Yup. Dominion Day it is. To hell with Lester B Pearson and PET.
I used to have respect for Pearson, but, after the last 4 years, I’ve come to see that much of our current mess started while he was PM. He was the one that inflicted PET on us because he wanted to keep Quebec happy due to the FLQ’s shenanigans.
Well, the HBC flag get’s hoisted tomorrow.
“He was the one that inflicted PET on us ”
Nope. Our electorate can take sole credit for that….and more than once. A significant portion of the electorate away back then was just as shallow and stupid as its children and grandchildren are today.
Pearson was the one who brought PET into his cabinet after Guy Favreau resigned after the Lucien Rivard affair. He did that in order to maintain a token Quebecois presence.
After Pearson stepped down as PM, the Liberals chose PET as party leader. The country went downhill ever since. If Pearson hadn’t put him on a pedestal, he might have remained a backbencher and nobody in western Canada, except for the MPs that were sent there, would have heard of him.
No, thanks, Mr. Pearson. You did Canada no favours by doing that.
“he might have remained a backbencher and nobody in western Canada,”…..etc
With all due respect, if I may weigh in and add, Pierre Trudeau never was a “backbencher” per se.
It seems our Federal Government had all kinds of unelected advisors contributing to Canadian affairs.
After Pierre Trudeau became a lawyer but prior to becoming an MP, he was an advisor to the Canadian Privy Council. After he ran in the Outremont riding in ’65 he then became Pearson’s Parliamentary Secretary then became the Justice Minister.
Similarly an unelected lawyer, Guy Favreau in 1955, was Assistant Deputy Minister of Justice. He then became MP (Papineau*) from 63-’67.
(*Papineau riding…how interesting )
I stand corrected about PET’s former position.
The fact remains, though, that Pearson’s elevating of PET contributed to making him PM and, ultimately, ruin our once-great country.
@2:32 pm
“The fact remains, though, that Pearson’s elevating of PET contributed to making him PM and, ultimately, ruin our once-great country.”
Yes.
Too bad the old man had children.
Pearson also gave the civil service the right to collective bargaining.
“Dominion Day it is”
Great Leader Trudeaux the 1st made the change to Canada Day in October 1982 during his final reign of terror.
BTW Prior to the adoption of the red Liberal flag Canada’s official flag was the Union Jack and it was the Union Jack we daily raised at every school and post office across the land.
Happy Dominion Day everyone.
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I’d be in a more festive mood but I see little to celebrate as we don’t have a country any more. Thanks for nothing, Prinz Dummkopf.
I agree. Not much to celebrate in western Canada at this time. Although, to be fair, we could be like Venezuela.
I was at my house in NE B. C. a week ago to continue working on settling my father’s estate. That part of the country is well on its way to becoming Venezuela North.
Two of its main industries have been crippled. The oil and gas business is trying to stay afloat, due to the policies of Prinz Dummkopf and John-Andrew Horgan-Weaver.
Then, as I posted a few days ago, the Louisiana Pacific OSB plant in Fort St. John is closing for good in less than 6 weeks and Canfor’s shutting down for at least two months, pending “re-evaluation”. If the latter does resume operations, it’s a sure bet that it’ll be with fewer people. We can credit Prinz Dummkopf and his “gender-balanced and diversity-strengthened” NAFTA nincompoopery for nearly 200 people losing their jobs.
I’ve spoken with people in Fort Nelson and the joke up there is that the last person to leave town should switch off the lights.
And, thanks once again to Prinz Dummkopf, any canola farmers up there are likely looking at a bleak year, even if the harvest is good.
All that affects me personally as I’m having a hard time selling off what’s in my house and garage. Nobody in town is going to buy anything if they don’t have any money to spare. Most of the money I do make from selling something goes back into the house to pay for expenses and repairs while I’m there.
You forgot to mention Dummkopf putting all those illegal pot growers out of business. Actually, since there were quite a few in BC, I suspect that that also has an impact on the local economy.
If the west stays in Canada we will be venezuela part two.
SUMMER RAIN
A break in the heat
away from the front
no thunder, no lightning,
just rain, warm rain
falling near dusk
falling on eager ground
steaming blacktop
hungry plants
thirsty
turning toward the clouds
cooling, soothing rain
splashing in sudden puddles
catching in open screens
that certain smell
of summer rain.
– Raymond A. Foss
Happy Busted Dominion Day
(Try to have an okay day)
If you look towards the south during the night, the brightest object in the sky (about 1.5 hand-widths above the horizon, if you stretch out your arm) is Jupiter. As I’m writing this, the 4 Galilean moons are all on one side. During the course of the evening, if you fancy staying up much later, you will see the innermost one, Io, changing position from one hour to the next.
I should have mentioned earlier that I was using a spotting scope for my observations.
Since my last posting, Io came out further from Jupiter, so it was clearly visible.
The coolest thing about watching the Jovian moons is you can see them change position in one night of observing. With a small scope and a keen eye, you can even see the shadow the moons cast on the clouds, as they pass in between the sun and the planets atmosphere.
Saturn is also visible, with a favourable ring tilt. It’s slightly dimmer, and trailing Jupiter along the ecliptic. If you stay up really late or get up really early, briliant Venus precedes the sunrise..
Keep looking up!
I’ve seen Saturn’s rings through my reflector telescope and, yes, it is a spectacular sight. Seeing it against the black background of space puts the size of the solar system into perspective. Seeing the images of Saturn taken by the Voyagers and Cassini is nice, but one doesn’t get a sense of just how far away it is.
As for the Jovian moons casting shadows on the clouds, neither of my instruments are able to show that. The best I’ve been able to do is actually see the cloud bands but that was when I had good viewing conditions. I’ll probably have to leave the city to see that again because of all the light pollution I have to put up with.
