Canada General Discussion 1.5: The Countdown Begins

[RogueBeaver]

ROFLMAO: PKP now claims to oppose public broadcasting cuts.

[MaxQue]

The slider thing at the top of the election atlas website has spots for 1979-2011, but only has maps for 1988-2011. Weird. Hopefully we get maps soon

No, there's maps there now!

No, there isn't. It's the just the scale which is broken. 1988 is 1979, 1993 is between 1980 and 1984, etc...

Works for me, he does have maps for 1979-1984 now

Indeed. Sadly, I would have prefered not seeing my riding voting Social Credit in 1979.

[DC Al Fine]

The slider thing at the top of the election atlas website has spots for 1979-2011, but only has maps for 1988-2011. Weird. Hopefully we get maps soon

No, there's maps there now!

No, there isn't. It's the just the scale which is broken. 1988 is 1979, 1993 is between 1980 and 1984, etc...

I thought Reform was winning a lot of seats for the early 80's...

[MaxQue]

The slider thing at the top of the election atlas website has spots for 1979-2011, but only has maps for 1988-2011. Weird. Hopefully we get maps soon

No, there's maps there now!

No, there isn't. It's the just the scale which is broken. 1988 is 1979, 1993 is between 1980 and 1984, etc...

I thought Reform was winning a lot of seats for the early 80's...

Well, it's fixed now but, as me, you'll probably have to clear the cache (press the refresh button while holding the Ctrl key under Firefox).

[RogueBeaver]

Unfortunately my riding has voted Grit since time immemorial, 3 terms of Bill Hamilton aside.

[Hatman 🍁]

Unfortunately my riding has voted Grit since time immemorial, 3 terms of Bill Hamilton aside.

NDG? It's NDP now, right?

[RogueBeaver]

Yeah, wonder if it stays that way next year. Though I was never a Jennings fan...

[MaxQue]

I thought NDG was a bunch of yuppies. How'd he even get a quarter of the vote?

I posted about him in the 2013 election thread, noting he had a tendency to say wierd things and than he was born in Bristol, UK.

He is also there since decades. Reputation built in part on painting white circles around potholes in 1998 to force the city to repair them quicker.

Defeated in 1990 for the Democratic Coalition for Loyola ward. Elected in 1994 for Montrealers Party for Loyola ward, elected as an independent in 1998, reeelected as Union Montreal in 2001. Defeated when he ran for borough mayorship in 2005 (for Team Jeremy Searle). Tried coming back in 2009 in his ward, as an independent, lost, but won back in 2013.

Article about him from 2009 (in English): http://www.lesactualites.ca/01_anciensite/?site=CDN&section=page&1=C090826&2=C090826_JeremySearle

He denied than the issue was his alcoholism and than the odor of alcohol during the council was from drunk journalists.

He said than he had an issue with alcohol, like he has an issue with his age (he thinks he is 2 times too old).
He also said than people not drinking alcohol during supper are losers.

http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/montreal/201404/30/01-4762414-probleme-dalcool-le-conseiller-searle-se-defend-et-en-rajoute.php

That guy is dangerous.

At the borough council meeting, he refused to resign and called Richard Bergeron, leader of Projet Montréal, "a promoter of terrorists".

[Hatman 🍁]

Classy

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Well... Bergeron is a published 9/11 truther...

[DC Al Fine]

My fiance just asked me why the Greens were so popular in Quebec in 1979

[Citizen Hats]

Farcical Forum Poll has LPC at 45% in BC.  http://www.forumresearch.com/forms/News%20Archives/News%20Releases/30116_Fed_Horserace_News_Release_%282014.04.30%29_Forum_Research.pdf

Such numbers would project in Federal Liberals places like Kelowna and Vancouver East...

[Citizen Hats]

Some of the BC ridings from 1979 seem both familiar and strange, like Cariboo-Chilcotin stretching all the way down to Howe Sound past Squamish.   My first thought was that it sort of made sense, since the Sea-to-Sky highway wasn't built until the 1960s, and there was only ferry and rail access to Squamish, but then I remembered that Cayoosh Pass, the route north of that region, wasn't motorable until the 1970s. The only other way not-by-rail in or out of that region is by some shifting logging roads may not have existed in those days.

