You know its bad when Covid actually made things better.
Rex Murphy: It’s ‘hard, hard times’ in Newfoundland. And it doesn’t look hopeful
Newfoundland is gutted. It is on the splitting table. I cannot think of a more devastating time since the collapse of the cod fishery.
So, the first domino to fall, then.
No matter the pain they can inflict if we leave confederation; the pain of staying will be worse. You already know where the equalization to save the maritimes is going to come from. From your lifeless and desiccated corpse.
Hmmmm, they ran out of OPM and Hopium?
L – “Hard Times, Come Again No More” -(composed by Stephen Foster) this version has lyrics
that are understandable. The pioneers knew poverty up close and personal, only in the 2nd half of the 20th Century and into the 21st have a generation or two, forgotten their history. No, rather was never taught it, for the purpose of denigrating those who created the methods of production that have lifted, ourselves and most of the world out of starvation and large scale die offs for the first time in human history.
So the utopians(Cult. Marxist version) just had to find away back to impoverishing humanity,
but point out with their virtue signaling, their road is paved with the best of intentions.
Someone should teach them the refrain/title of this song !
Hard Times, Come Again No More.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5OiMfM3txk&ab_channel=limeyloop
Nicely said, Larry. This is my favourite version, by Mavis Staples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZsO348BOW0
Murphy touched on one my major irritants about NFld. Nfld workers coming back from the oilfields in Alberta and out West in general, hosed in so much money into that island it was almost an embarrassment of riches. Truck dealerships never had it so good.
How do they vote federally? Liberal of course. I’ve been told the backlash they received on social media from those workers who made Alberta their home was one for the books.
Doubt it’d do any good.
Sorry Rex, got nothin’ in the tank.
Yes, they made lots of $’s and then went back home and voted for the very Gov’t that wants to shut down O&G!! Makes me shake my head. My sis-in-law in Fort Mac (from Nfld), was absolutely PO at Nfld for voting liberal.
My son works for largest Alberta owned oil company. The word coming down is they will no longer hire from the East or Atlantic Canada. It will be Albertans first and Western 2nd.
Alberta is in worse shape than most realize.
Never seen it so bad and getting worse by the week.
F— Newfoundland and the rest of Atlantic Canada.
They screwed the rest of the country for hand-outs and let China take oilfields they could have used themselves.
Does anybody know, from history up to now if the place was ever up, in so far as making the going at least even, without a deficit?
It is true that the federales would not let the place have royalties on the offshore wealth.
Guess they wanted the place to be a vassal of the federales.
Was it so that the place was completely tied to fishing?
Was it so that there was a fishing season for a few weeks and they made tones of money?
Was it so that the the rest of the time they lived on the dole?
This is what one gathered from the news reports over the years.
I remember when the federal department of fisheries and
the department of foreign affairs, would make these grandiose announcements of contract sales to Russia and other nations for hundreds of thousands of tons of fish, in return giving those nations rights to millions of tons of fish.
At the time the price of cod would have been about six or six and a half cents per pound. These announcements were not infrequent, and the year round factory ships became SOP for the Grand Banks, but those Neufies!
Before confederation the total ‘dole’ population of Newfoundland was around two percent, mostly living in St.John’s.
There were mines, copper, gypsum, gold, iron ore, to name a few. Logging was common. My ancestors and family were loggers and shipwrights.
My mother’s hometown had a few lumbermills as well as fishing. You grew what you could and traded with the merchants, many were less than honest, but there were no others to trade with. The west coast was always less enamored of the idea of Confederation and many believed the vote was neither legal or accurate.
As for the legal part, I can only speculate, and as for accuracy, well put it this way, a certain vote was required and with a seven thousand vote margin of victory, why bother with recounts or redo’s. But that’s another story. When I grew up, there was a mine nearby, three small lumber mills, a rail siding for pulp for the mill in Corner Brook, fishing, and a fish plant.
By the way, fishing is not like farming, it’s only seasonal in that you catch different fish at different times of year.
It’s not like growing wheat where you till and seed, do your summer fallow, wait, spray, wait, cut, wait, combine, then drive a truck to the elevator every once in a while and winter in Arizona if you wish.
I like to think Newfoundland is what happens when you don’t fight back hard enough.
Sucks to be me, but not as much as it’s going to for the rest of the deluded masses.
I saw the sad remains of those industries when I watched a couple oil wells on the Port au Port back in ’95/96. The people were so good to me that it brings a tear to my eye when I think about spending Christmas at a real down home Newfie party.
Little did I know then that what I was seeing down there I would too soon see in my own province of Alberta.
