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Where are you getting this fake news from? What you claim doesn’t even make sense. Solar doesn’t cause power outages and Ontario and Quebec have far more than Alberta and way better results. Alberta and Texas suffer from the same problems they are decentralized deregulated privatized “energy islands” with very few ties to external grids In both jurisdictions the private generators only get paid when they supply electricity to the grid and not for maintaining standby generating capacity so there is chronic underinvestment and limited options when gas plants unexpectedly fail during peak demand as they did in both Texas and Alberta blackouts. In addition both jurisdictions suffer from industry-captured government and therefore have weak enforcement and accountability Texas is not “rock solid” it has one of the worst blackout rates in the US especially over the past decade I don’t know where you get this “US grid is awesome” talk from, read the OP again USA has an old decrepit grid You literally have no idea what you’re talking about now you’re just spewing opposite of reality nonsense. There are all kinds of new power generation projects coming online in Ontario including new nuclear, we are leading the country. There have been so many new announcements just this year alone. And Ive already corrected you on this, as I also pointed out “the left” hasn’t been anti-nuclear for a couple decades already Why do you continue to repeat falsehoods after they’ve been debunked? Yeah Sorta I suppose. Ontario had conservative governments for 40 years from the 1940s to the 1980s (the evil “red Tories” that the new populist conservatives seem to hate so much). So most of the nukes were ordered and built under conservative regimes. Darlington started under conservative Bill Davis but continued under liberal David Peterson and NDP Bob Rae saw it to completion. Liberals McGuinty and Wynne commissioned massive, multi-billion dollar multi-decade life extensions and refurbishments for all the nuke plants which Ford has inherited and expanded upon, and now Ford is installing 4 SMR reactors at Darlington, with billions of new funding from Carney. Work has just commenced on the first one, which will be the first SMR nuke in the G7 and is being closely studied by various American European and international utilities considering their own SMR nukes. Carney and Liberal Premier Holt in New Brunswick also recently discussed opportunities for New Brunswick’s nuke plant.

So these are interesting exceptions, California has a largely privatized market-driven system like a red state while Florida has a heavily regulated centrally managed grid in some ways similar to a Canadian province. Florida Power companies are large corporations that are vertically integrated meaning they are responsible for end-to-end generation transmission and distribution in their service area. the rates they charge are based on their costs and require regulatory approval, not driven by whatever they think the market will bear on a given day. California by contrast has all kinds of private market players and middlemen in various roles, little to no vertical integration. Famously Enron which owned very little power physical infrastructure ran all sorts of scams to rip off Californians as a power “broker”.

We’ve had mennonites for centuries so blaming the recent outbreak on them is dubious. We’ve had “foreigners” for centuries too and the Measles vaccine is also mandatory for most “foreigners” immigrating or coming for work or study. So that’s dubious also. You also don’t see big outbreaks centred in Toronto Montreal and Vancouver where most “foreigners” congregate Alberta has had almost as many outbreaks as Ontario despite having a fraction of the population. Alberta has had nearly 40% of all cases. It’s the epicentre of Canadian right-wing nuttery and the new nti-vax conspiracy crap that’s the variable that’s changed. The Ontario cases arw primarily centred in southwest Ontario which is kot an immigration hotbed but is a hotbed for right wing movements and those new “blue collar conservative” anti-vax conspiracy populists.

Glad to see you’re still a white trash racist POS in addition to having your woman-hating rape fantasies. It must be a real treat to have the trailer next to yours down at the trailer park.

When was that exactly? Before or after the US imported and bred 4 million African slaves over the span of several centuries? Before or after US invaded and annexed the Southwestern states from Mexico? Before or after indigenous peoples were wiped out by disease, deprivation and massacres?

You’re exaggerating, the supreme court enforces the constitution regularly, usually causing conservatives to pull out their chest hairs in frustration. In this week’s headlines alone they’ve rejected the government’s mandatory minimum sentencing law and sent it back to government to re-work. Do conservatives occasionally abuse the NWC for frivolous or political purposes? Yes. But this is still the rare exception and not the rule, we’ve had the charter for several decades now and most of the time it works. In Quebec it’s more of a mixed story but only as it pertains to ethnic minorities and culture war. Quebecers still have the ability to vote out a government that they feel abuses it and note that certain charter rights including democratic rights are immune from NWC.

