Canadian Politics

So apparently the town (Lytton) where the temperature record was broken was just burned down by a fire?

NOAA's GOES-East weather satellite has overhead imagery of the pyrocumulonimbus plume gathering over the BC fires (you can set the time range and hit play to see the movement). Note the thunderstorm brewing from around 05:00 UTC on July 1st; because if there's anything this year is missing, it's fires massive enough to generate their own weather systems.

Edited by eagleoftheninth on Jul 1st 2021 at 1:00:36 AM

The heat plus thunderstorms is a very deadly combination. (Also there has been a lot of death due to heat stroke and air conditioning isn't available in a lot of Vancouver especially where people with lower incomes are).

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/china-reacts-canada-senate-motion-genocide-1.6086018

Chinese MOFA praised the Senators who defeated the genocide vote.

Senator Yuen Pau Woo suggests the use of dialogue to address the Uighur issue. Previously said that using the motion will make it look like Canada has moral superiority.

This comes with the recent uncovering of the graves in the various residential schools.

Mary Simon OC OQ, Ambassador to Denmark 1999-2002, has been nominated and approved as the next Governor-General. The date of her formal installation has yet to be decided.[1]

I’m reading up on CBC on a few indigenous politicians who resigned recently due to racism, discrimination and toxic environment.

I doubt anyone's noticed, but the provincial election here in Nova Scotia is a low-key dumpster fire.

The incumbent Liberals (who I probably wasn't going to vote for before this stunt) kicked out a candidate because...she had an Only Fans account with slightly racey photos. Meanwhile, their leader/our Premier has a drunk driving conviction from 20 years ago.

The Conservatives kept a candidate on who posted on social media about how she wished it was legal to run down cyclists. Otherwise, their leader is mostly reasonable and their platform is near identical to the Liberals and they've ruled out putting a balanced budget above all other goals.

The NDP haven't had any personal scandals as of yet, but their platform is a fantasy list of promises that they know they'll never have to keep. And their leader has done nothing to pull his party out of a polling nightmare that might well see them wiped out of the Assembly entirely.

The only thing remarkable about the Nova Scotia Greens to me is that they still exist.

I fully expect the Liberals to win off their pandemic performance (which in fairness, was good to great for the most part), and the Conservative platform isn't that different. But I might have to bite the bullet and vote Conservative this time.

Maybe I'm lucky to live some place where all three parties would hardly be a disaster, but even my center-left ass would like a choice other than moderate mediocrity with a side of personal awfulness.

Canada is headed for a federal election on Sept. 20.

Playing with fire?

The Liberals are unlikely to lose their lead. I think this is a well-calculated risk.

Seems like you might have been wrong?

Not surprised if the LP needs a coalition to survive.

They have a minority right now, and the most likely result is another minority.

In Canada (not sure if this is the same at province level), coalitions aren't usually a thing - the tradition is that the plurality forms a minority government. The last time NDP and Liberals formed a coalition, Harper managed to spin it as a coup attempt.

That sounds absolutely ludicrous.

Conservative party is a right-wing party. Stephen Harper was power-hungry and all had the charisma of a moldy potato. Accusations of cheating was all he could do.

That's a good word to describe Stephen Harper, yes.

Last time we had a governing coalition was a World War 1 unity government.

In local news, my riding's Conservative candidate just stepped down due to a sexual assault allegation. Bastard didn't really have a prayer anyway, but good riddance.

To be fair, and I'm saying that as someone who loathes Harper, he wasn't entirely wrong.

The Liberals, NPD and the Bloc basically wanted the governor general to let them form a government. And the thing is it at the time Harper hadn't yet lost a confidence vote (As doing that would've triggered an election)

Looking at this from a British perspective (since Canada's political system is based heavily on the Westminster model, the analogies should work), it's not exactly unconstitutional for the monarch to ask the leader of the opposition to form a new government if the current governing party has lost the support of the Commons.

Yes Harper mostly worked on most people not knowing this. Even though he did.

As I understand it, in the Canadian-specific tradition, when a government goes down there's a new election.

Edited by Ramidel on Sep 6th 2021 at 11:54:18 AM

The protests breaking out during Trudeau's election campaign for the Liberals.

They threw rocks at him, and have attacked his supporters and bystanders.

Protest is the wrong word.

Yeah, covidiots and antivaxxers are increasingly being total psychos, not just in Canada.

Election day following IMHO the most boring, flat campaigning I've ever seen.

To quote Jurassic Park, the Liberals thought so much about how they could pull off an early election that they didn't think if they should.

I forsee them maintaining a minority government at best. This could backfire on them spectacularly.