Woo!

Now to get rid of the christofascists in Saskatchewan and Alberta. Then Doug fucking Ford in Ontario.

  • @kakes
    25•9 months ago

    For anyone else that doesn’t follow Manitoban politics, the Cons have been in power since 2016 (before that, NDP).

    As mentioned, I don’t know much about the parties in Manitoba, but as a general fan of the NDP’s platforms, this sounds like good news to me.

    • @[email protected]English
      15•9 months ago

      Well, there is the Keystone Party which is Manitoba only. Their platform when they started during the pandemic was against medical mandates, lock-downs, and Human rights Tribunals.

      It would be funny if they didn’t get like 5% of the vote in some areas.
      well, they were at about 5% when I stopped watching the live votes. The number could’ve changed afterwards.

      This year they ran on:

      • Carbon taxes are bad
      • sex ed is bad
      • Reduce PST
      • Privatizing healthcare is good
      • Abattoir regulations
      • Trying to turn MB into a tourist economy, but also tax cuts for farms because the backbone of the economy, but also focus on being a factory-based economy, but also focus on independent trades. (It’s almost as if they are casting a wide net)
      • Adding jails and crown attorneys to speed up the court system (but not legal aid or defense attorneys, so it won’t actually make anything faster, because you need 2 to tango)
  • MapleEngineerOPEnglish
    22•9 months ago

    The reality is that the vast majority of Candians are socially progressive. On every issue from abortion to gun control to LGBTQ rights to social programs Candians lean left to hard left. As these right wing parties swing harder and harder right they appeal to a smaller and smaller extreme voting block. At some point they squeeze themselves out. Especially, like in Ontario, when it becomes so absolutely and undeniably obvious that all of Doug Ford’s talk of helping the little guy is just a series of schemes to enrich a small group of his wealthy developer friends/donors and when the social policies in places like Alberskatchetoba become so obviously about christofascist virtue signaling at the expense of extremely vulnerable children to appeal to fanatical extremists.

    What Canada needs is socially progressive leadership that is not corrupt, that makes corporations and the wealthy pay their fair share (not everything, not a lot more, but their fair share), that reaoects workers and parents and everyone’s rights, and that is fiscally responsible (not cutting revenue by cutting taxes on the wealthy and cutting programs that we have already paid for for everyone else to pay for it but trying to run the country/province within our means as much as possible while still truly caring for the ALL of the people, not just the wealthy.)

    Is that too much to ask for?

    • @[email protected]
      11•9 months ago

      What Canada needs is socially progressive leadership that is not corrupt, that makes corporations and the wealthy pay their fair share (not everything, not a lot more, but their fair share), that reaoects workers and parents and everyone’s rights, and that is fiscally responsible (not cutting revenue by cutting taxes on the wealthy and cutting programs that we have already paid for for everyone else to pay for it but trying to run the country/province within our means as much as possible while still truly caring for the ALL of the people, not just the wealthy.)

      You’d have to go back to the 50’s/60’s to find a party that lived and breathed those ethics. Think Tommy Douglas, the CCF and early NDP.

      • @[email protected]
        10•9 months ago

        Well seeing as one side is desperate to go back to the 50s/60s as far as rights are concerned, why not give them a taste of their own medicine and bring the tax policies back too?

    • @[email protected]
      9•9 months ago

      Thank gawd the Cons are out.

      I’m hoping Waub can keep his promises to try and fix/help our healthcare. Hell, I’d even be good with an increase to our prov sales tax to get it restarted.

      • Avid Amoeba
        2•9 months ago

        How’s the Manitoba NDP in policy direction? Center-left, left, very left? I know there can be significant differences between provincial parties by the same name. E.g. the BC Liberals are a bit like Ontario’s PCs.

  • margigi
    10•9 months ago

    I’m very happy the PCs lost a few key asshole members, especially in my riding :)

  • AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    7•9 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    The NDP sailed to victory Tuesday night with a solid win that cements leader Wab Kinew as Manitoba’s first First Nations premier and also nets the party enough seats to form a majority government, CBC projects.

    PC incumbent cabinet ministers Rochelle Squires and James Teitsma will lose their seats in Riel and Radisson, respectively, the CBC projects.

    Tom Lindsey (Flin Flon) and Eric Redhead (Thompson) in the north, and Adrien Sala (St. James), Lisa Naylor (Wolseley), Nahanni Fontaine (St. Johns), Uzoma Asagwara (Union Station), Mintu Sandhu (The Maples), Matt Wiebe (Concordia), Bernadette Smith (Point Douglas), Malaya Marcelino (Notre Dame), Jelynn Dela Cruz (Radisson), Jim Maloway (Elmwood) and Mike Moyes (Riel) have also scored victories for the NDP in Winnipeg, CBC News projects.

    Trevor King will take Lakeside and Kelvin Goertzen will hold onto Steinbach for the PCs, while Josh Guenter will win Borderland for the party, CBC News projects.

    Doyle Piwniuk also is holding onto his seat for the PCs in Turtle Mountain, and Jodie Byram will win the Agassiz riding, the CBC projects.

    “We know it’s going to be a tough battle, but we’ve done the work,” he said at the PC election night headquarters at the Canad Inns Fort Garry location on Pembina Highway.

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