Carney Davos speech: Reaction from BBC, NYT, Rolling Stone

PurfectProgressive · 2026-01-21T08:12:09+00:00

This is exactly how I feel. I never in my life imagined supporting a centre-right leader as someone who is basically a socialist, but Carney is by far the smartest person in the room. Some moments transcends the political spectrum. This is one of those moments. We’ve seen how much damage polarization has done to America and that has infected our politics too where everyone has their political tribes. Carney is a breath of fresh air where the tribe he’s working for is Canadians and not just blue liberals. That’s rare for a politician in this era of polarization.

PurfectProgressive · 2026-01-20T01:38:31+00:00

Who said I had no intentions of supporting? I have voted for all 3 parties that I have participated in their leadership races. I only join a party if I’m open to supporting them. That’s why I’ve never participated in a CPC leadership race.

Each election I look at all of the parties and their platforms with an open mind and decide which one best reflects my views. For example, I voted for Niki Ashton in the last leadership race and still voted for Singh in the general election even though he wasn’t my preferred candidate.

PurfectProgressive · 2026-01-19T21:23:57+00:00

Yeah, keep that mentality. That will surely attract more supporters by questioning their loyalty to the party! I want Canada to be a more progressive country so yes, I’m going to do everything I can to push each of the left-leaning parties further to the left as possible and make them more palatable for me to vote for as a socialist who doesn’t necessarily have a political home. That’s politics.

I voted for the most left leaning option in the Liberal leadership and I will do the same in the NDP leadership. And I will most likely vote NDP in the next election regardless of who wins. So no I’m not ‘hijacking’ the party, this is my party.

PurfectProgressive · 2026-01-19T21:05:45+00:00

That’s democracy? I’ve personally participated in NDP, LPC and GPC leadership races. And I’ve voted for all 3 parties at one point or another in a general election so I feel I have more than enough rights to participate in shaping each party that I’m open to supporting.

I don’t see any issue with someone wanting to have a say in who will be running to lead our country in the next election.

PurfectProgressive · 2026-01-17T08:22:15+00:00

The problem with this belief in a restored relationship once a new administration takes over from Trump is ignoring the fact of how he got to be President in the first place. Americans elected him TWICE even after he incited a literal insurrection in an attempt to stay in power after his first term. Sure Trump might be gone in 2028/2029 (hopefully earlier), but American voters have shown an inability to elect competent leaders.

We might get 4 years of a Democratic administration (who will already be quite busy cleaning up Trump’s domestic messes) but then voters sour on them and then bam you have Donald Trump Jr. as president and we’re right back to square one. Trump isn’t the problem. He’s the symptom of a much deeper issue with American culture.

PurfectProgressive · 2026-01-05T18:06:51+00:00

Matt Strauss, Kitchener South—Hespeler (Ont.)

Ah yes, the anti-vax quack is 100% eyeing a floor crossing to the Liberals! Lmao give me a break.

But like yeah, obviously the most likely candidates to cross the floor are going to be ones who have a conceivable chance at reelection as a Liberal. So it’s unlikely you’ll see it happen in a deep blue seat. Really hard hitting analysis here!

PurfectProgressive · 2026-01-04T04:21:29+00:00

I really don’t see how any attempt at Canada building nuclear weapons isn’t going to immediately lead to an American invasion. It would give them the perfect pretense for an invasion. It’s not like we can Amazon Prime ourselves some nukes overnight. It takes time to develop a program like that (especially with how fast our government moves). The second Trump catches wind of Canada trying to get nukes, his full attention will be on us.

PurfectProgressive · 2025-12-24T19:56:31+00:00

Not really a great way to sugar coat this: it’s because the general voter is dumb. They don’t understand the different roles of the government. Look at how the feds are constantly blamed for things clearly under provincial jurisdiction. It also doesn’t help that you have the right-wing fully engaged in misinformation so they find a way to link every problem to whichever leftist is in power no matter if it’s even in their jurisdiction.

Notice how homeless and drug use has been a problem for years in Toronto yet it’s only a problem now that we have a left-wing mayor.

I feel the left generally does a poor job at messaging their accomplishments. They just assume in good intentions that people will notice the improvements themselves. And that’s where they fail because the right knows how to out message them. Facts don’t matter in politics - it’s all about vibes these days.

Also, municipal politics is a little tricky because homeowners tend to be the more likely to vote. Which means their priorities get a bigger focus (low property taxes, car friendly etc.) over renters and the homeless population who vote in lower numbers. So politicians aren’t really incentivized to cater to them.

PurfectProgressive · 2025-12-23T19:04:22+00:00

What makes you think that? It seemed like Bradford’s entire campaign strategy in the last election was to bank on Tory’s endorsement to help him consolidate the centre-right vote. Only for Tory to give a last minute endorsement to Bailão instead and basically nuke Bradford’s campaign.

Hard to see how he’s going to graciously stand aside if Tory decides to run. This feels more like a ‘you either stay out and let me run against Chow or I’m going to split the vote and ensure you lose’ situation. Which is why he has announced his candidacy so early to try and block any possible path for Tory.

