Yeah, the details will vary a bit but we’ve usually got the gist of it by 11:00 pm or so eastern time.
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I’ll be watching to see if anyone gets 170 seats by the time I go to bed. It’ll all be over but the shouting (which may be literal), if that’s the case.
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The media is calling it a win for the Liberal Party and Carney, but we don’t know yet if it’s a majority or minority government.
We get our results soooo much faster than the U.S.!
ETA; it looks like Poilievre has lost his seat!
ETA again; too soon to call for Poilievre’s seat; too few of polling stations have reported in.
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USian here. Any cruelty would have been on our side of the border, IMHO. You didn’t miss anything. In NYC we were swamped with these ads. The goofy desserts were just dressed up ice cream with sort of crunchy layers of chocolate thrown in. Prettied up to dupe kids at parties into thinking something amazing was happening; it wasn’t. One was much better off with a simple pie ala mode. Of course, tastes differ. If anyone actually enjoyed one of the Carvel creations, then I tip my party hat to them.
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Do you live in New York?
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Born, raised, schooled there… then moved to SoCal for the rockets. 
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Trump’s lunacy has got me curious about Canada’s politics and future. The numbers I see on BBC Live shows the Bloc Quebecois party way down, but with enough seats won (so far) to make a difference if they sided to some effective extent with the Liberals. Do these two parties have enough in common (at least now) for the aforementioned to possibly happen?
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Yeah, it’s looking the the Bloc may hold balance of power.The Bloc is really only concerned with issues about Quebec though; they don’t run candidates outside of Quebec. Their primary purpose is to bring about secession from the rest of Canada. So as the party holding the balance of power,I don’t really know how that would go. They are very concerned about Trump, and that could be common cause with the Liberals.
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To complete the set:
BQ- Why isn’t this cartoon translated into French?
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The Liberals and Carney have won! They have a minority government (168 seats; they needed 172 for a majority), but they can form a coalition with the New Democrats (NDP), who have lost official party status, but can control the balance of power with just 7 seats. The Liberals could ally with the Bloc Quebecois (24 seats), but that would be weird; the Bloc only exists for the interests of Quebec and work towards the secession of Quebec from Canada.
They haven’t finished counting all the votes from Poilievre’s riding, but he’s behind by about 4,000 and there’s only two more polling stations to count.
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And there’s a rather unusual reason why it’s taking so long:
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I know almost nothing of Canadian politics but it seems like a party that wants independence for Quebec might have at least some common interests with those who seek to keep a neighboring country from annexing all of Canada?
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ITYM
« Pourquoi ce dessin n’a-t-il pas été traduit en Français ? »
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I count this as a victory against the Tide of Regressivism. My right-leaning friends are already talking about seceding or moving overseas.
I think what they fail to realize is that Carney is probably centre-left at worst, centre-right in practice.
I don’t think the banker side of his mind will magically go away- so he’ll probably be good for industry. Where it might get interesting is where crypto regulation goes here in Can - something many in the far right are concerned about.
Anyways - I’ll take this as a victory for progressive politics!
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Yep; that was basically a protest against Poilievre.
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