I have a firsthand report of someone in this riding who is having difficulty helping seniors with mobility issues be able to vote.
I’m extremely fucking pissed at all the assholes who think “ha ha this is funny it doesn’t affect me”
It’s fucking gross. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
You know what’s a “bad look”? Protesting in a such a way that makes it hard for Canadians to exercise their democratic rights.
I’m not the one being bothered by this. It’s seniors and people with disabilities who struggle with a ballot that is well over a metre long. It’s poll workers who are affected by the struggle to accommodate the process of voting and tabulating the results.
It is causing issues. I know this from firsthand reports of personal friends who are volunteering in the affected riding. I’m happy to wear this “bad look” because it’s not me being affected.
This prank makes it hard for poll workers to do their job, and difficult for voters to exercise their democratic rights. Especially those with accessibility issues. I’m not saying this hypothetically, this is confirmed by someone I know volunteering in that riding.
I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment of ditching FPTP. But this is not acceptable.
If you’re calculating best possible return on investment, nationally or in a more competitive riding would probably be the most useful. The national ads have been pretty high quality so far, such as the Mike Myers one, and many of the competitive ridings are ones that were completely unexpected and have few resources.
But also, life’s too short to always just be about the best return on investment. I was happy to help support my friend, she was absolutely tickled pink to be able to tell her fellow volunteers that she brought in a donor. And yes, because doing something petty can feel good too.
In order to support a friend of mine lives in this riding — she’s been braving Ottawa weather going door -to-door for Fanjoy, despite being in her 60s — I donated the max allowed to Fanjoy.
Ok fine. The “in support” is only half true, the other part is that I’m a petty dork who would take tremendous joy in being a small part in seeing PP lose his own seat.
Edit: I just refreshed my Home feed and saw your Fanjoy post there. Great work.
We’re not going this way, he’s going into the trash heap where he belongs on April 28.
I researched this phone a bit and found a few hands-on reviews including this one
Seems quite promising!
I’m literally out right now putting up signs, been out door knocking and phone banking, and I’m volunteering to get people out to the polls on the long weekend and election day.
Well said.
I believe there’s a really good opportunity presently for the NDP to present a cohesive alternative in their next leadership cycle. Someone authentic who can present an entirely different approach, because those voices are going unheard and it’s a vital part of our future.
I know this is an overly personal story for the audience of a political discussion group who are essentially strangers. It was originally written for my Facebook but I thought some folks might appreciate it here too.
“Born on third, thinks he got a triple”
Thank you for sharing that
I looked at this previously but had some concerns with most of the devices being rather old (most recent options are 2021) and even so the camera support seems to be quite rough.
Does this match your experience as an early adopter or am I reading too much into it?
This looks extremely promising, thanks for sharing it.
It’s the first I’ve heard of it but it already goes in the bucket of top options for me to consider.
If possible yes, or if not possible I’m interested in seeing what is closest to providing an experience like that.
I’ve been daily driving desktop Linux for the last 5y and off and on for 25y plus a lot of professional sysadmin experience so I’m pretty familiar with fiddling and such.
So I don’t need a turnkey experience but I do want a pleasant and reliable experience once it’s all setup.
I deeply appreciate that you took the response in the context it was meant. The medium of text is hard sometimes and when I see a rant emerging from my passion I worry that it can be misconstrued.
The NDP had to work with what they had. Having never had a majority, they couldn’t pass any of their bills. I can bet my top dollar that they would have done something about the bread price fixing, about the price gouging at the groceries, about minimum wage employees not getting any reward for working and keeping stores open for the public during a gobal pandemic.
This is a specific area of complaint that I have with Singh. Because this area is a no-brainer win for them but they played it so incredibly centrist.
What we need from the food security issue — people not being able to afford food — is actual change. Trudeau and Singh were very happy to bring up the CEOs to lecture them on how mean they were, but this was a PR stunt not actual change.
In this case I believe there are two approaches that make sense. One would be to use a market-oriented approach and use competition laws to break up monopolists and prevent mergers and ensure that regulations do not stifle new entrants.
The other approach would be to have the government to use the grain that we grow in Canada and hire Canadians to bake that into bread and sell the bread at a break-even rate. And not just for bread, any type of essential food product that the market is failing to deliver. Like a national scale Farmers Market.
But the NDP doesn’t propose that they propose price caps. Price caps betray a fundamentally ignorant understanding of how markets work, and could cause real harm from food shortages.
However I am convinced from reading Carney’s book that he understands the market-oriented solution I outlined earlier. I have not seen specifics on his plan in this area but I am confident that he knows what a good market-oriented plan would be.
But this is why I say that I want the NDP (and hell even the CPC if I’m dreaming) to put out better alternatives. Because if Carney is elected and fails on this we need to jettison him and replace him wiry someone who can deliver results. Becuse results is what we need.
They also would like to implement better tax laws so wealthy people pay their fair share.
