97 Replies to “January 26, 2021 – Reader Tips”

    1. As someone who avoids watching CBC News on TV, as nausea-inducing, I will take a pass on this.

    1. You know, maybe their is something to the Great Reset.

      When this farce of an impeachment trial, secret ballot et all takes place there will be a re-alignment of the view that Americans have of both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. You cannot disenfranchise ½ of Americans from the political domain without a massive upheaval taking place. A pox on both houses sentiment will destroy the Republican Party and leave the Democratic Party in tatters. The American people will see to that.

      1. “and leave the Democratic Party in tatters”

        No it won’t. The Dems have a lock on the future. You’ve seen to that.

    1. DCH, I had significant experience managing complex issues why was I not considered, I could use the 165k plus perks and the travel to do the job.

      1. 1. You’re the wrong sex.
        2. You don’t have the right ethnicity
        3. You’re from the wrong part of the country.

        Shall I continue? By the way, it looks like she’s a graduate of the Julie Payette School of Management.

        1. just had to shoot me down didn’t ya. I use to work all across canada including that part.

          1. just had to shoot me down didn’t ya.

            That, of course, wasn’t my intention, but we both know that what I stated is how the Prinz Dummkopf regime hires people nowadays.

            Talent? Ability? Experience? Nah. It’s 2021. Get used to the “new” normal.

      2. But given that Prinz Dummkopt’s 65 IQ makes even morning sock selection a frighteningly complex task, pretty well anyone with a pulse (and more than a few without) easily meets the Turdo cognitive standard.

        Unfortunately, those with real-world skills and experience, being grossly overqualified, are automatically ineligible for ‘consideration’…

  5. In 1984, Apple was the rebel, fighting the system.

    In 2021, Apple has become Big Brother.

    In 2021, the rebels are those of us who use other operating systems (Go FreeBSD!), or instead of buying the brightest and shiniest Apple crap, we either homebrew our own machines or take existing ones and re-task them for our purposes. I’ve got a number of computers that were originally designed for Windoze and they run Linux or FreeBSD.

  6. And now for some disgusting news…
    Two hours work yields some big money fines. This COVID ‘shhh’ is never going away! Read here:

    MONTREAL — People caught partying in the Laurentians over the weekend have to pay a total of $55,656 in fines. Mirabel police were called to a residence Saturday around 9:30p.m., after they were alerted about an illegal gathering. When they arrived, officers shut down a party of 36 people.

    https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/over-55-000-in-fines-handed-out-at-illegal-gathering-in-laurentians-1.5281373

    1. Gotta pay for that local road construction somehow.
      And Quebec road construction comes with some, err…, “extra surcharges.”

      1. Some call it the Mafioso Taste.
        Most just call it being Librano-ed.

        You say Mafia. I say Librano.
        Tomayto. Tomahto.

      1. Ian,
        Thought the piece was interesting. It describes the Bilderburgs to the letter.

        To plagiarize, with modification… points I agree with:

        “It is a simulacrum of a giant playground in which a bullying gang is lording it over the citizens, imposing arbitrary rules and regulations. The future looks rather bleak.

        There are some great examples in the piece of literary amusement.

        Thanks for the journey.”

        P.S……
        I passed the test with flying colors! When the answer was from item “C” continuously, I thought, “wait a minute”.
        Then when there was an answer to questions, at least the reader wasn’t disappointed in that respect.

    3. Illegal gathering. If those fools pay ten cents they deserve to be locked up. That goes for every one who gets a fine for anything related cov2. Open, get out, get a fine, plug the system until it breaks.

      1. That’s why Kaybec attended a teleconference on KXL, the other day. Worried that the gravy train of Equalization should be curtailed by der Biden Gubmint. Strange, they were against Alberta’s “dirty” oil crossing their pristine, water flooded, “green” hydro generating Province to a port on the east coast, not too long ago. Now they’re fine with it headed at least as far as Sarnia. Oops, wait a minute, Frau Gretchen of Michigan wishes to block “Oil Across Mackinac” ’cause Enbridge. Kaybec was silent on that one, strangely. So, why the angst on KXL, a project further west than Mackinac, that doesn’t restrict oil to Sarnia, just the USA in general??
        Kenny, wake up! Shut TransMountain to BC/Washington State and pipelines east of Winnipeg. Ship it to Alaska, they’re looking for product to ship to Asia. It’s shorter by a week than Vancouver. No restrictions on tanker size and you could ship it in hopper cars as well…no dillbit.

