94 Replies to “March 4, 2020: Reader Tips”

      1. While on the subject of those stores, I’ve mentioned a number of times here on SDA that Fort St. John’s in pretty rough shape. That, however, hasn’t stopped some enterprising souls from opening their own shops in or near the downtown area.

        This whole legal dope thing is going to play out much like what happened after Ralph Klein abolished the ALCB. Back then, it seemed that everyone and his dog wanted to get in on the act and a lot of liquor stores opened. However, the market, being what it is, selected the ones that could survive.

        Many of the smaller merchants either went out of business due to the competition by either going belly up or selling out. Now, at least here in Edmonton, there are a number of stores, such as Liquor Barn and Wine and Beyond, but they’re all part of Liquor Stores N. A., which is traded on the TSX.

        I’ve noticed something similar with cannabis. There have been a lot of new listings on the stock exchanges in recent years, but many of those have disappeared either by being delisted or through mergers and acquisitions.

        1. precisely B A.
          the market is particularly and severely ruthless when a whole bunch of startups enter the stage.
          el marketo plays a mean ‘bop the gopher’ at those times. seems to enjoy it as well.

          I continue to cultivate (pun intended) superb relations with my, ummm, ‘old school’ source to ensure his continued existence and participation. besides, the quality is better and no paper trail for futurists to play with.

    3. About a decade ago at the insistence of a what turned out to be a one time hippy dippy date. Nothing appealed to me as far as food most of the other customers were aging burned out hippies and the staff looked liked washed out clientele of a methadone clinic.
      I’m sure many of them will move on to become tides paid protesters

    1. They were both good boys of course…..

      And, no doubt, future Nobel Prize winners. I guess the cure for cancer’s gonna have to wait a few more years.

    2. Well, this is wonderful, is it not? They are taking each other out. Fine by me.
      But the article is still very interesting!

      The fact that cops do not routinely kill these gangsters for resisting arrest is the problem.

      Winnipeg police has a full time gang coordinator [sic] who meets with newcomers and explains how to become involved in gang business. Yes, you read it this way, not the way the cop said. We saw that while our kids were in middle school. The English teacher read the book the entire year, in which black delinquent kids hated whites for being whites. Later, white students received written death threats from the black students in the class. Cops did nothing. The Canadian state instructs the diversities how to cause mischief.

  4. Justin Trudeau is sending invoices for 2019 taxes in advance of filings.

    Imagine our shock and outrage when we received a $1000 invoice for payment in advance for 2019 taxes. We have not filed yet. This is addition to us paying withholding taxes all year. A phone call to CRA revealed that because one of us had owed for 2018 CRA was billing us in advance of filing. It was because of accountants using legal means and joint filing that one of us received a refund for 2018 and the other owed. We do not like owing anything to the government and we tried to pay the whole bill right away. We were informed that this was not permitted and we were forced to pay in installments ending in December. Again, we used accountants and all was done by the rules.

    Now we are forced at the point of a gun (remember the CRA can seize your bank accounts, home, or anything else they feel like) to pay taxes BEFORE we file. This is not like paying a deposit on a large purchase; this is extortion.

    If any private citizen or company tried this there would be charges laid and prison terms involved.

    It was the final straw. We have both had it with Ottawa and Victoria. We joined Wexit the same day. Not only that, this is the first time we will make a political contribution. Correction, we contributed once to our fine mayor`s campaign. Our MP, MLA, and mayor will be receiving letters expressing our frustration with all three levels of government in particular with the lack of action against those who are trying to destroy my job and acting illegally besides.

    The late great Ted Byfield was on CBC with an Ottawa liberal. He asked the liberal, “What`s in Confederation for Alberta?” After some word salad they cut away. Ted was never heard again on CBC.

    My question is: What’s in BC for Fort St John? It’s time to break the shackles from our left wing overlords and join Alberta in seceding from Canada.

    My wise uncle once told me that the revolution only happens when the children go hungry. If the few succeed in destroying the oil and gas industry then the children will go hungry.

    1. Now we are forced at the point of a gun (remember the CRA can seize your bank accounts, home, or anything else they feel like) to pay taxes BEFORE we file. This is not like paying a deposit on a large purchase; this is extortion.

      I went through that last year. Ottawa figured I made too much money from my inheritance so now it wants its cut up front. My first pre-payment for the coming year is due in roughly 2 weeks.

      My question is: What’s in BC for Fort St John? It’s time to break the shackles from our left wing overlords and join Alberta in seceding from Canada.

