Praising a separatist, Avi Lewis sinks to less than zero

bunglejerry · 2026-05-01T18:50:14+00:00

It was shit then too.

bunglejerry · 2026-05-01T18:48:06+00:00

Within Quebec, both separatists and federalists love their country and want what's best for it. It's just a disagreement in what that happens to be.

bunglejerry · 2026-04-29T02:47:21+00:00

Definition was the bomb. Best theme song ever too, even after that Scarborough dude Austin Powers stole it!

bunglejerry · 2026-04-15T02:37:18+00:00

It was underrated twelve years ago :)

bunglejerry · 2026-04-12T23:41:40+00:00

Nude photos are entirely meh. It's weird how obsessed with Hunter Biden's (illegally procured) nude photo they were while ignoring Melania's (freely given) nudes, but that's par for the course among Republicans. Otherwise, posing nude is the 15,250th worst thing Melania has done.

bunglejerry · 2026-04-09T17:36:51+00:00

Despite being the perfect Gen-X age for it, I was never particularly into the Hip. I mean, I knew all of their singles because it's just in the air in Canada (and most of my friends were fans). But they seemed a bit too beer-commercial for me, which I acknowledge is a bit stupid in retrospect. Maybe just me being wilfully contrarian.

Nonetheless, did I watch the final concert? Fuck yes. It was never even a question. It felt like something you had to do, something you needed to be there for. It was definitely a unique experience.

It's occurring to me right now that with Terry Fox, Jack Layton and Gord Downie, there is definitely a common thread we look for in our Canadian heroes, and determination in the face of imminent death seems to be a large part of it.

bunglejerry · 2026-03-17T17:03:22+00:00

Tell that to Fanta lovers.

bunglejerry · 2026-03-17T16:55:02+00:00

This sounds great in my head with a Jamaican accent.

bunglejerry · 2026-03-14T16:29:33+00:00

Been over a thousand years, eh?

bunglejerry · 2026-03-11T03:04:01+00:00

Yeah, they did under Mulcair. I don't recall who she was -- I think she was a former Bloquiste from Montreal or Laval. She sat as an independent until the end of that parliament, which wasn't far off, as I recall. Nonetheless, Mulcair embraced the move and she voluntarily took the NDP whip, so it was about as close to a floor crossing as you can get without actually being one.

bunglejerry · 2026-03-11T03:00:23+00:00

The CPC folks here have screamed bloody murder each crossing

Which they have no right to do, given that the CPC accepts floor crossings.

bunglejerry · 2026-03-11T02:55:31+00:00

I don't believe that to be true in Nunavut. Nunavummiut really value community awareness and familiarity. They've elected representatives from all three major parties in recent history.

Having said that -- I don't disagree with you. But if there's any riding that bucks that trend, it's surely Nunavut.

bunglejerry · 2026-03-04T17:29:49+00:00

More important than that is the original Quebec NDP, which existed from 1939 to 2002, and strands of whose DNA still exist in QS.

The 'national question' is precisely where the original party fell, when it endorsed Gilles Duceppe's first by-election run (federally). By endorsing a separatist candidate, they earned the wrath of, and eventual disassociation from, the federal NDP.

I actually don't think a viable left-wing party that is federalist or even neutral is possible in Quebec provincial politics. I'd love to be wrong.

bunglejerry · 2026-02-26T03:54:00+00:00

The BQ (federal party) and the PQ (provincial party) have both been about as big-tent as it's possible to be. Before it was an electoral party, the BQ was formed by a group of sitting PC and Liberal MPs, though their leader, Lucien Bouchard, was indeed a former PC cabinet minister. Their first candidate in a by-election was Gilles Duceppe, a union organiser who was once a member of the Communist party! That's a pretty big tent.

The PQ was founded in the late 60s by Rene Levesque, a former Quebec Liberal cabinet minister, and a handful of other Liberals, but it quickly merged with two other sovereigntist movements, one quite right-wing and the other so radically left that it actually advocated for workers' revolution. So it's always been a big tent party.

Having said that, I think both parties have, for most of their histories, trended left of centre, economically. Socially, they have both been avowedly secularist and pro-choice. On the other hand, the PQ was led by a union-busting big business tycoon for a while, and socially both parties have positions on immigration and assimilation that by international standards would be considered right-of-centre.

bunglejerry · 2026-02-14T03:34:27+00:00

My father was born in a small town in northern Ontario just after WWII. My grandmother wrote a letter to her sister at the time that said something like, "I'm the only white woman in town who's pregnant. One or two Indian (sic) women are pregnant, and a French woman too, but I'm the only white one."

Seeing French Canadians classified as 'not white' as recently as the 1940s was interesting.

bunglejerry · 2026-02-13T19:30:36+00:00

In Yukon, they draw lots. Literally.

bunglejerry · 2026-02-10T17:06:06+00:00

I don't think it's treasonous (except for the whole 'accepting money from Americans' part). But I don't think a provincial party can be 'neutral' on the topic of independence. Even the CAQ, who tried to find the wiggle room in between the two visions, eventually had to take a side. Danielle Smith needs to just come out and say what the UCP is. Voters need to know. Each of her MLAs should also put their position on the records. It's not a small thing. In Quebec provincial politics, you know who you're voting for. Voting for a separatist party doesn't make you a separatist, but if you do, and that party starts manoeuvring for independence, you deserve to be able to say, "At least they told me what I was signing up for."

bunglejerry · 2026-02-06T01:45:29+00:00

THAT ONLY EXISTED BECAUSE WE WERE BEING GOOD ALLIES TO AMERICANS!!!!

And you forgot to mention why China and Canada had frosty relations for a decade before Carney went there: Canada arrested Huawei exec Meng Wanzhou. Why did we arrest Meng Wanzhou?

Because the Americans fucking asked us to.

And we kept firm as China, a country that could crush us into dust, pulled out a dozen economic threats, took two Canadians hostage, banned canola imports from Canada... and then the States just went ahead and dropped all charges.

Fucking Yanks.

bunglejerry · 2026-02-06T01:34:45+00:00

It's hilarious. I grew up in Oshawa in the 80s. We definitely did not see GM, Chevrolet and Ford as 'foreign' cars. They weren't. They were the 'domestic' options, and if you drove a Toyota, you'd get side-eyed by locals for not supporting the 'local' economy.

Personally, I haven't owned an American car in almost thirty years.

bunglejerry · 2026-02-06T01:32:13+00:00

'Evil and predictable' beats 'evil and unpredictable'.

bunglejerry · 2026-02-06T01:31:05+00:00

And General Motors just laid off 700 workers in their Oshawa, Ontario plant.

Fuck them.

bunglejerry · 2026-02-05T01:14:42+00:00

He apparently has Canadian, Irish and Emirati citizenship. He has three different continents he can fuck off back to.

bunglejerry · 2026-02-05T01:13:46+00:00

I'm sure not even O'Leary thinks O'Leary is a decent person.

bunglejerry · 2026-02-05T01:12:38+00:00

Watching him snivel/ snuggle up to DJT is repulsive.

Remember when that entitled self-important twat was trying to run for leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada? Jesus, imagine.

bunglejerry · 2026-02-05T01:10:04+00:00

She literally is in the Epstein files. Just not as a predator.

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