38 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  2. Former premier of B.C., Bill Bennett, has died at 83. I always liked him; he responded to my letter wishing him the best when he retired. He was a good, sensible man. Unpretentious.

  3. Here’s the money quote from the LA Times article, read it and pass it on to P.M. Trudeau.
    “Authorities said that when he returned to the U.S. in July 2014, he brought Malik with him on a fiancee visa. After a background check by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, she was granted a conditional green card last summer.”
    http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-syed-farook-tashfeen-malik-shooters-san-bernardino-20151203-story.html
    ————————————–
    I’m sure C.I.S.I.S./RCMP Security are already aware of this now. Thus also, more than a little anxious about the influx of 50,000 Syrian Mohammedan government sponsored”refugees” over 2016.
    (Presumably many of Dec/2015 refugees, which are privately sponsored, will be Christian/Yazidi and thus without the Islamist jihadi risk.)
    How many Islamists will slip through with hundreds of thousands more over the 4-8 yr. Liberal term(s) of office?
    Somehow, C.I.S.I.S./RCMP Security are expected to detect what both the F.B.I. and the Dept. of Homeland Security were not able to do in the case of the Pakistani female* jihadi in San Bernardino.
    (What, women, with children, can be Islamist jihadis terrorists, too? Does P.M. Justin Trudeau’s government know that? The MSM can’t admit that, especially not
    with the Gamil Gharbi “honour killing” massacre anniversary coming up on the 6th.)
    Over the next few years, both our security agencies and we citizens will cross our fingers and hope.
    (whoops, but only if a cross isn’t too offensive to Islamists).

  4. One of the best premiers our province ever had.
    His father, WAC, was the best premier this country has ever known, bar none! God, could we ever use a man like him again at the helm!

  5. Larry – judging from the photos of the newly-arrived refugees, don’t think they’re either Yazidi or Christian. Have read elsewhere that the initial determination of refugee status is in the hands of local groups, and they’re Muslim and not willing to give any help to non-Muslims. Interesting that most of the soi-disant “refugees” are Sunni, just like the Islamic State bunch.

  6. Re: Throne Speech.
    As CBC.Ca are contemplating on whether or not they are going to publish my comment, I am reading comments that were made by Tom Mulcair concerning today’s throne speech. Keep in mind that there are 6.4 million people in Canada who live in rural Canada and don’t have posties for the dogs to bark at. We picked230 up our mail at post offices that have been neglected for decades. For 25 years, I drove 12 miles and back to the nearest post office.
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/throne-speech-liberal-trudeau-1.3350618
    According to CBC, ”NDP Leader Tom Mulcair said he was “thrilled” by the commitment to restore relations with First Nations. But overall he called it a “thin” speech with a disappointing lack of commitment to lower the retirement age and to restore door-to-door mail delivery.”
    Funny thing that when I wrote to the Minister responsible for Canada post during the Chretien era to complain about the lousy postal service we got, I was told that Canada Post was at ”arm’s length” of the Gov. of Canada. So why are Trudeau and Mulcair meddling in their affairs??

  7. Except, Al, that one of his cabinet members was jailed for crimes committed while in office – think Robert (Honest Bob) Sommers.

  8. You didn’t have to be that rural to be denied “door-to-door” service. I grew up in a small town where the only options were post box (you paid) or general delivery – and regularly saw the men coming off shift queueing for their mail. Five miles away, a small village got full delivery. Some twenty miles down the road: all mail boxes. So I’m somewhat less than sympathetic with the move to remove all door-to-door service. The question is ask is: and how do you get your food? If you go out for that, you can go out for your mail.
    The big issue, however, is the question of access to the “superbox” sites. If ours were put where I think it would be, in a nearby park next to the current post box, it would be seriously inaccessible for much of the winter. That particular corner ices up every year, to the extent that even posting a letter becomes a hazardous expedition. As more of these sites are established, there need to be rules as to the maintenance of access. And – when the box happens to be near a home – said homeowner should NOT be responsible for keeping the path clear.

  11. Re: Postal Boxes. I’m retired now, and live in a small town. We have a good port office, all boxes are inside a heated facility. However I deal with a company 42 miles for here, an ordinary business letter can take 7 days to get there. This summer, I mailed a cheque to my granddaughter in Calgary. It took 29 days to get there.

  15. Just before marijuana part is a small sentence about taking all hand guns and assault weapons off the streets.
    https://www.facebook.com/GlobalNews/videos/930949656952800/
    Gun control promised by Just-in and LIEberals. [Was this in their campaign promises?]
    The police will finally get your guns, they are thankful for ALL LIEberal voters
    Now, how are they going to get criminals to turn in their guns?
    Now High River type of gun confiscation will be legal … even if you are home.
    .