      That was a question even when I was growing up there more than 50 years ago. The only times Victoria ever cared about that part of the province was when there was an election, taxes were due, or the power from the Bennett Dam went out.

      Mind you, back then, people there tended to have closer ties with Edmonton than Victoria. In the years since I moved away, a lot of ex-Lotuslanders moved there but didn’t necessarily leave their fruitloop ideas behind. Seceding from B. C. and joining Alberta might not be so easy now.

      I can’t wait to be done with settling my father’s estate.

    2. Pfff… you boys gotta start thinking creatively.

      Tell CRA that you are 1/128th c̶h̶e̶r̶o̶k̶e̶e̶ Wetsuwetun, set up an ice fishing tent on Hwy 97 and start a tire fire.

      I guarantee they will dialogue with you for at least a few weeks and then cut you a secret deal.

      Hell, there may even be a big screen tv in it for you.

      1. ha ha ha !!!!
        exactly.
        in 89 they claimed I owed them thousands, threatened to sieze such-and-such
        so I stashed all my thousands in power tools among friends,
        and invited them to tow away the 10 yr old Cavalier I was driving.
        it was the second of 3 times they played hardball.
        I documented everything and traipsed into the Hamilton office and literally laid it all out on the counter.
        and threatened to make Hamilton Spectator the next stop, including all the threatening letters and hand holding them (newspaper) as to how CRA was wrong, wrong, wrong.

        couple weeks later I get a revised assessment owing them 50 bucks or whatever. NOT thousands.
        around that time there was a scandal how the Waterloo office had ‘unofficial’ quotas . . . .
        about a yr lafter that, I anonymously mailed a .45 calibre bullet eluding to the fact if they continued to harass taxpayers ‘the next one might arrive a lot faster’. I then popped by nonchalantly noting the cop at the entrance. wassdatalabout?

        fcukin bullies.

    3. Is it the ‘late’ Ted Byfield? I agree with ‘great’, but I hadn’t heard he’d died.

      I heard him speak about 18 months ago — a fantastic speech about education. Then I had the pleasure to meet him on his turf and he was very much alive.

      His website ‘The Christians’ disappeared at Christmas and I worried something had happened. I hope I’m not so disconnected that he died and it wasn’t published far and wide enough for me to read about it? Indeed a great man.

    1. The setting-up of a committee demonstrates the plan is to do nothing, and then blame the plague on Trump.

      They knew damn well what to do. Bar entry from China, and start isolating Overseas Chinese. They refused. Now it’s probably too late.

      1. A committee is a political cul-de-sac into which initiative and innovation are driven and quickly, ceremoniously strangled.

    2. (Missed yours and posted the same below.)
      Its just BS for the average Canadian Dummy who can’t think anything other than, “What’s the government going to do?!” like the useless mindless turds that they are.

    3. Ah yes, appoint a committee that reports to the committee that reports directly to the PMO, and then does not report to Parliament.
      But it looks like activity and gives the sock monkey a reason to don the loosened tie “look at me I’m working sooooo hard” look.

      Funny how the make up of the new committee seems identical to the other committee where the same people make up the majority of the new committee.
      So new committee meets and after a week filed a report to the old committee for review for another week and then after that reports to the PMO and then the PM has a photo-op with some “key people” to tell everyone how hard the committee is working to resolve the crisis.
      Then he will run off to Tofino for some down time.

  7. Blackie’s loyal media were excited yesterday when Great Leader made a surprise visit to new Canadians at a citizenship ceremony in Nova Scotia. No word on whether he handed out Liberal Party membership cards. And our worries are over. The Liberal Party’s Toronto Star had former prime minister Jean Chretien explain that Canadians are more united than ever.

  8. Big Chief Gay Eagle With No Balls, continues his taxpayer funded photo op tour of provinces that voted Liberal. Yesterday he was in Nova Scotia where he ranted that Canadians have always been racist bastards. Today he burns jet fuel to Quebec.

  9. Surprise! Jean Chretien doesn’t think our unity is under threat. Are we paying him to flit across the country to give us his opinion?

    1. That prick keeps singing the “Landlocked” song that Bob Fife and many of the other talking turds do who want the West’s continued subjugation. I even listened to some mid-twenties peckerhead spout the same thing to me just yesterday – kind of a “who do they think they are” smear.
      The louder these Blackened Potatoes talk, the more the West needs to walk.

      1. So then if you leave the west no option but become more integrated with the US eventually the inertia to join the US will be overwhelming and the elites will get what they asked for.

