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  3. Well, Jonathan Kay has resigned as editor of the Walrus. Too bad,he was very effective. It seems to have been related to an opinion piece he wrote for the National Post defending “cultural appropriation” by artists. Presumably this is a view we are not allowed to express. I wonder who got on his case. Just like Lynn Bayek (sp?). Not allowed to recognize anything good about residential schools. Can we say free speech is dead in Canada?

  4. 153-thousand dollar bill for treatment of a snake bite. But the idiot was trying to get a selfie with a rattlesnake.

  6. “Bernier’s intelligence is frequently questioned, but so was Justin Trudeau’s, and they are both certainly sufficiently intelligent to lead a government, and likable men personally.”
    Certainly, sufficiently intelligent…
    Trudeau https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLq08V3dYQs
    Bernier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfGcybmQYKs
    “Harper’s generally good government had become an inert and desiccated personal despotism insulting the voters with nonsense about female Muslim headgear”
    ^^^
    If you wonder at all what team Schwartz plays for.

  7. Cringe-Inducing Social Justice Warrior Site ‘Everyday Feminism’ Says It Needs a Bailout to Survive
    Everyday Feminism is a website that’s good for just two things: mockery, and an insight into the mind of the far-gone social justice warrior. However, it’s in danger of shutting down, depriving fascinated onlookers of their daily cringe.
    The feminist blog revealed this weekend that it may be forced to close its doors by the end of the month unless it receives a bailout of at least $50,000. Its editors did not disclose how it came to be in such financial dire straits.

  8. “Harper’s generally good government had become an inert and desiccated personal despotism insulting the voters with nonsense about female Muslim headgear”
    Didn’t most voters agree that one should not become a citizen with a bag on one’s head? I suspect Canadians simply tired of 10 years of anti-Conservative media propaganda and started to believe some of the lies. Harper did not do enough to counter the lies that Canada’s economy was under-performing.

  10. As I mentioned here a few weeks ago, be very afraid of the candidate that the media endorses. This is only the start, expect to see a lot more advocates for Max in the next week.
    “Harper’s generally good government had become an inert and desiccated personal despotism insulting the voters with nonsense about female Muslim headgear” and therein lies the problem, the supposed intelligent Laurentian elite telling us via the media what is ‘good’ for us. Harper, history will relate, was prescient in his vision, however he was lax in implementing it. We have been trying to integrate the First Nations (Indigenous People, Aboriginals, whatever take your pick) for over four hundred years. The Normans and the Anglo-Saxons assimilated in about two hundred and fifty years in England but we are still having trouble after two hundred and fifty years here in Canada with the French/English problem. After all our efforts to amalgamate ourselves we are still a very divided nation. Now the media is trying to re-inject the Burka back into the political spectrum and thus subliminally tarnish other candidates. The Burka was a small part in the establishing of another separate society, and Harper tried to eliminate it before the contagion spread. The Liberals made a big deal out of it and the Conservatives backed off. It is surprising that the Burka is now being seen for what it is in a number of European countries and the effort that they are extending to ban it. The Liberals are past masters at separating Canadians and keeping us separate, and they have succeeded in enlarging the divide with their policy of “A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian!” At the same time they extoll the virtue of a “post national state” and exclaim the there are no Canadian values. Propaganda doesn’t need to be screamed in 4 inch headlines to be effective, it is also very effective just by employing innuendo.

  11. Our Enemy, the State.
    …-
    “The licence plate controversy continues: heads to court
    It started actually almost three decades ago without problem, but now will end up on court.
    It was 1991 when Lorne Grabher bought a so-called “vanity” licence plate for his late father as a gift for his car.
    Vanity plates are vehicle licence plates that can have a personalized message instead of the assigned government issued number and letter combination, and for which a person pays an additional fee.
    The plate was the family’s name, and when Lorne’s father passed away, Lorne kept the “GRABHER” plate for himself.”
    http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2017/05/15/the-licence-plate-controversy-continues-heads-to-court/

  12. Harper did not make a political issue of Muslim head gear — though the media spun it as that, and the Liberals used the negative press to enhance their phony posturing. The face mask during the citizenship ceremony was an issue that came up because of a court case. Since in that situation the face mask is symbolic (and Muslims understand it as such), Harper took a principled stand, and may have contemplated appealing to a higher court. (Something like this should have been appealed.) Sadly, this was gleefully interpreted as anti-Muslim,when it was simply anti-extremism. Mean time, Liberals are relinquishing many aspects of our national identity. I am surprised they are bothering with the 150th,but they did manage to pretend it is all about “diversity” , “youth” “environment” History and heritage are being totally ignored. Canadians have been duped into becoming the first POST national state, like it or not.

