alt Hacker NewsI've never heard anything about a change to British spelling. Sounds like nonsense.
Carney is the most popular politician Canada has had in decades. The opposition party is starting to fall apart (two members defected, which means Carney's party is one seat away from a majority).
Whole thing sounds like an attempt to manufacture an 'Obama beige suit' moment.
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But, does he use the Oxford comma?
This is as stupid as starting a war over cracking the big end or little end of an egg. Or, using whatever book was about that subject as a spelling style guide.
The opposition party is falling apart because, despite being a Liberal government, the Liberal party is being a better Conservative party than the Conservatives were while the Conservatives have no platform or plan other than 'Liberals bad, lol' (or, somehow, 'Trudeau bad, lol').
> Whole thing sounds like an attempt to manufacture an 'Obama beige suit' moment.
I'd never heard about that until now. Crazy what gets attention. Who cares what color his suit is?
> Carney is the most popular politician Canada has had in decades.
All thanks to Trump's silly tariffs. There's a silver lining to everything. I hope that the association makes protectionism politically taboo for decades to come.
Canadian spelling has always been a mixture of UK and US.
I was gonna say, I miss when this is what headlines looked like in my country.
> Carney is the most popular politician Canada has had in decades?
Liberals didn't win majority and it was a close race, I'm not sure where you are getting your data from.
TRUMP managed to change the election results but it was close.
To me it feels less like a controversy and more of an indication of Canada becoming more culturally European to spite the Americans.
Trudeau was more popular at his start, but we saw where that led us…
Getting in bed with Trump was a bad idea. Seeing the right wing in Canada scramble to appear patriotic while everyone knows the conservatives would start a Vichy government.
> Carney is the most popular politician Canada has had in decades
That's just blatantly untrue?
It was used in the recent budget documents.
> Canadian English has been the standard in government communications for decades. But eagle-eyed linguists and editors have spotted British spellings — like "globalisation" and "catalyse" — in documents from the Carney government, including the budget.