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A Treeliner from Churchill. Lover of music, family, friends. Aircraft refueller. Grain shipper. Bus driver. Radio guy. 🏒 YWG YBR YQG | ⚾️ DET YWG | 🏈 YWG DET “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
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Was pleased to see you’ve chosen Rebecca Chartrand as Minister for Northern Affairs. Churchill should now be primed for the attention it deserves!
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Instead of turfing their leaders for losing what they feel should have been a winnable election, look inside your tent and see where the rot is. Venting the tent won’t help their cause; kicking them out and closing the zipper will!
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That isn’t happening in this case. If Premier Smith (and those who have a stake in this federal election both fiscally and socially) can’t see that, then they are delusional. Instead of what ails Canada being the “liberals’ fault”, it’s time to take a TRUE look within.
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…The loyalty to the extreme fringe of their base. Any government needs a strong opposition, and objectively, I’ve always wanted parties to bring their best, even those I disagree with. Even the great unifiers can identify what isn’t acceptable from their most fervent supporters.
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They’ve imploded the last two federal elections because they felt both Andrew Scheer and Erin O’Toole missed the open net. Scheer aside (insufferable then, even more today), Mr. O’Toole probably would have been easily elected this time around. But the party fails to see what ails them… which is:
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Wexiters and 51st Staters in Alberta must be hearing footsteps, because they’ve already said “If the Liberals win, we’re out of here.” Premier Smith has already said a Carney win will spark a “national unity crisis”. What they fail to see is the Conservatives are doing this to themselves.
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3) The “tax” has already been axed. Mr. Poilievre’s insistence on this being a Carbon Tax Election will fall on deaf ears; not with his base, but (say it with me) the swing voters.
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2) Mr. Poilievre is also not disavowing, condemning, or distancing himself from the extreme fringe of his base (MAGA, Canada Proud, etc.), which those pesky swing voters most likely don’t agree with.
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Anyway, feeling especially anxious about the world today but with an optimism I truly believe that good can and will happen. Respect for each other, and then getting to actual work on ending conflicts with true apolitical peace. Just be good to each other, dammit. It’s not that hard.
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That would heal a lot of what we’re seeing right now. A lot of folks welcomed back at dinner tables and buddies reconnecting. An agreement that at least for now, country comes first even if partisan rhetoric comes a close second.
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Trump finally won’t be able wont be able to talk and dance around some so concretely his fault, and I pray that by then the democrats will have someone who is a true uniter and leader who has just a little common sense.
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There’s gonna be a shitload of chaos coming. Our own election notwithstanding, I think the MAGA crowd is gonna lose a bunch of followers. I’m an optimist and I still think it’s a bold but possible take. Life is gonna go south in the states and some magas are gonna be like “ok wtf Trump?”
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I hate to even call it Twitter because it’s nowhere close to what Twitter was once upon a time. X is so lame to even say. Mirrors their owner. Lame to the absolute max. Giving actual astronauts on the space station grief? Calling them idiots or something. What honest to God is happening?!
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That’s focus!
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Well earned!
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It’s not a Churchill vs. Port Nelson thing. That was settled a hundred years ago. MB would be better served by using that $7M for that feasibility study on doing something practically substantial and putting it toward the extension of the hydro line into Nunavut.
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“Unfixable muskeg rail bed” Yea, maybe when OmniTrax owned it. The writer may not have heard that the rail has been worked on for the last, what, 3 years? More weight allowance and quicker trains. What is she talking about?
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Port Nelson can’t accommodate ANY ships, and believe me, Churchill upgrades would be in place before any feasibility study would even be finished.