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I'm probably pretty far on the anti-Pallister spectrum, but he did show proactive decision making to delay a fourth wave. He struck out and has deaths on his hands for the first three waves, but (I'm making a face like I'm throwing out a month old garbage bag of baby diapers) Pallister and Goertzen likely successfully saved/delayed a lot of bad 4th wave outcomes by have mask and vaccine mandates. Its actually surprising how either one of our next premiers does not see that or have been able to learn from our previous 3 waves and the BS in Alberta/Sask. That is a damn shame about where we are right now. We finally get to pick a new premier, but only a portion of people get to vote on who it will be. Unfortunately that portion of people includes a large amount of those who are responsible for the upcoming 4th wave and bad Covid outcomes overall. Doesn't quite seem right.

Thanks, I wasn't aware of this. So basically our next premier will get rid of vaccine requirements. Great, I hear that's worked well for our western neighbours....

Definitely agree when the result reflects the whole populace of Manitoba, but our next premier is being chosen solely by those who are members of the PC party. My guess is a lot of the rural nutjobs proudly carry their PC card and are wanting to use it to get rid of restrictions. An addition, many anti-vax/restrictions groups have been pushing to gobble up PC memberships so they can essentially vote out restrictions and masks. You'd have to think if Glover is elected and blows the Covid situation like her apparent idols Kenney/Moe then that would throw away the next election for the PCs. But voters have a short memory and many have already said that MB has done well with Covid, despite waging a war against healthcare workers during most of the pandemic and actually leading US/Can in Covid cases at various times during the pandemic. Agreed, it would be good if she could base her opinions on science and research, but from the little I've heard from her, I think her priorities are more about getting elected rather than good Covid policy. Like you, I haven't heard much from her on the Covid front during her campaign despite being a health minister during Covid and potentially leading the province through another wave of Covid. Maybe I'm just in the dark, but my hunch is that she doesn't want to alienate potential votes by being strong for or against vaccine mandates.

This is basically what I've heard from her as well. Unfortunately flip-flopping on vaccine requirements and restrictions is better than outright campaigning against vaccine mandates. There's no way I would have ever thought I would have wished Goertzen would be our premier longer. It makes me wonder how many people are holding out on getting vaccines until we get a new premier.

I'm more than a little worried that Shelly Glover will be our next premier at the end of the month. She's already opposed vaccine mandates and I'm betting would be pretty soft on restrictions as well. Unfortunately only card carrying PCs will be the ones allowed to elect the next premier. Already the anti-vax nutjobs have attempted to buy PC memberships on mass to get Ken Lee in power. I'm sure all their support and the support of PC card carrying bible belt will go behind Glover now. That would be bad news if we want to avoid a Kenney/Moe response to Covid.

We need more of this. I'm sure this is still only a small percentage of total financial tax evasion going on. There needs to be consequences and the investigations need to keep going to ensure the elites are shaking in their boots when trying to evade taxes.

I am shocked at how well we've done the last few months of the pandemic. I think we were right up there with Alberta and Sask on mismanaging the pandemic for 3/4 of the pandemic, but we've turned the corner. We might have even managed worse than them initially since we consistently had a lag on waves, but did nothing proactive to stop it until this 4th wave. And what do you know, it seems to have made a big difference so far. I think it helps that Manitoba has generally a larger percentage of the population that has progressive ideals. I haven't kept tabs on regional differences in other provinces, but Manitoba is a model statistically for why vaccinations work (thanks to Southern region for proving this). The only problem with this is the number would be skewed quite a bit. Vaxxed may seem high because they have less restrictions, but most importantly, will actually get tested if they have symptoms. Unvaxxed are less likely to get tested and many get their first Covid tests when admitted to ICU. On top of this, a lot more people are vaccinated than unvaccinated. I'm assuming many of the vaccinated people getting Covid are in high risk situations like nursing homes. Normal people may be able to understand this and make sense of seeing how many cases are vaccinated, but remember, we're mostly talking about the dumbest of our population. Any evidence of vaccinated people contracting Covid adds to their delusions that vaccinations don't work and aren't worth the risks, whatever nonsense risks they imagine. Rumour is they will have a horse on the packaging to reach a wider market.

- Permitting retail capacity at 50 per cent in the Southern Health-SantéSud health region. - Permitting indoor public gathering group sizes to 25 people or 33 per cent capacity, whichever is greater, for gatherings that include unvaccinated people who are eligible to be vaccinated. (This will be interesting in the churches) Love the new restrictions. I've been worried for a while that we would cave to anti-vaxxers. Glad there is some stuff specific to Southern Health that seems designed to not screw with those in the region who are vaccinated too much.

Doctors have called upon the province multiple times to develop triage protocols whenever it appears another Covid wave is coming. I wonder if part of that is to allow them to prioritize those who are vaccinated or in ICU for other conditions over the unvaccinate / I'll die before I admit Covid is real camp. Many health care professionals have mourned that non-Covid patients have died in hospital while waiting treatment because the hospitals are filled with a wave of Covid patients.