        I’m of the opinion that those that want to keep the country together need to change my mind.
        Balls in their court and all they can do is tell the west “you’re landlocked, you have no choice”.
        Actually if they keep saying you will never get a fair deal, and you can’t make a go of it on your own, you leave integration with the US the unspoken inevitable.
        So keep going Ottawa, I won’t mind seeing the US gain another resource rich state.

  10. With the world now making a run on toilet paper according to a lot of stories, will that make print media (Toronto Post) actually valuable in the near future?

    1. We went to Costco yesterday morning and there wasn’t one skid of toilet paper! Plus, there were only partial skids of tissues, paper towels, and dinner napkins. LOTS of bottled water, though. Weird. Husband still subscribes to weekend editions of the Toronto Star so I guess I’ll stop recycling and start saving them, just in case. That’s all they are good for anyway.

  11. Probably Nothing.
    I can’t seem to find any operational webcams in certain places in China. Like Wuhan, Yichang and so on. The quarantine started January 23. Shouldn’t it be over by now?
    Maybe its just me…

  12. I am just a housewife, whose husband is an avid shooter. He likes to punch paper at the not-so-local range (yes, ranges are scarce around where we live), and he had hooked me up on shooting. Once that happened, I also got hooked up on politics, and became involved. Long story short, I fight for gun rights, on both sides of 49.
    Fast forward 2020 CPC leadership race and emails start filling my inbox from the candidates. I reply to all of them uniformly: repeal C-68 and I will support you. Finally, after many such replies to P. Mc., this pearl arrives:

    Hello M.
    Peter always has and always will stand up for law-abiding gun-owners while punishing the real criminals carrying out gun crime. In fact, Peter recently signed MP Glen Motz’s record-breaking parliamentary petition opposing the attack on law-abiding firearm owners.
    In the coming days, weeks, and months, Peter will have more to say on this important issue.
    Riley
    Peter MacKay Campaign

    > Promise to repeal C-68 the firearms act and I will support you. Otherwise I will support a different candidate.
    > M.

    I heard exactly the same word soup last time, and nothing changed. Seeing how my husband’s face is darker than a rain cloud when he reads about the gun ban, my heart drops. And now I read that the most likely CPC leader is going to announce his support for gun owners… after the votes will be cast.

    1. I feel your pain. 🙁

      Gun law in Canada is a microcosm of all the other touchy-feely-leftie-SJW BS that Canada is neck-deep in. I’ve been curious for awhile, considering that 70+ percent of Canadians are only concerned about addressing global warming if it won’t cost them any money, whether our fearless, Earth-saving political masters actually believe it themselves? Or do they just see it as another good reason to grab taxes and troll for votes?

      Little Potato, no question. He’s not bright enough to hoist-aboard that he’s spewing rubbish, Dunning-Kruger was written with him in mind – and he is NEVER mistaken – just ask him – so I’m satisfied he’s a true believer, just like Saint Greta. But the rest of them? There’s no doubt that they are that venal, but are they really that stupid?

      The sad fact of guns in Canada is that <3% of Canadians have a PAL, and no government could care less about us. But 26% of households have a PAL in the family – it should be generating more traction than it is. But it doesn't.

      1. Of the pro-global warming there are three types:
        1. The cynical who just see an opportunity for money and advancement.
        2. The ideologues who believe the planet must be saved – from capitalism.
        3. The gullible believers.

        (1) get rich and don’t give a damn, (3) end up in jail and (2) in control and split into factions

  13. Regardless of what you may or may not think about Trump, I’m here to tell you that if you don’t believe his “The Media Is The Enemy” spiel, then YOU are what has been known for centuries as a Fool.

    Pretty devastating for democracies that require an effective Media to properly function.

    In the words of Benito Mussolini –

    “Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, if he be a tyrant”. It is the fear of being exposed by the media before the public that most of the politicians keep themselves under control to some extent”

    Librano’s and their co-opted Media have allowed me to witness over 50 years of Canadian lies, deception and dishonour such as those so aptly demonstrated in the following story.

