#elections canada

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Elections Canada is looking for a firm with the technical know-how to design a phone app that will allow blind and visually impaired voters to “independently verify the mark on their ballot.” Elections Canada’s tender for this job says they are looking for someone who can design, build, deliver and maintain a mobile application that will allow visually impaired and blind electors the ability to verify the mark on their own ballot. “At this time, the independent verification of a marked ballot remains a barrier for people who are blind and partially sighted.,” said Nathalie de Montigny, a spokesperson for Elections Canada.

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[feyarcher]

Okay, I know the English internet spends a lot of time staring and ongoing political disasters in the US and the UK and oh what disasters they are, but CANADA 🇨🇦 WE GOTTA FOCUS FOR A MINUTE.

Ontario has municipal elections THIS MONDAY OCTOBER 24th! And you need to show up and vote!

Just like all our regular provincial and federal elections, it is okay if you aren't sure if you are on the voters rolls or if you info got updated after you moved or whatever - YOU CAN DEFINITELY VOTE AS LONG AS YOU ARE A CANADIAN LIVING IN THAT SPOT. You just bring proof of your address to the polling place and you'll be fine, I promise. I've done it. It takes like 2 minutes to sign the paper declaring you do indeed live there.

Now you may be asking "but do these elections really matter?" And the answer is YES THEY MATTER SO MUCH. There are racists and xenophobes and transphones and sexist and antisemitic and antivax people running all over the place and the one thing we know by now is that bigots get organized to get to the polls so we have to also organize to counter them by voting!

There are probably 3 things you need to look up who to vote for in your area: mayor, councillor, and school board trustee. All three matter! Please don't only focus on mayor, if the terfs get onto the school boards, they'll do serious damage.

So what can you do?

- First, search "[your town] election" and you'll get the link to the official election page on your city website. It'll tell you the poll hours for THIS MONDAY OCTOBER 24th and you'll be able to find your polling place and a sample ballot showing all the people running for all the roles (mayor, councillor, school board) in your district.

- Check out the candidates! If you want to narrow it down, for major things like mayor you can see which 3 or 4 people have a realistic shot of getting more than 10% of the vote based on polls and then look at the platforms for just those people. For more niche things like school board, you probably need to look at every candidate but less will be running. Please check the CBC article I linked above to narrow down the obvious terfs.

- Make a plan of when you are going to vote! Know what time is best for you to go and how you will get there.

- Get your friends and family to plan to vote too! Help them out by sharing your research and let them know who you are voting for for each part. Sometimes the idea of doing the research into candidates is too daunting, but if you share your plan with them, you can get more people to the polls.

- IF YOU AREN'T IN ONTARIO: Reach out to your friends and family here and ask what their plan to vote is. Help them out with the above if you can.

So much stuff gets decided at the municipal level, but they are expecting record low turnout and low turnout is dangerous for shitty people getting into positions that matter. We are already stuck with a clown at the province level. We need to make sure people who will work against him get elected at your local level.

It's one day, probably 45 minutes of your time including travel both ways and any line at busy times. Honestly, voting usually takes me 7 minutes at most at the polls even whe I was a student and voting in weird ways. They make it so easy if you just show up.

MASK UP AND GET TO THE POLLS ONTARIO!

[forsoobado137]

Nations and Elections

I wonder what goes on in the minds of nations during elections. I picture that they aren't allowed to vote because of their nation status, but they still feel the tension, frustration, and anxiety of their people.

What would their symptoms be? Moodswings? Maybe nausea? Dizziness? Insomnia? Maybe even psychosis? Do they take medicine designed specifically for nations and their election symptoms? Or does the medicine not work because of their inhuman nature?

Damn, America is gonna experience EXTREME emotional whiplash in the next few months. He'll go from USA USA USA #1 BEST UNDEFEATED COUNTRY RAHHH🦅🦅 during the Olympics to the chaotic mess that is an American election.

[clairikine]

Writing this post specifically because I know I have followers and mutuals in Canada, the US, Germany, the UK and Sweden—we have Nouveau Front populaire candidates qualified for the French legislative runoffs in nearly all districts abroad and they all have a serious chance of winning, including in these districts:

1st district (Canada, US): Oussama Laraïchi

3d district (Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, the UK): Charlotte Minvielle

7th district (Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia): Asma Rharmaoui-Claquin

Each campaign needs all the help they can get! In addition to voting for them in person or online this week (see below), French voters abroad can get involved in the campaigns via the info posted on their websites. If you live in an area where the NFP scored high in the first round, such as Berlin, you can also help out in other cities!

