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While the Conservatives talk tax cuts, Canada’s Liberal party leader insists the way forward is to spend. Well, that’s a breath of fresh air after a decade of Liberal deficits. Phew!!!
“Pierre Poilievre is about everyone for themselves, he’s all about cuts — cuts to dental care, cuts to childcare, cuts to pharmacare, cuts to foreign aid, cuts to our most valued institutions (=CBC
).”
This might’ve flown 10 years ago, if Carney was inheriting a balanced budget from Harper in 2015, instead of Trudeau’s consecutive 10 years of budget deficits amounting to more debt than every other Canadian Prime Minister combined.
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“Pierre Poilievre is about everyone for themselves, he’s all about cuts — cuts to dental care, cuts to childcare, cuts to pharmacare, cuts to foreign aid, cuts to our most valued institutions (=CBC
).”This might’ve flown 10 years ago, if Carney was inheriting a balanced budget from Harper in 2015, instead of Trudeau’s consecutive 10 years of budget deficits amounting to more debt than every other Canadian Prime Minister combined.
Canada needs to build, not cut its way back to strength: Carney — Toronto Sun
"I know, after long experience, we need to build our way out of a crisis," the Liberal leader said
Spend eCNY to fund it all. If he says China is our future its their CBDC and not a mutual one with US, EU and Pacific Partners.While the Conservatives talk tax cuts, Canada’s Liberal party leader insists the way forward is to spend. Well, that’s a breath of fresh air after a decade of Liberal deficits. Phew!!!
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“Pierre Poilievre is about everyone for themselves, he’s all about cuts — cuts to dental care, cuts to childcare, cuts to pharmacare, cuts to foreign aid, cuts to our most valued institutions (=CBC
This might’ve flown 10 years ago, if Carney was inheriting a balanced budget from Harper in 2015, instead of Trudeau’s consecutive 10 years of budget deficits amounting to more debt than every other Canadian Prime Minister combined.
Canada needs to build, not cut its way back to strength: Carney — Toronto Sun
"I know, after long experience, we need to build our way out of a crisis," the Liberal leader said
The future arrived.
Elections Canada picks Holy Week to hold advance polls
There can’t be many days less 'suitable' for advance polls than Passover, the Sabbath, Good Friday and Easter Sunday, can there?
Author of the article:Warren Kinsella
Published Apr 15, 2025 • Last updated 15 hours ago • 3 minute read
What would Jesus do?
Well, if he ran Elections Canada, he probably wouldn’t do what Elections Canada is doing this year. Which is conduct advance polls on some of the holiest days of the year, for Christians and Jews alike.
For Christians, the holiest days of the year are Good Friday (when Christ was crucified and died) and Easter Sunday (when he rose from the dead). For Jews, the Sabbath is always holy, and the Ten Commandments require that it be a day of rest — while Passover is holy, too (and commemorates the exodus of Jews from Egypt).
Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Passover and the Sabbath: For Christians and Jews, those days are among the most holy, most hallowed days in the calendar year. And, as noted, the Ten Commandments — observed by Christians and Jews alike — decrees that the observant must always remember the Sabbath day, and keep it holy. Per Exodus 20:8: “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labour, and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall not do any work.”
That’s a quote from God, which is a pretty authoritative source. But Stephane Perrault, who has been Canada’s chief electoral officer since 2018, is perhaps unfamiliar with the Ten Commandments. He, with the power bestowed on him by Parliament, decided to hold advance polls on April 18, 19, 20 and 21. Literally, Passover, the Sabbath, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Holy Week.
It’s not like Perrault had no choice. His own website says the following: “The Canada Elections Act currently grants the chief electoral officer the discretion to recommend to the government an alternate day for the general election if the CEO is of the opinion that the date is not suitable, including by reason of its being in conflict with a day of cultural or religious significance.”
There can’t be many days less “suitable” for advance polls than Passover, the Sabbath, Good Friday and Easter Sunday, can there? Election day is important, advance polls less so. Perrault was deciding when advance polls should take place — and he chose days that, for most observant Christians and Jews, are a violation of their faith.
Full disclosure and a confession: This writer is a church-going Catholic. I’m not a fanatic about it — I’m a big, big believer in the separation of church and state, for example — but I observe my religion’s important religious traditions, like Lent, which marks the 40 days Christ spent in the desert, fasting and praying. During Lent, we Christians are supposed to deny ourselves things. (This year, as before, I quit drinking alcohol, including Kilkenny, Harp’s and Guinness, which was deeply painful, but a requirement of my faith.)
