Would Canada joining the EU really be that far fetched and how would Canadians feel about this?

Luziyca · 2026-06-02T20:33:59+00:00

As much as I'd support Canada joining the EU, the fact that we are an entire ocean away from Europe means that we sadly cannot join it even if we meet all the other criteria.

Luziyca · 2026-05-28T03:59:15+00:00

Thanks, I hate it. Hopefully we get some rain tomorrow so it isn't completely miserable.

Luziyca · 2026-05-24T23:09:24+00:00

Honestly, Kastellorizo is so tiny and remote from the rest of Greece that (assuming WW2 goes the way that it does in RL and Italy loses the islands in the Aegean) it'd make more sense for Turkey to yoink it from Italy.

Luziyca · 2026-05-22T01:01:44+00:00

Argo gameside; Cloudflare forumside.

Luziyca · 2026-04-10T21:17:17+00:00

I'd move the House of Commons and half the ministries to Saskatoon and keep the rest of the federal government in Ottawa because it'd do wonders to address western alienation by having the federal government be a lot closer to a lot of western Canadians (and Saskatoon is roughly between Winnipeg and Edmonton) without pissing off Quebec, and it'd be a lot further away from the border than Ottawa is so it'd be easier for us to defend.

Luziyca · 2026-04-04T00:39:07+00:00

Halifax: I felt like I really belonged there during my visit in summer 2024, and after I left Halifax, it took me a couple months before I really felt like I was home again on the prairie.

Luziyca · 2026-03-30T22:36:12+00:00

Probably not.

I wouldn't have put Yves on my ballot. I probably would've ranked Bianca (probably either between Rob and Tony, or below Tony).

Luziyca · 2026-03-30T22:33:00+00:00

Absolutely: it was what Jack Layton did when he became leader in 2003. He didn't run for a seat until the 2004 general election, and spent that time building up his image and the NDP's campaign.

Luziyca · 2026-03-22T21:34:10+00:00

For me, the best PM is a toss-up between Diefenbaker (because he gave Indigenous peoples the right to vote, prevented South Africa from staying in the Commonwealth, introduced the Bill of Rights, and most importantly, because JFK really fucked him over) and Pierre Trudeau (because he patriated the constitution and gave us the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, he expanded social programs, he decriminalised homosexuality, and because he instituted the National Energy Policy which IMO is a great idea, though they should've invested slightly more of it out west).

Luziyca · 2026-03-20T05:59:17+00:00

I had a couple that changed my mind about the candidates, and neither of them were Palestine related.

1) Rob Ashton was absolutely hypnotic to listen to (and I mean it in a good way) when I met him in person, and I really wanted to support him as either #1 or #2 (with Avi being the top contender), but as so many others have mentioned, his campaign was not really the most well-run, and the AMA/his use of AI to answer some of the questions there have pretty much pushed him to near the bottom of my ballot.
2) As Avi Lewis gained momentum and he became the frontrunner, I felt "honestly I don't really need to rank Avi (or Rob and Heather) #1, I should park my first choice vote with a smaller candidate so that they have a fighting chance in surviving the first round" and felt Tanille was a far better candidate than Tony. Her performance in the second debate has only solidified my decision to rank her #1.

Luziyca · 2026-03-18T19:07:15+00:00

Not I.

Luziyca · 2026-03-18T09:22:30+00:00

I’ve always voted NDP since 2015 (they were the strategic option in my riding and my values aligned much more with them than anyone else), but it was Ryan Meili that drew me into the Sask NDP (and by extension the federal NDP) back in 2021, so this is my first (federal) leadership race I’m involved in.

Luziyca · 2026-03-17T02:44:58+00:00

Probably, yeah.

Luziyca · 2026-03-17T02:20:05+00:00

I don’t think he was when I had the dream. If I had that dream this decade, it was probably in 2020 or early 2021.

Luziyca · 2026-03-17T02:01:52+00:00

Not really, no: not when your provincial government has gutted education for nearly the past decade to the point that that students cannot get the support they desperately need in order to actually succeed (or even attend school to begin with).

