Category: Great Moments In Socialism

Dead Rose Country

Keystone Excavating Ltd. has announced it is closing its doors, saying it can’t continue to provide the same quality of work “within the macro business environment in Alberta.”
“The macro business environment has everything to do with gratuitous government policy, increasing cost of doing business in Alberta, and lack of consumer and investor confidence,” the company said in a statement.

Redrose Country

That fresh mountain air. Clears the lungs, focuses the mind, don’t you know.
I’m betting there would have been a lot of communities in Alberta that would have begged for a $27k infusion into the local economy more than Banff needed it.

He didn’t come back for you.

Update below
Canada is not the US.

Start with those two rather salient differences: this is not America, and he is not Trump. Canada has not gone through anything like the serial traumas that the United States has, from the Sept. 11 attacks to the Iraq war to the housing collapse to the financial crisis. We have no parallel to the illegal immigration problem that so divides and defines American politics.

And why didn’t Canada go through the same malaise as the US? Because we had a steady hand at the tiller who knew what he was doing. Lord help us now if Canada is hit with another recession under the new watch.
Reminder, the French debate is tonight. Watch for it on CPAC. A debate where the non-francophones will be making fools of themselves with the exception of one who still hasn’t thrown his hat into the ring. Pride and cowardice come in many different wallets.
Update: Kevin O’Leary to enter Conservative leadership race tomorrow
One day after the French debate; transparent and spineless. Why those are just the qualities I’m looking for in a party leader.

Other People’s Money

If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.*

Britain’s health service is engulfed in a “humanitarian crisis” that requires the support of the Red Cross to use Land Rovers to transport patients, the charity said on Saturday.
Founded in 1948, the National Health Service (NHS) is a source of huge pride for many Britons who are able to access free care from the cradle to the grave.
But tight budgets, an ageing population and increasingly complex medical needs have left many hospitals struggling during the winter season in recent years, prompting headlines about patients being left to wait on trolleys for hours or even days.

h/t Adrian

Red Rose Country

Calgary rec centre eyes turning off arena heaters due to carbon tax;

Turner said operators have estimated the impact of the levy would increase the facility’s annual natural gas bill, which last year was about $60,000, by about 33 per cent without any changes. More troubling is on the electrical side of the bill, also powered by natural gas, which is expected to see an estimated 20 per cent hike on its annual $360,000 bill.

They have their global warming to keep them warm.

Red Rose Country

Alberta’s Minister of the Entitlement: Walking’s for the little people.


Full interview here, question comes up at about the 31:00 minute mark. At 32:15 she admits to flying from Lethbridge to Calgary. Followed by a caller frustrated that her solar panels aren’t paying for themselves.

How Deep, Señor Maduro?

Socialism: it’s going to start working any moment now.

Venezuela’s highest denomination banknote has ceased to be legal tender, in a move that has caused cash chaos and long queues at banks.
Protests against the move led to looting in parts of the country, with shops attacked and roads blocked.
Some cash machines on Thursday were still issuing the old 100-bolivar notes, hours before they expired.
President Nicolas Maduro said new higher-denomination bills would be fully distributed in January.
He has closed the borders with Brazil and Colombia until Sunday to stop “mafias” hoarding the currency abroad.

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