(or at least all Canadian citizens, which isnāt quite the same thing)
There is an election Monday, April 28th. Thatās tomorrow. You need to vote.
If you received a voter card, it will have your poll location on it. If you didn't, you can find the locationĀ HEREĀ (franƧais). Elections Canada does not call voters - if someone called or texted you to say the time or location has changed, thatās fraud. Check the website for accurate information.
In order to vote you need EITHER a driverās license or provincial ID card, OR two pieces of ID, one of which has your current address. A letter from your University or residence counts. (Proof of address is more important than proof of citizenship.) The full list of ID accepted isĀ HEREĀ (franƧais).
If you didnāt receive a voter information card, you may not be registered to vote. But thatās okay!
YOU DOĀ NOTĀ NEED TO REGISTER IN ADVANCE TO VOTE IN CANADA.
YouĀ canĀ register at the poll station on Election Day. Itās not hard and it doesnāt take very long, and you donāt need extra ID.
Voting is quick and usually simple. Polling hours depend on yourĀ provinceĀ (franƧais), but all polls will be open until at least 7:00 pm, usually later. (Note that in the Eastern Time Zone pollsĀ open late, at 9:30 am.) Your employer is required to give youĀ time off to voteĀ (franƧais) if you need it.
Information for voters with disabilities isĀ HEREĀ (franƧais). If you have feedback on accessibility or other issues, there will be forms you can fill out at your polling station.
If you got aĀ mail-in ballotĀ and you have not sent it yet, you can drop it off in person at yourĀ local Elections Canada officeĀ (franƧais) or the address on the envelope, anytime before the polls close.
Hereās the acceptable ID list againĀ (franƧais).
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Donāt see anyone on here talking about it yet, but if youāre in Canada: that aggravating age verification bill that got pushed through in the UK? Well, we have a similar one that failed in Parliament a few months ago, but now itās being pushed forward again.
Weāre seeing how that stupid bill is being implemented in the UK, so if we donāt want this bill sneaking itās way in, we gotta start talking up too.
Hey Fellow šØš¦ Miscreants
The Senate's trying to slip Bill S-209 through on the down-low, and it's basically a photostatic copy of the UK's
I don't know if any of my followers have been keeping up with some of the funnier things that have happened this election, but my personal favourite is the state of the electoral ballot for Carleton, Pierre Poilievres riding. (Link goes to the wiki page for the riding.)
There are 91 candidates.
91.
The ballot is over a meter long.
Is this an accessibility issue for voters with poor dexterity/eyesight/literacy? Yes.
Is it also funny as heck that he is so disliked by his own riding that they're fucking with him like this? Also yes.
Hey Alberta - there's a federal petition out right now to bar construction of resource-hungry AI data centres. It aims to mandate and prioritize national environmental protections, public hearings, and First Nations consent first and foremost.
Anyone from Canada can sign: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7427
The petition is open from May 20, 2026 until September 17, 2026, so spread this to your Canadian friends and relatives to get as many eyes on it as you can! We know how detrimental to local health and wildlife AI data centres are, so let the government know you don't want mega-centres here!
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The "Third Way" in liberal politics involves saying things that working people love, but doing things that sociopathic plutocrats love. It works ā¦right up until voters notice that you're not doing the things. That realisation breeds cynicism and fury and paves the way for fascist strongmen.
It's really ugly, and no one does it uglier than Canada's Liberal Party. Remember that time Prime Minister Justin Trudeau marched with Greta Thunberg to protest Canada's shitty, planet-wrecking climate policies?