Eliminated doesn’t mean eradicated it means we don’t have runaway outbreaks that last longer than 12 months from the first case to the last. Per chat gpt: Measles is one of the most infectious diseases on earth and can be more serious than you suggest, it doesn’t just give you a rash and some nuisance symptoms, it can cause “immune memory loss” and wipe out your immune system for months or years making you vulnerable to germs you were previously immune to. In addition about 5% of infected children develop pneumonia from it which is the top cause death from measles. It can also cause encephalitis (brain swelling) in about 1 in 1,000 patients. In places without modern healthcare deaths can be 10% of cases. Even with modern healthcare 1-3 people out of every 1,000 infections die.

@CdnFox Conservatives help Liberals survive confidence vote, defeat Bloc amendment The NDP and Green Leader Elizabeth May backed the Bloc Québécois amendment, meaning Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s caucus single-handedly kept the Liberal government from being defeated. Published November 7th, 2025 at 2:35pm Prime Minister Mark Carney has survived a confidence vote for the second time this week after MPs overwhelmingly defeated a Bloc Québécois amendment to the government’s recent budget. The Bloc called on the House of Commons to reject the budget on the basis that it did not provide a top-up for Old Age Security recipients and contained insufficient measures to fight climate change, amongst other grievances. Budget motion amendments aren’t always considered confidence votes. But Government House Leader Steven MacKinnon said the government was treating them as such, raising the prospect of a snap election. The amendment was defeated by a margin of 306 to 30 on Friday, though NDP MPs and Green Leader Elizabeth May backed the sovereigntists’ proposal. As such, it was the Conservatives that helped the government from being defeated. If Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s caucus of 142 MPs — which does not count newly-minted Liberal Chris d’Entremont and pending resignee Matt Jeneroux — had voted against the government, Canadians would have been sent back to the polls for the second time in less than 12 months. …Earlier this week, a Conservative-initiated sub-amendment to the budget, which also called for the economic plan to be rejected, was defeated by the Liberals, NDP and Bloc. https://www.ipolitics.ca/2025/11/07/conservatives-help-liberals-survive-confidence-vote-defeat-bloc-amendment/

C’mon. He wouldn’t have to cross the floor, just resign abstain or be absent on voting day. There’s obviously intrigue afoot for him to announce this in this crucial period, otherwise they’d just keep it under wraps for now. Why else would they quit next spring if he was caught talking to the enemy and why would he be “seeing the Liberals” if he’s against their budget? Your story makes no sense. You’re confused and don’t know what you’re talking about. Not only am I right but what I said ALREADY HAPPENED LAST WEEK To be clear: REGARDLESS of whether the government has discussions with opposition parties ahead of the budget being tabled, the opposition ALWAYS tables proposed amendments to the budget afterwards to propose adding or removing the things they didn’t get. This is a customary practice that like most opposition motions fails especially in majority governments. And this is exactly what happened last week just as I described, the Bloc amendment and the CPC sub-amendments were tabled, voted upon and both failed. You know those news headlines last week that said “carney budget passed first confidence motion and the one that said passed second confidence motion? This is a public fact, that already happened how can you sot there and say it didn’t happen unless you don’t know what you’re talking about?? Carney survives two confidence votes on budget, quashing fears of winter election https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/08/carney-confidence-vote-canada-budget It’s hilarious that you’d tell me I “have no idea how parliament works” and am “100% wrong” when in fact it’s the other way around

The irony is since then the Liberal Party has become the anti-notwithstanding clause party and is attempting to persuade the courts that its application should be highly limited, while conservative parties, the dubiously self-proclaimed party of freedom, oppose limiting the NWC and are the only non-Quebec political entities to have used the NWC including for mundane matters and minor inconveniences like ending labour strikes, random tinkering with municipal government and stopping the dreaded homos from living a happy life with each other.

Canada officially loses its measles elimination status Canada has been stripped of its measles elimination status after failing to interrupt transmission within one year of an outbreak that continues to spread in parts of the country. The Public Health Agency of Canada said Monday it was notified by The Pan American Health Organization, a regional arm of the World Health Organization, that Canada lost its designation – an accomplishment it held for 27 years. “While transmission has slowed recently, the outbreak has persisted for over 12 months, primarily within under-vaccinated communities,” the statement said. … https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canada-loses-measles-elimination-status/ Polio is next! Hooray for ignorance!

