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Tonight, we see what they were doing with taxpayers’ money back in 1967: here’s The Canadian Pavilion.
That would be the pavilion you walk into to find out about the country outside its doors.
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  1. For anyone who thinks the (western) world is literally going insane, as in, the progressives are actually losing their minds and bringing the rest of us with them, here’s a superb piece, by Gregory Hood, that limns some of the mechanisms/processes. Highly recommended.
    Read it!
    h/t americandigest dot org

  4. We watched on Netflix the other day, Helicopter Canada. Done in 1966, and quite amusing too. Not sure why they never showed this film while I was in school, but it sure brought me back to the days when a kid was excited to see the projector come in from the hall.

  5. The Canadian Pavilion, Expo ’67.
    I remember it fondly. Managed to make it out there once for a visit. It was such a smash hit that Montreal decided to do an encore in 1976.
    Debt? What debt?

    (from Wikipedia)
    The Quebec provincial government took over construction when it became evident in 1975 that work had fallen far behind schedule; work was still under way just weeks before the opening date, and the tower was not built. Mayor Jean Drapeau had confidently predicted in 1970 that “the Olympics can no more have a deficit than a man can have a baby”, but the debt racked up to a billion dollars that the Quebec government mandated the city pay in full. This would prompt cartoonist Aislin to draw a pregnant Drapeau on the telephone saying, “Allo, Morgentaler?” in reference to a Montreal abortion provider.
    The Olympic Stadium was designed by French architect Roger Taillibert. It is often nicknamed The Big O as a reference to both its name and to the doughnut-shape of the permanent component of the stadium’s roof, though The Big Owe has been used to reference the astronomical cost of the stadium and the 1976 Olympics as a whole. It has never had an effective retractable roof, and the tower (called the Montreal Tower) was completed only after the Olympic Games were over. In December 2006 the stadium’s costs were finally paid in full.[17] The total expenditure (including repairs, renovations, construction, interest, and inflation) amounted to C$1.61 billion. Today, despite its huge cost, the stadium is devoid of a major tenant, after the Montreal Alouettes left in 1998 and the Montreal Expos moved in 2005.

    Drapeau was ahead of his time. He never heard of Caitlin.

  7. Good article.
    The people who are out and about “raising awareness” about whatever is popular that month can also be thrown in with the SJWs and the cat ladies.

  8. Oh WOW! Expo ’67! Where did the years go?
    Somewhere, I have (had) an arty-farty slide of that funky red and yellow canvas structure at 14:20.
    1967. A very good year, in more ways than one.
    Thanks for the memories. Makes me misty.
    CAS

  9. CAS: Re: Expo!!
    I’m glad someone liked the video from the National Film Board of Canada!!
    It may have been a great expense to the taxpayer, however nothing, absolutely nothing ever compared to Expo 67 except perhaps the completion of the Trans Canada railroad in 1885.
    I was in Grade 12 that year. My father had opened a new garage so we couldn’t go to Expo. There was however a promotional caravan that went around Saskatchewan to give us an idea of what was at Expo.
    The Liberal government of PM Lester B. Pearson was the engineer of this great feat. The last viable Liberal government we’d ever see. There was a feeling of National Unity that we’d never seen before. The would soon end when Trudeau and his henchmen arrived in Ottawa. World’s Fairs were worldly events, and this was indeed a worldly event. Keeping in mind that the nearby New York World’s Fair (1965) had been a great success, thus the crowds were ready for EXPO. Here is a list of World’s Fairs; sad to see that there is only one in Milan, Italy this year.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world's_fairs

  13. O’narcissist: Next year in 2016.
    Yasser Obama beats Jimmah Carter.
    …-
    “Obama: ‘I am the closest thing to a Jew that has ever sat’ in the Oval Office” (WT)
    …-
    “President Obama’s favorability is now below that of all his other living predecessors in the White House, including former Presidents”
    “Answer a survey question to continue reading this content”
    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/3/obama-favorability-below-all-living-white-house-pr/

  14. So here in Ontario the Wynne dictatorship is about to sell off 60% of something we the people own, Hydro One, then has the gall to tell us prices will go down? Says who? Are the buyers not going to want to make a big profit for their new investment?
    It’s about time the opposition parties refuse to sit in the legislature, cause a bit of mayhem on our behalf, they have no power anyway, she will not listen to them or anyone, even the experts who are telling her it’s a bad move.
    Ontario, governed by the worst, most corrupt government in the history of the province as they keep on putting people out of their homes with high utility bills and taxes. Thanks to all those fools who voted brain free for the Liberals we are going over the cliff as assets are sold to pay the debt they created to keep themselves in power.

  16. Boy or boy, is the good doctor author of the article below going to open a can of liberal worms.
    Not only does Dr. Paul R. McHugh consider changing sexes “biologically impossible,” he thinks being what is popularly called “transgender” these days is actually a “mental disorder.”
    Read more: http://www.bizpacreview.com/2015/06/03/former-johns-hopkins-chief-of-psychiatry-being-transgender-is-a-mental-disorder-biologically-impossible-210202#ixzz3c6NP1o3N

  17. EBD, I did read the article and the author is right. In some ways the article is also related to the content of my post @ 10:03.

  18. AGW RIP.
    H/T Liberal Wynnetario:
    “A Hydro One sale will likely kill a planned review of the program.”
    …-
    “Crisis averted as Ont. smart meter explodes next to gas line”
    “Veronica Onyskiw woke up to the sound of her dog growling and…”
    http://cnews.canoe.com/CNEWS/Canada/2015/06/03/22433556.html
    …-
    “Solar power
    Solar plane, parked in Japan, suffers further setback as wind clips its wing
    Solar Impulse damaged as it sits on the ground waiting for better conditions to continue round-the-world attempt using only the sun’s rays for power”
    “… attempting to flying Solar Impulse around the world without any fuel – just the sun’s rays – to propel him.”
    http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/04/solar-plane-parked-in-japan-suffers-further-setback-as-wind-clips-its-wing

  19. AGW RIP.
    V-indication for Ezra.
    …-
    “BREAKING – EPA: Fracking poses no ‘widespread, systemic’ harm to drinking water”
    “Ouch, that’s going to leave a mark.
    Via Politico – A much-anticipated EPA report on hydraulic fracturing hands a victory to the oil and gas industry by concluding that the extraction process has “not led to widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources,” according to a draft copy of the agency’s release obtained by POLITICO.”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/06/04/breaking-epa-fracking-poses-no-widespread-systemic-harm-to-drinking-water/
    …-
    “Ezra Levant: ‘Not one drop of poisoned water'”
    “The Environmental Protection Agency has found no proven cases of fracking-related contamination. Exactly zero. Not a single one, anywhere, ever”
    “But the Obama administration has proven itself to be no booster of the fossil-fuel industry, and under Obama, the EPA has been no sleeping watchdog. In reality, they have been active and invasive, particularly when it comes to fossil fuels.
    The track record of Obama and his EPA, in other words, is one of acute, often even baseless, precaution.”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/ezra-levant-not-one-drop-of-poisoned-water

  20. “She said: ‘It is outrageous that our democratically elected governments will not tell us the laws they are making. What has our democracy come to when the community must rely on Wikileaks to find out what our governments are doing on our behalf’
    ‘The irony of the text containing repeated references to transparency, and an entire annex on transparency requiring governments to provide information useful to business, being negotiated in secret from the population exposes in whose interests these agreements are being made,’ she said.”
    http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jun/03/wikileaks-documents-trade-in-services-agreement

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