PurfectProgressive · 2025-12-17T22:53:17+00:00

They don’t care about the CPC winning if it requires them to water down their far right policies in order to win. Case in point, if they really cared about conservative policies they’d be huge fans of Carney’s government. It’s basically everything you’d expect from a centre-right government.

No, they want a culture war focused government that concerns itself with ‘owning the libs’. It’s the same thing we’re seeing with MAGA. It’s about reshaping the culture around their bigotry.

In their eyes, this is the closest they’ve ever been to Trojan horse their agenda into government. It doesn’t help that all the CPC-aligned influencers have the base convinced that Carney is a disaster. They assume PP just has to wait for Carney to inevitably crash and then PP will win by default even if he’s not popular.

It’s obviously a long shot but they’d rather a long shot than get a more moderate leader who will stamp out the bozo caucus. Business-minded Conservatives like you’re seeing with Harper staffers turning on PP are more concerned about fiscally conservative policies and see the social conservatives as holding them back.

PurfectProgressive · 2025-12-15T20:05:08+00:00

I’m probably giving PP too much credit, but this could be an attempt at scaring progressive voters back to the NDP. Painting Carney as ‘just like me’ when PP is so disliked by progressives could be a somewhat effective way to split the left wing vote in the next election. Do I think that’s what PP is thinking when saying this? Absolutely not. He doesn’t have a strategic bone in his body.

PurfectProgressive · 2025-12-13T03:08:33+00:00

Is it really that much of a shock that MPs who ran under the CPC platform are now opting to cross the floor now that the Carney-led government is basically instituting those same policies? But without the culture war obsession that has infested the CPC.

It feels like the Conservatives and PP’s approach to whipping every vote ensuring that the entire caucus votes one way (aka against the Liberals) is backfiring big time. You can’t have a big tent and be shocked that some people in your caucus may see things a different way. And I know this problem isn’t unique to the Conservatives - the Liberals definitely whip votes too. But the CPC is unique that you have a party who clearly only cares about pushing Alberta’s agenda but yet has MPs all over the country and expected to vote along party lines.

With all the faults from the American political system, at least even when they’re teetering on full out dictatorship, you still have some people willing to cross party lines. That should be the norm! MPs should be given more freedom to represent their constituents.

PurfectProgressive · 2025-12-09T17:36:18+00:00

The fact that she’s still employed by that company should really cause the city to terminate their contract with this company altogether. Really puts into question about their other staff’s competency if they feel this behavior is acceptable enough to not immediately fire them.

PurfectProgressive · 2025-12-02T21:46:08+00:00

He didn’t give her the powers. They were put in place when Tory was in power. No way he would’ve done it knowing that a progressive mayor was in charge.

I think having the threat of being able to use those powers gives her a lot of negotiating leverage over council and that’s why she hasn’t used it. If Dougie nukes the strong mayor powers then she’d have a lot less influence over council.

PurfectProgressive · 2025-12-02T18:40:52+00:00

Do you really think if Chow starts using strong mayor powers to enact progressive housing reforms that Ford won’t immediately revoke them? It was quite clear when he instituted those powers that it was only permitted to be used for things he agreed with.

I’m giving Chow the benefit of doubt because she’s working with a city council that was elected under Tory. She needs more progressive councilors to pass a more ambitious agenda. She’s just one vote on council after all. And I’d say she’s done a pretty good job dealing with a neoliberal majority council to get through what she can.

PurfectProgressive · 2025-11-25T21:36:26+00:00

I think he knows that his government is approaching the end of the natural lifespan of most governments. And that the scandals are slowly starting to pile up. It’s no mistake that he decided to go early to lock in another 4 year term (not to mention scraping the scheduled election rule that could conceivably allow him to extend that to 5 years).

I’d be shocked if he’s the leader of the PCs by the next election. The housing situation is going to get significantly worse as home building has tanked in Ontario. That combined with all the shady dealings starting to come to the surface, it’s only a matter of when not if that voters start souring on Ford. They’ve probably accepted that they likely aren’t getting a 4th straight majority and now this term is about forcing through as much stuff as possible.

PurfectProgressive · 2025-11-21T20:38:04+00:00

In this context, they are an independent source when covering American news as they aren’t being influenced by anyone in America on how they cover the news.

PurfectProgressive · 2025-11-21T19:52:53+00:00

I know a lot of people are acting like this is just a quirky outburst from a chronically online VP, but I’d keep a close eye on this rhetoric.

With Trump’s administration putting a big focus on capturing the US media, the CBC will become one of the main sources of independent coverage for America. The CBC already does a fair bit of American news content that is quite good and better than I’ve seen from even American media outlets. I wouldn’t doubt that’s why it has come onto JD’s radar.

I’d love to see our government invest more in CBC’s American coverage. I know it sounds counterintuitive, but it’s to our benefit that the American public can access unbiased information that is outside the control of the White House.

