LostWon

Too many good points here to decide what to even quote. The ultimate result of not coming to terms with missing pillars in our health care and social services.

Well, I suppose there's also the small hope that even if we lose the NDP, the Green Party could find itself and welcome everyone that's getting disenfranchised into their ranks, finally achieving Official Party status. I realize it's an out-there suggestion, but it's seeming more and more like anything is possible in the next few years (and whatever happens in that time will probably decide a lot about our future).

Yup, Mark Carney marketed himself in the traditional Liberal way, by copying others' most popular policies like a larger retailer proactively lowering prices to neutralize upstart competition. Now that they've essentially validated that viewpoint, if they even seem to consider reversing the policy later, they give the CPC ammunition. Both Carney and Freeland campaigned on this even though they must know damn well taxing the rich is the only certain way to ensure the long term health of society and the economy.

But the LPC is what the CPC used to be now. The CPC is much closer to the MAGA-esque PPC than they are to their traditional role. The NDP is apparently in a battle between LPC-ish establishment types at the top and more traditional NDP members at the grassroots. If the NDP gets absorbed into the LPC in future, that'll be it. Those grassroots voices will be silenced, and the left will be just as gone from Canadian politics as it is in the United States.

Wtf on the video. Normally I want to believe a victim, but this is the Official Opposition Leader speaking publicly, on camera. Is he really just that vulnerable somehow, or is this a cynical attempt to make political hay out of alluding to what has been said of Kinew's past? I'm genuinely suspicious of everyone here.

The NDP threatened during the last week of the session to extend the sitting into the summer if the PCs wouldn't fast-track the government's interprovincial trade bill, while the Progressive Conservatives kept MLAs awake through the night on Monday, the last sitting day, when they demanded recorded votes on bills the NDP's majority government would certainly pass.

The report had some context but more is needed. What concerns do the PCs have about current legislation if they're so dead set on delaying it they want to keep MLAs there late? I've been thinking over the last while, the nation's premiers were probably acting so giddy about ~~inter-trade~~ inter-provincial trade barrier removal and/or "nation-building" because they can later campaign on how great they were to be a part of it. In that light, I can't help feeling at least some of the nation's Opposition parties might want to throw a wrench in the works.

*edited to fix a missing word

if any country is going to upstage the event, it will likely be Japan, whose preferred assassination method is wacky game shows.

Maybe it's slightly obscure, but first thing that came to mind was that this is an

spoiler

Ergo Proxy

reference. I never got into Japanese game shows though, so I guess there's a more generic reference I'm missing.

Last I heard, at the time he was fired, he was still trying to use DOGE to extort aid-dependent countries into signing up for Starlink. Seems to me he had a lot more damage he was planning to do.

Just pointing out Trump is obviously busier golfing than he is with this. There's nothing to be gleeful about here.

The point, like much of the rest of what he does, is to distract the media from focusing on (and especially investigating) matters of more importance (or things that embarrass him, like TACO trading). He's still using the position the most misguided &/or authoritarian-loving voters entrusted him with to enrich himself and feed his ego, as always.

It's worse than a simple joke to make fun of though, unfortunately. Their leaders just go ahead and announce themselves as literal "apostles." And they mean it, that's not in a figurative sense. They're like the answer to a question no one asked about what it would be like if instead of one charismatic cult leader, you had a collection of megalomaniacs who want to take over the world. It should be a designated terrorist group.

Or they're generating buzz for a private investment scam where they can take the money and run.

Early yesterday, I heard someone talk about how they were going to watch "Tudum" live. Now there are loads of reactions to this out there. Must have been sometime during May 31st (for North and South American time zones).

And immediately this worst case scenario comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGjj7wDYaiI
*edit to add:
vid title: "I Live 400 Yards From Mark Zuckerberg’s Massive Data Center"
length: 13:33