So, I contacted Elections Canada to ask them why they selected Holy Week to hold advance polls. No one responded.
If they had, they might have offered up focus-grouped spin about how they had no choice, Prime Minister Mark Carney having decided April 28 was election day. Or, they might suggest that they consulted widely — although we don’t know with whom. Or, that other countries — like France and Spain — vote on Sundays. Or, that society is increasingly secular, and is less preoccupied with, you know, God.
Yeah, but no. In the past, Perrault has been required by the courts to reconsider the days he picks for voting. In 2019, for example, a Federal Court judge ordered Perrault to reconsider voting on a Jewish holiday called Shemini Atzeret, because observant Orthodox Jews are not permitted to work — or vote or campaign — on that day.
Voting on important religious holidays literally violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms’ protection of religious freedoms, in Section 2. Justice Ann Marie McDonald ruled that there was no evidence that Perrault had bothered to consider the obvious “Charter infringements” in that case. (The vote happened on Oct. 21 anyway, after Perrault issued a wordy “CEO reconsideration.”)
To our knowledge, no one has litigated the issue in this election. In 2011, however, when advance polls also landed in Holy Week, the NDP (surprise surprise) asked for a change. Elections Canada refused, saying its hands were tied, and that the law required it.
What would Jesus do? Well, we know what he’d do: He’d say pick some other dates. Simple.
Elections Canada, however, doesn’t give a good goddamn about that.
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There can’t be many days less 'suitable' for advance polls than Passover, the Sabbath, Good Friday and Easter Sunday, can there?
Author of the article:Warren Kinsella
Published Apr 15, 2025 • Last updated 15 hours ago • 3 minute read
What would Jesus do?
Well, if he ran Elections Canada, he probably wouldn’t do what Elections Canada is doing this year. Which is conduct advance polls on some of the holiest days of the year, for Christians and Jews alike.
For Christians, the holiest days of the year are Good Friday (when Christ was crucified and died) and Easter Sunday (when he rose from the dead). For Jews, the Sabbath is always holy, and the Ten Commandments require that it be a day of rest — while Passover is holy, too (and commemorates the exodus of Jews from Egypt).
Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Passover and the Sabbath: For Christians and Jews, those days are among the most holy, most hallowed days in the calendar year. And, as noted, the Ten Commandments — observed by Christians and Jews alike — decrees that the observant must always remember the Sabbath day, and keep it holy. Per Exodus 20:8: “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labour, and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall not do any work.”
That’s a quote from God, which is a pretty authoritative source. But Stephane Perrault, who has been Canada’s chief electoral officer since 2018, is perhaps unfamiliar with the Ten Commandments. He, with the power bestowed on him by Parliament, decided to hold advance polls on April 18, 19, 20 and 21. Literally, Passover, the Sabbath, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Holy Week.
It’s not like Perrault had no choice. His own website says the following: “The Canada Elections Act currently grants the chief electoral officer the discretion to recommend to the government an alternate day for the general election if the CEO is of the opinion that the date is not suitable, including by reason of its being in conflict with a day of cultural or religious significance.”
There can’t be many days less “suitable” for advance polls than Passover, the Sabbath, Good Friday and Easter Sunday, can there? Election day is important, advance polls less so. Perrault was deciding when advance polls should take place — and he chose days that, for most observant Christians and Jews, are a violation of their faith.
Full disclosure and a confession: This writer is a church-going Catholic. I’m not a fanatic about it — I’m a big, big believer in the separation of church and state, for example — but I observe my religion’s important religious traditions, like Lent, which marks the 40 days Christ spent in the desert, fasting and praying. During Lent, we Christians are supposed to deny ourselves things. (This year, as before, I quit drinking alcohol, including Kilkenny, Harp’s and Guinness, which was deeply painful, but a requirement of my faith.)
So, I contacted Elections Canada to ask them why they selected Holy Week to hold advance polls. No one responded.
If they had, they might have offered up focus-grouped spin about how they had no choice, Prime Minister Mark Carney having decided April 28 was election day. Or, they might suggest that they consulted widely — although we don’t know with whom. Or, that other countries — like France and Spain — vote on Sundays. Or, that society is increasingly secular, and is less preoccupied with, you know, God.