        1. EXACTLY…a solution I have pushed for near 7 years.
          Valdez – open yr round – supertanker (VLCC-ULCC), capable

          Instead of any other pipeline, we should have been building triple 48″ lines to join up with the Trans Alaskan Pipeline system…the Alaskans have said as far back as 2014, they would welcome our product in their system due to declining numbers from their fields//alleviated somewhat by Trump. But now with Zhjou bin Xiden at the helm…I’m betting that there will be NO Drilling in the Alaskan Arctic Wildlife preserve.

          Typical CANADA – Zero Fking Vision whatsoever.

          1. That vision ended more than 40 years ago, thanks in part to Thomas Berger and his “I’ll kill it anyway no matter what the findings are” report on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline.

            As an alternative, a pipeline following the Alaska Highway was proposed. Foundries and mills in Regina and Ontario were gearing up to produce steel, but that one didn’t go anywhere, either. If I’m not mistaken, that died when NEP the First gutted the oil business.

            Vote Trudeau, vote poverty….. unless you’re in southern Ontario or Quebec.

            Then again, look at PM Kenney (PM in his case is Pantywaist Milquetoast). He’s afraid that if he does anything, eastern Canada won’t like him.

            B*gger eastern Canada, Kenney. It’s not your country any more–Alberta is. Fight for it! We voted for you in good faith and you’ve frittered away your political advantage ever since you took office. Thanks to you, we’ll get another 4 years of devastation thanks to Red Rachel, and she’s going to get revenge on those Albertans who disrepected her by voting for you.

        2. You are forgetting that NWT and Yukon are highly populated by Indigenous folk who will attempt to stop any new pipeline or railway. These folk also control vast areas of the Territories where any pipe or rail must run through. Not gonna happen. The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline was (and still is) approved for immediate construction. It is not gonna happen either.

          While Trans-Canada was nickel-and-diming Nebraska ranchers for access to their land, and otherwise dicking around with its KXL route, progressives were busy taking over governments, universities, social media, mainstream media, and the bureaucracy. TC was too busy trying to win little battles here and there. Once they were finally ready to build, they had lost the war.

          1. This is unfair to indigenous folk. There are more tribes willing to sign up for development in exchange for payoff.

    5. Uh, yeah. There’s a deadly highly contagious disease that is made much worse by gatherings such as these. You can’t do that.

      1. Yes yes, sure just because you don’t have any friends it does not mean others should no be allowed to see theirs.

        1. Now that comment right there BADR elevates you to, well I am not sure where. But it is a classic. Ha Ha Ha

    1. Nazi Pelosi and Chuck-off Schumer will be jumping for joy. They’ll preside over the first impeachment of the first Former President.

    3. “You gotta hand it to President Donald Trump, he definitely is the master troller and he just drives the left nuts.”

      He also handed the White House, Senate, and House to team blue. Keep telling yourself that trolling matters and someday, it still won’t.

      1. Thank you for your contribution. We’d like to keep this thread subhuman free, so kindly go away.

        1. Must suck to be consistently outsmarted by a ‘subhuman’. Like Wile E Coyote vs The Roadrunner here.

  10. “Alberta has only itself to blame for the pickle it’s in. If its leaders had been more willing to share their wealth a decade ago, when people were still concerned about oil running out, they might have got their pipelines built. Now, they are going to have to put themselves on the path to their post-oil future much sooner than they had hoped.”

    https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-24/wanted-pipeline-for-unloved-alberta-oil-after-keystone-cancellation

    1. The author has never heard of equalization. The wealth transfer from Albertans to the rest of Canada has been enormous.

      Now does the rest of Canada get royalties from Quebec or BC hydro?

      Does the rest of Canada get royalties from BC, Ontario, or Quebec mining?

      1. It’s Bloomberg. The hosts of CTV’s BNN. Tronnathink. See my post at: January 26, 2021 at 10:58 am
        Everyone has an opinion, til they get punched in the face, or cut off from the gravy train. Good time to WEXIT, says I. Got that Kenny? I am constantly amazed at how folks who don’t live and work at anything in Alberta, have our business all figured out for us. Concern Trolls. You pay taxes here, vote here, hell even have an abode here? Yeah, thought so.

  12. National Post has a story on the Liberal MP getting canned. Apparently he accused Bain of being a Sikh separatist. This story will go over well in India, where Blackie is already scorned because of his National Lampoon Indian vacation.

