[Canadian Politics] Take care. Listen to health authorities.

Aegis

Richy wrote: »

Aegis wrote: »

"Ontario Premier Doug Ford is currently polling between pink eye and stomach flu."

You're...not wrong, CBC.

Did they actually say that? That's uncharacteristically honest and insightful for the CBC.

One of the commentators, yes.

vsove

Go to sleep, child, so I can drink and watch Netflix and stop following this madness.

Sir Fabulous

To whoever voted in their Canada 150 shirt, high-five!

I voted in advance last week, but I remember being slightly amused to realize I was wearing my Canada 150 sweater to the polling station.

Invectivus

I voted. Instead of a estimated 90% majority for my riding, it’s now only 89.999%

Sir Fabulous

vsove wrote: »

Go to sleep, child, so I can drink and watch Netflix and stop following this madness.

Kid's nervous about CPC government, ya can't blame him.

Aegis

As a federal public servant...*grabs bottle*

Richy

Hey the Greens are leading in one! In Fredericton, beating the Con by 600 votes and the incumbent Liberal by 800 votes. Damn tight three-way race, but come on Green!

Sir Fabulous

At this rate, only 167 more elections until the Greens form the government!

quovadis13

This conservative jamoke on CBC

“I don’t think Quebec are racists....they are xenophobic.”

That’s still bad!!!

Infidel

Voted. Apparently a coin toss in polls for my riding for the liberal incumbent.

Wife begrudgingly not voting NDP.

Caulk Bite 6

https://twitter.com/darth_pingu/status/1186440955362205697

Pretty good likenesses

quovadis13

Most polls close soon. Hold on to your butts.

[Prepares for like 70 ridings to be called immediately]

Fencingsax

Aegis wrote: »

Thunder Bay made the news...

...for fucking up times on polling cards, causing an hour delay in terms of closing time. Woo, Thunder Bay.

Thunder Bay has done worse.

Mim

So, as an American....who do you people want to win?

Space Pickle

not the military surplus guys whose name I forget

not old man yells at cloud

oh and not regular mr. burns. burns pretending to be cool is ok i guess

Caulk Bite 6

Minority liberals

Richy

Mim wrote: »

So, as an American....who do you people want to win?

Want, in an impossible dream world? NDP.

Want, in a realisitc scenario? Liberal minority working with NDP.

Sir Fabulous

Mim wrote: »

So, as an American....who do you people want to win?

Dream unicorn fairy-tale possibility? NDP.

Realistically? Liberal plurality but not a majority (where they need to work with the NDP in order to from government).

Richy

Also, hi Mim! I guess my reply to your Facebook status this morning got you curious :P

Caulk Bite 6

Richy wrote: »

Mim wrote: »

So, as an American....who do you people want to win?

Want, in an impossible dream world? NDP.

Want, in a realisitc scenario? Liberal minority working with NDP.

I mean, this ideally, but yeah

Mim

Richy wrote: »

Also, hi Mim! I guess my reply to your Facebook status this morning got you curious :P

it did!

I only know Trudeau because he's hunky and I'm sorry but that's how this American votes in Canadian elections.

KetBra

Mim wrote: »

So, as an American....who do you people want to win?

ABC

Corvus

Hmm, say there’s a liberal majority. Cons turf scheer as leader then no?

Here’s a nightmare scenario in that event. Bernier merges the PPC with the Cons and the Canadian right goes full crazy.

Sir Fabulous

Mim wrote: »

Richy wrote: »

Also, hi Mim! I guess my reply to your Facebook status this morning got you curious :P

it did!

I only know Trudeau because he's hunky and I'm sorry but that's how this American votes in Canadian elections.

Trudeau's not bad looking I admit but Jagmeet Singh (NDP) is no slouch in that department!

Andrew Scheer (Conservative) looks like a seal mated with a slug.

KetBra

Corvus wrote: »

Hmm, say there’s a liberal majority. Cons turf scheer as leader then no?

Here’s a nightmare scenario in that event. Bernier merges the PPC with the Cons and the Canadian right goes full crazy.

Oh, I'm counting on the Cons going crazy if they lose. Not sure if they merge with the PPC, but pretty sure they go crazy

Mim

Sir Fabulous wrote: »

Mim wrote: »

Richy wrote: »

Also, hi Mim! I guess my reply to your Facebook status this morning got you curious :P

it did!

I only know Trudeau because he's hunky and I'm sorry but that's how this American votes in Canadian elections.

