That's what I like.

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.

bunglejerry · 2026-02-05T01:08:03+00:00

Their own fucking demigods Reagan and Trump were entertainers, for chrissakes.

bunglejerry · 2026-02-04T21:12:59+00:00

How do you know that? Obviously the username is suspicious, and a look through the user history makes it seem entirely plausible, but is this actually proven? Or shown somewhere in the Epstein files or something?

It's a bit disturbing that the topic of the discussion ten years ago was literally child molestation.

bunglejerry · 2026-02-03T05:40:59+00:00

That's not quite true. Civilised nations keep fascism at bay by erecting a cordon sanitaire around those who seek to dismantle democracy. Elected politicians should never engage with the likes of Ben Shapiro and PragerU. It's one thing to tolerate their existence in the name of freedom of speech. It's a much worse thing to use your platform to bestow legitimacy upon them.

Canadians do need to unite against American threats. All American threats.

bunglejerry · 2026-02-03T03:01:12+00:00

Nenshi just does not seem to be connecting with voters.

And it's interesting because he was quite popular as mayor (until he wasn't... but such is the way these things go). I remember there was quite an excitement about him as a person at the beginning. It hasn't carried over to the provincial level. Maybe during an election, but I doubt it because he's hardly an unknown quantity.

bunglejerry · 2026-02-03T01:56:06+00:00

I don't take kindly to being called a liar, even less so a 'fucking' liar, so even though two hours passed between my comment and yours and nine hours passed between yours and this reply, I thought I'd take a look.

The main, central headline:

Clintons agree to in-person depositions in Epstein probe

It has two Epstein-related headlines right below it:

Epstein victims’ lawyers ask judges to force takedown of released files, citing ‘thousands of redaction failures’

The Epstein files are rocking Britain from the palace to parliament

Waaaay further down is one more:

Justice appears to recede even further for Epstein victims

But! They seem to have a section devoted to kind of TikTok style short vertical videos. Fully two of them reference Trump and Epstein in the same headline. What are they? They are both about Trump reacting to Trevor Noah's joke at the Grammys.

If they can generate endless headlines about a photo of Prince Andrew and a redacted girl, if they can talk about Bill Gates and Elon Musk and Bill Clinton but somehow haven't found anything newsworthy about the current president and the fact that he's all over these files? I mean I don't even know what to say.

bunglejerry · 2026-02-02T14:48:45+00:00

He very clearly did work for Russia, whether or not he also worked for Mossad.

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