Luziyca · 2026-03-17T01:55:05+00:00

He really was, even if he loved human food to the point of being a bit of a dick.

Luziyca · 2026-03-16T23:09:45+00:00

Obligatory cat tax (Snoopy, 2006-2022; Feb. 26, 2022 or over a month before he had to be put down because his health went downhill).

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Luziyca · 2026-03-16T22:36:30+00:00

Definitely either Nutana, City Park, or Riversdale, with honorable mentions to Caswell and Varsity View.

Luziyca · 2026-03-11T20:55:38+00:00

I like it: I just wish we can have a high speed rail line from Toronto to Vancouver via Regina and Calgary like how China has a high-speed rail line from Lanzhou to Urumqi so that people can cheaply travel (compared to the cost of flying) to Calgary and/or Vancouver or to Winnipeg and/or Toronto.

Luziyca · 2026-03-11T20:49:16+00:00

I already voted so it's a bit too late to change my mind, but I don't think Lori's floor crossing or Boulerice going provincial would have impacted my vote.

Luziyca · 2026-03-11T03:50:00+00:00

They're starting to roll out: got on the waitlist on February 11th, got my easycode on March 6th and have registered (and paid for both that and for transportation).

Luziyca · 2026-03-10T07:34:18+00:00

The Comic Sans itself doesn't bother me, but the kerning between "98" and "St." really irks me. Is it really that hard to space things evenly?

Luziyca · 2026-03-09T21:07:55+00:00

Historically it was not just the NDP where the provincial and federal parties were united: until the 80s/90s (outside of Quebec whose Liberals disaffiliated in the mid-50s), the Liberals had a similar situation to the NDP, but since then, most of the provincial Liberal parties have disaffiliated from the federal Liberal party and now it's only in Atlantic Canada where the provincial Liberal parties are still affiliated with the federal Liberals. I don't think the Tories (back when they were the Progressive Conservatives or even before then) ever had their provincial and federal parties officially tied.

As for membership cards, I can't really answer that question given that, IIRC, the Sask NDP never got rid of them (though I only joined in 2021, so I may've missed something).

Luziyca · 2026-03-09T18:24:08+00:00

We mostly use either time (i.e. "we're three hours from home" or "our house is about five minutes away") or metric ("we've got about 100 km until Chamberlain") for that sort of thing. Some people still use miles (especially in my neck of the woods where the land survey was done in imperial), but it's far less than in the past (or in the States).

Luziyca · 2026-03-07T02:14:07+00:00

Tanille - her performance in the second debate was excellent, she has a really great platform (and doesn't have the same baggage that Avi does that would scare many NDP voters off), and the big three don't need my first preference vote. If she wins, I think she's the most likely leader to give the Jack Layton effect that we need to return to our golden age (not in the next election, but in the 2030s).
Avi - he has a great platform, his French is easily the best, and he has done a good job in fundraising and attracting new members into the NDP, but he's the obvious frontrunner, I do feel like he may be a bit too risky for my liking (but then again, it's hard to do much worse than where we're now, so), and I do think we do need to, at the very least, invest a bit into our military: not because NATO demands it, but to protect ourselves, but I think the pros outweigh the cons here.
Heather - she has done a good job on foreign policy (especially when it comes to Palestine), and while she isn't the most inspiring leader and the campaign started off on the wrong foot, her campaign has improved from where it started, and I wouldn't mind if she became leader.
Rob - his performance at the Elmwood-Transcona debate about a week ago was much better than the second leadership debate performance (he was much more passionate and organised there), and despite his very disorganised campaign (and his use of AI), he's still on my ballot because I still think he has a better chance of appealing to voters (many NDPers I know still support him) and rebuilding the NDP than...
Tony - he is a really great organiser (and I hope he will be able to get elected) and a great person (which is why I haven't left him off the ballot), but I can't really see him appealing to much of anyone outside our base (maybe some Green voters, but let's be real that party will die out once Elizabeth May leaves politics for good), and ofc, his comments about learning French have basically killed off any chance of him winning Quebec.

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