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Jun 20 2023

Byelection Hot Take. Ontario’s billions. Logo rankings.

Jun 20, 2023
David Akin's Roundup
Clippings of #cdnpoli, #media, and #tech content aimed at those with an interest in Canadian politics and policy. And sometimes Canadian postage stamps.
A slightly delayed newsletter today as I've spent the early morning appearing on Global morning shows analysing last night's by-election results along these lines ...
Canada
Akin's Hot Take: Monday's by-elections
  • Liberals: Despite drooping approval ratings for their leader Justin Trudeau, the Liberals saw their support grow in two of the four contests and their vote share was relatively stable in the other two.
  • Conservatives: Support expanded only in one riding but that was the riding where PPC leader "Max" Bernier was running. Conservatives convincingly crushed Bernier. In Oxford, Conservatives learned once again that when Conservatives are fighting among each other, as they were there, Liberals benefit.
  • NDP: Not good. They weren't expected to win anywhere but, versus their 2021 general election, they lost vote share in all four ridings and, looking at the numbers, one could argue that what the NDP lost, the Liberals picked up. The NDP needs to fix that trend.
  • PPC: Terrible night. Bernier did not do as well as the 'no-name' PPC candidate in Portage-Lisgar did in 2021. And support was neglible elsewhere. They finished fifth behind the Christian Heritage Party in Oxford and did not run a candidate in the Montreal riding.
  • GPC: Major rebuilding effort for this party but one little glimmer. Co-leader Jonathan Pednault did 10 points better in vote share than the Greens did in NDG-Westmount in 2021. Still, they finished fourth.
Voters cast their ballots in four ridings spread across Ontario, Quebec and Manitoba, with each race posing different challenges to the federal parties. [Global]
With 220 of 267 polls accounted for at 1 a.m., Khanna garnered 42.4 per cent of the vote, with second place Liberal Party candidate David Hilderley receiving 36.7 per cent. [Global]
RCAF says one of its military helicopters was involved in an incident when operating near the Ottawa River in the vicinity of Garrison Petawawa at 12:10 a.m. local time Tuesday. [Global]
Canada’s tourism operators struggling to stay afloat as debt mounts: poll
In a poll of tourism operators, some 45 per cent said they were likely or somewhat likely to shut down within three years unless the government steps in to adjust loan conditions. [Global]
Federal ministers met with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to discuss the Liberal government's clean energy job transition bill and emissions targets for Alberta and Ottawa. [Global]
The Mounties set the record straight after a recent response to a public interest group's Access to Information request suggested the Mounties were conducting such a probe. [Global]
From the provinces
Last November, a judge with the Superior Court of Justice struck down Bill 124, Protecting a Sustainable Public Sector for Future Generations Act, ruling it unconstitutional. [Global]
The report reveals the minister's recent business partner has a lobbying mandate with the government and the two of them flipped a building together and made over $2 million. [Global]
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Elsewhere
U.S., China vow to stabilize relations during high-stakes meeting in Beijing
There was little indication that either is prepared to bend from its positions on issues ranging from trade, to Taiwan, to human rights conditions in China and Hong Kong. [Global]

Graphic designer Jonathan V. Last evaluates the logos of seeking to run for president in 2024. - DA [The Bulwark]
Media
Generative AI: Here are 6 principles for using it in journalism that address diversity and inclusion (it’s just good journalism)
Artificial intelligence is known to suffer from deep-seated issues when it comes to diversity: machine learning algorithms are trained on historical data that can embed institutional discrimination.. [Online Journalism Blog]
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Issued this day ...
... in 1980: Scott # 859: John George Diefenbaker. Design: Bernard N.J. Reilander. 
Issued in memory of Canada’s 13th prime minister, Prince Albert’s own John Diefenbaker (1895-1979).

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