I don’t think I would want to be called “sneaky”. But it’s hard to take offence at it. Maybe it would make me tip toe more, or dress like one of the guys from Spy vs. Spy. What do sneaky people look like anyway? Isn’t every politician “sneaky”?
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I don’t put any weight on this. But this is the first Economist poll showing the Libs with a small lead.
This was just on the TV news. I had no idea that Captain Canuck was still around, but he is, and he’s taking on Trump:
I don’t know what a 13% is. I’m assuming a climate change denier. You obviously haven’t watched the video and decided to comment on it as if you did and as if it denies climate change.
I didn’t comment on the video at all. I clarified that Carney axed the consumer portion only …I see now Polivier wants to kill the major emitter portion as well.
The ‘sneaky’ bit in the ads running, is a single word taken entirely out of context from the Jon Stewart interview. Paired with an unconnected photo. It’s so blatantly manipulative, and constructed, especially if you’ve seen the interview.
The brazen manipulation, an obvious cut and paste hack job, absolutely screams Trump’s playbook. Yet PP seems blind to it.
His non stop, ‘attack, attack’, ‘divide, divide’, screams Trump too, and he’s so clueless he’s the only one not seeing it!
Certainly true of right-wing think tanks, which the Fraser Institute most assuredly is.
Today’s CBC Interactive Regional Poll still shows a five percent Conservative lead, but they reckon the chance of the Cons winning has dropped from 80% last week to 60% now.
I thought Canadians were better than that. I don’t necessarily object to the Conservative Party as a party – there may have been a time when I actually voted for them, and I know for sure that I sometimes did for the Ontario PCs – but Poilievre is basically Trump Lite.
As befits Canadian culture, he’s a sane version of Trump, lacking the dementia and the ruthless vengeance. But as Mark Carney recently said, he will use the proceeds of reciprocal tariffs to help support Canadians who are jobless or otherwise stricken by the weakened economy, while Poilievre will do what he’s always advocated – use the money to cut taxes for the rich.
Around here he’s referred to as PeePee.
I assumed that Richard Comely was long dead, but I guess he’s only in his 70s.
I’m liking paper boy lately.
Insightful article by Timothy Snyder, American historian and author. Just a couple of excerpts:
When Trump announces an aggressive policy, he attaches to it a grotesque justification. The nonsensical fiction is supposed remain in our minds, as a button to be pushed, so that we accept violence. We will have trouble questioning lies later if we accept them when offered, because that would challenge our own sense of ourselves as not being idiots.
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The demand for fentanyl is American, including inside the Trump White House itself. The people who live at the epicenters of the addiction crisis tend to vote Republican; without them, Trump would never have become president in the first place. Trump and Vance are attuned to the opioid issue, in the sense that they see the suffering as a political resource, as a wellspring of misery that can be directed against an enemy of choice … This has now become our foreign policy. We are blaming someone else for our problems, and flailing for ever more nonsensical stories: like that Canada is to blame…
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The amount of fentanyl that passes from Canada to the United States is about 0.2% of the total – not two percent, zero point two percent … the real problem at the border is the illegal smuggling of American guns into Canada.
Blame Canada - by Timothy Snyder - Thinking about...
Who supplies the supply does matter. Developers build for particular segments of markets and charge what they think the market will bear or has to bear because there is no alternative. Housing built to provide decent affordable housing rather than maximum profit looks different, and requires government intervention to supply land cheaply, control profit rates, and use the land differently. Again, see Red Vienna as an example of how housing could be rethought and redone. It does mean refusing to rely on private “market forces” to set prices and costs.
This article gives a brief analysis of what happens when governments stop building non-market housing. There is a lot of studies that support this.The federal government used to build social housing. Then it stopped. How is that going? | CBC Radio
And yet, they didn’t even manipulate it well. He comes off with a Bugs Bunny kind of vibe. “I’m not going to start a fight, but if you start one, you’ll lose” kind of thing.
Canada’s secret weapon in war: coyotes with innovative ACME products and TNT.
This just made my day: Moosehead's crate of 1,461 beers — one-a-day for Trump's term — sells out within days | CBC.ca
For the first time, the CBC Interactive Poll shows the Liberals winning more seats, despite being down 3% overall.
Now the right wing dings are howling the polls are corrupt yada yada.