Wonder if Quebec celebrates the day with any great hoopla since Dominion Day officially became Canada Day?
Where will Trudeau’s socks be on display today? They’ll have to be red patterned with maple leaf flags of course.
Happy Dominion of Canada Day!
No they do not. I was in Montreal a few years ago for Canada Day. It is moving day (1st of every month). The Fed’s have some sort of celebration in a park and a cake. A handful of Chinese attend, but French Quebecers do not. A sorry looking group of Separatists have a rally in another park — old, disabled and a few disaffected youth. The big holiday in Quebec is St. Jean Baptiste.
Yes, Ste. Jean Baptiste is their big bash and a big draw for our political leaders as well.
And half the ignorant f**tards think St Jean is French, le.
They call it the Fete National since they pretend to be agnostic. I’ve always called it Johnny Baptist Day.
When 12 MPs voted for the change and nobody challenged the lack of quorum. Was Scheer in charge?
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) claims it is owed $11 billion in unpaid taxes by Canadian Corporations in 2014 alone. CRA estimates total unpaid taxes for 2014 were $26 billion. See, for example …
In the above link 2 millennials try and unravel this dark secret about corporate tax avoidance. The female host talks about getting emails from CRA. They never email, but I diverge from the story.
The two biggest court cases regarding tax evasion (in Canada) are BMO and Cameco. CRA lost both decisions. In the case of Cameco, CRA claimed the company set up companies explicitly to avoid paying corporate tax in Canada (which is not a crime by the way). CRA called the scheme a “sham”. CRA claimed $2.2 billion in unpaid taxes.
What interested me about the Cameco case most was how it was reported in the media. If you Google “Cameco and CRA in court over taxes” most of the links are prior to the court decision and consist mainly of CRA claims and calls of unfairness by fair tax activists. Once the decision was made public there seems to be no follow up or discussion – until now where the CBC is regurgitating the CRA claims of widespread corporate tax avoidance in Canada. Here is the decision …
The most relevant part of the testimony is where a former Cameco executive explains why Cameco set up overseas operations in the first place.
Q. What were your conclusions regarding how Cameco could minimize its tax expense?
A. Well, we had a choice which — you know, I had had opportunities before, comparable. The company Cameco had a choice to make. With these new opportunities, such as HEU and offshore purchases and such, we could continue to run the company Saskatchewan focused. Everyone would remain in Saskatoon. All of this material would be brought back in to Cameco Corp., the Canadian parent. It would be sold through them and all that activity would be as it had always been. Everything ran through Cameco. Then nothing really would have changed. I would have the same tax bill. The same items would be included in the tax calculation as it always had been, so nothing would have changed.
But then I’d turn around and say, “Well, from a cost reduction perspective, I haven’t done anything. What can the company do? What can Cameco do to change that?” And the idea came up to say, well, in particularly the HEU material, it’s Russian. It’s equivalent over the life of it to about 80 million pounds for Cameco, which is a very substantial uranium mine. It had no connection to Canada. Why bring it here, subject that uranium to Canadian tax when it never was from Canada in the first place?
So that started me down the road of saying, “All right. If you move the HEU material — or if you don’t move it. If you put the HEU material offshore so that it never, in the first place, becomes part of the Canadian company, if you make your third-party purchases other than that offshore for material that’s never part of Canada, all of that material, then, is not part of the Canadian tax system. So that was the start of it.”
Cameco set up a company in Switzerland to buy uranium from Russia so that it did not have to bring the Russian uranium back to Canada and pay Canadian taxes – perfectly legal. This means that CRA was in error – the taxes they claimed were owed were not in fact owed. But no one challenges CRA in the media when it comes to corporate taxes. No one will challenge the bogus $11 billion in unpaid taxes from 2014 alone.
Laffer curve anyone?
In my own company I have had several run-ins with CRA, including interest on interest penalties which remained after the initial penalty was removed. Not large amounts but very irritating. Then last year I was arbitrarily reassessed for 2 tax years and had to send hard copies of several invoices I had paid which showed the HST numbers of the companies, the amounts, and the cancelled cheques. I think 20-30 invoices in total. It took me awhile to find them as they were from 4-5 years ago.
All this CRA bullying led me to pay much closer attention to my corporate taxes and HST payments. The result for me this year has been lower corporate tax paid and higher HST refunded. Sort of the opposite that CRA intended, I would think.
“interest on interest penalties which remained after the initial penalty was removed.”
We’ve had trouble with that too. In January 2019 unbeknownst to us, CRA converted our business to quarterly payments for payroll deductions. We mistakenly made our regular payment in February which somehow became lost in the system. Long story short we were charged penalty interest on a payment that wasn’t due.
The bank we deal with reimbursed us the money even though none of the screw-up was the bank’s fault. It looks like financial institutions simply cover for the screw-ups at CRA and go along to get along.
At least CBC covered the BMO decision which prevailed over CRA for $288 million in losses due to the appreciation of the CAD over the USD.
Toronto Star editorial reminds us this Canada Day, that Nazis are running rampant in Canada. Don’t be a Nazi, join Team Trudeau! -This message approved by UNIFOR Canada.
In the court battle between Cameco and CRA, Cameco prevailed and was awarded court costs representing 35% of actual costs or $10.25 million.
Trudeau is vilifying John A. Macdonald to score cheap political points
The Trudeau government’s latest attempt to re-write Canadian history and run-down Canada’s first Prime Minister hit close to home… Sir John A. Macdonald’s one-time home, to be precise.
Mere days before this Canada Day – a holiday made possible by Macdonald’s Confederation determination – the Trudeau Liberals announced they would be re-casting Macdonald’s narrative as part of an ongoing renovation of Bellevue House in Kingston.
