Stephen Jeffery

Adjusting back into Australian society very well, thank you very much, why do you ask?

Bin chicken

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Wildfires have been burning in the region surrounding Kenora due to heat and strong winds.
Today, it's snowing.

So reporting back, all fantastic recommendations, thank you! Plaza in particular.

This is one of the best NZ nature stories I’ve ever read

Think it was before those two, maybe Massey? In any case, wild it's been up that long!

A building plastered with Canadian flags and the words 'CANADA IS NOT FOR SALE!! HELL NO FU TRUMP'

Spotted between Manitoulin Island and Sault Ste. Marie today (I was not ready with the camera, hence the very zoomed in shot through the back window)

Newly elected Canadian PM Carney spoke with re-elected Australian PM Albanese. Canada's readout says they discussed 'trade, defence, and maintaining a free and open Indo-Pacific.'
Albanese said in a presser overnight that Carney invited him to the G7 meeting in Alberta next month, which he accepted.

Ottawa serving up an absolute passport-shredder of a day on my last weekend here.

Also, there are only 150 seats to count in Australia (in the House), versus 343 in Canada.
There are also 40 Senate seats to count, but those will take longer to count due to proportional representation. No such counting needed in Canada's appointed Senate.

Also worth noting that, unlike in Canada, that vast majority of people live in the easternmost time zone, so there aren't the ~2ish hours where there's an Atlantic Canada equivalent where polls have closed before everywhere else.
Also, only one-fifth-ish of Aus seats are outside the east coast.

Another Australia-Canada comparison
Election timing in the timezone where most people live.
Most polls close:
Canada 9:30 p.m./Australia 6 p.m.
National broadcaster projects winning party
Canada 10:10 p.m./Australia 8:25 p.m
Winning party leader speaks:
Canada 1:20 a.m./Australia 9:59 p.m.

For any Canadians tuning into the Australian election, this is a wee thread if you're wondering why you've never heard of places with names like Ryan, Grayndler, Dickson, etc. Lots of seat names are for people, not geographical locations.

This Guardian photo gallery shows some great examples of the sausage sizzles and bake sales at Australian polling centres

Quite possible that Australia's Dickson has pulled the same thing Canada's Carleton did earlier this week: defeating an opposition leader in their own seat. #auspol #cdnpoli

These all sound amazing, thanks Cam!

Thanks Kate! Will miss all of you as well.

With CBC now having called all ridings it's time for the land-vs-people-vote animation.

If you’ve any suggestions for what to do, see, eat and drink along the way—or even to grab a pint somewhere—drop us a line.

But for now, au revoir, and have a good one.

Starting next Friday, we’re beginning a three-week, all-Canadian drive from Ottawa to Vancouver, via the forests of Northern Ontario, the vast expanse of the prairies, and the majesty of the Rockies.

That’s been the case for our Australian friends and family for a while; now it’s the turn of our Canadian friends for a while.

That said, our stint in Canada is not quite over.

It’s an honour and a privilege to be a dual citizen, but with it comes to bittersweet reality that we will, no matter where we are, be half a world away from half the people we love and cherish.

Next week will be my last at The Hill Times and Hill Times Publishing, an organization I’ve been proud to work for over the last almost-four years.

After six years in Canada, my wife and I are returning to Australia. As I like to put it: we’re leaving home to go home.

With the dust settled on the Canadian federal election, time for some personal and professional news.
Monday’s federal election was the second I’ve covered in Canada. It’s also—for now, at least—the last I’ll cover.
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Mark Carney’s anti-Trump victory fuels Labor hopes Anthony Albanese has promised to build ties with Canada, as Malcolm Turnbull said Canberra and Ottawa should work more closely together against Donald Trump.

Both major Australian parties are taking solace Canada's election results, reports the AFR: Labor took heart from the anti-Trump sentiment that propelled the Liberals to victory, and the [Australian, conservative] Liberals drew comfort from the Conservative gains

Comeback complete Plus, Riddhi Kachhela asked voters in Nepean and Carleton why they cast their ballot.

Today's Politics this Morning by @pmazereeuw.bsky.social and @riddhikachhela.bsky.social looks at the challenges Prime Minister Mark Carney will face in the coming months, as well as the mood at polling stations in Nepean (Carney's riding) and Carleton (where Poilievre is behind) yesterday

'Change takes time’: Poilievre praises ‘major’ Conservative breakthroughs in future-focused concession speech Early results had the Conservatives achieving 41.7 per cent of the total vote, exceeding the 33.7 per cent of the popular vote reached by the party in the 2021 federal election.

And this from Jesse Cnockaert and @lefthandstu.bsky.social on the Conservatives' night, where supporters contended with a loss that seemed highly improbable at the start of the year (despite an increased popular vote and seat count)

Carney revives Liberal fortunes as party secures historic fourth consecutive election victory Malek-Michel Jamali, one of Carney’s speechwriters, who was at the TD Centre Monday night watching the night unfold, said Canadians are feeling 'anxiety' as a result of threats from the U.S., and that...

Last night's dispatch by @nrmoss.bsky.social, @iremreports.bsky.social and Eleanor Wand from the Liberal election night party, as party faithful celebrated a fourth consecutive victory.

Spending the hour ahead of the Newfoundland polls closing focused on something completely different

In one week, I voted in two elections, three ballot papers, but had zero democracy sausages in Canada Voting traditions in both Canada and Australia fill one's heart with civic pride, but only one country also fills an elector's stomach.

By pure coincidence, my two countries are holding federal elections in the same week. I wrote about the differences between the two systems, with a sprinkling of polling booth sausage sizzle evangelism.