Three years? Only a communist country would punish dissidents so harshly.

Meanwhile…

Or even…

Some war criminals last even longer.

1923-2023

May he rest in piss.

It also tracks with the slow death of pub culture in small town Britain. A decade ago or so, the church was hosting local events at the pubs to try and keep them both alive.

Conservatives gained 25 seats and got over 2M more votes in 2025 from 2021. The reason the Liberals held onto a minority government is thanks to voters abandoning the NDP and Greens. Unless Carney starts delivering on the environment and for workers, I doubt he’ll be able to retain those voters in another election.

Y’all got raises?

Federally, Canada has not had a Conservative government since late 2015. Though we now have that previous Conservative government’s cental banker as our PM, but he calls himself a Liberal.

Ontario has had a Conservative government since mid-2018.

The problem, as I see it, is that environmentalism has lost a lot of momentum over the past decade. America bailing on the Paris climate accords, twice, really seems to have set the tone for other Western democracies, at least in their sense of urgency on this issue.

In Canada it does not help that the US’s trade war has provided the government with a lot of cover to pursue “energy priorities” without the normal consultation process or environmental considerations.

20% of the parliament is women. Beating the US congress.

The 119th Congress is 28% women.

Not exactly a brag, still about 20% short, but I suppose it’s still a win when compared to the Kingdom of Saudia Arabia.

They’re gonna say it was Ukraine. Lindsey was going to whistleblow the whole thing and that’s why he needed to die.

/tinfoil hat

Dem soc =/= Soc dem

Democratic socialists are socialists, social democrats are not.

Carney’s comments were his first on the issue after Statistics Canada data on Friday showed a slight contraction of gross domestic product (GDP) for two straight quarters, meeting the technical definition of a recession.

Technical recession = recession

Canadian GDP came in sharply below expectations in Q1—edging down 0.1% (annualized rate) to mark a second consecutive quarterly decline following a 1% (previously reported as -0.6%) drop in Q4, and well below preliminary estimates of monthly output through March released a month ago that were pointing to growth closer to a 2% rate in Q1.

If Q1 gets revised up from -0.1% then it wasn’t a recession, by definition, but could also be revised even further down. The economists really missed the mark on their predictions, so who knows what to expect now.

I mean, the Libs are doing everything I’d expect from Stephen Harper’s Bank of Canada guy and the Tory’s Bank of England guy.

Not being able to tell if the Libs or Cons are in charge just feels like more evidence of how far we’ve ratcheted to the right.

Don’t forget Finland in 2023 and Sweden in 2024.

And then we’ll make housing and groceries more affordable too, right?

Did they forget to pay the CIA their cut?