To vote for these candidates in the runoff, if you're registered to vote at your consulate, you have the following options:

in person: Saturday, July 6 (American continent/Caribbean) & Sunday, July 7 (all other districts) - bring a form of ID, no carte électorale necessary

by proxy (procuration): best way to find someone is to reach out to the campaigns directly, as they make sure to vet the folks who will go vote for you

online: Wednesday, July 3 at noon to Thursday, July 4 at noon (Paris time) - if your email & phone number were up to date by June 28 here

The outcome of this election is not written in stone and it is truly down to a smaller number of votes than you'd think. A lot of us abroad simply don't know we can vote or don't think it counts, and I'm here to tell you we CAN and it DOES! See you at the polls!!!!

Official voter info for French voters abroad / French legislative districts abroad / Legislative elections 2024 - 1st round results abroad

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

Donald J. Trump is a tulpa manifested by the collective neuroses of humanities professors to give them something to cope and seethe and mald about forever

[mapsontheweb]

Current Canadian Electoral Projection, Based on the 338Canada Aggregate

[owenthetokencishet]

America has an election coming up which means it's only a matter of time before this fucking thing shows up:

Which, first off, memes are not political theory.

Second, yes, democrats don't usually make things better (excepting all the very GOOD things the current democratic president has done) but they also tend not to make things worse. They are also LESS likely (not "they don't", just "less likely") to violently break up protests and more likely to cave to their demands.

So, I propose a new Ratchet effect:

Yes, most of the social progress of liberal democray has, and will probably continue to, come from outside electoral politics

No, the democratic party will not be leading the forward march of progress, they will need to be dragged forward kicking and screaming

The democratic party won't make things better, but they also won't make things worse.

VOTE.

[themostfuniveverhad]

.

[foreverknightalways]

Back at the morgue, Nick tells Natalie, I guess it's not the first time someone's died in my arms. Natalie says, You did all you could. Once cyanide started to taking effect, there's not much anyone can do. Schanke says, Well, it's done. I've notified all the hotels. No mints on the pillows tonight... maybe never. You know, I'm going to miss that.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Amanda Lewellyn at Vox:

Canada has a growing populism problem. Even Prime Minister Justin Trudeau thinks so. Like many other countries — including the United States — Canadians have spent the last several years dealing with pandemic restrictions, a rise in immigration, and a housing affordability crisis (among much, much else). And like many other countries, that’s showing up in a host of ways: Trust in institutions like the government and media is down. Sentiment on immigration is becoming more negative.

“Well, first of all, it’s a global trend,” Trudeau told Sean Rameswaram in an exclusive interview on Today, Explained. “In every democracy, we’re seeing a rise of populists with easy answers that don’t necessarily hold up to any expert scrutiny. But a big part of populism is condemning and ignoring experts and expertise. So it sort of feeds on itself.” As Trudeau points out, Canada is not alone. But our northern neighbor’s struggle is notable because the country has long been seen as resistant to the kind of anti-immigrant, anti-establishment rhetoric sweeping the globe in recent years — in part because multiculturalism is enshrined in federal law.

It goes back to the 1960s, when French Canadian nationalist groups started to gain power in Quebec. They called for the province’s independence from Canada proper. The federal government, led then by nepo daddy Pierre Trudeau, stepped in. Rather than validating one cultural identity over the other, the elder Trudeau’s government established a national policy of bilingualism, requiring all federal institutions to provide services in both English and French. (This is why — if you ever watch Canadian parliamentary proceedings, as I did for this story — politicians are constantly flipping back and forth between the two languages.) Canada also adopted a formal multiculturalism policy in 1971, affirming Canadians’ multicultural heritage. The multiculturalism policy has undergone both challenge and expansion in the half-century since its introduction. But Pierre Trudeau’s decision to root Canadian identity in diversity has had lasting impacts: Canadians have historically been much more open to immigration — despite having a greater proportion of immigrants in their population — than their other Western counterparts.

But in more recent years, that’s begun to change rapidly as large numbers of immigrants have entered the country amid a housing affordability crisis. An Environics Institute survey showed that in 2023, 44 percent of Canadians felt there was too much immigration — an increase from 27 percent the year before. That’s where Conservative opposition leader Pierre Poilievre comes in. Known as a “soft” populist, he’s started calling on Canada to cut immigration levels (so far, without demonizing immigrants, as we’ve seen from his populist counterparts elsewhere in the West). That said, he looks like a traditional populist in a lot of other ways: Poilievre embraced Canada’s 2022 Freedom Convoy protests, opposed vaccine and mask requirements, voted against marriage equality, has proposed defunding the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, wants schools to leave LGBTQ issues to parents, and has talked about repealing a litany of government regulations — from the country’s carbon tax to internet regulations. Basically, he’s against any “gatekeepers” to Canadians’ “freedom.”

[...]

