Hard to believe he’s related to this guy
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Of course our Trump smashed the Conservative party race. We are so fucked.
We’ll see. If we’re comparing Skippy to people in the GOP, he reminds me way more of Ted Cruz than Trump.
Not much better. 
He is actually more of a DeSantis type. Same disregard for morality and law as trump but actually not a total moron.
He brought record crowds and new members. Imagine being Canadian and looking south of the border and thinking “I want me some of that”. Humans are just awful.
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Way better in that Cruz and his anti-charisma could never get elected nationally.
I’m still unconvinced that Skippy’s popularity among the convoy types and cryptobros will translate to enough people actually going to vote for the Cons in the right ridings. I think the next election will be a carbon copy of the last two. But, three years is a long time.
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I see that Skippy is roughly as French Canadian as Trudeau. Does that not matter?
I don’t think it matters. Conservatives probably don’t have a path to winning that involves appealing to Quebec voters. Conservatives always win the same way in Canada - by having a fervent base that gets 35% to 45% of the vote, and the majority anti-conservative voters split their votes between other parties. Little Pee Pee is only a good candidate insofar as he will shamelessly whip the Canadian deplorable vote, and “moderate” conservatives aren’t going to defect to vote for Trudeau. The next election will probably come down to whether enough Liberal supporters will protest vote for the NDP, handing the win to the conservatives. It is ever thus in Canada.
As a light blue Conservative I haven’t voted Conservative in a long time and am holding my nose while voting Trudeau hoping for Minority governments and that Freeland will be PM sooner than later.
Hope nobody was planning on driving to Nova Scotia, because you may not be able to after Saturday.
Fiona will lash parts of Canada as region’s strongest storm on record
The Bay of Fundy has the highest tides in the world, the storm surge should hit right around high tide, and the Trans-Canada is barely above sea level.
Latest trackers have it largely missing the Bay of Fundy, thankfully. Cape Breton is going to get hammered, though.
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What’s going to happen to those beautiful golf courses?
Yeah, no storm surge in the bay would be good. I was in Cape Breton earlier this year and definitely did not get the impression that it was an area well prepared for a major hurricane.
Vaguely related, Sydney now seems to be pretty diverse and… almost kinda cool? Definitely a different place from the last time I was there.
that’s how it starts, and before you know it someone is going to try to denazify canada
Someone on my team at work just moved to Halifax three weeks ago to work remotely. I suspect we won’t be seeing him for a good portion of the week.
https://halifax.citynews.ca/local-news/fiona-knocks-out-power-to-hundreds-of-thousands-5865799
Also, for context, the total population of Prince Edward Island is about 86,000.
Our new premier just said the vaccine mandate is why our hospitals are overloaded. It’s like saying if you need to get a block west just circumnavigate the globe going east. Problem solved.
I hate the world.
Just our provincial government elected by 18% of the population deciding education workers making poverty wages don’t get to strike on their watch, nbd
Just fire them all like Reagan did with air traffic controllers and hire replacements for Monday
Doug Ford just hates public sector workers. His Big Lie is that the province’s financial problems come from the workers being overpaid. This was always going to be ugly but it’s going to be especially ugly when private sector workers start to see (albeit modest) higher wage growth next year.
They definitely won’t back down on this stuff though. Their playbook on health care is make public sector health care work unbearable → declare urgent need for health care reform → introduce stupid privatization measures. I wouldn’t be surprised if they go that way in education as well, they’re basically just capitalizing on the pandemic to drive a privatization agenda that doesn’t make any rational sense.
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Wtf
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