I regret looking because it made me not even want to go out and vote.

This is the main reason I think poll prediction media should be banned during elections. People can change things by voting, but you’d never know it from the election “advice” plastered everywhere. I believe it promotes an apathy vote where people just stay home more than anything informative or otherwise useful.

ty for going anyway.

Cons promised it too. Since the 1979 Pepin-Robarts “Task Force on Canadian Unity” report, both Ruling Parties have been dangling the promise of electoral reform. And swarms will keep blaming the NDP that we still don’t have it. Reality be damned.

Check some other posts here. People yesterday were already blaming the decimated federal NDP for not forcing the Liberals to give us PR by the next election, and the votes weren’t even finished being counted.

[edit bc I’m pissed and tired, but the internet doesn’t need more antagonistic language lashing out imo]

No harm to you at all, but I’m avoiding that site completely and advising everyone I work with and care about to stick with one of the other poll prediction sites like 338 if they have to use anything (scroll down for tl;dr).

Originally called polarispolls, smartvoting is run out of Polaris Entertainment.

When the smartvoting site was launched during the last Ontario election and started showing up on facebook/twitter/lemmy/etc, they didn’t include specific information about their (proprietary) methodology, but they’ve put together a pdf for the federal launch. If anyone cares to read it, it’s here.

Polaris Entertainment is made up of 3 people, afaict, and they’re all podcast influencers. The youtube link here is a joint podcast they did 5 months ago. In it, the guy who claims he made the smartvoting website suggests twice just in this one interview that the NDP should bow out federally. Pretty standard Hot Take these days so not particularly sus, except that it’s coming from a guy who made a vote recommendation website.

The person running the site used the royal WE a tonne when smartvoting was just one person during the Ontario election, and he now claims to have a “bipartisan data board.” The site also now has someone they’re naming as a general manager of the site, and she’s said the NDP is running a harassment campaign against them, which is affecting everyone’s mental health. Now, the same guy who claims he made the site says the reason he won’t name any of the people on his new board and won’t share any of his data is because of the NDP.

tl;dr: At best, smartvoting is a do-gooder project by someone trying to save us all from ourselves. With project 2025 rushing down the pipe and the mass media influence of the rightwing, I totally get it. People with fab intentions don’t always come up smelling like roses, and I never require Purity from my left allies. But at worst, smartvoting could be another disinfo campaign, claiming to be anti-conservative, openly interfering with our elections to amplify the appearance of division between Canadians on the left, when we’re already pretty cool with strategic voting and have been doing it when necessary for decades.

[disclaimer: this is the second comment I’ve left about being suspicious of this site since I made my lemmy account.]

This was decades ago.

Not even an hour on the job. I was early 20ish, new to a city, answered an ad for an art gallery receptionist. Had the interview at the gallery, guy seemed straight-forward, I got the gig, was told I’d start in a week. That night, around 2am he started leaving phone messages, saying we needed to have a meeting immediately. I needed to be at his house by 6am. Went from inappropriately sweet to hoarse with yelling down the phone at me within a day. Call after call at all hours for a week. Told me at 8pm on a Saturday I needed to bring him donuts at his house by 9. That I needed to go shopping with him for a new skirt that would suit the office better. That I needed to respond immediately whenever he called. Literally did the “Don’t you know who I am?” “I can destroy you with a snap of my fingers,” “Don’t you understand what an opportunity this is for you?” whole shtick.

Didn’t even make it to the first day of the supposed job. Changed my phone number. Moved again.

The other was half a day, but not making it past the training phase of a call centre job probably doesn’t count.

Globe & Mail seeding slogans for the Conservative/Reform Party. “It’s about Hope and Change, amirite fellow under 35 y/o guys? Don’t forget to vote for Hope and Change!”

Nadeem Mahmoud, the spokesperson for Ahmed’s campaign, said multiple people reached out to their office, saying a woman wearing an Elections Canada badge was approaching people lined up to vote at the Teston Village Public School in Vaughan, and encouraging them to vote Conservative in the federal election.

The woman was speaking to people in English but also in Urdu, Mahmoud said.

