@fedwards9965 @mpjgregoire @david
Yeah David, I agree about the #cdnpoli being more actively used on twitshit. During some of the more reported on elections in the early 2010s, using free analysis sites, one could clearly see the cdnpoli hashtag as vastly more effective in connecting and mobilizing within the #cdnnews #cdnfed #cdnelxn conversation. So, for e.g., you’d see #andrewcoyne from #macleans or 🇨🇦 #politicos and pundits from maybe #tvo , #cbc , #globeandmail , #torontostar @torontostar , maybe #globalnewsca and #metronews using common hashtags -again, this probably only became a habitual and noticeable change IMO during #canadaelection time where #cdnelxn , #cpc #lpc #gpc #tories #pctories #ndp #canadavotes tags had a noticeably significant boost.
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"However, there is a strange void beneath Poilievre’s gamesmanship. It’s not about his sincerity of belief—he could hardly be accused of not really meaning the things he’s been hollering in letters to the editor since he was a teenager—but rather the bigger picture. For someone who is so skilled and devoted to winning every single partisan battle, what is the war for?"

The #Macleans profile makes me like #PierrePoilievre more. I hope he talks more about his goals.

https://www.macleans.ca/longforms/why-is-pierre-poilievre-so-angry/

"Charest and Poilievre will ask Conservatives two different questions. Charest’s is: Are you tired of losing yet? Poilievre’s is: Are you tired of leaders who will say anything to win, and then don’t even win?"

#PaulWells

"I feel comfortable saying that among current Conservative members, the we-miss-Joe crowd are outnumbered by the climate-change-is-Davos-socialism crowd.""

At least one #Tory isn't in either crowd.

https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/what-goes-around-comes-around-and-its-name-is-charest/

#JeanCharest #PierrePoilievre
#canpol
#Macleans

That was from #PaulWells, at https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/erin-otoole-and-the-multiverse-of-madness/

(I must take a moment to correct for the record the claim that #BrianMulroney went to Dal; he went to #StFX and then #UniversitéLaval . We all make mistakes.)

What do I think? I 'm not sure. #ErinOToole isn't winning plaudits from me at the moment; but I'm not sure how he should have handled the #convoy , and I don't see who would be better as a replacement leader.

#canpol
#Macleans

"Third: those calling on governments to do something, now including members of the federal governing caucus, are sometimes short of ideas about what, precisely, to do. Federal lawyers in a court challenge could make no argument that hasn’t already been made—and, largely, rejected by the frustrated Judge Blanchard."

#PaulWells

https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/and-now-the-inevitable-bill-21-fight/

#Loi21 #polqc
#Macleans

According to #PaulWells , the #JustinTrudeau ministry is setting up two cabinet committees: Cabinet Committee on Economy, Inclusion and Climate ‘A’ and Cabinet Committee on Economy, Inclusion and Climate ‘B’. They have identical mandates. Bizarre.

https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/the-climate-committee-double-double/

#Macleans
#canpol

That was #PaulWells in #Macleans , in that paragraph commenting on #ErinOToole . He doesn't mention that Mr. O'Toole won the #Conservative leadership claiming to be a "True Blue".

https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/a-wins-a-win/

Personally, I can live with the centrist policies, but Mr. O'Toole's willingness to bend to the desires of the government of #Québec distasteful. Québec should cancel its own income tax system, not take over federal collection. The law about religious garments is foolish, etc.

#canpol #qcpol

I'm not making any strong claims about how the issue of #abortion affects voting in #canpol , only that I haven't seen any convincing analysis of the politics. For some reason, the people who write newspaper columns are uniformly of the opinion that the issue loses the #Conservatives votes.

For a more general discussion of abortion in Canada, I recommend https://archive.macleans.ca/article/2008/7/21/its-time-to-talk-about-abortion , by #AndrewCoyne in #Macleans .

