We are the canary in the coal mine folks.
Elderly population, no steady or high wage work, high taxes, chronically underfunded by our provincial government, no family doctors, ambulances not running or available for hours at a time. 2 year waiting times to get mental health. The first responders here can't even get mental healthcare, after seeing people getting scraped off highways. The city is broke and fighting/suing the mainland provincial government every few years so that the bills get paid.
They would keep Alberta alive, which many of us travel to for work. Beyond that, they would cut the tax out of the price of home heating oil. Which directly effects everybody here that depends on welfare, living in slum conditions; people dependent on oil furnaces that would save a few hundred bucks per winter. Oil that is delivered at $200 minimums. We don't use natural gas here. They would cut red tape and let the skilled workforce that went to Alberta to stay and work locally in resource extraction projects if they ever got off the ground. Little things that matter, lost in the big ideological bullshit arguments.
Any change at all would be better than Liberal. We now have a separatist movement looking to become a territory, just to get away from the mainland's poor provincial government.
That will be Ontario within 3 years time.
I think I will blame the Federal government for this.
So...the advanced voting being more for CPC makes me nervous...
So...the advanced voting being more for CPC makes me nervous...
Meanwhile, Scheer is pulling stuff out of his ass and acting like someone who's desperate.
I wonder how this data was obtained, though. I'm not convinced.
I wonder how this data was obtained, though. I'm not convinced.
I don't dispute that. Doug Ford's government has become what we maritimers would still casually curse at and call out as, despite being contemporarily inappropriate; "Retarded"
He's cutting when his problem is revenue. NS Liberals cut subsidies to programs that generated revenue, and then they bust unions, and blame the previous NDP or Conservative provincial governments. Magically, they find the budget for big promises each election year.
Federal government blame here from me falls on it being all Liberal here, in and out of government since 1980, a 4 year shot for a PC seat and NDP seat back in the 80s and 90s. All Liberal otherwise. 40 years of Liberals for most of what is now the one riding. 1 in 3 kids here are in poverty, drug addicts roam around and hustle in plain sight, there is no funding for any services.
Next he'll say that Trudeau and Sigh would outlaw Christianity.
We really need to make politicians be held legally accountable for blatant lies.
My biggest fear about this election is apathy and low turnout. In 2015, people (young people in particular), were hyped to get out and vote for Trudeau. I see none of that enthusiasm this time around and I anticipate that many people won't bother voting. I believe people prefer to vote for someone, rather than against someone, and unfortunately this election cycle has been focused on negativity, lies, and personal attacks.
Personally I hope that the Liberals can stay in power with strong showings in Ontario and Québec, but the pessimist in me is quite worried.
Yeah.Perhaps instead of complete dependence on oil and resource extraction you could vote in a party that's looking in a completely different direction. What's happening in Alberta is destroying the planet, and you wouldn't want MORE of it if you're ever planning on procreation or living till you're old.
Nah, he wouldn't do that. If anything he'd just drag Canada into that problem in India against the wishes of Canadians and claim it's part of his mandate Canada voted on.I'm somewhat surprised he hasn't yet.
Next up: Singh will establish a Sikh province of Khalistan in Canada.
I wonder how this data was obtained, though. I'm not convinced.
Didn't this election get the biggest turnout at anticipation voting in like, ever?
lolNah, he wouldn't do that. If anything he'd just drag Canada into that problem in India against the wishes of Canadians and claim it's part of his mandate Canada voted on.
I strongly believe that if a minority gouv gets elected we're going right back in election mode.
I think we'll get a year and a half/two years out of the government while they parties recoup the spent funds and come up with their strategies for the next election.I strongly believe that if a minority gouv gets elected we're going right back in election mode.
this, Scheer's insecurity is getting noticeableThe way scheer and some CPC candidates are acting lately are making me think what they are seeing now is closer to what maggi is showing.
Perhaps instead of complete dependence on oil and resource extraction you could vote in a party that's looking in a completely different direction. What's happening in Alberta is destroying the planet, and you wouldn't want MORE of it if you're ever planning on procreation or living till you're old.
Last fall, days after he'd been elected leader of the NDP, Jagmeet Singh appeared on CBC's Power & Politics for an interview with host Terry Milewski. At the end of the interview, Milewski repeatedly asked Singh to denounce the recent veneration of Talwinder Singh Parmar, architect of the 1985 Air India bombing, at some Sikh temples in Canada.
In this interview, some saw a vigorous journalistic exercise that was far more useful than the usual softballs lobbed at newly-minted political leaders. Members of a well-meaning Twitter mob saw Milewski, a white man, grill the decidedly non-white Singh on matters of religion and violence and loudly assumed racism.