Ottawa sold off inshore fishing to China for trade deals for Ontario and Quebec.
Canada does not work.
Get out of the Gulag
As was said, Nfld is just the first domino to fall. Every possible bit of drag has been machined into every single piece of the economy by the parasites. Across all of western civilization.
Alberta has been and is one of the worst offenders. Masked by success, we’ve let every God damned loser in the country stick their greasy fingers into the pie, and barely complained when they shit on our couch. The crows are next to come and clean the bones.
Every extra minute we spend in confederation is a wasted minute. But, it is not enough to just separate if we don’t learn from history. You get the government you deserve.
The HURT looks good on ya, Eastern Bastids.
Ooz, yah git rid of that couch yet? You see Ooz, you would make a damned good Newfie, as you are as useless as tits on a bull!
Freeze in the dark NME666, ya garbage pickin’ Chinese toolbox.
Ooz go eat sum bat soup girly boy!
and who wuz the idiot who linked to a chinese propaganda web site, not me yah goof!
Remember when Newfs called EI cheque arrivals as “payday?” Do they still? Coming soon as per socialism’s shared misery.
Over at government they couldn’t be happier, they get unaccountable rule as the Bank of Canada buys their shitty debt.
Luckily that’s “keeping interest rates low.” So there can’t be inflation, just higher prices; the snowball at the top of the hill.
Maybe when people take one moment of their day to consider deficits and debts are simply deferred taxes, we may wake up.
Will we realize economic growth and productivity are meaningless to them. They paid $20 covid “relief” to middle and high income earners to every dollar they paid poor earners? It’s no coincidence stock markets and house prices are soaring. Barret Jackson’s car auction was rocking this year. The smart ones made a killing on stocks, the highest quality 2/3 devalued by covid hysteria.
But wait, aren’t Conservatives in league with white supremacists? Shouldn’t they be shut up? Our children have never had to get by under the auspices of the last generation of state supremacists who wasted vast resources and opportunity, with us one budget or two from beggaring the IMF? They’ve being played, government is a reality show, just controlled by censors.
But their kind of censors. Not hopeful for the utter lack of reasoned thought or speech, just opinion as fact, lies as truth. Sad.
When my husband decided to retire from the military he was offered a job in NFL to fly offshore to the various rigs, we spent five years there. It was awful, the weather was gawd awful, we were called “From away” and people often complained he took a job that should be open exclusively to NFLers. Funny I’ve met NFLers across Canada, and they were lovely but moving there and not being one of them was a real eye opener. I could not believe how lavish their lifestyle was, large new homes, fifth wheelers, four wheelers, quads, and several new vehicles etc. A friend who worked in a bank told me some of those new homes were empty and the top floors blocked off because they couldn’t afford to heat the upper levels. I wondered when the spending bubble would go pop, I guess it’s happening?
Your story reminded me of a conversation I had with someone when I visited Lunenburg N.S. – He told me he was moving back to Ontario after eight years. When I asked why he said – “You can live here but you’ll always be considered an outsider”.
How nice.
Check this out
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/ransomware-attack-shuts-down-largest-gas-pipeline-in-usa/
Yeah, the economy is collapsing, but the climate should be so much better with the new carbon taxes. Remember to vote Liberal!
I’m trying to think what possible use Newfoundland and Labrador could be to our Chinese masters in the near future.
The only thing that comes to mind is as a location for the enormous prison camps where they will eventually send the hostile white population to wait for extinction, because no Chinaman in his right mind would settle there.
Newfoundland has never managed to live within its means because it doesn’t have any.
A naval base for their PLA Navy’s operations in the N. Atlantic, controlling trade communications between the white devils in U.S.A. and Western Europe.
No worries, Newfoundlanders.
China is looking for a naval base in the Atlantic. They will offer you billions of dollars for your little island. The Trudeau Liberals will only be too happy to sign off on the deal because this will help show everyone just how much Justin admires China’s basic dictatorship and it will show what a great leader he is for making the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Peoples’ Liberation Army welcome on Canada’s shores.
How far behind is Ontario? We don’t make anything here anymore.
Yup, and Ontario, (Toronto especially, but not exclusively), was right up there rubbishing Trump for wanting to bring jobs home.
In a non-existent ‘fair world’ those that screw things up would bear the brunt of their dumb decisions – perhaps it’s starting….
there is no financial problem in Newfyland, as the Turd will send a train load of GREEN PAINT to fix it all. Oh wait, trains don’t run across water all that well!
Joey Smallwood f*cked Newfoundland in 49…
They say the vote was so close, he burned the ballots the same night, so there could be no recount.