Gee, Justin ā it sure would be great if you could have a word with the fella who decided to bail out America's doomed tar sands pipeline and vowed to pump and torch 173,000,000,000 barrels of Canadian oil:
Trudeau's "Third Way" eventually proved so unpopular that he opened the door to an authoritarian takeover of Canada by an otherwise totally unelectable, Trump-aligned far-right maniac. The only thing that saved Canada from a fate dumber than Trump was Trump himself, who wouldn't stop promising to make Canada the 51st state, an idea that was even more repellent to Canadians than five more years of Third Way bullshit:
And boy did Canadians find a Third Way bullshitter to move into 24 Sussex Drive: Mark Carney, an austerity-crazed central banker who will endorse incredibly progressive policiesā¦provided he never has to do any of them. When it comes to championing working Canadians while royally screwing them, Carney is the only Canadian politician capable of out-Trudeauing Trudeau.
But we shouldn't reject Carneyism due to the mere fact that Carney refuses to deliver Carneyism. The problem with Carneyism isn't Carneyism itself ā the problem with Carneyism is Mark Carney.
Take Carney's policy promise to charge US tech giants a 3% tax, a move that would defeat their incredibly clever gambit of pretending to be Irish and thus not owing any tax, anywhere:
That was a good policy! So was Carney's "elbows up" policy of sticking it to America in retaliation for Trump's flagrant violation of CUSMA, the free trade agreement negotiated by (checks notes) one Donald J Trump:
Unfortunately, Mark Carney didn't get the memo from (checks notes) Mark Carney, and the very instant Trump arranged his face into his trademarked confused scowl, Carney dropped the tax, apologising profusely:
In the last days of the Trudeau government, the Liberals passed a bill that transformed Canada's Competition Bureau from the weakest antitrust regulator in the world into one of the strongest (on paper, at least):
It's impossible to overstate how useless the Competition Bureau was before this bill passed. In its entire history, the Bureau had only challenged three mergers, and had never successfully challenged a merger. Canada's do-nothing competition enforcers allowed the country to be captured by Made-in-Canada oligarchs whose ripoffs and abuses would make the Hudson's Bay Company blush:
If Canada was ever going to be a real country (and not just two monopolists and a mining company in a trenchcoat) it needed a serious competition enforcer. Nominally, it has one, thanks to the 2024 Competition Act. The only problem was Carney, who made sweeping real-terms cuts to the Bureau's funding. Thanks to Carney, Canada has a Competition Bureau with all the powers it needs to save Canada from its oligarchs ā but it can't afford to do any of that stuff.
Monopolists rip Canadians off like crazy. We even have a guy who mistook Les Miz for an HBR case-study, and embarked upon the country's worst-ever price-fixing campaign, gouging the country on bread prices:
You don't have to be a monopolist to steal from Canadians. Ripping off Canadians is the game everyone can play! Consumer protection agencies are incredible value for money, saving the public hundreds for every dollar that we spend on them. Guess who just eliminated Canada's consumer protection agency?
Oh, to be a scammer in Mark Carney's Canada! Whatever Galen Weston doesn't steal is yours for the taking!
But again, the problem isn't Carneyism ā the problem is Carney. Carneyism is great. Carneyism gave us that remarkable speech at Davos, where Mark Carney declared a "rupture" in the US-dominated global system of trade and politics, promising a future of "minilateralism" in which "middle powers" like Canada band together for mutual prosperity:
If only Mark Carney had been there to hear those stirring words! He might have understood what a fucking insane idea it is to turn over Canada's military to Palantir, the company that, more than any other, has fused itself with the Trump regime's domestic program of ethnic cleansing and its international program of extraterritorial aggression:
Carneyism isn't merely a rejection of the old international order. Domestically, Carneyism promises technocratic excellence, skilled leadership that delivers first-class services for the Canadian people. This is a great pitch! It got Mamdani elected, and Mamdani's sincere pursuit of governmental excellence thrills New Yorkers in new ways every day:
Here, too, Carneyism is entirely sound ā the problem is Carney's vicious anti-Carneyism and his plan to fire tens of thousands of civil servants and replace them with AI chatbots. It's not just that chatbots are terrible substitutes for skilled public officials, they're also controlled by US corporations that are entirely beholden to the Trump regime:
Unlike Mark Carney, I support Carneyism. Carneyism promises protection for Canadians, from monopolists and mad emperors, petty thieves and potholes. But Carney himself ardently opposes these policies. This will only get worse when the AI bubble pops and vaporises a third of the US stock market, spreading contagion to global capital markets. That will be Carney's cue to roll out his favourite go-to tactic: austerity.
