The election is a lifetime away (Oct 1), but I’ll say it; this’ll probably be the first time in 48 years where neither the Libs nor the PQs win the National Assembly.
Here’s my main thought: I cannot vote, as I only moved back to Quebec last month, while I would have needed to be a resident for six months.
It’s shaping up to be a fairly boring election, really. None of the parties seem to have any great projects for the future. I guess that goes with the times, but man, how I’d have liked to be alive in the 60s and 70s. I guess we’ll see what happens.
I’m not sure who I’m going to vote for in the election.
What did the Liberals do to potentially lose this election?
Sorry, I haven’t been paying attention.
I don’t know much about the situation, but I think people are getting tired of them for various reasons, plus the CAQ is overtaking them.
I was selected a couple of years ago to sit on a first degree murder trial.
Wow, the first day the hit you with photos of the victim. No holding back, no warning, just wham. There it is, the dead body just the way the cops found her.
Once I got over that sledge hammer approach it got real interesting. It turned out to be a Mr. Big sting that got the guy to confess. An incredibly interesting and eye-opening experience.
And yes, we found the guy guilty.
And yes, I would do it again. Jury duty, that is.
The liberals (PLQ) are just pretty unpopular because they balanced the budget by cutting everywhere for years, then reinjecting money this past year to look generous. I don’t know why people haven’t been falling for it this time around; it may be because the initial cuts were so drastic, or because this is pretty much the first election to be held on a fixed date, so that the journalists have been commenting on electoral strategies for a whole year. Also, various schemes involving mining rights in rivers and lakes, and that strange electric train project (REM) on which construction has started suspiciously fast without much applause from mass transit specialists.
Normally, all this would have been good for the PQ, but people seem to be tired of them. Independence is not a subject at all this [del]year[/del] century. They tried their hand at identity politics in 2014 and lost their minority government that time. Their policies don’t seem very different from the PLQ seen from here.
The CAQ isn’t offering anything different from the PLQ, and they seem amateurish; but they have a few well-known right-wing people on board, with some wink-wink dislike for those darn immigrants that cross the border. And they’re making unrealistic promises about a new bridge in the Québec (the city) area, where people care more about cars than logic. They seem way less horrible than Doug Ford, but still not a very good prospect from my point of view.
Of course, everybody is promising that you’ll never wait in a hospital again. And (rightly) nobody believes them.
Oh, also: those huge salary increases for doctors have been incredibly unpopular, and obviously not effective at curing the problems in the health care system. Prime minister Couillard is a doctor himself, and so is the current minister of health, so it all smells funny.
See, this is exactly why we need to keep this thread alive.
Thank you, Heracles.
Pretty much every Torontonian knows the Pizza Pizza phone number, thanks to the jingle that’s been running for decades.
Somebody in Las Vegas must have heard it at some point, and decided to use it to advertise a dental clinic. Check it out:
"Five-six-seven-eleven-eleven, call Abbey Dental, second opinions are free."Wonder if the Pizza Pizza people know about this?
Wow, at first I thought the number was just coincidence, but the jingle is definitely a little too close.
FTR, in Ottawa, Pizza Pizza is 737-1111 which suits the jingle better IMHO.
Hah just reading this headline made me homesick: Bear tranquillized after wandering into Ottawa’s ByWard Market . Did it swim up the river, presumably to meet up with a giant tiger? A long long time ago, an acquaintance told me he saw a moose wandering down Rideau Street, I think, late at night. I always thought he was pulling my leg but now I’m starting to believe the story. The only wildlife I ever saw in that city were politicians.
So many great memories of the Market… I never liked the Glebe, too trendy and posh for me, but Byward had just the right amount of shabby to make me feel at home. There was a bar there where a buddy and I used to spend weekend afternoons playing pool, then after dinner go watch the biker gangs gather and listen to the busking rock bands. I’m sure it’s changed a lot since I was a young troublemaker.
Thanks for listening.
my favourite Ottawa pub is Darcy McGees at the corner of Elgin and Sparks
I’ve had a few pints there. Great pub!
Yeah. I might have been there once or twice. 
errr… never heard of it…
Actually been there more than a few times… my bachelor party even began there!
I haven’t been to Ottawa since the beginning of summer. Saw the Sam Roberts Band.
We’d like to move to Ottawa, but custody arrangements make it as logistically easy as moving to Jupiter.
As it stands - this is literally true - we could sell our house in Oakville and buy a house in Ottawa that would be bigger and newer, with a swimming pool, superior in every way, and pay off over $300,000 in mortgage AND have money left over. Oakville is that expensive.
The cost of living here is preposterous.
It’s nice Rick, but if you do make it here be prepared for about 3 months that will suck the life out of you most winters, compared to southwestern Ontario that is.
The rest of the year is on par.
The winter I spent in Ottawa was extremely uncomfortable, and made me appreciate that winters in Saskatchewan are indeed a “dry cold.”
I was once in Ottawa in January when it was simultaneously snowing, raining, and freezing rain. It was not fun.