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I think the summer was the time for the minority governments to shoot their shot. Some provinces are already starting to reverse their re-openings as coronavirus cases rise again. And this is mostly anecdotal, but goodwill towards premiers for their handling of the pandemic seems to be waning. Just looking like you care isn't gonna cut it anymore. Even the beloved public health officers aren't beyond criticism it feels like.

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I'm sure some of them are working class. The average person who owns a boat longer than 20 feet, like the ones you see in the video, is not making 50k a year. It just generally clocks with research that indicates that Trump supporters are much wealthier than they're portrayed as being.

Welp the Canucks Cinderella run came to an end with a 3-0 Game 7 loss to Vegas. They made it as far as they could. They rallied from 3-1 down in the series because solely because of Thatcher Demko, who stopped 123/125 shots in those three games. He has definitely created a debate about re-signing Markstrom. I still think they will do it, but imo the smarter move is to let Markstrom walk, save the cap space, not worry about aging, and allow Demko to grow into the roll, even if it means taking a step back next season. It's possible the Canucks are mediocre next year, which is kind of what they were this year. The only way they're getting better is by Pettersson and Hughes taking another step. They're can't afford any help in free agency, and they're going to lose some important pieces for nothing because of awful cap management by Jim Benning. Markstrom, Tanev, Toffoli, Stecher, and Virtanen could have all played their last games. You didn't have to lol. I cheered for the Flames in 2004 and the Oilers in 2006, but I was younger then. I don't cheer for the other Canadian teams in the playoffs because I want the Canucks to be the team to end the drought. Fiddler could probably do a stand-up tour across Canada based only on that face. When all the series were 3-1, there was a story written about how players just can't find the motivation to rally when they're nearing elimination, because at the back of the players' minds, they knew it would mean going home and seeing their families. But all the teams down 3-1 rallied to force Game 7, except Boston. I think it was a factor for some of the teams that didn't make it far, but I guess it's a unique part of the challenge this year too. Dallas is good, but a boring defensive team. I didn't expect them to be in all these high-scoring games like this. I bet Walsh went to one of his kids who knows Photoshop and was like, "here's what I need. It's for work." Lehner started 6/7 games against Vancouver, including the 6 and 7 back-to-backs. Fleury is probably done in Vegas. The quality of play is suffering badly from this compact schedule the NHL is going with. The Canucks and Knights played five games in seven nights. That's ridiculous. It's too much. Not only for the players, but as a fan, I don't want to watch hockey five nights a week in the summer. Vegas themselves looked quite sluggish in Game 7. The NHL wants to come back in December or January. And they plan on having fans in the stands because these ultra-wealthy owners supposedly cannot bleed any more revenue. We don't even know about the border; there has been talk about the Canadian teams forming a division and only playing each other, but it sounds more likely that the NHL is assuming they will be exempt from the closed border. The Blue Jays weren't when they asked. The NHL also told players families would be allowed to visit inside the bubble when the playoffs reach the conference finals. The Canadian government isn't lifting restrictions to allow that.

Donald Trump is the president because he was able to tap in to the economic anxieties of the working class.

It sounds like BC will be headed for an election soon. John Horgan is supported by an NDP-Green coalition (41 NDP + 3 Green = 44 seats) to the Liberals' 43. So he will probably need to flip Liberal seats. And the Green leader is retiring, and his wealthy, NIMBY riding is probably likely to go back to the Liberals. But Horgan is popular right now, and the BC NDP has been relatively competent compared to the last time they governed, in the 90s. Lots of balls in the air.

I do find it funny how Ford was basically banned from appearing with Scheer in 2019, and Kenney was the conservative premier touring the country with the campaign. Now Ford has done a complete 180 on co-operating with the federal Libs and is actually relatively popular, and Kenney is underwater.

He already said this in 2015, in front of an audience and cameras. No one cares. Not his supporters or supposed swing voters. I'd give you 1/2 odds that the media will have completely lost interest and moved onto something else in 24 hours. I know it's hard for Dems to resist, but turning the campaign into a referendum on Trump's morality is a losing strategy.

Over the years and decades, this delta is going to get wider and wider, and the system isn't going anywhere.

New premier approval ratings That's a nice rating for Horgan.

With few exceptions, no politician should have a statue erected or a library constructed in their honour. It is public service. They work for us. They are not King Tut. As for the explorers, there is no chance that their actions from hundreds of years ago are compatible with the current shared values in this country. I saw Erin O'Toole and Jason Kenney complaining about the statue today. This is a dumb issue that distracts from the real struggles people are going through right now, and I naively hoped it wouldn't be spread to us.

