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[–] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We need to get some NDP/Liberal provincial leadership across the country to get things rolling.

[–] _sigma@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

SK just refuses the money. It's a mess

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Well, isn't there rules that it must be spent on climate change projects? Like, with an accounting afterward?

[–] OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

And then complains later that they didn't get a fair share of funding.

[–] SmugBedBug@lemmy.iswhereits.at 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As we should all remember from the Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard defamation trial, "pledging" doesn't really mean anything. Seems like it's used to look good without actually doing anything in the end.

Edit: Depp not Deep

[–] TheMcG@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you have context on the pledging comment about the Heard v Depp trial? i barely payed attention to it.

[–] SmugBedBug@lemmy.iswhereits.at 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I recall correctly, she said that with her half of the estate (whatever you want to call it) from the divorce, she had publicly pledged to donate a few million to women's causes. Depp's lawyers found out that none of that money or very little had actually been donated at all.

Her lawyers used her pledge statement to justify that she didn't have the money to pay Depp if she were to lose the defamation case.

These are the very broad lines of what happened. I don't remember the details.

[–] MelanieJoy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

aah but we must not forget that a sign of her character was to poop in the bed of someone she spent intimate time with.

In context, an actress that is abusive and vengeful would be expected to behave differently than an elected person running a country.

Whether you like him or not, he has a better chance at fulfilling the pledge than Amber ever did.

And if he had pooped in someone's bed I am sure we would have heard about it by now :p

[–] SmugBedBug@lemmy.iswhereits.at 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol yes very good point. I was just referring to the term "pledge" does not mean that someone actually donated. The Amber Heard thing came to mind right away.

That being said haven't we all "shit the bed" in one way or another ;)

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Usually only metaphorically though

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

TIL that Canada is a federation. Or at least some sort of.

[–] dirkgentle@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

It's also a monarchy, which not that many foreigners know about.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Officially it's a Confederation, but they just used that term when the Dominion was founded mostly to be different from the US.

It's really a federal system though, with a Federal level and a Provincial level of government.

Canada is a federal constitutional monarchy with a Westminster style parliament.

[–] zephyreks@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Appreciate the paywall blocking any actual content. Classic Toronto Star.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago
[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You know, I wish online newspapers had micro transactions. I only want to read the one article. Let me give you like 15Β’ to do that and not have to subscribe to eighteen different websites at $5.99/month.

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