No one is expecting Carney, or anyone else, to serve as an unelected PM.
I think Freeland has a good head on her shoulders, and I hope she enters the race if only to hear her ideas, but Carney has the electoral advantage of having nothing to do with the Trudeau government.
The Fuck Trudeau and pretty boy mantras are going to ring pretty hollow against Carney.
If Carney becomes leader, I expect they'll pivot to WEF/Illuminati nonsense.
Whether that will work is another matter entirely.
I think the NDP came to a realization that hitching themselves to the Liberal government had outlived its political usefulness, and it might be better to put some distance between them before the next election.
I don't really pay much attention to the BQ.
Go ahead and post some alternatives if you're so upset about it.
Beyond that, how about letting people share what they want to share?
I clicked hoping for a shot of the "Academy" set and left disappointed, but it's a neat article regardless. The opening anecdote is great:
Olivia Chow has a model starship in her office.
It’s the USS Toronto, a Parliament-class vessel slightly bigger than her hand. An accompanying plaque features a quote from her husband, Jack Layton, who died in 2011.
“Always have a dream that will outlast your lifetime,” it reads.
Layton, the former federal NDP leader, was a fan of “Star Trek.”
I'd like to know where the model came from - was it a gift?
I swear, they must do it on purpose.
Trek hasn't really fleshed things out, but I would think that's the goal of Bruce Maddox and other synth developers.
The Mega Bloks license ended in 2018. BlueBrixx was 2021-2024.
Ever since the Star Trek: Prodigy cancellation, I've suspected that Paramount+ is struggling when it comes to younger viewers, and this certainly seems to support that theory.
Don’t a ton of the episodes deal with life outside the federation, boldly go where no (hu)man has gone before and all that? Hell, DS9 took place on a space station outside the federation…
I think it's a stretch to say that they do. The primary characters are nearly always Starfleet/Federation characters, and the events of the episodes are generally seen through their eyes, even if they are technically outside the Federation. The main exception would be the DS9 Ferengi episodes, but there's really only a handful of those.
Risa was part of the Federation. Unless that was retconned with nu-trek or something…
The only reason Risa came up in the article is because the pitch of the new show is that it's set on a resort planet, and people unfortunately lack imagination and assumed that meant Risa, even though the pitch also said it was set outside the Federation.
This interview confirms that the setting is not, and has never been, Risa.
We'll see how it all pans out. I feel somehow skeptical that the Federation perspective won't worm its way in there somewhere.
The likely scenario is that, immediately upon Parliament resuming next month, the Liberals will immediately lose a confidence vote, triggering a snap election. The opposition parties have all stated that they will initiate a confidence vote at the earliest opportunity.
In the unlikely event that doesn't happen, I imagine JT would remain on as PM until the mandatory election this fall. Were he to step down, he would probably appoint a sitting MP as interim PM.
As a fun(?) aside, Canada has had two PMs who served while members of the (unelected) Senate, and MacKenzie King and John Turner both briefly governed without a ministerial seat.