I guarantee one thing he would NOT complain about is floorcrossing Liberals.
Forgot to address the Terrebonne point earlier. A longtime sovereignist bastion, its demographics have diversified considerably, especially in the past 6-7 years, to much more closely resemble its neighbour Laval. Also, the Conservative vote, compared to last year, basically collapsed with the vast majority voting Liberal. NDP support also tanked, though not quite as badly, and split more in favour of the Liberals than the Bloc. I wouldn’t categorize it as an emerging Liberal stronghold but it will likely be in play going forward, rather than reliably Bloc.
I know sketch comedy videos don't always go over well here, but I really enjoy Clare Blackwood's "Pierre Poilievre's Personal Assistant" videos, so I thought I'd share the two most recent ones.
Pierre Poilievre's Personal Assistant Explains Why Everyone is Leaving Him
Pierre Poilievre's Personal Assistant Explains Why He's Totally Not Mad About Carney's Majority
If you like those, she has a whole series of them on her channel.
Pierre Poilievre's Personal Assistant Explains Why Everyone is Leaving Him
Pierre Poilievre's Personal Assistant Explains Why He's Totally Not Mad About Carney's Majority
If you like those, she has a whole series of them on her channel.
“How did you even get six copies of my resumé?”
She looks a bit like one of my former roommates did 35 years ago (haven’t seen her in almost 25 years now, so I’m not sure the resemblance still holds).
Several MPPs got together to do a road-trip to document the dangerous conditions of Highways 11 and 17. This is the result:
What doesn't get mentioned is that these highways are still only two lanes most of the way, and the route along the north superior can get very very foggy. I remember my Dad and I taking a trip along Highway 11, the fog was so thick, we couldn't see very far ahead of us. We'd been driving all day and it was only getting worse, and that year the Nipigon bridge was being worked on, and work crews had taken up most hotel vacancies along the route. By the time we needed to find somewhere to stop, it was late, we couldn't find any vacancies, and it was starting to get dark. On a hunch, we stopped off at a hotel near Schreiber, still no vacancies, but the guy was friendly and said his parents had a hotel a little further off that would and he would call ahead to let them know. Despite letting us know exactly where it was, with the thick fog it was still difficult to find, but we were very grateful. It was a hotel that had been featured on Still Standing, owned by a former hockey player.
What doesn't get mentioned is that these highways are still only two lanes most of the way, and the route along the north superior can get very very foggy. I remember my Dad and I taking a trip along Highway 11, the fog was so thick, we couldn't see very far ahead of us. We'd been driving all day and it was only getting worse, and that year the Nipigon bridge was being worked on, and work crews had taken up most hotel vacancies along the route. By the time we needed to find somewhere to stop, it was late, we couldn't find any vacancies, and it was starting to get dark. On a hunch, we stopped off at a hotel near Schreiber, still no vacancies, but the guy was friendly and said his parents had a hotel a little further off that would and he would call ahead to let them know. Despite letting us know exactly where it was, with the thick fog it was still difficult to find, but we were very grateful. It was a hotel that had been featured on Still Standing, owned by a former hockey player.
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Well, Canada's favourite premier (Wab Kinew, if you don't know) actually announced something I am not at all happy about.
On Saturday, Premier Kinew announced that Manitoba will be implementing a "youth" ban on social media and AI chatbots. No real details were announced at this time.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-social-media-age-restrictions-9.7177470
I know that based on our last discussion about this, most of you are in favour of a ban. Don't get me wrong, I know that social media is awful, basically a scourge on society, and can be very harmful to children (and adults, for that matter). But the usual way companies enforce this is through identity verification, and I don't think that being required to upload government-issued ID to those very same terrible social media companies is ever a good idea.
As the article states, Manitoba is basically following Australia's lead on this. Remember that the Online News Act was also based on a similar initiative in Australia. If I remember correctly, Facebook played ball in Australia, but when Canada enacted similar measures, they balked, and that's why news can no longer be shared on Meta platforms in Canada. I wonder if the social media companies will go along with Manitoba's direction, or if they will consider Manitoba too small a market to worry about, and just pull their services from the province rather than comply with the law, similar to what Imgur did in the UK?
To be clear, I am not on Facebook or the other major social media sites, so this doesn't necessarily impact me personally if it was adopted beyond Manitoba. I just think it's a bad road to go down generally. Actually, I just noticed that the Australian ban includes YouTube, and I do use that, so I guess it could impact me. If I have to upload my driver's licence to watch YouTube videos, well, then I guess I don't get any more YouTube videos.
