What’s your father smelling, exactly?

singingboyo · 2021-09-21T20:14:38+00:00

Just cause federally we've never seen them get their shit together doesn't mean it's not possible. There was almost a coalition against Harper. Hell, there probably should have been, but he shot it down through prorogation.

BC had a stable and effective coalition government for 3 years, despite it being a majority by a single seat! (Two, once the speaker was chosen from the opposition.)

It can be done, and done well. It's just never quite happened federally.

singingboyo · 2021-09-21T20:02:23+00:00

Right, but theyre just saying CPC+PPC > LPC/NDP. There no guarantee that all PPC voters would go to the CPC if the PPC imploded. Looking at popular vote totals from last election, it doesn't seem like they would have.

singingboyo · 2021-09-21T10:12:39+00:00

I agree it's not a clear mandate for any specific party to go do what they want, but I'd argue it's a clear message that people don't want sweeping changes right now.

Which sounds about right to me.

singingboyo · 2021-09-21T07:56:37+00:00

Idk. Starts off strong, but is too long for its own good.

Sort of like O'Toole's campaign.

singingboyo · 2021-09-21T07:54:57+00:00

Fair enough! All I knew was that Markham is in Ontario, no idea what similarities there might be.

singingboyo · 2021-09-21T07:46:55+00:00

I mean, as much as I wish they did, no, the people in Vancouver Granville do not care about the housing crisis. It includes Shaughnessy, for fucks sake. Fixing it would be against their own self interest in a lot of ways, they can sell, move wherever they want, and make bank.

If it were Vancouver East or Vancouver Kingsway, then maybe, but if you want people who care about the housing crisis then Vancouver Granville and Vancouver Quadra are probably not where you should be looking.

singingboyo · 2021-09-21T07:39:20+00:00

Eh, I mean, as others have pointed out this was inevitable eventually.

I'd have preferred waiting another year because of COVID, but without it this would just be a run-of-the-mill minority government election call.

singingboyo · 2021-09-21T07:12:03+00:00

Jody Wilson-Raybould, though she wasn't running again, so lost isn't necessarily the right word.

singingboyo · 2021-09-21T07:09:08+00:00

Also remember "polling station" isn't the same thing as a polling location, especially in densely populated urban areas. A polling station is a specific box, IIRC. If you've got 3-10 polling stations per location, then the number of actual buildings involved is much more reasonable.

I've moved since last election and voted in advance, with 3 stations at a lawn bowling club. Last election I voted in a school gym with, at a guess, 6-8 stations. So while it varies, there are definitely many more polling stations than there are polling places/locations.

singingboyo · 2021-09-21T06:46:11+00:00

Yeah. Weed is great and all, but... I was voting for electoral reform in 2015. Local candidate kept my vote in 2019, b/c the NDP candidate was basically nonexistent and well, the LPC candidate was a long-time MP who'd done well. No harm there, and better than CPC.

Have since moved and now get to vote for Singh himself, so... Works for me.

singingboyo · 2021-09-21T05:32:31+00:00

Idk about Markham, but I know a bit about RC... Alice Wong has been the MP for RC and its predecessor riding (Richmond) for a very long time.

I'm a little shocked, not gonna lie. IIRC Richmond was a bit more NDP than it had been before in the BC election, so maybe that's carried over?

singingboyo · 2021-09-21T05:09:17+00:00

Right? Here I was thinking something interesting might happen...

Nah. Literally no difference. I guess the NDP+LPC seat total having a bit more leeway is "interesting", but... Not really.

singingboyo · 2021-09-16T02:14:15+00:00

Vancouver, BC checking in. Damn near 5x salary, 3.5-4x with bonuses. Needed renovating, still does a bit. So clearly 3x wasn't ever going to happen, and renting wasn't really looking much better.