Sorry there’s no way this is not related to the budget given the timing of his announcement and coming right on the heels of another party member floor-crossing. Add to that Jeneroux was already on a short list of Conservatives that many speculated to be secretly talking to Liberals after d’Entremont said there were others. His resignation may be in the future but let’s see if he shows up to vote or abstains on budget vote day. Note that there may have been some orchestrated theatrics here. Even before the budget was presented there was talk that none of the opposition parties want an election or would be well-positioned to win one so there was widespread speculation that they would condemn the budget publicly but then arrange for members to abstain or be conveniently absent on vote day. Consider this: 1) It is absolutely unheard of for the official opposition to not immediately introduce their party’s proposed amendments to the government’s budget as soon as it’s presented, which is considered a confidence motion, yet we are to believe that after delivering a 25-minute anti-budget speech, Poilievre the parliamentary veteran somehow “forgot” to do that. The Bloc then seizes upon the supposed Conservative “misplay” to take the lead and table its own proposed amendment, supposedly making the conservatives look bad. The conservatives then hastily table their own propsed budget amendments but they now have to be amendments to the Bloc’s amendments instead of amendments to the government’s budget. 2) While one would expect the opposition parties to coordinate if they truly wanted to pass a no-confidence motion, the Bloc amendment contains provisions no conservative could ever support, massive social spending and special handouts for Quebec and the Conservatives amendments are such that no Bloc could ever support, massive slashes to spending, money for oil pipelines etc. so the 2 parties vote against each other’s amendments and the government budget survives 2 confidence motions in as many days. This can only be by design If either party really wanted to bring down government and trigger an election they would have left the controversial elements out of their amendments and co-ordinated on a no-confidence measure knowing that a future post-election government will bring in a new budget anyway. But in all likelihood both parties actually want this budget to pass they just don’t want to publicly say so.

Literally every claim you made in the above post is 100% made up bullshit, you don’t know what you’re talking about…as usual….the most right wing jurisdictions in Northern America ie Texas and Alberta have the worst problems with electricity grids and USA, the most right wing western nation, has the worst problem with electricity grids. Meanwhile left wing electricity policies of Ontario Quebec Manitoba and BC have the most reliable grids. Ontario had a terrible costly and dysfunctional grid under right wing Mike Harris mismanagement. Doug Ford to his credit despite being a conservative has doubled down on the energy policies he inherited from the decade and a half of McGuinty-Wynne Liberals, which has made Ontario a leader in non-emitting energy especially nuclear.

You don’t know what you’re talking about. Coal is the least efficient energy source per weight or per dollar and renewable is not failed money pit. The us power grid is a rickety ramshackle patchwork of mostly local, privately owned assets with very little overall management of the big picture. That’s why.

You’re wrong about being against nuclear power, get with the times, opposition to it from “the left” ended a couple decades ago. Carney is funding a big nuclear program as one of his first major national projects. Where have you been? The non- conservative world is only against fossil fuels. Meanwhile Trump is killing renewable energy mega projects while spouting ridiculous and outrageous lies about it because the right is bought and paid for by the fossil fuel industry.

You don’t know what the word cultist means

Yes because it’s Alberta. But that ain’t happening before the budget vote.

Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux resigns Edmonton Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux has resigned, in another blow to party leader Pierre Poilievre. Mr. Jeneroux told The Globe and Mail he is not crossing the floor to the Liberals, but in a statement, did not provide a reason for his resignation. Earlier this week, Nova Scotia MP Chris d’Entremont did leave the Tories to join the minority Liberals, giving them one more vote in the House of Commons and cited Mr. Poilievre’s leadership style. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-conservative-mp-matt-generoux-resigns-edmonton-riverbend/ Two down, one to go

It worked in the end, the economy was “firing on all cylinders” by the second half of 2024. If you recall Trump tried to take credit for it even while Biden was still in office, saying it was because he was going to win the election in November and the “Trump golden age” was staring early. Then Trump got into office, dis a bunch of crazy and stupid things and everything started moving in the opposite direction.

