giastorm
Excrement Harper Did ... Will the youngins vote?
Posted on: 04/13/2011 20:54
Did you check out the online campaign to engage youth from TruthFool Communications?
The link leads to a site called (Excrement - yep the bad word)HarperDid and I have to say, it's quite good. OK. it's definitely anti-Tory but I'm not a fan. Still, if it gets apathetic hipsters to even think about something other than their oversized glasses, and how they might be able to make change through democracy ... well, I'd be a happy camper.
(I've lived too close to Ossington Avenue in Toronto, for too long. You can tell. Forgive my bitterness?)
I wish that I knew some 20 somethings to send it to. Maybe you can.
Love to know if the young ones will vote ...
What do you think?
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chemgal
It's going around with the
Posted on: 04/13/2011 22:05
It's going around with the 20 somethings pretty well on facebook. I've seen it on my newsfeed a few times, and those friends aren't friends with each other, so I'm sure it's making the rounds!
Pinga
it's a good one....going
Posted on: 04/13/2011 22:14
it's a good one....going around the 50 somethings too!
MC jae
The videos are
Posted on: 04/14/2011 04:30
The videos are hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/user/ShitHarperDid?feature=mhum#p/a/u/2/WQm0t1v2wOM
LBmuskoka
Sigh, my kingdom for a
Posted on: 04/16/2011 07:59
Sigh, my kingdom for a working sound card...
nevertheless, there many links to this that include text.
Ah, my quote file over floweths...
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What some see as egomaniacal, Harper sees as a perfectly normal hallway filled with photos of Stephen Harper.
Harper decorated the government lobby in parliament with photos of just himself, instead of the traditional portraits of former Prime Ministers.
Read about it in The Ottawa Citizen
Seriously! Tell me some other ...
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giastorm
LOL. Love the photos!
Posted on: 04/15/2011 09:14
LOL. Love the photos!
cjms
http://www.thespec.com/news/e
Posted on: 04/15/2011 10:01
http://www.thespec.com/news/elections/article/517010--conservatives-want...
Pretty pathetic...cms
cjms
http://www.vancouversun.com/n
Posted on: 04/15/2011 11:02
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/decision-canada/Anti+Harper+website+att...
stardust
I wasn't able to get the
Posted on: 04/15/2011 11:54
I wasn't able to get the actual website, too busy I think. I did get some articles. I'm posting them for those who can't seem to access the site at the present time.
First it was the "Government of Canada." Then it was "Canada's New Government." Now it's the "Harper Government."
Public servants from four different departments have confirmed to The Canadian Press that they received a directive late last year that the words "Government of Canada" in federal communications be replaced with "Harper Government."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/03/04/pol-harper-govt-brand.html
The cost is in dispute. Correctional Services Canada estimates an increase in prisoner numbers of 3,400, requiring 2,700 new spaces, at a cost of $2 billion.
Parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page thinks that lowballs the price tag. His office puts the increase in prisoner numbers at 4,200, at a cost of $1.8 billion for facility construction and $3 billion more a year for operations and maintenance. Page suggests that by 2015-16, annual prison expenditure will have increased to $9.3 billion from $4.3 billion.
The Liberals have made this "wasteful" spending central to their message, pointing out that Canada can ill-afford such expenditure at a time of declining crime rates. They say the Harper government is investing in "U.S.-style mega-prisons" when the Americans are retreating from such a model because it doesn't work.
The plan to buy F-35 Joint Strike Fighters will cost billions more than the $29-billion estimated by Canada’s budget watchdog, a U.S. defence spending analyst says.
“It’s going to be significantly more. It’s not going to be $1-billion more, it’s going to be significantly more,” said Winslow Wheeler, a defence-spending watchdog with the Washington-based Center for Defense Information.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/ottawas-fighter-jet-estimate-all-hogwash-us-watchdog-warns/article1971274/?utm_medium=Feeds%3A%20RSS%2FAtom&utm_source=Politics&utm_content=1971274
stardust
Adding another one from the
Posted on: 04/15/2011 12:02
Adding another one from the net:
lastpointe
I guess I have to wonder what
Posted on: 04/15/2011 12:15
I guess I have to wonder what alternative can you see. A Liberal throwback to the 70's? An NDP tax and spend us to death?
RevMatt
If all you see is
Posted on: 04/15/2011 12:23
If all you see is stereotypes, then there's not much point in voting at all, really.
stardust
Wow....I'm surprised to see
Posted on: 04/15/2011 12:29
Wow....I'm surprised to see the young people taking such an interest!
