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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2015 2:42:59 GMT
Well, I thought I'd start a thread about this because I've already highjacked a few conversations with my musings.
But tonight: This guy is running in my province, but not in my riding. Too bad. I might just vote for him. He's certainly original. Apparently made for under $1,000 by some local students, I particularly appreciate 1) the transgender person in a dress, 2) the dragon, 3) the marijuana leaves on the temple, 4) laser beam eyes.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2015 5:47:23 GMT
Oh, I absolutely love that!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2015 18:29:55 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2015 0:46:54 GMT
No, the world does not need more Canada, we're sick enough of it as it is.
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Post by bjd on Sept 25, 2015 7:11:40 GMT
I agree with Lizzie if that video is anything to go by. Where do they find these people?
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Post by lagatta on Oct 7, 2015 20:32:28 GMT
Not to mention the Lizard of Oz who has sent the campaign off the rails...
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Post by lagatta on Oct 19, 2015 12:48:16 GMT
Election day today: www.google.com/doodles/canada-elections-2015 I voted by advance poll ten days ago, as I'm working for a party today. Edited to add: Gravel le matin, the morning show on Radio-Canada, mentioned this HBO sequence about the Canadian elections: Since it is a youtube, I hope it will be viewable everywhere. By our standards, this was an extremely long election, which started in torrid August weather (in Montréal it was warmer in August and September than in June and early July this year) and now we have a cold snap and there was a bit of snow yesterday (no accumulation, just snowflakes). I hope I don't offend anyone here, but I really hate Stephen Harper. Lynton Crosby, the "Lizard of Oz", actually slammed the door on Harper a few days ago...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2015 14:41:39 GMT
Just be grateful dear LaGatta that you are not facing the circus we are in the US.
Are there any projections as to who will win? I've not heard good things about Harper but, confess to not know much about the other candidates. Trudeau sure is charming and handsome but I don't now much else about him save his parentage. (I did party with Margaret back in the "70's in NYC, when she was (and I ) a "bad girl").
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Post by patricklondon on Oct 19, 2015 16:43:50 GMT
Lynton Crosby, the "Lizard of Oz", actually slammed the door on Harper a few days ago... Than which there can be no more telling judgement. As I lay there in the gutter Thinking thoughts I dare not utter A lady passing by was heard to say, "You can tell a man who boozes By the company he chooses" - And the pig got up and slowly walked away.My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam"
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2015 17:10:25 GMT
Fingers crossed. So many elections have been going wrong recently. Switzerland on Sunday...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2015 4:41:22 GMT
So -- Goodbye Stephen, hello Justin.
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Post by bjd on Oct 20, 2015 6:11:13 GMT
Could one of the Canadians on here tell me who the guy with white hair whose party got 10 seats is, please?
I just had a look at the results. I'm glad Harper is out.
And looking at the ridings around where my son lives I see that there are Marxist-Leninist candidates! What time warp are they living in?
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Post by lagatta on Oct 20, 2015 11:56:48 GMT
That's Gilles Duceppe of the Bloc québécois.
bjd, there are a lot of minor parties - also a far-right libertarian party. The M-Ls might take a handful of votes from tne NDP and the Libertarians a smidgen from the Tories, but they are insignificant.
There was one election when the M-Ls got a significant (but of cours not majority) protest vote in some Québec ridings.
I'm glad to see the back of Harper, but am deeply disappointed by the drop in the NDP vote, and sad that the Greens didn't pick up a few more seats in BC, to keep the Libs honest. They are notorious for promising everything and delivering very little. Yes, all elected governments do that, but the Libs are particularly known for it.
My MP (Alexandre Boulerice - NDP) won, but this area is all left (NDP, Québec solidaire, Projet Montréal) in the respective levels of government.
As for Trudeau, to put it kindly, he is a lightweight. Not because of his age (about the same as JFK and Tony Blair when they first became heads of government) but because of a ridiculously scanty CV, that of a rich young man who dabbled in this and that and basically lived off family money.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2015 13:13:15 GMT
That could also mean that the cigar-chomping (or whatever they chomp now) professional politicians have little hold over him. Then again, he's known most of them since he was a little boy.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2015 21:58:17 GMT
Ouch, lagatta! No, he's not a professional politician, but he has an extremely varied background in community, advocacy and education. A hundred years ago, few people had the kind of lawyer/economist/MBA education of today's politicians, and I think that was a good thing. I'm sick of 11 years of a robot CEO running my life.
And no, I did NOT vote for Justin. But I just found out that he and I share 8th great-grandparents, so we're cousins of some description.
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Post by fumobici on Oct 20, 2015 23:27:00 GMT
I'm getting an Obama vibe off Justin*. Campaign to the left and govern to the right is coming if there's anything in that. The John Oliver piece is priceless. * edit to add: Justin's support for Bill C-51 < en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_C-51_(41st_Canadian_Parliament,_2nd_Session) > and how he enunciated it particularly strike me as Obamian. Have we got a better Obama adjective? Obamaesque? Uggh.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2015 0:07:41 GMT
I didn't vote for Justin exactly because of C-51 and C-24. We will have to fight like hell to get that revoked.
