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To extend to this, the rest of the British Empire at the time did massive contributions. The Aussies did real work during the Africa Campaign, even holding a town that single-handedly crippled the Afrika Corps's advance towards Egypt (also Egyptions doing some great work supporting Commonwealth troops as they prepared for the counterattack), countless Indian sacrifices all over the place despite Churchill causing more Indian deaths than the Germans at the same time, New Zealand giving a good show despite basically not having an economy or a population at the time. Frankly, you can point at almost any part of the commonwealth, and they all punched way above their weights for this war, and that doesn't even start talking about the British homefront.

And outside of the colonies, Poland really carried hard on several ways, from volunteers flying during the Battle for Britain, to a single small destroyer soloing the Bismark for an entire hour screaming at the battleship dozens times larger than it (the full story of the Piorun is insane).

Either way, tons of recognition is deserved all around, not just pointing at the UK, Russia, and the US.

Nothing constructive? Like a hundred billion tunnel under Toronto to bypass the 401? Or how about a hundred million to remove some Toronto bike lanes on some streets that isn't even anywhere near capacity instead of worrying about streets that have actual gridlock? Or selling off important farmland to make only a few thousand homes in the middle of nowhere instead of actually building homes that are close to things like actual stores or work places? Or building a bypass for a bypass that isn't anywhere near capacity over the same farmland because the courts blocked the previous sale of them? Or the hundred million he was going to give to Musk to give free internet to a handful of rural communities when they could just buy it themselves if they wanted internet? Or how about selling the Ontario Place to a spa company when Toronto spas doesn't even make a decent profit already, or that they didn't even operate an actual chain of spas that they said they did when they bid for the spot? Or how he's tearing down the Ontario Science Center because of 'leaky roofs' to make parking lots when Torontonians managed to fundraise enough money to permanently fix the roofs at zero cost to the government? Or how about the province-wide bribe he made just this winter right before the Ontario election? Or how about his trip to the states where he spent most of his time on CNN complaining to Americans about random crap on the taxpayer's dime? Or how he had one decent idea in surcharging electricity to the US, only to fold when an American offered to talk about talking about the Trump tariffs?

Exactly where has Ford done anything that wasn't a massive waste of money since he was first elected?

It certainly is possible. Most people have shitty memories for anything that they're not passionate about, and very few people are passionate about politics or how things change around them. Just the latest outrage article more often than not.

But I do think that there is also a connection to the fact that the left is sorely underrepresented in social media as well. And I don't just mean in terms of content creators, but platform owners as well. After all, even if most tech bros that started up all our favourite online media giants, once they reach the top, every single force in the capatalistic world that let them get on top is now a force that drives them hard to the right. Legislation makes it harder to earn more money when you've already squeezed out the easy and legal opportunities. The left is all about change and democratizing things, where the corporate giants have already consolidated so much of the economy that this is a legitimate threat to their power. Not to mention that making it easier for entrepreneurs to start up new companies without relying on venture capital influence to avoid the risk of personal bankruptcy is a direct threat that may topple their empire if they can't buy them out (or will be bought by someone else who already is a direct threat).

And then there's the fact that advertising money flock towards right wing content creators because not only are they more commercially safe since they are far less likely to call out corporations doing bad things, but they're also more willing to take money from unethical sources. I mean, how often does right wing youtubers advertise energy drinks and protein powders? Or what about supplements or "muscle enhancers"?

The double whammy of right wing media giants and right wing content creators make it really hard for the left to get their voice out at all, especially to the young who exclusively get their news from these sources.

I mean, imagine how many think that the stuff they hear on facebook is actual legitimate news despite them officially not allowing Canadian news to be advertised on their services?

As an Ontarian, I can list dozens of projects that suffered this way, from plan changes, alterations during construction, to outright cancellations right before being completed. We probably waste half our budget this way.

There's hope that this might not have aged as badly as some think.

After all, PP might actually get fired as the Cons leader for not doing his job. (Though honestly, I'm rooting for the party to break up. A far right party and extreme right party splitting the votes will only show just how terrible each side is, and with a split, the animosity between them means that neither will gain traction for decades, and hopefully make Canadians realize just how terrible the parties they've been voting for really are)

Frankly I find it amazing that Albertans aren't the most acutely aware how fragile their economy is. They've suffered several oil crashes, even two in the last decade or so, and yet they feel like they'll do better without Ontario and Quebec to prevent a total economic crash any time oil prices dip?

And this is at a time when oil prices are already starting to fall, with pretty much every forecast blaring out that oil will become nearly worthless by the end of the century, if not within the next two decades?

Oh, and this is even before considering that the only other province that has a snowball's chance in hell to give Alberta a hand once there's no federal government to force the provinces to work together (even marginally), is Saskatchewan. I strongly doubt that BC would allow Albertan oil to pass through their province if the Feds wasn't there to make them play nice together. Maybe natural gas, but definitely not oil. And in such a case, the only significant buyer of Albertan oil will be the the US, and I would bet actual money that the first thing they'd do would be to ask for a discount on oil, because they know it is litterally the only thing preventing Alberta from becoming a 3rd world economy.

These numbers are really encouraging. Voter participation has been a serious issue on all levels of government for a long time, and hopefully this is the beginning of a reverse in trends. Canadians need to at least pay a minimum of attention to what their leaders are doing or else they'll just do whatever they think they can get away with.

So many Canadian leaders sneak in absurd laws and policies and Canadians just don't notice or say anything, and I say this in regards to all parties. Not saying anything, especially during elections, is a tacit approval. Because showing disapproval is the only way to make governments know that they can't get away with ignoring the public good in favour of personal agendas.

I think even worse than voting for fear and resentment, they voted for actual fascism. The guy openly stated that he was going to try to ignore Canadian rights and freedoms without any ambiguity. It's not like him twisting turning Canada into a 3rd world resource economy as a great boost to the economy, or that saving the 1% billions in taxes as a way for the average Canadian to save their money.

One of PP's mandates was to use the notwithstanding clause to bypass Canadian rights and freedoms to jail people without a trial. It was one of his platforms, and there was zero ambiguity that he intended to do it exactly as he stated.

The fact that this wasn't a red flag for over 40% of Canadians and an immediate reason to distance themselves from him, it honestly scares me. Because this is how Hitler and Mussolini came into power, along with many other of history's worst leaders. They sounded reasonable at first, with only one or two shady bits to their mandates, only for those shady bits to be the core that started the greatest evils in the world.

Once, I thought that conservatism was about small governments and capitalist agendas and thought it was bad.

To think that I now dream for that to actually be true, rather than being actual fascists and dictatorships. That calling the Cons neo-Nazis might be bordering on a compliment compared to the shit they're actually pulling.

Okay, I had to double check, because I thought this was a Beaverton article for a sec.

I mean, seriously? "Anti-liberal wipes, now with extra logic"? "Anti-liberal rash cream"? I'm sorry, but do the Cons pay for their shit by selling overpriced weirdly labeled crap to their supporters like some pyramid scheme or something?

I really thought this was satire until I double checked the link address.

I do hope that the government won't let them have a by-election to put PP on board anytime soon. If the Cons are determined to make it happen, it will no matter what eventually, but I hope that they won't be able to get a special exception for it. And there's no way he'll lose since he'll pick a riding that's got at least 70% support already.

Though it would be hilarious if he loses twice in a row.

Yup. Him and his pension he's been building up since his 20s.