Canada f*cked Newfoundland like they did Alberta.
It’s not just the ‘Rock’ it’s the entire east coast territory, they’ve been enjoying the 10/42 lottery for years….seasonal fisheries allowed them to adapt to a privileged way of like while many more work in government at an overly saturated rate…..
“List of Universities in Nova Scotia Though Nova Scotia is small with about one million multiethnic and multi-religious population, it has eleven public universities, and the Nova Scotia Community College with 13 campuses. The provincial governing body for higher education in Nova Scotia is the Ministry of Labour and Advanced Education”
I have said it for years on here. The Universities have become PuppyMills and part of Immigration Canada and an Industry that has nothing to do with education. It is a make work project funded by the taxpayers.
The whole Canadian Gulag is built on lies and tax scams by Government.
The whole Gulag is rigged from east to west from top to bottom.
Work night and day to get your Province out of the Gulag.
The Universities have become PuppyMills and part of Immigration Canada and an Industry that has nothing to do with education. It is a make work project funded by the taxpayers.
Two of my fellow grad students are tenured profs at Dalhousie in Halifax and, at least one of them is still there.
One day, I came across the salary list and I was floored as to how much their basic pay was. One was getting around $250,000 a year, while the other was about $150,000. I spent several years practicing my profession in industry and I was never paid anywhere close to those levels.
There’s no bleedin’ way that an engineering professor at any university is worth that much, particularly if they’ve didn’t have any industrial experience. Can anyone tell me how what I described is even possible, even after all the money-harvesting that universities now engage in?
I make that comment because my Ph. D. supervisor, who had been tenured for well over 20 years, whined incessantly that he wasn’t making enough money.
One of my profs at Dal always wanted to rename it to the South Halifax Institute of Technology.
A bit harsh perhaps…
Kid
NB, pop of about 750,000, of which more than 1/2 work directly, or in directly for it’s government. So a god damned welfare state!
You work directly for the Chinese, NME666. That’s like working for the government. You used to pick the garbage of strangers, now you spew your retarded bile at strangers. Dyslectics like you probably don’t even notice the difference.
Independence Rally and Anti Lockdown Rally underway at Whistle Stop Cafe in Alberta. Lot of Dirty RCMP and Red Necks.
https://www.facebook.com/whistlestoptruckstopcafe/
I thought Danny Williams fixed it all.
We in Alberta complain because the feds took billions from us and gave it to Quebec. At lease we got some level of wealth from our resource. Newfoundland has been forced to sell its hydro power to Quebec for $2 per megawatt hour (MWh) since ~ 1969. Even in the late 1960s, a price of $2 was extraordinarily low!
In 2003 Hydro-Québec received an average of approximately $85 per MWh!!
30M MWh annually
$2/ MWh X 30M MWh = $60M/year (Newfoundland’s share)
$85/MWh x 30M MWh = $2.55 B/year (Quebec’s share) every year!!
In 2016 a 25-year renewal kicked in!! That’s a $63B free gift to K-bec.. Newfoundland only owes $12B.
https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/making-parliament-work/the-churchill-falls-contract-and-why-newfoundlanders-cant-get-over-it/
If declaring bankruptcy would get them out from this deal, they should do it. Then use 100% of the electricity to generate hydrogen or something that bypasses the belle province. Au revoir mes amis.
Hardly compares to the fleecing Albertans got of 600B-1Trillion in theft by the Commie Gulag called Canada.
Watcher – True, we contributed a lot more: From 2007 to 2018 Alberta’s taxpayers (individual and corporate) made a $512 billion gross contribution and a $252 billion net contribution to federal government finances. Alberta’s annual GDP was $347.1B in 2019 or about $3.8T over 11 years. Quebec got 42 times as much revenue out of NFLD’s Churchill falls power as NFLD did and NFLD is on the verge of bankruptcy while Quebec has budget surpluses. The biggest difference is NFLD was a party to the thievery. Alberta didn’t sign a bad contract, the deal was thrust upon us.
Wildrose Party of Alberta Executive.
Bob Blayone
Yesterday at 1:15 PM ·
Morality. Transparency. Integrity. Accountability. Honor. Respect.
Trust
Please see below an email that went out this morning to all the leaders of the day, those who stand beside me. Those who have been fighting for you.
These are good and noble people. And they have been working hard in building networks of communication and a political fall back position.
Please hold onto hope.
And stay tuned!
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Good day to you all.
