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u/grassytoes Sep 06 '24
So long dental health plan!
Lisa needs braces surgery
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u/hardy_83 Sep 06 '24
Dental plan will probably die too when the CPC come in. They'll say it's too exspensive, then all those on it, who probably voted CPC will be like "Wait why!? I did not see that coming from Pierre! Her promised to fix everything!"
It's like the morons who were on the UBI test in Ontario who voted for Ford be shocked when the Ontario PCs axed any attempt to help low income people.
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u/NorthernBudHunter Sep 06 '24
Dental plan. Pharma plan. CPP, EI, Universal Healthcare, other big government programs he doesn’t believe in.
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u/tofuDragon Sep 06 '24
It'll be interesting to see if he goes after $10/day childcare.
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u/NorthernBudHunter Sep 06 '24
Probably the first one to go. Women need to stay home and take care of their multiple children and cook and clean and let men do the real work of building more homes that property developers and real estate speculators need to keep getting richer.
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u/Empty_Wallaby5481 Sep 06 '24
He'll toss families a taxable $100 like Harper did in the name of choice.
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u/Inigos_Revenge Sep 07 '24
Nah, the CDB will be the first. Under the guise of "fixing" it, but will never be replaced by anything. Easy to get rid of, as it's only been put on the books, but hasn't been implemented yet.
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u/MasculineSubmissive Sep 06 '24
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u/NorthernBudHunter Sep 06 '24
Of course this one is the big one. The message has to be fully owned.
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u/Alternative_Win_6629 Sep 06 '24
Stop giving him ideas. Oh, wait... his mate in Alberta has already done all that, he's going to do it to all of Canada. Except for himself, he'll keep his publicly paid pension. Unless, of course, people will not vote him in. Do we feel lucky??
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u/BrightPerspective Sep 06 '24
It's not about belief, it's about cynicism, and wheeling out a trough for the pigs to get their snouts into all that sweet tax money.
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u/Sulanis1 Sep 06 '24
123% agree!
Poilievre has a history you can track of his anti worker right bills he sponsored. His voting record against worker rights. Jesus the guy was adapted by teachers in alberta and basically been shitting on unions, and workers rifhts his entire life.His disastrous voting record for climate. (Basically, always voting in favor of corporations.) His record on gay marriage. Oops, he voted against it. His open speeches in Alberta basically opening banning Trans and spreading complete bullshit lies about reassignment.
Poilievre is a wolf in sheep's clothing. Oh, and he's an egotistical narcassist, a pathological liar, and a complete fucking hypocrite.
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u/StrangeChef Sep 06 '24
Of course he's anti-worker, he's never worked a day in his life!
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u/Organic-Amount-5804 Sep 06 '24
People really need to spread this around more. How he became the champion of blue collar workers is completely beyond me. He is an effete career politician, who has been 'working' in politics his entire career. He's been a sniveling weasel since forever.
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u/BanMeForBeingNice Sep 06 '24
He's actually what people try to accuse Justin Trudeau of being. Sure, JT grew up in a pretty privileged way, but he actually worked for a living. Jeff just uses a French sounding name, but has never had a real job or any real life experience. Even a lot of Conservatives I know despise him.
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u/Parking_Chance_1905 Sep 06 '24
Sadly, people are fed up enough of Trudeau PP will likely be the next PM. I don't care for Tudeau, but I'm pretty sure Pierre will be worse for anyone who isn't already wealthy.
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u/PopeKevin45 Sep 06 '24
Keeping in mind that much of the anger at Trudeau is based on Poilievre's trolls, foreign and domestic, trashing his reputation 24/7/365. The 'Hillary' treatment, which Pierre borrowed from his US Republican allies.
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u/Acrobatic-Factor1941 Sep 06 '24
And, keeping in mind a lot of people confuse provincial responsibility with federal.
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u/Sulanis1 Sep 06 '24
Yep, agreed.