Yeah, but no. In the past, Perrault has been required by the courts to reconsider the days he picks for voting. In 2019, for example, a Federal Court judge ordered Perrault to reconsider voting on a Jewish holiday called Shemini Atzeret, because observant Orthodox Jews are not permitted to work — or vote or campaign — on that day.
Voting on important religious holidays literally violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms’ protection of religious freedoms, in Section 2. Justice Ann Marie McDonald ruled that there was no evidence that Perrault had bothered to consider the obvious “Charter infringements” in that case. (The vote happened on Oct. 21 anyway, after Perrault issued a wordy “CEO reconsideration.”)
To our knowledge, no one has litigated the issue in this election. In 2011, however, when advance polls also landed in Holy Week, the NDP (surprise surprise) asked for a change. Elections Canada refused, saying its hands were tied, and that the law required it.
What would Jesus do? Well, we know what he’d do: He’d say pick some other dates. Simple.
Elections Canada, however, doesn’t give a good goddamn about that.
KINSELLA: Elections Canada picks Holy Week to hold advance polls
There can’t be many days less 'suitable' for advance polls than Passover, the Sabbath, Good Friday and Easter Sunday, can there?
Currently, with Trump coming off as a bipolar nut job leading the most heavily armed nation on the planet, who wants to permanently attach themselves to that?
Anything Trump is bullying others to do is going to be temporary, at best, until they can firewall themselves as much as possible from him and the nation he’s currently leading.
I've listened to him from day and not the chimps. The whole tariff thing is 100% about monetary policy not trade imbalances. All anyone needs to do is listen. It's all there. Shit is going through Congress as we speak.
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I’ve read many of your links and watched many of your videos, and it doesn’t change the fact that Trump is making America a pariah.
Deliberate. It's by design. If I throw a party and crashers show up to drink my beer and eat my food I announce "anyone who didn't bring for the potluck doesn't get to sit at the table to eat and drink" what happens? Some will leave to pick up a six pack and a bucket of chicken, others will bitch and whine and go home. Liberals are bitching and whining.
If you throw a party, but you attack everybody, who stays for the party? They go to other (or form their own) parties. Then you have a party of yourself.
Everybody who did the BYOB thing aren't being attacked. They get it.
Do we care about what day various cults talk to sky pilots? Or anything else. April 28 is my son's birthday. Should we have postponed the election a day because of this? It really doesn't matter to the rest of us.Elections Canada picks Holy Week to hold advance polls
There can’t be many days less 'suitable' for advance polls than Passover, the Sabbath, Good Friday and Easter Sunday, can there?
Author of the article:Warren Kinsella
Published Apr 15, 2025 • Last updated 15 hours ago • 3 minute read
What would Jesus do?
Well, if he ran Elections Canada, he probably wouldn’t do what Elections Canada is doing this year. Which is conduct advance polls on some of the holiest days of the year, for Christians and Jews alike.
For Christians, the holiest days of the year are Good Friday (when Christ was crucified and died) and Easter Sunday (when he rose from the dead). For Jews, the Sabbath is always holy, and the Ten Commandments require that it be a day of rest — while Passover is holy, too (and commemorates the exodus of Jews from Egypt).
Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Passover and the Sabbath: For Christians and Jews, those days are among the most holy, most hallowed days in the calendar year. And, as noted, the Ten Commandments — observed by Christians and Jews alike — decrees that the observant must always remember the Sabbath day, and keep it holy. Per Exodus 20:8: “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labour, and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall not do any work.”
That’s a quote from God, which is a pretty authoritative source. But Stephane Perrault, who has been Canada’s chief electoral officer since 2018, is perhaps unfamiliar with the Ten Commandments. He, with the power bestowed on him by Parliament, decided to hold advance polls on April 18, 19, 20 and 21. Literally, Passover, the Sabbath, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Holy Week.
It’s not like Perrault had no choice. His own website says the following: “The Canada Elections Act currently grants the chief electoral officer the discretion to recommend to the government an alternate day for the general election if the CEO is of the opinion that the date is not suitable, including by reason of its being in conflict with a day of cultural or religious significance.”
There can’t be many days less “suitable” for advance polls than Passover, the Sabbath, Good Friday and Easter Sunday, can there? Election day is important, advance polls less so. Perrault was deciding when advance polls should take place — and he chose days that, for most observant Christians and Jews, are a violation of their faith.
