Canadian software engineer living in Europe.
Um, 43% isn’t a majority under any electoral system, and that number definitely represents a significant “strategic” vote, evidenced by way of the multiple strategic voting sites and endless posts on social media begging people not to “throw their vote away”.
So this is objectively not a majority, but I fully expect Carney and his supporters to act as though it is. The job of the remaining smaller parties then is to remind him.
Honestly, this feels a little gross.
Too many people just spent the last 5 weeks demanding that everyone “hold their nose and vote Liberal to keep the Conservatives out”, knowingly cratering support for the smaller parties, and now you turn around and are all like “we have to work together”?
Fuck. That.
We have common cause, but if the Liberals were serious about working together they would have embraced proportional representation. They didn’t. They wanted domination, campaigning hard in Green & NDP ridings and even with the #ElbowsUp anti-Trump wave, Canadians still didn’t want to trust them with a majority. It’s not the role of the smaller parties to prop up the neoliberal “shit lite” party, it’s to force them to do right by the country. I expect them to do that.
I’m usually disappointed by the vote compass. Lately it has been putting me between the Liberals and Cons because I am ambivalent about social issues and left leaning on economic issues. If you think it is non of the government’s business which race/gender you are, that is putting you on the right these days.
They’ve introduced a feature at the end where you can choose to weight your answers, so the social issues you don’t really care about can be weighted 0 and get a more accurate result.
I live firmly in the #FuckCars camp, but I honestly think this is fantastic. Standards and conformity breed massive changes within an industry if they’re permitted to take root, and this is already bucking the “monster truck” trend that’s killing people and ruining cities.
Imagine the potential of a city buying a few thousand of these to serve as work vehicles: interchangeable parts would drastically reduce costs as you could canibalise one vehicle to service many, and you could easily re-task vehicles with minor, off-the-shelf (or even custom) modifications.
The real test though will be whether (a) the establishment car companies will allow it to survive, and (b) whether its US origins will make it radioactive to the rest of the world given their current fall toward fascism.
I never said that they should make promises about Palestine’s future. I only ask that anyone claiming to want to lead our country have the integrity to at least recognise that a genocide is being conducted, and that we are facilitating it.
In an election where the two leading parties are refusing to even acknowledge that genocide is being committed by a “friend” and ally, a country to which we continue to sell arms, I’d argue that the NDP’s stance on Gaza is probably the only thing they’ve done right in this election. Your suggestion that Canada can’t do anything is just plain wrong. We should, for example:
I’m all for trying to build a “big tent” party with a diversity of views, but that should stop at genocide enablers and apologists.
Sadly, this sort of bulllshit is common with border authorities all over the place. My wife’s Greek passport was once rejected by a British official who claimed that it must be fake because “there’s no such thing as a Hellenic Republic”.
That’s the official name for Greece.
I’m not sure that I would attribute this sort of thing to malice though. I think CBSA might just be perpetually hiring from the shallow end of the gene pool.
I’ve got an Arctis 7 myself and it works just fine in Linux, no special drivers or anything needed. However, there are a bunch of features in their proprietary app which I used for all of a few minutes on a Windows machine (I think there was an equaliser in there?) and that might work in Linux under Wine… but I’m not sure as I’ve never bothered.
“Canada would then have to put the customs border between itself and the U.S. and apply EU tariffs and regulations on imports from the U.S. … It would be incredibly economically destructive. It would outweigh any benefits that it might expect to get from the [EU] membership over many, many years,”
With what Trump’s been doing with the tariffs, the above statement may not be true for much longer. It may well be cheaper to ship to Rotterdam than to Rochester.
He definitely says “gagged”. This post is ridiculous.
Well shit. What good is pasta without parmesan? And no feta? Gouda? How is life worth living without good cheese?
I’ve been a Green supporter for a very long time. I even ran as a candidate for the BC Greens way back. I hate it, but I don’t really have a problem with this ruling. The Greens rose to our highest levels of support when we ran a full slate of candidates across the country, and while we have on occasion chosen to not run in a few strategic ridings (don’t blame us, it’s FPTP), 15 ridings fewer wouldn’t be a problem if we were running everywhere else.
The big caveat though is that it’s really hard to run a full slate as a small party. The vetting alone is a brutal (and costly) amount of work, and getting 343 candidates mobilised in time for a short-notice election is near impossible for a small party. In other words, when election dates are controlled by the ruling party, elections (and debate rules) will inevitably favour larger parties, diminishing our democracy.
The rules seem reasonable to me, and objectively we didn’t meet them, so we shouldn’t be included. I just think it’s worth noting exactly why we didn’t meet them.
I read this headline, thoroughly confused as to why Francesca Albanese would be wasting her time talking about vegemite.
In Star Trek: Insurrection, the Enterprise protected the Baku from the So’na, though if I remember right, there was some debate as to whether the prime directive applied as the Baku weren’t native to the planet.
I was one of the people who based my opinion of Proton on that tweet and swore off them until someone else shared that link with me. It’s excellent, thorough, and makes a convincing case that Yang is actually left-leaning. I can only assume that you’re getting downvotes from people who haven’t read it.
What you’re describing is winning elections by letting the public dictate your position. This is not the same thing as leadership. To be fair though, genuine leadership is in short supply all over the world right now, so it’s easy to conflate cowardice with strategy.
Leadership is when someone steps away from the crowd, paints a picture of the world they want, and asks people to join them. Think: “I have a dream”, or “we choose to go to the moon”. Leaders are charismatic visionaries that take you with them rather than taking popular positions once the polling reports in.
Canada deserves the sort of leadership that understands the critical nature of the climate issue, and leaders who will convince us to come with them in building the world we want. May is criticising the other parties for their lack of conviction regarding the most important issue of our time, and she’s right to do it.
It was Castlevania that did this to me.
Well, welcome to the Free side fellow traveller :-) I too ditched Windows for (different) political reasons 25 years ago, and haven’t looked back. You’ll love it here, 'cause if you don’t, you now have the power to change it 'til you do.
What a great idea!