    Oh, BTW, Kevin Vickers, the “hero” in the story, is the new Provincial Liberal leader in New Brunswick.

    https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadas-loneliest-hero-why-youve-never-heard-of-this-rcmp-officer-who-shot-the-parliament-hill-gunman

    1. You don’t understand. HE’S an ex-Mountie and HE’S allowed to have a gun. You are not.

  14. The Cure-all
    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics/pm-creates-covid-19-cabinet-committee-to-deal-with-novel-coronavirus/ar-BB10JxR5?ocid=spartanntp
    The COVID-19 cabinet committee will complement the work being done by the government’s incident response group.
    Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland will chair the group, while Treasury Board President Jean-Yves Duclos will be vice-chair.The other members will include Industry Minister Navdeep Bains, Public Safety Minister Bill Blair, Health Minister Patty Hajdu, Economic Development Minister Melanie Joly, Finance Minister Bill Morneau and Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough.
    Kirsty Duncan, deputy leader of the government in the House of Commons, will also be a core participant of the meetings.

    1. Considering who’s on that committee, don’t you feel safer already…..? Nah, neither do I. Just remember the old saying: a mouse is a camel designed by a committee.

      1. a mouse is a camel designed by a committee

        I got that reversed. A camel is a mouse designed by a committee. That’ll teach me to post something soon after getting out of bed.

        However, considering who’s in that aforementioned group, maybe I got it right after all. The Keystone Kops would seem adept compared with that lot.

    3. First order of business will no doubt be to consider gender and diversity issues.

      1. Don’t forget the carbon footprint as well. The virus was, no doubt, a result of “climate change”, right?

  16. Maxime Bernier
    @MaximeBernier
    ·
    Yes @AndrewLawton there’s a reason why Conservatives can’t lead on this issue. It’s because they have no clear principles and are afraid to take a stand that will be criticized by the politically correct Left.

    The PPC proposed to abolish the Indian Act.

    https://peoplespartyofcanada.ca/aboriginal_issues_a_new_relationship_based_on_mutual_respect…

    Andrew Lawton
    @AndrewLawton

    I’d love to see a Conservative leadership candidate champion abolition of the Indian Act and a commitment to build a path forward with First Nations stakeholders. No one can say the status quo is working, and there’s no reason the Conservatives can’t be the leaders on this.

    https://mobile.twitter.com/AndrewLawton/status/1234900065912786944

    1. To some extent this was attempted by Pierre Trudeau when Chretien was minister of Indian Affairs or whatever it was called in the 1960s.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_White_Paper

      Here is the first bit …. much more at the link: The 1969 White Paper (officially entitled Statement of the Government of Canada on Indian policy) was a proposal set forth by the Government of Canada. It is a Canadian policy paper proposal made in 1969 by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and his Minister of Indian Affairs, Jean Chrétien. The White Paper’s lead purpose was to abolish all legal documents that had previously existed, including (but not limited to) the Indian Act, and all existing treaties within Canada. The White Paper was met with widespread criticism and activism, causing the proposal of the White Paper to be officially withdrawn in 1970.

      Under the legislation of the White Paper, Indian Status would be eliminated. First Nations Peoples would be incorporated fully into provincial government responsibilities as equal Canadian citizens, and reserve status would be removed imposing the laws of private property in indigenous communities. Any special programs or considerations that had been allowed to First Nations people under previous legislation would be terminated, as the special considerations were seen by the Government to act as a means to further separate Indian peoples from Canadian citizens.

      1. They likely ditched that idea when they realized it would end their dependence on the government.

  18. Breaking: BNN-Bloomberg news is reporting that the esteemed Michael Bloomberg is suspending his vaunted campaign, and is throwing his support to Joe Biden. This, despite Bloomberg’s strong showing in Americsn Samoa.

    1. Yes a bit odd; possibly nothing to do with injuns. Let’s wait for the details.

  22. How the Administrative State Defied Trump to Cause a Coronvirus Crisis

    Two months after the outbreak of the coronavirus, #TrumpVirus began trending on Twitter. Why? Because it’s the only chance that the Democrats have of winning back the White House in 2020.

    There will be a cure for the coronavirus. But there’s no cure for the spread of viral fake news.

    There is however a cure for the decisions that led to a coronavirus problem in the United States.

    It’s called the Constitution.

    America was meant to have a small government under the control of the people, not the bureaucrats. The real disease is bigger than the coronavirus. It’s a fatal illness called big government. Unlike the coronavirus, it has a total mortality rate. No society that has succumbed to it has ever survived.

    https://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2020/03/how-administrative-state-defied-trump.html?m=1

    1. “Take a deep breath, wash your hands”

      That’s how Willis Eschenbach ends his tweets on Corona virus.