Full disclosure and a confession: This writer is a church-going Catholic. I’m not a fanatic about it — I’m a big, big believer in the separation of church and state, for example — but I observe my religion’s important religious traditions, like Lent, which marks the 40 days Christ spent in the desert, fasting and praying. During Lent, we Christians are supposed to deny ourselves things. (This year, as before, I quit drinking alcohol, including Kilkenny, Harp’s and Guinness, which was deeply painful, but a requirement of my faith.)
So, I contacted Elections Canada to ask them why they selected Holy Week to hold advance polls. No one responded.
If they had, they might have offered up focus-grouped spin about how they had no choice, Prime Minister Mark Carney having decided April 28 was election day. Or, they might suggest that they consulted widely — although we don’t know with whom. Or, that other countries — like France and Spain — vote on Sundays. Or, that society is increasingly secular, and is less preoccupied with, you know, God.
Yeah, but no. In the past, Perrault has been required by the courts to reconsider the days he picks for voting. In 2019, for example, a Federal Court judge ordered Perrault to reconsider voting on a Jewish holiday called Shemini Atzeret, because observant Orthodox Jews are not permitted to work — or vote or campaign — on that day.
Voting on important religious holidays literally violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms’ protection of religious freedoms, in Section 2. Justice Ann Marie McDonald ruled that there was no evidence that Perrault had bothered to consider the obvious “Charter infringements” in that case. (The vote happened on Oct. 21 anyway, after Perrault issued a wordy “CEO reconsideration.”)
To our knowledge, no one has litigated the issue in this election. In 2011, however, when advance polls also landed in Holy Week, the NDP (surprise surprise) asked for a change. Elections Canada refused, saying its hands were tied, and that the law required it.
What would Jesus do? Well, we know what he’d do: He’d say pick some other dates. Simple.
Elections Canada, however, doesn’t give a good goddamn about that.
KINSELLA: Elections Canada picks Holy Week to hold advance polls
There can’t be many days less 'suitable' for advance polls than Passover, the Sabbath, Good Friday and Easter Sunday, can there?
There is your answer. Self-preservation. I doubt the rest of the US would let Trump get that involved. But just in case, being at least neutral would be a benifit.
So Trump didn’t attack the ones that BYOB, or he just didn’t attack Russia, and Belarus, & some others that were already being sanctioned?
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Are they still buddies?
Are they still buddies?
Did they, or where they already tariff’d enough before the last round, like Mexico?
Are they? Anyway, Carney:
Amy Hamm: Carney has the charisma of an AI chatbot — National Post
There is no substance to his remarks, and he can't give a straight answer in either official language
“We are in a crisis, we must act. We must choose a few projects, a few big projects. Not necessarily pipelines, but maybe pipelines, we’ll see,” said Carney. Anywho…
Carney refused to fire Liberal candidate Paul Chiang, after he said a rival should be kidnapped and handed over to China; and now he has failed to dismiss staffers who maliciously distributed fake and misleading buttons at a Conservative conference.
Instead, the staffers who planted the Trump-style buttons at the Canada Strong and Free Network conference have been “reassigned” to other jobs.
Considering that the staffers last job for the Liberal war room was to create misinformation as part of a dirty-tricks campaign, one wonders what their new roles will be?
You'll like this one.Did they, or where they already tariff’d enough before the last round, like Mexico?
Are they? Anyway, Carney:
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Despite the constant and trite references to “building,” he has not, in either language, given Canadians a straight answer on building pipeline projects. He even vacillated — in a single sentence — from a no, to a hopeful maybe, to a more reserved “we’ll see” while on the Quebec talk show, “Tout le monde en parle,” recently.
Amy Hamm: Carney has the charisma of an AI chatbot — National Post
There is no substance to his remarks, and he can't give a straight answer in either official language
“We are in a crisis, we must act. We must choose a few projects, a few big projects. Not necessarily pipelines, but maybe pipelines, we’ll see,” said Carney. Anywho…
Carney refused to fire Liberal candidate Paul Chiang, after he said a rival should be kidnapped and handed over to China; and now he has failed to dismiss staffers who maliciously distributed fake and misleading buttons at a Conservative conference.
Instead, the staffers who planted the Trump-style buttons at the Canada Strong and Free Network conference have been “reassigned” to other jobs.
Considering that the staffers last job for the Liberal war room was to create misinformation as part of a dirty-tricks campaign, one wonders what their new roles will be?
Any that are only time and a half. Holidays are double bubble. Plus the stat. Sometimes that even includes your birthday.