"Yes, they are in the lead but to what extent that lead is comfortable at this point, I certainly think it's not."
Leger’s internet-based survey cannot be assigned a margin of error because online polls are not considered random samples. It surveyed 1,522 eligible Canadian voters who were recruited from the firm’s online panel. The results were weighted to reflect the makeup of Canada’s population.
Trudeau's popularity has taken a big hit since the SNC-Lavalin affair erupted in early February. He has lost two senior cabinet ministers, his most trusted adviser in principal secretary Gerald Butts, and the country's top public servant since allegations first appeared that former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould felt improperly pressured by the prime minister's office to halt the criminal prosecution of the Montreal engineering giant.
The latest poll numbers are the lowest Leger has recorded for the Liberals and Trudeau since they took power in 2015.
The poll suggests potentially more trouble for Trudeau is in store following the election of openly hostile conservative governments in provinces across the country, particularly Ontario and Alberta.
Respondents were evenly split overall when asked if their province should be more demanding and contest federal decisions (as 41 per cent said) or do all it can to have an excellent and peaceful working relationship with Ottawa (40 per cent). But a plurality in Ontario and Manitoba-Saskatchewan (which Leger grouped together) and fully 60 per cent in Alberta preferred the more confrontational approach.
Moreover, a plurality or majority of respondents in every region except Ontario said their province doesn't get its fair share from Ottawa. Even in Ontario, opinion was split, with 39 per cent saying the province is treated fairly and 37 per cent saying it's not.
Noting that some provincial conservative leaders, including Ontario Premier Doug Ford and incoming Alberta premier Jason Kenney, won election by campaigning against the Trudeau government, Bourque said: "One more variable that Mr. Trudeau will need to consider in the next federal election is the fact that a lot of regional barons have turned people against Ottawa."
On two other issues that might be factors in the coming election, the poll suggest the Liberals are more on side with public opinion.
While Quebec respondents were strongly in favour of banning civil servants in positions of authority from wearing obvious religious symbols — as the provincial government has already moved to do — a plurality or majority of respondents in every other region were opposed. That could be to Trudeau's advantage: He has made the defence of charter rights and diversity a central pillar of his political appeal.
However, Bourque said the poll suggests the issue is "not all black and white" given that sizable numbers of Canadians outside Quebec also favour banning religious symbols.
Opinion was much more clear cut on the issue of gun control. More than 80 per cent of respondents indicated support for each of three key provisions in the Trudeau government's Bill C-71: requiring gun retailers to keep detailed registries of all gun sales, extending the police background check on a person applying for a gun permit to include his or her entire life and requiring authorization to transport restricted firearms.
And 77 per cent said they were somewhat or strongly in favour of stricter gun control in general while just 17 per cent said they were somewhat or strongly opposed.

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VIBC said:

Nothing.

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I have an idea................................


LETS TALK ABOUT A REAL PROBLEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Consider:






Here is yet another damning article condemning the Child Welfare people!



With some comments of my own in brackets):

Child Welfare opened files on Charlie but never once met the neglected, starving boy! He reached this pitiful state despite MCFD knowing about him and his desperate family situation for a decade.

Dr. Jennifer Charlesworth, the B.C. Representative for Children and Youth, presented her damning report, Alone and Afraid, to the B.C. legislature this week. Office of the Representative for Children and Youth in British Columbia.

By Christie Blatchford

Published: December 11, 2018, 4:11 PM EST.

Filed under: Full Comment/ Post Media

To the searing annals of wholesale child-welfare failures across the country — Sara Podniewicz, Jordan Heikamp, Matthew Vaudreuil, Phoenix Sinclair, Jeffrey Baldwin are just those cases I personally covered and/or have written about — we can now add the name of Charlie, from British Columbia.

Charlie is the pseudonym given him by Dr. Jennifer Charlesworth, the B.C. Representative for Children and Youth, in her damning report, Alone and Afraid, to the B.C. legislature this week.

She had to use a pseudonym because Charlie, unlike the other children I’ve named, lived.

He was rescued — saved — by police and paramedics who on Jan. 20, 2016 arrived at Charlie’s home, alerted by a concerned citizen who had called the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) to report her fears for the little boy.

He answered the door, a naked, grotesquely malnourished 12-year-old who weighed 65 pounds and whose wasted frame was covered in dirt, sores and small bruises and notable for its protruding bones. The mere sight of him left the first responders traumatized. Charlie was all alone of course, and while the rest of the house was tidy, his room was covered in garbage and smeared with fecal matter.

They rushed him to hospital. He clung to the paramedics.

As Charlesworth noted, he reached this pitiful state — a special needs child, with autism, who nonetheless as the three years since demonstrate capable of so much — despite MCFD knowing about him and his desperate family situation for a decade.

It was in 2006 that police first alerted the ministry.

But over the next 10 years, despite a total of eight reports from concerned school principals, a hospital social worker, BC Children’s Hospital, nurses and others that Charlie was being neglected and that his mother couldn’t or wouldn’t care for him, not one of the myriad of child-protection workers and supervisors who were involved with the family ever once saw the little boy.

