Looks like we picked a good day to be in Opposition:
U.S. stocks opened sharply lower Friday after a slew of disappointing U.S. data, a fresh plunge in oil to below $30 a barrel and a sell-off in Chinese stocks that added to mounting concerns about slowing global growth.
Oh, you pessimist, Kate.
Powered by unicorn flatulence, our economy can only get better!
Rainbow gumdrops for everyone!
What has the Shiny Pony got to do with it?
This is clearly all Harper’s fault.
/sarc
China’s markets are behind ALL of this …low oil, low commodities, low Baltic Dry Index, lousy markets everywhere else in the world, it ALL traces back to China. Chinese businesses all do their annual yearend Jedi mind tricks with their business loans, inventory ‘adjustments’, etc. etc. in the last few weeks prior to THEIR Chinese New Year which is Feb 8th this year. Until then, China will e the cause of a lot more market turbulence ALL to the downside. If you believe in “buying low”, wait until after Feb. 8th
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wasn’t prime minister selfie’s first official act to give 2.8 billion dollars
in carbon credit blood money to the likes of emperor bongo from the
congo?
in light of the impending financial collapse, can we get that money back?
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Lyle Bert is right. This economic downturn was caused by willfully evil government policies during the reign of Harper terror. The resulting hardship, inequality, social disorder and collapsing economy are all because of him. Now you are trying to blame it on Trudeau. For shame. Without his leadership and sound corrective policies, it would have been much worse.
Only globalist one worlders are concerned about global growth.
“Looks like we picked a good day to be in Opposition:”
Possibly. But I’d sure feel a hell of a lot better if Harper was still running the show and the likes of Trudeau and Goodale were pouting in the opposition seats where they belong.
you forgot the /S end sarcasm command at the end of your message!
When Walmart starts closing stores you KNOW it’s a global slowdown. And what does Walmart sell? …cheap $#!t from China. So let’s review, shall we …China’s biggest customer is closing stores (which they have never done before in such numbers) because their sales are down, which means China’s overall sales are down, which requires fewer commodity imports to make all that cheap $#!t, and fewer containers + less bunker oil to ship all that cheap $#!t, etc. etc. etc. …how’s America’s 7-year ‘recovery watch’ doing under President Oblahblah?
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_WAL_MART_STORE_CLOSURES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-01-15-09-18-12
Yup.
Provides endless juxtaposition opportunities .
Canada Presstitutes as dollar faltered ,then and now.
78cent Under Harper was end of days stuff.
68cent Trudeau is best for Canada.
I wonder what the 40 cent dollar will be hailed as?
Best fiscal stewardship evah?
The “solutions” from our elites and socialist experts are all the same.
Spend more on useless stuff.
Buy welfare voters.Impose higher future costs.
While infrastructure is a public good, infrastructure designed by government,in Ottawa, imposed from on high using inappropriate technology, is damaging to local economies.
The current scheme, of taxing all, centrally, then dribbling money back to communities as the bureaus decree, has destroyed democracy at the local levels.
Government “investments”.
Steal from taxpayer.
Plan endlessly, decide what taxpayer “needs”.
Impose the bureaucratic “cure”.
Wonder why infrastructure remains idle as community cannot afford to operate it and do not need it.
Solution, steal more from taxpayer, provide operating grant.
Respond to angry taxpayers with” Look at the services we give you”.
Even old fashioned infrastructure is destined to fail today.
In the parts of the country where access roads would be normally an improvement, the opportunities are crippled by current rules and regulations.
No road access will solve any development blues, if the development itself is impossible due to eco-nasty regulations, racial hatred and impossible to satisfy regulators.
Think about this;
Currently most every recreation we enjoyed as children is either “unsafe” or criminal.
Pandering to the useless and clueless does not build better communities.
People who have never built anything, do not have the experience and expertise required to know what a community needs. or even recognize what a community is begging for.
For that is what our communities are reduced to, begging the feds.
Time to reset.
Flat tax.
10% paid locally.
Local pays 10% of that to province.
Province 10% to Feds.
Local politics become very important.
Feds and provinces forced to focus.
Two weeks ago everyone was cheering the loonie’s decline because it was good for Ontario manufacturing – where are those cheerleaders now? Is downtown Toronto nervous – I hope so – Alberta is being eviscerated by Trudeau and Notley – nothing says success like unemployed workers and a vanishing tax base.
What the hell happened? Around election time I thought the US was outperforming Canada by a wide margin. You mean it wasn’t true? A lie to support the election of a Liberal government? Who would have ever suspected it?
someone somewhere is making a sh*tload of money shorting the Canadian dollar.
This reminds me – I need a haircut.
I read a comment from Trudeau on the “recent” job losses in Alberta. Don’t worry it is apperantly on his radar. If they can just get rid of Brad Wall in Saskatchewan and take a few more selfies it will all be fixed. Sunny ways !
Sooner than later people are going to demand action from Trudeau on this. Actually demand something, anything.
From what I saw with his meeting with Mayor Tory, it seems the LIV is still alive and well and hasn’t a clue about the crapstorm happening and will continue to happen in a worse way.
How memorable and momentous is a selfie with the guy who helped lose you your job?
It’s really tough to see anything in Trudeau’s platform or what he’s done up to now that gives any reassurance whatsoever that he can manage the economy through rough (or even tepid) waters. At least with Harper I knew there was a moral hazard acknowledgement.
It would be nice to have JT simply acknowledge that this is going to be a HUGE hit against Canada.
I’m worried for myself, the company I work for; my family. Really worried. Times get tough, I economize and properly brace. Not full speed ahead like what the LPC seems intent on.
And one thing that really irks me – I know I’m smarter – much smarter than Trudeau is. That has never been the case with any of the PMs I’ve lived under as an adult.
Out of interest I imported the top 250 companies by revenue in Alberta into an Excel spreadsheet. The data was from 2014. Over 80% of Alberta’s revenue from the top 250 companies comes directly from the oil & gas industry. The largest non oil & gas company was Agrium at #7 with less than half the revenue of #1 Suncor Energy. Alberta Gaming and Liquor was in the top 20, one of only 4 non oil & gas companies. Alberta is a two industry province – oil & gas.
As a last ditch thing, Conservatives warned the voters that electing a Liberal government would cost them. Either voters were not paying attention or did not care. You reap what you sow.
my Liberal buddy keeps saying the village idiot is “trying” to fix the economy. I ask him for examples, actually i told him to go home and get examples in research and let me know, he still hasn’t. I added that if Harper was still PM the left would pissing in their depends, but all is wonderful in the village with the idiot in charge.
Walmart is not the canarie, they are closing down stores that are 10 miles within each other.
Read John Lewis’ link
The stores being shuttered account for a fraction of the company’s 11,000 stores worldwide and less than 1 percent of its global revenue.
More than 95 percent of the stores set to be closed in the U.S. are within 10 miles of another Wal-Mart. The Bentonville, Arkansas, company said it is working to ensure that workers are placed in nearby locations.
This isn’t going to have any effect on the trudeau voter base until Starbucks marks up the price of a vendi to $15.
A case where the headline SENSATIONALIZESA the actual truth.
They are not closing any large Wallymarts, its the much smaller “Express” stores only…….they are like 7-11s in size…….
Prime Minister selfie will be blaming Harper for all the country’s ills for the next four years.Taking a page from Noblamos playbook he will claim nothing is his fault and rack up tremendous debts.
It wouldn’t be Trudeau’s friend George Soros would it?