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It's already a campground/resort. A waterslide and go cart track would seal the deal.
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As it should be. Rural areas are where the money comes from. Now, dense population areas like GTA make decisions that have no effect on them, but decimate the economies of rural areas, of which city people have no clue and don't care. Take the EV mandate. Yes, they have their place, in the city, but to mandate that ALL vehicles must be EVs shows an elitist total lack of knowledge of how most of the country lives and works. How big a diesel generator is required to charge 20 pickups in a logging camp? Or be forced to use an EV to drive from Whitehorse to anywhere when you have to stop for hours to charge?
EE Senate would be a start. The PR systems we have been presented with so far do not work for large rural ridings. They also give seats to "The Party" based on total number of votes. Pretty much eliminates independents. Then there is the problem of which ridings are going to have a party insider parachuted into their riding, especially if it is not from your chosen party. BC has voted on this several times, and the populace was wise enough to vote it down each time. The option presented to us was STV. Very complicated to count.
22 Minutes goes elbows up on decency with 'disgusting' Poilievre skit
For a state broadcaster facing the threat of budget cuts, is pointing knives at the potential PM going too far?
Author of the article:Joe Warmington
Published Apr 01, 2025 • Last updated 13 hours ago • 3 minute read
Halloween character Michael Myers goes elbows up -- and knives up -- on a fake Pierre Poilievre in a comedy skit.
Halloween character Michael Myers goes elbows up -- and knives up -- on Pierre Poilievre, right, played by Chris Wilson, during a This Hour Has 22 Minutes skit. Photo by This Hour Has 22 Minutes /YouTube
The knives are definitely out in this wild federal election campaign, but this a whole new low in Canadian political history.
Unless you think a slasher film killer holding kitchen knives toward a potential prime minister is funny.
Either way, having a serial killer character from the Halloween movies pointing two large blades toward a Pierre Poilievre impersonator on CBC’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes on April Fools Day is something not seen in Canadian politics before.
And it has critics sharpening their outrage.
If it was a comedic slash back at a Conservative leader who has threatened to cut the CBC budget if elected prime minister, some people on social media seemed to pick up on it.
“About as funny as cancer,” wrote Miranda Veracruz on X.
“Seems like a threat,” posted Gunther Johnson.
“Just purely disgusting,” wrote Valerie Munro. “Not funny at all.”
The CBC’s Chuck Thompson told the Toronto Sun that This Hour Has 22 Minutes “has been doing satirical comedy for over 30 years now and this season is certainly no exception.” He added “comedy is so subjective” and “with each episode of 22 Minutes, we recognize not every sketch will be to everyone’s taste. Over the years, seemingly without exception, no politician has dodged the satirical lens of 22 Minutes.”
Or in the case of the Tuesday night broadcast, not just one knife but two. Maybe it should be called “This Hour Has Two Knives.”
The legendary CBC comedy show is known for lampooning leaders – especially conservative ones like Poilievre and U.S. President Donald Trump.
In this case, actor Chris Wilson started the video doing a parody of the now-famous video that Liberal Leader Mark Carney did last week with Canadian comedy legend Mike Myers – where they pretended to be in a hockey rink wearing red Team Canada sweaters as the Liberal leader took the Wayne’s World star through a Canadian purity test with a series of questions including topics like the puppets on Mr. Dressup.
In this mocking version of the original spot, 22 Minutes cast Wilson as Poilievre in a similar venue and with the same Team Canada sweater.
“Yes, play hockey, play hockey,” he says. “Hi Canada, it’s me, Pierre. I’m at a hockey rink. Oh, look. Take that Mark Carney. It’s celebrity sweetheart Mike Myers, also at the rink to endorse me.”
This time it was not the actual Mike Myers of Austin Powers fame, but the masked psycho from the Halloween movies. In the parody “fill-in-the-blank” quiz, they make a joke about “barenaked ladies,” meant to play off the Canadian band, and when asked, “How do you stop a 2-on-1?” the silent slasher makes a throat-slitting motion.
