Calgary traditionally gets something like 60% of its total annual snowfall in the early to mid spring (early March to mid April)

What’s so weird about this take? Do you live under a rock?

Principal Residence Tax Exemption.

Oh noooooooo. Literally the worst. I’m sorry :(

How is the right doing better than the left right now? The liberals are one seat from a majority. Most indications are that if they snapped an election, they would win a majority (and perhaps a pretty sizable one). Hence why you haven’t seen the cons trigger it. The NDP are still irrelevant and not even an official party in any of these scenarios, so I’m just not sure what sort of hope you guys are clinging onto here. Going more left is also a pretty weird way to go here, and won’t gain the wins that you have imagined they will, but hey go knock yourselves out if you must.

Or, I mean, the winning strategy could be ok sure, like lean a bit to the left. That’s all good and everything. But get cohesive, get aligned, get a clear platform built. A realistic one. Then basically sit tight for a few years. The world’s going to have it’s moment with its current situation, this too shall pass, and basically be ready for that timeline and that moment. Focus on achievable gains, but be ready to strike on a shorter timeframe should the scenario present itself. But that’s going to take some bold leadership, because the current shape of the NDP, both with star power and it’s financial position, isn’t great. The NDP doesn’t really want the election right now that you think they would.

I think everyone needs to cut this guy a bit of slack. You’ve got a rockstar level of intelligence in a leader, a non-career politician, someone who’s actually gained knowledge, worked for a living, etc etc., trying to guide a country through two major major fronts, one being a grifter career populist politician trying to gain power at whatever costs. The other front is trying to protect us from and guide us through interactions with a completely deranged and unhinged lunatic, surrounded by a real who’s-who of the worlds greatest supervillains, who happens to be our biggest trading partner.

Housing is an important domestic policy, don’t get me wrong. Yes it’s been ignored, abused by capitalism, whatever else, no arguments here. But right now existence and basically sovereignty>primary economic existence>basically everything else.

The roles these people are fulfilling currently, are probably some of the most thankless roles in existence, on the planet, right now. That they literally cannot win at.

For that, they have my support, through this current moment. Everything else, as terrible as it is and as much as that sucks, pretty much has to go on the backburner. I’m not even really a Liberal guy usually. I’ve voted for all three at some point, for the record (Cons, Libs, and yes even once for the NDP).

I would actually think they aren’t so worried about their various financial interests (which if they are substantial are traditionally supposed to be in blind trusts in the case of the leaders), but more or less are worried more about the voters. Once the boomers die off, over the next couple of decades, I think you’ll see a gradual, but dramatic shift in perspective about the governments involvement in housing strategy.

The government thought, couldn’t run a lemonade stand without 40 layers of bureaucracy, so I mean be careful what you wish for.

Kim Campbell took over leadership for the sitting government after the prime minister stepped down. She had government for like what, a hundred-some odd days? Then got completely owned in the election that followed. I think it was the worst defeat for a sitting government if I remember correctly, something like that.

The NDP has also never formed government at the federal level. So I’m really confused with where you are going with this…

I maybe need to proofread. But I also think you need to open a history book.

Those tires will have tubes, so fill them up before you get a snake bite (pinch flat).

I’m jealous! I had a series of surgeries over the past couple months, and I can’t wear a helmet right now. It’s keeping me off my dirtbike and off my bike until mid April, so this warm spell is killing me

I think you are underestimating the foreign interference that is our press. Ask the next 20 people random strangers who walk past you tomorrow who the leader of the NDP is. You may know the answer to that, but I doubt the other 19 do.

If everyone sets down reddit and Facebook for a minute, and quiets the screaming chaos that are those things, you’d quickly realize that the vast majority of Canadians are smack dab in the mushy middle that such a leader slots nicely into. Not the one screaming one-liner insults and plays on people’s names, and certainly not the one that only really cares about Quebec.

It’s almost like governments can’t control market based solutions!?!

Also the real answer to moving the needle on this problem, I think, is the elimination of the PRTE. You just better buckle up for the thermonuclear boomer outrage that’s going to result from that, and I’m not sure there’s a politician in this land that’s ready to do that.

The right are barely in the minority though. And shouting from the rooftops that you are for unabashed socialism, is a dangerous move. You have entire generations of people still voting in this country, with decades of fear about socialism and the Soviet Union, from a generation long cold war.

You cling onto this strategy, you are riding pine all the way to near zero. This is why I still doubt the NDPs capability to lead. They can’t even seem to get their own ships sailing in the same direction internally, how can we realistically expect them to navigate the treacherous geopolitical landscape of current times? This is a serious question.

It’s going to be us picking between giant douche and turd sandwich for another generation I fear. Because the fringe just cannot quit being fringe.

You pretty clearly aren’t aware. An NDP win here achieves literally nothing, and is actually a conservative win (a big one).

I mean this whole exercise is quite dumb. No political party other than the leader of the NDP is going to run their leaders in what’s probably the most extreme left wing riding in the country.

Omg face palm

That was a jet plane straight over your head, wasn’t it?!

No I’m a realist. Every MP seat that goes down from the Liberals makes the conservatives the more likely to gain the balance of power. It’s simple mathematics bud. I’m not an anything guy. I just don’t want the conservatives getting power, because I’m tired of the trash state of the world we find ourselves in.

In any other time, I’d be more for having the NDP gain some power. Now is not that time. They aren’t even an official party right now. What sort of illusion brings them to the forefront here, without handing the conservatives the reigns? Come to the realization that the NDP is probably 10+ years from coming close to a conversation again. I mean take that time and build something wonderful, I’m all for that. Just don’t be trying to fuck up this delicate balance of power we have right now.

Me too. I’m an .edu user from 2005.

Facebook moderation has always been an illusion. You could skin a person on Facebook Live, and they would’nt do a god damn thing about it, and that’s been the case for years.

Must be nice to be in a position, as an able bodied person, to debate nuances and navigation of laws for such matters. To not understand it.

Who would actually benefit from this? If you seriously don’t understand this very very simple question, I’m not sure expending energy on hitting my keyboard is a good investment at this point.

Personally I find it appalling. This is what this province has become, and how it signals to the world what our population is like: Cruel.