Ut incepit fidelis sic permanet

@GrenadaLoyalist @Dr_W_E_Bulmer @SimonHarrisMBD It’s so curious as it’s not like this at all in Canada. Provincial elections are not remotely a plebiscite on national parties, and local elections don’t even feature political parties.

@Dr_W_E_Bulmer @SimonHarrisMBD The curse of second-order elections. Simple reality is most people don’t view local elections as a question over who should lead locally, but rather as a symbolic referendum on the incumbent government. This is an incredibly hard thing to counter

All over England today, hundreds of new councillors with remits that cover potholes, bins and adult social care are going to be meeting to figure out how to stop the boats.

@TimDyck10 @Tablesalt13 Constitutional realities and long-established practices are not fantasies. Monarchy predates the nation-state and is inherently multirealm. Canada evolved gently from Britain, and we remain inherently British in terms of our constitution and culture.

@RedCrow1534 @Tablesalt13 He wasn’t born in Canada and has never lived in Canada. Wake up and start paying attention to reality instead of your fantasies.

BREAKING: King Charles has accepted Mark Carney's recommendation to make Louise Arbour the new Governor General of Canada. ..but Canada is totally sovereign, though.

@BraydenBoulan @FrancisMCa6587 @Bt2Dr4 @wyatt_claypool Sometimes it feels that the CPC under PP is no more than voters who dislike the Liberals, there is little ideological commonality.

@RedCrow1534 @FrancisMCa6587 @Bt2Dr4 @wyatt_claypool Even the woke right can not agree on their position on monarchy! What a mess!

The pathetic whisper campaign has begun. The Red Tories and “cultural conservatives” are going to try and knife Pierre in favour of a politician who will pretend to be a hardcore conservative but is just another Doug Ford or “true blue” Erin O’Toole.

@BraydenBoulan @roll_otb @wyatt_claypool Reform can’t win much outside of its prairie base.

@roll_otb @wyatt_claypool Eh idk Federal progressive conservatives in the rest of the country are getting tired of Reform destroying the party

@BraydenBoulan @FrancisMCa6587 @Bt2Dr4 @wyatt_claypool Why write in an anti-monarchist?

@FrancisMCa6587 @Bt2Dr4 @wyatt_claypool Write in a republican and stop larping

@wyatt_claypool The Mulroneys are about as far from being Red Tory as it’s possible for Tories to be.

And this article is talking about Mark Mulroney apparently being the “buzz”

@wyatt_claypool Is that why they met with Pierre Poilievre two days ago, to give him notice?

The “Cultural Conservative” campaign to try and replace Pierre Poilievre is going to get underway this summer and fall. “Cultural Conservative” is the new labelling of the Red Tories because they aren’t fiscal conservatives, social conservatives, or freedom conservatives.

@richardwarnica This will come as no surprise to @jkenney

I went home recently to write about Alberta’s separatists. What I found was a movement dangerously, wildly disconnected from what is real.

@cbrew86836 @TristinHopper Americans trying to school others on the evils of slavery is preposterous. It was relatively limited in Canada compared to the US. Upper Canada enacted legislation to abolish slavery in 1793, and it was abolished throughout the Empire in 1834. Remind us what happened in America?

@TristinHopper Why is that? .... oh i forget, Canadians are fucking dumb and don't know their own history. "Slavery in Canada includes enslavement practised both by the First Nations until the latter half of the 19th century, and by colonists during the period of European colonization"

You probably shouldn't bring up the word "slave" in a discussion of the relative merits of the U.S. vs Canadian origin story.

@cbrew86836 @JerryBones8 @schoowoo @TristinHopper Canada was founded by French habitants and by American Loyalists who fled the tyrannies and excesses of the American Revolution. They chose what became known as Peace, Order & Good Government, and were self governing by 1841. Being British was a source of pride not subjugation.

@JerryBones8 @schoowoo @TristinHopper indeed wtf? Canadians don't know history? The US declared independence in 1776 - you not only didn't establish independence you fought the US with Britain in 1812, then you remained subjects of the crown... you didn't even gain self-governance until 1867. You were subjects.

