From reddit, some stuff, I kinda got the same vibes you did a while back, got a shit disturber vibe, does things to intentionally piss people off, which was what I got from that open carry video in that reddit comment.

Canada’s National Observer asked the NDP for comment on the situation and later that day posed the question to NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh in a virtual press conference on April 22.

Singh did not directly respond to Canada’s National Observer’s question, nor its follow-up question about the Green Party’s complaint.

Instead he said many strategic voting websites regularly promote the Liberal Party and that “if you want to stop Conservatives, vote New Democrat. If you also want someone that’s going to … stop liberals like Mark Carney from cutting the things that you need, vote New Democrat.”

An hour later, an NDP spokesperson contacted Canada’s National Observer but did not offer a statement. Instead, they sent information “on background” — indicating it shouldn’t be attributed to the NDP — that pointed out the federal Green Party was sanctioned by Elections Canada in 2016, and said “that website isn’t ours.”

Gotta say I’m unhappy that I’m disappointed in the Federal NDP again, the whataboutism around the green party being sanctioned almost a decade ago is maybe tangentially relevant, but that feels they’re more trying to cast doubt on the green’s poll. Your candidate linked to the website, it doesn’t matter if it’s yours, its part of your party’s official communication. I don’t love that Singh (or any politician for that matter but I align closest historically with the NDP so I’ll be critical) seemingly didn’t address the questions during the press conference either.

There’s something about the current NDP priorities I don’t love, while I totally acknowledge their work on pharmacare, ban on scab labour and dental (and understand why they tore up the supply & confidence agreement over back to work), I started being disappointed back when they held back 100% of campaign rebates, I’ve personally noticed less and less riding level activity from then as well. I don’t love that they’re supporting S-210, I know a bunch of people who started listening to the NDP specifically because they were pretty adamant in their support for privacy. It’s a lot of small things but yeah, they add up.

I’m just happy to still be considered young lol.

My circle, most want the Feds to do more with what they can, but largely place blame on provinces & municipalities for housing & rent, Ontario removed rent controls for units built after 2018 when the pcpo formed government as one example. The lower levels of government have a larger impact on your day to day and yet have the lowest engagement, my (ndp) MPP even sent out a “this level of government is responsible for this” magnet with numbers and departments of it to (I think) help address that.

Yeah that’s my understanding too.

I used to get ones from the Tories a few years back, looks only (ignoring content) this is somehow tamer, those looked like Peter Popov mailers complete with the random fake pencil scrawls in the margins, highlighting and blue ink underlining.

This isn’t even borrowed from the yanks, look back at shit the Tories said during the Harper years, it’s literally exactly the same rhetoric, there’s a clip on CBC from years ago with Pierre talking about the Omar Khadr supreme court ruling and dude was saying shit like “this is a matter for the democratically elected government, not the courts”.

While I get the overlap, we shouldn’t downplay our own shit, we’ve been perfectly capable of having a christofacist party on our own, and exporting it globally (Gaven McInnes - Canadian, worked with the rebel, Jordan Peterson, Harper has been involved with the IDU, Preston Manning’s takeover of the Conservatives was cited as an inspiration for Nigel Farage)

My tepid take, every poll should report with error bars, would help somewhat, like I know they report moe but still, visual would be best to convey that quickly.

Doesn’t help that in my experience, people just don’t have a great grasp on statistics, was a common complaint of a statistician friend I worked with for years. As to why, stats specific courses weren’t required when I went to highschool, I hope that’s changed.

Yeah, I’ve got comments mirroring that, Harper should be to the Tories what Bob Rae is to the ONDP. Probably sticks out to me because I was just old enough to start voting during those years, that wasn’t that long ago though, like I know memories are short in politics but I’d not be running with a Harper cabinet minister if I were them.

I kinda want it to be both hard and costly to invoke, needs to be an absolute last case, like have it trigger an election so that it has to be voted on by the next government, or have it trigger a referendum that requires a super majority of eligible voters to pass (nonvoters count as no), and if it does succeed it terminates when parliament dissolves, that’s kinda inline though with the 5 year renewal periods.

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There’s one like 1-2k down the road with just increasingly unhinged lawn signs and shit and ever-growing stuff scrawled all over his sprinter, just conspiracy stuff everywhere, save the children, american mixed with Canadian flag.

Honestly kinda concerned for the dude.

I’ve used Thunderbird since forever as my go-to client, I used mutt as well for a while and that met my needs pretty well.

Let’s say that a referendum passed, how would that even work? Found this Supreme Court remark from Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin in 2014 when I was searching around for an answer of “is that even possible?”, apparently the Feds referred that question to the scoc during the Quebec referendums in the 90s, (see section 5) and the answer seems to be, certainly not unilaterally (I’ll read this in detail when I have a chance). The also touch on treaty rights which is my question as well, Alberta is like all treaty land, how would the indigenous land rights be handled? On top of that, as far as I recall there’s a tonne of crown land in Alberta, again, how would that be handled?

I don’t have answers to these, just something I think about when these rumblings come up. I have my doubts about the actual popularity of an Alberta sovereignty movement, and frankly Canada is stronger with them than without, like with Québec it would be a loss to the federation.

Canadian polls have historically been fairly on it, 338 maintains a rating for each election. Helps as well that we do have a fundamentally different system being a Westminster style parliament, national aggregates are nice but your riding is the one you should pay the most attention to.

And always, yeah, vote, early if possible, it’s super easy to vote in Canada. Linking how to vote specifically for unhoused people as it also has information for how to vote without id.

I kinda hate they don’t put error bars on the chart, it’s statistical noise that’s likely all within the MoE.

Like in statistical process stuff, you can’t say there’s a trend from a singular data point, western electric rules for example, if you saw multiple consecutive data points and/or large swings maybe you could conclude a trend, but as it stands yeah nah no change.

Fair enough, I was only there for a handful of years, but did get to see an NDP premier so was happy with that. I was more meaning that the history is there, Alberta has historically supported NDP politics (especially since as I said, the CCF originates there) and the people I know who were born and raised there definitely still do. Alberta’s work/corporate culture I do legitimately miss compared to the bay street one I deal with now, I found it more open and willing to try things for example.

Shit, the NDP via the CCF originates in Calgary, IMO Notley was premier because of Albertans, not because of us who were only there for a few years.

That’s odd, possible it’s missed the influence type after selecting?

Here’s the complaint form for the Commissioner of Canada Elections, there’s a option for foreign interference.

Information for anyone lodging a complaint.

I’ve always liked Harvey’s veggie burger, recall Lick’s (rip) having a good one too, where my grandparents would take us sometimes as a kid as they were vegetarian/vegan.