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Forum: Current Events Topic: Revealed: millions of Americans can�t afford water as bills rise 80% in a decade |
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2020 5:40 pm
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| I’m tired of Canada being America’s pantry. Offer them a drop and they will drink us dry. Most of it would probably go to their water parks and swimming pools, manicured estate lawns and golf courses in the desert anyway. Not the people who need it to survive. |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Revealed: millions of Americans can�t afford water as bills rise 80% in a decade |
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2020 4:59 pm
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And golf courses. Don’t forget golf courses. They get all kinds of exemptions from water use, pesticide use, tax etc. For no other reason than the fact that rich and powerful men like golf courses.
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Forum: Current Events Topic: 'I don't have another country to belong to yet': Wexit Canad |
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2020 2:40 pm
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Forum: Current Events Topic: 'I don't have another country to belong to yet': Wexit Canad |
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2020 2:36 pm
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| I have no sympathy for separatists but if you leave your employer you’re still entitled to collect the pension you earned before you left, you just don’t earn any more pension after you leave. So Captain Wexit is right, he is entirely entitled to keep it. By the way pensions come from the pension fu... |
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Forum: US Politics Topic: The Omnibus Deplorables Thread |
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2020 9:48 am
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| Now available for bulk purchase: Alberta municipal politicians Act now while supplies last!(All purchases kept confidential- your politicians will now arrive in discrete packaging) New bill removes limits on donations to trustee, municipal candidates in Alberta Bill also lifts regulations on third-p... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: FBI ZEROES IN on Prince Andrew in Epstein investigation |
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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2020 5:12 pm
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| Almost all of the trips Clinton was on included media celebrities and secret service. Epstein donated his aircraft to the Clinton foundation. Trump on the other hand, cavorted with Epstein socially for nearly 20 years and even publicly complimented Epstein’s taste for “women on the younger side” and... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Revealed: millions of Americans can�t afford water as bills rise 80% in a decade |
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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2020 9:19 am
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| Yea well there's a lot of rich Americans that get a lot richer the longer they stay at war. Can't draft people or they'll revolt like they did re Vietnam. So how do you keep the military voluntary? Well what if the entire population is dirt poor and the military or the street are their only options... |
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Forum: Science & Technology Topic: Arctic Hits Its Hottest Temperature Ever |
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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2020 4:40 am
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| What worries me is the heat levels that are here now were not predicted for another 80 years. Something has clearly gone wrong/not accounted for and it needs to be found out why the models are so off. Getting people off carbon is going to take a very long time in the current political climate but i... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Revealed: millions of Americans can�t afford water as bills rise 80% in a decade |
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Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2020 10:57 pm
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| The basic problem being that government does a shitty job of everything, which is why stuff winds up being privatized. That’s a conservative myth that’s usually only true when conservative and centrist governments want to enrich their millionaire buddies. However, Canada should develop some policie... |
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Forum: Moral & Religious Issues Topic: Germans know that toppling a few statues isn't enough to con |
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Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2020 7:02 pm
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| Germans know that toppling a few statues isn't enough to confront the past | Géraldine Schwarz Géraldine Schwarz Tue 23 Jun 2020 12.28 BST Before the second world war, remembering history served only to glorify nations, to stir up revanchism or to sanctify heroes. Then Germany invented Vergangenhei... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Revealed: millions of Americans can�t afford water as bills rise 80% in a decade |
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Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2020 6:48 pm
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| Annd there’s an accompanying op-ed by Bernie Sanders Clean water is a human right. In America it’s more a profit machine When it comes to water infrastructure, America’s challenges resemble those of a developing country. It’s time for that to change Brenda Lawrence Last modified on Tue 23 Jun 2020 2... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Revealed: millions of Americans can�t afford water as bills rise 80% in a decade |
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Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2020 4:28 pm
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| . Amid rising costs and diminishing federal dollars, the use of punitive measures – shutoffs and liens (a legal claim on the house linked to a debt which can lead to foreclosure) – is widespread. Just like mortgage foreclosures, water shutoffs and liens can force affected households to abandon their... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Canada Police Misconduct Reports |
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Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2020 6:35 am
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyW_2uG_RV4&list=TLPQMjMwNjIwMjA8UR273L-G1Q&index=2 I know whenever I need to check on someone’s wellness I smash in their door and shoot them 7 times. Wellness status confirmed! Also in the cops defence, they were worried he might harm himself. B... |
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Forum: Science & Technology Topic: Who Is Responsible For Climate Change? – Who Needs To Fix It |
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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2020 7:27 pm
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| But the oilsands are way dirtier and alternatives exist that are both cheaper and cleaner. Alberta is the largest GHG emitter in Canada despite the fact that your population and your economy are only about a third of the size of Ontario’s. Think about that: we have 3x the people and 2.5x the economi... |
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Forum: Health & Wellness Topic: Omnibus COVID-19 virus discussion thread |
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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2020 6:49 pm
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| The corruption and incompetence of the Trump administration is limitless. This reminds me a lot of all the fraudsters and hucksters who got millions in sketchy Iraq contracts after W’s fraudulent invasion. And then there’s Reagans pentagon contracts with $300 a piece billed for toilet seats and the ... |
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