There are even ultra-rich campaigning to be taxed more. "As a millionaire I know personally that our global economic system has enshrined wealth accumulation for the few – to the detriment of ordinary people in every country. We all deserve more than a pre-COVID path to recovery,” said Morris Pearl, Chair of Patriotic Millionaires and former managing director at BlackRock, Inc. “Taxing wealth has to be a key, central policy for all governments if we want to build beyond the skewed and faulty economic system we previously had.” - https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2021/04/01/millionaires-call-wealth-taxes-wealth-worlds-billionaires-surges-4-trillion There are better sources for millionaires campaigning for more taxes on the rich, but I can't recall them right now. But who really needs a source when you can regurgitate conservative talking points.

"We find that major reforms reducing taxes on the rich lead to higher income inequality as measured by the top 1% share of pre-tax national income. The effect remains stable in the medium term. In contrast, such reforms do not have any significant effect on economic growth and unemployment." - http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/107919/1/Hope_economic_consequences_of_major_tax_cuts_published.pdf “Policy makers shouldn’t worry that raising taxes on the rich to fund the financial costs of the pandemic will harm their economies,” - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-16/fifty-years-of-tax-cuts-for-rich-didn-t-trickle-down-study-says I find that the positive relationship between tax cuts and employment growth is largely driven by tax cuts for lower-income groups, and that the effect of tax cuts for the top 10% on employment growth is small. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w21035/w21035.pdf "The German experience suggests that putting workers on boards has done little to limit soaring pay at the top. Likewise, shareholders have occasionally slapped the wrists of executives, but not much else. Higher taxes are the only way. And they cause no harm, except to the bank balances of those they target." (The CPC suggested putting workers on boards as a progressive step) -https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/dec/20/trickle-down-economics-is-dead-its-time-to-tax-the-rich-harder "far from being either necessary or good for economic growth, excessive inequality tends to lead to weaker economic performance." - https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/d8-gjpw-1v31 "Tax cuts for the rich “do not have any significant effect on economic growth and unemployment”, and “lead to higher income inequality”" - https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/01/tax-cuts-for-wealthy-impact-lse-study/

At least they are providing plenty of evidence that vaccines and restrictions work? Unfortunately also that having pockets of unvaccinated people that don't care about restrictions can mess with anything resembling herd immunity.

To be fair I am borrowing from the Manitoba PC party who consistently emphasized our new Indigenous Relations minister as Dr and touted his years in the medical field. It was only once he defended residential schools that I found out Dr. meant veterinarian.

"Well, that's the thing. It's the veterinarian for my horses. I call him doctor"

That's one of many things about the anti-vax protests I despise. The "My body, my choice" thing surely only applies to their rights and I would wager that most of the people in the crowd don't support a woman's right to choose and don't support gay marriage. There are likely a few true libertarians in the crowd, but most would not support the slogan "my body, my choice" when applied to others. Such disgusting hypocrisy that shows their life of privilege and lack of understanding/compassion for others.

Let's hope this will be the legacy of parties in power that have mismanaged Covid and contradicted scientific facts continuously.

I have no problem with them "trusting their immune system". Go ahead, good luck with that. Maybe volunteer in a Covid ward with such a strong immune system. The problems with that are them choking up healthcare when their immune system lets them down and spreading Covid which drags down everyone by keeping significant levels of Covid around longer and keeping those who have a very weak immune system at risk longer.

Some of the election can also be seen as the CPC reaping the rewards from years of feeding their followers BS. They've finally accepted there should be a price on carbon, but the stink of vehemently going against the science for years has stuck with them and it looks good on them too. Its hard for anyone who considers themselves centrist to actually believe they will value the environment and climate change. I know I over-emphasize how much the general population cares about the environment, but the CPCs are starting to realize climate change deniers will be left in the past.

They should feel good about where they are sitting on the political spectrum. They've won a few elections in a row, despite scandals and a somewhat unpopular leader. Perhaps they've realized that the average Canadian has also shifted left, something the CPC have all but acknowledged. "Not your dad's conservative party" was meant to strongly signal their move left. Support for unions and putting a price on carbon, no matter how ridiculous the plan is, shows they felt they needed to move left to gain power. They still didn't. I'm not sure if it was a strategic error or not or whether they would have done better to appeal to the right more.

Good point. I kind of mixed my points. Pallister with his MLAs and Trudeau with actual advisors rather than MPs. I agree there have been a few issues with MPs.

Actually that is probably my favourite thing about Trudeau. He seems to have good advice on policy and takes it. Its kind of the opposite as we had in MB with Pallister. Though I guess it is easy for MLAs to say they were critical of him behind closed doors after he leaves while very unpopular.

I think the results showed that Canadians valued action on climate change and protection from covid (vaccine mandates). Even the CPC drifted left by finally agreeing there should be a price on carbon. The one good thing about Kenney's disastrous handling of Covid in Alberta is that it may have scared people away from Conservative governments during a pandemic, especially if there is any further bad news relating to variants.

I've been really impressed with the CBC coverage. They have some really good presenters. Rosemary Barton, Ian Hanomansing, a bunch of other good ones too.

Greens are tied to an international movement. There won't be a name change, but likely leadership will change as the current leader even discussed leaving the party before the vote. How do you figure the Bloc are players again? Currently they are down seats from last election. Or do you mean holding balance of power in the upcoming election?

I don't think many libertarians go for green historically. Social responsibility and restrictions on environmental harm aren't really a libertarian ideals.