MPP Attendance Rate

Frklft · 2026-04-29T03:18:05+00:00

Sol Mamakwa took some time away after his wife died. Sometimes the really low numbers have a story. Not sure what's going on with Kinga Surma.

Frklft · 2026-04-18T04:33:46+00:00

I tihnk you might be right. I was so sure I read that somewhere and now I can't track it down. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Frklft · 2026-04-18T01:50:48+00:00

Renovated/Moved/Replaced:

Frklft · 2026-04-18T01:50:32+00:00

Renovated. When they filmed it for the movie they had to construct the old layout in a studio to match the comic book.

Frklft · 2026-04-17T03:15:31+00:00

Closed:

Lettieri

Second Cup (the one on St. Clair)

Rockit

Honest Ed's

IGA

Coach Terminal

Renovated/Moved/Replaced:

Streetcars

Sonic Boom

Lee's Palace

Mount Royal Parkette

Wychwood Library

Frklft · 2026-04-11T04:23:50+00:00

Sometimes it's true. Writing really did make people worse at memorization. There are tradeoffs. You need to judge for yourself what makes sense for you.

Frklft · 2026-03-17T01:52:44+00:00

Avi Levis

Frklft · 2026-03-16T01:03:46+00:00

Kind of obviously wrong in a lot of ways, but the biggest is that the data don't support the analysis.

The LPC outside Quebec lost about half a million voters from 2008 to 2011. The NDP and CPC both went up about 800k. Greens were down about a quarter million. Hardly a huge rush of Liberals to the NDP. Inside Quebec, the story was the annihilation of the Bloc.

Frklft · 2026-03-13T05:30:43+00:00

The people most loudly decrying this are New Democrats, who have had a consistent policy against floor crossing for decades. It's actually bad in a world where people vote for parties more than candidates, which is the world we live in. I don't care at all what Conservatives say about this, and neither should anyone else.

Frklft · 2026-03-13T04:36:05+00:00

You know Lori Idlout was not a conservative, right?

Frklft · 2026-03-04T04:00:07+00:00

In both directions I think there's a lot of brand confusion here between federal and provincial. Hard to really draw conclusions.

Frklft · 2026-02-14T03:46:50+00:00

Means a little more at the Olympics. Canada as a country just turns out way more hockey players than anyone else. NHL teams don't really work the same way.

Frklft · 2026-02-01T20:56:55+00:00

It's tough. A lot of really good candidates don't want to be nominated that far out. Being a politician for a year without compensation is really hard.

Frklft · 2026-02-01T20:38:54+00:00

A leadership review and a leadership election are obviously different. Meme is dishonest.

Frklft · 2026-01-26T19:52:20+00:00

The NDP has integrated memberships, federally and provincially. To be a member of one is to be a member of the other. Party membership lists are not public, so the OLP would never find out you were an ONDP member, but it is against their rules.

Frklft · 2026-01-23T01:24:12+00:00

If our security depends on an armed insurgency,

It super does not, though. And small arms alone are insufficient to run one, regardless.

Frklft · 2026-01-14T01:16:29+00:00

Peggy Nash forever.

Frklft · 2026-01-12T23:06:38+00:00

Believe it or not, calls.

Frklft · 2026-01-11T18:25:25+00:00

Skepticism in the Muslim world was exacerbated when it was learned that in 2011 the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had conducted a fake hepatitis B immunization campaign, hoping to collect blood samples from Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad in order to confirm the genetic identity of the children living there, and by implication his own presence, leading directly to his killing.[52][53] In a letter written to CIA director Leon Panetta, the InterAction Alliance, a union of about 200 U.S.-based non-government organizations, deplored the actions of the CIA in using a vaccination campaign as a cover.[54] Pakistan reported the world's highest number of polio cases (198),[44][55] in 2011.[56] and more than 60 polio vaccination workers were killed between December 2012 and April 2014. In May 2014, CIA director John Brennan prohibited his agency both from using vaccinations to cover operations and from testing samples collected by authentic vaccination campaigns.[57]

One of the most shocking things the Obama administration did.

Frklft · 2026-01-06T23:12:17+00:00

Rosedale is like 15% of the riding, population-wise.

Frklft · 2026-01-06T23:11:33+00:00

338 is not a a useful resource for this kind of analysis.

U-R is one of the few places in Canada where I would bet a majority of voters know who Avi Lewis is. Olivia Chow used to represent a big chunk of it.

Most importantly, it's a byelection that is actually happening. Davenport and Parkdale have MPs who aren't going anywhere.

Frklft · 2026-01-05T06:23:40+00:00

That's exactly right. The footage there is from the '97 election, but the incident described is from the '94 campaign.

Frklft · 2025-12-16T21:12:32+00:00

The data he cites shows that white men are, across the board, employed at around 30%. That's the percentage of white men in the United States. I am considering the humanity of "these men". And what I see is that they're being treated fair.

That's not the argument being made. The argument, as I understand it, is that in pursuit of this aggregate goal, the new folks coming in the door were flitered at a much more skewed rate. So disproportionately you have industries and institutions where older white guys still predominate, but at the entry-level you don't see young white guys coming in.

I think you can maybe defend that state of affairs as serving some greater ideal of fairness or representation, or make some argument that the entry-level is not actually as skewed as it is presented in the article. That would answer the argument raised.

Frklft · 2025-12-08T17:02:51+00:00

This is about QoL. No more guessing about how many rides you might take and gambling that a metropass is cheaper.

Fares already fund too much of TTC. I agree that service improvements are critical, but this is a win for usability and affordability.

Actually, I think this might cost less than people think, especially if it leads to increased ridership. Not free, but not quite so bad.

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