Could well be, but his handlers would prefer we all sing the other.
The French have Bastille Day. The Americans have Independence Day. We used to have Dominion Day, and I still celebrate it, though I wonder why it was necessary to change it. Enjoy the holiday everyone! And be safe.
‘Special’ LGBT-Edition Oreos Indoctrinate Kids About Trans Pronouns
July 1, 2019 By Joy Pullmann
Oreo cookies, a division of international foods giant Nabisco, announced yesterday a “special” LGBT edition that includes lectures about how to use transgender pronouns.
I guess it is Christies, Dare, or Keeblers cookies from now on. Nabisco, like Gillette, can shove their products where the sun don’t shine.
Being forced to accept societal norms is one thing, promotion is another thing.
What’s to celebrate, really? The coat of arms on the Red Ensign, displayed the symbols of England, Scotland, Ireland, France & Canada, but thanks to less than a quorum of anti-Canadian Liberal politicians bent on erasing our history we have a flag that symbolizes everything Liberal and nothing Canadian. Dominion Day which celebrated the formation of the Dominion of Canada, was abolished and became a milque-toast, Federal Stat Holiday, in 1982 thanks to another anti-Canadian, named Trudeau. Now we see the faux feminist anti-Canadian, Justin butcher our National Anthem & is doing everything to make Canada a post-national, 3rd world, shite hole, back water, country, where it’s illegal to complain about.
So, what’s to celebrate, really?
We Canadians have work to do this October, and we know it.
I feel a little as though we are on the receiving end of a tag team. First, Pierre T takes a few good kicks at our traditions, and then Bent Twig, Justin, says we don’t have any traditions and we should all be replaced with people from the Middle East.
Here are direct quotes from the Ontario Court of Appeal ruling on the constitutionality of the Federal carbon tax:
“There is no dispute that global climate change is taking place and that human activities are the primary cause.”
“The uncontested evidence before this court shows that climate change is causing or exacerbating: increased frequency and severity of extreme weather events (including droughts, floods, wildfires, and heat waves); degradation of soil and water resources; thawing of permafrost; rising sea levels; ocean acidification; decreased agricultural productivity and famine; species loss and extinction; and expansion of the ranges of life-threatening vector-borne diseases, such as Lyme disease and West Nile virus. Recent manifestations of the impacts of climate change in Canada include: major wildfires in Alberta in 2016 and in British Columbia in 2017 and 2018; and major flood events in Ontario and Québec in 2017, and in British Columbia, Ontario, Québec and New Brunswick in 2018. The recent major flooding in Ontario, Québec and New Brunswick in 2019 was likely also fueled by climate change.”
Many, probably most, of these claims clearly and demonstrably run counter to well documented main-stream scientific evidence. This raises many questions, including:
How did Canada’s Ministry of Environment and Climate Change become so thoroughly politicized as to endorse these obviously false claims?
The evidence was “uncontested” – where hell were the Conservatives? Where was the press (rhetorical question)?
This case will be appealed – is anyone going to do a detailed point by point rebuttal of these “facts?”
“The evidence was “uncontested” – where hell were the Conservatives? Where was the press (rhetorical question)?”
Good question! CPC too busy pursing their lips sucking up to the Dauphin, and repeating “me too”. The press, well we know they are counting their new found cash.
Well the judges were in factual error as there is dispute, whole lot of it. Isn’t this outside of their purview? I would call thgat statement alone as a reason for appeal.
How did Canada’s Ministry of Environment and Climate Change become so thoroughly politicized as to endorse these obviously false claims?
Because in Canada, this is a a project of the federal bureaucracy, with people like Suzuki, also on the public dime, acting as cheerleaders. I was talking, back in the early ’90s, with such a bureaucrat and he stated that “now it is all climate change” referring to the justification for resources and where his department was headed.
That bureaucrat is probably now soaking up his fat, index-linked pension at my expense. Grrrr# There aren’t enough lampoons!
Well these AssClowns rendering that utter pile of Pure BS judgement are Liberals arent they.? Is any one surprised.?
Its not just the Liberal Party, its the entire apparatus of the Federal Govt that has been infected with this virulent DISEASE of Leftism – Trudeaux ism . And its not something that is likely to EVER change.
And why on this Day in Particular, I will not fly the Liberal Flag, Partake in any of the BS. I, like many here, want a new Country.
Alsaskitoba….?? (I woulda added NWT/Yukon…but I’m not that good of a “experimental linguist” to accomplish that)
I am making a point of spending today far away from the crowds of young hooligans who’ll be wandering downtown Ottawa all day, drinking till they either fall down or turn on each other. I have come to loathe Ottawa’s annual orgy of drinking to its own damnation and to the destruction of British liberty.
Happy Canada Day my dog’s arse. Pray it’ll be the last before President Trump sends the Marines north to finish off the Chinese puppet state on America’s northern border. Now THAT will be worth toasting.
Hopefully this will be our last one.
COULDA HAD MAX!!!
HAR! There you are Ms. McMillan!!
The LibCons are getting desperate so let’s see what Max been tweeting.
Happy Canada Day to you and all you love.
Maxime Bernier Retweeted
Greg Roy
@GregRoyPPC
Replying to @JazzDilawari
I don’t know where people get the idea we’re racists. I’m a native Canadian and I’ve never felt anything but welcome in the PPC and proud to represent the party in Oshawa.
