JohnnyCanuck

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[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I've never tried it but almost did during Covid: you can use brewers yeast if you get desperate and I believe there are quite a few Canadian suppliers for that.

https://youtu.be/-ujgmQQSOWQ

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 hours ago

I'm not positive, but I always took it as a conservative way to say "I have a tiny penis and I want to fuck Joe Biden!" Pretty sure that's what marjorie taylor greene means anyway.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I thought that's what let's go Brandon was too?

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 44 points 18 hours ago (9 children)

Not yet, we still have hope it won't happen.

Our system is a bit different. We elect a party and that party has a leader. The leader of the elected party is the Prime Minister. The leader can step down and the party stays in power and selects a new leader, who then becomes Prime Minister. Trudeau stepped down and his party selected Carney to replace him, so we have a new prime minister and maintain a centrist government. (Centrist to us, left wing to the US.)

We can also have elections at any time, either by choice of the party in power, or forced by the opposition parties if they have enough seats in the government. Our current party in power, The Liberals, don't have a majority, so they've been maintaining power by making deals with a left wing party (the NDP or New Democratic Party). Liberal + NDP is one seat or so from a majority right now, so they've been finding additional support from other parties. This has actually worked out pretty well, as it has forced the government to be a little more proactive and given the left a good amount of power. There is always the threat of losing power and having to make different parties happy.

If the NDP (or others) decide they don't like Carney, they can force an election and then we will have the chance of getting that Conservative government you were worried about. Most likely they will wait a bit to see how things are going before doing that because their worst fear is forcing an election and ending up in a worse position (a Conservative majority.) If you hear that Canada has a new Prime Minister named Poilievre in the next year, you'll know we just ran into the same shit you guys did.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago

because we want him to be better than Poilievre

Or at least seem better than Poilievre to the people who might vote conservative.

 

Nothing says "classy" like flying that flag.

Good L🍁ck Trudeau! (But also, don't let the door hit you on the way out...)

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[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 3 points 20 hours ago

I just learned about it, but it's called the "Newfoundland Curse" not the "Newfoundlander Curse" or the "Newfie Curse".

It's a curse of the land that some newfies get struck with, not a curse of the people that all are afflicted with.

A Newfie Curse would be "Lord tunderin' Jesus, the arse is gone out of 'er!"

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Will shit, this would be quite the way to find out I'm cursed. I get irregular heartbeats all the time and half my ancestry is Newfie going way back...

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 days ago

Get Brianthompson'd, Reddit.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

There's more, but this is the full quote where he tries to equivocate the term first:
“The term Zionist increasingly being tossed around as a pejorative, in spite of the fact that it simply means believing in the right of Jewish people, like all people, to determine their own future, is not normal. No one in Canada should ever be afraid to call themselves a Zionist. I am a Zionist."

What a way to leave. I guess he's trying to bookend his, "I am a feminist" speech.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 16 points 4 days ago (11 children)

If it's bought and paid for, how does it support Nazis?

How does trashing a working vehicle fight Nazis?

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 days ago

Better than sitting behind a keyboard literally doing nothing. I applaud them for taking action.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

But what was put in place recently won't do anything for that.

Now that I think about it, we should drastically reduce security going south (even beyond removing what was set up in the last month) to enable smuggling to get around the tariffs.

 

Would it be antithetical? Would it help them push the agenda? Could it be an end game?

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