“Killing. Yea. Wow. Yeah, that would do it,” says the jittery fake Poilievre, who is then surprised by the killer lurking behind him by asking, “Is that what that feels like?”
But when the Poilievre character offers to do the same “elbows up” that the real Mike Myers got going on his Saturday Live appearance and with Carney as well, the Halloween character raises his elbows to expose two large kitchen knives pointed directly at the fake Poilievre.
All of this was posted to X under the banner: “Pierre Poilievre gets a killer endorsement.”
Is this funny?
To some who were offended by the real Poilievre’s “biological clock” comment from a day earlier, it seems it was less offensive. For those feeling that there has been a lot of backstabbing toward the Conservative leader, there were certainly not as many laughs.
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For a state broadcaster facing the threat of budget cuts, is pointing knives at the potential PM going too far?
Author of the article:Joe Warmington
Published Apr 01, 2025 • Last updated 13 hours ago • 3 minute read
Halloween character Michael Myers goes elbows up -- and knives up -- on a fake Pierre Poilievre in a comedy skit.
Halloween character Michael Myers goes elbows up -- and knives up -- on Pierre Poilievre, right, played by Chris Wilson, during a This Hour Has 22 Minutes skit. Photo by This Hour Has 22 Minutes /YouTube
The knives are definitely out in this wild federal election campaign, but this a whole new low in Canadian political history.
Unless you think a slasher film killer holding kitchen knives toward a potential prime minister is funny.
Either way, having a serial killer character from the Halloween movies pointing two large blades toward a Pierre Poilievre impersonator on CBC’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes on April Fools Day is something not seen in Canadian politics before.
And it has critics sharpening their outrage.
If it was a comedic slash back at a Conservative leader who has threatened to cut the CBC budget if elected prime minister, some people on social media seemed to pick up on it.
“About as funny as cancer,” wrote Miranda Veracruz on X.
“Seems like a threat,” posted Gunther Johnson.
“Just purely disgusting,” wrote Valerie Munro. “Not funny at all.”
The CBC’s Chuck Thompson told the Toronto Sun that This Hour Has 22 Minutes “has been doing satirical comedy for over 30 years now and this season is certainly no exception.” He added “comedy is so subjective” and “with each episode of 22 Minutes, we recognize not every sketch will be to everyone’s taste. Over the years, seemingly without exception, no politician has dodged the satirical lens of 22 Minutes.”
Or in the case of the Tuesday night broadcast, not just one knife but two. Maybe it should be called “This Hour Has Two Knives.”
The legendary CBC comedy show is known for lampooning leaders – especially conservative ones like Poilievre and U.S. President Donald Trump.
In this case, actor Chris Wilson started the video doing a parody of the now-famous video that Liberal Leader Mark Carney did last week with Canadian comedy legend Mike Myers – where they pretended to be in a hockey rink wearing red Team Canada sweaters as the Liberal leader took the Wayne’s World star through a Canadian purity test with a series of questions including topics like the puppets on Mr. Dressup.
In this mocking version of the original spot, 22 Minutes cast Wilson as Poilievre in a similar venue and with the same Team Canada sweater.
“Yes, play hockey, play hockey,” he says. “Hi Canada, it’s me, Pierre. I’m at a hockey rink. Oh, look. Take that Mark Carney. It’s celebrity sweetheart Mike Myers, also at the rink to endorse me.”
This time it was not the actual Mike Myers of Austin Powers fame, but the masked psycho from the Halloween movies. In the parody “fill-in-the-blank” quiz, they make a joke about “barenaked ladies,” meant to play off the Canadian band, and when asked, “How do you stop a 2-on-1?” the silent slasher makes a throat-slitting motion.
“Killing. Yea. Wow. Yeah, that would do it,” says the jittery fake Poilievre, who is then surprised by the killer lurking behind him by asking, “Is that what that feels like?”
