Friday:
Saskatchewan @ Ottawa: Riders
Montreal @ Calgary: Calgary
Saturday:
Toronto @ Hamilton: Ticats
Winnipeg @ Edmonton: Eskimos
What did you expect?
Trump team plays hardball in NAFTA talks with Buy America demands
The Trump administration proposal calls for boosting the minimum dollar threshold for government projects available for foreign bidders. It would also cap the total amount that Canadian and Mexican companies can receive in American procurement contracts at what U.S. companies get in those countries.
Maybe asking for 20+ States to end their Right to Work laws, or gender equity, indigenous rights and climate change?
Maybe you should try taking the negotiations seriously too, eh, Justin? Because if you eff this up….
Warning Labels
I am at the age where occasionally needing reading glasses has begun to morph into, “Okay…it’s time to go get a prescription for glasses.”
I hate labels.
I hate the 3 point type outlining how the world is going to end if you spill a drop of this on your clothes. Actually that part is just a guess as no known human over the age of 40 can actually read those damned labels.
Now I know where to direct my distaste.
Catt Gallinger is the reason for those labels.
More Angry old women
I guess she’s no longer proud of her country.
Crosby is no idiot.
And some Haligonians need to take more anti-depressants.
That’ll leave a mark.
It’s one thing when the unwashed masses start raising a ruckus about your divisive and insulting policy.
It’s quite another when your peers start dissing you too.
“This new conservative leader will eviscerate (sic) our drama boy and you for years to come,” Schulich wrote. “Is this what you went into politics for???”
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I’m not feeling it.
I’m sure that she had a place to be but if you’re deathly allergic to animals there are only two choices: you get off or they get off and they weren’t the ones being a PITA.
No Debate Allowed
Now we know why the Liberals are killing debate on The Bill to finally break the middle class and call everyone who doesn’t work for the government or large corporations, thieves.
If gov’t talks about it, Canadians will learn more about it and get upset.
“The longer we’re talking about this, the more people are concerned that they will be impacted, which is really raising a fear and not allowing people to be as productive as possible.”
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Hey bud.
You’re the one in bed with them.
Weaver, whose friendly power-sharing deal gives the NDP the votes to stay in power, levelled scathing criticism Wednesday at Premier John Horgan’s administration for giving dozens of taxpayer-paid jobs to party workers and loyal supporters when Horgan used to strongly condemn the same practice under the Liberal government.
#UsefulIdiots
Because its 2017
The Trudeau government came to power calling for more women to get involved in politics and claiming to champion diversity.
Who is John Galt?
What middle-class ‘tax cut’? Your family is probably paying more under Trudeau
I wonder where all the money went? (h/t: CreepyClownz)
Tax Cheats and Thieves
The Standing Committee on Finance is meeting this morning about the proposed changes to the tax system. We should probably just use the working name: The Bill to finally break the middle class and call everyone who doesn’t work for the government or large corporations thieves.
MP Pierre Poilievre and CPAC will be streaming the hearings live here.
Related: Liberals shut down emergency debate on small business tax reform.
Meanwhile in the US, Donald Trump’s Republican Party rolled out a plan Wednesday to reform America’s tax code.
Angry old women.
The election last year sure brought them out.
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“Little Lamb” from Gypsy (2015 London Cast Recording)
On Posturing And Failure
These same [bourgeois] behaviours [derided by the academy]… are even more valuable to people whose social and economic status is poor. Upper middle class families have a lot of social and financial capital to draw on when a kid flunks out, loses a job, gets pregnant outside of marriage, or gets in trouble with the law. For people with less, these experiences are likely to be disastrous and life-ruining. To suggest otherwise is to engage in a monstrous and damaging deception.
Glenn Reynolds on the selfish example of campus radicals. One of these.
Hyperbole Makes It True
Berkeley anthropology lecturer Nancy Scheper-Hughes is referring, of course, to the recent visit by Ben Shapiro. Though quite why Mr Shapiro should be mentioned alongside psychological torture and the violation of human rights remains unclear, and Dr Scheper-Hughes takes care not to offer even a single direct quotation by way of evidence. Instead, we’re treated to some inventive ventriloquism, to the extent that readers are expected to believe that Shapiro has somewhere referred to black people, all of them, as “criminally inclined, drug addicted, homicidal losers.”
Sciencing for Napoleon.
We have to stop stigmatizing obese people because it’s not choice, it’s genes.
This is definitely an example of genes over choice /sarc:
Flint points to the fact that the proximity of a fast food restaurant is associated with how much we consume those foods. And not surprisingly, advertising also plays a part.
The story cites this CNN story from March.
And this is the example of genes:
The monogenic obesity syndromes are very rare, Meyre noted, so rare they may collectively represent only 0.5% of the obese population in Canada, while individually some of these syndromes represent one in a million births.
So 33,000 Canadians are genetically obese and 6.6M people in Canada are obese but it’s totally not their fault because genetics.
I guess the real question should be if Global thinks we’re as stunned as their “seasoned fashion and beauty journalist”.
CFL Picks Week 14
Friday:
Ottawa at Winnipeg: Ottawa barely beat a troubled Montreal team last week. Bombers.
Hamilton at BC: BC’s defence did a decent job last week, their O was pretty bad. Hamilton did nothing against the first Canadian QB who started and won a game in 30 years or something. Lions.
Saturday:
Montreal at Toronto: The Montreal/Ottawa game last week was bad. Really bad. Pick Argos
Sunday:
Calgary at Saskatchewan: Calgary and Saskatchewan played average last week. Riders are at home and they’ve a bone to pick from earlier in the season. Pick Riders.
It’s Probably Nothing.
Canada flagged as hidden $14 trillion credit bubble stokes global crisis fears
The problem is that we paid off those who failed and didn’t jail the criminally negligent the first time around. With out consequences, there are no lessons learned.