  13. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-rigs-baker-hughes-idUSKBN1882GR
    U.S. energy firms added oil rigs for a 17th week in a row, extending a 12-month drilling recovery that is expected to help boost crude production in the United States to a record high next year.
    Drillers added nine oil rigs in the week to May 12, bringing the total count up to 712, the most April 2015, energy services firm Baker Hughes Inc said on Friday.
    While that is more than double the same week a year ago when there were only 318 active oil rigs, the pace of those additions has declined with the total over the past four weeks falling to the lowest since March.
    U.S. crude output was expected to rise to an average of 9.3 million barrels per day (bpd) in 2017 and a record high 10.0 million bpd in 2018 from 8.9 million bpd in 2016, according to federal energy data.
    (US hydrocarbon liquids production from Fracing wells went from 600,000 bbls a day in 2006 to over 6,000,000 bbls a day today. Fracing banned on east coast of Canada eh))

  14. That was my point Linda, he did not make an issue of it when he had the chance and the media ran with the negative connection and skewered the conservatives with it.

  15. That is a really creepy and uncalled for slur of Conrad Black. He is one of my favourite columnists. He said something wonderfully smart. I always learn something from reading him. Black would not have been prosecuted in Canada. This was close to a miscarriage of justice. He spent his prison time helping men who were struggling to learn. Calling him a “con” is disrespectful when he has accomplished so much. I have noticed that it is particularly small minded people who do so.

  17. Re: Bernier stance–carbon tax at provincial levels.
    That’s the sad side to getting elected as a federal party leader. He’s damned if he opposes it, and damned if he condones it.
    I believe the next Alberta government will most likely write the blueprint on whether or not carbon taxes should stay. That’s still a couple of years away. ”We the people” are being much too complacent on the issue of whether or not we’re willing to pay for CO2 that’s being produced by crematoriums in India, or rice straw that’s frying up dog meat in China.

  19. No argument on Black.
    I remember the last few weeks of Brian Mulroney’s campaign. I see a lot similarity with Bernier’s.
    Mulroney was OK, until his last days in office when the CBC and Karlheinz Schreiber decided otherwise.
    Mulroney came out somewhat torn and tattered, but he survives. KHS went to jail (Germany) for tax evasions, and the CBC is still out looking for fresh meat.

  20. Conrad was rightly convicted. Sure the US judicial system piled on but the Canadian system looked the other way. Black rode roughshod with shareholder equity for years in Canada.
    It took the Americans to get Allan Eagleson as well.
    I enjoy Black as an historian. His verbose writing style is a bit much.

  21. You’re so right, the west is so screwed! That has been the status quo for +200 years. The dif now is that Westerners have experienced the energy boom and as conditions worsen they will be more willing to point fingers where they belong, at the east.
    As an old Reformer I am not prepared to accept the CPC mantra that a easterner has to run as PM to regain government. That is what will happen but like many out West I will not accept it. At some point westerners will adopt a unified position within Confederation as the only means of achieving equality. Failing that I can see Canada falling apart. This is the approach that should have been taken by Reform so many years ago. Four western provinces with a united voice.
    Black is vilified because he kicked the crap out of the newspaper unions plain and simple. He should have stayed private and not had to answer to shareholders. He would have been OK.

  22. By replacing the NEB with a tame ENGO board Trudeau can be on record as supporting pipelines while making sure none ever get built. The west is screwed.
    Like father, like son. Hello, NEP 2017, along with identical objectives.
    Rupertsland now!

  23. You racist nerds…
    ———————-
    No one is buying Marvel’s lineup of social justice-themed comics. It’s no surprise, given that few readers want politics to be forced down their throats. Thus liberal darling Ta-Nehisi Coates and Yona Harvey’s Black Panther & The Crew is getting the axe after poor sales, just two issues after its launch.
    …gathers his all-black crew of superheroes to investigate the death of a civil rights activist who died in police custody.
    https://heatst.com/entertainment/marvel-cancels-ta-nehisi-coates-black-lives-matter-comic-due-to-poor-sales/

  24. Thanks for reinforcing my comment about Harper being a leader with your U-Tube links. Harper sh*t-canned Bernier faster than you can skin a cat. Compare that interview with what has happened with the Trudeau circus about his vacation and the Trudeau Foundation (or pay for access) or on a more massive scale what is going on south of the 49th. regarding Benghazi, private e-mail servers, the Clinton (pay-for play) Foundation, and the Comey affair. The difference in stature of the players involved are comparable to the Grand Canyon and Mount Everest, and the problem of course is that the Canadian voter is unable to make the connection.

  25. Don’t give up yet. Some Paiute with a feather is gonna make waves with the Butts Gang on this issue. They like their quads, snow machines, aluminum boats & Evinrudes.
    http://business.financialpost.com/news/energy/proposed-national-energy-board-reforms-will-be-a-red-tape-nightmare
    http://business.financialpost.com/news/first-nations-chiefs-plan-to-challenge-liberal-oil-tanker-ban-for-british-columbia
    As for this country….it’s done, right now, but people don’t realize it yet. No CPC wannabe is gonna fix it, either. The chaos created up here the next two years will see us as wards of the USA. The Yanks aren’t going to sit still while things go to pot up here. Too close to home for any sort of conflict that leaves their northern flank grossly exposed.

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