People’s Party of Canada is not a racist party and it’s not promoting a particular religion and a race.PPC is for all the Canadians and for all the races and religions who prefer Canada first and i am a proud Sikh who feels proud to be part of PPC
It’s Dominion Day, and BREAKING NEWS! CBC News is broadcasting the Canada Day celebrations, and the Rt. Hon. Justin Trudeau and the Rt. Hon. Julie Payette graces us with their regal presence. There are a few teenage- girl screams as Trudeau shakes a few hands — with CBC cameras in tow. The two co-hosts for this wondrous celebration are an aboriginal woman and a black male Quebecker, and the first things out of their mouths are tributes to homosexuality and our aboriginal culture. Looks like a great program coming up.
Merry Canada Day!
I stay home, BBQ in the backyard, daydream that the Snowbirds drop ordnance across the river as they turn over K-Bec… heard them just a short while ago.
I’ll have to grit my teeth later today with the in-laws spewing semi-liberal shyte (they know where I stand) but I’ll pound back several gallons of beer knowing that if SHTF I’ve got food, water, a genny, gas, guns and ammo.
Happy Dominion Day. Keep the peace. Stay free. Stay vigilant.
Gee, even Trudeau’s CBC commented on how Groper turned his Canada Day speech into an election promo for the Liberal Party.
In observance of Prinz Dummkopf’s sunny ways, we’ve got a climate emergency here in Edmonton. It’s raining enough that visibility is about 2 km.
Now that we have a climate emergency, will there be different grades of it? So, let’s see, we could have the following:
– regular,
– extreme,
– super ultra extreme,
– etc.
I’m sure Climate Barbie would be excited at the possibilities and endless opportunities for extracting even more carbon tax from us.
ha ha!
That gouging extortionate politician Climate Barbie could become an opposition backbencher or like homeless Barbie, if she’s not careful, like: https://youtu.be/mUYVQn5bSX4
Prefer this one , doesn’t feature subsidized has been comics and is actually worth a chuckle. Climate Barbie – This Is Your Future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07wB7sUhgAA
Heh, heh, Heh!
While I live in Ontario, I would like to wish everyone in Newfoundland and Labrador, “A Happy Memorial Day” in honor of the sacrifice of the Newfoundland Regiment at the Battle of the Somme on this day in 1916.
I predict, Trudeau-phobia,(fear of a political narcissist destroying the nation-state of Canada), will make the official list by this fall. Unofficially, it’s at epidemic proportions, even now.
More CBC promotion of “diversity”, but oddly, this event does not seem to include many women. The top picture has a couple of non-Muslim women– I guess enthusiastic progressives, but where are the hijab women? Pictures lower down do seem to suggest that this is either men-only, or segregated. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/canada-day-celebrations-1.5196570
A commenter notes that the CBC did not cover his church’s Canada Day celebration. Too many women probably,
☆ Coming to a theatre near you –
In the sound track of Tarantino’s new movie, a forgotten oldie but goodie, called “Grab the old Ladies”, no just kidding: https://youtu.be/U5va1iaLj2M
Sounds like Canada
Outrage in France after civil servants were paid to do nothing for 25 years
While I do like the maleness of men, likely as most women do, I am disinterested, bored, blasé, fatigued, done-in, burned-out, fed-up, and weary of seeing Justin Trudeau’s socks.
That they are a feature about him in photo ops is most unprofessional of the Press. They should cease this nonsense forthwith.
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oh ya, back in the days of the lisping lester b pearson and mr indecisive diefenbaker soooooo concerned about
all dem prairie farmers affording a florida vacation like my dad said.
in what ways have voter choice improved in 60 years? hmmm?
Yup. Dominion Day it is. To hell with Lester B Pearson and PET.
I used to have respect for Pearson, but, after the last 4 years, I’ve come to see that much of our current mess started while he was PM. He was the one that inflicted PET on us because he wanted to keep Quebec happy due to the FLQ’s shenanigans.
Well, the HBC flag get’s hoisted tomorrow.
“He was the one that inflicted PET on us ”
Nope. Our electorate can take sole credit for that….and more than once. A significant portion of the electorate away back then was just as shallow and stupid as its children and grandchildren are today.
Pearson was the one who brought PET into his cabinet after Guy Favreau resigned after the Lucien Rivard affair. He did that in order to maintain a token Quebecois presence.
After Pearson stepped down as PM, the Liberals chose PET as party leader. The country went downhill ever since. If Pearson hadn’t put him on a pedestal, he might have remained a backbencher and nobody in western Canada, except for the MPs that were sent there, would have heard of him.
No, thanks, Mr. Pearson. You did Canada no favours by doing that.
“he might have remained a backbencher and nobody in western Canada,”…..etc
With all due respect, if I may weigh in and add, Pierre Trudeau never was a “backbencher” per se.
It seems our Federal Government had all kinds of unelected advisors contributing to Canadian affairs.
After Pierre Trudeau became a lawyer but prior to becoming an MP, he was an advisor to the Canadian Privy Council. After he ran in the Outremont riding in ’65 he then became Pearson’s Parliamentary Secretary then became the Justice Minister.
Similarly an unelected lawyer, Guy Favreau in 1955, was Assistant Deputy Minister of Justice. He then became MP (Papineau*) from 63-’67.
(*Papineau riding…how interesting )
I stand corrected about PET’s former position.
The fact remains, though, that Pearson’s elevating of PET contributed to making him PM and, ultimately, ruin our once-great country.
@2:32 pm
“The fact remains, though, that Pearson’s elevating of PET contributed to making him PM and, ultimately, ruin our once-great country.”
Yes.
Too bad the old man had children.
Pearson also gave the civil service the right to collective bargaining.
“Dominion Day it is”
Great Leader Trudeaux the 1st made the change to Canada Day in October 1982 during his final reign of terror.
BTW Prior to the adoption of the red Liberal flag Canada’s official flag was the Union Jack and it was the Union Jack we daily raised at every school and post office across the land.
Happy Dominion Day everyone.
