Headline source:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/musk-canada-poilievre-trudeau-influence-1.7426954
In the past week alone, Musk has dipped into Canadian politics on his social media platform several times; endorsing Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, showering him with praise, reposting his tweets and applauding his speeches and media interactions.
At the end of the day it was all pandering in the first place.
If it isn’t a legal obligation then all these mega companies environmental, social and even fact checking activities was essentially just a line item under the marketing budget.
I like to block Trump glazers and quite few other accounts of that nature.
Actually think the the Lemmy style user lookup where you can quickly see what stupid comments people have posted in the past to be rather useful for sifting out the low quality trash.
In this context he was seemingly India’s guy
Then by rhetoric pretty he’s been parroting what Russia has been paying people to put out about Canada.
I’m glad that Pierre is dumb enough to start fights with people who don’t really care about him.
I really can’t understand how Jagmeet has been allowed to lead for so long with the results he’s had and Charlie didn’t even get a shot.
And then there’s this. How do NDP members defended him barely beating Niki Ashton.
And yet, in the end, the result was not even close. Angus — with 19 per cent of the vote — not only finished more than 30 points behind Singh, he barely beat Niki Ashton (17 per cent) for second place.
I think the biggest difference is that while people probably shouldn’t some genuinely like Trump but it seems most people really just tolerate Pierre at best.
The music makes the whole thing more palatable. Should be included for all Conservative videos.
Just want to say Rachel Gilmore one of my favourite modern social media journalist. Certainly worth a follow if you’re into that format of Canadian political content.
The chief actuary’s position paper, posted online on Friday, comes to a similar conclusion as University of Calgary economics professor Trevor Tombe. Last year, Tombe calculated that Alberta would be entitled to between 20 and 25 per cent of the $575-billion plan.
“It is a clear rejection of the government’s 53 per cent claim that has been quite prominently touted now for some time,” said Tombe, who is the director of fiscal and economic policy at the university’s School of Public Policy.
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Tombe says LifeWorks derived that estimate by assuming Albertans would be entitled to as much interest as if it had created an independent provincial pension plan in 1966 — when the CPP began — and watched interest accrue.
The chief actuary, Assia Billig, disagreed with the LifeWorks interpretation. Her position paper says the federal law governing the CPP must be interpreted as if all provinces could withdraw from the plan at the same time and take their share.
For anyone wondering if the NDP non-confidence motion goes through we still have a while till a election:
The next sitting isn’t till Jan 27 - https://www.ourcommons.ca/en/sitting-calendar/2025
Min election/campaign cycle is 37 days - https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=ele&dir=cycle&document=index&lang=e
By a lot of large national metrics Canada has held up quite well, but figures like the one below is what’s damning about the current government and also why the proposed Conservative ideologies(deregulate, lower corporate taxes and reduce services) is even worse.
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/241010/t001a-eng.htm
Posting this since I’ve seen a fair bit of people make random things up regarding this.
Data for generalized performance of CAD is harder to find than most people would think. It’s good to understand how CAD is doing beyond the USD comparisons.
I wouldn’t worry about it. The Liberal supporters is just butthurt their “good enough” party is actually shit and their only effective retort these is that at least they’re not Conservative levels of shit.
I’m not voting for the party leader. I’m voting for my riding’s candidate.
I take it you’re not much of a believer in vote whipping.
Things are going so poorly that the Conservatives is overwhelmingly going to win the next election. If that’s good enough for you I can see why you’re completely fixed on your support for the Liberals.
A & B - I’m talking about the current circumstances and how as a progressive there’s never been a better chance in recent times to vote NDP if you don’t want “waste” a vote. There can be a 20 extra seat swing coming purely from the Conservatives to the Liberals and they still have majority by 34 seats.
C & D - I don’t understand how voting for someone that lied about something as big as Voting reform is suppose to inspire optimism. The Liberals is just better than the Conservatives, they’ve never been been a good party. Even if the Liberals won the next election most Canadian will still be worse off just not as bad.
This whole I’m not the bad guy therefore I’m the good guy rhetoric is deplorable.
I wouldn’t vote for Pierre if he said he’d implement voting reform which is the only thing I’m looking for in the next election.
I really don’t understand how people can look at Canadian politics in the last half a century and want to bounce between these parties that has taken turns seeing how bad they can be before people vote them out.
Can you elaborate how you voting for the Liberals instead of NDP or really anyone else is going to impact this mathematically:
Thanks