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Post by bjd on Oct 21, 2015 5:54:14 GMT
Lizzy, you are just confirming my idea that people voted against Harper rather than for Trudeau.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2015 13:06:13 GMT
That's exactly what happened, bjd. We were told endlessly to vote strategically and ABC (anyone but Conservative). There was even vote swapping going on across the country: the NDP have no chance in my riding, so I'll vote for the Liberal, if you promise to vote for the front-runner NDP in your riding. I loved the NDP candidate in my riding, but she didn't have a hoot in hell against the incumbent Lib who has been there for almost 20 years.
Now that the Conservatives have been ousted, you can bet that the NDP will be back big in 4 years time.
Meanwhile, even my cynical lefty friends are being charmed by moments like these:
The shit-disturber in me thinks the first video may have involved a bit of scripting.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2015 13:35:38 GMT
I have not been on APIAS for quite a while, not even lurking, because I have been very busy working for Elections Canada leading up the the election. I spent four days as a poll clerk in my local riding at the advance polls, and it was an adventure. Nine hour shifts without pee breaks, food or looking up from my list of electors. I checked ID and hand-wrote out the names and full addresses of almost 2 thousand voters; it was an unprecedented turnout. The lineup was down the block before we opened and we closed the doors on people still lining up at 8pm.
I fell in love with almost every person who stood in the rain for an hour and a half: the three hunky Iranian guys who were so excited to vote in their first Canadian election, the blind lady who came in with her daughter, the man in a wheelchair with Parkinson's who needed me to hold his hand while he signed, the transwoman who was almost in tears through the frustration of getting her name changed on the voters' list, the 99 year old woman who came in under her own steam, and the countless new first-time voters we registered on the spot. It was exhausting and exhilarating and it was a privilege.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2015 13:58:50 GMT
Good for you. In France we haven't had an election that the voters really cared about in ages. It is only for presidential elections that abstention goes down to about 20%.
On a Canadian note, the evening news was too funny last night because the reporters and the anchorpeople kept stumbling over the Prime Minister's name. They are too used to people like Timberlake and Bieber so they kept using the English pronunciation. I'm sure it's perfectly fine in Canada where Trudeau probably varies the pronunciation depending on which language he is speaking, but in a French report it sounds so wrong. They have exactly the same problem with the last name of film director Xavier Dolan.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 21, 2015 16:18:18 GMT
Lizzy, I know nothing about Canadian politics, but have to say that your post at #19 is the best thing I've read online today.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2015 16:23:06 GMT
Thank you, bixa. As I said, it was an historic election and it was a delight to work it.
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Post by mich64 on Oct 21, 2015 18:15:49 GMT
Lizzy thank you for making time in your schedule to work for Elections Canada! I have known many people who accept this responsibility and know it is quite an eventful, tiring but rewarding experience.
Mr. Trudeau has many promises to fulfill and each one is important to many different groups of Canadians, hopefully we can exercise patience, let the Government form and begin to implement change.
I do admit that I am happy the campaigning is over!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2015 19:14:32 GMT
Pity the poor Americans, mich, with over a year to go.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2015 19:16:45 GMT
(I did party with Margaret back in the "70's in NYC, when she was (and I ) a "bad girl"). Casi, I knew you were scandalous!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2015 20:18:48 GMT
(I did party with Margaret back in the "70's in NYC, when she was (and I ) a "bad girl"). Casi, I knew you were scandalous! Oh Lizzy, not so much scandalous as being in the right time or wrong time,depending on how one viewed it. I actually wasn't even sure who she was and she was by no means touting it. We just happened to be in the "powder room" at the same time. It was a "heady" time for us all to have been there. I do recall how appealingly charming and unpretentiously charming she was.
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Post by mich64 on Oct 21, 2015 21:48:24 GMT
Casi I do sympathize, we Canadians are very exposed to the United States political calendar where it seems there is some part of your Government in the midst of an election almost all the time! It is hard to believe it is still more than a year before you go to the polls. Today was all about Joe Biden announcing he will not run in the Democratic race.
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Post by lagatta on Oct 21, 2015 23:14:25 GMT
I loved lizzyfaire's post, and I've experienced the same when working at polls.
I've also met Margaret (Sinclair - Trudeau - her dad was an important political figure in British Columbia) she is a most charming person. She's a few years older tham me, but of the same general cohort.
Of course Trudeau and Mulcair vary the pronunciation of their first names, with their French and Celtic heritage. People do that. And some of us are trilingual, or more...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2015 3:46:19 GMT
It's been a historic day. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and 30 Cabinet Ministers were sworn in at Rideau Hall. As promised, 15 of the appointees are women, and it is the most diverse Cabinet ever. Two First Nations ministers, two Sikhs, one female minister who arrived as a refugee from Afghanistan, even one middle-class, white gay guy. THIS GUY is my favourite, Harjit Sajjan, a new MP from BC, a decorated Lt.-Colonel in the Canadian Armed Forces with a deployment in Bosnia and three in Afghanistan, and an eleven year career as a detective with the Vancouver Police Department's Gang Crime Unit. What a badass!
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