But when the Poilievre character offers to do the same “elbows up” that the real Mike Myers got going on his Saturday Live appearance and with Carney as well, the Halloween character raises his elbows to expose two large kitchen knives pointed directly at the fake Poilievre.
All of this was posted to X under the banner: “Pierre Poilievre gets a killer endorsement.”
Is this funny?
To some who were offended by the real Poilievre’s “biological clock” comment from a day earlier, it seems it was less offensive. For those feeling that there has been a lot of backstabbing toward the Conservative leader, there were certainly not as many laughs.
WARMINGTON: 22 Minutes goes elbows up on decency with 'disgusting' Poilievre skit
The knives are definitely out in this wild federal election campaign, but a This Hour Has 22 Minutes skit set a whole new low.
Either Carney and the Liberals are working with Trump or Canadians in Ontario have the memory span of a moth.
If C-69 is not repealed, we will be prisoners of the USA.
We are about to shoot ourselves in the foot again, and this time, it might be fatal.
If C-69 is not repealed, we will be prisoners of the USA.
We are about to shoot ourselves in the foot again, and this time, it might be fatal.
They are using the same polling compianes and methods as Harris.
A recent Ekos poll has 60% the poll 65 and over with the remaining 40% being the remaining demographics.
Really, because I've been following the same polls Ron's posting. You know, the ones that had the Conservatives ahead by 20+ points.
Yeah. That's an aggregate not a poll. Polls can easily be manipulated.
Mr. Harper appeared at Mr. Poilievre’s rally in Edmonton on Monday night to introduce the Conservative Leader to a crowd of thousands who packed into at a warehouse south of the city. The rally, which is the 11th of the campaign, was the largest one so far, with organizers saying upwards of 10,000 people registered for the event.
Former prime minister Stephen Harper said Canada’s problems weren’t created by the Trump administration as he made an impassioned pitch for Pierre Poilievre to become Canada’s next prime minister and downplayed Liberal Leader Mark Carney’s role during the 2008 global financial crisis.
He said the problems Canada is currently facing are not merely the fault of U.S. President Donald Trump, who has imposed tariffs on countries around the world, rattling global markets.
“It’s no secret that our country faces today another historically challenging time in the form of the Trump administration. There is no sugar coating that,” Mr. Harper said.
“But the bulk of the problems that afflict our country – falling living standards, declining employment and housing opportunities, rising crime, the growing divisions between our regions and our people – these were not created by Donald Trump. “They were created by the policies of three Liberal terms, policies that the present prime minister supported.”
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Former prime minister Stephen Harper said Canada’s problems weren’t created by the Trump administration as he made an impassioned pitch for Pierre Poilievre to become Canada’s next prime minister and downplayed Liberal Leader Mark Carney’s role during the 2008 global financial crisis.He said the problems Canada is currently facing are not merely the fault of U.S. President Donald Trump, who has imposed tariffs on countries around the world, rattling global markets.
“It’s no secret that our country faces today another historically challenging time in the form of the Trump administration. There is no sugar coating that,” Mr. Harper said.
“But the bulk of the problems that afflict our country – falling living standards, declining employment and housing opportunities, rising crime, the growing divisions between our regions and our people – these were not created by Donald Trump. “They were created by the policies of three Liberal terms, policies that the present prime minister supported.”
Carney says he was at the table managing crises during Harper years, not Poilievre — The Globe and Mail
Former PM Harper says Trump didn’t create Canada’s problems as he endorses Poilievre at Edmonton rally attended by thousands
I’ve actually just got off the phone with somebody who watched that rally in Alberta yesterday. Apparently they were 10,000 people registered to be there but they were 15,000 people there to see Harper & Poilievre. That’s crazy.
Go to a rally in Edmonton last night is what he did most recently as far as I know. Apparently there was something like fifteen thousand people there.