We cannot afford this. Austerity is how we lose the country. Austerity ā more than any other force ā drives working people into the arms of fascists:
The thing is, Mark Carney has shown his political opponents how to beat him: just embrace Carneyism. The things Carney says are incredibly popular. Now we just need to elect someone who'll do them.
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
Last thing Iāll post about bill S-209 (KOSA for Canadians basically) for today, but if they really ācared about the childrenā wouldnāt they raise the age of consent to 18/19 (global standard) instead of doing some bullshit to sell Canadian citizenās data?
Wouldnāt they try to stop the bills being passed that allow minors to operate heavy machinery, work risky jobs, and endanger themselves for minimum wage ā or less?
Wouldnāt they be clamouring to convince the provincial governments to put mandatory Narcan & Naloxone training in schools, with accessible kits in every school?
If they truly cared about kids, wouldnāt the federal government be passing laws on rent and tuition caps? Wouldnāt they be looking to provide clean, safe water to every child in Canada (this may be out of date, but something like 56% of indigenous reserves and rural communities donāt have consistent, clean water which is fucked)?
If they truly gave a shit about the wellbeing of children would they not be lowering the voting age? Would they not be implementing laws that allow children to leave abusive homes and families?
They are not doing this to āsave the kidsā, this is facism in the making
The federal government is cancelling plans for an airport in Pickering, east of Toronto, and transferring land for the project to Parks Cana
"After 50 years of contemplating an airport for Pickering, Ont., the Canadian government will instead use the land to expand Rouge Urban National Park.
Rouge National Urban Park will grow by thousands of hectares, preserving part of a wildlife corridor connecting Lake Ontario to protected land northeast of Toronto.
The expansion news came in twin announcements from the federal government Monday as Transport Canada abandons a plan to build an airport next to the park in Pickering, Ont., east of Toronto. For the last 50 years, Canada has planned to construct the airport on an expanse of agricultural land and green space known as the Pickering Lands ā now, most of it will be transferred to Parks Canada instead.
Adding most of the land to the park is a win for conservationists, Indigenous leaders and farmers who have been pushing for decades for the Pickering airport plan to be cancelled. It also guarantees protection for a huge slice of green space in a region thatās also been sought for urban development.Ā
Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation Chief Kelly LaRocca ā whose community is one of 10 in Rougeās Indigenous advisory circle and has long opposed the Pickering airport ā said she hopes the move marks the start of a better path forward. That could include co-management of the land and a First Nation Guardians program, she said in a press release, adding that her nation has asked Parks Canada to work with First Nations to develop a harvesting agreement for the park.
āThe regionās natural and agricultural lands are disappearing at an alarming rate,ā she said. āThis land is a precious resource that can never be replaced.ā ...
As Transport Canada left the plan in limbo for decades, the Pickering Lands have remained undeveloped, a rare pocket of biodiversity close to Toronto. The majority of the land is now within Ontarioās Greenbelt, which the province created in 2005...
Up until now, Transport Canada held onto about 3,500 hectares in case it needed to build the Pickering airport. But its choice to axe the airport plan entirely means the majority of that landĀ ā including the areas with the highest conservation value ā will now be transferred to Parks Canada. The federal governmentās intent is for the land to be added to Rouge National Urban Park, pending consultation with Indigenous communities...
The Pickering Lands are part of the last intact wildlife corridor between Lake Ontario and the Oak Ridges Moraine, a protected rocky ridge to the north thatās also part of the Greenbelt. The corridor allows wildlife ā including species at risk ā to move between habitats, giving them a stronger chance of survival. The lands are directly beside the existing Rouge National Urban Park, and connected to another part of the Greenbelt to the south known as the Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve."
