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Federal Election Day here in Canada. Hopefully new Liberal Prime Minister, Mark Carney, (I'm not Justin) will prevail with. majority government and put Trump in his place, vis-a-vis Canada, and his 51st State more crazy of crazy notions! Here in Fredericton we attended our first ever political rally for Mark Carney at the Farmers Market and he was definitely impressive. Our local new liberal candidate running for MP is David Myles, a talented musician, who entertained the huge crowd before Carney spoke with lively music and a stump speech, also liberal Premier, Susan Holt. Since Justin Trudeau stepped down as PM and Mark Carney replaced him the Liberals have gone, in a matter of a few months, from a 20 percentage point deficit to the Conservatives of Pierre Poilievre, to a slim 4 percentage point lead.

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Guess who is the local musician running for MP!

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An interesting piece of "folk art" that we picked up and is proudly displayed outside of our front door. Those US hockey players and Trump's people don't like the Canadian elbows in the face!

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For Mark Carney's visit to the Farmers Market, police snipers on the roof of the building, part of the PM's security detail.

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Stroller said:
Power outages across Europe. Strange.

Massive power cut in Spain and Portugal causes traffic light outages and train cancellations - BBC News
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Hardly across Europe - the 2 grids are quite interconnected

I suspect some form of hacking has caused this but doubt we'll get the full story

In my last job we blocked very frequent system hacks, some of which were very amateur but others were pretty sophisticated. And that was a business with no strategic position (ie not a utility, financial institution etc)
 
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Hardly across Europe - the 2 grids are quite interconnected

I suspect some form of hacking has caused this but doubt we'll get the full story

In my last job we blocked very frequent system hacks, some of which were very amateur but others were pretty sophisticated. And that was a business with no strategic position (ie not a utility, financial institution etc)
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On the radio they said parts of France and Italy also affected.
 
Interesting that the Spanish and Portuguese airports, though experiencing delays, turned on their emergency generators and are still operating, unlike Heathrow a few weeks ago.

Apparently it’s due to a ‘rare atmospheric phenomenon’ to do with temperature variations across Spain which affected very high voltage lines and from there the very interconnected network. That’ll disappoint, but probably not deter, the conspiracy theorists.
 
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According to Portuguse Grid Operator REN outage being blamed on "rare atmospheric phenomenon " in Spain caused by extreme temperature variations......
 
×××Canada Federal election update***
In a tight two horse race, Mark Carney and the Liberals beat out Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives, with the NDP and Greens getting slaughtered. Unfortunately he missed out on a majority government by 3 seats so may require the NDP (7 seats) and Greens (1 seat) to prop him up. NDP leader and PP lost their seats. Our local singer/songwriter, David Myles, won his seat over a retired military incumbent opponent.
 
Kilburn said:
×××Canada Federal election update***
In a tight two horse race, Mark Carney and the Liberals beat out Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives, with the NDP and Greens getting slaughtered. Unfortunately he missed out on a majority government by 3 seats so may require the NDP (7 seats) and Greens (1 seat) to prop him up. NDP leader and PP lost their seats. Our local singer/songwriter, David Myles, won his seat over a retired military incumbent opponent.
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Had a look at PP’s seat- quite the swing- but the best bit is dozens of random nobodies running as independents and not even getting a handful of their mates to vote for them. Someone got zero votes. What a day for him.
 
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Horny 4 Hamas said:
Had a look at PP’s seat- quite the swing- but the best bit is dozens of random nobodies running as independents and not even getting a handful of their mates to vote for them. Someone got zero votes. What a day for him.
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PP has an interesting heritage, the issue of a sixteen year old girl, adopted by a school teaching couple. The parents of Mark Carney were also teachers, starting his life off in NWT.
 
What were those that supported Reform yesterday actually voting for? Just being nastier to minorities? Or is it just the cult of Farage, the man who's been wrong about everything, but who just won't go away, like an unflushable turd?
 
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Am I correct in saying that the UK still has iinvited Trump for a state visit. Have we gone absolutely mad? This moronic insane lunatic should be in a mental institution, not partaking in state visits.For pity's sake, King Charles III and the UK Government wake-up and cancel this utterly stupid arrangement. <yikes> :(
 
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Am I correct in saying that the UK still has iinvited Trump for a state visit. Have we gone absolutely mad? This moronic insane lunatic should be in a mental institution, not partaking in state visits.For pity's sake, King Charles III and the UK Government wake-up and cancel this utterly stupid arrangement. <yikes> :(
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Starmer seemed to think that offering a state visit would help in getting some kind of trade deal, but any deal with Trump would be worthless. We should just tell him to **** off.
 
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What were those that supported Reform yesterday actually voting for? Just being nastier to minorities? Or is it just the cult of Farage, the man who's been wrong about everything, but who just won't go away, like an unflushable turd?
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Goldie, Col and Ellers will be out dancing in the streets of suburbia
 
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Starmer seemed to think that offering a state visit would help in getting some kind of trade deal, but any deal with Trump would be worthless. We should just tell him to **** off.
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Ahead of his visit to Washington to meet with Trump, new Canadian PM, Mark Carney, sticks it to him with a sovereignist invitation to King Charles to open the next parliamentary session later in May.

https://bbc.com/news/articles/cvgny7zden9o
 
Stroller said:
What were those that supported Reform yesterday actually voting for? Just being nastier to minorities? Or is it just the cult of Farage, the man who's been wrong about everything, but who just won't go away, like an unflushable turd?
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Or maybe the voters just think Starmer & co are doing such a sh1te job that anyone is better than them....... it's some talent to become so unpopular in such a short space of time.....
 
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