  13. https://wearingyourmedalswrong.blogspot.com/2018/09/julie-payette-nasa-medals-before-order.html

    An early warning, perhaps?
    In 2018, Julie Payette, then-Gov General, attends an “International Symposium on Symbols and Honours” and has the nerve to wear unapproved NASA service medals above the Order of Canada and her other Canadian decorations, breaking the law in the process (Order in Council 1998-591, Sec. 4)…

    “What a strange situation to have the Governor General violating the rules she is supposed to uphold. It’s a bit sad she thinks NASA Medals are more important than the Order of Canada, the Order of Military Merit or any other part of the Canadian honours system. Its all a bit more than just wearing the “wrong decoration” its in essence wearing an illegal pair of medals… but we wouldn’t want to be accused of being fussbudgets. It is after all just the Governor General breaking a regulation set out by an Order-in-Council.”

  14. Misspoke in yesterday’s “readers tips” thread, saying that the recently turfed Liberal MP, Ramish Sangha, would spill the beans on the financial sleaze surrounding Naveep Bains. The NP’s Tome Blackwell reports today that the hubbub is all about India/Sikh tribal wars:
    https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/ontario-mp-turfed-from-liberal-caucus-after-accusing-ex-minister-navdeep-bains-of-extremism

    Was hoping though that Sangha could say something about the land-speculation deals, etc. The Brampton sleaze has been hidden from Canadians, with media-cartel assistance.

  16. Great Leader Shit For Brains has quickly booked one of his cottage pressers, because of an emergency discussion in the fake parliament later regarding vaccines. He will explain to his loyal, hand picked media about what a wonderful job he is doing. But he will also be tackling the most important issue facing Canadians. He will be talking to China Joe’s John Kerry about global warming scams.

  19. Should Kim Kardashian have any voice in who is pardoned?

    Trump commutes Chris Young after Kim Kardashian’s advocacy

    Among those on the long list of people President Trump pardoned or granted clemency during his last day in office was a young man whose freedom Kim Kardashian has been advocating for since 2018.

    Chris Young was 22 when, due to the “three strikes” law, he received a life sentence without parole for the non-violent offenses of marijuana and cocaine possession.

    On Wednesday, Trump commuted the remainder of the now 32-year-old Young’s sentence.

    After Kardashian successfully lobbied Trump to pardon Alice Johnson — who spent 22 years in jail for the non-violent, first-time offense of her role in a large cocaine-dealing ring — in 2018, she began working to secure Young’s freedom. In September 2018, the reality star visited the Oval Office with former US District Judge Kevin Sharp, who personally requested that Trump reverse the life sentence which he himself had given Young.

    Kardashian — who said in 2019 that she’s studying to become a lawyer — remained involved with Young’s legal team following the Oval Office meeting, sources told TMZ.

    https://nypost.com/2021/01/20/trump-pardons-chris-young-after-kim-kardashians-advocacy/

    Should the President have the power to pardon?

  20. The front page of the National Post today has a headline worthy of Kate: the Liberal’s “Reign of Error”

  21. We are all starting to watch for T4 and other tax receipts in the mail. On that note the Motley Fool (not recommended reading) came out with a new story “Canada Revenue Agency: Don’t Forget to Claim the New $500 Digital News Tax Credit”. I subscribe to the digital Globe and Mail, True North News and Post Millennial — so I at first thought I would be getting some extra money from our friendly CRA.

    Did some Googling, and — lo and behold! — True North News has a December, 2020 article stating that only La Presse is on the list! Funny that. No others! True, on might expect that True North and the Post Millennial would not make the cut — to critical of Justin Trudeau. But there are plenty of Liberal-flunky newspapers out there.

    Here is the list of the five “advisors” to help select the list of newspapers:
    https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/businesses/topics/corporations/business-tax-credits/canadian-journalism-labour-tax-credit/qualified-canadian-journalism-organization.html

    Two of the five “experts” have University of Laval degrees — and none of the five is a white, mail Anglo. One problem: if all the rejected pro-Liberal newspapers lack tax credits, won’t they get angry? Patronage does not work this way. A real head scratcher this.

  22. Can this actually have happened? Someone from the mainstream media criticized the entitlement of the Libranos to their entitlements. How dare he!

    “Gov. Gen. Julie Payette departs office, we learn, with a pension of about $150,000 a year, for life, for doing a job not very well, and for not very long.

