Comments on: The Canadian Election: Lost in translation http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/10/the-canadian-election-lost-in-translation/ Life, Culture and Politics from BrisVegas Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:06:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Cliff http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/10/the-canadian-election-lost-in-translation/#comment-210589 Cliff Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:20:03 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/10/the-canadian-election-lost-in-translation/#comment-210589 "But what does he know, like me he’s one of those 416 area code inner city latte sipping chardy drinking elites" Wow... that hit close to home. As I'm reading this I'm sitting on the patio at my Bloor West Village house sipping a glass of Jacob's Creek Chardonnay (homesick)... with my (416)- cellphone sitting right next to me. NDP placards line the street. I'm not sure how the polls are falling riding-to-riding... but the aggregate left vote is consistently higher than the tories'. I wish the Libs-NDP-Greens could work out some kind of arrangement. I suppose the polls are skewed by urban populations in which many of the ridings are basically a competition between the Libs and the NDP (and now possibly the greens). I wish Canada has a preferential system. That being said... I'm still not abreast of Canadian politics. All the talk in Toronto and on campus seems to be about matters below the border. “But what does he know, like me he’s one of those 416 area code inner city latte sipping chardy drinking elites”

Wow… that hit close to home. As I’m reading this I’m sitting on the patio at my Bloor West Village house sipping a glass of Jacob’s Creek Chardonnay (homesick)… with my (416)- cellphone sitting right next to me. NDP placards line the street.

I’m not sure how the polls are falling riding-to-riding… but the aggregate left vote is consistently higher than the tories’. I wish the Libs-NDP-Greens could work out some kind of arrangement. I suppose the polls are skewed by urban populations in which many of the ridings are basically a competition between the Libs and the NDP (and now possibly the greens). I wish Canada has a preferential system.

That being said… I’m still not abreast of Canadian politics. All the talk in Toronto and on campus seems to be about matters below the border.

]]> By: Paul Burns http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/10/the-canadian-election-lost-in-translation/#comment-210588 Paul Burns Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:27:38 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/10/the-canadian-election-lost-in-translation/#comment-210588 I know the canadian PM came out here before the last Oz election and outrageously advocated the return of the Howard Government in our Parliament, about which Rudd was verey polite. But why would any one want to plagiarise John Howard? Bob Menzies, Winston Churchill, Gough Whitlam, even Paul Keating I can understand. But John Howard? Give us a break! I know the canadian PM came out here before the last Oz election and outrageously advocated the return of the Howard Government in our Parliament, about which Rudd was verey polite. But why would any one want to plagiarise John Howard? Bob Menzies, Winston Churchill, Gough Whitlam, even Paul Keating I can understand. But John Howard? Give us a break!

]]> By: professor rat http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/10/the-canadian-election-lost-in-translation/#comment-210587 professor rat Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:04:16 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/10/the-canadian-election-lost-in-translation/#comment-210587 I was over there in 79 and suddenly everyone gets shares, free shares, all of a sudden. ( In BC ) Then fucking Reagan and Thatcher get in an' start sayin' that there's no such thing as society pilgrim, and we're-all-home-owning-capitalists-now-and-there-is-no-alternative-you-will-be-assimilated. ( sorry TINA donchaknow resistance is futile ) Fuck me Now, today, what do we see? ASS-CLOWNS like Albrechtson, Costello and Et Tu Kerr, all blaming the victim! There is no place in hell hot enough for these three scumbags - we have to torture them here for months, nay years, before we are free. I was over there in 79 and suddenly everyone gets shares, free shares, all of a sudden. ( In BC ) Then fucking Reagan and Thatcher get in an’ start sayin’ that there’s no such thing as society pilgrim, and we’re-all-home-owning-capitalists-now-and-there-is-no-alternative-you-will-be-assimilated. ( sorry TINA donchaknow resistance is futile )
Fuck me

Now, today, what do we see?

ASS-CLOWNS like Albrechtson, Costello and Et Tu Kerr, all blaming the victim!

There is no place in hell hot enough for these three scumbags – we have to torture them here for months, nay years, before we are free.

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