- Two former Liberal cabinet ministers who served under Jean Chrétien are calling for Justin Trudeau to step down as leader following the loss of a longtime safe seat in the Toronto-St. Pauls byelection. Perhaps more relevant to Trudeau's plight, current backbencher Wayne Long, who represents Saint John-Rothesay in New Brunswick, sent out a mass email to the entire caucus calling for his resignation, and at least one caucus member responded with "Well said!"; Kingston MP Mark Gerritsen advised his colleagues to stop hitting "reply all" to the email.
- An Ipsos poll conducted between June 12 and 14 found that Poilievre's "Canada is broken" slogan is resonating with an awful lot of people. This is unfortunate, because while there is indeed a lot wrong with this country, if given the chance Poilievre is just going to break the country far more thoroughly than it currently is.
- South of the border, the fears being felt among Democrats (and indeed among democrats generally) are hard to ignore. Ezra Klein and Maureen Dowd are quite concerned for sure. Unfortunately Biden's family are urging him to fight on.
- Republicans are attacking an executive order issued by Biden three years ago which calls for federal agencies to promote voter registration and participation in ways that are "consistent with applicable law". Because you don't want the wrong kind of people to find it too easy to vote, right?
- In France, Marine Le Pen's National Rally party won a plurality of votes in the first round of parliamentary elections on Sunday. France uses a two round system, so all constituencies where no candidate got more than 50% of the vote will hold a second round next Sunday, and candidates who received more than 12.5% of the vote in the first round will be on the ballot for the second. This means that vote splitting can still occur in the second round; a record number of constituencies will be facing three-way runoffs next week. Left and centre activists are calling for tactical voting to prevent National Rally from getting a majority.
- A Labor senator from Western Australia, Fatima Payman, has been indefinitely suspended from caucus for voting for a Green motion in support of a Palestinian state.
- Manitoba's Progressive Conservative party has launched their leadership campaign. Interim leader Wayne Ewasko does not plan to run; the deadline for candidates to register is Oct 15 and the convention will be held next April.
- Despite the federal government's imposition of binding arbitration, WestJet mechanics walked off the job anyway over the weekend, forcing the cancellation of the majority of the airline's flights on the busy long weekend. The strike has now ended.
- McDonald's say they will not be introducing a plant-based burger after a pilot study in San Francisco and Dallas failed. My guess is that the sort of people who want plant-based burgers don't want to go to McDonald's anyway. I know I don't.
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