Instead, they busied themselves by reading Charlie’s file.

They consulted with peers.

Sometimes, they made phone calls.

They consulted with their supervisors.

Once in a while, they even deigned to make a “home visit.”

(A SANE person would have to ask what is the good of a “home visit” if you do not ever get to SEE the child you are allegedly worried about?? And if you never actually see the filthy room he is living in???????????)

(But then there is HARD EVIDENCE that Child Welfare civil service union HOGS would NOT have taken any real action anyway! The day before Sara Podniewicz DIED of Pnemonia caused by breathing difficulties from her BROKEN RIBS- a Welfare Hog CAME TO THE HOUSE in Parkdale- and met with the kid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

During the meeting the Hog put a bracelet onto the girls ankle- WITHOUT NOTICING the leg was BROKEN!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Sometimes, Charlie was even there, but there is no evidence, Charlesworth says, that any one of these workers actually saw — in the literal, clamped-eyes-upon sense — Charlie. His mother would say he was sleeping. Or that he was anxious about strangers. Or that he was playing in another room.

Now and then a worker would actually look around the home, but never did one venture into Charlie’s room.

One worker tried six times to contact Charlie’s mother by phone, unsuccessfully. She made a busy little plan to conduct a home visit. Then she went on vacation.

In her absence, no one did a thing.

Another worker called Charlie’s mom before closing the file. Mom reported that things were going along swimmingly. The child-protection worker didn’t speak with the pediatrician or any of the other people who were supposedly involved in Charlie’s care before consulting with her team leader, who of course approved closing the file.

The worker “had still never seen Charlie” nor spoken to his often-absent father or his older brother.

Yet, nonetheless, the worker sent the mom a closing letter on June 16, 2008, cheerfully telling her she was “doing an incredible job, a job that so many of us could never do, even with all the services you were lacking.”

(Gosh! Praising the Mom like that illustrates an even more delusional mindset than that of Wynne-bag Ontari-owe LIE-berals who told us repeatedly all was well even as they turned Ontari-owe into the most indebted sub national political entity on the planet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

With all the respect it deserves — none — how the hell would the worker know that? She’d never seen the boy.

It was not as though Charlie was ever doing well.

When he was four, his parents (the father had yet to be given the boot from the house) finally took him to a doctor because he was bleeding from the mouth; of course he was, because his teeth were rotting. The doctor prescribed penicillin and referred him to a dentist at the Children’s Hospital and for an autism assessment.

Alas, if his parents got the penicillin, they took it, because Charlie never got it and the infection raged until he stopped being able to walk.

Most of his baby teeth had to be removed. He was always, at best, painfully thin and pale. His legs were swollen.

At the hospital, various professionals referred Charlie’s parents to various other professionals and services and benefit programs, and though a counsellor worked for a time with Charlie’s mother, the file was eventually closed.

(How much of this close the file crap is an unspoken admission that NOTHING CAN BE DONE because of the LIE-beral commitment to keeping the family together at virtually ANY PRICE?? LIE-berals insist the Morther/child bond is sacred even as the Mother is killing the kid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The only way to save the kid is to take him away from the scumbag Mom and LIE-berals REFUSE to do that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! )

They might just as well have been speaking in pig Latin.

At various points, there were concerns that Charlie’s parents were using cocaine and later, when the boy was finally apprehended from his mother and blood tests revealed crystal meth in her system, why, she was “shocked.”

(Oh? Drugs were involved? Such a surprise! The mother of Sara Podniewicz was working as a hooker in Parkdale to keep herself and hubby supplied with crack and it is likely that Sara was seen as the child of one of her Johns and thus was disposable- although the welfare money given for her was HANDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

The boy is now living in foster care and is back in school.

There are staggering similarities with Charlie’s case and the others I mentioned — clear signs of neglect being ignored; social workers’ and the agency’s obsession with paperwork over people; most gallingly, the repeated failure to understand that in child welfare, the child is the freaking client, not the parent, however sad he or she may be.

(LIE-berals would rather see a child DIE than set up an “adversarial relationship” between parent and child!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Child protection is no easy business, nor is it for the faint of heart. But for all the value of Charlesworth’s tough investigation, she and I part company where, early on, she said, “This report is not meant to cast blame on individual social workers or their supervisors,” but rather to shine a light on the problems.

(Oh yes- the problem is the LIE-beral interpretation of the law- that dictates that a BAD MOM is better than no Mom! And of course blame DOES COME BACK to the civil service union HOGS because they prefer LIE-beral gravy over common sense and legal logic and vote accordingly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

What happened to Charlie has happened too many times in Canada, to too many children, is so well-known and understood that the light is blinding. It is well past time to cast blame; God knows, there’s enough to go around, and around again.

