i took the liberty to change it
BREAKING: I am truly sorry, a better world isn’t possible — government source
Seriously though, make the ads stop.
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Alberta premier just stepped down to avoid be ousted. Sets tables for super right wing nutcase to take over. 
It’s crazy that the most right wing nutcase to ever hold a premier or prime minister position in the nation’s history was about to be ousted for not being right wing enough.
Yep it’s scary. Kenney sucked but he was at least mostly teathered to reality. The next guy won’t be at all. It’s one more step to our own trump land.
Western Canada is pretty close to going full deplorable. There’s a big opportunity there for the nutters with the coming together of Trudeau hatred, anti vaxx nonsense, and global pressures on oil and gas to clean up their act.
How much support is the next guy going to have, though? They could really shoot themselves in the foot with another Wildrose schism.
At the very least, it seems like the UCP isn’t very U.
Unfortunately the other possibility in play is that the worst people in Alberta get their desired culture warrior deplorable, and in typical Canadian fashion the Liberals and NDP split just enough votes to allow the conservatives to slide in and win. Canadians have social media so full throated culture war deplorable nonsense is very popular. Little Peepee is going to win the Federal conservative leadership running on it. Doug Ford is basically a centrist now because of the Overton shift in Canada. It’s not a good time.
What’s Western Canada to Canadians? For me it’s Vancouver. Maybe Victoria too. That’s pretty much it. The rest is a void.
The Western Canada we’re talking about is Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
British Columbia (the westernmost province, lol) is a mix of mostly right-wingers in the interior (the Rocky Mountains part) and mostly lefties on the coast – Vancouver and all points north (except some of the suburbs), Victoria, and the rest of Vancouver Island. A lot like the US Pacific coast in that respect.
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Thanks, Canadabros.
Can we assume that you’ve got the same urban/rural split we’ve got here? So, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Regina and Saskatoon are liberal and everything outside of that is red.
Some, but not as much as you’d think. There are left-leaning pockets in each city, but they still mostly go Conservative, especially lately with increased polarization. There are also a couple very rural ridings that go left, but I think that’s more due to a higher Indigenous population.
This is all accurate but it’s interesting to note that Ontario has been overwhelmingly Conservative over it’s post WWII history. From 1943 to 1985 it was a conservative provincial government uninterrupted. The alternating between left and right is really a pretty modern phenomenon.
Baby steps. Drug abuse is a medical problem, not a criminal one. The sooner we stop wasting money on enforcement/incarceration and instead spend it on treatment/education the better. I’ve always felt this way, and am flabbergasted the world is coming around to my way of thinking. Kind of surreal, but in a good way.
This is really more about social connections in rural vs. urban communities than anything unique to Newfoundland.
Thinking about this a bit, I wonder how much of the correlation is how people who are easily satisfied seek out or stay in small towns, while those who want more from life flock to cities. Like what’s really being measured is people self-sorting into environments that suit them rather than any effect those environments have.
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Only white people are real Canadians, duh. Indigenous troublemakers should go back to where they came from.
Asia or Africa?
I think they come from Mexican countries.