canada politics

So, there are rumours afoot that Trudeau will be calling an election! CBC is reporting leaks that he will call the GG on Sunday to dissolve Parliament. So, let's discuss this rumour: A good call? A bad call? It's all a hoax made up by that commie nazi Plenty O'Tool? And if it turns out we are...

Canada has announced a new gun ban Canada set to ban 11 categories of assault rifles, other weapons I'm okay with this because I personally have no interest in killing any of my fellow Canadians.

So, Canada is now in the middle of an election. (As opposed the U.S., which is never NOT in an election.) Election day is October 21, 2019. I was debating whether I should create a new thread or just add to the "Canada/Trudeau" thread. Some early polling results: The Liberals and...

The vast majority of Canadians would tell you the Queen has no real power. The Royal Family is just a holdover from earlier times and its role is primarily ceremonial. However, the Constitution, the fundamental Law of the Land makes crystal clear that the Queen has power over and above our...

Federal Government (in Canada) announces marijuana will be legal by July 1, 2018 More news on April 20 2017 http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-legal-marijuana-pot-1.4041902

In the Canadian federal election held October 19, 2015, Canadians voted out Stephen Harper's Conservative Party of Canada and swept in the Liberals under Justin Trudeau, son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. The Trudeau Liberals went from being the third place party in the House of...

Harper officially announced the date for the next election over the weekend. This will be the most expensive, and nearly the longest, campaign in Canadian history. I'm thinking it will be between the Conservatives and NDP.

I don't seem to have seen this mentioned here and am posting it as informational rather than requesting, or expecting any comment. ;) Socialists elected in Canada's oil patch? Alberta election gets noticed in U.S...

Howdy. I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that I've been entirely apolitical when it comes to Canada where I live (southern Ontario) and have only really followed (some) US politics in the last year or so via some youtube channels like Secular Talk. Anyway, I'd like to start contributing via...

So, the brother of Rob Ford failed to take over as Mayor of Toronto, but, despite being treated for cancer, Rob Ford still won a Council seat. Given his record of drug use the place where he was elected seems somehow appropriate: 'However, he did win election to a council seat in the Etobicoke...

Ok, many (or most) people are familiar with the issues around SuperPACs in the U.S., and how wealthy people and corporations (for example the Koch brothers) are spending millions on political groups in attempts to influence elections. Well, here in Canada we have a situation which is similar...

I'd have put it in the USA's "right wing politics whacko" thread except that it turns it he's yours, Canada. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/28/evangelical-activist-calls-for-bill-maher-to-be-flogged-or-hanged-over-noah-blasphemy/ Sorry, didn't know you guys had that many up there...

After some weeks, if not months of scandal and outrageous travel expenses ($45 000 for return flight to Mandela's funeral) the premier of my province has stepped down. I'll admit it caught me by surprise but now her party has 2 years to fix the damage she created until the next election rolls...

Manna from heaven, the term that comes to mind... Also, schadenfreude. So we have the editor of Gawker, the investigative editor of the Toronto Star, and another Star reporter, all saying they have seen the video (the drug-dealing Somalians trying to sell it are holding out for six figures) it...

In 1968, a little-known Trudeau beat the Progressive Conservative Party in an election to become Prime Minister of Canada. Will the same thing happen in 2015? A different question might be, given the string of Liberal leadership failures, is Justin Trudeau the one who finally has what it takes...

Here is our thread on JREF to discuss. Great way to start my week! And totally avoidable for Ford - had he the character to show an ounce of humility: (money quote from the judge) "It is difficult to accept an error in judgment defence based essentially on a stubborn sense of entitlement..."...

I really wasn't expecting this. No details yet, but preliminary report here.

Things are a smidgen scandalesque for the blue team these days. Think any of it will stick come Canada's Got Votes 2015? Meanwhile the dips have a new king. The boss of the grits is an ex NDP. Should be a match made in heaven but they're both lobbing pebbles at each other. What gives...

(ETA: Shortest thread title ever! Mods, please change the title to "Canadian election fraud investigation") Fraudulent robocalls sent voters to wrong polling locations This is very very curious indeed and may cast doubt on the results of the Federal election in Canada, which it's my...

Anyone following this?

Why use words to settle your differences when you can fight it out? Story.

And other Conservative NDP lunacy: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/09/26/canadas-submarines-high-_n_980865.html Now I am, generally speaking and relative to other military capital, a fan of submarines for Canada, but this is really ridiculous. Submarines to deter pollution. Jeezum crowe guys.

According to Wikipedia, last time (2008) they had 0.03% of the vote, total # of votes was 3,639, with 24 candidates in various canadian provinces. It means that the average candidate got 150 votes. Anybody knows how they did this year? In these tough economic times, the party of the people...

Completely un-noticed by US media, buried as it is in royal weddings and foolish questions about its president's place of birth, is the possibility that a socialist government may be in place in Canada next Tuesday. I know that citizens of the Great Republic to the South only know us as a...

Looks like Canada might be heading to the polls soon. For those unfamiliar with Canadian politics, Canada has 4 main parties in the house of Commons. The Conservatives are the party in power (and they are on the political 'right'), but they only have a minority government. Opposing them are the...

Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper gave a stirring address on Monday wherein he honored Canadas proud heritage of standing up for freedom and reaffirmed our countries support for the only modern democracy in the middle east. More national leaders around the world need to follow Prime...

I usually think of the state as an autonomous actor, but when things like this happen I'm inclined to give class-based interpretations of the world a little more credence. On a similar note, it seems like John Manley is, if anything, more powerful (or at least more prominent) now than when he...

His council style: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOi2wIUCTnA&feature=related On bike lanes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwxiv2aznB0&feature=related And again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nySs1cEq5rs&feature=related On homeless shelters...

Anyone else getting sick of how NDP MPs are parlaying their position on the long gun registry and the upcoming vote into 15 minutes of media fame? Great, it gets a backbencher some air time. Strategically, though, this is so dumb. It's playing right into Harper's attempts to make this a...

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/07/15/bad-science-global-warming-deniers-are-a-liability-to-the-conservative-cause/ I think that is about the end of Denialism from a political point of view. If this idea takes root, and I think it shall, nobody is going to pay them to manufacture...