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The Trudeau government has an army of left-wing propagandists at its disposal that will be unleashed on social and legacy media come election time.
https://tnc.news/2019/06/28/gordon-trudeau-government-paid-propagandists-far-more-an-issue-than-russian-interference-this-election/
Happy Birthday Dave!
I’d be in a more festive mood but I see little to celebrate as we don’t have a country any more. Thanks for nothing, Prinz Dummkopf.
I agree. Not much to celebrate in western Canada at this time. Although, to be fair, we could be like Venezuela.
I was at my house in NE B. C. a week ago to continue working on settling my father’s estate. That part of the country is well on its way to becoming Venezuela North.
Two of its main industries have been crippled. The oil and gas business is trying to stay afloat, due to the policies of Prinz Dummkopf and John-Andrew Horgan-Weaver.
Then, as I posted a few days ago, the Louisiana Pacific OSB plant in Fort St. John is closing for good in less than 6 weeks and Canfor’s shutting down for at least two months, pending “re-evaluation”. If the latter does resume operations, it’s a sure bet that it’ll be with fewer people. We can credit Prinz Dummkopf and his “gender-balanced and diversity-strengthened” NAFTA nincompoopery for nearly 200 people losing their jobs.
I’ve spoken with people in Fort Nelson and the joke up there is that the last person to leave town should switch off the lights.
And, thanks once again to Prinz Dummkopf, any canola farmers up there are likely looking at a bleak year, even if the harvest is good.
All that affects me personally as I’m having a hard time selling off what’s in my house and garage. Nobody in town is going to buy anything if they don’t have any money to spare. Most of the money I do make from selling something goes back into the house to pay for expenses and repairs while I’m there.
You forgot to mention Dummkopf putting all those illegal pot growers out of business. Actually, since there were quite a few in BC, I suspect that that also has an impact on the local economy.
If the west stays in Canada we will be venezuela part two.
SUMMER RAIN
A break in the heat
away from the front
no thunder, no lightning,
just rain, warm rain
falling near dusk
falling on eager ground
steaming blacktop
hungry plants
thirsty
turning toward the clouds
cooling, soothing rain
splashing in sudden puddles
catching in open screens
that certain smell
of summer rain.
– Raymond A. Foss
Happy Busted Dominion Day
(Try to have an okay day)
If you look towards the south during the night, the brightest object in the sky (about 1.5 hand-widths above the horizon, if you stretch out your arm) is Jupiter. As I’m writing this, the 4 Galilean moons are all on one side. During the course of the evening, if you fancy staying up much later, you will see the innermost one, Io, changing position from one hour to the next.
I should have mentioned earlier that I was using a spotting scope for my observations.
Since my last posting, Io came out further from Jupiter, so it was clearly visible.
The coolest thing about watching the Jovian moons is you can see them change position in one night of observing. With a small scope and a keen eye, you can even see the shadow the moons cast on the clouds, as they pass in between the sun and the planets atmosphere.
Saturn is also visible, with a favourable ring tilt. It’s slightly dimmer, and trailing Jupiter along the ecliptic. If you stay up really late or get up really early, briliant Venus precedes the sunrise..
Keep looking up!
I’ve seen Saturn’s rings through my reflector telescope and, yes, it is a spectacular sight. Seeing it against the black background of space puts the size of the solar system into perspective. Seeing the images of Saturn taken by the Voyagers and Cassini is nice, but one doesn’t get a sense of just how far away it is.
As for the Jovian moons casting shadows on the clouds, neither of my instruments are able to show that. The best I’ve been able to do is actually see the cloud bands but that was when I had good viewing conditions. I’ll probably have to leave the city to see that again because of all the light pollution I have to put up with.
Our patio lights are more interesting.
More babies + more ballots
https://twitter.com/FaithGoldy/status/1145429993087995904
Wonder if Quebec celebrates the day with any great hoopla since Dominion Day officially became Canada Day?
Where will Trudeau’s socks be on display today? They’ll have to be red patterned with maple leaf flags of course.
Happy Dominion of Canada Day!
No they do not. I was in Montreal a few years ago for Canada Day. It is moving day (1st of every month). The Fed’s have some sort of celebration in a park and a cake. A handful of Chinese attend, but French Quebecers do not. A sorry looking group of Separatists have a rally in another park — old, disabled and a few disaffected youth. The big holiday in Quebec is St. Jean Baptiste.
Yes, Ste. Jean Baptiste is their big bash and a big draw for our political leaders as well.
And half the ignorant f**tards think St Jean is French, le.
They call it the Fete National since they pretend to be agnostic. I’ve always called it Johnny Baptist Day.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Jean-Baptiste_Day
“Dominion Day officially became Canada Day”
When 12 MPs voted for the change and nobody challenged the lack of quorum. Was Scheer in charge?
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) claims it is owed $11 billion in unpaid taxes by Canadian Corporations in 2014 alone. CRA estimates total unpaid taxes for 2014 were $26 billion. See, for example …
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/canadian-corporations-owe-up-to-11b-in-taxes-1.5183181
In the above link 2 millennials try and unravel this dark secret about corporate tax avoidance. The female host talks about getting emails from CRA. They never email, but I diverge from the story.
The two biggest court cases regarding tax evasion (in Canada) are BMO and Cameco. CRA lost both decisions. In the case of Cameco, CRA claimed the company set up companies explicitly to avoid paying corporate tax in Canada (which is not a crime by the way). CRA called the scheme a “sham”. CRA claimed $2.2 billion in unpaid taxes.
