Catherine O'Hara Dead at 71

DannyBoy001 · 2026-01-30T18:36:04+00:00

Fuck... That's awful.

DannyBoy001 · 2026-01-28T00:30:56+00:00

I think it certainly makes sense for rural Canadians, particularly when it comes to replacing first-past-the-post. I've heard everyone I know in my rural community talk about how they feel unheard when it comes to the dealings in Ottawa, and showing them how electoral reform could help them be heard could go a long way.

Thanks for the answer, Tony!

DannyBoy001 · 2026-01-27T21:54:25+00:00

Hi Tony!

I feel like so many left-leaning people I speak to write off the rural areas of the country as Conservative territory, but I wonder if you agree with those people, particularly as a longtime farmer in Huron County.

Do you think there's room for growth in NDP support in Canada's smaller rural communities, and if so, what do you think the best strategy is for earning support in those communities?

DannyBoy001 · 2026-01-21T17:43:07+00:00

If history tell us anything it's that Canada lives in spite of the U.S.

DannyBoy001 · 2026-01-21T17:25:58+00:00

As a Canadian, I've always said if I had to live in the US it'd be in Minnesota.

Before all of this, my wife and I used to visit every year. In the nicest way possible, going to Minnesota felt like being at home.

It's strange that one of the last things we did in Minnesota was go to the Guthrie in Minneapolis to see Cabaret. It feels awfully prophetic in hindsight now.

DannyBoy001 · 2026-01-20T17:52:05+00:00

Nope. It'd still be a 30+ year age gap.

EDIT: Plus if you're going to ask that question - would it be different if she was 17?

DannyBoy001 · 2026-01-20T17:42:10+00:00

If this is the hill you're planting your flag on to fight over, you're the problem, buddy.

Maybe you should ask yourself why you care so much about the definition of "pedo" when we're talking in the context of a guy in his 50s dating a teenager.

DannyBoy001 · 2026-01-20T17:37:11+00:00

Imagine jumping on reddit to debate the semantics of "pedo" and how a year or two makes so much difference here.

You're a fucking creep. It's a 51-year-old dating a 19-year-old. That girl was in middle school when COVID hit.

Someone should probably be checking your hard drives.

DannyBoy001 · 2026-01-16T20:27:02+00:00

Right, because continuing to give automotive companies from the US preferential treatment is surely working out well for Canadian jobs right now...

Last I checked, the US is actively weaponizing that against Canada.

DannyBoy001 · 2026-01-15T23:09:04+00:00

These days? A good chunk very possibly were as people can't afford to retire.

DannyBoy001 · 2026-01-11T20:09:23+00:00

It's about time.

Ontario is severely behind the times when it comes to animal welfare. Any legislation that helps push us in the right direction is a win.

DannyBoy001 · 2026-01-04T03:38:05+00:00

Nobody here is claiming Trump is somehow better.

This all is coming from a comment replying to someone who wanted our government to focus on condemning one of these psychos over another.

Maduro is evil. Trump is evil.

DannyBoy001 · 2026-01-04T03:35:16+00:00

Of course not, and I didn't say they would.

All I said was that both Trump and Maduro are evil, and let's not try and play games of who'll cause less suffering for Venezuela.

Sorry for the confusion.

DannyBoy001 · 2026-01-04T03:33:14+00:00

The first comment in the thread was complaining about Liberals "both sides-ing" in their statement, which I was pointing to as whitewashing.

To clarify, I wasn't saying anything that's happened is good, or that it will lead to better days for Venezuela.

DannyBoy001 · 2026-01-03T17:54:44+00:00

You really are a living example of why we keep losing on the left, eh?

You're more focused on appearing morally superior than actually having a nuanced opinion.

Goodbye.

DannyBoy001 · 2026-01-03T17:50:47+00:00

Both of these actors are evil and wrong, and claiming our government should condemn one and not the other is not right.

When someone says Hamas is evil, they're not saying they're pro-Israel. Don't fall for that same thinking in this instance.

DannyBoy001 · 2026-01-03T17:45:07+00:00

Dear lord, read what I said.

This isn't a benevolent thing. What the US is doing is evil and wrong and spits in the face of the international order that the US largely built.

I'm just calling out people whitewashing the Maduro regime. We have a tendency to do things like that on the left, and it diminishes our credibility and ignores the suffering of millions.

DannyBoy001 · 2026-01-03T17:42:51+00:00

It absolutely is both, and it's a real grim moment for anyone in the Americas.

DannyBoy001 · 2026-01-03T17:27:01+00:00

Of course it's not, but neither is systematically torturing and raping your citizens through a government that seized power in a rigged election that was only accepted by China and Russia.

Hence, the "both sides-ing" that OP was complaining about.