Because this is the sort of man Mr. Trudeau is: verbally intelligent, good at making gestures and sounding like a statesman, but weak at planning and achieving. And at the same time unwilling to delegate to people with the strengths he lacks.

#PaulWells in #Macleans has many good inside stories of how Mr. Trudeau runs his ministry.

#canpol

#PaulWells in #Macleans
"[T]he Trudeau government is plainly skittish about discussing [NORAD modernisation], because it touches on taboo topics like ballistic missile defence (“Bush’s Star Wars”), 21st-century jet fighter capability (see assorted Canadian governments’ procurement horrors passim ad infinitum), and what for the Prime Minister is the eternally vexing question of Canada’s attitude toward China."

https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/the-biden-trudeau-talk-build-back-whatever/

#canpol #NORAD #uspol

I'm going to say that things are not so bad in Canada, largely because we don't have the crazy Ivy League system. Last time I looked, #Macleans ranked #UofT as the top university in the country, but U of T has 70000 students, so it's not that hard to get in. Not so expensive that graduates carry around a millstone of debt and resentment either.

Canadian political divisions are regional, as they've always been.

#canpol #meritocracy

"Consider, as this judge would, that Legault’s government could have sought the approval of a majority of provinces, but didn’t bother. That it could have sought the approval of Parliament, but didn’t bother. I don’t think there’s much to be worried about here."

It's rare that #PaulWells says anything good about PM #JustinTrudeau , so the fact he endorses the feds' low-key approach to #ProjetDeLoi96 is interesting.

#canpol #polqc
#Macleans

@keithzg @msh It does seem clear from Ontario data that schools are a major source of outbreaks. See https://covid-19.ontario.ca/covid-19-epidemiologic-summaries-public-health-ontario#weekly , linked to from that #Macleans article.

#covid19 #schools

"Businesses need to be shut, unless they are absolutely essential. Those that need to remain open need stringent measures to deal with air quality. Given the pressure it puts on parents and students, schools should probably remain open: But, again, actual measures need to be taken to reduce the risk of that aerosolized transmission."

OTOH, says #JustinLing , no need to close parks or restaurant patios -- outdoors is safe -- or to wash hands so much.

https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/how-did-it-come-to-this/

#covid19
#Macleans

That was #PaulWells of #Macleans commenting about the federal budget's proposal for a new childcare programme. It's also a judgement on PM #JustinTrudeau .

#canpol

@keithzg There are lots of reasons to dislike the Prime Minister. Personally I find the posts of #PaulWells on #Macleans the most convincing regarding Mr. Trudeau's leadership and character.

Anyway, I don't regret following the @ezralevant@mstdn.foxfam.club feed. Mostly sane, but a wildly different point of view from the radio and newspapers.

#canpol

I read an article recently on #Macleans, talking about #SocialConservatives in #canpol, asking (given that, e.g., same-sex marriage is not about to be repealed), what do they want? Here's my attempt at an answer:

1. A wider #OvertonWindow. They feel that in Canada their views cannot even be discussed without being called misogynistic, hateful, etc.

2. If they can't reverse policies they opposed, at least to fight new ones.

3. Some kind of limit on the current abortion regime.

This article makes two startling claims about #GovernorGeneral #JuliePayette :

1. Months into her time in office, it was clear that she was unreasonably slow at signing official papers, her principal duty.

2. #PM #JustinTrudeau would have been warned by Minister #MarcGarneau that she was difficult to work with, but he didn't bother to ask.

https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/the-problem-with-modernizing-and-the-governor-general/

#canpol
#astronauts
#PaulWells #Macleans

Is it possible that Canadian politicans have developed a plan that will achieve the carbon emission reductions they've promised? C$170/t by 2030, with rebates for citizens.

It's easy to be cynical about this file: they've been giving targets for 25 years, and we've missed them every time, no matter which party is in power.

On climate, at last, #JustinTrudeau is all in #PaulWells #Macleans
https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/on-climate-at-last-justin-trudeau-is-all-in/

#CarbonTax #ClimateChange
#canpol