Stepping down can sometimes be the real power move in politics, and for a politician that had quite few power moves for such a long tenure, this was one of Trudeau’s.

And between the potential leaders, Carney is the only one that has a clear vision for the future on top of a plan to make it happen. While I don’t agree with half of the stuff he’s about, that’s a million times better than a man more interested in causing division amongst Canadians when faced with an external threat, spineless coward that flip flops depending on what he things gets him political points, or people who have zero chance of gaining enough seats to make a serious change.

The government has already admitted that there’s been evidence of tampering for over a decade now by China, though how significant of a swing that has isn’t known. I’d like to think it was quite minor, but who really knows.

On the other hand, Russia is pretty famous for its botnet attacks on the US elections for a while now, basically early AI based attacks. Their fingerprints are all over twitter during the last several elections, not to mention the biggest driver of quite a few conspiracy theories.

This isn’t a case of “very likely”, but rather practically guaranteed. The question is whether the countermeasures will be effective enough or not.

Frankly, alcohol is expensive and a hassle to bother with, and that’s before the fact that my body doesn’t handle it very well lately.

Sure, it tastes alright, but that’s just alright compared to a nice cup of coffee, tea, or juice, which is all easier and faster to get, you can drink it anywhere and as much as you want, and generally tastes better. Why wouldn’t it taste better when most recent alcoholic beverages are trying to copy the flavour of normally non-alcoholic drinks?

Modern society is generations away from being under the pressures of hard, painful, and dreary work where you need a depressant to forget how difficult your work day has been, and the current youth’s not only forgotten why people needed such drinks in the past, but are even detached from the customs to drink such even from a traditional standpoint.

Not to mention that they have weed and vapes if they want to feel like some “badass deviants” as well.

The average person no longer feels the pressure to rely on alcohol they did in the past, not personal or peer in variety, so it’s no wonder that sobriety is becoming the norm.

Agreed. In fact, provincial elections are more important than federal ones when it comes to internal matters despite the lack of attention provincial policies get.

The more local an election is, the more it matters to you on a personal level, though Ford is an exception since he’s hyper-focused on ruining Toronto, so he’s way more important than the mayor considering how much he steps right over the city’s own leadership.

With the stuff he’s been saying this week, he’s definitely treating Putin as role model. Hell, he already mentioned trying to rewrite US laws to be able to get a third term.

I explicitly stated that I don’t approve of Israel’s actions. I think both sides are in the wrong, and neither deserve support due to their actions.

It’s incredible, really. Trump is single-handedly rewriting the world alliances so that former allies are becoming enemies, who are now relying on former enemies to become allies that look to take advantage of each other.

At the way things are going, maybe the US will be the next member of BRICS.

A sign of a good leader is to know when to step off the stage. Singh continues to show us that he is not that.

The NDP stands zero chance of winning. The best they can do is official opposition, and even that is asking for a miracle. Frankly speaking, they should be asking themselves what’s the best realistic position the party can manage this election, and that’s to whittle away votes from the Cons.

As long as the Conservatives have a strong voter base, the only thing the NDP can do is canabolize liberal votes, which is a lose-lose proposition when the liberals don’t even have a majority. Even in the best case of this scenario, they’re just splitting the votes and handing the Conservatives the win.

Instead of trying to nab a small number of easy votes, go they need to go for the harder but far bigger votes. Convince Canadians that voting for the Cons goes directly against their own interests.

Even for that example, there’s the issue of maximum height as well. Different provinces have different standards for clearance, which is why every once in a while you hear about a truck that strikes a bridge or other underpass.

I’ll sign.

Though I do think that something like a petition having the power to actually revoke a person’s citizenship is draconian, and should never actually happen in Canada, I do support the sentiment.

It’s quite hard to call them anti-terrorists when they let Hamas control their open-air prison. And I mean, how isn’t firing rockets at your neighbours’ population centres anything but terrorism?

