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I’ve stayed quiet long enough this election. But something has pushed me past the point of silence. This isn’t about left vs right. It’s about rights and power. And it’s why I won’t vote Conservative. Because of how Pierre Poilievre talks about using the Notwithstanding Clause. (1/24)

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

I remember election night 2015 and the overwhelming relief- like a boot taken off my chest- when Harper and the CPC were sent packing. Get out and vote folks. I wouldn’t wish the lost Harper years on anyone. That was a true dystopia. We’re still repairing. #cdnpoli #exln45 #vote #neverCPC

submitted 11 hours ago • 53 comments

Do not obey in advance to a wildly unpopular one term president who is currently fighting wars on multiple fronts for seemingly no reason

submitted 9 hours ago • 175 comments

This is electoral ratf@cking. Bad faith manipulation when they fail to persuade otherwise. Inadvertently, they are showing just how ridiculous & unwieldily proportional representation ballots would be, where dozens of wing nuts throw their hat in. Unstable coalitions, endless politicking. Beware.

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

@jenniferkeesmaat.bsky.social has worked her whole career to make housing more affordable. She knows what it will take to end the housing crisis. Glad to have her support. It’s time to build.

submitted 3 hours ago • 13 comments

In America, health care is big business. In Canada, it’s a right. That's because workers like the women and men of SEIU provide that care every day. Together, we’ll build a better health care system — for workers and for patients.

submitted 4 hours ago • 25 comments

According to Pierre Poilievre during a campaign stop in Hamilton on Wednesday: "Public spaces must be safe for everyone. We will take back our streets and restore order in our communities." Funny that! He was all for encouraging a massive truck blockade in Ottawa not all that long ago! HYPOCRITE!

submitted 8 hours ago • 16 comments

The reality 👇

submitted 8 hours ago • 66 comments

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

submitted 22 hours ago • 816 comments

Mark Carney: “Markets don’t have values, people do... To triumph in a crisis, we can't rely on the market alone. Government needs to step up” #cdnpoli

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Carney: Unlike Pierre Poilievre, I've managed budgets before. I've managed economies before. I've managed crises before. This is the time for experience, not experiments. President Trump isn't—as he said—going to "knock it off." We need to fight them. #cdnpoli

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Ian Bremmer on Mark Carney: Intellectually, economically, he is a generational mind for Canada on the global stage. #cdnpoli

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

PP's plan is 30 pages long, with 17 photos of him (including four full-page ones with no content). Carney's is 67 pages long with one photo of him. Pierre's plan is a costing disaster. It contains lots of phantom revenues (no idea where they will come from). #PierrePoilievre #MarkCarney #cdnpoli

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

Whoa, I missed that. Deeply stupid.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

When people show you who they are, believe them

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

The Conservative plan is out and, ooof, is this costing a disaster. There's a whole bunch of phantom revenues booked here, and the GST housing pledge is costed at under $2B. Given their proposed eligibility criteria, it should be more in the 4-6B range.

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Canadian Conservatives put their leader in the witness protection program for the last week of the campaign.

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

The tragedy of public policy. You can change things to save millions of lives and nobody will notice, still less thank you for it (see also, seatbelts, food regulations, vaccines etc)

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Nothing says change like Stephen Harper.

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

The Conservatives realize belatedly they picked the wrong guy, delete him from their ads. But let’s not let them get away with that👇🏻 🤷🏼🤔🤷🏼

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

The DOW has dropped 1000 points 11 times in history. 4 of those have been since “Liberation Day”

submitted 3 days ago • 43 comments

My government will streamline credential recognition and attract global talent — including Canadian doctors and nurses working in the U.S.

submitted 3 days ago • 65 comments

We're one week away from one of the most important elections in Canadian history, and the Conservatives are the only party that haven't released a full platform.

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

Donald Trump is torturing people on US soil.

submitted 3 days ago • 46 comments

Trump Death Camps

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

He’s not ready with a costed platform. He’s not willing to get security clearance. He’s simply not able to lead. #CanadaVotes

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

C'mon NDPs in Peterborough. You can give the Conservatives the boot by supporting your Liberal candidate in this election. Get out and vote at advance polls today and tomorrow or on Election Day April 28. Don't sit this one out. #Election2025

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Peterborough vote like the lives of your grand children depend on it..

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

As advanced polls open, all I can think about when it comes to this stunt is an elderly person or maybe someone who isn't super informed being really confused and overwhelmed by this ballot. Your advocacy shouldn't come at the expense of the accessibility of our elections. I think this sucks tbh

submitted 6 days ago • 117 comments

Friday: “when journalists shouted for Poilievre to clarify his position, his staff moved in to surround reporters and drown them out with clapping.” #cdnpoli

submitted 4 days ago • 65 comments

Unserious.

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

Terrorized? So that's what they told him? 😁 For the first time ever, PP might be accidentally saying the truth. It looks like Pierre Poilievre was "Greenland JD Vanced", when he showed up in town with his 'friendly' staff for photo ops 🙃

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Mark Carney: We will never roll back rights and freedoms. We will protect a woman's right to choose what she does with her own body. We will protect LGTBQ+A rights and will never use the notwithstanding clause to limit rights. #MarkCarneyLiberalMajority

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

We can give ourselves more than President Trump can ever take away. To do that, we need a plan to unite, secure, protect, and build #CanadaStrong.

submitted 5 days ago • 22 comments

Using the Notwithstanding Clause Pierre Poilievre will decide what rights you have, not the constitution or Charter, not the courts, not the law. Just like Trump. #cdnpoli

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

So, you're telling me that the guy who has done nothing but whine & complain for three years about how everything in Canada is broken... hasn't put out his costed plan on how to fix it yet? I guess all that whining & lying takes up too much time? PP is not a leader. #NeverPoilievre

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submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I shudder to imagine what a Poilievre cabinet would look like. Michelle Ferreri as the Minister of International Affairs? Lianne Rood as the Minister of Environment? Garnett Genuis as the Minister of Women’s Affairs? Even worse yet, Andrew Scheer as anything.

submitted 6 days ago • 73 comments