Well, when you’re about to impoverish thousands of families, you don’t brag about it.
Oh, Shiny Pony
Who ya gonna believe? The PMO or a private company?
Michel Bonin, senior vice-president of government relocations at Brookfield Global Relocation Services in Ottawa, told The Globe and Mail that each “transferee,” or person moving, is informed about which benefits and “entitlements” they can claim under a Treasury Board directive and then submits receipts to the third-party company, which seeks reimbursement from the government.
or
The PMO further denies that Mr. Butts and Ms. Telford were briefed about which expenses they were eligible to claim. “There was no briefing to Gerry and Katie in this case,” Kate Purchase, Mr. Trudeau’s director of communications, said in an e-mail.
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Is it just me
Or is anyone else really leery of sending money to Ottawa to be ‘managed’? I have a feeling that in the end, we’ll deserve the ‘moron’ label.
Idiots and Math.
Ladies and gentlemen, The Ontario Liberals.
“My work here is done, I’m going to Ottawa to start over.” – Probably Gerald Butts.
Which leads us to, this.
That’s what happened in Europe and it’s exactly what’s going to happen here.
From his words to God’s ears
The media isn’t covering the election. The media is up for election.
Oh, Shiny Pony
Electronic Nicotine Saves Lives
I won’t demonize legislation sight unseen, but I also won’t be surprised if whatever the Liberals propose is punitive, restrictive and ill-advised.
Politicians.
Same neighbourhoods, same friends, same parties, same schools.
What do the Liberals want?
Online voting!
When do we want it? Never!
Via Instapundit
Other People’s Money
Finally running out.
If you’re getting paid for sending $0.80 electricity into a $0.10 market, best hang onto your hat, because if every other jurisdiction that’s tried this scam is any hint you’re about to get shafted. The only problem though for the Liberals is that they expected a PC gov’t to deliver the bad news.
Related: You did it, Ontario! You did it! Crisis averted!
Late night
Was up really early; a dog leaving on a jet plane, so this will have to do until I get more coffee, much more.
No one will be talking about much today except the debate. FWIW (not much), here’s my take:
Clinton is a politician and her experience showed in the late game. Trump controlled the first half, but he let the attacks get to him in the second. He wasted a lot of time blathering about crap no one cares about. As the adage goes, if you’re explaining, you’re losing.
As to how it affects anything? No idea. Personally, I was a little more convinced by Trump because he’s an amateur on that stage. I didn’t expect him to be so, well, reasonable. I expected ‘crooked Hillary’ and other crap from the nomination battles. It didn’t show up.
Trump missed +a lot+ of opportunities, Clinton didn’t and that decided the debate.
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The Debate
Open thread.
BZ to all involved.
Peak Trolling
Showing up to riot
and
Not making friends of your enemies.
The world has too many scientists.
Objective Truth, Scientific Method Are Sexist.
Taking the saying, “Perception is reality” out of the political ‘science’ realm and putting it to work building roads.
Sigh.
Making the computer sing.
New Zealand researchers said Monday they have restored the first recording of computer-generated music, created in 1951 on a gigantic contraption built by British genius Alan Turing.
Meanwhile at iTunes:
JESUS CHRIST: It didn’t just add duplicates — iTunes fucking replaced several hundred songs. On its own. Without so much as asking.
— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) September 26, 2016
Peace?
Colombia and FARC to sign peace deal today.
Mr Santos said the deal with the Farc was fair and that it made those who committed war crimes accountable.
The rebels have agreed to lay down their weapons and the process that will be verified by the United Nations.
“Maybe some of them will hide some guns. That’s a natural thing that happens in these peace processes,” he said.
“But they are going to give up the majority of their weapons.”
Vancouver? What have you done?
Via, DanBC:
Vancouver votes to ban natural gas by 2050.
Oh, of course:
Mayor Gregor Robertson led the charge on the Renewable City Strategy which passed this summer. He is a vocal critic of oil and gas development and was a director Tides Canada from 2002 until 2004.
A wing-nut. More at the CTF.
Robertson wants a 70 per cent cut in natural gas use in new buildings by 2020, and 90 per cent gone within ten years. All natural gas use in Vancouver will be banned by 2050 at the latest.
#NotACult Noooonono.