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Barbara Brezer's avatar

ELBOWS UP!!! VOTE IN CANADIAN ELECTION. !!

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David Olden's avatar

Proud to say I voted early Wednesday the 16th 😎! Elbows Up!

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Barry Cusitar's avatar

Whoa, he sounds mean! Guess we better vote for a Trump Wannabee then!! NOT. Spread all the garbage you want, but this is not America, we actually have a majority of the people up here who THINK for themselves!! Good try - the conservatives are going to get crushed!

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Dee Joy's avatar

Make sure your elections are monitored properly. Election truth alliance has proof musk rigged the election for trump to win 2024. No doubt they'll try to cheat, lie and steal elections again - so the fascists will win and take over.

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WJB Motown's avatar

"Trump North" Poillievre was endorsed by Musk and Alex Jones.......That was before Bone Spurs 2nd term started....it never received the attention it should have...TN s entire platform has been based on HATE for Justin Trudeau....he offers nothing but cuts and destruction of democracy...he is that titty baby kid at the back of the class that everyone hated. Maple Meidas would never vote for this bottom feeding asshole.........sadly, right wing media in Canada gets it right wing bullshit propaganda from the Fraiser Institute....that is funded by US right wing think tanks. MAGA maple has been FOXWASHED by this garbage.........simple as that..........Elbows UP......do not vote for Trump North.

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LiseAnn 🇨🇦's avatar

That quote from Mr. Carney's book never existed. It has been going around as propaganda. DEBUNKED by Snopes.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/canada-mark-carney-western-society/

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Helen C Strasko's avatar

Thanks Ben for bringing Canada's "Maga's" plight to the forefront!

Fortunately, many Canadians are supporting THE USA and the current he[[ we're going through.

Somewhat heartening was seeing how our Federal Judges opined and document that CHUMP could be prosecuted for contempt!! (NOT surprising, but HE believes he's a "Teflon Don." NOT!!

Except HIS previous mentor is dead and HE'S cried out for him more than once.. (Crocodile Tears, since HE never attended his services.)

Canadian citizens have shown real strength and aren't ignorant either.. America is watching along with the rest of the world to our Constitutional Crisis..

So perhaps an order will quickly go out to pick up CHUMP per HIS Contempt order.... 🙏🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍

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Bill Walker's avatar

Let's hope!

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Barry Cusitar's avatar

So we should just stay home then? That's just garbage and you know it - take your nonsense somewhere else. Canada is beautiful, free, strong, and resilient. We are in different times, scary times, and we need stable, solid leadership, and the Conservatives are nowhere close to providing that, period!

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LiseAnn 🇨🇦's avatar

I'm curious. Who do you suggest we should be voting for in Canada...?

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Lacey67's avatar

Carney without a doubt!

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Mike Gilbert's avatar

Not without a doubt...what can be expected from a former Goldman Sachs banker? Not much that's good for working people. The best "realistic" outcome at this point would be a Liberal minority with Charlie Angus' NDP holding the balance of power...as in the past election.

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LiseAnn 🇨🇦's avatar

I found the paragraph you quoted from Mr. Carney's book very weird. I was right: it never existed. DEBUNKED by Snopes.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/canada-mark-carney-western-society/

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LiseAnn 🇨🇦's avatar

No. I want you to answer.

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OriginalKaDs's avatar

Don’t bother he’s a troll

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Fraser's avatar

Yup-100 % troll!

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Mike's avatar

We don't directly elect a Prime Minister, we elect local representatives, and the party with the most seats then *chooses its leader* to be the Prime Minister. Calling Carney unelected just shows a fundamental lack of understanding in how Canadian elections work - though I suspect you know this and are trying to stir trouble regardless.

Do better.

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Natalie's avatar

No, you don't. 🤣

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LiseAnn 🇨🇦's avatar

BS. Straight from right-wing propaganda.

