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  2. EU wants to control the press:
    “A report from the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) found there was an increase in hate speech and racist violence in the UK from 2009 to March 2016.
    Blaming the press, ECRI Chair Christian Ahlund, said: ‘It is no coincidence that racist violence is on the rise in the UK at the same time as we see worrying examples of intolerance and hate speech in the newspapers, online and even among politicians.’
    The report makes a whopping 23 recommendations to Theresa May’s Government for changes to criminal law, the freedom of the press, crime reporting and equality law.
    And despite the report not analysing coverage of the historic Brexit vote, Mr Ahlund saw fit to comment on the UK’s decision to leave the EU.”
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/717627/free-speech-crackdown-EU-report-British-press-hate-crime-violence-terror

  5. Calgary MP Michelle Rempel is slamming Canada’s energy giants for supporting a controversial carbon tax. Good for her, but she seems to be a voice crying in the wilderness, as even some so-called Conservatives voted today to sign the Paris Climate Change agreement. A pox on all of them.
    Companies such as Cenovus, Suncor, CNRL and Shell Canada publicly supported Alberta NDP’s government when it unveiled its climate strategy, which includes a broad-based carbon tax that will be implemented Jan. 1.
    http://www.calgarysun.com/2016/10/05/calgary-mp-michelle-rempel-skewers-energy-giants-over-carbon-tax-support?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=recommend-button&utm_campaign=Calgary%20MP%20Michelle%20Rempel%20skewers%20energy%20giants%20over%20carbon%20tax%20support
    Well I guess we have to expand our boycott. It seems that there are crony lapdog capitalists everywhere.
    Boy, are we ever screwed. And the LIV voters slept on, and on, and will do so until the big bills start rolling in and they have to choose between eating and paying the huge bills.

  7. I think that collaboration is, in reality, reluctant.
    These companies probably know which side their bread is buttered on and, by tossing the ravenous government beast some raw meat once in a while, they try to reduce the final impact. Outright defiance could be far more catastrophic to those companies and, ultimately, their shareholders and their clients.
    Once the Dippers are finally forever consigned to the ash heap of history, there may be enough left of those companies to rebuild and resume doing business properly.

  8. Dear Deplorable Ken:
    I know the feeling!! However, do you believe that a major oil company, given the low oil prices, will pass up an opportunity to increase profits using the Liberal carbon scam??
    My family owned a Shell filling station and a bulk fuel plant back in 1974 when Trudeau Sr. introduced the Metric System. The story was that the new system would attract more international trade because they would ”understand” our new SI system.
    Shell owned all of the retail gasoline and bulk fuel pumps except the bulk truck’s. First they replaced the meters at the filling station, converting from Imperial gallons to liters. That brought the price of gas up. Cost was over $1200 per pump. Then a year or so later, they changed the whole pump, they were about $2500 each. Gas went up again.
    Then they changed the bulk meters. That brought farm fuel up a tad. A year later, they changed the bulk pumps, meters and hoses along with the meter on our fuel truck. Within a very short while, regular gasoline had gone up from 40 cents a gallon to over $1.00.
    We also sold farm chemicals and fertilizer. The same inflation poisoned the other industries. Every time new scales and other metric equipment was needed, prices jumped up. A quart of oil was reduced from 40 oz. to 33 0z (liter) but the price went up. ”Retooling the refinery” they said.
    There was a positive side. It lead to the defeat of Pierre Trudeau and the Liberals by Joe Clark and the Conservatives, and eventually sparked the Reform Party. Hopefully, the Carbon scheme will help defeat Trudeau.
    This whole carbon scheme is to bail Quebec and Ontario out of the mes s they’re in.

  9. While it appears some companies are supporting it , I have noticed some companies are quietly deploying capital outside of Canada. For example trans Canada and Enbridge have both deployed significant capital in the U. S. I think you can expect a lot more .

  11. Let’s not accuse the Conservatives of siding with the government on the Paris Agreement.
    It’s been said some Conservatives voted for the Paris Agreement. Hansard has not yet published yesterday’s vote for us to verify who actually voted yay or nay but according to this http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/parliament-vote-paris-agreement-climate-change-1.3792313 the Conservatives voted against.
    “The Conservatives also tabled an amendment calling for a plan to combat climate change that “does not encroach on provincial or territorial jurisdiction or impose a tax increase on Canadians.” It failed by a vote of 207 to 78.”