    She is 57 years old. It will sting, but do a little math. If she lives for another 30 years, that’s $4.5 million. With indexing, of course, it would be a great deal more than that, but the point is made: this is a lifetime of financial security for an appointment that did not last three-and-a-half years (investiture Oct. 2, 2017).”

    https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/egan-royal-rip-off-departing-gg-worked-40-months-gets-150k-pension-for-life

    P.S. As an added bonus, the article includes a lovely colour photo of the former GG which displays the smug, self-righteousness which she shares with the man-child who appointed her (but now claims he is not responsible for her appointment).

  23. The fake parliament did discuss other issues that are important to Canadians. Such as conversion therapy.

  24. I’m at my house in Fort St. John right now and I just saw an interesting sight through my living room window: deer walking through my front yard. Three of them are wandering through the neighbourhood, so I figure they’re either curious or hungry. I guess they came up from a creek valley about a klick or two to the north of me, but I’m surprised that they made it this far into a residential area.

    I have a bag of alfalfa left over from my father, so I might leave a bucket or two of it for them before I head back to Edmonton.

    1. We get deer camping out in our backyard in Calgary, in winter. They hardly budge when I go out in the yard. Yours camp out along the Peace Valley and routinely wander into yards in FSJ. There’s a bunch of coulees west of the bridge that takes them up west of FSJ. They mix with the buffalo ranch herds in winter, ’cause they’re fed. How do I know? I drilled SW/SE and south of town (never mind to the north, too), all along the Peace Valley and right up close to FSJ. See a well around FSJ, even the airport, I drilled pretty much every one of ’em, over a ten year period.

      1. Yours camp out along the Peace Valley and routinely wander into yards in FSJ.

        I was thinking of Fish Creek, which is just past the railway tracks when you head north towards Montney and Rose Prairie. I think Fish Creek empties into the Peace, so they may indeed come up from the river valley.

        If you drilled the wells in the local area, chances are my father was the one who worked on the drill collars when they were taken into town to be machined. He retired the middle of the previous decade, so those wells would have had to be drilled before then.

          1. Once I was sent to a wellsite on an emergency basis, when the guy working there had to go to the hospital. They sent me a message in the middle of the night to drive up to FSJ ASAP because the well was about 5km from town. Turns out the well was 5km SOUTHWEST of Fort St John. Yeah. Had to drive back to Dawson Creek, then to Chetwynd, then up to the well, about 200km in total. Spent the late 1990s in Peejay and Blueberry and all the other fun spots too.

          2. Spent the late 1990s in Peejay and Blueberry and all the other fun spots too.

            I don’t think I ever made to Peejay. My parents and I spent a lot of time around Pink Mountain and Jedney on hunting or fishing trips. Turned off the highway at Mile 95 and went to the Halfway and Graham Rivers for the same reason.

            I’ve got lots of stories to tell about the fun and games we had in those places, mudholes and all.

          3. Started drilling there in the early 90’s.

            During the more than 40 years that my father was a machinist in FSJ, he got to know a lot of the truckers who brought stuff out to the rigs. He knew a lot of the toolpushers who lived in town as well. I, on the other hand, grew up with their kids and went to school with them.

          4. When you drilled the Charlie Lake, drilling rates dropped dramatically before PDC bits became the norm. One bag of dirt every 5 hours or more, so I was the “spare man”. Phone the pizza joint in John and then go pick it up. After a while, they’d come out and deliver. We’d wave at the folks driving the Alaska Highway, we were that close.
            Some town guy figured one time to save time and money and we drilled well into the C-Lake with just H2O. Yeah, we did that. Drilled one of those thin breaks they drill sideways now for gas in the Charlie Lake. The hole was making a move to clear it’s throat, blowing back into the mud tanks. Then we set it on fire on purpose ’cause H2S. Ever pack barite bags to the mud tanks with your Scott air pack on? I don’t recommend it. We couldn’t get the loader close enough. Twenty pounds of Scott and 80 lbs of barite, up the stairs. I still waved to the passing cars though, catching my breath on the railing. You could see the whites of their eyes and open mouths, as they drove by. Thundering gas flaming out the flare line, behind you, 10 minutes from Fort St. John.

          5. I wasn’t up in FSJ much between the early 1980s until after my mother died in 2012, so you’d know the local geography better than me. In fact, I haven’t been in the Charlie Lake area for more than 40 years, largely because I’ve been busy with settling my father’s estate.

            The closest I got to the fun and games you had was the 3 summers I worked at the plant in Taylor during the mid-1970s. Back then, it had an oil refinery and a large tank farm and, during my time there, I got to know much of it quite well.