What interested me about the Cameco case most was how it was reported in the media. If you Google “Cameco and CRA in court over taxes” most of the links are prior to the court decision and consist mainly of CRA claims and calls of unfairness by fair tax activists. Once the decision was made public there seems to be no follow up or discussion – until now where the CBC is regurgitating the CRA claims of widespread corporate tax avoidance in Canada. Here is the decision …
https://decision.tcc-cci.gc.ca/tcc-cci/decisions/en/item/344951/index.do
The most relevant part of the testimony is where a former Cameco executive explains why Cameco set up overseas operations in the first place.
Q. What were your conclusions regarding how Cameco could minimize its tax expense?
A. Well, we had a choice which — you know, I had had opportunities before, comparable. The company Cameco had a choice to make. With these new opportunities, such as HEU and offshore purchases and such, we could continue to run the company Saskatchewan focused. Everyone would remain in Saskatoon. All of this material would be brought back in to Cameco Corp., the Canadian parent. It would be sold through them and all that activity would be as it had always been. Everything ran through Cameco. Then nothing really would have changed. I would have the same tax bill. The same items would be included in the tax calculation as it always had been, so nothing would have changed.
But then I’d turn around and say, “Well, from a cost reduction perspective, I haven’t done anything. What can the company do? What can Cameco do to change that?” And the idea came up to say, well, in particularly the HEU material, it’s Russian. It’s equivalent over the life of it to about 80 million pounds for Cameco, which is a very substantial uranium mine. It had no connection to Canada. Why bring it here, subject that uranium to Canadian tax when it never was from Canada in the first place?
So that started me down the road of saying, “All right. If you move the HEU material — or if you don’t move it. If you put the HEU material offshore so that it never, in the first place, becomes part of the Canadian company, if you make your third-party purchases other than that offshore for material that’s never part of Canada, all of that material, then, is not part of the Canadian tax system. So that was the start of it.”
Cameco set up a company in Switzerland to buy uranium from Russia so that it did not have to bring the Russian uranium back to Canada and pay Canadian taxes – perfectly legal. This means that CRA was in error – the taxes they claimed were owed were not in fact owed. But no one challenges CRA in the media when it comes to corporate taxes. No one will challenge the bogus $11 billion in unpaid taxes from 2014 alone.
Laffer curve anyone?
In my own company I have had several run-ins with CRA, including interest on interest penalties which remained after the initial penalty was removed. Not large amounts but very irritating. Then last year I was arbitrarily reassessed for 2 tax years and had to send hard copies of several invoices I had paid which showed the HST numbers of the companies, the amounts, and the cancelled cheques. I think 20-30 invoices in total. It took me awhile to find them as they were from 4-5 years ago.
All this CRA bullying led me to pay much closer attention to my corporate taxes and HST payments. The result for me this year has been lower corporate tax paid and higher HST refunded. Sort of the opposite that CRA intended, I would think.
“interest on interest penalties which remained after the initial penalty was removed.”
We’ve had trouble with that too. In January 2019 unbeknownst to us, CRA converted our business to quarterly payments for payroll deductions. We mistakenly made our regular payment in February which somehow became lost in the system. Long story short we were charged penalty interest on a payment that wasn’t due.
The bank we deal with reimbursed us the money even though none of the screw-up was the bank’s fault. It looks like financial institutions simply cover for the screw-ups at CRA and go along to get along.
At least CBC covered the BMO decision which prevailed over CRA for $288 million in losses due to the appreciation of the CAD over the USD.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bmo-tax-cra-court-ruling-1.4822676
Toronto Star editorial reminds us this Canada Day, that Nazis are running rampant in Canada. Don’t be a Nazi, join Team Trudeau! -This message approved by UNIFOR Canada.
In the court battle between Cameco and CRA, Cameco prevailed and was awarded court costs representing 35% of actual costs or $10.25 million.
https://decision.tcc-cci.gc.ca/tcc-cci/decisions/en/item/405306/index.do
Trudeau is vilifying John A. Macdonald to score cheap political points
The Trudeau government’s latest attempt to re-write Canadian history and run-down Canada’s first Prime Minister hit close to home… Sir John A. Macdonald’s one-time home, to be precise.
Mere days before this Canada Day – a holiday made possible by Macdonald’s Confederation determination – the Trudeau Liberals announced they would be re-casting Macdonald’s narrative as part of an ongoing renovation of Bellevue House in Kingston.
https://www.thepostmillennial.com/trudeau-vilifying-john-a-macdonald-to-score-cheap-points/
Next thing you know he will change the national anthem to the following.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sh4kz_zhyo
John A.? But a Liberal, Alexander Mackenzie, passed the Indian Act and institutionalized a lot of things Indians whine about.
Ken, nope, that tune is WAY too long to play before a hockey game.
Trudeau probably likes this one better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg22W6oro-U
Could well be, but his handlers would prefer we all sing the other.
The French have Bastille Day. The Americans have Independence Day. We used to have Dominion Day, and I still celebrate it, though I wonder why it was necessary to change it. Enjoy the holiday everyone! And be safe.
‘Special’ LGBT-Edition Oreos Indoctrinate Kids About Trans Pronouns
July 1, 2019 By Joy Pullmann
Oreo cookies, a division of international foods giant Nabisco, announced yesterday a “special” LGBT edition that includes lectures about how to use transgender pronouns.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/01/special-lgbt-edition-oreos-indoctrinate-kids-trans-pronouns/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=76e0f42762-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-76e0f42762-84055819
I guess it is Christies, Dare, or Keeblers cookies from now on. Nabisco, like Gillette, can shove their products where the sun don’t shine.
Being forced to accept societal norms is one thing, promotion is another thing.
