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Canadian Election # 45
So.
The writ's been dropped.
Let's go.
I'm gonna vote because my life depends on it.
And because your lives do too.
The writ's been dropped.
Let's go.
I'm gonna vote because my life depends on it.
And because your lives do too.
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The timing is...accidentally impeccable to the artistic side of my brain right now.
My own MP is Marie-France Lalonde, and she was one of the team that was working with Kathleen Wynne on that UBI test-run before Ford got elected Premier the first time. She still harbours hopes of something like it on a national scale, I think. If I get a chance to speak with her directly, it's something I want to revisit. Imperfect as CERB was, it was a much larger test case for UBI and I think it worked as well as we could have hoped for.
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I wish I could say the same. In keeping with my riding's recent practice of electing an MP who came to politics not from law or government or public service but from entertainment/popular culture/media, Evan Solomon is evidently going to be the candidate in this election. I know very little about him except his name, since I never paid much attention to any of the talk shows he was on or the columns he wrote. In fairness, I need to do more research, but sheesh ...
Sigh. In any normal year, I'd be looking at Samantha Green (although her campaign bumph reads more municipal/provincial than federal), but then this year is abnormal in the extreme.
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And I just found something. A quick letter to the editor at CBC's Power & Politics dated 19 September 2012. He was moderating a panel about 1984, journalism, and so forth earlier that night.
"I was at the discussion at Carleton University re: _1984_ tonight and
while I learned a lot...there was one concern I have with Mr.
Solomon's closing remarks.
I don't think that apathy is the main threat to a healthy Canadian
body politic at this point. Rather, it's exhaustion. If you're
juggling thirty or forty different things every day as it is,
cognitive exhaustion is going to be as real as the physical kind. And
as dangerous to a democracy, I fear."
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Here's hoping that his competence will endure in the parliamentary setting. And you're so right about exhaustion being the main threat. It's very hard to cope productively and proactively with the constant low-level (or not so low-level) political anxiety that we're living with right now.
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Elbows up!
And I'm quite impressed by Greenland's MAGA hats - Make America Go Away!
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I got one of my rare big laughs.
Now if someone can read me in on what a Canadian "riding" is that is getting chatted up (above)? I don't get anything on a web search on that?
Visiting Canada has always been a good thing. I'm hoping "the Mistake Who Got Voted In" doesn't ruin that.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Canadian_federal_election
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Canadian_federal_election#/media/File:Canada_Election_2025_Results_Map.svg
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A riding is effectively an election district or constituency. :-) No idea what the origin of the word is, perhaps the distance that a man on horseback can easily cover in a day? Just a SWAG.
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