Students and youth across Canada flood Prime Minister's office with calls for an end to $1.4 billion in subsidies to oil companies
Demand "Federal government must end handouts to big oil"
by Canadian Youth Climate Coalition
http://www.mediacoop.ca/newsrelease/6536
TruthFoolCommunications:
http://truthfool.tumblr.com/
cjms
lastpointe wrote: I guess I
Posted on: 04/15/2011 12:45
I guess I have to wonder what alternative can you see. A Liberal throwback to the 70's? An NDP tax and spend us to death?
If that's what it takes to get a government that respects the people of Canada, YES!...cms
stardust
I don't mean to hog the
Posted on: 04/15/2011 12:57
I don't mean to hog the thread but interesting links keep popping up.
Note that all of the parties have responded except Harper.
Quote:
On March 25th, WSPA ( World Society for the Protection of Animals) sent a survey to Canada's five main political parties about important animal welfare issues in the country. We encourage you to review the responses before deciding how to cast your vote.
REVIEW PARTY POSITIONS:
http://www.wspa.ca/voteforanimals/survey.html
Animal policies of federal political parties exposed!
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/newsrelease/6935
stardust
lastpointe I normally support
Posted on: 04/15/2011 13:08
lastpointe
I normally support and vote for Elizabeth May. I'm not 100% sure but I may change my mind and vote for Michael Ignatieff this time round. He is a very clever person, he's no dummy.
myst
giastorm -- I have also seen
Posted on: 04/15/2011 13:48
giastorm -- I have also seen (and like) that link as it makes its way around my facebook circle. I assume it's getting around to the youth/young adults. I have enjoyed seeing the youth momentum -- flash mobs, videos. I think it's great. I was reflecting yesterday on how significantly the social media is playing a role in this election.
Check out this site -- the video is great http://leadnow.ca/
cjms
U of G votes have been
Posted on: 04/15/2011 13:54
U of G votes have been upheld. Good news!...cms
myst
I was really glad to hear
Posted on: 04/15/2011 15:59
I was really glad to hear that on the news a while ago cms
MC jae
stardust wrote: On March
Posted on: 04/15/2011 16:57
On March 25th, WSPA ( World Society for the Protection of Animals) sent a survey to Canada's five main political parties about important animal welfare issues in the country. We encourage you to review the responses before deciding how to cast your vote.
REVIEW PARTY POSITIONS:
Which party is in favor of having free public barbeques?
stardust
MorningCalm quote: "Which
Posted on: 04/15/2011 17:53
MorningCalm quote: "Which party is in favor of having free public barbeques?"
Stephen Harper's.
LBmuskoka
lastpointe wrote: I guess I
Posted on: 04/16/2011 08:16
I guess I have to wonder what alternative can you see. A Liberal throwback to the 70's? An NDP tax and spend us to death?
And the last is different from the current how?
My net income - although the gross remains the same (a reality that is gross but I digress) - has actually declined over the past three years, thanks in part to Mr. Harper. Now I understand that the government of this country can't be concerned about *all* its citizens, but unlike the citizens in the top earning bracket some of us at the bottom are not feeling the love.
So if I have to suffer a tax and spend government, personally I would prefer one who sees the folk at the bottom of the pile and not just the ones at the top....
LB
In 2007, Harper cut $1.2 Billion in spending for the establishment of quality national childcare. However, he never kept his promise to cut the $1.4 billion in tax breaks he gives to oil companies (the wealthiest corporations in history).
http://shitharperdid.ca.nyud.net/
LBmuskoka
For Besh.... **** Tax man
Posted on: 04/16/2011 12:58
For Besh....
****
Tax man to hit Canadian workers harder in 2011
From Wednesday's Globe and Mail
Published Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010 8:51PM EST
From the stockbroker to the sandwich-maker, nearly all Canadian workers will pay more income and payroll taxes in 2011.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation released its annual tax calculations Tuesday and projected an average increase of 2 per cent in 2011 over 2010. The federation said Ontario residents will see the sharpest payroll tax hike, with British Columbia and Nova Scotia right behind them.
While those three provinces will be particularly hard hit, the federation’s report said the working poor – regardless of region – will be seriously affected.
“In previous years, there have almost always been winners and losers depending on income levels, family scenarios and what province one lives in. This year everyone loses, although some more than others,” said Derek Fildebrandt, the federation’s national research director.
