I have to admit that I like Maxime Bernier and the PPC platform…that said, there is very little hope I think that this is going anywhere this next election. He just posted the list of vacant ridings where they still need candidates - wouldn’t be as bad if the election was in October but if it’s March I can’t see it. So it’s Poilievre…and then separation. 🙏🏻
LIST OF VACANT PPC RIDINGS AS OF FEBRUARY 23, 2025
ALBERTA
Airdrie—Cochrane
Calgary Centre
Calgary Heritage
Calgary McKnight
Calgary Midnapore
Calgary Nose Hill
Calgary Shepard
Calgary Skyview
Fort McMurray—Cold Lake
Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Burnaby North—Seymour
Kelowna
Mission—Matsqui—Abbotsford
New Westminster—Burnaby—Maillardville
North Vancouver—Capilano
Okanagan Lake West—South Kelowna
Port Moody—Coquitlam
Skeena—Bulkley Valley
Surrey Centre
Vancouver East
Vancouver Fraserview—South Burnaby
Vernon—Lake Country—Monashee
MANITOBA
Kildonan—St. Paul
Portage—Lisgar
Winnipeg South
Winnipeg West
NEW BRUNSWICK
Fredericton—Oromocto
Madawaska—Restigouche
Miramichi—Grand Lake
Moncton—Dieppe
Tobique—Mactaquac
NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
Cape Spear
Central Newfoundland
Labrador
St. John's East
Terra Nova—The Peninsulas
NOVA SCOTIA
Cape Breton—Canso—Antigonish
Central Nova
Cumberland—Colchester
Halifax
Kings—Hants
ONTARIO
Ajax
Algonquin—Renfrew—Pembroke
Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill
Barrie South—Innisfil
Bay of Quinte
Beaches—East York
Brampton Centre
Brampton North—Caledon
Brampton South
Brampton West
Brantford—Brant South—Six Nations
Cambridge
Carleton
Davenport
Don Valley North
Don Valley West
Eglinton—Lawrence
Elgin—St. Thomas—London South
Essex
Etobicoke—Lakeshore
Guelph
Hastings—Lennox and Addington—Tyendinaga
Humber River—Black Creek
Kanata
Kapuskasing—Timmins—Mushkegowuk
Kenora—Kiiwetinoong
London West
London—Fanshawe
Markham—Unionville
Nepean
New Tecumseth—Gwillimbury
Newmarket—Aurora
Ottawa Centre
Ottawa West—Nepean
Oxford
Pickering—Brooklin
Scarborough North
Scarborough Southwest
Scarborough—Agincourt
Scarborough—Guildwood—Rouge Park
Scarborough—Woburn
Spadina—Harbourfront
Stormont—Dundas—Glengarry
Thunder Bay—Superior North
Toronto—Danforth
Toronto—St. Paul's
University—Rosedale
Wellington—Halton Hills North
Whitby
Willowdale
Windsor West
Windsor—Tecumseh—Lakeshore
York Centre
York South—Weston—Etobicoke
PRINCE EDOUARD ISLAND
Cardigan
Egmont
Malpeque
QUEBEC
Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou
Ahuntsic-Cartierville
Beauport—Limoilou
Bécancour—Nicolet—Saurel—Alnôbak
Beloeil—Chambly
Brossard—Saint-Lambert
Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles
Côte-Nord—Kawawachikamach—Nitassinan
Drummond
Honoré-Mercier
Joliette—Manawan
Lac-Saint-Jean
Laurier—Sainte-Marie
Longueuil—Saint-Hubert
Louis-Saint-Laurent—Akiawenhrahk
Montmorency—Charlevoix
Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Westmount
Outremont
Papineau
Pierre-Boucher—Les Patriotes—Verchères
Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie
Saint-Jean
Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel
Terrebonne
Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Sœurs
SASKATCHEWAN
Battlefords—Lloydminster—Meadow Lake
Carlton Trail—Eagle Creek
Prince Albert
Regina—Lewvan
Saskatoon South
Saskatoon—University
Souris—Moose Mountain
Yorkton—Melville
TERRITORIES
Northwest Territories
Nunavut
https://open.substack.com/pub/imahealth/p/heres-a-thought-safety-is-a-slippery?
Once upon a time, 'safety' was about avoiding real danger, now it's simply a polite way of saying 'shut up and comply
“Safety used to mean something concrete—the absence of imminent harm, the presence of reasonable protections. Seatbelts keep you safe. Locking your doors at night keeps you safe. Not playing in traffic keeps you safe. But slowly, almost imperceptibly, “safety” has morphed into something far more abstract, elastic enough to justify nearly any loss of liberty or privilege. “We’re banning that doctor who questions vaccines from social media to keep you safe. We’re removing that book of natural cancer cures from Amazon to keep you safe.
We’re tracking your every move and morsel to keep you safe.”
The real question is: Where does it end? (It’s rhetorical—because it doesn’t.)”