Agreed. Specifically I believe a land value tax and other wealth tax, along with a crackdown on tax havens is absolutely needed. The NDP should begin and end every speech on this point and hell use it as a comma.
Yeah what you suggested is pretty darn radical. Seizing properties and things like that is too much. This will scare away any foreign business that wants to establish themselves here and chase away much needed jobs and investments.
This is a good point and you’re absolutely correct that we need to ensure that overly punitive measures don’t scare away new entrants either domestic or foreign.
So yeah seizing a company should not be the first resort but it should be on the table for cases of extreme and persistent corruption. And maybe that wouldn’t be the favourite on Bay Street but I can imagine the general public being on board for this.
Because people are genuinely sick of the status quo. I can’t prove this but in my head canon, if this election was Charlie Angus vs JT vs PP, I think the LPC would be wiped off the map and the NDP would have a real shot at winning. Maybe that’s a stupid thing to believe, I’m not a pollster but that’s the energy I get from talking with my friends and family and acquaintances.
You made many other good points but I have to leave it at that for now. I appreciate your perspective.
In their defence, after meeting with Danielle Smith and Kevin O’Leary… can we really blame the Americans for thinking we were dumber than a sack of hammers and would fall for it?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe Canadian MPs vote very consistently along party lines – so with few exceptions I don’t believe choosing based on your local representative is the most rational choice. This is why I stress the party leadership here. However, you aren’t a robot and you don’t have to go with what some asshole keyboard warrior like me thinks is a rational choice. If you have a strong belief in a particular local candidate, they can be where the next generation of leadership comes from.
So what you’re saying is, the NDP is your preferred party, but you’re voting Liberal because you think Carney has better political clout than Jagmeet Singh.
I feel like this is willful misrepresentation of what I was saying here. Instead I am saying that Singh has not demonstrated the specific leadership skills that I believe are essential for success in the coming years, nor has the policy priorities indicated a good path forward. And that while he seems to be a genuine and kind man with good intentions, that he is not a good choice in the here and now – not in policy and not in personality.
The NDP is not my preferred political party, but a version of it might be. An NDP that didn’t play for the centre with half-measure solutions, but instead an NDP that was authentic and said fuck galen weston if he steals from us by price fixing bread we take his company and put it up for auction and let someone else try. And if that person can’t figure out how to sell bread than the government can hire some canadians to bake bread and sell it at cost from the ruined husk of HBC stores. And if no one can figure out how to unfuck the housing market than they can just step in and make homes themselves.
And they can expand Canada Post to deliver packages cheaply from coast to coast to enable small businesses to thrive. And they can seize factories owned by Americans when they tariff us and make our own shit in them with our steel and aluminum. They can nationalize industries like fibre internet which tend towards monopolies, and they can break apart companies that have consolidated into oblivion. And they can hire Canadians to write open-source software to replace expensive american consultants contracts that drain money from our governments at all levels. They could apply an export levy to unprocessed raw material exports, especially non-renewable ones because we don’t fucking need to sell a limited resource on the cheap.
And they can hire people to maintain national parks, and hire bus drivers to connect communities. And have sharply progressive income tax and throw in some wealth taxes and land value taxes and seize assets of companies using tax havens. And we can throw out policies the Americans pressured us into such as insanely long copyright laws which stifle culture and free expressive. We could ban foreign ownership of our media institutions. We could levy significant taxes on the techbro companies that got into a position of monopoly by using venture capital and if they refuse to pay we can block them and canadians can find new platforms. We could radically expand the CBC to make it a glowing showcase of Canadian culture both for independent and commercial content. And I could go on and on for fucking ever.
If the NDP had even a fraction of that, and Carney drops the ball with his market-based approach, then I’m fucking there for it. Because even though I’m a market-oriented person like Carney is – if people like me drop the ball, we need the ball to be picked up by someone who can use it.
But that’s not the reality we have right now. The NDP of right now is playing at being centrist and in my opinion is doing a relatively lousy job of it. And maybe that’s because the things I suggested are too radical for Canadians? But I see the enthusiasm for the optimism of someone like Charlie Angus here or Bernie Sanders or AOC in the US and I have to think maybe we could fucking try? Because it was ever gonna work it’s got to be when Canadians feel like the system has beaten them down.
Sorry if this seems too aggressive. My intended tone is inspirational, not a negative attack on your question. Because I think the core of what you’re saying is correct. I want those things and think Canada needs that energy, but also I don’t want the current version of what the NDP is offering.
I am fully aware that openly supporting the person who is currently leading in the pools is hardly a daring or provocative take. I don’t expect this to change the world, I find personal value in structuring my thoughts in an organized way and sharing them with people. If you read it, thanks for reading, if not I’m not offended. Cheers.
Sure but in the other hand a bunch of fucking assholes get a laugh about their funny prank. “That sucks” that it affects real human beings and makes it more difficult for them to exercise their democratic rights
I do not underhanded how people here are so jaded that somehow I’m the bad guy. Absolutely disgusted with this crowd