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(DIR) Post #AtZNO020ySUMNR4bkO by gersande@silvan.cloud
2025-04-28T17:26:01Z
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🇨🇦 I will be keeping my posting about the Canadian federal elections to this thread today, in case you want to follow along/mute. Some articles today that touch upon the federation or the elections: - Separatism is in the Alberta air, as Liberal victory looms from Ricochet: https://ricochet.media/politics/separatism-is-in-the-alberta-air/ (I'll probably follow along with the Ricochet elections livestream at some point today.)- Arshy Mann and Jordan Cornish's last minute commentary on the election: https://hatchetmedia.substack.com/p/and-one-last-thing?utm_source=podcast-email&publication_id=3224756&post_id=162310704&utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&utm_content=listen_now_button&r=19xef&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email- Strange bedfellows: In Québec, Trump’s threats driving sovereigntists into the arms of the Liberals https://ricochet.media/politics/strange-bedfellows-in-quebec-trump-is-driving-sovereigntists-into-the-arms-of-the-liberals/ #CdnPoli #Canada
(DIR) Post #AtZNO0rls1tAxxHwQ4 by gersande@silvan.cloud
2025-04-28T17:33:18Z
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As in previous years, I follow Radio-Canada's online map for election results, which will start updating this evening around 7 pm: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/elections-canada-2025/resultats #CdnPoli #Canada
(DIR) Post #AtZNO1ZNFuld9BglNo by gersande@silvan.cloud
2025-04-28T18:00:19Z
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This article in the Walrus is really interesting: > Carney likes to jibe, accurately, that his Conservative opponent Pierre Poilievre, as a career politician, has never worked a real job or had to make payroll. But it’s worth asking how many livelihoods Brookfield destroyed during Carney’s time at the company.The prime minister sells himself as a public servant, but his private sector past reveals his true loyalties: Mark Carney, Cutthroat Capitalist https://thewalrus.ca/mark-carney-cutthroat-capitalist#cdnpoli #Canada #MarkCarney
(DIR) Post #AtZNO2NMG4kXeD4gIC by gersande@silvan.cloud
2025-04-28T21:54:22Z
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Question of real interest to me: will this (finally, finally) be the last time I have to hear about Elizabeth May in a Canadian federal election? #cdnpoli #Canada
(DIR) Post #AtZNO2xW5dfnSLzYeW by gersande@silvan.cloud
2025-04-28T23:39:54Z
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Following along with the Ricochet election livestream for now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFxuQMOo8bQ #cdnpoli #Canada
(DIR) Post #AtZNO3pkpz3gAZMsC0 by gersande@silvan.cloud
2025-04-28T23:45:20Z
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Anglophone journalists ***need*** to start getting a clue when reporting on the Bloc. «I don't know what's going on there» is just not good enough. We have to learn English to follow anglo parties and reporting. Anglos can return the fucking favour. Why not hire interpreters, you know? #cdnpoli #Canada
(DIR) Post #AtZNO4JX3GsTevIebg by gersande@silvan.cloud
2025-04-28T23:53:15Z
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Is 7 million (a figure I've seen and heard floating around) advanced votes a record for a Canadian federal election? That's roughly 1,5 times the population of Montréal all voting in advance. #cdnpoli #Canada
(DIR) Post #AtZNO4zMXkL1kes3o8 by gersande@silvan.cloud
2025-04-28T23:55:09Z
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"Oh his French is great!" No it's not oh my goodness stop accepting mediocrity you fucking losers. #cdnpoli #Canada
(DIR) Post #AtZNO5gbwwvtun6bDc by gersande@silvan.cloud
2025-04-29T00:46:53Z
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Oh hey look there's genocide and climate collapse and economic mayhem and all the journos and politicos want to talk about in this fucking country are the Alberta tar sands what a bunch of fucking idiots. #cdnpoli #Canada
(DIR) Post #AtZNO6GlmVr9iw1TZw by gersande@silvan.cloud
2025-04-29T00:49:29Z
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How are anglo journalists who live in Montréal this badly informed about Québec... HOW THIS IS WHERE YOU LIVE #cdnpoli #Canada
(DIR) Post #AtZNO6lxuWoHHgcOCe by gersande@silvan.cloud
2025-04-29T00:51:24Z
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Okay, I need to make myself a nice herbal tea so that this thread is a little less... caffeinated… #cdnpoli #Canada
(DIR) Post #AtZNO7Wl6YExcoVl8i by gersande@silvan.cloud
2025-04-29T01:13:02Z
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It is really weird to see no orange or green on the screens yet. #cdnpoli #Canada
(DIR) Post #AtZNO81bFsuVASwODA by gersande@silvan.cloud
2025-04-29T01:23:20Z
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Calling my riding as the « village gaulois » (referring to the fact that we keep voting NDP) made me grin a little #cdnpoli #Canada
(DIR) Post #AtZNO8jYcS4XMnVUjA by gersande@silvan.cloud
2025-04-29T01:32:19Z
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Is BQ going to be the third party? (ETA: this is probably way too early to tell, but I'm having a weird feeling.)... Interesting. Not sure that's a positive when the NDP is being decimated and most of those voters went full Lib. #cdnpoli #Canada
(DIR) Post #AtZNO9liltOgZnWjjs by gersande@silvan.cloud
2025-04-29T01:34:05Z
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A journo on Radio-Canada saying that the Maritimes are probably a good indicator/microcosm of what Ontario's going to do and frankly that's fucking depressing. #cdnpoli #Canada
(DIR) Post #AtZNOARuF38ogdGQUa by gersande@silvan.cloud
2025-04-29T01:40:55Z
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I'm so fucking tired of these elections, guys.
