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Recent content by Callan

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    WI: FDR Managed To Expand The Supreme Court?

    That brings up another question - what does a stronger position for Roosevelt look like? OTL the court packing plan failed and nearly broke his presidency when he attempted it in 1937, just after he had won a crushing landslide re-election and was at the height of his (peacetime) political powers.
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    WI: FDR Managed To Expand The Supreme Court?

    OTL the plan backfired because of opposition within the Democratic Party. A lot of conservatives and political allies who had previously been very loyal to Roosevelt - including no less than the sitting Vice President - felt that this was gross overreach and it came fairly close to splitting the...
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    WI: FDR Managed To Expand The Supreme Court?

    To answer the question posed by OP, I think a world where the court packing plan goes through is probably a world where a Roosevelt doesn’t run in 1940 and a Republican succeeds him. Given that attempting it nearly broke his presidency and split his party OTL.
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    Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

    I can’t decide if Dean as deBlasio is a bit off-base or absolutely brilliant
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    Alternate Wikibox Thread

    Mark Carney is a Canadian ice hockey executive and former player, who has since 2024 been the general manager of the Edmonton Oilers. Born in the Northwest Territories and raised in Edmonton, his family was heavily involved in politics. His father, James Carney, served as a Liberal member of...
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    Alternate Wikibox Thread

    This is great. I love implied history from the electoral map and the headlines.# Are all of the parties having "x & y" names supposed to denote something, or influenced from an OTL country or political system?
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    Callan's Graphics and Things

    Thinking of revising this, and musing about this AH development. OTL during the planning stages of the Channel Tunnel project in the late 1960s/early 1970s, British rail shortlisted eleven different sites for a terminus for cross-channel trains somewhere around London. Jago Hazzard has a good...
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    Alternate Wikibox Thread

    Yeah all of the relationships I mentioned in this are ones he had OTL, just playing out a bit differently. Because he’s an NDP MP he definitely isn’t - as in OTL - getting introduced to the 18 year old daughter of a Liberal cabinet minister and marrying her three years later but it would make...
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    Alternate Wikibox Thread

    Pierre Trudeau was a Canadian politician, journalist and statesman who served as the 23rd governor general of Canada from 1984 to 1990... ...Trudeau's progressive values and his close ties with socialist figures such as F. R. Scott, Eugene Forsey, Michael Kelway Oliver and led to his support of...
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    Callan's Graphics and Things

    I feel like Poilievre losing butterflies the result of the 2017 leadership election. I can't find any indication of what Poilievre's role was OTL (I don't think he even made an endorsement) but that contest was so convoluted and close (Scheer winning by a 51-49 margin on the 13th round) that I...
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    Callan's Graphics and Things

    Thinking about PoDs and subtle but significant one I think is Pierre Poilievre losing his seat... ten years earlier than OTL. In 2015 Poilievre only held his seat by 1,800 votes, in an election where the Tories saw a big swing against them in Ontario and many safe Conservative seats were only...
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    Callan's Graphics and Things

    "...The new prime minister Craig Sauvé unveiled a new cabinet today that lived up to his promise of 'fresh faces and new ideas'. The new cabinet sees several of the most familiar faces of the outgoing Stiles cabinet dismissed and younger and more diverse figures taking the most senior positions...
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    Callan's Graphics and Things

    The very same.
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    CanadianTory's Test Thread

    There was a fairly small but influential social conservative tendency in the Liberals that only really got stamped under Chrétien (and finally truly killed by Justin Trudeau). It seems logical to me that if the liberals end up marginalized they could be subject to entryism similar to David...
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    Callan's Graphics and Things

    Candidates in the 2023 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election: - Leela Aheer, Member of Parliament for Edmonton East (2017-2021) - Mark Marrissen, Mayor of Vancouver (2010-2018), MP for Vancouver Quadra (2002-2010) - Caroline Mulroney, Member of Parliament for Laval, (2017-), daughter of...
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