SpankyMcFarland

That would elevate Poilievre and give both him and Carney more time to speak which is not what Carney needs, obviously.

You can get French lessons in both of those countries.

The Green co-leader is blaming Tory and BQ supporters for the decision: It looks like the Greens never intended to run all those candidates.

If I was harbouring dreams of leading the country I’d be taking French lessons every day. Carney should have been at this years ago. Both true. His imperfect French is well known to everybody. He just has to avoid saying something ridiculous which can easily occur.

It’s going to be tested more rigorously in a debate where multiple people are sniping at him at once. Even in English, he sometimes takes a long time to answer questions and can pause in the middle of a sentence for what seems an eternity. He wasn’t chosen for his eloquence. Blanchet could easily switch to incomprehensible remarks and turns of phrase to show Carney up although that might backfire.

Trump is a lawless fraud who has been stiffing anybody near him all his life.

The Greens failed to meet the criteria to qualify. If they’d been let in the PPC should have been allowed too. I can’t see how this benefits Carney at all. The fewer the candidates, the more attention on the French lessons.

He’s a likeable extrovert which is the best place to start as a politician. In addition, he has an everyman persona despite his privileged upbringing. When brother Rob ran against Miller you wouldn’t have guessed who was raised in modest circumstances.

Do you think he could ever lead the federal Tories? His mix of policies is clearly highly successful at the ballot box but he’s burned a lot of bridges in this campaign.

This growing alienation created the opportunity for the current charlatan in the White House. It’s nearly all bad.

Bitcoin represents something more than that. It looks preposterous at first glance but it is significant. There is a growing distrust of our financial system, especially among younger people.

Basically, Carney has to avoid some gruesome verbal pile-up en français. Expectations are in the basement for him already.

Wouldn’t Ford struggle to unite federal Tories behind him if he went for the post after this? Plus many Tories don’t consider Ford a Conservative. It is weird to air such divisions in a campaign. One would expect silence from one’s enemies in the party if they can’t bring themselves to support the leader. https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/sometimes-the-truth-hurts-ford-defends-campaign-manager-who-criticized-poilievre/

I don’t know why the Tories haven’t shown more of this side of PP: By contrast, the more he goes for the law and order stuff, the more he gets out the other side’s vote which is potentially much bigger. Underlying message I think would be better: a good man, one of us, tough when he has to be.

To clarify, the Liberal guys with the fake badges should have been fired, pure and simple, not reassigned.

A rapid change in the balance of power helped precipitate the war: two rising powers, Russia, Germany; two declining ones, Britain, France; one rapidly declining one, Austria-Hungary; and a collapsing one, the Ottoman Empire. The Balkans lay between AH, Russia and the Ottomans.

Naughty, naughty: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-carney-liberals-conservative-buttons/ It does show where some Liberals think the Tories are vulnerable. Frankly, I think it is a vulnerability in the current political atmosphere.

Can you imagine being this stupid? https://apple.news/A3Hn_3MF8SAqJl52XZPjmxQ

Nonsense or not, I’m sorry I didn’t buy it way back when, though. I know one reputable guy online who invested in 10k of it. We followed the ups and downs of it for months until his wife made him sell when he’d doubled his bet. Last time I looked, that investment was worth 27 million which must make for some interesting conversations at home. With the benefit of hindsight, I listened to the rational arguments and failed to appreciate the growing distrust of our financial system among younger people. Of course, I’d be penniless if I’d invested in every wild new stock over the years.

Here’s the good news: tariffs will make a man of ya. https://www.yahoo.com/news/tariffs-put-hair-chest-fox-233236384.html

We are, of course, which is why I said ‘may have initiated’, but there is no question he has damaged that credibility.

In normal times there’d be a call for an investigation into the potential for massive insider trading here but it’s not the main story. In the 1956 Suez Crisis, Eisenhower threatened to sell sterling bonds, forcing the British to abandon the canal. It was the end of Britain as a great power. Incredibly, Trump may have initiated a loss of trust in the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. He feels it’s overvalued and he may get his wish. What an agent of chaos and ruin he has always been. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/bond-market-moves-raise-fears-growing-bets-america-rcna200936

This does not sound like the action of an ally: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/12/us-demands-control-from-ukraine-of-key-pipeline-carrying-russian-gas

An easier way to proceed might be with a national sales tax. That would provide money to narrow the deficit and also curb consumer spending. There’d be no need to get involved in fights with any foreign country. Of course, Trump and Co. would have to be honest about raising taxes and that seems to be a no-no down there.

Even the way Witkoff talks about well-established oblasts as “so-called four regions” is gratuitously insulting to our side, the Ukrainian side.