One of the things I remember most from my childhood is my father screaming in pain due to tooth decay he couldn’t get treatment for because of how expensive a trip to the dentist was. Man would try using whiskey as an antiseptic which did fuck all and ended up costing us more for his alcohol as a family when that became his drink of choice afterwards over beer.

The NDP is in dire need of new leadership. I genuinely think Jagmeet is a great guy, but he really should be making a publicity campaign of the NDP’s accomplishments here, and him not doing so to the degree he should be is just the latest in a line of leadership decisions he’s made that have disappointed me. I want to vote NDP in the upcoming election, but even putting aside the movement to back the Liberals to keep Polievre out of office, I’ll be voting Liberal unless they have a change in leadership and leadership strategy.

Gonna go so far as to say the same with the Greens while I’m at it cause the entire kerfuffle they’ve had with Annamie Paul basically fracturing the party, and seeing Elizabeth May as their leader again isn’t doing any favours considering how hard she and other party leadership pushed for Paul over Dimitri Lascaris, who I feel would have been a much better party leader.