Angus MacAskill

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[David Polansky @polanskydj]

There's an interesting split going on with the Globe these days, in which its official editorials have become increasingly sober and timely, while it continues to support staff columnists who are living in a perpetual 2015

[Angus MacAskill @cheesechoker]

@Visaman @CityNewsVAN Maybe he'll be eligible for parole immediately after sentencing then!

[Angus MacAskill @cheesechoker]

@AlenBrussa1886 @jaydee77ca @raghu_venugopal @jkenney ALL countries on that chart, except Canada, allow surgeons to dual practice in public & private systems.

The sky has not fallen. In fact they're doing better than we are.

Time to stop with the false binary: it's not fooling Canadians anymore.

[Angus MacAskill @cheesechoker]

@Marumarami @CDN_Dimension Because Ariely didn't tell loads of florid, entertaining, and easily disproveable lies about himself

[Angus MacAskill @cheesechoker]

@21stKhan @CDN_Dimension The neoliberal university, with its.... neoliberalism... and its universityness

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@Lord_Bob Damn, I guess my information is 6 or 7 years out of date.

[Angus MacAskill @cheesechoker]

@PoliMaritimer And Carney's exceptional popularity is downstream of Trump.

The opposition is basically dead in the water as long as Trump is in office and attacking Canada.

[Angus MacAskill @cheesechoker]

@iacob007 @andrew_leach What does “should” mean here.

Is it a prediction of the future? Or the expression of a preference that may or may not obtain.

[Angus MacAskill @cheesechoker]

@RomanFisher__ "But Roman, why do you hate Canada"

[Angus MacAskill @cheesechoker]

Via could focus on making major intercity routes reliable, maybe even profitable.

Spend a few $b's fixing single-track sections, etc.

But no. They're gonna upgrade ghost trains serving dead routes.

And no improvement in the Mtl-Toronto corridor when Alto inevitably collapses

[Angus MacAskill @cheesechoker]

@RageAtTheElites @JoshDehaas This is a division-of-powers question. The NWC can't help with that.

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@cmourtoswrites @Bolek_ Just wait until the big investment summit on Sep 14-15, that's when I expect we'll see all kinds of clever new subsidy schemes.

[John Toogood @toog416]

Things have gotten to a bad place when the opposition calls on the government to be more transparent with voters and journalists about an immensely significant trade negotiation, and a chorus starts screaming absolutely not tree MAGA how dare you. Over a request for transparency.

[Angus MacAskill @cheesechoker]

@banga_brian @jonkay It wasn't nearly as bad. I’d say things were gradually on the decline throughout the 2010s, then very quickly during the 2020s.

I still remember the first time I saw someone shooting up in public: I was shocked.

Now spend 15 mins on George St and you'll see plenty of that

[Angus MacAskill @cheesechoker]

@jonkay The fact that it’s legally and logistically impossible to do this in Ontario, and we just have to live with public disorder, strain on police, ambulance, courts, etc…

It doesn’t bode well for our ability to deal with more complex problems when we can’t even get the basics right

[Angus MacAskill @cheesechoker]

@jonkay If you ask our officials what is causing this, you’ll get boilerplate about “homelessness” and “addiction”, which is certainly true on some level.

BUT the problem could be greatly mitigated by institutionalizing a few hunded people. Is that really beyond our capacity to do?

[Angus MacAskill @cheesechoker]

@pottsy136 @MissPavIichenko P. D. Q.

[🇨🇦 | Aaron Ottho | MOT MBA B.Sc. @aottho]

Ugh. I mean he only stabbed the other guy 6 times towards the heart. How was he supposed to know that was lethal enough to be intent to kill *rolls eyes*. Unintentional manslaughter? Unbelievable. Our justice system is a joke.