  16. when paul martino (he of ‘mafiosaesque’ behaviour and reputation)floated the campaign balloon called ‘seize all handguns’ back in, what, around 2002-4? I moseyed over to the local riding hqts of the long forgotten lieberal candidate and quizzed the staff on just wtf did martino think he was doing? putting a chill on the LEGITIMATE firearms trade, namely dissuading the ignorant masses from joining the ranks for fear their spankin new $1000 handgun could be seized? who if anyone would compensate those who already had purchased (including ALL costs, FAC, requisite training etc etc) any number of the verboten objects, what about the fact there would be a rush to sell firearms for fear of seizure and a perfectly coinciding refusal of legit dealers to be saddled with huge to-be-seized inventories etc etc etc.
    they had no convincing responses to the ill-thought-out musings of that ummm, is there a french term? idiote?
    anything? non monsieur nous sommes le gouvernment. nous faisons tout nous choisons.
    yep. time to pay the brand newly minted lieberal mp a visit, see if HE has answers. prob not, there is truly a great deal of ad hoc stuff in that calling.

  17. Mike Harris was Canada’s greatest Premier… or Klein, your choice. Harris since he was needed after the debacle of Bob Rae.
    Note that “religious materials” were found in the crashed car, too, linked above. Had they been Christian, I”m sure they’d have known what translation, font size, red letter, the concordance, how big the maps in the back were, what kind of binding and cover it had been. Since nothing is told, “Religious materials” = Koran.

  18. So it’s official now, we have a PM channeling Robin Hood, taking from those deemed “rich” to give to those deemed poorer which is their interpretation of “middle class”. I’ve got news for Robin Hood wannabe, it ain’t gonna work, this is 2015.

  19. In the posh district of Bytown
    Lives Leisuresuit Larry
    He likes to talk like Robin Hood
    But he’ll act more like Prince John
    To steal from the rich
    And not pass it on

  20. For EBD: where and how do you find the music you propose to readers? Do you spend hours browsing YouTube videos for possible selections or do you simply choose the performer(s) you wish to highlight on a given night? You have such eclectic tastes in music! Tonight’s selection was outstanding. Thank you.

  21. The bigger question yet is who still gets mail? Seriously, do you still send and receive letters? Do you still get bills in the mail? Do you still get magazine subscriptions in the mail? I get home delivery, but if I didn’t I would go to my mail box once a month at most. Not a hardship.
    I remember being in England 25 odd years ago sorting out my deceased grandmother’s estate and it was a bit of a culture shock, because stuff that we do over the phone in Canada they did via letters. I gather that phone calls were expensive but mail was cheap and a letter posted in the morning would get to its destination the following morning, or maybe even the same afternoon. But we have never had, or needed, that kind of postal service in Canada.

  22. Canada Post should be phased out with a program of no new hires. Or go truly public and issue one share to each address (receiver) and a share for every $500 spent in sending mail. Each current employee would be given a few shares and some stock options.

  23. In the small village I lived in growing up we all went to the post office and got our mail inside from our boxes. It was the kind of place we met our fellow villagers for all the latest news.That post office still serves that village. One postmaster and one sorter was all the staff needed.
    Now it’s too much bother to go for the mail a few meters from your residence. Sad. Oh and BTW,someone always got the mail for Grandma and Gramps if they were unable to get it themselves.

  24. larry larry larry, did you forget that in 1972 the hijacking at Beirut airport, were the only Jew was singled out and killed, was committed by a medical doctors, who was a Christian!!!
    Many of the Christians over there are not like the wackjob bible bangers over here

  25. PET Cemetery Report.
    Feature: Liberal Justine’s State of the POT Address & VIP.
    “I did try mescaline one day, and spent eight hours sitting up a tree wishing I were a bird.””
    …-
    “Liberal government’s throne speech promises to legalize, regulate, restrict pot”
    “Gov. Gen. David Johnston delivered the governing priorities of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals in the speech from the throne Friday, including a pledge to “legalize, regulate and restrict access to marijuana.””
    http://cnews.canoe.com/CNEWS/Canada/2015/12/05/22580269.html
    …-
    “Margaret Trudeau”
    ““I smoked pot with the best of them and came to love it,” former Canadian first lady Margaret Trudeau says on page one of her 1979 book Beyond Reason…”
    “Trudeau’s son Justin, the current leader of the LIberal Party of Canada, is speaking up for cannabis legalization, although he’s repeating some reefer madness propaganda about its effects.”
    http://www.veryimportantpotheads.com/trudeau.htm

  26. Ross Thatcher, the last Liberal worth voting for was a good leader for Saskatchewan in the sixties.

  27. Then there is the Liberal Scam where many bureaucrats are loyal to the party — Go to a specified liberal Lawyer — pay base fee — last time I heard it was 20k (2007-2008) — that opens you up to one government contract win — once contract is secured a percentage of the contract worth is paid back to the same lawyer which is acknowledged by the party. The “bribes” are hidden as lawyers fees and involves many prominent Liberal Law firms in Ottawa, The bureaucrat is rewarded and many Liberal people benefit from sure wins of government contracts irrespective of competency and price. There was even stories of “custom generated” contracts to match fun things they wanted to explore without paying for it. This continued to occur even after the Conservatives gained power due to the overwhelming loyalty of bureaucrats to the Liberal Party. I suspect the price is higher now and the cycle replays itself for each new contract.
    God I hate corruption and it exists here in Canada
    Was this ever shut down?
    Worst part was this did not require the Liberals to be in power due to loyalty in the bureaucracy to the liberals
    I first heard of this in 1992 from a Liberal insider.