Trudeau's not bad looking I admit but Jagmeet Singh (NDP) is no slouch in that department!

Andrew Scheer (Conservative) looks like a seal mated with a slug.

Hmm okay, then NDP and Liberal may kiss.

vsove

If the cons lose, Scheer is out and I will put cash money on Kenney making a hard push for the leadership.

It’s been his end goal for a while.

Nosf

I saw a pic on CBC today of Scheer and he looked spot on like Brock Turner, noted rapist.

Richy

KetBra wrote: »

Corvus wrote: »

Hmm, say there’s a liberal majority. Cons turf scheer as leader then no?

Here’s a nightmare scenario in that event. Bernier merges the PPC with the Cons and the Canadian right goes full crazy.

Oh, I'm counting on the Cons going crazy if they lose. Not sure if they merge with the PPC, but pretty sure they go crazy

Are you guys living in a world where the Cons have not already gone crazy?

Anyway, there's no chance in hell the Cons don't kick Scheer to the curb if he loses tonight. He's barely holding on to the party as it is. Which sucks for Bernier, he could have done a run for the leadership again a few months later, but now he's stuck with the PPC. I don't see why the Cons would welcome him back after he backstabbed them, most candidates in his party are CPC rejects, and he's polling at 1% so they don't exactly need his support. This isn't a Reform/PC situation for the CPC.

KetBra

Richy wrote: »

KetBra wrote: »

Corvus wrote: »

Hmm, say there’s a liberal majority. Cons turf scheer as leader then no?

Here’s a nightmare scenario in that event. Bernier merges the PPC with the Cons and the Canadian right goes full crazy.

Oh, I'm counting on the Cons going crazy if they lose. Not sure if they merge with the PPC, but pretty sure they go crazy

Are you guys living in a world where the Cons have not already gone crazy?

Anyway, there's no chance in hell the Cons don't kick Scheer to the curb if he loses tonight. He's barely holding on to the party as it is. Which sucks for Bernier, he could have done a run for the leadership again a few months later, but now he's stuck with the PPC. I don't see why the Cons would welcome him back after he backstabbed them, most candidates in his party are CPC rejects, and he's polling at 1% so they don't exactly need his support. This isn't a Reform/PC situation for the CPC.

Compare the Canadian federal conservatives with any of the provincial conservative parties, let alone foreign conservative parties and tell me with a straight face that they are as extreme

Corvus

vsove wrote: »

If the cons lose, Scheer is out and I will put cash money on Kenney making a hard push for the leadership.

It’s been his end goal for a while.

This would be hilarious in many ways with all his current rhetoric as Alberta premier.

Sir Fabulous

I wish CBC had a separate indicator for currently leading ridings and definitely final results ridings.

It's weird that lib seats where they're leading 45 to 33 with 200 stations to report are lumped in with ridings where they're leading 17,000 to 10,000 with 10 stations left to report.

quovadis13

Very torn on whether or not I want Bernier win his seat since if he doesn’t it will go Conservative

Aegis

On the one hand, a Conservative is leading a riding.

On the other hand, the riding is Maxime Bernier's and could possibly knock the People's Party off the board.

Hmmmmmm.

Corvus

quovadis13 wrote: »

Very torn on whether or not I want Bernier win his seat since if he doesn’t it will go Conservative

Bit of a kang kodoss situation

Shadowen

It's very much long-term vs short-term. If the PPC fails now it might just die in the crib and the Canadian right (while already plenty bad) might stop bleeding sanity.

If the PPC manages to get even a toehold, it means the Conservatives might lose enough votes to fail hard this election and we get a Liberal minority who do a coalition with a strong-ish NDP...but if that happens the PPC could very well hollow the Tories out and devour them from the inside like the Reform party did, and we all know how that went from the last time.

The obvious golden middle ground of "PPC crashes and burns and Conservatives still have a bad night" still feels unlikely at this point.

Aegis

I don't like this CBC sentiment of "The Liberals are having a good night" while I watch the tracker lead skirt down around 20 seat leads at time.

Of course, the other, probably larger, contributor is the way they're doing this "Post the results to the tracker immediately even if we only had 5 more votes added".

Entriech

I keep trying to add up all the non-Con leading seats to see if it gets over 170, because then at least we'd be out of Con-majority territory.

Nosf

CTV has declared liberal win, dunno if minority or majority though.

Aegis

Nosf wrote: »

CTV has declared liberal win, dunno if minority or majority though.

CBC also doing the same.