I’ve spoken to many of you since Kenney’s latest attempt to silence us, and so far the consensus is clear, our motivation to lead Albertans through these dark days and troubling times has never been stronger. Let’s be perfectly clear here. Jason Kenney is attempting to shut down his future political opponents. Those of us who openly and aggressively oppose his dictatorship. Kenney is attempting to shut down the voice of the leaders who stand firmly with the people of Alberta. Those leaders who badly wish to change this destructive path Kenney has us marching down.
Give that a long moment of reflection. The strong voices of dissent are being forcefully silenced by a totalitarian government, by elected representatives of the people, and by one man. That is unacceptable to me. It is an abomination, so bloody disrespectful to the people of Alberta, and to those who came before us. Our ancestors, those who built this great nation, those who sacrificed their lives fighting against the very tyranny that is now taking over our once free land.
He has misjudged us. And that will be his downfall.
Mr. Kenney has another thing coming if he believes that strong minded, strong willed, intelligent, highly motivated, very angry and disgusted community leaders like us will ever stand down. That we will ever bend the knee to him. He believes we will comply with his majesty’s orders? Nope. Not happening. Not today. Not tomorrow. We are free people! We are protected by the Alberta Bill of Rights, The Candian Bill of Rights, The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Canadian Constitution.
Our task is to lead the people to better days, to a better tomorrow. I now ask you all to open your minds. As always, I will continue to wear my heart on my sleeve and I have much to say. Please do not take what I am about to say as me lecturing you. You are all great minds with the very best hearts. My vision is simply how I have seen things coming together over this last year. Over this past year I have been very blessed by connecting with many exceptional people. All across Alberta and all across Canada. Leaders with common goals, common ground, we are drawn together. It is what we do with that connection which will decide our fate. The future fate of our children, of our people.
My message, my ask, of all of you is this; In your hearts and minds, and in your daily words of encouragement to the people, please do not solely focus your anger on Kenney. Instead focus your passion on giving a message of hope to the people of Alberta. Believe me when I say that they badly need it. Everyday, I receive messages of grief. Of pain. Of hopelessness. Of suffering. Of loss. It is truly heartbreaking and the great harms are now compounding daily. Although the burden is heavy, I am honoured that they trust me to tell me their tragic stories. God be with them all.
Please say to the people that today, we the leaders, we all stand firmly with them, that we have their backs, we are here for them, we have heard them clearly, we know they suffer, and we will work together to help solve this terrible situation we are in. That we all stand firmly together, and we fight for them. As one.
We can work on our individual platforms/parties tomorrow. Today we must focus on the common goal. Because if we do not first win today’s battle, this fight for freedom, there will be no tomorrow. Please acknowledge that, accept that.
Just days ago, Dr. Roger Hodkinson sent me this lecture by Dr. Michael Yeadon. Please take an hour of your day to watch it. Link below. It is one of the most important messages of the day, given by someone who absolutely knows the intimate details of not only the overreaction to the virus, the Covid Trojan Horse, but someone who also knows what this is all about. The restructuring of our society to that of utter state control.
In the presentation, Michael said something which spoke to the very heart of where my heart and mind has been at for many months. Some of you have experienced my passion and determination. Remember, our opponent’s brilliantly laid diabolical plan/trap has been decades in the making, and our enemies have thought of every possible path we may take. Michael said that we must be smarter. That we must do things which they do not anticipate us doing. Kenney thinks that we cannot pull this off. He anticipates that we cannot work together, come together, to lead the people. That we will remain fractured.
Let’s throw him a curve ball. Let’s stand together today. Issues have been resolved within WIPA. Leadership will be united and strong. People before the party. And just as I always knew that The Whistle Stop Cafe would be a key battle ground in this most desperate fight, I also knew that WIPA has always been the best opportunity at hand to build a safe harbour for the people of Alberta. Can we do that? The people desperately need us to. As I say, only if we win today, can we have the opportunity to build our own versions of a better tomorrow.
Solutions. Pressure points. Look for the cracks in the dam and hit them hard:
1. We all need to start pushing WIPA memberships, and I do mean all of us, and sign up hundreds of thousands of Albertans as quickly as possible. We do not have two years. We have months. If vaccine passports are effectively rolled out across Canada, it is 100% game over.
2. If any of you have the capacity and capability to table and pass the motion calling for the UCP Leadership Review policy to be enacted, please, for the love of God, do so now. That process must be expedited. Asap.
Our freedom is being stolen while we stand by and watch. We are down to the wire here. We may have lost many battles, but we have not yet lost the war. It is time my friends. Our only hope is to come together as one.
All across Alberta, an army of Albertans have been coming together. The will of the people. This is the greatest tool we have at our disposal. They are waiting for us to lead them. Let’s bring it home.
