MyBrainHurts

I've been wondering about this too, thought I was just out of the loop but nothing I can find from a reputable source has really made me think he's a right winger.

Like, maybe we can't say for sure but to insist he's actually extremely far right seems like a wild leap.

Hypocrisy in politics is nothing new and certainly not something someone would resign over (he'll have his own rationale about some trivial detail.)

As for turfing him out right away, he just led the Conservatives to crack 40% of the popular vote, something they hadn't done for 30+ years (Mulroney in '88 was the last one) and it took almost historic defections from the NDP/Greens to keep them out of power.

If things don't get better rapidly (economy, housing, both of which are long term challenges unlikely to be solved in a single Parliament) I'd say Poilievre has a pretty good shot next time as the defectors return to their parties and the Right continues to rise among young voters etc.

What seat would you have expected him to take, if not a very junior member of the party's? He can't win you a Liberal seat in a voluntary by-election...

The seat, that's because that was likely one of the most junior members of the party ("seniority sucks until you're senior") and the election... Well, they cracked 40% which they hadn't done since '88.

So the question for their base becomes "which is more likely, Poilievre keeps most of his coalition together or everyone else in Canada bands together to stop him again?"

Personally, I have trouble imagining the NDP/Greens don't recover to some degree.

Throw in economic pain from tarrifs etc and well, unless you really expect Carney to magically fix large systemic global problems...

Back in the day, shooters etc wrote lengthy manifestos.

I think they've realized that these days no one is going to read a full length manifesto so it's better to note their thoughts in...

Bullet point.

(Sorry.)

This seems pretty rocking. Helps those who can't afford it to simultaneously lower their bills and help the planet. Win win?

I have admittedly terrible taste, I love grind/genre films and other over the top nonsense like that. For those who have the same awful taste as I do, here's a version of my spreadsheet for this year. Be warned, I've read nothing beyond the festival blurb and every year, at least a third of my picks are garbage even by my standards.

People who have better/more traditional taste than me, read about movies etc and whom I basically trust on film AND are excited about:

No other choice Kokuho Blue Moon Death does not exist Tuner It Was Just An Accident Sirât

Fixed!

Fixed, sorry!

I think I'd take that bet!

I'm super curious how the base will see it. On the one hand, he did win a much larger percentage of the popular vote than most Conservative leaders have won while making inroads in traditionally Left areas.

But, he also lost one of the largest polling leads in modern Canadian history...

On the other hand, the Liberals won in large part because of voters from the NDP/Greens defected to the Liberals... But then how much of that was to keep Poilievre out versus some other Con?

You could go nuts going back and forth on that.

Pssssh, amateurs, actions speak louder than words! For example, whenever I'm on public transit and we're about to turn ~~right~~ not Left, I stand up and demand the driver instead make three Left turns instead. Admittedly, this has been difficult on trains but it's the effort that counts.

Edit: formatting

Fully agree on the modern movies spoon feeding (or at least, most mainstream ones.)

I'm lucky, there's a little indie theatre about a joints' walk away from my place so I've caught a few great Westerns there. As much as I loves them, I know if I'd been at home, the distractions/phone/cat/anything else etc would've been overwhelming on hour 2 or 3 of slow panning across a desert vista...