“This is something which is not supposed to happen. It’s a breach of protocol,” he said.

Brazen breach of protocol by someone who apparently wasn’t a wee bit worried about getting caught. Someone should ask Pierre Poutine what he has to say about it, but conservatives are in the “we’re not letting him talk anymore” stage of the campaign.

This is the best thing I’ve read today. I’m so glad you went anyway. Poll prediction sites don’t predict upsets and voting can absolutely change things.

The CFIA says the product might have been sold in clerk-served packages or smaller packages without a label, or in a package that doesn’t bear the same brand or product name.

Hotels, hospitals, retirement homes, bakeries, etc: all places where these are served with no reference to their brand name. Heads up.

Tough year for the Sweet Cream brand.

TIL! ty

So Montreal’s one of their studios. Good to know.

I suspect the plastic bag/straw issue is politicians virtue signalling to the Oil and Gas lobby, like “I’ll make sure you still get pennies for your nurdles, Boss!”

[edit - link’s to a vox article from 2022 explaining what nurdles are]

Challenge accepitebbted

How everyone in Parliament doesn’t have an aneurysm from having to deal with him is beyond me. Just 3 minutes of his blatant bullshit gives me an ice cream headache.

Highlight of the debate imo: Skippy says I’m “living in terror” here in Toronto, because of car theft.

Sweet mother of god, someone muzzle the attack poodle. I really want to hear everything everyone has to say tonight, but SkiPPy is working his ass off to make me turn off the radio. Everyone’s losing continuity and intelligibility with the amount he’s talking over and interrupting.

The Manning Centre trained him well.

Such a good company. I used their sunscreen for ages. They have a body lotion with Labrador tea and shea that I still love too.

I used the “Fresh Verve” deo for a few years and it really is fantastic. So disappointed the price of it went up so much from pre-pandemic to now (iirc, it was 5-6$ and now I can’t find it for under 13$, which is more than I’m willing to pay for pit stick. Back to DIY until the price comes down, unfortunately).

Alpen Secrets is made in Montreal. You know that bar soap with the goats on it that you see everywhere? That’s them. Their body wash with almond oil is absolutely lovely.

Very cool to see all the breweries that’ve signed on.

Some great names too: Together We’re Bitter Co-operative Brewing, Kick and Push, Dildo Brewing Co. & Museum.

More mainstream and big budget, so everyone probably already knows this one. But if you like puzzles and wish your gameplay was narrated by Prometheus gentle-parenting manbaby Zeus through your hero’s journey, Immortals: Fenyx Rising is fluffy fun. It’s an ubisoft game, and they’re still a Quebec company so it absolutely counts.

Was watching cbc last night and saw a good bit where they investigate con and lib crowd number claims.

Liberals claimed 2,000 in a 1,100 capacity room, and a crowd science expert counted 756.
Conservatives claimed 5,500, and the cbc counted 1,522.
Cons also claimed 15,000; expert counted 1,772.
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Posting a quote from the entrepreneur in question, jic anyone doesn’t know who this good man is (link’s to a interview with him on CBC’s show the Next Chapter).

"I always say that Syria is my home by birth and Canada is my home by choice. I knew this country stands for human rights, for freedom, for supporting immigrants and refugees to start their new lives on this amazing land of opportunity. I’ve heard a lot of stories of Canadian immigrants starting from scratch like newborn babies.

“From the moment that I landed at the Canadian airport is certainly when the feeling became a reality. I was treated like I belonged — like I was born in Canada and taken away to the Middle East for 25 years of my life and then brought back. That’s how it felt because I was treated like a Canadian. I had every single right to do everything I wanted, everything I dreamed of.” Tareq Hadhad, founder of Peace by Chocolate, 2021

She’s the reason city council can’t meet in person anymore. Even trying to meet online, they’re bombarded.

The link is the 13 min video (linked in the article) the City of Pickering council put together in Dec documenting some of the harassment they’re dealing with, as well as how she encourages it.

(Antihate’s one of the best resources Canada has going atm, keeping track of all this nazi shit. ty for linking, OP.)