Vancouver is becoming more prominent on all our constitutional tiers because of the pervasive sense that Canadians are being driven out of the most prestigious, picturesque parts of the city by fast-rising prices. Which could just be a matter of Vancouver transitioning to the status of an expensive global alpha city like London — a hemispheric capital, a new Hong Kong to replace the now communist-dominated old one.
I say “just,” but not everyone wants Vancouver to be an offshore Chinese city.
Here, Tell These People Something They Don’t Know About Me
“Welcome, Karl Rove, to the dark side“ (link fixed)
The Moral Case For Fossil Fuels
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We Are All Metis People
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that tens of thousands of Métis and non-status Indians are the responsibility of the federal government, ending a 17 year court battle.
Who’s a “Metis”?
“Métis” means a person who self-identifies as Métis, is distinct from other Aboriginal peoples, is of historic Métis Nation Ancestry and who is accepted by the Métis Nation.”
(Darcey, my friend! We need to talk.)
The Sound Of Settled Science
It was one of the largest, most rigorous experiments ever conducted on an important diet question: How do fatty foods affect our health? Yet it took more than 40 years — that is, until today — for a clear picture of the results to reach the public.
The fuller results appeared Tuesday in BMJ, a medical journal, featuring some never-before-published data. Collectively, the fuller results undermine the conventional wisdom regarding dietary fat that has persisted for decades and is still enshrined in influential publications such as the U.S. government’s Dietary Guidelines for Americans. But the long-belated saga of the Minnesota Coronary Experiment may also make a broader point about how science gets done: it suggests just how difficult it can be for new evidence to see the light of day when it contradicts widely held theories.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
Reader Tips
On the 100th anniversary of his birth, this toe-tapping piece by British composer Denis ApIvor – Serial Piece No.3 for Guitar (performed by Rob MacKillop). And to really get your blood racing – Pavarotti backed by conductor Emerson Buckley, who likewise, would have been 100 years old today.
Tips open.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society
It all started about two weeks ago when Jean Benner took a birthday party group on a tour of the farm and a mother, Kimberly Sherriton of Commack, offered to help place Minnie in an animal sanctuary instead of becoming meat for the Benners…
Mulcaring
He gave his life for multiculturalism;
“(The niqab) hurt us terribly … I can share with you that the polling we did showed we dropped over 20 points in 48 hours here in Quebec because of the strong stand I took on the niqab.”
Even in this admission, Mulcair made it sound as if he had stood up for Rosa Parks, not a Pakistani immigrant telling Canadians how we need to change our laws to accommodate her.
h/t Ken (Kulak)
Laughing Their Heads Off*
Bono Wants To ‘Send In’ Comedians To Combat ISIS.
*Changed the post title. Because, obviously.
Oh, Shiny Prime Minister!
Mr. Dion approved six export permits on Friday covering more than 70 per cent of the transaction, newly released documents show – a decision that represents the most vital step in the Canadian government’s arms-control process. The Liberals have long said they could not interfere with what they described as a “done deal” arranged by the Harper Conservatives.
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The remarkable department of Global Affairs Canada memo, stamped “secret” and obtained by University of Montreal law professor Daniel Turp, who is challenging the Saudi deal in Federal Court, lays bare the Liberal government’s rationale for the mammoth Canadian arms sale.
Canada’s arms export control regime makes it clear that a transaction can only proceed after Ottawa has issued export permits, and the new Global Affairs memo reveals that the Conservatives had only approved minor permits related to the Saudi deal for the export of technical data.
It has fallen to Mr. Dion to approve the vast majority of the transaction and that is what he did last week.
Reader Tips
Tom Jones – It’s Not Unusual. Tips open.
Green This
Amazing what the populace actually wants:
With cheaper gas, the guzzler is making a comeback
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Full-sized pickup trucks represented 18.5 per cent of Canadian vehicle sales in March, compared with the long-time average of about 15 per cent.
Sales of the F-Series pickup by Ford Motor Co. of Canada Ltd. were the highest of any month in the company’s history in March. More than half the buyers of Ford vehicles in Canada last month bought an F-Series.
Sales of subcompact cars have hit the skids. They fell 16 per cent in the first two months of 2016 from year-earlier levels.
Sales of fuel-sipping hybrid vehicles have fallen by 8,000 units in the past three years, Mr. DesRosiers [DesRosiers Automotive Consultants Inc.] said, and Canadians buy about 3,000 electric vehicles a year in an overall market that hit 1.89 million vehicles last year.
The infatuation governments have for electric vehicles and hybrids is “highly misplaced,” he said…
Shiny pony and Leap Manifesters noticing? Time for a serious government crackdown on the people’s will? And boy that middle class sure is feeling the pain:
Canadian auto sales off to ‘dream start’ through March
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What is to be done?
The Stupidity Bubble
At first you may find this distasteful. “Come on Cappy, how can you go after something like charity.” But remember, for anybody who dared to criticize housing or education, they were equally lambasted because “housing should be a right” and “you can’t put a price on education.” But need I remind you of the Great Recession and the problems the millennial generation is facing with their un-repayable student loans? And if you think these are/were problems, just wait till the charity bubble bursts. Regardless, the key point to be made about the “charity bubble” is that its origins hail from the exact same origins as the housing and education bubbles. Mispricing.
But the question is “the mispricing of what?”
And the answer is “the mispricing of stupid decisions.”
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
A group in Saskatoon claims some transit users don’t feel safe on city buses and is trying to find out why. Bus Riders of Saskatoon says people have come forward and reported inappropriate touching by other passengers.
Now, suggestions are being welcomed by the group to help improve transit experiences in hopes of increasing ridership.
If transit was operated by a church, these people would campaign to have the whole system shut down.
Bill’s Wife
Ooo… she’s cranky.
Related: Why do the Clintons have 5 shell companies in Delaware?
In The Mail
Trophies (The Ellandun Wars Book 1)— by J. Gunnar Grey Captain Charles Ellandun lives in two worlds. With NATO’s Rapid Response team, he rescues embassies in trouble and takes drinking water to villages shattered by earthquakes. Between assignments, he stays with his Aunt Edith in Boston, where she sponsors art shows at the local gallery. It’s all very civilized and satisfying… |
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Great Moments In Socialism
The Towel Manifesto – The President of Venezuela has urged women to stop using hairdryers and offered alternative styling tips as the country’s energy crisis continues.
Y2Kyoto: The Green Gestapo
Federal law makes it a felony “for two or more persons to agree together to injure, threaten, or intimidate a person in any state, territory or district in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him/her by the Constitution or the laws of the Unites States, (or because of his/her having exercised the same).”
I wonder if U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker, or California Attorney General Kamala Harris, or New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman have read this federal statute. Because what they’re doing looks like a concerted scheme to restrict the First Amendment free speech rights of people they don’t agree with. They should look up 18 U.S.C. Sec. 241, I am sure they each have it somewhere in their offices.