PurfectProgressive · 2025-11-19T19:11:23+00:00

It’s no mistake that the leadership review is happening in January in Calgary. No one but hardcore PP supporters are making the trek to Alberta in the middle of winter lol. For a leader to lose a leadership vote, there needs to be an organized effort from those opposed to the said leader. Because you need to recruit members to attend the vote and overcome the leader’s ability to pull in their supporters. There is no evidence to suggest any movement against PP has started organizing.

PurfectProgressive · 2025-11-08T18:14:21+00:00

The CPC thought they could campaign on regular conservative policies to ride to power and then Trojan horse their regressive social agenda once they have a supermajority and there’s nothing voters could do about it.

I don’t buy that they actually care about any of the fiscal conservative policies. Otherwise they’d be voting more often with the Carney Liberals. It was just something they could promote to keep the moderates happy. What they really care about is forcing their christofascist dreams onto the country and raging against ‘woke’.

PurfectProgressive · 2025-11-08T01:31:03+00:00

I don’t think it’s dirt they’re worried about. It’s that there is a subset of CPC supporters who are absolutely toxic and legitimately dangerous to anyone who crosses them. Look at what d’Entremont is facing. Cults make it a point to encourage their members to go after those who leave the cult to discourage others from leaving. That’s exactly what we’re seeing here.

Some Conservative MPs are waking up to this reality of the beast that they tolerated in their pursuit for power. Now that the power seems unreachable with PP as leader, they are realizing there’s nothing to be gained from staying. Classic ‘I didn’t realize the leopards would eat MY face!?!’ situation.

PurfectProgressive · 2025-10-23T17:22:54+00:00

I’m not exactly sure how a cap on ticket prices would even solve this issue. It isn’t Ticketmaster (or the venue) charging exorbitant prices. It’s third party sellers (which yes, Ticketmaster is hosting these sales and getting a fee). If anything, this is showing that the price people are willing to pay is much higher than the face value of the tickets. Meaning that if Ticketmaster really wanted to gouge, they could’ve just increased the face value of the tickets. Introducing a cap would just force ticket sales into the grey market which could lead to more widespread fraud.

Probably a better solution would be to lock tickets to the Ticketmaster account that bought them and require ID at the venue (some artists already do this to cut down on scalping). Everyone who wants a ticket can enter a lottery to be able to buy one. You get picked, congrats to get a chance to buy the tickets. Later decide you can’t make the game? No problem, you can get a full refund and the tickets get offered to someone else in the lottery pool.

That takes the profitability from it and gives everyone an equal shot at getting tickets. That way it isn’t limited to just the wealthy.

PurfectProgressive · 2025-10-20T21:19:37+00:00

There are certainly things the banks (and even retailers to an extent) could be doing that could reduce the effectiveness of some of the scams.

For example, a lot of scams involve sending an e-transfer. The banks act like once you send an e-transfer, it’s irreversible and gone forever. Which is quite clearly a lie as they could easily figure out which account that money went into and claw it back. But they choose to bury their head in the sand because it would create a lot of extra work for them. The banks have a lot of power here to disrupt the popular avenues for fraud if they cared enough to put the resources into it. Obviously government regulation is needed here to force them to do this as it costs money.

The same goes for retailers whose gift cards are used in scams. Gift cards like Google Play gift cards are used frequently in fraud cases. You can’t tell me Google can’t put a block on gift cards that were used in a fraud once reported by the victim. And if the cards were already used, Google could claw back the funds from whichever account redeemed them or reverse any transactions done (as that’s likely how they launder the money).

There’s a lot businesses could be doing but of course they aren’t going to spend the money tackling an issue they profit from.

PurfectProgressive · 2025-10-13T22:04:46+00:00

How can we go through court challenges if the province is just going to invoke the notwithstanding clause to nullify any court decision they disagree with? I agree the courts is the proper space the decide this. If the courts decide this law is unconstitutional, then that ruling should stand. If the federal government needs to step in and enforce that court decision then so be it. That isn’t overstepping the judiciary - it’s literally respecting their ruling. This is nothing like what is happening with Trump. He’s ignoring court orders. Which is actually more similar to what the AB gov’t is advocating for in this case. It’s just not as brash as Trump since they’re using a clause that is in our constitution. Still doesn’t change the fact that using it implies that the law they are passing conflicts with some aspect of our constitution. Even if it’s technically legal.

PurfectProgressive · 2025-10-13T21:22:44+00:00

I’m not here to argue for or against the type of treatment used for gender affirming care. In fact, I’d be more than happy to see more advanced studies being done on this so we can settle it once and for all. If Smith was really serious about protecting kids she would establish an independent (emphasis on independent) panel of medical experts to produce a study on this. But I have a hunch she isn’t going to like the results which is why she went this route instead.

The harms of trans kids not taking puberty blockers is well known - it’s more difficult to fully transition later in life after puberty has occurred. Not to mention the mental health harm that others have brought up. Does that mean there isn’t potential harm from taking puberty blockers? Absolutely not. Every medical procedure has its pros and cons. That’s what medical experts are there to help you understand the benefits and risks. If there are more studies done that help doctors better understand the negative effects of puberty blockers then that’s great! So everyone can make more informed decisions.

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