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"We get democratically elected, and some judge slaps an injunction on bike lanes. Don't the judges have anything better to do than worry about if we're taking out bike lanes or not taking out bike lanes?" he said.

Now let's do some changing

"We get democratically elected, and some judge slaps an injunction on killing kids. Don't the judges have anything better to do than worry about if we're killing children or not killing children?" he said.

It had might as well read the same, because regardless all he's taking about is nonsense, as if laws aren't supposed to make sure elected officials aren't running away with their power. I can't stand this useless prick, and appreciate my own riding for voting NDP, but holy shit has the rest of the province (read: GTA) really fucked up.

Dammit, Ontario, why did you re-elect this guy again?

Because when Trump came into power this time around he started making a bunch of "no 51st state" hats, and the people love that support him love themselves a hat and didn't want to become a part of America, so he was the clear choice.

It didn't help that the provincial Liberals were trying to bring in Crombie (Ford Lite) and the NDP couldn't campaign themselves out of a wet bag. It was another abysmal turnout (sub 50%, I think it was 45%) and it seemed to be because he had a anti-Trump narrative at the time.

Everyone that votes for him seems to conveniently forget how he went quiet after his Maralago visit and disappeared back to his cottage until the election took place. They forget the period where he stopped posturing and disappeared.

I'd be lying if I said the castles weren't one of the biggest reasons for my interest. I spent the better part of the past year playing Kingdom Come Deliverance, and it's broiled an interest in that part of the world's history for sure. Your comment makes me feel like I'm making the right choice!

Alright but let's not forget that the Liberals were about to get removed from the face of the map when it was projected before Christmas.

The Conservatives were never going to be a non-factor, and only 4 months ago were looking to be sleepwalking into a majority. Luckily Trudeau stepped down and we got the result we saw tonight. Thankfully the CBC will live on.

Looking like she's doing well enough to be on the projected board, hope she can keep it up.

Been interesting to watch the seats swinging, it's going to definitely be close all night.

I'm curious how Polievre will do in his own riding, he is against a liberal Bruce Fanjoy who has actually done pretty well for himself and the early voting was counted first in that riding which had Bruce up a few votes so it'll be a matter of time to see how it actually goes since the early vote was said to be largely Liberal supporters.

Edit: oh my god he did it, he lost his seat to Bruce.

Hoping to visit your country in a year or so, any recommendations for places to see/things to eat the most? Always love getting an idea of someone's favourite parts of their home.

They're just as involved in the Arctic as Russia is, not to mention a lot of their illegal fishing in our waters. They've been just as involved in trying to put people in positions of power in our government, and have had their own CCP police stations where people can report on dissenters of the CCP on Canadian land.

This thread is so focused in other comments about how "America is just as bad if not worse of a problem for Canada!" And that alone makes me wonder how much Chinese propaganda is showing up on Canadian social media channels, even newer ones like Lemmy. The fact of the matter is that there can be multiple threats, and ignoring China just because the US is being a big, loud, scary threat right now is not what I want the leader of my country to be focused on. Carney has been doing well to bring up the problem of the US wanting our minerals, while also pointing out other adversarial problems focused around trying to open up shipping lanes through the Arctic in our land.

Which is twice as funny because consultants often cost more in the short term. It's mostly to avoid those pesky things like "benefits" or "pension plans" that employers need to take care of for their own employees.

I agree, we have that problem in more ways than one.

then they vote left for unfunded spending

Explain how the Doug Ford victory falls under this with his $400M spent on rushing the beer in grocery stores policy instead of waiting 6 months and getting it for free, or the proposed $800B highway tunnel under the 417 (which would likely be over 1T). I suppose I just don't see the left being the party of unfunded spending, because I don't think he's going to make the profits from this just by selling Ontario Place.

Maybe I'm missing something, but he ripped up a contract that was just recently signed. This seems to be related to existing contracts that are separate from the 100m contract.

It's tough to balance the worth for me on this one. Should we expect these communities to have to rely on internet when they are clearly so broken off, or should we be providing these services as infrastructure as a country through installation of cables to connect them (which would likely admittedly be tough with the distances through bushes).

I'd argue the best option is to continue funding this service separately, just to keep the users up north online for their court visits, while working on establishing our own service. I'd prefer if we didn't have to litter the skies with satellites for our solution as well, I don't like the amount of space junk above us currently.

At which point that would require funding from our government, and it looks like regardless of who gets in, we're going into austerity measures, so I won't be holding breath that our R&D goes into this service.

Tough one and unfortunately it looks like the north is going to be underserved. Which, also unfortunately, with the number of voters/people up there, is likely to continue as I doubt this will be a focus on people's voting decisions. Especially not 4 years from now when we have another provincial election.

Agreed with this. Started in the CIV world with 5, then a buddy introduced me to Rome:Total War and it was like finding crack. I still like to take over all of Europe at some point once a year.

Just a heads up OP, the games are limited to regions of the world, it's never the full globe.

Holy shit between this and the Governor hot wheels comment recently she's just showing that she might be just as much a liability as she will be a newfound asset lately. The passion is great, but it feels like there's not as much of a filter on what she's putting out there in some heated moments. Not like I'm perfect, I'd probably pull some similar petty shit after enough speeches but that's why I'm not in government.

Counterpoint, but CREATING content like this is 90% of the reason, and these people should be remembered in history as the cockroaches they are. I can at least understand people who get mad at bait.

We've been trying to warn you americans not to just do idle threats.

Do the not so idle ones without the warning. If you're going to get sent to El Salvador, make it worth while.

The way I understand CSIS is it's more focused on tracking online actions, akin to chats plotting terrorism. I dont think they focus on actual bodies in other countries or tracking other country activities.

"Analog horror" is such a hilarious phrase.

Speak for yourself, thats a constant banger at the jams with friends.

Absolutely a fair question, and to answer, I have a number of friends that I skate with who represent many swaths of the community. We get along great and enjoy each others company, but at the same time, most are also younger than me, mostly younger to mid 20s, so I'm aware that how engaged we are is different.

These youths are engaged heavily, being involved in the Palestine protests, and very vocal about the war since it began. I'll admit I've known about the settler issue in Palestine for the better part of a decade now, so I did find it upsetting that at the beginning it felt like there were a number of people "jumping on the bandwagon" of protesting, but after a little introspection I remembered that I was young and didn't know about these things, and it had to be taught to me too.

A few of my older friends who identify as gay though also had a similar hesitation of getting involved in the protests. I think there's a subset who have been harassed by the religions communities (and I don't just mean palestinian religions, Christian and others as well) and would prefer that the pride parade stays a reminder of what they fought for in the generations before, and have overcome to have a much more free society for them today. Liberation does mean liberation for all, just that some people don't feel like that group wants them to be liberated. I think the difference in age gap is what has interested me about this difference (is dichotomy the right word?

All of this to say, I just didn't attend. I was happy that the people attending felt seen or heard, and I went on with my day. It's a reminder that while I had an opinion and didn't agree how things were handled, it's not the end of the world and doesn't really affect me that much.