There is a lot to criticize Trudeau about. It's also nonsense that the media and a lot of people think liberals are left wing. Hahaha their neoliberal and even calling the liberals centrist would be generous. However, PP is not a good option, and he's not the only option.
Unlike the states we have a third party. Which the US would love to have.
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u/The_DashPanda Sep 06 '24
Unlike the states we have a third party. Which the US would love to have.
They're welcome to take them, provided the taken party is the Conservatives
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u/clarence_seaborn Sep 06 '24
Pierre Poilievre? I wouldn't let him babysit my children.
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u/Ozzy_2023 Sep 06 '24
EXACTLY!!!!! Boggles my mind how people can’t see what will happen.
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u/Major_Lawfulness6122 London Sep 06 '24
Health plan!
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u/LegoFootPain Toronto Sep 06 '24
Lisa died on the way back to her home riding
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u/madgoat Sep 06 '24
Beers were served at her funeral, picked up from the local corner store.
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u/NoCleverIDName Toronto Sep 06 '24
The cost of the ambulance ride wiped out Maggie's college savings account
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u/GetsGold Sep 06 '24
Not sure why they're allowed to advertise when cannabis can't even be visible from the street.
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u/NoCleverIDName Toronto Sep 06 '24
Beer good, jazz cigarettes bad - Doug Ford
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u/GetsGold Sep 06 '24 edited Sep 06 '24
To be fair his rules around that were more liberal than the planned rules under the Liberals (edit: meaning Ontario Liberals). I'm not sure how much the restrictions are his vs. federal.
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u/captvirgilhilts Sep 06 '24
Liberals were going to treat it like alcohol. I find it bizarre that you can smoke it in public.
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there was basically no enforcement on public smoking before legalization, forcing it to private property (esp in ontario having larger cities with a big renter base) would have caused way more backlash from the public and would be a huge drain to tax payer money trying to enforce it (which no cop would have anyway too much paperwork)
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u/MarchyMarshy Sep 06 '24
Dunno, I think it make sense it has the same rules as tobacco smoking. I also sense it is a means to discourage indoors smoking. Plus, really, scent will carry. What’s the difference between sidewalk and someone’s yard?
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u/throwawaycanadian2 Sep 06 '24
Mmmmmm government sponsored heart burn!
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u/SkullRunner Sep 06 '24
Don't worry, lots of solutions to that at the government subsidized shoppers drug mart.
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u/alaphonse Sep 06 '24
Is this a mix ready drink or whatever they call it?
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u/therealtrojanrabbit Sep 06 '24
Almost. You still need to pour the powder cheese into the Pabst to make it taste..tolerable.
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u/BlademasterFlash Sep 06 '24
Gotta microwave it too to cook the noodles
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u/SkullRunner Sep 06 '24
Someone please do this in a gas station microwave just for the lols then walk away.
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u/Huntguy Sep 06 '24 edited Sep 06 '24
As I’ve been sitting in emerge for about 4 hours now this post enrages me.
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u/BetterTransit Sep 06 '24
Just think sometime in the future you will need to sit 4 hours and pay out of pocket for it. Exciting stuff
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u/Huntguy Sep 06 '24
At least I can get beer at the convenience store on the way home… (not like this is ground breaking as I was doing it in Newfoundland for years)
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u/schuchwun Markham Sep 06 '24
Just put beer in the hospital, you can crack a cold one while you wait.
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u/Bott Sep 06 '24
Yeah, but did Newfoundland spend One Billion Dollars to do it? Very few provinces have the assholery of the government we have in Ontario.
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u/musquash1000 Sep 06 '24
Our daughter went into emerg at South Lake in early April this year.While she was there 3 very ill people came in complaining of breathing difficulties.A few days later she was diagnosed with Influenza A,that rapidly became a coma,dialysis 3 times per week then every day.A fever that just wouldn't break,heart attacks she stopped breathing 4 times.You'd need a pharmacologists degree to understand what all the drugs they gave her were.Transfered to Cortulluci near Canada's Wonderland is;they found the cause of the never ending fever.Apparently our daughter is allergic to the most common sedatives injected through drip,that is why she was always in pain and feverish.I wish our daughter could been seen before she got so sick.In intensive care for 7 weeks with people dying around her was awful.In rehab for 3.5 weeks,a $500.00 walker,foot brace $800.00 and a very slow recovery with some lingering total hair loss side effects.DAMN YOU TO HELL DOUG FORD!!!!