If there were a large enough gulf between when he murdered those people and when he was arrested, and the RNC happened during it, he would have gotten a speaking spot. It has been shocking to me to see the right embrace this person, and for others to basically lump him in what he did with the looting. These Trump-inspired militias are no laughing matter.

I don't support automatically tearing down every statue of everyone who lived more than a hundred years ago, like some of the protests seem to do, but John A. MacDonald is a pretty noxious person to have statues of.

The Conservative members in Quebec had to vote for someone, so I'm guessing they just picked the person who was born there. The BQ is much more in tune with cultural conservatism there. And they ran probably the most racist federal campaign of any of the parties in 2019. If the CPC adopted that kind of rhetoric, they'd blow the 905 region they value more. Based on the polling averages, it looks like the Conservatives got a small bump by replacing Scheer as leader. But the Liberals would still be bordering on a majority if the election were held today. edit: nvm. None of the polls included in the CBC polling tracking averages are from a period after O'Toole was named leader.

Nope I'm wrong. Erin O'Toole is the new leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. He feels like a not very formidable candidate to go up against a prime minister who badly needs to be challenged.

Rebel Media must be in the bad books. It sounded like a speech you'd expect the head of a campus conservative student union to give. Just too dumb for any serious person to entertain, from a grown man who was a stone's throw away of becoming PM. It's 10:30 PM or later for most of the country and there still isn't a leader...

It does look like a toss-up right now. My gut says Kennedy will pull it out because of his name.

O'Toole and Sloan are the bad boys the base dreams about. McKay is the stiff they wind up marrying.

This is an actual thing that an actual agent for an actual NHL player, Marc-Andre Fleury, actually tweeted. On the blade is says "DeBoer," the Vegas head coach, who, probably smartly, decided to start Robin Lehner instead of Fleury in Game 1 against Vancouver. There is no way Walsh would post that without Fleury's permission. I'd be surprised if Fleury starts again for Vegas in these playoffs, if ever. It's very petulant but as the opposition, I also find it outrageously funny.

The Canucks somehow took down the defending champion St. Louis Blues in six games. I just can't stop raving about the things Quinn Hughes. We have never had a defenseman this good. This team still has holes and flaws, but it is starting to come together. Travis Green can coach a little bit in the playoffs, too. He made some key adjustments in the series. Canucks are the last Canadian team left and now get the distinguished honour of being hated by the rest of the country out of disgust over the "Canada's team" narrative. Bye bye to Jordan Binnington, the greatest one-hit wonder we'll ever know. I don't know why the Blues didn't stick with Jake Allen, who won them Games 3 and 4. Binnington comes across as a dark, unhappy person, but also a mentally feeble one. I mean, the city is literally named after a queen. For a second I didn't get it and thought you were implying that you had won an actual money lottery... In the last Flames game, Bieksa said at the intermission, "If I'm a Flames fan I'm not panicking *starts laughing* but I'm not." XD Still cheeky. We were all relieved it wasn't Edmonton. I think even Edmonton was relieved it wasn't Edmonton. That would have been humiliating for them, needing another lottery win after McDavid. I'm fine with the Rangers winning. They've had lottery luck and that will be an extremely fast rebuild, but at least their official position is that they're rebuild. Shockingly, they did not. It sounds like the players are miserable in the bubble. There isn't really much for them to do other than watch the other games and drink. In Toronto, they have the one hotel at the Exhibition Place, so they can at least roam around there and on BMO Field. Like a dog park. In Edmonton, they just have the hotel and the rink. I didn't watch the game, but I saw that they were up 3-0. I couldn't believe when someone texted me that they gave up seven straight goals. What does Treliving do now? He is smart, and the smart thing is not to overreact. But that core just can't win in the playoffs. I don't know what to say about the Flames other than that something just seems wrong with the chemistry of the group.

I don't like Biden or think he's mentally fit to be president, but I'll admit his handlers have done a good job of curating him in a way that makes him seem sincere and somewhat competent. (To be clear, if I were a voter given these choices, I'd vote for Biden and it wouldn't be a hard decision.) Since I think you might live in Massachusetts, are you voting in the Markey/Kennedy senate primary?

And now Bill Morneau knows what the underside of a bus looks like.

I don't know very much about New Brunswick politics (or Atlantic Canada in general), other than that its last election result was memorably odd.

It's funny because he got it from an article in Newsweek--not even a right-wing outlet like the ones he usually gets his talking points from.

A thing Trump likes to do is seek out criticisms/memes of establishment Democrats from the left and steal them for himself. That's probably what he'll do with Harris.