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Mona Glassford's avatar

Oh dude, don't you see that happening here. People went out and bought cars just so they could afford them now. Mark Carney's book was published in 2021. The world was a little different then. Here's a statement from his book as well. "In a contrast to the Milton Friedman-inspired free market views of his Conservative adversary, Pierre Poilievre, Carney comments, “unchecked market fundamentalism devours the social capital essential for the long-term dynamism of capitalism itself.“

So nothing is perfect, but as Americans we should stay the h*ll out of CANADA'S election. (Maybe we should remind our Government as well.

ELBOWS UP CANADA. YOU DO YOU.

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LiseAnn 🇨🇦's avatar

That quote from Mr. Carney's book is a lie. It never was written. It was debunked by Snopes.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/canada-mark-carney-western-society/

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LiseAnn 🇨🇦's avatar

That quote never existed in Mr. Carney's book. DEBUNKED by Snopes.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/canada-mark-carney-western-society/

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LiseAnn 🇨🇦's avatar

NO, Carney DID NOT say that in his book. DEBUNKED by Snopes.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/canada-mark-carney-western-society/

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Natalie's avatar

Our system of government isn't America's, so your *unelected* emphasis only shows your ignorance of our country.

🇨🇦🤣🇨🇦

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LiseAnn 🇨🇦's avatar

Carney DID NOT write this in his book DEBUNKED by Snopes.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/canada-mark-carney-western-society/

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OriginalKaDs's avatar

Get bent Troll! You clearly don’t know shit about Canada or it’s politics.

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Allan S's avatar

This not in his book. I just finished reading it. This is pure Con propaganda

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Oliver's avatar

Here in Germany:

Taxidrivers with Teslacars have no customers :-)

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Cindy's avatar

that's awesome, please keep doing this for us in the USA. Danke Freund

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Helen C Strasko's avatar

Wunderbär meine Freund!

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Nora M's avatar

While I feel sorry for the taxi drivers, who really can’t change cars all that easily, I am all too happy to see them trashing Muck.

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Nancy Elaine Fauser's avatar

🤣🤣🤣 Yaaay!

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DK Brooklyn's avatar

In nyc there are many Uber Teslas we can boycott. I feel bad for the drivers, but it’s not business as usual.

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Carolyn Bosje's avatar

I am so proud to be Canadian, especially right now! Our election is so important right now. I have hope we have a greater percentage of people who see the blatant similarities between T and P. Canada Strong 🇨🇦

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Janica  Ribeiro's avatar

Canada has been a shining example to the world . I am Portuguese, I live in Ireland and I say it a few times a day in these times of turmoil. Get your act together , be Canada , about a lot of political situations!

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Carolyn Bosje's avatar

Thank you from Canada! Knowing that makes me so proud! We are united!

💪Elbows Up🍁Canada Strong🇨🇦

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Vel Santic's avatar

Canada is where I wanted to immigrate already back in 1996. By an agency IOM I was redirected to USA in 1997.

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Sara Frischer's avatar

Thank you I wore my unapologetically democratic Meidas t shirt today to our local rally and met many Meidas Mighty. Thank you Ben and Charlie

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MeidasTouch Network's avatar

Send pics!

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Alisia Grenville's avatar

I have voted!! Canadian in Switzerland. Canadians say no to dictatorship and fascism!! Praying for a Liberal landslide. Go Canada 🇨🇦!!!

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OriginalKaDs's avatar

All the SANE Canadians are hoping the Liberal majority!👍🏼🇨🇦

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Lacey67's avatar

Yayyyyy

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Janica  Ribeiro's avatar

Canada has been a shinning example to us all in this time of turmoil . They united in a flash , organised and strategical, with enormous solidarity . Look at them Democratic Party and get inspired. I as a non American who lived in Europe all her life , I have always loved the Democratic Party , not perfect but it certainly has the best of America . Together we stand, divided we fall.