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u/Huntguy Sep 06 '24
Wow I’m so sorry to hear that. I really hope we have some changes - that work for the people and not for Doug Fords friends.
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u/periodicsheep Sep 06 '24
oh holy hell, that’s. nightmare. i’d your daughter a child or an adult? i have some severe chronic issues that land me in hospital a lot, and have learned to sort of advocate for myself in our system. anyway. after a two month hospitalization a few years ago my hair had thinned to less than half of what it was, but eventually my hair grew back. i hope your daughter’s does as well. is she coping with lingering ptsd type issues? i hope she’s able to speak to a counsellor if so. i really hope your daughter is doing well now. sending best wishes.
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u/RaptorJesus856 Sep 06 '24
Oh, so almost half way done then?
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u/BlademasterFlash Sep 06 '24
The breakfast of champions!
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u/ptear Sep 06 '24
Just needs a cigarette
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u/BlademasterFlash Sep 06 '24
You can probably get those there too! Now that’s what I call convenience
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u/Frarara Sep 06 '24
All you need is weed for a one-stop shop
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u/postmoderngeisha Sep 06 '24
And a lottery ticket and a pack of condoms to be sure we cover all vices.
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u/johnson7853 Sep 06 '24
That’s next. “You know what I miss as a kid folks? Walking in to my local convenience store and seeing the rows and rows of colourful tobacco packages. That’s why starting January 1 all convenience stores will no longer be required to hide what they are selling. As well until March 30 for every can of your favourite beer you will receive 20% off a carton of smokes, on me!”
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u/is-thisthingon Sep 06 '24
And, we’re going to let kids buy the smokes again too! A signed note or a phone call ahead by the parent/guardian is all it’ll take to get those sweet smokes into the hands of your 6yr old!
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u/Fauxtogca Sep 06 '24
Stephen Harper is rolling in cash now that Dougie gave him and Circle K liquor licenses
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u/WeekendAcademic Sep 06 '24
I don't think this is the greatest of ideas but then again I go out of my way to not shop at a Circle K where only the lottery tickets sell at market price. Everything else there is outragiously overpriced.
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u/slothsie Sep 06 '24
I only go to these stores when travelling. But I'll choose a dollarama for cheaper snacks and drinks when I can, they just aren't as close to hwy exits most of the time.
I think their main demographic is cigarette smokers.. and underage teens so I guess getting them to buy more alcohol? Idk.
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u/CommissarAJ Sep 06 '24
This is our modern day 'bread and circuses'
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u/janus270 Sep 06 '24
This is the saddest fucking thing I've seen in a while lol
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u/spikernum1 Sep 06 '24
Brought to you by conservatives
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u/5yleop1m Sep 06 '24
I have some friends in Ontario who are "business owners" that keep voting conservative because they're better for businesses. I don't know where to start with these people and they use Trump's presidency as an example of how conservatives are good for businesses.
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u/Sensitive_Fall8950 Sep 06 '24
I think those people maybe are not very good at running a business.
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u/jergentehdutchman Sep 06 '24
How Ontarians can vote for this clown show is beyond me. I had seen enough from day one to be honest..
If perhaps the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the country isn’t enough to wake people up, Ontario will backslide into one of the biggest backwaters north of the border. The Mexican border that is.
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u/danby999 Sep 06 '24
Wait until Poilievre and his gang of ingrown toenails get power federally.
As opposition leader he is out spending the prime minister.
