SpankyMcFarland

Trump is destroying America as we know it. He’s bound to provoke strong feelings. Obviously, people shouldn’t support violence. I can understand a former factory worker working in a fast food restaurant supporting Trump but so many people who are currently doing well cheer him on too. Do they know what they’ve unleashed?

No, no. PP carping about Carney’s platform without having one of his own looks amateurish. Not serious. All opposition parties have to do this first. Let Carney copy if he wants and mock him for it. Releasing it after the debate is ridiculous. It should have been out weeks ago when it could have framed what the election was about.

Why have the Tories been so late to produce a costed platform? That’s one thing an opposition party should always be ahead with to establish they are serious about governing. What else do they have to do? Tardiness on this front is campaign malpractice. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-no-platform-yet-1.7514480

In the words of that radical left LGBTQ-friendly woke Marxist lunatic, Ronald Reagan: https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/radio-address-nation-free-and-fair-trade-4

Is that what we are saying? There is an edit function to these posts.

Sounds like ‘calm’ to me, an attribute one might value in a PM.

By globalism do you mean trade between countries? How is that Marxist for crying out loud? Does anyone learn what Marxism really is any more beyond a slogan that illiterates shout at those they don’t like?

Who here is ready and willing to work in one of these allegedly returning factories? The whole story is nonsense.

Trump will use the misdirected rage of his followers to gain more power for himself. This is how authoritarianism works.

Methinks the result won’t be affected.

Perhaps they can. They do nearly everything well. I happen to think Australia is a more realistic standard for us to aim for. Like them we are a complex state politically, culturally and ethnically. That makes consensus a lot harder to arrive at than in the likes of Norway, Iceland or Denmark.

Donald Trump has been engaged in blatant law-breaking all his adult life. Fraud is as intrinsic to his identity as bronzer. Just read the NYT on his family’s litany of tax evasion going back decades. His company’s accountant went to prison way too late. Any MAGA fan who criticizes the propriety of Carney’s financial arrangements needs to have a long talk with the man in the mirror.

Our health system is in trouble, no doubt, but it’s not all doom and gloom. Once you manage to see your GP and get past the teeming multitudes in the ER, good care still awaits. We have wonderful hospitals, eleven making a recent list of the world’s best 250 with TGH at number three which is really impressive. VGH is at number 144. https://rankings.newsweek.com/worlds-best-hospitals-2025 Many other excellent institutions didn’t make the list such as Foothills in Calgary. A relative of mine was at death’s door after a four year battle with lung cancer. He was put on the targeted therapy drug Tagrisso which costs a small fortune. The result was miraculous. He enjoyed five more years of good health with his family. I can remember when lung cancer was a diagnosis that gave you months to live. Our biggest challenges lie in the ER and primary care. Patients in the ER need to be immediately triaged. Of course, a big driver of the ER crisis is a lack of primary care. That has to be addressed with far more urgency. I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that we need to expand a separate for-profit private sector in Canadian health care.

The gold bugs weren’t a large social movement. Social media has brought a lot of distrust together and amplified it. Crypto may be a fad but human alienation from an increasingly automated economy is only going to grow.

It’s still a factor, though.

It’s difficult for me to accept America’s betrayal of Ukraine, Europe and liberty. I feel I’m going to wake up any moment and escape from this nightmare.

Denmark, the Netherlands and Switzerland are micro-countries compared to ours. They don’t have the challenge of delivering care across a subcontinent. The country I’d like us to match is Australia, similar in magnitude, politics and culture with an indigenous population that has special challenges. We’re falling behind them too. They have a mixed system of public and private care.

The lesson so far is that they haven’t been prepared to go beyond their tribal base. It’s not exactly news that 40% wouldn’t be enough this time.

The electoral mood has switched from angry to frightened. Have the Tories really addressed that?

Poilievre has to sparkle tonight but he would have been better off establishing a warmer persona before this and ‘reluctantly’ going into full snark mode in the debates. As it is, any sharpness now may deter some of the voters he needs against his reassuring, avuncular opponent.

Sir, have you no decency? Will you ignore criterion as the singular form of the noun?

This night wasn’t just about attacking the Liberals of course. Poilievre needed to depress the BQ vote and Singh needed Poilievre to scare people on healthcare. Carney won by not losing.

They’ve got the seats and they’ve got the polling numbers.

I keep on mixing up the Greens and NDP in my head which shows how far the NDP have fallen.

It’s a matter of opinion. I just feel Ford comes across as warmer than Poilievre or Carney, less liable to criticize or correct.