Coming around the clubhouse turn, heading for the tape.....

It's just too damned hard to act all solemn and serious right now -- I'm laughing on the outside but quivering on the inside, just waiting for Monday to be over. 

In the meantime -- here are a few posts and cartoons to enjoy!

Lead on, Big Daddy!

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PM Mark Carney is considered as Captain Canada. Poilievre is the villain.

— Just al, Ontario (@chakula.bsky.social) April 26, 2025 at 4:19 AM

Poilievre has fallen and he can't get up:

 

choosing to interpret this as “poilievre should have done the hip flip with nardwuar”

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— Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 (@jmcelroy.bsky.social) April 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM

Poilievre rushed to safety after actual journalist question makes it past security

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— The Beaverton (@thebeaverton.com) April 25, 2025 at 7:59 AM

I’m going to say what every Canadian, particularly Canadian women are thinking out loud. Sorry not sorry.

Pierre has small d**k syndrome. #NeverPoilievre #NeverVoteConservative #PierrePoilievre #WomenAgainstPoilievre @jonliedtke #ElbowsUp #CanadaStrong pic.twitter.com/I0Bluj9Sx2

— Bev 🇨🇦 (@Garnet_2203) April 26, 2025

It’s like they think the Liberals won 3 elections because of Justin Trudeau’s appearance. 🙄

— Cur 🇨🇦 (@cur_mudgeon) April 26, 2025

Poilievre is still peddling the fantasy that *he* can make a deal with Trump that will stick, after he says Carney is delusional for thinking he can control Trump.

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— Dale Smith (@journodale.bsky.social) April 25, 2025 at 9:45 AM

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And for anyone who absolutely MUST be serious serious right now, Cole Bennett provides an excellent summary of our rollercoaster politics over the last two years:
Cole Bennett / Cole.notcole

The Choice Before Us: Fear, Hope, and the Battle for Canada
...By the fall of 2022, Pierre Poilievre had fully reinvented the Conservative Party.
Page by page, he borrowed from Trump’s playbook: simple rage-driven slogans like "Axe the Tax" and "Canada is Broken"; relentless attacks on the “woke” culture war; conspiratorial whispers about globalists and bureaucrats; constant doubt cast on our public institutions.
In Parliament, he didn’t just oppose he obstructed.
Confidence motion after confidence motion. Stall tactics. Targeting not only the Liberals, but the NDP too for daring to keep Trudeau’s minority government functional.
Parliament slowed to a crawl. Dysfunction was no longer an accident. It was a political strategy.
And it worked.
By the end of 2024, it looked inevitable. Pierre Poilievre had an unprecedented lead in the polls. The Liberals looked exhausted. Trudeau’s approval ratings were collapsing.
An election seemed just around the corner and after twenty years in politics, Pierre Poilievre stood on the brink of becoming Prime Minister.
But then, the world changed.
Donald Trump won the 2024 U.S. election.
And chaos followed.
Trump threatened global trade wars. He referred to Canada as the "51st state." He openly floated the idea of real wars with allies.
And suddenly, Canadian unity something Poilievre had spent years undermining became the most urgent priority.
In that moment, Trudeau, battered and tired, suddenly looked more Canadian, more steady, more national.
And Poilievre with his American slogans, his attacks on Canada’s own institutions started to look like exactly what Canadians didn’t want: our own Trump.
The polls shifted. Fast.
Canadians woke up to the reality that anger isn’t a platform. Resentment isn’t a plan. And slogans don’t build a country.
Faced with a new political reality, Trudeau made one final decision: he stepped down.
And into the void stepped Mark Carney.
A former central banker. A steady, measured leader. Someone offering unity over division. Truth over anger. A Canada that leads not follows.
Since that moment, the tide has turned.
Canadians are realizing that maybe, just maybe, what Pierre Poilievre was selling they didn’t want to buy after all.
Pierre Poilievre says he’s fighting for freedom.
But freedom without truth is chaos.
Freedom without compassion is cruelty.
On Monday, Canada has a choice not just between parties, but between two very different visions of who we are.
We can choose fear. Or we can choose to believe in each other again.
History is watching. The future is waiting. And the country we love is counting on us.
Vive le Canada!

Finally, - Dean, I hope you are right (though I do want Elizabeth May and Jonathan Pedneault to win again):

Just so I’m clear where we’re going to stand after this election:

- greens: wiped out, leader likely losing seat
- NDP: wiped out, leader likely losing seat
- CPC: lucky if they hold onto 119, leader might lose their own seat
- Liberals: supermajority/majority

Pinch me.

— Dean from Winnipeg (@Dean_Winnipeg) April 26, 2025