[DC Al Fine]

Some of the BC ridings from 1979 seem both familiar and strange, like Cariboo-Chilcotin stretching all the way down to Howe Sound past Squamish.   My first thought was that it sort of made sense, since the Sea-to-Sky highway wasn't built until the 1960s, and there was only ferry and rail access to Squamish, but then I remembered that Cayoosh Pass, the route north of that region, wasn't motorable until the 1970s. The only other way not-by-rail in or out of that region is by some shifting logging roads may not have existed in those days.

I'm amazed how few ridings suburban Toronto had. Brampton isn't even worth an entire riding, only two for Mississauga and only one riding for the whole of Vaughan, Markham etc.

[Linus Van Pelt]

The slider thing at the top of the election atlas website has spots for 1979-2011, but only has maps for 1988-2011. Weird. Hopefully we get maps soon

No, there's maps there now!

No, there isn't. It's the just the scale which is broken. 1988 is 1979, 1993 is between 1980 and 1984, etc...

I think this may be a browser issue. It works for me in Safari.

[MaxQue]

The slider thing at the top of the election atlas website has spots for 1979-2011, but only has maps for 1988-2011. Weird. Hopefully we get maps soon

No, there's maps there now!

No, there isn't. It's the just the scale which is broken. 1988 is 1979, 1993 is between 1980 and 1984, etc...

I think this may be a browser issue. It works for me in Safari.

It's worked after I cleared the cache.

[Hatman 🍁]

Some of the BC ridings from 1979 seem both familiar and strange, like Cariboo-Chilcotin stretching all the way down to Howe Sound past Squamish.   My first thought was that it sort of made sense, since the Sea-to-Sky highway wasn't built until the 1960s, and there was only ferry and rail access to Squamish, but then I remembered that Cayoosh Pass, the route north of that region, wasn't motorable until the 1970s. The only other way not-by-rail in or out of that region is by some shifting logging roads may not have existed in those days.

I'm amazed how few ridings suburban Toronto had. Brampton isn't even worth an entire riding, only two for Mississauga and only one riding for the whole of Vaughan, Markham etc.

Look at the results in some of those ridings too. Some ridings had 100000+ voters.

[MaxQue]

Some of the BC ridings from 1979 seem both familiar and strange, like Cariboo-Chilcotin stretching all the way down to Howe Sound past Squamish.   My first thought was that it sort of made sense, since the Sea-to-Sky highway wasn't built until the 1960s, and there was only ferry and rail access to Squamish, but then I remembered that Cayoosh Pass, the route north of that region, wasn't motorable until the 1970s. The only other way not-by-rail in or out of that region is by some shifting logging roads may not have existed in those days.

I'm amazed how few ridings suburban Toronto had. Brampton isn't even worth an entire riding, only two for Mississauga and only one riding for the whole of Vaughan, Markham etc.

Look at the results in some of those ridings too. Some ridings had 100000+ voters.

Montreal is the same. Montreal northern exurbs are 2 ridings (and parts of 3 rural ridings), Montreal southern exurbs are 4 ridings, Laval is 3 (right now, it's 5.5, 6 and 3.5 and will be
7, 7, 4 in 2015)

[Hatman 🍁]

I think the 1993 result in York North must be the record. Bevilacqua won 71,500 votes in his own right.

[Njall]

Alberta Infrastructure Minister Ric McIver will step down from cabinet in order to run for PC leader.

[Citizen Hats]

I think the 1993 result in York North must be the record. Bevilacqua won 71,500 votes in his own right.

Oh the perpetually under-represented suburbs. In BC they used to be allowed to make allowance for expected population growth, but they could never do it honestly, so you ended up with places like Atlin where members  were elected the basis of less than 3000 votes into the 1980s

[Hatman 🍁]

That's what they did in this recent redistribution. Many suburban ridings in BC and Ontario will begin their lives underpopulated.

[RogueBeaver]

RIP Farley Mowat. Died today at 92, didn't know he was sill alive.

[RogueBeaver]

Headline from 1990. Trudeau says all Grit candidates must be pro-choice.

[Hatman 🍁]

RIP Farley Mowat. Died today at 92, didn't know he was sill alive.

Headline from 1990. Trudeau says all Grit candidates must be pro-choice.

Were Liberals all supposed to be pro choice in 1990? How'd that work out for them