Politics

[Glacier]

MOST linguistically diverse ridings in Canada:

#1) Skeena--Bulkley Valley, BC
This riding has the highest percentage of speakers of the following languages:

Babine (Wetsuwet'en)
Carrier
Haida
Salish languages, n.i.e.
Gitxsan (Gitksan)
Nisga'a
Tsimshian
Haisla


#2) Yukon:

Kaska (Nahani)
Tutchone languages
Northern Tutchone
Southern Tutchone
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e.
Tlingit


#3) Parkdale--High Park, ON

Maltese
Latvian
Lithuanian
Tibetan
Hungarian


#4) Northwest Territories:

Dogrib (Tlicho)
Gwich'in
North Slavey (Hare)
South Slavey
Slavey, n.o.s.


#5) Richmond Centre, BC:

Mandarin
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese)
Wu (Shanghainese)
Chinese, n.o.s.
Chinese languages, n.i.e.

[Forrest Gump]

https://stormhavendotme.wordpress.com/2 ... next-week/

Scary indeed



https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/ ... ments-area

[Abby_wx]

https://stormhavendotme.wordpress.com/2 ... next-week/

I seem to have misplaced my tinfoil hat... do you have a spare by any chance?

[Abby_wx]

Worst election ever, IMO. There's really no party running on a centrist platform.

I already voted in advance polls (because of work), but I seriously considered not even bothering. I've never not voted before, but this is the closest I've come yet.

I sense a general lack of enthusiasm this election. I wonder how that will be reflected in the polls... seems unlikely turnout will be as high as in 2015.

[SouthSardiswx]

Worst election ever, IMO. There's really no party running on a centrist platform.

I already voted in advance polls (because of work), but I seriously considered not even bothering. I've never not voted before, but this is the closest I've come yet.

I sense a general lack of enthusiasm this election. I wonder how that will be reflected in the polls... seems unlikely turnout will be as high as in 2015.

Agreed Abby Sr. I also voted in the advance poll (do to my work schedule) being in a new riding and all my interest is like very low you may as well go blind folded and play pin the tail on the donkey.

[Abby_wx]

Has anyone else tried the Vote Compass on the CBC site?

https://votecompass.cbc.ca/canada/

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This probably explains why I was having so much trouble figuring out who to vote for... I'm miles away from all of them.

This isn't totally accurate of course. For myself, I'd say they got the left/right part pretty much correct, but I'd place myself slightly above the middle line. It all comes down to how they interpret the answers to specific questions. One question I recall was "How much immigration should Canada have?" I selected "much less", which the compass probably considers a socially conservative answer. My main reasons for wanting less immigration are housing affordability and environmental issues, neither of which are socially conservative positions.

I seem to recall being above the center line when I did the compass back in 2015. This is not surprising, because what's considered the center today is not the same as it was four years ago, and personal views also shift over time.

[Forrest Gump]

I just tried it.

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[SouthSardiswx]

I ended up almost dead center.

[Forrest Gump]

I ended up almost dead center.

So you're a playmaker. Do you dish the puck to your left winger as much as your right winger?

[SouthSardiswx]

So you're a playmaker. Do you dish the puck to your left winger as much as your right winger?

Good question Mr. Gimps I probably miss the net much like the Knuckles did in Jersey today, frustrating game indeed.

[Abby_wx]

It sounds like most of us are very close to the center... it's all of the parties that are way off on the fringes.

An opinion piece in Maclean's a couple of years ago predicted that 2018 would be the end of centrist politics. It appears that the writing was on the wall with the Trump fiasco down south and the Brexit drama across the pond... Canada is just a bit late to the party.

https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/no-more ... -politics/

Centrist thought, when converted to policy, not only puts off the consequences of poor decision-making, it prolongs conflicts that should have long ago come to their natural end; it’s a Faustian bargain that comes with a heavy deferred cost.

[Typeing3]

It sounds like most of us are very close to the center... it's all of the parties that are way off on the fringes.

An opinion piece in Maclean's a couple of years ago predicted that 2018 would be the end of centrist politics. It appears that the writing was on the wall with the Trump fiasco down south and the Brexit drama across the pond... Canada is just a bit late to the party.

https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/no-more ... -politics/

I'd still consider the Liberals to be fairly centrist with regards to economic policy; the vote compass above pretty much still confirms this. Nevertheless - socially - they most definitely have lurched to the left.

[VanCitySouth]

I'm locking in at:
LPC 142 / CPC 125 / Bloc 34 / NDP 32 / Green 3 / PPC 1 / Other 1 (JWR)

[Forrest Gump]

Conservatives 160 , liberals 110 , ndp 32 , bloc 32 , green 2 , other 2

[Typeing3]

CPC 129
LPC 127
NDP 40
BLQ 37
GPC 3
PPC 1
IND 1