The federation’s annual study found that while virtually every worker in Canada will pay more, taxpayers in provinces with inflation rates above the national average will see a disproportionate increase. In the federation’s research scenarios, Ontario residents saw an average increase of 4.3 per cent. B.C. and Nova Scotia workers came in at 2.9 per cent.
****
...read more if you have antidepresants handy
Corporate Income Tax Rates
and despite those decreases to Corporate Taxes....
Canada's Corporations Aren't Investing in You
...or watch
Election 2011: A Fiscal True or False
Election 2011: Issue of Tax Cuts
and then there is my biweekly reminder - my pay slip which I chose not to post.
LB - as I said, my mind may be cluttered but not uninformed
Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he's laid.
When he's gone,
Do not relax,
It’s time to apply
The inheritance tax.
Jokes for: Harper Sales Tax & The Prorogue of Parliament
young_glass
Boy, you can really tell he
Posted on: 04/16/2011 13:17
Boy, you can really tell he lives in Alberta.
LBmuskoka
Besh, I provided three print
Posted on: 04/17/2011 07:21
Besh, I provided three print and two video citations, not just one article. Must everyone do all the research for you. Watch the videos from the Canadian Tax Payers Association, they are not a lefty organization by any stretch of the imagination.
Rises in CPP and IE premiums hurt small businesses the most, but they hurt all business and citizens of this country because the cost is passed on, either through job cuts or price increases.
Did you not read that the increases were felt the most in three provinces, Alberta was not one of them. Aren't you the geographical lucky one despite your lack of reading comprehension.
LB
Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it.
Stephen Harper
LBmuskoka
Beshpin wrote: However, I
Posted on: 04/18/2011 07:45
However, I also refuse to use youtube for pertinent information
Both clips are from CTV News Power Play productions.
You say:
If my taxes have increased, then Harper is bad.
That is not what I say. Harper says he has not raised taxes. He has.
Harper says corporate tax cuts benefit the people. They haven't.
Harper says under his party's rule government spending has decreased. It hasn't.*
* Statscan (Expenditures and surplus or deficit)
Ergo: If it is acceptable to dismiss others for the disconnect between what they say and what they do, Mr. Harper et al. should be treated likewise.
LB
I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Robert McCloskey
Jim Kenney
The Right Honourable Stephen
Posted on: 04/18/2011 08:42
The Right Honourable Stephen Harper has little interest in the truth. How many remember the fall of 2008 when Harper and Flaherty were determined to do nothing about the evolving financial crisis, insisting it was better for the economy to sort itsel out than for the government to intervene. The possibility of losing power led to prorogation and the creation of an action plan in line with what the other parties were demanding for the reopening of Parliament in January of 2009. Now he claims credit for a plan that was forced on him by the other parties.
The financial situation in the summer/fall of 2008 was more serious than it is now, yet he was willing to violate his own election law by calling an unnecessary election at a time when government needed to stay active to better respond to this evolving crisis. I wonder why his language in this campaign is opposite to his actions 2.5 years ago?
LBmuskoka
Jim Kenney wrote: I wonder
Posted on: 04/18/2011 09:39
I wonder why his language in this campaign is opposite to his actions 2.5 years ago?
Faulty memory...
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
Jim Kenney
What has changed since 2008?
Posted on: 04/18/2011 15:33
What has changed since 2008? The impression I have is that Harper was so irritated at not getting a majority in 2008, that he has been kind of sticking it to everyone except his business friends from his National Citizens Coaltion days.
LBmuskoka
Beshpin wrote: That's fair,
Posted on: 04/19/2011 06:23
That's fair, at the same time, I see that since 2005 spending on environment increased by 50%, there was double the amount spent on housing, 25% increases in health, education, social services, regional planning, research, and only about 20% more in general governmental costs. All of this while reducing GST, debt charges, and corporate tax.
You're right though, he did say that he spent less and actually spent more. That being said, do you really object to the things that had increased spending?
Not at all. What I object to is the Tory campaign that attacks the opposition for supporting increased spending in those areas. I, like your disregard for the veracity of YouTube posts, am not a fan of dis-ingenuity and would prefer to not have a man in power who believes it is an acceptable quality in a leader.
btw, did you notice the significant decrease in the surplus - another little fact that is never mentioned by our illustrious leader or his campaign managers, yet they consistently accuse their opposition of this nefarious activity failing to note that their own party has eroded the legacy of previous governments.
LB
"All we want are the facts, ma'am"
Dragnet