As a Canadian, I have an extremely jingoistic view of both Irish and American history. In that I think they were both silly for getting a bunch of people killed for independence when we did it for free.

@cbrew86836 @schoowoo @TristinHopper Lol, Canadians were never slaves, and indeed rejected the American Revolution multiple times. You are clearly uneducated in history, and just rely on nationalistic myths appropriate for the simple minds of small children.

@schoowoo @TristinHopper it's your exact post. Canadians were slaves to a King. You were subjects of the British Crown and you just accepted that and waited to be freed and you are here bragging about the fact that your ancestors remained slaves until the British decided to let you become a nation.

@cbrew86836 @schoowoo @TristinHopper Canada was never enslaved by a foreign power, and nor was America. Even the most myopic American mythology doesn’t posit that American colonials were enslaved by Britain; they were freeborn British subjects fighting for British liberty (see John Adams & Thomas Jefferson).

@schoowoo @TristinHopper are you fucking for real? Most people at minimum feign bravery and declare they would not live in bondage. You're literally telling me you'd be cool if you were enslaved by a foreign power... as long as you know.. maybe eventually they'll decide to set you free. lol

@cbrew86836 @TristinHopper Canada joined the fight for freedom in WWI & WWII right from the getgo and most enthusiastically, whereas you isolationist and reluctant Yanks took an awfully long time to join us and the rest of the free world. So who is it again that doesn’t think freedom is worth fighting for?

@TristinHopper oh no... a person who lives in a Country most famous for .... ... hockey? ... Maple Syrup? ... doesn't think Freedom is worth fighting for. Whatever shall the world do?

@jagges Beautiful

From "Shadowlands", filmed in the Chapel of Magdalen College, Oxford with their actual choir.

I think about this clip a lot.

@RomanFisher__ 💯

I’d really like people to stop using the word “term” in reference to federal or provincial mandates. It’s an Americanism that doesn’t apply well to a Westminster system.

@Sean_Speer @E_Duhaime Sir John A Macdonald did not envision strong and assertive provinces. He wanted a strong central government and thought that Confederation would lead to the Dominion being pre-eminent over the provinces. He would likely be dismayed by today’s relatively weak federal government.

Quebec Conservative leader @E_Duhaime deserves a great deal of credit for trying to build cross-provincial support against Ottawa’s steady intrusion into provincial jurisdiction. Many provincial governments—including conservative ones—rightly criticized the Trudeau government’s unprecedented use of the federal spending power but then ultimately acquiesced in the face of federal dollars. The Fathers of Confederation, especially figures like Sir Alexander Galt who envisioned strong and assertive provinces, would be astonished by how readily provincial governments have ceded authority to an increasingly unconstrained Ottawa. Provincial conservatives should be defending their constitutional sphere of influence and insisting on a federalism of watertight compartments. To Duhaime’s credit, he’s trying to build a national coalition around exactly that forgotten yet fundamental principle. (Great job by @carlvallee by the way moderating such an important conversation.)

@dubsndoo Absurd to call Macleans or Rosemary Barton far left. The Socialist Worker is far left. Avi Lewis is far left. MSM outlets and journalists are not. As a Tory, I’ve noted a recent tendency by the populist right to label anything they don’t like as Communist or similar.

Canada’s most far left magazine heaping effusive praise on one of Canada’s most far left journalists. We’ve seen how giddy she gets lobbing softballs at Trudeau and Carney, and how pouty and petulant she is interviewing Pierre Poilievre.

@HeatherMisek @dubsndoo Word!

@dubsndoo Roland Michener, born in Lacombe, AB, was GG

4 of the last 6 GGs were from Quebec, the other 2 were from Ontario. Not one person born in Alberta has been a Governor General of Canada. Not one. Ever.

@dubsndoo Not true. Roland Michener was born in Lacombe. The house he was born in is now a museum.

@RB1649 @itvnews @DennyTheJourno @ITVNewsPolitics Not true…

@itvnews @DennyTheJourno @ITVNewsPolitics Really ?! Because according to polling most Canadians want the monarchy booted out.

King Charles as head of state is 'source of pride' for Canadians, Canadian High Commissioner to the UK tells @DennyTheJourno @ITVNewsPolitics itv.com/news/2026-05-0…