  24. China’s first major report on kung-flu fatality: avg fatality rate is 2.3%
    •no deaths: kids <10yo
    •0.2%: ppl 10-39yo
    •0.4%: ppl 40-49yo
    •1.3%: ppl 50-59yo
    •3.6%: ppl 60-69yo
    •8%: ppl 70-79yo
    •14.8%: ppl ≥80yo

    It’s mainly killing the elderly.

      1. I’m sure Prinz Dummkopf might make use of an Order in Council, claiming the matter is an “emergency”. Parliament need not be consulted.

        1. But you cannot call it an emergency if blockades are not bring addressed. Land title issues have been around like forever, so how can this now be emergency? I don’t think that will work. Surely the Opposition will demand to know what is in the deal.

          1. That never stopped the government from making a situation into one. During the 1970s oil fight, while Lougheed wanted world prices for Alberta crude, Marc Lalonde countered with a rather vague argument of “force majeur”, hoping to elevate the matter into a national crisis.

            And then, of course, there was that stunt that Mr. “Just Watch Me” pulled on us.

            Emergency? An emergency is whatever the federal government calls anything as being one.

      2. “Surely Parliament must get the details…”

        – Who cares what parliament thinks? – Little Potato could care less.

        And yes, the regulations on Orders-in-Council are that they must be placed before Parliament and the Senate for 30 sitting days each – but Little Potato could also care less about government regulations, if he’s even aware they exist. This has been “the Canadian Way” ever since Dim Campbell started using Orders-in-Council to ban guns, and Lyin’ Brian said “meh…” in as many words.

  27. “Don’t consider the nomination yours just yet, Joe. And, by the way, watch your back because of well, you know….”

  28. this mckay thing is perfectly capable as a professional polllitiSHUN to *renege* on
    this promise, make hundreds more, renege on them etc etc.
    do NOT believe a word the man says.
    not
    one
    word.

    1. ?
      but, butt, Butt . . . . CanaDUH *has* no culture to ‘protect’ according to pm socks.
      aka “post national state”. the fcukhead SAID SO HIMSELF.

      so many contradictions with the TURDoo 2.0 . . . . . . .

    2. I listen to Sirius 76 a lot. Grest music and, yes, the hosts are very good. Even when we still lived on the Canadian border (on the U.S. Side), which we did until last summer, I hadn’t listened to (or watched) CBC in years. Their hosts/announcers became more and more smarmy.

      1. I started listening to SiriusXM when I took over my father’s account after inheriting his truck. I promptly looked for channels for classical music and opera and found Channels 75 (Met Opera Radio) and 76. When it offered its signal via on-line streaming, I signed up.

        CBC Stereo/Radio 2/Music/Whatever-the-dickens-it-is-now went through some changes about 15 years ago when it had that strike. Many of the former hosts were gone by the time it was over. For example, Howard Dyck, who used to host Saturday Afternoon at the Opera and Choral Concert was replaced by the insufferable Bill Richardson for the opera broadcast. He eventually left was succeeded by tenor Ben Heppner, giving an authoritative voice which was lost when Dyck was gone.

        But, yes, CBC on FM isn’t the same classy network that it was many years ago.

  31. Mohawk council in Quebec will allow CP workers to inspect the tracks. FireKeepers and tribal police will supervise the workers. How nice of them.

    1. It’s going to be an interesting Democrat convention…..

  40. Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
    https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2020/02/27/toss-out-sports-ditch-drama-why-the-cbc-needs-radical-change-to-survive.html

    That’s right, what we need is MORE CBC News and Current Affairs and of course, we need the CBC to make sure their focus is to…
    (wait for it)
    ….’interpret the world for Canadians’!

    That’s just one of the gems from good ole Tony Burman. You could invent a new ‘Why CBC Is Sooooooo Important To Canadians’ drinking game with this article – quotes from John Ralston Saul, the insistence that CBC’s overall price tag is ‘incredibly inexpensive’ , memories of ‘cherished CBC corespondents’ and so, so much more!

    Heartfelt thanks for the author of this scholarly piece:
    Tony Burman, formerly head of CBC News and Al Jazeera English…a freelance contributing foreign affairs columnist for the Toronto Star. He is based in Toronto. Follow him on Twitter: @TonyBurman

  41. Big Chief Gay Eagle With No Balls, is burning jet fuel at taxpayer expense to Toronto Thursday. He will telling the kiddies at the Boys And Girls Club how wonderful he and the Liberal Party are.

    1. Knowing how wimpy the U of A has become since I was a student there, “significant sanctions” will likely amount to some stern words plus a few seconds of intense finger-wagging. There might be–ahem–“other factors” to be considered and I think we can figure out what those are.

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