Hi all, I'm hoping to enlist some help for a YouTube project I'm working on, tentatively titled People, not Taxpayers. This is a project inspired by a number of posts I've seen here, mostly those relating to what we would like to see from attack ads. Rather than joining the "I hope someone does...

Or we might think of 'immigrants' as, you know, people?

Edit: euler, this is not specifically directed at you, but at all those who think these polls matter. First, it doesn't take much to design a poll with a predetermined outcome. Second, you are correct that pollsters are not amateurs. They are professionals whose profit-margins are razor...

Right. Because her impending superstardom has nothing at all to do with her own journalistic abilities.

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Renata is indeed there. Watch the CP24 clip, 'Ford reportedly ticketed for jaywalking in BC', and at about the 40-second mark you can briefly see Renata. She looks annoyed at Ford for stopping to take photos with people at the airport. I wonder if she possesses the requisite self-awareness to...

While I can't say I necessarily agree, I will concede on the basis that I am probably the embodiment of the 'latte-sipping, ivory tower intellectual'. It can be difficult at times to separate theoretical ideals from depressing realities, but I maintain that the former can in fact be brought to...

You are correct on all fronts, but my point is this: Playing to the absolute lowest common denominator is what got us into this mess to begin with. The solution to misinformed publics is not more misinformation

This was a good 'attack ad' until it pinned the high unemployment rate on Ford. Just as any argument that lauds Ford's 'job creation' record demonstrates a grossly oversimplified view of how the economy works, so too does any attack ad that criticizes him for rising unemployment. There are...

He hasn't tweeted for hours (https://twitter.com/joe_warmington), so I'm guessing yes. Either that or he's kickin' it with Ford and the Dixon Bloods at the pre-party

It's not enough that those filthy liberals had to waste TAXPAYERS' money on GAS PLANTS and ORNGE, eh? Now we've gotta deal with HYDRO PLANTS? GRAVY TRAIN, taxpayer, boondoogle, taxpayers' money, blah blah blah

The worst part of this for me is Ford's insistence that it is the media that has dragged his family through the mud when, in fact, he has no qualms about using them as props when he feels it serves his needs politically. Not only does he drag his wife to stand humiliatingly by his side for his...

No one cares for your blatant self-promotion. I mean, GAS PLANTS are being cancelled and you want us to watch CNN? GAS PLANTS!

Gas plants! Undemocratic unelected politicians! Gravy train! Tax payers! Gas plants! Ornge! Gas plants!

He also tends to be under the influence of drugs/alcohol

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If 'Peepers' is not, in fact, Joe Warmington, then I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that he's a bot of some sort. After all, each and every one of his posts follow the same script: blah blah blah TAXPAYERS ... yada yada yada JUNKET ON THE TAXPAYER'S DIME ... blah blah blah UNELECTED...

No problem! I hate to be a pedant, but Councillors are definitely partisan--everyone is a partisan to some degree--they just don't belong to municipal parties because none exist.

The short answer is no - a motion of no confidence makes little sense under our municipal system. The long answer has to do with how very distinct the municipal government is from its federal and provincial counterparts. Most notably, there are no parties permitted in municipal politics, nor is...

Fucking hell, Joe. Do you not understand how the Westminster system works? If you're going to call Wynne an "un-elected Premier", then you had better also describe Harper as an "un-elected Prime Minister".