I may well have not just been paying enough attention, but I don’t remember hearing about any travel advisories for the US before, even for Category 5 hurricanes like Katrina.
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Additionally, the travel advisory warns that the hurricane could severely disrupt the following essential services: transportation, power distribution, water and food supply, telecommunications networks, emergency services, and medical care.
Canada has wisely predicted that, if disrupted, these essential services are not going to be restored in a hurry under the current misadministration?
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What’s wrong with wishing for the Trump Domus Aurea to be washed into the sea?
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Nothing.
Though one should note that she was PM (albeit briefly – the briefness for reasons which enrage me¹), for what was then called the Progressive Conservative Party.
We’ve shifted well rightwards in a relatively short period.
¹ I would be fine if she had been allowed to fail on her own merits or lack thereof. But Brian Mulroney handed her a rapidly sinking ship and we haven’t had a serious woman PM candidate since, partly because people point at her short tenure and how bad the pary imploded “under the leadership of a woman”.
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Yup. Mulroney took off, got a job with an American lumber company – a job which wouldn’t have existed except for the free trade deal he negotiated as PM – and left Campbell at the helm just in time for the party to implode. He ensured both that the first woman PM of Canada was a Conservative, and that no-one would consider a woman PM in Canada for… one generation and counting.
And if he hadn’t led the Cons to implosion, to the point that they lost their official party status (or should have), they would have had less reason to get mixed up with the Reforms and the other extreme right wing types.
Just more reasons to hate Mulroney. The man leaves a dumpster fire wherever he goes.
Edited for autocorrect.
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This isn’t as big a shift as it might appear at first: these people haven’t been elected, and, even if they had, they’re provincial candidates, not federal ones.
It’s still hard not to see this as a huge slap in the face of the NDP by NB, and a coup for the Green Party.
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40 days until the election (Oct 21).
Mine will probably be a protest vote; I live in a riding that was created thirty years ago, and has voted for Liberal politicians both federally and provincially in every election since then (even during the utter collapse of the Wynne government).
My biggest problem right now is not seeing much difference between the platforms of the Green and NDP parties. All else being equal, I’ll probably vote Green (to specifically register my protest at the half-assed measures being undertaken to ameliorate climate change), but I’d rather vote for someone whole-heartedly.
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It’s always interesting to see how your country is viewed abroad.
# of BBC articles about the election kick-off: 2 (one, two).
# of mentions of Bernier/PPC: 0
# of Guardian articles about the election kick-off: 1 (one).
# of mentions of Bernier/PPC: 0
# of Al Jazeera articles about the election kick-off: 1 (one)
# of mentions of Bernier/PPC: 0
…Although, to be fair to Bernier on that last one, not even the NDP got the bother of a mention (unless you count an off-handed remark that the Liberals were in third place when the 2015 election kicked off).
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The conservatives naturally tried their hand at nazo-style propaganda and they really, really suck at it.
my riding looks like it might go red this year. Although i am disappointed with sock man (booo! End first past the post, you coward!) The federal NDP riding association collapsed, soooo i guedd i’m voting for red team
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That’s basically where I’m at. I never thought I’d vote Liberal in a billion years, but I’m seeing it as an anti-Nazi vote.
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The bad: Doug Ford issued stickers for gas pumps as propaganda denouncing the federal carbon tax
The worse: he ordered stickers meant for an interior, metal surface, instead of an exterior, vinyl surface, so they aren’t sticking to the pumps
The ugly: The Ford family business is in label printing.
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That, and the Ford government lost $42 million on sales of marijuana last year.
Doug Ford was a drug dealer in high school.
Tell me again how the Cons are fiscally responsible. How the hell do you lose money on pot sales in Ontario?
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I don’t know. Apparently, it’s possible for someone to be sufficiently incompetent as to lose money running a casino, so…
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Good point.
[Rushes to the lakeshore to hug Ontario Place while it’s still there]
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Oh Hell, as nearly as I can tell, the elder Ford brothers ran Scarberia back in the day. Am I wrong?
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Etobicoke, but otherwise yes.
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West (or Outer, when you add North York) Scarberia. 
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Oh man. Don’t say that to anyone who’s from there.
(Which I don’t get, because honestly, while Scarborough is no prettier than those boroughs, neither is it uglier. And it has cool places like The Guild.)
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