theacharnian

Serious question: would a progressive conservative like O'Toole have defeated Carney?

The numbers allow a continuation of a Liberal-NDP confidence-and-supply arrangement. This is a good result for those of us who don't trust a banker to not sell out the working class.

In loving memory of René Lévesque, I say, let them have their day in the sun. Don't fester in the dark, air out their ideas, take their best shot. Canada will be stronger for it.

No it's not. JD Vance's buddy got elected in Oshawa. Wouldn't be surprised if he rallies the maple Maga wing of the party around him.

What do you mean "narrowly"? It's a clean victory and the trumpist conservative leader lost his own riding.

Use the same definition (unchanged political institutions) and tell me how long the Roman Empire lasted.

Well, judging from how Canadians usually behave, those weirdos over there are always to spit on, but we don't because they're actually kind of all right, so we keep it polite and passive aggressive. Until someone talks about Celine Dion in a hostile tone.

We need European style left populism, like Mélenchon in France, or Corbyn in the UK. The mainstream media are going to call us hippie socialists no matter how "costed" and "responsible" our platform is. We need to be going for the jugular.

Canada is not a caricature version of the US. Do better, Time.

After this is all done, we need to rebuild the left in this country. We need the NDP to be putting forth bold policy proposals to neutralize the far right populist appeal of the fucking conservative ghouls.

Who did the US get independence from, buddy?

I think your "European" view is overlooking basically all of Eastern Europe, and some of Western Europe too. I'm 100% on board for PIIGS leftism (+Corbyn +Melenchon), but don't pretend that's what "left" means everywhere in Europe.