No, actually this is the benefit of collective bargaining. When you have a single entity that represents millions of customers, you can say “we’ll take this, but only if you drop the price by half and not raise it for ten years” versus an insurance company that is not only incentivized to take a cut, but often only represents thousands, with the biggest that represents hundreds of thousands being able to point at the little guys and say “we’re still cheaper than them” even if they still charge a hundred dollars a month for insulin.

This is one of the advantages of public healthcare, and why it’s so important we preserve it. Hell, it benefits those that go to private hospitals as well, as everybody benefits from the lower drug prices, not just those who go to public hospitals. Well, except those that sell the drugs, but that’s why so many conservative leaders try to cut public healthcare, because they’re in bed with somebody in the distribution chain, and even if they’re not, they’re easy to bait into taking such measures.

It’s pretty sad but he doesn’t even need much of a platform to excel in this election. Just a plan for some basic things, like housing, healthcare, direct investments in each province’s economy, as well as a general outline towards strengthening trade relations with existing partners to make up for US trade losses.

Show that he has a plan, not just some vague goals, and he’ll be a hundred times more appealing than PP.

This is entirely a non-starter. We simply do not have the technology to intercept ICBMs on anything but a local scale. Guarding thousands of km of our boarder isn’t feasible when you have literal seconds to intercept something that could land minutes away. I mean, ICBMs are hypersonic by definition since they fall at a rate of something like mach 20. It’s like trying to stop a bullet by throwing a BB at it. It can only work by placing ICBM interceptor sites every hundred KM or something across the entire boarder.

Imagine funding billion dollar interceptor missiles by the thousands. And that presumes that we have ones that work.

The Iron Dome works because it intercepts rockets that are technologically more similar to WWII Soviet weapons than modern day missiles. Against that, an ICBM is like comparing a hobby rocket to SpaceX’s Space Ship One.

Any serious talk about it is simply grifting, and Canada shouldn’t take part unless if the other side could provide evidence of it working without the projected costs being greater than our entire GDP. And even then, who are we going to use it against? The Russians? All evidence points to them not being able to get their existing ICBMs to work, let alone make new ones. And Canada isn’t in between China and the US, so that’s not a threat to us at all. And that presumes that China can lob an ICBM at several times the distance Russian needs to.

And all this presumes that we can trust anything that’s said regarding any kind of friendly cooperative from the south. First try ending your damn trade war with us, then we can start talking about some smaller low stakes cooperatives before ramping things up to things that has the potential to cripple our entire economy and autonomy.

While I’m not a fan of the fact that so much of Palestine is pro-terrorism, going as far as arresting someone for protesting for the lives of a population in an abuse of authority. Suppressing dissenting opinions in itself is a direct attack on the freedom of expression.

Everybody who’s trying to campaign for a leadership position should have a thorough background check for conflicts of interests and backing of foreign entities. I mean, apparently PP is part of the same conservative movement that Trump heads.

Copying policies that resonate with people isn’t plagiarism, it’s good politics. In fact, it’s real good politics if those policies are actually good, since no matter who wins, Canadians will win. PP is only complaining that he can’t come up with anything to distinguish himself beyond attacking anybody and everybody in the hopes that people will hate them more than they hate him.

Though I don’t think these policies are actually that amazing, that’s beside the point.

It’s not because they’re conservatives that they’re a problem. It’s that they are self-serving morons who constantly shift the blame and divert attention and made their entire careers around such actions rather than holding any real beliefs for the future of their provinces or doing any real good.

It’s not being conservative that makes them into bloated vampires, but that bloated vampires have taken over conservative parties with their superior powers of brainwashing.

To be honest, alternatives to cars is the solution to most issues that have to do with roads in cities. Public transit handles thousands of times the capacity possible via cars. A single bus when things are slow still is more than a dozen times more effecient at using road space, not to mention all the costs involved, including gas, insurance, road maintenance, etc. During rush hour, a single bus can do the same work a hundred cars easy.

Not to mention trains and street cars, as well as bikes and just plain being able to walk around by just having functional side walks that don’t get blocked off at the smallest little thing.