  29. “Russian military reveals details of ISIS-Turkey oil smuggling”
    This is not surprising in the least. Turkey and you know who appear to be supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, which in turn is the three piece suit arm of IS.
    This aught to heat things up a bit. It is pretty sad when the defender of “western liberal values” appears to be a Russian dictator.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMnl0nO-oCk

  30. No one will be surprised by this article indicating that MSM is one big propaganda machine. The specifics are interesting, however. More people need to be aware as they read all that AGW propaganda which is relentless: http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/12/03/world-class-journlaist-spills-the-beans-admits-mainstream-media-is-completely-fake/ There are still too many people who take media reports at face value . . . this is a particular problem in Canada where there are not credible news agencies to counter the propaganda.

  31. Marx & Mohammed: united in leftism’s no toilet paper.
    …-
    “Saudis, shale and the high costs of cheap oil”
    “The Saudis’ damn-the-torpedoes strategy has triggered economic hell in Venezuela, Libya, Algeria and Nigeria, the OPEC countries whose economies live and die on energy exports.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-commentary/opec-countries-pleas-for-help-ignored-amid-saudi-arabias-low-price-policy/article27618732/
    …-
    “Venezuela Reaches the Final Stage of Socialism: No Toilet Paper”
    “In 1990 I went to a Cato Institute conference in what was then still the Soviet Union. We were told to bring our own toilet paper,…”
    http://www.cato.org/blog/venezuela-reaches-final-stage-socialism-no-toilet-paper

  33. Anyone know of a book that talks of the horrors done to the environment under communism and socialism? Young people won’t shift to conservatism as long as they are convinced capitalism is the worst
    destroyer of the environment. They need to be told under communism you have no recourse for a wrong done you.

  34. Can we have an investigation of ecojustice groups? Who’s funding them, Soros? The thug Tom Steyer? Things are really getting out of hand. Harper was the last defense against this stupidity. I am afraid we are now lost. Canadians have given away the store. Rough times ahead.

  35. And — I have lost all respect Stephen Lewis. His support for the climate change agenda has been purchased. What a tool.

  37. O’narcissist: Mr. & Mrs. Farook, them’s dead Mohammedans, O.
    …-
    “What Obama didn’t do today taken as a sign ‘things MUST be serious’”
    “darlene superville ✔ @dsupervilleap
    .@WhiteHouse says @POTUS was briefed on investigation into #California shootings, he also skipped usual Saturday golf game and stayed in”
    http://twitchy.com/2015/12/05/what-obama-didnt-do-today-taken-as-a-sign-things-must-be-serious/
    …-
    “President Obama to deliver rare Sunday night address on terrorism, ISIS, gun control”
    “Word is that President Obama skipped his Saturday golf outing (but not last night’s “holiday reception”) in order to meet with his national security team regarding the mass shooting at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, Calif., that killed 14 and injured more than 20 on Wednesday.
    The president was scheduled to appear tomorrow night at the Kennedy Center Honors but will instead deliver a rare Sunday night address to the nation, which will likely comprise 10 percent terrorism and 90 percent gun control.”
    http://twitchy.com/2015/12/05/president-obama-to-deliver-rare-sunday-night-address-on-terrorism-isis-gun-control/

  38. Gabby, about a third of the time I post songs (if not the particular artist/performance/recording) I’m already familiar with, and like. I do spend a lot of time browsing Youtube for other material, but not randomly: shortly after I started doing Reader Tips I began to compile what’s now a (very) large list of channel subscriptions, managing them carefully by unsubscribing particular ones and subscribing to new ones based on what I considered to be the quality of the channels and the taste of the proprietor. My subscriptions reflect a very wide variety of all sorts of music rather than a particular style or genre.
    Until recently (about two weeks ago) YouTube had an “all activity” option on the “subscriptions” page showing you what videos your subscriptions had favourited or added to their playlists, etc. Because I’d carefully juried/compiled/edited my subscriptions over the years, this “all activity” feature was a tremendous resource, and a portal to a lot of music I wasn’t familiar with, including a lot of European oddities. It’s really too bad that Google removed this feature.
    So, at least as far as music goes, I guess it’s a combination of songs I know, songs or artists my friends and commenters have pointed me to, music I read about, or hear, and then look into, stuff I stumble across via subscriptions, and sometimes it’s just stuff that just strikes me as (black humourously) funny in a particular context, like the three federal election night selections.

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