Well, I guess I’m having a provincial election then
This might be an inaccurate read, but the only real rationale I can think of for this election is that the BCNDP wants to feel more self assured about drifting further and further to center
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I’m admittedly not fully abreast of BC provincial politics, but is this really necessary in a pandemic? Is there some sort of political crisis out west that I haven’t heard of?
If there is, I haven’t heard of it, and yeah BC had a 1000+ spike of new COVID cases last week, so I’m really not sure of the logic
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It’s strategic. People seem to really like the BCNDP right now, as a result of the perceived success of the Pandemic response. Might as well extend your mandate if you can, I guess?
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If there’s one thing I’m definitely not worried about, it’s a Conservative takeover, for sure. People associate Bonnie Henry with John Horgan and any rightward attack would backfire ten-fold
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I believe they’d be required to hold an election by next October, and realistically we’ll still be in the pandemic then, so it makes some sense to hold it now while our numbers aren’t the worst and people feel decent about the NDP. (Despite their bullshit response to the pipeline, that’s faded from most settlers’ minds during all of this.)
It’s extremely Cool and Good that commercial fisheries have created an environment where pogroms happen in 2020
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Love that we can have open lynch mobs in Canada in twenty fucking twenty. Cool cool cool.
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I look forward to talking heads being surprised at outrage over this obvious act of violent intimidation. Wait, no, I hate that that is going to be the discourse, actually.
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If you want a hint of where the Canadian Discourse is at, here’s the National Post being utterly embarrassing
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On another site where I read about this, I saw this Google Doc getting passed around with ways to help, aimed primarily but not exclusively at Canadians: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u_LF_bCFBbSijzqJgHNh4-MfpYz0hfdv/view
Note: I have not personally vetted any of the information, nor do I have the connections in the Mi’kmaq community to do so.
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The National Post is the worst. A smarmy veneer of education over intellectually bankrupt assertions of conservative talking points. At least the Sun knows what it is.
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Give it a week and Rex Murphy will find a pretentious and bloviating way to call the Mi’kmaq “uppity” and still, SOMEHOW, have a byline
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Reminder that the National Post is the flagship paper for the conservative takeover of Canadian media:
The right wing batshittery is only starting in this country, unfortunately.
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God. I’ve been out of the country long enough to have allowed myself to forget Rex Murphy somehow still has an audience.
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My building has TVs in the elevator, and I keep seeing ads for the local People’s Party candidate. Our region doesn’t even have an election pending soon, and I thought (hoped) that racist-ass party had dissolved after their decisive defeat in the last election.
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In lighthearted CanPoli news, Jagmeet Singh is doing an Among Us stream today at 7 PM EST with a bunch of Canadian and American leftist politicians:
Should be a fun time.
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“F’s” in chat for JT and Kenney, plz
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Let’s hope Keystone XL is dead for good this time.
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It’s just a shame that Kenney decided to stake Alberta’a economic future on these massive petro capital projects, and now they’re going bust. I feel bad for my friends there who will suffer further austerity due to a self own of money management.
And absolutely, that’s not to say that Keystone should have gone ahead. It was an environmental disaster, a gross violation of indigenous sovereignty, and just an all around bad business deal. It just sucks that it was desperately needed public funds that now get allocated to settle massive debts caused by this crater of a project. It’ll hurt federally for sure, but it’s going to devastate Alberta.
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