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Yes, thank you

I guess I had a case of the Mondays

Honestly thought I’d see this at the top of reddit and tech news sites, a d that there’d be a big backlash over this.

I think tonight I’m going to leave my phone in the other room and watch movies.

Nothing will be decided tonight with how close the polling is.

I too choose this guys maple syrup

Why is this the first I’m hearing of this?

Yeah, 0% chance this happens, but a man can dream, and vent online about our political situation.

I think my best case scenario is that Jagmeet Singh steps down, the NDP quickly select a leader that relates to the working class (something like a Tim Walz type) and they sweep the election on a workers rights grassroots push.

I’ve voted Liberal the last few elections, but the last one I was saying I wish Trudeau would step aside because he’s too vulnerable and not drawing out any voters. I was only voting against the Conservatives.

I’m not looking forward to this election, because once again I don’t want to vote for any of the candidates. This might be my first NDP vote in a long time, but the NDP needs to make changes too and I don’t want to give them my support.

But at the end of the day I truly feel Polievre will be Canada’s worst prime minister, he has all the characteristics I hate in a politician and none of the leadership skills I’d want, so I have to make a pick from two bad options.

ETA: the strategy of “well they hate me, but I think they’ll hate the other guys more” is such an insult to Canadians. If you don’t in earnest think Canadians want you to lead them, you should not be a party leader.

I don’t think by-elections really gauge true opinion, they usually don’t change the balance of power so it’s about local candidates and protest votes.

Good for her, and also damn I’m jealous.

She makes what an average person makes in their life each year on that.

I have two minds on this

The decade I was too poor to see the dentist gave me a lot of anxiety. I didn’t have any real issues but any random pain was met with worries about cavities, and I had to get my wisdom teeth removed years after it would have been ideal. It’s great that poor people are finally being looked after.

On the other hand, I hate that I pay a high marginal tax rate and I don’t qualify for this. I can afford to see a dentist, I just wish this program was for everyone.

Same with pharmacare, I just want a full rollout for everyone as part of healthcare. My wife needs medicine that costs thousands a year and if she didn’t get benefits through work it would be over $10k out of pocket annually. Most families could not afford that.

We’re fortunate and I acknowledge that, I just want a simpler system with better coverage.

Which is quite different than a social medium, where you die and they still try talking to you.

She must make a killing on the residuals from that one song

It’s a good song but it’s so overplayed that I don’t enjoy it anymore.

Is he going to start claiming the election is rigged next?

This guy isn’t even in power and I’m already tired of his shit.

I bought a house in a suburb for the middle of my possible price range. I had worked out pricing options with a fee based financial advisor.

My wife and I make good money and I do not understand who is spending $1M-2M on housing, that was well above our top budget scenario.

The math doesn’t make sense to me. Someone is lying in the qualifying process.

The “blame provincial responsibilities on the federal government, while complaining loudly about federal overreach” crew

I’m not against it for the tolerance/intolerence aspect, I’m against it for the potential weaponization.

Could a future government say “woke” speech is hate speech? That’s why I think we need to be careful.

It makes me very uncomfortable to make speech and holding opinions (whether factual or not) illegal.

It sets a dangerous precedent and is a double edged sword. What if we’d declared criticizing internment camps or the 60’s scoop as hateful prejudice against Canada? What if the next government makes speaking against oil illegal?

Education and acknowledgement is the answer. We need to continue making everything about residential schools public. It should be easy to see evidence of their practices, know who ran them, how many children died and where they’re buried, etc. It should be obvious this happened and was awful.

Huh, the one I worked in didn’t have that.

It just had a glow in the dark handle for the door.