            The gas plant side of it had 4 active trains and 1 reserve. Whenever one of them had to be taken down, say, for maintenance, it had to be depressurized and the gas burned off. In those days, it was still allowed to use burn pits and whenever that took place, it sounded as if a rocket engine was going off. I’m pretty sure one could see the flame from the highway when the gas was lit off as the burn pit was south of the main plant.

            I’m sure we rattled a few windows in Taylor when we did that because we sure felt it in the offices.

            During my second summer, I worked with the maintenance crews and, whenever we worked overtime, the company paid for our meals. We’d walk across the highway to a cafe and order the biggest steaks and had pie and ice cream for dessert. After we were finished eating, we’d waddle back to the plant and continue working. For some reason, I gained weight that summer…..

            The next summer, the cat cracker required some maintenance. Unfortunately, something wasn’t put back together properly, so we could see a plume coming out of its stack. Someone downwind got a light dusting of some very expensive catalyst.

            I’ve got lots of similar stories to tell about that place.

  25. Blacklock reports that Blackie’s government won’t disclose information on bonuses that the failed former president of Canada’s Public Health Agency received.

    1. Well, we know you get your farm goods at the Safeway/Superstore/Sobey’s/IGA/COOP, so you’re good. And your gas to get there comes out at the pump, right?

  27. Hinman, in addition to joining the March of The COVidiots’ in Calgary, is now seriously stating that Alberta should cut off natgas supplies to America over KXL. What a moron. WIPA = not an option

    The AAP has joined the bandwagon against opening up the Foothills to anthracite coal mining. Forget them, AAP = not an option.

    The AAP is joined on that idiot’s bandwagon by Brian Jean. Congratulations to those who replaced Jean with Kenney, your choice is now vindicated. This is one of the few times I have ever been wrong. Too bad Kenney’s still an idiot.

    Kenney cancelled some of the coal leases to appease the jerks who think all our water will be poisoned by anthracite coal mining. This won’t work but it will cost money. Kenney is in general aimless, drifting to possibly putting Nutley back in power.

    1. In two years under Kenney the budget deficit has exploded, the economy is in free-fall, the major industry is in serious decline, and the vast majority of the public service is actively hostile to him.
      With all that happening Notley’s NDP and Kenney’s UCP are essentially tied in the polls (plus/minus a few percent from week-to-week). Notley is not going to win anything. She would have to flip more than half of Calgary’s ridings her way, because she has virtually all of Edmonton and is not ever going to win anywhere else. She can only hope for a UCP/separatist party vote-split. Good luck with that.

      1. Good points. I’d add that this pandemic will end, and I imagine the prosperity will lift Kenney’s numbers somewhat. I just don’t take anything forgranted!

        I’ll give Kenney some credit he did apparently do some serious red tape reduction on home building. I don’t have the link handy but Albertan housing will cost less thanks to him. It adds up.

  29. Let’s see if I got this right, when I use Google as a search engine they can track me and know exactly what I am doing. Similarly Facebook follows everything I do and can censor me if I make a comment that does not meet their so-called standards. Amazon Alexa can listen in to what is going on in my house While all this is happening the CRTC or the Gov’t of Canada can’t seem to track the scammers that make bogus threatening phone calls professing to be the legal department of Service Canada

    1. Awesome! Today’s date, too. Well, you know you’re over the target, when you’re taking flak!

      1. A commenter wrote: If the rcmp was doing their job, Justine would be in jail.
        I think Weirdeau II would enjoy jail.

        1. If the rcmp was doing their job, Justine would be in jail.

          Considering who the boss is, how likely would that be?

  33. O’Toole and Singh should implement the following option and jointly table the necessary amendment to the Governor General’s Act to get Julie Payette’s snout out of the public trough. Show some spine, gentlemen, and get it done. It is a clear winner of broad popular support.

    “Unsurprisingly, the governor general was forced to resign. But not forced to resign like an equivalent employee in the private sector would, without compensation based upon her misconduct, but with $150,000 a year and $200,000 in additional spending that governor generals are entitled to in the Governor General’s Act.

    Realistically, the government, based upon the “cause” for her termination, should refuse to pay those amounts by a simple amendment to the Governor General’s Act, at least as it applies to her. She would have no recourse.”

    https://financialpost.com/executive/careers/howard-levitt-how-ottawa-can-refuse-to-pay-ex-governor-general-julie-payettes-150000-annuity-200000-in-benefits

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