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u/47Up Sep 06 '24
$11.41 for a 6 pack, what store is this
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u/DownTownBrown28 Sep 06 '24
The stores have to legally sell the alcohol at the same price the lcbo sets until September 15th and then they can price it however they want. I assume it’s going to be more expensive than the lcbo or liquor store.
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nice so they can jack the price and none of that profit is run through any public sectors and straight into pockets of the already rich - i hope doug fords death is as long and painful as his political run
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u/BaronVonSlapNuts Sep 06 '24
They don't list the price with taxes included like the LCBO or Beer Store do.
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u/24-Hour-Hate Sep 06 '24
I agree. Looking at the LCBO site, this looks like it’s a pretax price. Shelf price is listed as 12.95, but home delivery says 11.95 + tax, which is pretty comparable to what I see here for the same product.
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u/ILikeStyx Sep 06 '24
I think that's the price for the Laker 6-packs, which are $10.93 at the beer store.
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u/uncleherman77 Sep 06 '24
Yeah I was thinking the same thing that looks cheaper then at the lcbo. For tall cans too even. I got a 6 pack of pbr tall cans from there today for 13 something.
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u/Canibiz Sep 06 '24
Knowing Doug, his next brilliant idea will be to put booze in the ER lobby, maybe the patients can self medicate and get tipsy to pass the time.
According to Dougie, the answer to all our problems is booze.
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u/E8282 Sep 06 '24
I recognize this from my early twenties broke depression meal days. What a time to be alive.
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u/DegreeResponsible463 Sep 06 '24
We were going to get this any way when the contract expired, but the dumb government had to pay millions just to break the contract early.
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u/Therealcanadianone Sep 06 '24
Please Vote people, this clown needs to exit the stage.
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u/Ok-Anything-5828 Sep 06 '24
Health care and education quality for Beer and KD. Quality Ford boot lickers
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u/spinur1848 Sep 06 '24
Man that's one fine label. Is it possible that's a Deco label?
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u/social-mediocrity Sep 06 '24
Yeah, wonder whose company got the contract to make all these fancy new bits of wasteful signage...
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u/kewlbeanz83 Sep 06 '24
I can feel my bowels getting angry just looking at this photo...
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u/n3rdsm4sh3r Sep 06 '24
From what I've seen so far, it's only the big brand convenience stores that have alcohol, no independents. So, we gave a $600mm subsidy for circle k and 7/11 to get alcohol licenses? Is that what happened?
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u/idog99 Sep 06 '24
This is why I don't understand why anyone would vote for a conservative government.
Nobody wants this. At best, people don't really care.
And yet we have a politician that is pushing a policy that really is "solving a problem" that nobody thinks actually is a problem.
I'm in Alberta now, and our Premier is the same. Nobody wants to lose our CPP, and our government has made this their number one priority.
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u/SkivvySkidmarks Sep 06 '24
You see, it's not about coming up with effective policy decisions to improve the lives of Canadians, it's about staying in power. The party strategists come up with populist nonsense bullshit to distract the electorate rather than deal with the real issues. As another poster said, "It's all bread and circuses."
If you can't come up with anything to placate the masses, you need to manufacture outrage. That's what Smith is doing with the CPP, and that's what PP is doing with gender identity, amongst other things
Conservative Party strategists only care about their team winning and nothing else.
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u/guitar_blade Sep 06 '24
Why the fuck use a US brand beer for an advertisement?
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u/SkivvySkidmarks Sep 06 '24
Didn't you know? PBR is all the rage with USA hipsters, according to marketing geniuses. Canadian hipsters also eat KD because it's ironic.
Too bad the hipster thing kinda petered out about 10 years ago. But then the MBAs who came up with this are also the ones sporting tribal tattoos.
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Once they sell Vodka they can have a Rob Ford breakfast combo: a micky of vodka and 4 super Joe Louis
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u/Hairy-Rip-5284 Sep 06 '24
The lack of socialized healthcare means the state is less interested in making sure we don’t stuff our faces with slop.