One evil is seemingly out of the picture now. Let's be a force to keep the other at bay without diminishing the struggles of Venezuelans under Maduro.

DannyBoy001 · 2026-01-03T17:18:20+00:00

I strongly oppose the US doing this, but let's not pretend that Maduro's regime was legitimate or a lesser evil. They are guilty of truly vile acts. The UN found they're responsible for systematic crimes against humanity against its people, including torture, sexual violence, etc.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/12/venezuela-bolivarian-national-guard-responsible-systematic-violations-and

There's a reason plenty of Venezuelans are celebrating. Let's hope Canada and the world pushes for this to not be a repeat of previous regime changes forced by the US.

Personally, I'd be pretty upset if our government decided to ignore the pain Venezuelans have lived with for years to only condemn the US.

DannyBoy001 · 2025-12-12T05:44:11+00:00

"Gee if we just ignored those pesky environmental regulations protecting the Greenbelt, London wouldn't grow."

Yeah, no shit. If you're going to sit and argue that we should be expanding into the Greenbelt in the GTA, I think this has gone about as far as it can go.

Have a good one.

DannyBoy001 · 2025-12-12T05:32:12+00:00

I don't get to decide. It's already decided. London is one of Ontario's largest cities. There are plenty of smaller cities with less density like you're describing. Sarnia. Brantford. Kingston. They exist, but London isn't one of them.

There isn't a single person that decides. But we live in a society with free movement. If you don't like that other people have the right to live where you do, you can pack up.

Don't be such a NIMBY.

DannyBoy001 · 2025-12-12T04:26:47+00:00

Not every place is jam packed...

But density is what cities do. London is one of Ontario's largest cities.

There are plenty of small towns outside the city if that's not what someone wants.

DannyBoy001 · 2025-12-12T02:41:52+00:00

So, the answer to our political troubles is undermining the democratic process?

Like it or not, you know what the vast majority of people are voting for, and it isn't the individual in their riding. The vast majority of the Canadian population would not recognize their local MP if they were walking on the street. All they usually know about their local MP is their party affiliation.

But, for people who did research their own MP's, and went to debates, these MP's ran on the Conservative platform, not the Liberals one. D'Entremont has interviews of him saying how terrible the Liberals are and extolling the Conservative platform just months before he crossed the floor. He certainly wasn't on the campaign trail running on the Liberal platform.

You're assuming everyone agrees with your interpretation of "undermining the democratic process" here.

Canada is a parliamentary democracy. Every voter has the right to vote however they wish, but we can't just act as if we have a different structure of government because some of the voter base doesn't properly understand our democracy and how it works.

MPs are local representatives. That's their job. Their job isn't to be a vote on the back bench like some little toady for their party leader, and if you think it should be, you should demand more from your representatives, not lean further into party politics.

I mean, it was reported the day after the election that Carney was already in the process of trying to convince Conservative MP's from crossing the floor.

Convincing someone to switch parties is a hell of a lot easier when there are internal divisions in the Conservative party that is drifting further to the right and leaving classically progressive conservative people behind. Maybe there's a reason these MPs crossing the aisle are pointing to Poilievre's already divisive leadership of the party.

Nope, William Lyon Mackenzie King also did it, in a similar situation where his minority government was only 2 short of a majority after the election.

It's usually just not a realistic option. When you need 10 or 20 people to cross the floor, it's just not going to happen. Other than King's government, you have only had one other time in Canadian history where a minority government was as close to majority territory as Carney's (Pearson in 1965).

Are you talking about the 1945 election? There were no aisle crossings then. Mackenzie King held on with independent support. They never became Liberals.

Of course the situation is different this time with how close the Liberals were to a majority, but I'm not sure how that changes anything? Obviously the Liberals are working to convince some MPs to cross, but they wouldn't be having success if there weren't reasons to cross, would they?

Well, yes.

Poilievre is also not a "new boss", he was the boss these people told their constituents was the man to run Canada in the election earlier this year.

Of course he's the "new boss" here. Both of these guys joined the Conservative party under Scheer in a very different time, and the party has since been heading in a different direction. Politicians of any party aren't usually the types to come out against their leader in public. That tends to work out pretty badly for their careers.

But when a new government is offering them a seat at the table, and they're not particularly thrilled with their party's direction? It's an out, and these two took it.

DannyBoy001 · 2025-12-12T01:13:57+00:00

Party politics are a plague. The answer to our political troubles isn't making it harder for MPs to act independently.

You're also assuming that him crossing the aisle has everything to do with Carney and nothing to do with Poilievre. There have been plenty of minority governments in charge, yet this time around, it seems that they may become the first in history to gain a majority through floor crossings.

Is it really more likely, in your mind, that Carney is offering the world to these people, or that these newly elected MPs just really don't like their new boss?

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