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On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams ([personal profile] dewline) wrote2025-03-23 01:06 pm

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.
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[personal profile] mtbc 2025-03-23 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Makes sense, I like him but Carney's unlikely to be as popular later as he is right now so I guess we expected this. Absolutely, go vote!
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[personal profile] sabotabby 2025-03-23 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah same.
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[personal profile] kathleen_dailey 2025-03-23 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Also same, and this time, and for the first time, I'll be voting Liberal. It's hard to believe I typed those words. I've worked for and voted for the NDP all my life, but needs must when the devil drives.
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[personal profile] sabotabby 2025-03-23 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
The blow is softened for me a little bit in that my local Liberal MP is amazing and has basically represented our riding as I would expect a principled NDPer to do. So I have no qualms about voting for him and actually look forward to telling him exactly why I'm voting Liberal for the first time in my life.
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[personal profile] kathleen_dailey 2025-03-24 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
my local Liberal MP is amazing and has basically represented our riding as I would expect a principled NDPer to do

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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[personal profile] kathleen_dailey 2025-03-24 11:10 am (UTC)(link)
I actually got to see and speak with Solomon once back when he was a practicing journalist, and at the time he was actually competent at that work so far as I was able to tell back then.

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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[personal profile] sabotabby 2025-03-24 11:21 am (UTC)(link)
Oof, I'm sorry.
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[personal profile] em_h 2025-03-24 11:57 am (UTC)(link)
Almost certainly same here, and the Liberals haven't even named a candidate in my riding yet.
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[personal profile] em_h 2025-03-24 12:04 pm (UTC)(link)
The people across the street from me have just hung a MASSIVE Chrystia Freeland sign on their fence, but unless Freeland is attempting to run in two ridings at once, they are under a false impression. (Where did they get it? I wonder).
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[personal profile] kathleen_dailey 2025-03-24 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
That's so weird--although years ago, when I lived in the east end, I had people from the next-door riding ask if they could put a sign on my lawn, so who knows what kind of befuddlement prevails!
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[personal profile] andrewducker 2025-03-24 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Good luck!
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[personal profile] thewayne 2025-03-24 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I heard about the Mike Myers hockey video that he did!

Elbows up!

And I'm quite impressed by Greenland's MAGA hats - Make America Go Away!
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[personal profile] extraarcha 2025-03-25 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks for posting about the Canadian MAGA hats.
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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[personal profile] thewayne 2025-03-25 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)

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.