On Saturday, Premier Kinew announced that Manitoba will be implementing a "youth" ban on social media and AI chatbots. No real details were announced at this time.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-social-media-age-restrictions-9.7177470
I know that based on our last discussion about this, most of you are in favour of a ban. Don't get me wrong, I know that social media is awful, basically a scourge on society, and can be very harmful to children (and adults, for that matter). But the usual way companies enforce this is through identity verification, and I don't think that being required to upload government-issued ID to those very same terrible social media companies is ever a good idea.
As the article states, Manitoba is basically following Australia's lead on this. Remember that the Online News Act was also based on a similar initiative in Australia. If I remember correctly, Facebook played ball in Australia, but when Canada enacted similar measures, they balked, and that's why news can no longer be shared on Meta platforms in Canada. I wonder if the social media companies will go along with Manitoba's direction, or if they will consider Manitoba too small a market to worry about, and just pull their services from the province rather than comply with the law, similar to what Imgur did in the UK?
To be clear, I am not on Facebook or the other major social media sites, so this doesn't necessarily impact me personally if it was adopted beyond Manitoba. I just think it's a bad road to go down generally. Actually, I just noticed that the Australian ban includes YouTube, and I do use that, so I guess it could impact me. If I have to upload my driver's licence to watch YouTube videos, well, then I guess I don't get any more YouTube videos.
"We have to protect the children" is a Trojan horse.
Web Kinew is great, he was in a Guard The Leaf YT video the other day.
Yeah, Wab is a great premier. I think this is the first initiative of his that I’ve ever disagreed with. Usually everything he says is gold.
I wasn’t making up that “Canada’s favourite premier” comment:
Where Wab Kinew lands amongst Canada’s premier approval rankings
Wab Kinew once again finds himself with the highest approval rating amongst Canada’s premiers.
www.ctvnews.ca
And of course there’s my premier, way down near the wrong end of the chart.
(Of course, “popular” doesn’t mean “good”… Smith came in at fourth place because she’s very popular in her very conservative province, but she’d be down at the bottom of my list of “good” premiers.)
I'm sure *cough cough* Ford is way down on that list as well. He sure seems to care more about Toronto than the rest of the Province.
Yes, sorry, Ford is who I was referring to when I said “my premier” was way down at the wrong end of the list… second-last place, only ahead of Legault.
Of course, we know what happened to Legault, so Ford may be last place by the next poll results. (Especially after everything about his stupid jet…)
Except when the Jet made sense for Premier or other minister traveling in such a large provice.
Sure there's the turbo prop he can take but it's probably 1/2 - 2/3s the speed of the jet.
And if anyone thinks the stiles ($deity protect us) or who is the next liberal leader were premier wouldn't make use of it is and give all sorts of excused as to why they're different from ford is kidding themselves.
That one is so tricky. I agree that it makes sense for travelling such a large Province, as I think the argument could be made that it would pay for itself in the end, but then as you point out, it could be just as cost-effective to use a Turbo Prop. But I do have to give him credit for not fighting it too much and putting it back for sale.
I'm not saying it's just as cost effective for the turbo prop because it's a lot slower.
The Pilatus PC-12 cruises at 528kph, the Challenger 650 at 900Kph (basically airliner speed) and when you're paying costs per the hour any savings on fuel and maintenace will be eaten into by offset bu the turboprop taking almost twice as long to get anyhere.
Hmm, possibly right. But air travel in general is going to always be the easier option in the Province for a Premier vs train or highway.
The point wasn’t really so much what you or I may think of the usefulness of a jet for the leader of the province, but more that the purchase of a jet in this economic climate was wildly unpopular across seemingly all political stripes, and so the whole fiasco probably was going to have a negative impact on his favourability rating.
Buying a jet and buying a turbo prop aren’t the only two options, though. Personally, I would want to see some kind of cost analysis on buying a plane, and all the associated annual costs (fuel, maintenance, flight staff, etc) vs the annual costs of just flying commercial, with the occasional charter for locations commercial flights don’t go.
Related to all this, a new poll released today has the Ontario Liberals slightly ahead of Ford’s PCs… and they don’t even have a leader right now.
Doug Ford’s PCs now in statistical tie with Liberals amid jet fallout: poll
The Ontario government’s decision to purchase and later return a $28.9-million private jet appears to have created turbulence for Premier Doug Ford and his Progressive Conservatives.
www.ctvnews.ca
True. They could even scale it back further if they needed to. Come to think of it, I don't really know how much space they need for their travel, but he probably takes a whole team with him. I guess the advantage of owning a plane is that they can set their own schedule and destination.
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