#provincial politics

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Claudia Chender(opens in a new tab) wasn’t able to bring the Nova Scotia NDP fully back to power on Tuesday night, but her electoral victories restored the party to its strongest position in a decade and made provincial history in the process. Chender, who led the NDP into an election for the first time, secured official opposition status on Tuesday, unseating the Liberals.

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[solarpunkpresentspodcast]

In this bonus episode, Ariel talks with Brooklin Wallis, Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate for Kitchener Centre in the upcoming snap Ontario Election. This isn’t an endorsement, but a discussion that hopes to prod solarpunk talking points into the realm of politics. Brooklin even describes herself as someone with solarpunk leanings! How does that reconcile with participation in the democratic system in Ontario, Canada? What are her solarpunk goals?

NB: We drop a bunch of hyper-local references to places. This link will be helpful for listeners who aren’t familiar with the cities in Southern Ontario: https://gisgeography.com/ontario-map/

Links: https://brooklinwallis.ontariondp.ca/ https://www.instagram.com/brooklinwr/ https://www.ontariondp.ca/ https://www.ndp.ca/

[ravenkings]

[coolerhope]

Canadians will see what's happening across the border and point and laugh and then turn around and not vote

[st-just]

Far too funny to me that my premier's official response to this sounds like he's trying to talk us off a ledge, though.

[big-fongz]

it’s actually pretty insane how thoroughly the federal NDP has lost the plot recently. the majority of its caucus isn’t running for reelection and they’re polling at 4 seats and all they can spend their time on is calling on the government to remove elon musk’s citizenship. singh is almost guaranteed to lose his seat to either a conservative or a liberal but hes doing interviews about how he’s still the right man for the job. dude you haven’t been the right man for the job since 2021 be so fr with me right now

[star-pocalypse]

Ontarians complaining about the healthcare system, the education system, the price of housing, and then more than half of you didn’t even turn up to vote, thereby granting PC a third-year majority, something no other party has accomplished in YEARS.

And as the province continues to decline because Ford—the man who got rid of rent control—continues to make cuts to our education and healthcare system, during a time when so many colleges and universities are cutting programs, firing whole teams of admins, and moving labs online because they can’t afford anything anymore, you can bet they’ll continue to blame Indians and liberals for all their problems.

I don’t want to hear any of you complain about the state of Ontario again, you don’t actually care about fixing it, you just want an excuse to complain and to be racist without repercussion.

[amemoryofwot]

Leftist Twitter is still going around in circles over likeable candidates and policy and the ethics of abstaining and and and

Meanwhile right wing Twitter is commending each others’ efforts to use social media and boots-on-the-ground campaigning whip votes within swing states like Pennsylvania

The left will shred each other apart over ideological differences before they actually get anything done

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A bill that would empower the Alberta government to remove elected municipal officials or strike down local bylaws is an "attack on local democracy," says the capital city's mayor.

Bill 20, the Municipal Affairs Statutes Amendment Act, was announced Thursday and makes dozens of amendments to the Local Authorities Election Act and the Municipal Government Act (MGA).

 "I don't know who has asked for this," Edmonton Mayor Amarjeet Sohi told CTV News Edmonton Friday. "I don't know what problem the province is trying to solve when there are so many other priorities that they should be focused on." [...]

"When the province writes laws, it puts it through the legislative system where it can be debated," said Eric Adams, a constitutional law expert at the University of Alberta.

"When a law hands that power to the cabinet, then that legislative scrutiny falls completely away and now it's the cabinet themselves," he continued. "Realistically, the premier and the premier's office exercises the most of that power." [...]

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Tagging: @newsfromstolenland, @abpoli, @vague-humanoid

Notes from the poster @el-shab-hussein: Provincial governments are always pissed about federal controlling just about anything within provincial politics, but now they also want to control municipal ones. This is what I mean when I say this is just a repeat of U.S. 'states' rights' nonsense which is exclusively used to screw over municipalities into even sharper neoliberalism.

[froggybangbang]

Fellow Canadians, if you are as worried as I am about what's happening in South Canada, I urge you to try to understand our own government.

We all know the Libs aren't getting in next year. People have forgotten why we protested-vote against the Conservatives all those years ago and the new findings on shifty usage of money (honestly nothing new here, look at the end of the last time the Libs were in power) and idk about your bubble, but mine wants to protest-vote to a party that litterally has no chance of getting elected (The Bloc is only for our Province, it's a stupid choice imo, but people seem to think wishfull thinking will work in this case🙄 go off i guess, but there'sno way to get majority with the bloc and last time we've had a minority government it didn'tlast 4 years before imploding.)

Here's two video to get you started:

This one is Ontario based and goes into the basics of who is in charge of what in our politics. You can apply what is relevant to your own province.

That one is pretty long but goes in deep. Good to know stuff but not vital, just thought I'd put it here because i haven't seen another video doing the same in so much details.

And this one explains what's happening right now, and what it actually mean.

I personally don't always align with JJ (mainly because he hates French speakers and quebecers, which i am) but it feels more like a level headed conversation on these subjects, rather than hitting your head against the wall, and i think that's a good thing to have in your life.

And last of all, please read about the party you're going to vote for. Not just their general lines, but look at what they did during the last 4 years. If they had minority votes, look at what they tried to pass, on top of the on the ground actions their reps have done. If they hadn't enough of a weight, then look at their litteral actions: where they on the ground? Did they help push a petition that is close to your heart? That sort of thing.

[keldae]

Thank fuck I'm finally starting therapy on Tuesday (April 1... who scheduled this?). Between my dad, upcoming moving stress, the imminent Canadian federal election, and the general state of the world, I am a bit of a mental and emotional wreck right now.

[solarpunkpresentspodcast]

In this bonus episode, Ariel talks with Aislinn Clancy, Green Party of Ontario candidate for Kitchener Centre in the upcoming snap Ontario Election. This isn’t an endorsement, but a discussion that hopes to prod solarpunk talking points into the realm of politics. Aislinn and I talk about Green Party of Ontario goals for clean energy, supporting local workers, and how to channel your passion for social justice issues that you care about into empowering activism.

NB: We drop a bunch of hyper-local references to places. This link will be helpful for listeners who aren’t familiar with the cities in Southern Ontario: https://gisgeography.com/ontario-map/

Links:

https://www.voteclancy.ca/

https://gpo.ca/

[coolerhope]

There's only one thing I want from Pokemon Day and it's for more than 44% Ontarians to go vote in this god damned provincial election

Y'all better Pokemon Go to the polls or else

[st-just]

Shoutout to my provincial government for being bullied into actually doing something, I guess. Unit number is comically small but 'build public housing' was entirely out of the overton window like three months ago so y'know. Progress.

[muirneach]

i know this tournament is pointless. i know its an exhibition. but i don’t think americans understand the gravity of the political and cultural implications about all this. guys this is dead serious like

[austinausten]

So proud to vote in my first provincial election! Never take the right to vote for granted - it’s an honour to shape the government, no matter how small that action can feel at times.