What’s to celebrate, really? The coat of arms on the Red Ensign, displayed the symbols of England, Scotland, Ireland, France & Canada, but thanks to less than a quorum of anti-Canadian Liberal politicians bent on erasing our history we have a flag that symbolizes everything Liberal and nothing Canadian. Dominion Day which celebrated the formation of the Dominion of Canada, was abolished and became a milque-toast, Federal Stat Holiday, in 1982 thanks to another anti-Canadian, named Trudeau. Now we see the faux feminist anti-Canadian, Justin butcher our National Anthem & is doing everything to make Canada a post-national, 3rd world, shite hole, back water, country, where it’s illegal to complain about.
So, what’s to celebrate, really?
We Canadians have work to do this October, and we know it.
I feel a little as though we are on the receiving end of a tag team. First, Pierre T takes a few good kicks at our traditions, and then Bent Twig, Justin, says we don’t have any traditions and we should all be replaced with people from the Middle East.
Here are direct quotes from the Ontario Court of Appeal ruling on the constitutionality of the Federal carbon tax:
“There is no dispute that global climate change is taking place and that human activities are the primary cause.”
“The uncontested evidence before this court shows that climate change is causing or exacerbating: increased frequency and severity of extreme weather events (including droughts, floods, wildfires, and heat waves); degradation of soil and water resources; thawing of permafrost; rising sea levels; ocean acidification; decreased agricultural productivity and famine; species loss and extinction; and expansion of the ranges of life-threatening vector-borne diseases, such as Lyme disease and West Nile virus. Recent manifestations of the impacts of climate change in Canada include: major wildfires in Alberta in 2016 and in British Columbia in 2017 and 2018; and major flood events in Ontario and Québec in 2017, and in British Columbia, Ontario, Québec and New Brunswick in 2018. The recent major flooding in Ontario, Québec and New Brunswick in 2019 was likely also fueled by climate change.”
Many, probably most, of these claims clearly and demonstrably run counter to well documented main-stream scientific evidence. This raises many questions, including:
How did Canada’s Ministry of Environment and Climate Change become so thoroughly politicized as to endorse these obviously false claims?
The evidence was “uncontested” – where hell were the Conservatives? Where was the press (rhetorical question)?
This case will be appealed – is anyone going to do a detailed point by point rebuttal of these “facts?”
“The evidence was “uncontested” – where hell were the Conservatives? Where was the press (rhetorical question)?”
Good question! CPC too busy pursing their lips sucking up to the Dauphin, and repeating “me too”. The press, well we know they are counting their new found cash.
Well the judges were in factual error as there is dispute, whole lot of it. Isn’t this outside of their purview? I would call thgat statement alone as a reason for appeal.
How did Canada’s Ministry of Environment and Climate Change become so thoroughly politicized as to endorse these obviously false claims?
Because in Canada, this is a a project of the federal bureaucracy, with people like Suzuki, also on the public dime, acting as cheerleaders. I was talking, back in the early ’90s, with such a bureaucrat and he stated that “now it is all climate change” referring to the justification for resources and where his department was headed.
That bureaucrat is probably now soaking up his fat, index-linked pension at my expense. Grrrr# There aren’t enough lampoons!
Well these AssClowns rendering that utter pile of Pure BS judgement are Liberals arent they.? Is any one surprised.?
Its not just the Liberal Party, its the entire apparatus of the Federal Govt that has been infected with this virulent DISEASE of Leftism – Trudeaux ism . And its not something that is likely to EVER change.
And why on this Day in Particular, I will not fly the Liberal Flag, Partake in any of the BS. I, like many here, want a new Country.
Alsaskitoba….?? (I woulda added NWT/Yukon…but I’m not that good of a “experimental linguist” to accomplish that)
I am making a point of spending today far away from the crowds of young hooligans who’ll be wandering downtown Ottawa all day, drinking till they either fall down or turn on each other. I have come to loathe Ottawa’s annual orgy of drinking to its own damnation and to the destruction of British liberty.
Happy Canada Day my dog’s arse. Pray it’ll be the last before President Trump sends the Marines north to finish off the Chinese puppet state on America’s northern border. Now THAT will be worth toasting.
Hopefully this will be our last one.
COULDA HAD MAX!!!
HAR! There you are Ms. McMillan!!
https://www.change.org/p/frank-vaughan-make-faith-goldy-leader-of-the-ppc-replace-bernier?recruiter=848580902&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition&utm_term=a37c6a21d9034233bd16a5b89d230f19&fbclid=IwAR2vUpRofioee6us88hBYchUFbPnlp0AP7of000JMYmfhe97NWPgqF18LS8
The LibCons are getting desperate so let’s see what Max been tweeting.
Happy Canada Day to you and all you love.
Maxime Bernier Retweeted
Greg Roy
@GregRoyPPC
Replying to @JazzDilawari
I don’t know where people get the idea we’re racists. I’m a native Canadian and I’ve never felt anything but welcome in the PPC and proud to represent the party in Oshawa.
https://mobile.twitter.com/GregRoyPPC/status/1144613427828207616
Maxime Bernier Retweeted
Jaswinder Dilawari
@JazzDilawari
People’s Party of Canada is not a racist party and it’s not promoting a particular religion and a race.PPC is for all the Canadians and for all the races and religions who prefer Canada first and i am a proud Sikh who feels proud to be part of PPC
https://mobile.twitter.com/JazzDilawari/status/1144477414975660038
Maxime Bernier Retweeted
David Millard Haskell
@DMillardHaskell
For Canadians who love their freedoms, but worry they’re slipping away, the
@peoplespca was made to fight for you… and we prove it!
A new video by @Capricious_Meme @LauraLynnTT @MaximeBernier
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B2t_CEWvfeA
It’s Dominion Day, and BREAKING NEWS! CBC News is broadcasting the Canada Day celebrations, and the Rt. Hon. Justin Trudeau and the Rt. Hon. Julie Payette graces us with their regal presence. There are a few teenage- girl screams as Trudeau shakes a few hands — with CBC cameras in tow. The two co-hosts for this wondrous celebration are an aboriginal woman and a black male Quebecker, and the first things out of their mouths are tributes to homosexuality and our aboriginal culture. Looks like a great program coming up.