(Our Child Welfare system has been colonized by the same sort of social justice warriors that Professor Jordan Peterson warned us were operating in our arts, political science and Women`s Studies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

(The Social Justice Warriors are out to rebuild our society into a Brave New World in their own POISONED IMAGE!! They want to build a dictatorship where the only things that works fast and effectively are LIE-beral govt propaganda ministry and the Human Rights Kangaroo Courts that will be used to SILENCE CRITICS of LIE-beral govt and the greed and mismanagement of civil service union HOGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

LILLEY: Trudeau's best poll numbers still have him losing the fall election
Brian Lilley
Published:
May 4, 2019
Updated:
May 4, 2019 5:21 PM EDT
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participates in an armchair discussion with Director of Canadian Affairs for Canada's Building Trade Unions (CBTU) Arlene Dunn at the 2019 CBTU Legislative Conference in Ottawa on Tuesday, April 30, 2019. Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press
How bad are Justin Trudeau’s political fortunes these days?
The latest polling numbers from Campaign Research are the best he’s seen in some time and he’s still losing to Andrew Scheer and the Conservatives.
A poll of 1,471 adult Canadians conducted on April 30 and May 1 found 35% would back the Conservatives while 31% would back the Liberals.
The NDP under leader Jagmeet Singh were in a distant third place with 17% support.
Believe it or not, those are good numbers for Trudeau these days.
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He’s been dealing with some polls, like Leger, putting him at 27% support to Scheer’s 40%, and Angus Reid putting the Conservatives at 38% to the Liberals 25%.
Most polls show a tighter race, as does the latest from Campaign Research, and even then it is not good news for Trudeau and his team.
Regionally, his party only has a commanding lead in Quebec where the Liberals best the Conservatives 36% to 21% support. The Liberals have lost their lead in Atlantic Canada to the Conservatives and in British Columbia, things are looking bad with the Conservatives holding a 15 point lead over the Liberals.
The Liberals are actually in third place in B.C. with 23% support compared to 24% for the NDP and 38% for the Conservatives.
KINSELLA: Liberals jumping ship as S.S. Trudeau cruises towards proverbial iceberg
MARIN: Trudeau’s cabinet light on qualifications and competence
BONOKOSKI: Enemy No. 1 for Jason Kenney is not just Justin Trudeau
Their one bright spot is Ontario where the provincial government of Doug Ford may actually be helping Trudeau.
The Liberals have actually grown in support in Ontario since the last poll a month ago and lead with 36% support to the Conservatives 33% support, perhaps the result of the Ford government’s budget and controversies around the provincial PCs.
Yet in the middle of this, Trudeau is dealing with some major problems.
The SNC-Lavalin scandal that rocked his government costing him two cabinet ministers and two top advisors was back into the news this past week.
Not only was it back in the news due to The Simpsons episode that made it a punchline but also because of revelations about illegal donations to the Liberal Party and the ongoing court battle by the company to escape their bribery and corruption charges.
Add to that the news that star Liberal candidate Andrew Leslie is not running in the next election and will actually testify against the government in a trial and Trudeau’s week got worse.
Leslie, a former top commander in the military was seen as a star for the Liberals in 2015 because he brought military prestige as a former commander in Afghanistan. Now he will not only relinquish his Ottawa area seat, he is set to be called as a witness against the government in the trial of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman.
Vice-Admiral Norman, who is facing a prosecution that some see as overly political, is charged with leaking cabinet secrets over a navy shipbuilding deal.
It is too early to write off the Liberals for the next election — a week, as they say, is a lifetime in politics.
Yet when their best polls still have them losing, when Trudeau is tied with Scheer for best PM, as he is with these Campaign Research numbers, when the disapproval numbers for the PM are hitting 56% and that is an improvement, then things are not looking up for Trudeau.
It will be an interesting ride between now and voting day in October.
blilley@postmedia.com
http://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...mbers-still-have-him-losing-the-fall-election

Still no conservative majority?

Oh well.

Danbones said:

Ah, 99% of the internet is either

or

*sigh*

What they don't want is

Happy people don't NEED to spend money.
https://bestlifeonline.com/money-free-happiness/

...Just remember: Happiness can't buy debt based currency.


The pole I would like to see U.N.trudie go down on at this point is the Vlad pole.

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Its a FUNNY THING.............................................


LIE-berals refuse to recognize that it is easier to appreciate the simple things in life.............................................


if ALL your needs are taken care of first!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



You dont need a mansion......................................


but you DO NEED a roof over your head...................................


and LIE-berals are making the simple roof HARD TO GET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


You dont need a Ferrari!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


But you DO NEED fast and efficient transportation...............................................


and LIE-berals want to take our cars OFF THE ROAD.........................................


WITHOUT the bother of building any new public transit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I agree that sitting beside still waters can make us feel good..........................................


so WHY are LIE-berals shrugging off the MILLIONS OF GALLONS OF SEWAGE over flowing from our inadequate treatment plants after every passing rain shower!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


LIE-berals allegedly value patience and tolerance...........................................


so WHY are they importing so many Radical Muslims????????????????????????????


The CRAZY Jihadists are at WAR with the western world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Do LIE-berlas HAVE ANY REAL PLAN?????????????????????????????


Or are they unable to see the outside world from inside that PORK BARREL they ARE STUCK IN??????????????????????