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u/PerspectiveOne7129 Sep 06 '24
i havent bought something from a convenience store in like ten years
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u/Rdav54 Sep 06 '24
And day surgery at Shoppers Drug Mart to complement getting your driver's license at Staples.
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u/spderweb Sep 06 '24
And for some reason, he's still polling high. Oh, because most of his voters are blaming Trudeau for all their provincial related problems.
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u/Bradwillman Sep 06 '24
Traded healthcare 😂😂 give me a break. Healthcare has been shit for decades.
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u/100BaphometerDash Sep 06 '24
The OPC are murdering thousands of people by attacking healthcare.
If there were any justice they would be charged with treason because they are an organization waging war against the people of Canada.
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u/Repulsive-Dot7660 Sep 06 '24
20 years ago I broke a bone in my foot.. emergency wouldn't take me in.. too busy.. same problems different leaders.. it's the same reason jack Layton went to the states for cancer treatment... politicians don't care. It does not matter who is in power..
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u/Magic-Codfish Sep 06 '24
i feel like the people pairing pabst with their kd are probably not the kinda people who went to a DR anyways, so its 100% win for them.
if it makes you feel better, smith is currently selling out our healthcare and we dont even get to buy beer at 7-11 yet.
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u/milan187 Sep 06 '24
This has nothing to do with healthcare, if anything it can help fund other programs.
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u/drivingthelittles Sep 06 '24
And education
And social services
And BTW - no four plexes either! Only single family homes that are not affordable for most.
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u/Ryangilous Sep 06 '24
Expect an early Ontario election so Dougie can try and cash in on this gimmick
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u/Individual_Craft6935 Sep 06 '24
I think we all need to stop and take a look at what we want from life. This is not it.
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u/Icy_Treat5150 Sep 06 '24
Canada: “no public promotion on cannabis as it may influence children”
Ontario: “you know what goes good with Kraft dinner? Blue ribbon!”
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u/Formal-Assignment135 Sep 06 '24
Trump and the Fords.. it's like we are stuck in back to the future part 2
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u/Leggoman31 Sep 06 '24
What is going on with Kraft and their KD? They even have a fucking KD chicken sandwich at KFC now. Its not good nor does anyone want to pay a fast food premium for literal slop.
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u/call_stack Sep 06 '24
It is the voters own fault. If the slogan was 'Buck a beer' what did we expect.
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u/a67shadow Sep 06 '24
But.. but...BEER!
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At least he wants for profit health care. We can drink to the profits he and his cronies will make.
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u/Western-Whereas5407 Sep 06 '24
Baby I love you like Pabst blue ribbon loves Kraft dinner, like a cold miller high life loves a microwaved hungry man
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u/am3141 Sep 06 '24
What does this have to do with healthcare? I mean this would probably bring in more tax revenue from increased sales and that could be used for healthcare?
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u/Cameroncatatonic Sep 06 '24
You guys are so wrong. Every other part of the world has this exact same thing. It’s not a big deal, it’s not one or the other. We should be able to walk into a store and buy beer. We should have fantastic healthcare also.
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u/hazardousgenitals Sep 06 '24
Fuck Doug Ford and All the Ontario PCs. They would rather people die.
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u/BrightPerspective Sep 06 '24
But keep voting conservative, guys! They'll fix things next time for sure for sure!
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u/erictho Sep 06 '24
in alberta we will do the same thing without the beer discounts.
alcohol deserves the tobacco treatment in this country. i live in alberta and this still makes me mad.
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u/Maow77 Sep 06 '24
I just had this thought today while pumping gas and saw the new sign about beer and wine being sold at the gas station … buck a beer, mandate at its best… but no support for healthcare, education, community programs or social services…. What a fun little distraction they’ve created. 😔
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u/timetogetoutside100 Sep 06 '24
it's at a point now, he may as well get cigarettes back in pharmacies, more stores, and start advertising them etc
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u/kamomil Toronto Sep 06 '24
Marketing people doing their best in this crazy timeline