Canadian Military leaders warn of future conflict, push for massive expansion Published Oct 31, 2025 • Last updated 5 days ago • 3 minute read The Canadian Armed Forces is developing a new Defence Mobilization Plan that could see its reserve strength grow from about 28,000 members to as many as 400,000, according to an internal directive approved earlier this year by senior military and government officials. The directive, signed on May 30 by Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jennie Carignan and Deputy Defence Minister Stefanie Beck, authorizes the creation of a special planning group, known as a “tiger team,” to study how the military could manage such an expansion. The group began its work on June 4 at National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa. The plan is intended to prepare Canada for a wide range of potential crises, from domestic natural disasters to high-intensity international conflicts. The document calls for what it describes as a “Whole of Society” approach, meaning the initiative would involve cooperation from multiple levels of government, the private sector, and the Canadian public. The directive states that the goal is to ensure the country can respond quickly and effectively to emergencies or threats by establishing the conditions needed to expand the Canadian Armed Forces and move personnel where required. The plan sets ambitious targets. It proposes increasing the primary reserve force from about 23,500 members to 100,000 and the supplementary and other reserves from about 4,300 to 300,000. That would bring the total to roughly 400,000 personnel available for mobilization. Such a large buildup would require new federal legislation, increased funding, and major logistical and training support. The Department of National Defence declined to comment on the initiative when asked by Postmedia. The directive notes that the Department of National Defence will not be able to achieve the goal on its own and that the plan will require collaboration across government departments, including the Privy Council Office and other agencies. The military will also consult with international partners, including Finland, which operates a conscription-based system that maintains one of the world’s most extensive reserve forces. In Finland, military service is mandatory for men between the ages of 18 and 60, and women may volunteer. Canada’s reserve structure, by contrast, is entirely voluntary. Recruiting and retaining enough personnel has been a consistent challenge for the Canadian Forces, and a recent audit found that the average recruitment process takes twice as long as the target of 100 to 150 days, largely due to delays in security screening. The audit also identified a shortage of training capacity, which raises questions about how a rapid expansion of the reserves could be achieved under the current system. The mobilization plan comes at a time when military leaders have been warning about the shifting global security environment. In recent months, Canadian officers have pointed to increasing geopolitical competition between major powers and the need for Western nations to rebuild their defence capacity. In June 2025, Brig.-Gen. Brendan Cook, the Royal Canadian Air Force’s director general of air and space force development, said Canada must rearm in anticipation of a potential conflict involving China or Russia, possibly as early as 2028 to 2030. The directive from Carignan and Beck does not specify what events might trigger activation of the mobilization plan, but it describes the need for a more resilient national security posture. The document says that in order for Canada to maintain autonomy and readiness in a time of rising global tension, a coordinated defence plan involving both military and civilian partners must be established. Part of the tiger team’s work will include assessing what investments would be required to support the reserves and sustain a larger force. It will also examine infrastructure, training, and recruitment systems to determine what improvements are needed for rapid mobilization. The plan’s architects acknowledge that expanding to 400,000 personnel would depend on securing broad public participation and political backing. While the Defence Mobilization Plan is still in development, it represents the most far-reaching proposal for Canadian military growth since the Second World War. It reflects an acknowledgment within the Department of National Defence that the existing force structure may be insufficient for future crises. Canada’s military currently includes about 60,000 full-time members and 28,000 reservists, below its official target strength. Officials have said the mobilization effort would be designed not only to expand numbers but also to build a framework that could be activated quickly in the event of a major conflict or national emergency. For now, the “tiger team” is laying the groundwork for how such a plan could be implemented, including potential legal changes, funding models, and partnerships with other government agencies. The directive makes clear that success will depend on coordination beyond the military and engagement with Canadians themselves. https://winnipegsun.com/news/canadian-military-leaders-warn-of-future-conflict-push-for-massive-expansion

Travelling abroad is literally part of the job of the prime minister. And in this case it’s to form trade ties and investment to boost the economy I don’t see you complaining about Trump traveling abroad and I doubt you complained when Harper did. Get a grip.

Liberals pursue Conservative MPs after Chris d’Entremont joins Carney’s caucus The minority Liberal government is pursuing other Conservatives to cross the floor after Nova Scotia MP Chris d’Entremont stunned Pierre Poilievre’s party by defecting to Mark Carney’s caucus. Multiple Liberal sources say the governing party has been in discussions with a number of Conservative MPs to gauge their willingness to either cross or sit as independents before a vote is held on the federal budget. The Globe and Mail is not naming the sources as they are not authorized to discuss internal party matters. Three Liberal sources said there are promising leads but no firm commitments from other Conservative MPs, whom they would not name. …Two of the sources said they expect some Tories could make up their minds over the coming break week for the House of Commons; a final vote on the budget is not expected until later in November. …Mr. d’Entremont’s defection, meanwhile, has sown suspicion, confusion and anger within the Conservative caucus about who else may be considering an exit. … https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-federal-government-canada-budget-chris-dentremont/

1) We don’t know that us economy is growing or not because of the shutdown there isn’t any reporting and there are also many negative signs and many sectors of the US economy that Trump has completely screwed. Us economy is certainly doing worse than when he first took office. You have to stop repeating trump’s claims as facts, you know he’s a shameless liar. 2) As point of fact the Canadian economy is not shrinking. Growth has slowed but it’s still growing 3) Trump is waging economic war against Canada, the threats and uncertainty he’s causing in addition to the tariffs on strategic industries are of course having a dampening effect on our economy.

Democrats also won elections in red states Georgia and Mississippi and swing state Pennsylvania. Virginia is also swing state although it’s blue-leaning You also have no evidence for your gerrymandering claim, (Republicans being the party that loves gerrymandering the most bte)