Wednesday’s French debate has been moved from 8 pm to 6 pm due to an important Canadiens hockey game. Canada election: Singh, Blanchet want French debate rescheduled over Habs game
Totally reasonable.
This is Canada, after all.
(Years ago I was watching a scotties curling match on CBC that went to extra ends. CBC made the NBA delay the start of the Vancouver Grizzlies game against LA until the curling was done. I had this vision of two guys in an LA sports bar going: “What’s curling? Why isn’t our game on?!?”
Well, we also changed liquor laws for a hockey game. We know what’s important!
Nearly 900,000 fewer people went to the U.S. in March as cross-border travel plummets
Data shows one of worst year-over-year drops recorded outside of COVID-19 crisis
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cross-border-trips-us-900-thousand-1.7511090
I finished voting at the advanced poll. There were quite a few people there, more than I have seen in the past.
I’m sure mine is wending it’s away across the ocean may airmail
I voted in the advance poll on Friday (yesterday.)
What kind of stupid is this. Does he think to sway any voter with this trivia?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-scrap-plastics-ban-1.7514037
Is China trying to tell us something? Spotted on Facebook today:
I week to go …is this over yet?
The OQLF (Quebec’s language police - “tongue troopers”) have struck again. After removing “Stop” from all stop signs (using “Arret” instead), they have now gone after the “Go Canadiens Go” on the digital displays on the front of buses. They have been displayed for years, but one complaint recently to the OQLF has made them change “Go” to “Allez”. PQ stands by English slogan rejected by OQLF, says ‘we’ve been using Go Habs Go for 100 years’ | Montreal Gazette
Plamondon has found great political gains jumping on the “anti-woke” train and even burying their separatist competitor (the dying, leftist Quebec solidaire) with that label. Makes sense that he wouldn’t dare be seen as championing banning “Go Habs Go” from the streets of Montreal.
I have a question for Canadians.
I was looking at a map of your country and see, of course names of provinces and territories. In the US there are territories, like Puerto Rico, in which the residents are citizens but non-voting.
Is it this way in Canada? Or are all residents voters?
People born in the territories are Canadian citizens with both representation in the House and full voting rights. For example Mark Carney (our current Prime Minister) was born in the Northwest Territories.
Thanks for the answer.
This may be of interest: How’s Carney doing, Canada?
I was very surprised to read:
Since October, the province has reported a staggering 2,009 cases of measles associated with the current outbreak – more than all of those in the United States combined in 2025, and making Ontario the measles epicentre of the western hemisphere.
Cases have been climbing by the hundreds over the last month, and three-quarters of cases are in unvaccinated children, according to Public Health Ontario…
Meanwhile, case numbers have also been creeping up in the western province of Alberta, which this week reported a total of 710 confirmed cases, making it the worst year for measles since 1986, when 843 cases were reported.
I didn’t expect to see in Canada the same kind of anti-science craziness about vaccination as a significant part of the U.S.
Many of the Ontario cases are in the Amish/Mennonite region (similar to the outbreak in Texas).