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And once again they stick to the narrative the Anita was "forced" to cancel her speaking event, despite police telling her there was no credibility to the threat (as the guy was in Brazil).

While his capitalism vs communism stuff was pretty heavy handed, I actually see a lot of Soul of the Fire playing out now adays. That said I was a huge fan of the books and the hack job they did adapting the show turned me off pretty quickly. Now that I've cooled down though, and with really not much but some concepts and character names taken from the books I wouldn't mind giving it another go.

Supposedly the harassment didn't start until the SavePoint panel was announced. Would be funny if they came out and admitted that it was people associated with the anti-harassment panel harassing them about SavePoint that made them cancel both. Would make a lot of people look stupid.

They're a joint operation between Hollywood and the video game industry in order to have an alternative to Nazis as the goto real world villains.

Ugh... Such a terrible joker.

I almost think details of trials should be kept secret until a verdict is found. People who get dragged through the court of Nancy Grace then found innocent are generally seen as guilty by the public anyway.

I'm going to guess she said boys have a **** and girls have a vagina. Pretty much. Said you can't be a woman just by declaring it and getting castrated. I think it was in response to Caitlyn Jenner being named Glamour Magazine's woman of the year.

Stephane Dion (previous Liberal Leader and all-around hardworking MP) came up with a proposal he called P3, for Proportional, Preferential, Personalized. Basically his system would have larger ridings with multiple MPs. Each party would supply the list of candidates for each riding, and you would rank both the party and the candidates. This way each party would get the proportion of the seats in that riding that they gained, and the candidates put forward for that proportion were chosen by the voters rather than the party. This would allow for independent candidates to get seats if they were ranked higher than candidates in a party. He's a big federalist Quebecer too. When Quebec argued that if they voted to separate, their territorial integrity couldn't be sacrificed (Quebec the Province couldn't be broken up when it became Quebec the country). This was after people argued that since large swaths of Quebec, such as the north, and southwest voted overwhelmingly against succession (in the 70% range), that those parts should be allowed to remain part of Canda. Quebec used some UN decision on territorial integrity not being able to be broken based on a small amount of the population. Dion argued if that was the case, just over half of Quebec shouldn't be able to make a decision on the territorial integrity of Canada, and since like 60% of Quebec's territory was granted by an act of Canadian parliament, they could easily revoke that act of parliament and strip them down to their original boundaries.

It is based on comic books. Uncle Ben is the only one safe from resurrection in comics.

Someone needs to remake Basewars. One of my favorite games as a kid.

Been trying to catch up on Thor and such. Just finished up to Fear Itself and the first arc afterwards of Journey Into Mystery. Kid Loki is a great character.

We criticize the west while ignoring the rest of the world because we live in the west where criticism might make a difference in our lives, where elsewhere is really unrelated to our everyday lives.

Most of his points are based on the Dark Knight Returns not existing.

Turns out my kid broke the tv on day 91 of the 90 day return policy. Similar to my video card dying on day 31 of the 30 day return policy a few years back.

Our new PM being AWESOME.

Proper STV is a great system, us going for mixed member proportional instead when we switched from first past the post was a horrible decision. STV means you still get the stability of a majority government every once in a while, without MPs being elected with 25% of the vote, so I'm game

That's funny....how is he going to do that ? Well a quarter of 184 mps is still quite a few, and Harper had the largest cabinet of any pm ever with like 30 positions. Trudeau likely won't have as large of a cabinet, so he'll probably only need like 10 or so, but he'll likely have to gloss over some much more qualified male candidates to do it. Trudeau spent most of yesterday morning shaking hands, taking photos and speaking directly to people in a montreal metro station. So he meets directly with people of all types, and has an open relationship with the press. So far a total 180 from Harper's vetted events and 5 question limit with no follow ups. The openness pledge from his platform is in full swing already

So if the Liberals switch the electoral system to STV which is what looks likely, Harper may be the last conservative Prime Minister, and the Greens might make significant gains in BC Oh and Bruce, this will make you happy. Trudeau vowed his cabinet will be made up by half women, despite women only making up about a quarter of liberal MPs.(they ran more than that but a lot were defeated)

Me too, but I'm not surprised it got cancelled. The game didn't do as well as expected and I'm not sure how good the ratings were.

Trudeau told Obama today that he would be pulling Canadian jets from Iraq and Syria. He also took questions from the press in the national press gallery. That hasn't happened in 7 years.

Personally I don't get why the Liberals got hammered on 300 million in mispent funds, yet the Conservatives got a free pass on straight up losing 3 billion in defence spending (was budgeted, wasn't spent, but no one could trace what happened to it), or spending 35 billion on jets that a) Don't have engines, and b) even with the engines won't work in the arctic, which is one of the main reasons we need new jets.

What happened the last election? A scandal or just good 'ole voter's fatigue?Jack Layton happened. Michael Ignatieff was Liberal leader and the conservatives were successful in defining him as not really Canadian, as he lived and worked in the US before becoming an MP, then he turned out to be terrible in the debates. Layton, the leader of the NDP was running a fantastic campaign and was nailing the debates, then his big moment, he brought up house attendance, with himself voting in every house vote, Harper voting in 60%, and Ignatieff voting in 40%, and he quipped "Mr. Ignatieff, usually when someone wants a promotion, they actually show up for work." that began what people referred to as the "Orange Crush" as the NDP colour was orange. Their numbers skyrocketted and they ended up crushing the Bloc in Quebec, and either won or cause enough vote splitting to get Conservative mps elected resulting in like 18 Liberal seats. It was the biggest win in NDP history and they became official opposition for the first time in party history. Sadly shortly after Layton took a leave of absence as he had been diagnosed with cancer, and like 3 months later he died. Even though his party never got into power he was constantly ranked at the top of people's choice for PM and was such a beloved figure he got a state funeral despite that usually being reserved for PMs and former PMs. The Liberals previous leader Stephane Dion was also quite uncharismatic despite being a capable MP and had been successfully defined by the cons as weak and indecisive. Before that was Paul Martin who was finance minister during the sponsorship scandal and took all the blame for that leading to the first Harper minority. The sponsorship scandal had to do with the federal sponsorship program enacted after the last Quebec referendum to raise the federal profile in quebec. Federal funds were supposed to go to private projects in Quebec to show that Quebec was a valued member of confederation and to reduce quebec nationalism. What happened instead is millions of dollars went to friends of quebec mps for little to no work. Paul Martin was exonerated in the inquiry into the scandal, but the damage was done.

CBC projecting Liberal Majority. Leading in 189 ridings. Not bad considering they were all but declared dead after the last election. Edit: Official, Liberal Majority. 173 elected, with a projected count of 184. Steven Harper steps down as leader of the Conservatives, will sit as MP. Canada officially has its first political dynasty.

Liberals currently leading in 180 ridings. Need 170 for a majority. NDP are losing Toronto-Danforth, Jack Layton's former riding.

All the major news channels are declaring a Liberal minority and polls havent even closed in BC yet Edit: NDP leader Tom Mulcair currently trailing in his own riding