The plan: Fight populism with policy

Enter: Trudeau’s half-trillion-Canadian-dollar plan for “generational fairness,” also known as the “Gen Z budget” for its focus on younger generations feeling the economic squeeze most acutely. [...]

Can it work?

The bet Trudeau is making is this: The best counterpoint to anti-establishment rhetoric is … using the establishment to make people’s lives better. “The biggest difference between me and the Conservatives right now is: They don’t think government has a role to play in solving for these problems,” Trudeau told Today, Explained. “I think government can’t solve everything, nor should it try. But it can make sure that if the system isn’t working for young people, that we rebalance the system. Market forces are not going to do that.” A key challenge will be demonstrating progress by the time elections roll around. Housing and real estate experts generally cheered the announcement — but noted that it might be years before people on the ground see any real change. Elections, on the other hand, aren’t yet scheduled but have to happen by October 2025 (parliamentary systems, man).

Even Canada isn't immune to the trend of increased right-wing populism, as it could end the reign of PM Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party.

Trudeau is trying his best to counter it by enacting a Gen Z-focused budget plan.

[confessions-of-an-old-cassette]

let's bring back the guillotine guys

[allthecanadianpolitics]

As federal parties battle in court to avoid privacy rules for voter data, an overwhelming majority of Canadians want more oversight according to recent polling for Elections Canada.

There are virtually no rules and zero oversight into how Canada’s federal political parties collect, store and exploit Canadian voters’ personal information – an increasingly important tool in modern electioneering.

While parties are now required to post privacy policies on their websites, there is no oversight into how they actually use the data they collect, meaning Canadians essentially have to take the parties at their word

The current wild west approach to political privacy is at odds with overwhelming public sentiment, according to recent polling data commissioned by Elections Canada.

“More than nine in 10 (96 per cent of) respondents agreed that laws should regulate how political parties collect and use Canadians’ personal information, including 78 per cent who strongly agreed,” reads an Election Canada survey of voters after the 2021 general election. [...]

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[royalteachitchat]

🙈🙉🙊 Selected for a reason!

How many voters do you think Taylor can persuade to cross over? How many fresh new voters will follow her lead? Same goes for the jab.

I can't IMAGINE how much they are getting paid for this... 💰

[taratarotgreene]

Aries Equinox, New Year, International Astrology Day

Happy Spring Equinox, it’s the Aries Sun ingress and Spring in the Northern Hemisphere and Autumn Down under, when day and night are equal and balanced because the Sun is sitting directly over the Equator. Which it does again at Autumn Equinox. Only two days of the year are in this balance. The SUN at 0 ARIES the first sign of the Zodiac and a brand hot new beginning is March 19 at 8:06 pm PDT,…

[kazhanko-art]

I feel like a lot of people in anglo-North America tend to treat voting as the only action in a liberal democracy and not as the baseline action amongst many important parts. When I was in Poland, one of the starkest contrasts from Canada (or at least my sliver of it) was the protest culture there. My impression of Poles (as well as Ukrainians and many other peoples) is that they have a much more ingrained sense of fighting for these sorts of things, and not purely relying on the vote to make change. People there protested, they lobbied, it didn’t seem like this culture of “eh, maybe I’ll put in my ballot this time.”

I sorta think it comes from two places: Poland (and many other EE countries) recent history of war and authoritarianism, and that Poles give a shit about the place they live in. Liberty is going to mean something to people who have a cultural memory where that didn’t exist, and a group of people who care about their home (whether they like or dislike it) are going to have a sense of responsibility to it. They aren’t going to be passive, they’re going to put in the work.

When I look at the prairies, people here, especially those who don’t have a conservative identity, tend to not really care. We view it as a place without history, community, culture; our relation to this land isn’t spoken of with many shared experiences, except maybe resentment. These provinces are just places, not homes, to the people here, and so no one cares for it, no one fights for it. If you want something better, just leave.

There’s probably a lot of reasons for this phenomenon, with a lot of internal and external sources, at least for the prairies, but it remains a problem, and one which seems rather new based on our once pretty intense political history (relative to Canada anyway). And it affects how people take action, how people treat problems here, how people preserve things here, even the ecology is treated with this passive apathy.

I don’t deny that taking action, especially when you’re the one starting it, is hard, and I’m very much not some exception to this. But across north america, but especially in places like mine, we need to start viewing democracy and our homes differently.

If you don’t care about your home, no one will care for you.

But that apathy, and the consequences of it?

That will spread

and it hurts far more than just us in the long run

[swagging-back-to]

im just praying trump doesnt win because if he does our country is going to actually crumble. I'm genuinely terrified of another trump presidency. what biden is doing with israel is horrible but trump would do so much worse.