World Sikh Organization executive Jaskaran Sandhu said Milewski's questions were nothing short of "racist" and "bigoted." Media critic and Canadaland publisher Jesse Brown said Milewski committed "racial discrimination." Singh himself said there was a "clear, problematic line" in Milewski's questioning, and suggested Milewski himself was racist. (Full disclosure: I appear regularly on Power & Politics.)
Loud as hell just six months ago, Milewski's critics, as well as Singh himself, are suddenly quiet in the wake of the news, unearthed this week by the Globe and Mail, that Singh attended a rally in San Francisco in 2015 honouring Sikh separatist Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale.
Whether Bhindranwale is a terrorist or freedom fighter depends entirely on one's view of India's religious history of the 1980s, when the issue of Sikh separatism was at its height. This much is certain, however: Bhindranwale and his supporters were well-armed and indulged in often deadly violence against Hindus and Sikhs alike. And in 2015, when he was an Ontario MPP, Jagmeet Singh was all in, using the occasion to denounce India's "genocide" and voice his desire for a separate Sikh homeland.
Singh's presence at this rally is worrisome for a number of reasons. It calls into question Singh's own contention, mouthed during the interview with Milewski interview, that his activism — indeed, his very identity — was based entirely on peace between Hindus and Sikhs.
In fact, Singh's own spiel at the rally removes this rather small fig leaf altogether.
Speaking to the crowd, Singh said wearing a turban and Kirpan in Ontario's Parliament was an act of spite that would "show the Indian government that 'look we are here," he told the crowd, to raucous applause. Does he regret this today? Hard to say, as Singh wouldn't answer the Globe and Mail's questions on the matter. (Singh later released a statement saying he attended the rally as a "human rights activist.")
You confuse Provincial politics with Federal politicsWe only vote in Liberals. They accomplish nothing. They killed our coal industry, replaced it with Paul Martin's own imports of coal. We followed Newfoundland that lost the fishery, to Alberta. Now Liberals are trying to kill Alberta too. If there was anything viable, go for it. In the mean time we need to worry about keeping people working here.
We are already getting old. We are already procreating. The kids are growing up in under-employment and welfare conditions, many turning into unskilled NEETs well into their late 20s.
I don't dispute that. Doug Ford's government has become what we maritimers would still casually curse at and call out as, despite being contemporarily inappropriate; "Retarded"
He's cutting when his problem is revenue. NS Liberals cut subsidies to programs that generated revenue, and then they bust unions, and blame the previous NDP or Conservative provincial governments. Magically, they find the budget for big promises each election year.
Federal government blame here from me falls on it being all Liberal here, in and out of government since 1980, a 4 year shot for a PC seat and NDP seat back in the 80s and 90s. All Liberal otherwise. 40 years of Liberals for most of what is now the one riding. 1 in 3 kids here are in poverty, drug addicts roam around and hustle in plain sight, there is no funding for any services.
If there is something conservative governments are known for, it's certainly not austerity and more cuts, while giving tax breaks to those who are already doing fine. Best of luck to you with your choice of something federally that is wrong provincially.
I don't understand what you're wishing for to happen in these tight Lib/Conservative ridings. If some of these people take the risk you want, wouldn't the Conservatives win those ridings?
Singh again being disingenuous. If it's that important make it a mandate for a coalition or stop fucking talking about it. Wonder why that isn't there? Oh yeah, cause he doesn't want his party to take the hit. Wow, such a good guy. Besides that, provincially, where the NDP have at least gotten power sometimes, why has pr not been passed? 🤔. You constantly keep trying to show Singh is so great yet don't like to be critical of him.
I strongly believe that if a minority gouv gets elected we're going right back in election mode.
We only vote in Liberals. They accomplish nothing. They killed our coal industry, replaced it with Paul Martin's own imports of coal. We followed Newfoundland that lost the fishery, to Alberta. Now Liberals are trying to kill Alberta too. If there was anything viable, go for it. In the mean time we need to worry about keeping people working here.
We are already getting old. We are already procreating. The kids are growing up in under-employment and welfare conditions, many turning into unskilled NEETs well into their late 20s.
what has the 9 years of Mulroney given you? what has the 9 years of Harper done for you?I do not confuse either of them.
Federally we have been fucked by getting nothing, despite being Federally Liberal for 40 years. The Federal crown corp that ran our coal here was shuttered by the Federal Liberals 20 years ago and the decline is still ravaging the place. Provincially we have been Liberal for 6 years so far, NSNDP before that for a single term. Taxes went up. Now unions were busted and the healthcare slid off a cliff into crisis. NS Liberals also gutted support for programs that helped the film industry get footing in NS. The whole place has gone to shit on Liberal watch.