The Urban Dictionary calls an ostentatious SUV or truck a “wankpanzer”?
It’s a name used for the cyber truck. The car and truck have both been called the swasticar as well.
Just a quick note a PP’s spectacular tone-deafness.
Response on X:
Today’s CBC Interactive average of polls suggest the chance of a Liberal win is up to 96%.
That is a pretty remarkable change.
At this point it kills me that we still have four weeks to go! I want to vote now!
Just fyi you can:
- register to vote by mail today (and wait for your mail-in ballot), or
- skip the long lines and vote in the advanced poll at your assigned polling station from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on:
Friday, April 18
Saturday, April 19
Sunday, April 20
Monday, April 21 - or vote by “special ballot” at any of the 500 Elections Canada offices, during working hours, from TODAY until the 22nd. And finally..
- on the 28th, at your polling station, on election day.
That’s great news! As I said, I have great respect for Mark Carney and PP is looking more of an idiot with every day that goes by.
Yeah, these days I almost always do advanced polling, but I still have to wait!
It would take a (-nother) Trump-level event to actually change my vote at this point, so there’s not much point to the campaign, for me at least.
My voting kit is on the way winging across the world. 
Check out option #3. You CAN vote today by special ballot. All you need to do is go to an Elections Canada office with the first and last name of your chosen candidate.
A couple of people rang the doorbell to campaign for the Liberal candidate here, who is running for re-election. This is a Liberal stronghold, so the outcome is pretty certain.
My complaint, though, is I had just fallen asleep on the couch for a little cat nap, and our doorbell is LOUD and irritating and I think I jumped a foot into the air and probably looked absolutely wild answering the door and trying to be coherent.
I had the impression you were Canadian, but I didn’t realize you were living upside down at the bottom of the world, along with kangaroos and man-eating spiders the size of Volkswagens. Very patriotic of you to participate in our elections even while upside down!
Wouldn’t miss this one.
Thanks for that info. I had no idea I could still vote in the election. Changed to allow it after I left, it seems.
Saw PP’s keynote address today. He 80% changed tack, with tone focused on Trump, tariffs, economic uncertainty, and trade. I tried to see if I could detect any of the smarmy sloganeering attack dog … not so much today (although I did hear a few too much “lost Liberal decade” and "Canada first"s).
All-n-all it was a serious address to protecting the country and sovereignty through defence, international trade, investment in homes, …and refuting Trump. Of all days, today was going to be a Trump heavy day.
Thanks, Carney!
Can’t remember if I ever posted about this.
Back during COVID, a couple of Alberta lawyers were challenging Covid health restrictions in Manitoba. They got the bright idea of hiring private detectives to tail various Manitoba govt officials, like the Chief Medical Health Office, to catch them not complying with the covid rules, which would « mumble mumble » PROVE THAT THE COVID RULES WERE UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!
So they were in court one day on their COVID challenge, and the Chief Justice of the Manitoba Queen’s Bench says « Counsel, something very improper has happened. Last night I discovered that I was being followed by a private détective and I’m pretty sure it has something to do with today’s case. I’m going to adjourn for 15 minutes to let one of you think about what you’ve done.” (Paraphrasing, but yes, the Chief Justice of Her Majesty’s Court of Queen’s Bench did use language similar to that of parents who are urging one of their naughty kids to come clean, before bad things happen.)
So the two culprits put up their hands and admit that yes, not only did they put a private dick on the Chief Justice, they put an incompetent private dick on him.
Various bad things then happen, including criminal charges (“intimidating a Justice system participant”) and an investigation by the Law Society of Manitoba, which finds them guilty of professional misconduct and bars them from practising law anywhere in Canada for 3 years, as part of a plea deal to the criminal charges.
And then they go home to Alberta and face additional professional misconduct charges from the Law Society of Alberta.
“No fair!” they say. “We got disciplined in Manitoba.”
“Yes, true,” says the Law Society of Alberta, “but Manitoba didn’t have the power to decide if you should be disbarred. As your home jurisdiction, we do, and we get to decide if it’s in the public interest in Alberta if you be struck from the rolls.”
The proceedings continue.
The most important part of this was left out. Was the Chief Justice following the rules they were enforcing or not?
Digging up public health violations on a judge for the purposes of leveraging these acts against public health laws is important to only those who do not understand about public health nor privacy nor law. It speaks nothing to a law’s validity. It’s just intimidation.
This is why I say Canadians should never placate the Truckers, nor anyone else who has made it a point to fight the infectious disease regulations on non-public health related grounds.
Such people are misanthropic to the point of not caring about anything, except self-justifying their insane views and dangerous actions. Canada should not be a murder-suicide pact, we do not need to placate those who are ideologically blind to the danger they cause to the public.
If the judge is going to convict you for doing what they themselves are doing, then it is pretty damned important that we know about it. It isn’t one law for the peons and one for the elite.