All the very best to you all,
Bob
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“Interview with Michael Yeadon, former Vice President and Chief Science Officer of Pfizer, where he worked for 16 years.
He outlines his position on the pandemic, the vaccine, the issue of variants, boosters, and the loss of our civil liberties. It is truly an appeal to the world.”
– April 27, 2021.
This is one of the most important lectures of the day. Dr. Roger Hodkinson sent it to me a few days ago. Dr. Michael Yeadon speaks to the absolute urgency of the day. Hear him.
“Vaccines are the end game.” – UCP MLA Joseph Schow
‘Lockdowns will stay in place throughout the summer and into the fall, until 72% of Albertans are vaccinated.’ – Jason Kenney (one month ago).
And starting Monday, May 10, 2021 Alberta educators and AHS are rolling out vaccines for twelve and over. In the United States, Anthony Fauci is now openly talking about vaccinating right down to infants.
That is outrageous and vile!
Enough is enough. It is time we put a stop to all of the BS.
https://rumble.com/vg5koh-breaking-dr-michael-yeadon-full…
Tip meet iceberg
Is that what this song is about?
The Idiot
I remember back six years ago, this Western life I chose.
And every day, the news would say some factory’s going to close.
Well, I could have stayed to take the Dole, but I’m not one of those.
I take nothing free, and that makes me an idiot, I suppose.
https://youtu.be/H_1leBD4l5I
AHAHAAHAHAHA. Canada is like a diabetic patient that is living off and addicted to 100 years of Liberal treacle and is now paying the costs by losing a toe, then a foot then a leg then the other leg etc. We had it so good here and we ruined it all. Serves us right. I see no hope but an end to this dysfunction and a new structure rebuilt in the ruins. Let’s just hope a CPC is not at the helm when it all goes down because the looney left and the media will forever blame them. Then again, I don’t care anymore.
Forward.
Cannot help but cheer.
The dole bludgers and freeloaders have all loudly stated,”Government can’t go broke” “Welfare cannot end”..
Yet history denies their faith.
Can Ahh Duh is broke and more broken every day.
As the residents awaken to the horror we have drifted into,the effete elites attempt yet another get rich quick scheme.
Currently money printing and immigration,a winning combination..
Otherwise known as debasing both the countries money and the value of citizenship..
After a mere 3 years our replacements can vote to divert our stored wealth to their ends…
For the “Old Stock” tax cows are too worn out and impoverished to replace themselves..time for some new stock..
Yes indeed.
The wage slavery of this Brave New World,is a feature not a bug.
Layer upon layer of entitled parasite,grinding the outcasts to pulp.
We have generational civil servants and politicians..
And because we value the extra wealth and comfort that this civil technologically enhanced society provides us,,we are extremely loath to smash it..
And there in lies our weakness.
For every producer knows the cost of the “Free government Services”.
Most of the nonproductive have no idea at all.
Yet an individual cannot fight the institutional thieves and bandits,for they have your money and all the time in the world,you have to eat..
We cannot win for losing once the institutes are corrupt.
So we move,away from the most corrupt locations and cities die as we watch..But the looters follow us as they cannot produce anything of value..
The history of Western Canada is a beautiful example of this.
We,Independent Nation of the West,are going to need a militia,for the Confederated Kleptocracy of Can Ah Duh cannot stop stealing.
For if they cease to steal,they cease to be.
And we need to learn our history,for governance attracts thieves..Pools of OPM are the drug of choice for do-gooders and “helpers”.
We are damned,for we need agreed upon rules,which will require some judgement and enforcement and we will need a army,for undefended wealth is soon stolen.Rich and well ordered communities are easily overrun.
Yet if these necessary common purposes consume too much of our wealth,they destroy our society..
What that magic number is ?
Seems to be 5% or less for once we exceed that the snowball effect kicks in..
Good Government is a LIE.
And we have lived it,as Canada borrowed against a future it deliberately aborted.
NewFoundland is just a boil on the surface of a sick and diseased body.
Now the pundits are shrieking “Plague” when the symptoms have been there for all to see,for decades.
Funny how ,in hindsight, all the old rules make sense.
Those with no skin in the game and those in full conflict of interest should not vote.
Individuals must carry the responsibility to enforce civilization.
“A REPUBLIC,IF YOU CAN KEEP IT”.
Oh Yeah.
Newfoundland and the Atlantic provinces also profited directly from the workers that came to Alberta. For those workers that “commuted”, Canada Revenue Agency decreed that their province of residence was where their families were, down East. So those provinces got the income tax while Alberta picked up the tab for infrastructure, hospitals, etc., for Fort Mac and environs.