Author: Cathie from Canada

First Trudeau gets two high-profile endorsements: Wishing my friend @JustinTrudeau the best in Canada’s upcoming election. Justin has been an effective leader and strong voice for democratic values, and I’m proud of the work we did together. — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) September 16, 2021 I have seen my friend @JustinTrudeau

Tonight’s question is whether O’Toole and Kenney had a deal that Kenney would delay imposing yesterday’s Covid health measures until after the Monday vote.  In other words, did Conservative electioneering cost Albertans their lives? There’s mounting evidence that #JasonKenney & Erin O’Toole made a deal, playing dirty politics with people’s

Forget about a statistical tie. @VoiceOfFranky has an honest-to-god actual tie – to one decimal point! 31.8% each for the #LPC and the #CPC ! #elxn44 pic.twitter.com/aPP6hWumW0 — David Akin 🇨🇦 (@davidakin) September 15, 2021 The NDP promise to align with with a CPC minority government will not be progressive.@JustinTrudeau🗨"I

Chrétien talks about importance of vaccines. Says he’s been vaccinated with various shots for 86 years. On Erin O’Toole- “He is doing something I cannot do – he is speaking out of both sides of his mouth.” pic.twitter.com/9i2drNzG5J — Abigail Bimman (@AbigailBimman) September 15, 2021 Chrétien said it’s not the

The polls continue to look positive for the Liberals. But for tonight, I wanted to lead off with this: A very big moment: I voted for the first time in a Canadian federal election and I am so proud it 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦I came to Canada 5 and a half years ago

Today on the campaign: Trudeau made an impassioned speech about Canadians coming together to help each other out during the pandemic. Singh had a zinger tweet. O’Toole fell on his face during an interview with Rosie Barton. — Trevor Purdy (@TrevorsIdeas) September 13, 2021 So here they are – first,

This was not what I was expecting today https://t.co/ELl1vwCNy8 — Stephen Maher (@stphnmaher) September 11, 2021 "Erin O’Toole sits 9 days out likelier than not to lose seats. But hey, he’ll always have Fournier’s Macleans column to keep him company as he stays at Stornoway – that is, if the

Does anyone else see it this way too? Canadian media: “But her emails!” = “Why did Trudeau call this election?” pic.twitter.com/tfbBl56pSI — Cathie from Canada 🇨🇦 😷🏳️‍🌈 (@CathieCanada) September 10, 2021 Does anyone else remember our dysfunctional parliament this spring? But why did Trudeau call an election? Because the Cons

Twitter is concluding that the Leaders Debate Thursday evening was possibly the worst moderated debate ever seen in the history of the nation.  And that’s really too bad — Trudeau needed some momentum from a positive and upbeat debate performance and he’s likely not going to get any. Then again,

Wednesday night was the French leaders debate: #Trudeau with fire in the eye, brought the heat – scalded Blanchet “I am a Quebecois..have always been a Quebecois.. proud to be a Quebecois. You do not have a monopoly on Quebec” #Elxn44 — Charles Adler (@charlesadler) September 9, 2021 I was

As we wait for the Leaders Debates Wednesday and Thursday, here’s a few interesting tweets for tonight: I see the English debate is shaping up to be a tire fire of a format once again. https://t.co/b0ottiEQkS — Dale Smith (@journo_dale) September 7, 2021 🇨🇦GREAT NEWS🇨🇦 The Conservatives drop nearly 3%

Ain’t we havin’ some fun now?      Actually, of course, the increasing violence we are seeing now from the anti-vaxxers and the PPC supporters is not funny at all.  Two weeks to go. And I think maybe its becoming clearer why it is important that we hold this election

Editing note: I had to delete a couple of the earlier Follies and Funnies posts because something in them was messing up my blog formatting and I am not sufficiently expert in html to figure out what went wrong. Hopefully that won’t happen again, but it looks like I can’t

New Liberal campaign ad: We can’t let Erin O’Toole take Canada backward. Now is the time to move forward. For everyone. pic.twitter.com/LkV3VzNQiM — Liberal Party (@liberal_party) September 4, 2021 #cdnpoli “To the surprise of all, a group of independent academics evaluated the Liberal record of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and

Here’s the link to tonight’s Leaders Debate in translation: https://www.cpac.ca/episode?id=f9809cea-1e07-47cd-a94d-2ddd3e1351db#  And here are several of tweets I saw about the debate: Blanchet claims that Parliament was working. (I have a hard time considering five months of procedural warfare as “working.”)Trudeau reminds him that the Bloc voted four times to have

“There still remains no path for the Conservatives to government. There wasn’t last week, there isn’t this week, and I’d bet a very large sum of money that there will be no path next week”Me @UnscriptedScrim on Abacus, Leger, and the Canadian Electionhttps://t.co/jI283RiC4d — Evan Scrimshaw (@EScrimshaw) August 31, 2021

The polling news is slightly better for the Liberals, and tomorrow they will FINALLY be releasing their Red Book, so it will be easier to make comparisons — yes, all of the parties have their campaign promises on their websites, but there’s still nothing like a text.  Trudeau pushed back

This may well be the weekend remembered for Jagmeet Singh losing the thread.  He sent out a bizarre tweet on Saturday which lied about Trudeau profiting from billions of dollars in student loan interest.  Now actually, during the pandemic, the Trudeau government did some great things for student loans –

Well wasn’t this a day?  Canada was rocked by the news that the Trudeau campaign has to cancel one of its Ontario rallies because the anti-vaxxer mob was putting Trudeau and Liberal candidates into danger. Trudeau’s response: Message from @JustinTrudeau tonight: It’s been a difficult year for everyone. The folks

I got a chuckle out of the last few minutes of the CBC At Issue panel tonight. August 26th, 2021: “The political impact of the #Afghanistan crisis, and what the NDP leader said about working with the Conservatives” https://t.co/TxWu6kbcFp At Issue panel: @RosieBarton @elamin88 @acoyne @ChantalHbert @althiaraj // #elxn44 #CDNPoli