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Robin 🇨🇦's avatar

Charlie Angus is a national treasure 🇨🇦

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Steven Nightshade's avatar

Stop saying it is DJT doing this alone. It is the top 1% of Anerica , he is just the head of the snake. And a very stupid one at that.

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Steven Nightshade's avatar

Sorry about the typo, America...lol

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erg art ink's avatar

Oh them? The USSA tech bots? Alongside the original international oilygarchs and arms dealers who trade on the markets as a side hustle?

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OriginalKaDs's avatar

Cut off the head and the body will die.

Guillotine comes to mind🤔

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Rose Cassie's avatar

We the original people of America 🇺🇸 who do NOT condone lawlessness, bullying, lies, 🏴‍☠️, hate, violence, and blatant corruption stand with you, Canada!🇨🇦👏🤜🤛🫶

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Janet's avatar

Bravo Canada!

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Kathy Stewart's avatar

Elbows up MapleMighty💪🇨🇦💜

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Dino Alonso's avatar

Yes, yes, *a thousand times yes*. Resistance looks like this: practical, loud, a little scrappy, and unafraid to call out fascism when it appears in a maple-scented disguise.

Charlie Angus is doing what more leaders *everywhere* should be doing: looking past the noise and naming the threat for what it is—**an authoritarian virus that doesn’t stop at borders**. When your neighbor’s house is on fire and the flames are creeping toward your fence, you don’t sit around debating baguette bag regulations—you grab a hose and sound the damn alarm.

And honestly? Watching Canada rally with “elbows up” while America wrestles its own democracy in a cage match with a golden-toilet-wielding strongman is inspiring and clarifying. It reminds us: **this is a shared fight**. The culture war cosplay may vary slightly by region—plastic straws in the U.S., plastic bread bags in Alberta—but the script is the same. Demonize the press, erode rights, invoke emergency powers, then pretend you're the victim while trampling the Constitution (or in this case, the Charter).

To see Canadians rising up, early voting in droves, and laughing in the face of Trump-lite nonsense? It’s fuel. It’s hope. And it’s a reminder that autocracy only wins when people give up.

They’re not giving up. Neither are we.

Elbows up, friends. Let’s swing.

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Vel Santic's avatar

That's what I've been saying for a decade and even longer!! Yep!!

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Alisia Grenville's avatar

Thanks Charlie!! Elbows up!!! Xoxo

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Don Buckter's avatar

I like Charles’ serious, no none sense demeanor. He gets it! This is no time for yuck it up banter the kind which I see so much of the time from “anti Trumpets” this side of the boarder. Canadians see this moment for what it is. Why don’t more Americans?

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gwHornPlayer's avatar

Nice to see Canadians so unified against Trump’s corruption and idiocy. It’s a damned shame so many Americans are still so willfully ignorant and clueless in the face of his assault on our democracy, our institutions and our economy—although that last one seems to have started to awaken some of them from their slumber.

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Cindy's avatar

it has awaken yes but that SOB needs to be impeached

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Vel Santic's avatar

and removed, period!! this has been going on way longer than it should ever have, an efffin' decade!!

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Cindy's avatar

good point. Yeah he's been impeached but he wasn't removed.

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Vel Santic's avatar

because of most of so-called "republican party of USA" - the worst and, appallingly, most powerful cult of death in human history.

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Elara's avatar

Always great reporting 👍🏼

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Robyn Majewski's avatar

That Pierre Poilievre is using the same playbook as the US fascist regime used to get elected is alarming. I hope the Canadians are triple checking their election security.

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Dee Joy's avatar

Exactly thankyou for mentioning election security.

Election truth alliance has verifiable evidence that musk rigged the election for trump to win 2024.

The fascists are rising up all over the world. Their network reaches far and wide - Canada, France, australia all with upcoming elections.

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David Howard's avatar

Our election security is good

5 checks on your identity,etc with 2 pieces of official ID required and paper ballots

I am proud of the work that Elections Canada is doing

Canada is not America

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