(DIR) Post #AtZNOBSeTlKdpEcXIG by gersande@silvan.cloud
2025-04-29T01:43:18Z
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Si Boulerice perd son siège ça va être vraiment rough pour l'équipe orange, la gang. #cdnpoli #Canada
(DIR) Post #AtZNOCNN4shaf99phY by gersande@silvan.cloud
2025-04-29T02:12:30Z
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Still too early to call a Lib victory, Libs. Chill your coconuts. #cdnpoli #Canada
(DIR) Post #AtZNOD76KrHWwyYLyq by gersande@silvan.cloud
2025-04-29T02:29:37Z
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Guilbault is such a fucking liar someone throw him into the sun. Ugh he is so gross. #cdnpoli #Canada
(DIR) Post #AtZNODrXYCQdH0HRMe by gersande@silvan.cloud
2025-04-29T02:37:40Z
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So it really does look a shit ton of Bloc Québecois voters saved Canadian Liberal ass. Next time you libs make a bad joke about francophones or Québécois or souverainistes, send us a thank you note instead. #cdnpoli #Canada
(DIR) Post #AtZaKScQ2pNPHgkBnc by gersande@silvan.cloud
2025-04-29T03:06:52Z
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I really hope the federal NDP wakes up and realises that they cannot just be the Jagmeet Singh party. I think Singh is really charismatic, but the NDP cannot be an influencer party. It needs to be a workers' party, and the % of the population in Canada considered working class hasn't been this high in... fuck, many many decades, if memory serves. So how can the NDP have failed this badly?! Current leadership has got to go. #cdnpoli #Canada
(DIR) Post #AtZaKTYuXMAGD66tyC by gersande@silvan.cloud
2025-04-29T03:24:36Z
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Every election, and I do mean every single one, the National Broadcaster calls the election an hour or two early. Hold on to your butts. #cdnpoli #Canada
(DIR) Post #AtZaKUTd8TXD30eCNU by gersande@silvan.cloud
2025-04-29T03:36:49Z
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UGH I can't believe the NDP doing this badly is making me feel bad about the NDP doing this badly. #cdnpoli #Canada
(DIR) Post #AtZaKVIg4gMrbKWxwe by gersande@silvan.cloud
2025-04-29T03:41:20Z
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Is Melanie Joly drunk #cdnpoli #Canada
(DIR) Post #AtZaKW6J6A4C5FkbIm by gersande@silvan.cloud
2025-04-29T03:46:19Z
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The only thing worse than listening to politicians talk is listening to them talk poorly in their second language that they clearly only use during the one month the federal elections make it relevant again. #cdnpoli #Canada
(DIR) Post #AtZaKWl4eag07gp9qS by gersande@silvan.cloud
2025-04-29T03:49:00Z
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HOW IS MAY LEADING HOWHOWHOW HOW HOW #cdnpoli #Canada
(DIR) Post #AtZaKXKsVTJfujZkeW by gersande@silvan.cloud
2025-04-29T03:59:04Z
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The Conservatives currently have more votes in their basket than Harper's Conservatives ever did. (Have not fact-checked this too closely but I think this is right when you take into account # of ridings.)#cdnpoli #Canada
(DIR) Post #AtZaKXw6H55fmAzTfc by gersande@silvan.cloud
2025-04-29T04:29:23Z
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All right. I'm wrapping up this monster of a thread. Thanks for following along. This has been an incredibly frustrating exercise. I obviously think Poilièvre is extremely horrible but Carney and the rest of that party is barely an improvement. I think a two-party federation with Bonus Bloc is a bad recipe for the future. I think we need a party that actually represents the working class. I think we need a party that gives a shit about climate change. I think we need a party that isn't just a bunch of landlords and capitalists. Okay I need to go lie down now. Night. #cdnpoli #Canada