I voted, so that's over. Now I get to sit back and 
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Canadian Federal Election coming on September 20.
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AmtrakQuebec
King
Well, Justin just got the kiss of death...
(10) Hillary Clinton on Twitter: "I have seen my friend @JustinTrudeau show leadership in the fight for accessible child care, protected reproductive rights, and ambitious climate action. I’m wishing him and our progressive Canadian neighbors the best in Monday's election." / Twitter
Also, it seems Russia has been trying to interfere in our elections. Luckily their effort has been pretty lame since they are concentrating on their own elections atm.
(10) Hillary Clinton on Twitter: "I have seen my friend @JustinTrudeau show leadership in the fight for accessible child care, protected reproductive rights, and ambitious climate action. I’m wishing him and our progressive Canadian neighbors the best in Monday's election." / Twitter
Also, it seems Russia has been trying to interfere in our elections. Luckily their effort has been pretty lame since they are concentrating on their own elections atm.
Okay, she should have kept her mouth shut. Politicians as close to the top jobs as she's been should not be endorsing any foreign country's candidates.
As for Russia... not surprising. I remember back in 2015, when people in the CBC comment sections were wishing the UN would send observers to oversee that election. There was that degree of distrust in Harper's willingness to cheat and use other dirty tactics. Some of his people disrupted advance polling by activating the fire alarms in the buildings.
AmtrakQuebec
King
CBC ended up shutting down their comments section years ago because of Russian trolls. Putin hates the Liberals, mostly because of their support of Ukraine (because of our large diaspora) and specifically because of Chrystia Freeland's many negative comments about Russia... the rumour is that she is on his poison list.
Years ago? Considering that I posted a couple of comments there before coming here today, that's news to me (no pun intended). I have over 16,000 posts there under my current name (and over 60,000 "likes"), and probably as many under my old account (we were forced to abandon our old accounts when the "real names" policy happened; to find my old posts I'd have to dig waaaay back in the archives to find anything under my first username).
It was earlier this year that CBC shut down their comments on FB.
Of course not all articles or opinion columns are open to commenting. It's getting to the point where I feel like writing to the ombudsman there regarding the insanity of not opening articles about disability issues to comments. It's so frustrating that some social worker or other "official" person gets to speak for us and we're not allowed to speak for ourselves.
AmtrakQuebec
King
I didn't mean to imply that they were shut down forever, it was just for a short period until they were able to resolve the issue.
CBC shouldn't allow comments on any articles. It doesn't add to their value as a public broadcaster. You can strip comments from their articles by using your ad-blocker to block scripts from viafoura.com.
I'd have voted for whichever of the CPC or LPC candidates made a majority government less likely, but it looks like it's pretty much a tie, so I voted green since my candidate seems decent, and FPTP sucks.
I'd have voted for whichever of the CPC or LPC candidates made a majority government less likely, but it looks like it's pretty much a tie, so I voted green since my candidate seems decent, and FPTP sucks.
So... not in favor of letting anyone have a public say in anything? Cool, why don't we completely shut down comments here, too, and limit the forum to announcements about the Civ game?
Being able to comment on CBC.ca is a way for me to help educate Canadians on disabled voters' rights, because the CBC reporters sure don't give any fraction of a damn in doing that.
Back in 2015, there were people who had a lot of questions about polling station procedures. I used to be a Deputy Returning Officer, and was able to answer their questions - in some cases reassuring them that the proper procedure was followed, and in one case letting the person know that the irregularity (a pretty huge one) that she witnessed should have been reported. Considering that some people thanked me for speaking up on these matters (as nobody else bothered), I consider it time well-spent.
There's a lot of misinformation going around, and I suppose you think that's why comments should be stifled, censored, muzzled, and a whole lot of other synonyms. But this kind of censorship also prevents the real information from getting out.
No, I don't support censorship. Hence my very strong opposition to Bill C-10 and its supporters. Not having comments on news sites is not censorship.
Yeah, it pretty much is, since they're denying people the ability to have their own say about whatever the article or opinion piece is.
Uncle Sparky
Pheasant Plucker
Liberals- 142
Conservative- 132
NDP- 36
Block- 26
Green- 2
Because of the unprecedented number of mail in ballots to be counted, I predict that the 'final' seat count will be announced late on September 23.
The federal election might not have a clear winner Monday night — here's why | CBC News
Conservative- 132
NDP- 36
Block- 26
Green- 2
Because of the unprecedented number of mail in ballots to be counted, I predict that the 'final' seat count will be announced late on September 23.
The federal election might not have a clear winner Monday night — here's why | CBC News
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You can say whatever you want about a news article, a news site isn’t obligated to host what you say, and it’s not censorship if they opt not to. Host your own blog and say whatever you want. It’s effectively free.
I guess we both have different views of censorship, then. When I see "content deactivated" on a post that doesn't violate any of the submission guidelines, that's censorship.
That doesn’t seem relevant to opting to not have any comments section.
Newspapers curate what letters to the editor are published, I don't understand why online print would be any different. We're free to comment on cbc pieces on third party sites like this one.
There might be a Conservative lead that fades due to Mail-in ballots, just like the experience of the US election. Possibly to a smaller degree.
But if the Liberals and NDP are already winning on the night, the Mail-in Ballots are unlikely to save the Tories. While there could be over-optimistic predictions on the night, of Tory victory that could disappear. They are unlikely to be as bad as the GOP, but a faction could run that same gameplan.
EnglishEdward
Deity
I am going to argue that Mail-in ballots also discriminate against the more
undecided who dither and cannot make their minds up until the last moment.
But I don't know enough about Canadian politics to know who they'd vote for.
undecided who dither and cannot make their minds up until the last moment.
But I don't know enough about Canadian politics to know who they'd vote for.
WHOOSH!
Neither of you get it. There's a difference between deciding which posts (letters) to allow and not allowing any at all.
And what good would it do for me to push disabled voters' rights in Canadian elections here, when there are exactly three of us they would affect, and who are already capable of figuring out what's necessary to vote?
What is necessary is getting the word out to the CANADIAN public. Do you realize that there are actually people who don't think we're allowed to vote if we're not in LTC and can't get to a polling station or use mail-in ballots? It was sure news to the candidate I planned to vote for in 2015 (I contacted him for help as I was getting nowhere with the (w)itch at the Returning Office, and hoped that someone on his campaign team could help).
CBC finally did do an article a couple of days ago about disabled voters, but I could just slap the moron who wrote it, because they carried on and on and on about blind voters.
Hello! Blindness is not the only disability that would make it difficult to access voting! There was not one syllable in that article about in-home special ballots, and that is what I specifically asked them to write about. I even told them where in the effing online manual on the EC site to find the information.
Elections Canada makes NO effort to educate the public about this, and the information is buried on the website to the point that the only people who can find it are the people who already know it's there. I know, because I worked for Elections Canada, and had to know how to handle various situations where a disabled voter might turn up.
So CBC rarely allowing comments on disability-related articles and opinion columns really is like denying this part of the Canadian populace a chance to be heard on our own terms. I am so sick and tired and fed up with some bureaucrat thinking they know everything, because they only know a fraction of the issues that go on.
And I'm also sick and tired and fed up with the ableist attitude of some people.
I mean, I think it would be pretty funny if the CBC ran their evening news like a Twitch stream where you could see comments in realtime. That's effectively equivalent to what you're asking for - public comments on news media as part of the media.
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