I’ll call to congratulate you once I get through to Telus.

Is this supposed to be a joke about Telus’ customer service or such, or is she genuinely having issues? I’m just confused by that part.

Otherwise, love Emily Lowan, and feel she made a great move by congratulating Avi in this way. Feels like it’s genuine rather than something purely done out of PR and “respectability”.

Never heard “running shoes”, but I still hear the term “runners” here and there. Rare that I hear people say “sneakers”, but I’m not a sporty person.

I couldn’t believe it. I knew Tony (God bless that man) would come in last, but I was certain Rob would come third behind either McPherson or Lewis.

Tanille beating him out either shows that people were more peeved about the AI thing than I would have expected, that I underestimated Tanille’s charm and hard work, or both.

Glad to have had Tanille ranked second on my ballot, but I wasn’t expecting her to have had that much momentum. Genuinely proud of her.

He made it very clear in the speech that he did not stand with the war in Iran seeing that it was a violation of international law, and that Canada has no place endorsing it.

His speech was incredible!

Also holy crap Tanille beat out Rob Ashton in the vote count, I’m shocked.

I can understand this, but I can’t help but worry about friend of mine from Ukraine who came here through a work permit and has been trying to get refugee status since then at the risk of being sent back now that their permit has expired. They didn’t apply as a refugee initially since they came here a few months before the invasion.

They’ve told me the struggles with the waitlists, and it just sounds so frustrating. I understand student visa fraud being an issue, but doing a blanket cutoff like this will put lives at risk.

Looking forward to seeing how the Carney supporters twist this one.

Quick edit to tell people to check out the Migrant Rights Network website and to get involved with them.

Just a bunch of tankies that think that because America=bad, that means Russia=good.

Say anything supportive of Ukraine or Ukrainians and you’re basically a Nazi in their eyes seeing that Russia once claimed that occupying and invading Ukraine was to “de-Nazify” it.

There’s an unfortunately prevalent amount of them on the threadiverse, in part because Lemmy is developed by two Communists. What people seem to fail to understand is that even if you ascribe to communism, you can still be against an illegal invasion under international law and be supportive of literal refugees.

“Anti-Trump”.

I’ll believe it when I see it. Not decrying the intervention in Iran, having officials state support for US energy dominance, refusing to ban ICE offices in Canada.

This man bends the knee and postures himself to be a mastermind, and I hate that the media eats this narrative up

Reminder to drink Canadian pop brands.

Pop Shoppe comes to mind as a brand available across the country. Here in Alberta Grizzly Paw, Drum Soda Works, and Annex are also solid options.

Omw to the liquor store to buy a flat queer.

Reminds me of Gay Lea here in Canada.

I will never understand what the hell went through Trudeau’s mind when he thought going through with the F-35 deal was a good move.

He literally told Canadians that the Liberals would never go ahead with buying F-35s, and then trapped us into this predicament by going back on his word when it was clear as day how hilariously unreliable the aircraft were.

Historical significance.

It’s one thing for the prime minister to be moved elsewhere for business, especially with security concerns like 24 Sussex has, but to let a property that’s important to Canadian history and heritage fall into disrepair is outright irresponsible of the government.

Why is this getting downvoted? The article is reporting on the publication that said this.

I’m in Alberta, and I’m glad to have ranked this guy as my top choice on my ballot.

Hate the time changes as much as anybody else, get rid of them, but only if we get Standard Time from it and do away with DST entirely.

When we had the vote in Alberta to change to permanent Daylight Savings Time, I voted against the idea. I understand that it’s better than changing the clocks at all, but it makes no sense to me whatsoever to basically change our timezone and stick with Daylight Savings permanently when we should be getting rid of it entirely.

I’d rather keep the flip-flop so that the option to do away with DST entirely remains on the table in the future. In my mind, it’s a lot more likely that another vote appears to get rid of the flip-flop with going to Standard Time as an option than it is for us to get rid of the flip-flop and have a vote getting rid of permanent DST in favour of Standard Time.

Does the wine get it’s redness from the blood of Palestinian children?

Rooommate of mine works in a theatre. She had her hours cut to a single shift a week because they just hired sixteen new people.

Reductions of hours like that should be criminal, how the hell is she expected to pay rent?

Reading through the article from CBC, I haven’t really seen much reason to see that he actually endorses the material or mindset. Mostly seems like he’s just an avid collector of historical memorabilia, especially keeping in mind other things he keeps.

When I did currency collecting, I used to have a Nazi-era German coin that I bought from the local antique mall. Didn’t ascribe to the beliefs of the entity that minted the coin, didn’t agree with the emblem that was pressed onto it, just thought it was neat having a little piece of history like that in my possession.

Besides, in high school I knew a few people that went out of their way to get Mein Kampf. Doesn’t mean they agree with it, they were just people who were avid about political history like that. The same people also read The Communist Manifesto and other such books.

As someone who sees themselves as relatively progressive, I do think at times people take things a bit far, and this is one of those cases.