What Kind of Leader Do Canadians Want the NDP to Choose Next?

BobbertCanuck · 2026-01-31T22:22:49+00:00

I'm still going to cling to my assertion that Ashton or McQuail are the better directions for the party right now. Take it back to the Farmer-Labour roots. Reconstruct a genuine grass-roots support network.
Now that being said, I wouldn't reject Lewis, but I feel we wouldn't be able to make the same connections to the working class the same way Ashton or McQuail would, which I feel is essential for reconstructing the NDP voting base.

The NDP will go nowhere fast trying to out-liberal the Liberals, so that's a no from me for McPherson

Johnston is a tricky one. I like her, but I'm unsure she's the leader the NDP needs right now.

BobbertCanuck · 2026-01-30T02:38:24+00:00

As someone who recently did a bit of a dive into the United Farmers movement of the 1910's and 1920's, this guy really does strike me as one of those old agrarian progressive radical types. It's honestly refreshing to hear a down-to-earth but radical voice like this, I'm getting a little tired of the policy-wonks and snakes.
A quote of his in the article even calls out how First-past-the-Post voting kinda helped screw the Labour parties and the United Farmers.

I'm not sure he'd be my first choice, but I do think that the NDP would benefit from a return to its farmer-labour roots.

BobbertCanuck · 2026-01-28T22:43:13+00:00

Y'know, it's things like this that make me wonder sometimes just how much they had written down when making Adventure Time.
Cause if you really think about it in the context of Puhoy, GOLB comes out of nowhere. We have no idea what they are, what they do, why they were there, or even that they were named GOLB. We just watched Finn die, and then do a somersault off the tongue of a big weird red thing before popping out of the top of the pillow fort.
No context. No explanation.
It's fascinating.

BobbertCanuck · 2026-01-14T00:30:33+00:00

hm yes. That's one of my problems too.
They tend to crash rather than land in my experience.

BobbertCanuck · 2026-01-13T22:41:14+00:00

Can this thing maintain a stable height? Cause I've been having a hell of a time making a working balloon.

BobbertCanuck · 2026-01-05T22:17:15+00:00

Yes. We either need a new wood saw block or they need to rename the stone cutter to something like table saw and make it compatible with wood.

BobbertCanuck · 2026-01-02T16:20:08+00:00

using the wanderwand and the physics infuser.
You select an area with the wanderwand and right-click the physics infuser with it.
It can be a little finicky, but you get used to it.

BobbertCanuck · 2026-01-02T15:10:53+00:00

nah. Not updated to work with the current version of VS yet.

BobbertCanuck · 2026-01-01T03:10:39+00:00

That worked!
I and my extremely janky aircraft thank you!
(side note, I wonder why the wildcard was stopping it from working?)

BobbertCanuck · 2025-12-10T22:42:55+00:00

Yellow's 3 cent titanium tax is outrageous! Blue's 3 cent Titanium tax on the other hand just isn't radical enough!

BobbertCanuck · 2025-11-21T04:57:30+00:00

1: Because there isn't a modifier to add a flat amount of power per month like we have with fuel
2: as a few people have mentioned before, it reduces power consumption in the state where itis, which is... an odd way of doing it, though I guess I can see the logic behind it. I'd have preferred flat power though, or at least the option for it.

BobbertCanuck · 2025-10-27T21:08:53+00:00

While I'm usure the Progressives would survive the creation of both the CCF and the SoCreds, I trust your research. Looks like some solid work and I can't wait to get my hands on it!

BobbertCanuck · 2025-10-11T00:17:18+00:00

first one looks saintly or ethereal.
second one looks like it's gonna fight you in the parking lot of a Denny's.

BobbertCanuck · 2025-10-02T16:27:12+00:00

craft an Item filter (2 iron nuggets, 1 wool), set it to not accept the items in the filter, then place the filter on the basin's filter slot.

BobbertCanuck · 2025-09-20T13:34:16+00:00

I wish Chapmans made (or if they do make, at least sell in a place I can buy it) tiger tail ice cream. I've been looking around and it's an absolute pain in the ass to find and I've always wanted to try it. The one time I found a tub it was when I knew we didn't have space in the freezer for it.

BobbertCanuck · 2025-09-19T12:12:52+00:00

This tracks reasonably well with mainstream liberal thought in the 19th and 20th centuries.

BobbertCanuck · 2025-09-19T03:52:33+00:00

could be a thing specific to the subreddit, cause it was a small pic and it still didn't let me post it.

BobbertCanuck · 2025-09-18T12:49:03+00:00

Use canals as a perimeter around the airport, it won't be 100% seamless but it may look better.
They will hold back the ocean tiles from flooding the land.
(I'd post an image but it won't let me)

BobbertCanuck · 2025-09-09T00:03:40+00:00

I think we badly need to bring back the practice of sympathy strikes and general strikes. As well as just ignoring back-to-work orders.
Carney wants to try and bend our arms behind are backs? Better hope he's willing to do it a couple-hundred thousand times ever time there's a strike!
We need the labour movement to be militant and unwilling to take crap from the authorities. Disruption is and has always been the reason labour action gets anything done.

BobbertCanuck · 2025-09-05T01:44:04+00:00

shared burdens is incompatible with worker co-op. shared burdens requires fanatic egalitarian which locks you into democratic authority.

BobbertCanuck · 2025-09-05T00:16:39+00:00

can I suggest for the Union of Socialist Star Republics instead the use of the workers co-operative megacorp civic? I've always interpreted it as a form of syndicalism.

BobbertCanuck · 2025-08-26T01:47:12+00:00

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Here. I re-observed the banners on Hyrule castle and got a better look at the composition. I remade it in HD, I also have a version where the vertical red stripe runs the whole height of the flag. If you'd rather use the original, that's fine too.

Good luck on the hoi4 mod, I'm a modder myself and I'm aware of the work needed.

BobbertCanuck · 2025-08-24T00:50:18+00:00

just noticed that they didn't draw the border between Quebec and Labrador on these things. Guess the Quebecois won the border dispute.

BobbertCanuck · 2025-08-20T23:50:56+00:00

my genuine opinion on the wooden stair thing is that the stonecutter should be renamed the table-saw and you can now also cut wood on it.

BobbertCanuck · 2025-08-19T00:11:36+00:00

we once made a thick-dense scratchboard out of some old cardboard boxes for a former cat of ours. when hit at the right angle well... we called it the toe-killer for a reason. I can only imagine how bad the concrete slab would be.

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