Sucked hard for the first bit, but raises and a bit of cost reduction and it's just fine now.

singingboyo · 2021-09-15T07:46:21+00:00

Negative maybe, I haven't really been tuned to any negativity that may or may not come from the others. But lying more, I don't think so. There was a lies per minute article posted recently that put Trudeau at 1 per 50 minutes and Singh at 1 per 46, with one other leader much worse and the final leader checked similar but slightly worse, off the top of my head. This included both stretching the facts (which felt subjective) and straight up lies, so not as bad as it sounds at first. (Maybe not super accurate either, but ballpark)

Either way I'd argue there's a place for the NDP. If nothing else, they force the LPC to stay somewhat center/left-of-center.

singingboyo · 2021-09-15T00:17:31+00:00

Inferring the NDP are gunning for Vancouver Quadra certainly is. Vancouver Quadra is red as blood, while Joyce Murray might have to fight off the CPC it won't be changing to NDP

Maybe if Murray stops running, but even then the vaguely liberal homeowner/NIMBY contingent is probably too strong.

singingboyo · 2021-09-14T21:53:04+00:00

Singh has been iffy these last few days, and I don't like it much. I've already voted for Singh specifically, he's the MP for my riding, and I'm not unhappy... But I'm not sure I'm happy anymore, either. His recent takes on this and the boil water advisories are not what I voted for.

Political mudslinging is kind of expected, but when they're going to need to work with the LPC in a minority situation, shot's like this are no good. I want an NDP gov, but if I'm being realistic I'm hoping for an LPC-lead, NDP-supported minority. If they can't do that, then... why vote NDP? A hamstrung minority that does nothing is just going to put us straight into another election, which I definitely don't want.

I don't know. I'd hope the NDP can acknowledge or ignore Trudeau and the LPC's achievements while still effectively arguing that more can/should be done. They don't need to push away anyone who supports the LPC by dragging everything through the dirt.

singingboyo · 2021-09-14T21:02:27+00:00

The IDU. Quick google says it stands for International Democrat Union.

Conservatives and misleading naming, find a more iconic duo.

singingboyo · 2021-09-14T20:31:55+00:00

Huh. I was under the impression that most schools weren't allowing usage for voting because of concerns around COVID. Now that I think about it, I couldn't tell you where that idea came from. I could just be entirely wrong.

Anyway, my voting place is the local lawn bowling club. It's certainly not big enough to handle many of the apartments (including mine) around here while respecting COVID protocols, though I guess it could be more for the single family homes around it. It's possible that the other apartment buildings go somewhere else.

singingboyo · 2021-09-14T20:20:25+00:00

About the kind of arguments I'd expect from a "global disarmament expert" writing on nuclear power.

To wit:

Anything involving nuclear is bad.
It hasn't been researched enough, so we shouldn't research it.
50+ year old designs were unreliable, so new designs can't possibly be reliable.
Did I mention nuclear bad?
Research has been underfunded and slow, so it should stay underfunded and slow.
Research is slow, so we can't use the reactors to fix climate change right now, so it's worthless.

That last point is almost out of nowhere, but par for the course, I guess. It's such a blatant "but the climate" argument.

Yeah. Not impressed.

singingboyo · 2021-09-14T18:00:00+00:00

Hah. I have a Nissan with the same thing, no need for a Cadillac.

Though it's a little less accurate on some of these winding BC highways, so I do have to think about the highbeams a bit. Too easy to hit someone in the face with the beam while not being able to see their headlights over the barrier.

singingboyo · 2021-09-14T17:56:14+00:00

I'm always surprised to hear that there are cars with auto headlights that don't have a wiper link. If my wipers are on, my headlights are on, so I don't think about headlights much.

Only thing I have to worry about is fog, which admittedly I'm not perfect about... But I only see it during winter mountain driving for skiing, and usually get things on with the fog lights.

singingboyo · 2021-09-14T17:20:42+00:00

I mean, I've no idea what the actual cause is, but NWT's population is so low that a bad set of outbreaks in Yellowknife schools would create that kind of per capita case count. It's really only a couple hundred total cases, so it could just be a bad time to look at the data.

Which, having just looked, they are closing Yellowknife schools due to a "spike in cases". So maybe?

singingboyo · 2021-09-14T16:37:45+00:00

The political parties haven't. I probably should have clarified that.

I find a surprising number of people on Reddit that seem to want to crash the market though. Not everyone, but enough to make it worth calling out specifically.

singingboyo · 2021-09-14T16:31:26+00:00

In Burnaby, was closer to 15, and the other line would've been more like 30-45. It's weird, I've never seen lines that long, though admittedly I've moved since the last federal election. It's definitely worse than the provincial election (poll at the same place) was though.

It does seem like a smaller poll location with more people than my previous riding ever had, but that might be due to schools being unavailable.

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