Merry Canada Day!
I stay home, BBQ in the backyard, daydream that the Snowbirds drop ordnance across the river as they turn over K-Bec… heard them just a short while ago.
I’ll have to grit my teeth later today with the in-laws spewing semi-liberal shyte (they know where I stand) but I’ll pound back several gallons of beer knowing that if SHTF I’ve got food, water, a genny, gas, guns and ammo.
Happy Dominion Day. Keep the peace. Stay free. Stay vigilant.
Happy Canada Day
https://libertychant.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/bh_0auqcmaaiq1n.jpg
Maxime Bernier
@MaximeBernier
Happy Canada Day festivities!
Let’s keep our country
STRONG AND FREE
Gee, even Trudeau’s CBC commented on how Groper turned his Canada Day speech into an election promo for the Liberal Party.
In observance of Prinz Dummkopf’s sunny ways, we’ve got a climate emergency here in Edmonton. It’s raining enough that visibility is about 2 km.
Now that we have a climate emergency, will there be different grades of it? So, let’s see, we could have the following:
– regular,
– extreme,
– super ultra extreme,
– etc.
I’m sure Climate Barbie would be excited at the possibilities and endless opportunities for extracting even more carbon tax from us.
ha ha!
That gouging extortionate politician Climate Barbie could become an opposition backbencher or like homeless Barbie, if she’s not careful, like: https://youtu.be/mUYVQn5bSX4
Prefer this one , doesn’t feature subsidized has been comics and is actually worth a chuckle. Climate Barbie – This Is Your Future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07wB7sUhgAA
Heh, heh, Heh!
While I live in Ontario, I would like to wish everyone in Newfoundland and Labrador, “A Happy Memorial Day” in honor of the sacrifice of the Newfoundland Regiment at the Battle of the Somme on this day in 1916.
Agreed. A lot of sons were lost that day.
Maskophobia, Murderphobia and Bombphobia
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2011/07/maskophobia-murderphobia-and-bombphobia.html
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L- a list of those “triggering” phobias. Is there no an end to it?
I predict, Trudeau-phobia,(fear of a political narcissist destroying the nation-state of Canada), will make the official list by this fall. Unofficially, it’s at epidemic proportions, even now.
Wolf FM 101.5
Welcome to Peterborough Ontario
Thank God for Western Canada
https://thewolf.ca/player/
More CBC promotion of “diversity”, but oddly, this event does not seem to include many women. The top picture has a couple of non-Muslim women– I guess enthusiastic progressives, but where are the hijab women? Pictures lower down do seem to suggest that this is either men-only, or segregated.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/canada-day-celebrations-1.5196570
A commenter notes that the CBC did not cover his church’s Canada Day celebration. Too many women probably,
Sad news in the MLB World:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/angels/2019/07/01/tyler-skaggs-los-angeles-angels-pitcher-dies-27/1622738001/
AOC’s latest news:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/07/ocasio-cortez-says-border-agents-have-been-sexually-threatening-towards-me/
Border Patrol reacts to AOC:
https://youtu.be/vKMcguooDSU
Maxime Bernier
@MaximeBernier
The CBC’s Leftist Propaganda Bureau has decided that Canadians don’t want to hear the @peoplespca message.
Could it be because we’re the only party that will defund them?
And the only one defending free speech and independent media?
Add your comment below their tweet.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MaximeBernier/status/1145789890728202242
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Yukon PPC candidate – Joseph Zelezny #PPC2019 @PpcYukon Replying to @CBCPolitics
You Decide
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-VKRnfUwAAXTAu?format=jpg&name=medium
https://mobile.twitter.com/PpcYukon/status/1145403363548250112
☆ Coming to a theatre near you –
In the sound track of Tarantino’s new movie, a forgotten oldie but goodie, called “Grab the old Ladies”, no just kidding:
https://youtu.be/U5va1iaLj2M
Sounds like Canada
Outrage in France after civil servants were paid to do nothing for 25 years
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/30/outrage-france-revealed-city-toulon-paid-civil-servants-do-nothing/?li_source=LI&li_medium=li-recommendation-widget
Justine Castro proclaims his sexual orientation on his socks.
Zoom in on the socks
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-WD_0IXUAAJ_Ea?format=jpg&name=medium
While I do like the maleness of men, likely as most women do, I am disinterested, bored, blasé, fatigued, done-in, burned-out, fed-up, and weary of seeing Justin Trudeau’s socks.
That they are a feature about him in photo ops is most unprofessional of the Press. They should cease this nonsense forthwith.
Yesterday, I saw a Monarch in my flower garden, no, not Trudeau…
https://youtu.be/UpoP4YSFKGA
Maxime Bernier Retweeted
PPC Calgary Forest Lawn
@PPCCalgaryFLawnOn July 7th, @MaximeBernier will be hosting a Free Stampede BBQ at Calgary’s Pineridge Community Centre from 12-3pm. Come here Max speek and meet his 2019 Candidate Team in Calgary.
Video
https://mobile.twitter.com/PPCCalgaryFLawn/status/1145749370966401024
Hail in Guadalajara Mexico shocks Mexicans…
(and Climate Barbie)
https://youtu.be/svj8Ih7kQFY
Faith Goldy on Post National Canada Day:
https://youtu.be/P5govM8UKqA
oh ya, back in the days of the lisping lester b pearson and mr indecisive diefenbaker soooooo concerned about
all dem prairie farmers affording a florida vacation like my dad said.
in what ways have voter choice improved in 60 years? hmmm?