Ford folded: after the tariff decision was paused (not cancelled, paused) dutifully restocked shelves and the overpaid StarLink deal is back on.

His “Canada is not For Sale” schtick is just that: a schtick. Mark my words, if Trump wanted to build housing on greenbelt land, Ford would Get It (Doug Ford) Done! He (Ford) is the most for-sale politician in the country, and that’s saying something when you’re competing with Danielle Smith.

Susan Holt in NB did a good job. American goods are still off the shelves.

My brother in Christ, have you read the NYT recently?

It’s pumping out what I dearly hope is satire every day

Ah, did you work for a Volkswagen or General Motors supplier in the late 1990s and early 2000s?

Because I recall that exact situation, and the resulting crash of quality.

I’d vote for, eg, John Robarts. Maybe Bill Davis.

Fucking dipshit who doesn’t know what tariffs and trade deficits are continues to be ignorant. News at 11.

This is a “Not all conservatives are Nazis, but all Nazis are conservative” distinction.

Poillevre might not actually goosestep and wear a snappy-looking black Hugo Boss uniform and make undesirable people into soap while stealing their gold teeth, but people who do those things vote for Poillevre and give him money.

Conversely, people who vote for Singh…don’t.

I’m not voting for the conservatives until I hear full-throated rejection of bigoted policies, and right now, all I hear is bitching about “woke this” and “DEI that”.

Wasn’t this the one where the whole reason they chased the perp is because he disrespected the cops?

Welp, you owe me a new screen for the coffee I spat out.

That was funny. Well done.

The United Church is really, really progressive. This shouldn’t come as a surprise.

And I, am all the JEDI!!!

Oooh… $1500.

They’ll need their FSB handlers to sign off on that one.

The main reason Trudeau abandoned the attempt is that any method that would offer better representation for voters would ensure no more Liberal majorities with ~35% of the vote.

That’s it. He had a majority in parliament. He could have rammed it through. Instead, he assigned his most junior minister to the portfolio and let it die in committee. Constrast it with buying the TMX pipeline, which happened lickety-split.

Winning the popular vote is vanishing rare in Canada, but curiously we’ve had a number of Liberal and Conservative majority governments with weak pluralities. Neither the LPC nor the CPC will change a system that benefits them, but if I were the NDP, I’d make common cause with the BQ and Greens and, if I won, I’d ram PR through on day two.

I’m reminded of Trump’s meltdown when Biden dropped out.

I hope the result is better this time, and I hope the Liberals and/or NDP learn the lesson that the Harris campaign utterly failed to: that when the problem is an unpopular incumbent, you don’t say we’re going to keep doing what the incumbent was going.

…while drunk.

The CMHC used to directly fund public housing and coops and just…stopped.

This was in the 1980s, and we were told that private lenders and mortgage assistance and P3 developments would be oh so much better. Well, all that did was transfer what little funds the CMHC did have into private hands while not really building much housing, and building functionall zero low-income housing at all.

Coincidentally, housing started to get out of control at about the same time all this happens. How fucking shocking.

Just to remind everyone: Layton pulled this same stunt, toppling Martin’s government.

The result was the loss of a number of progressive initiatives Martin’s people were working on, the election of fucking Stephen Harper and the most conservative Canadian political landscape since Borden. Science was suppressed, lslamophobia went from being a dogwhistle to a bullhorn, we narrowly avoided economic catastrophy. Harper even fucked with the Census in an attempt to remake Canada.

A lot of dippers really idolized Layton, but honestly he was a shameless opportunist and I don’t forgive him for giving us almost a decade of Harper.

And Singh is pulling the same fucking stunt.

Singh et al learned absolutely nothing from the Harper era

Betteridge’s Law of Headlines in full effect

Maybe, and this is just an idea, stop being so attractive to fascist rejects?

Fuck developers.

If they don’t want to build housing, we should nationalize a few of them and build it ourselves.