  13. This is in my town. We are doomed.
    District exploring interest for potential Lethbridge Islamic Academy
    http://www.lethsd.ab.ca/view.php?action=object&id=38807&stream=Homepage%20News
    Yes we do have two Christian schools that are now funded by the district. The difference though is that the Christian schools pay for their own building. The islamists are getting their building provided. And they only need 60 students to start this for gr 1-6.
    so much for them assimilating

  15. As well and as reported in the Financial Times a few weeks ago, seven major companies, including Shell and Exxon, announced a total of 50 billion dollars in resource investment in four different “stans” countries. I can’t remember all of them, but Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan were two of them.
    The eco-terrorists in charge of many of our provinces and our federal government will not be happy until we are working at A & W or in a equivalent wage facility.
    Captcha “FUD”. Seems appropriate.

  16. Sorry Kate … but if you don’t have a “cone track”, “future radar”, or 85 alternate “predicted storm tracks” plotted by every University in the USA … then YOUR weather is of no importance. It’s a real bummer to be “average” isn’t it ?

  17. “I think that collaboration is, in reality, reluctant.” It is called feeding the alligator.
    I realize that, but it seems no one reads history. Companies in Russia tried that after Lenin’s coup in October 1917. Initially it worked to an extent as these companies were able to resist the government takeover for a few extra months, and in a few cases a year or so. In the meantime, the government inserted Bolo agitators into the “worker committees” for a planned eventual takeover. This is what happened to my wife’s grandfather’s flour mill.
    Further, many Tsarist government bureaucrats welcomed the revolution, but balked when the Bolos took over. The Bolos solved that problem by installing a desk at the back of the large clerical rooms so that all the staff had their backs to the desk. A fellow with a black leather jacket sat at the desk with a revolver laying on the desk. Compliance with the new order improved remarkably. Source I believe: Richard Pipes, “Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime” or Orlando Figes, “A People’s Tragedy”.

  18. At least one politician still has a pair of brass one hanging in the right place.
    “Wildrose boss Brian Jean vows to scrap Alberta’s carbon tax even as the feds aim to impose their own carbon price on province’s without their own plan.”
    http://www.calgarysun.com/2016/10/05/wildrose-leader-brian-jean-vows-to-scrap-alberta-carbon-tax-battle-federal-carbon-price?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=recommend-button&utm_campaign=Wildrose%20leader%20Brian%20Jean%20vows%20to%20scrap%20Alberta%20carbon%20tax,%20battle%20federal%20carbon%20price
    Darn scrabble captcha.

  19. While what you described may happen, those companies in know that governments don’t last forever. (At least it used to be that way. With moves by our Minister of Gerrymandering from Afghaniran, that may no longer be the case. Craig “Count Dracula” Oliver’s declaration that the Lieberals are the “natural governing party of Canada” will at last be fulfilled for good.) It’s a question of whether those firms, by adopting that tactic, will outlast the government or if they will eventually buckle under should that government dig itself in and remain in office for several terms.
    The respective boards of directors are fully aware that shareholders won’t be pleased if the companies sell out or, by actively resisting the government, see their profits and, consequently, their dividends decrease.
    For many firms, it’s a choice of go along or go belly up. Not every company can give Red Rachel et. al. the finger by purchasing assets outside of the jurisdiction and make money that way, such as how Enbridge did it by buying Spectra Energy.

  20. Socialism’s natural end result.
    …-
    “Venezuela Is Pawning Pieces of Iconic American Brand Citgo to Survive”
    “The Citgo logo is a beacon at the Red Sox’s home field
    Using the refiner as collateral is controversial in Caracas” (bloomberg)
    …-
    “Venezuelan Oil Workers Are Selling Uniforms for Food”
    ““Every day a PDVSA worker comes to sell his overall,” said a hawker.
    For decades, jobs at Venezuela’s state-run oil giant PDVSA were coveted for above average salaries, generous benefits and cheap credit that brought home ownership and vacationing abroad within reach for many workers.
    Now, in Venezuela’s asphyxiating economy, even PDVSA employees are struggling to pay for everything from food and bus rides to school fees as triple-digit inflation eats away incomes.”
    http://fortune.com/2016/10/05/venezuela-oil-pdvsa-food-shortage/

  22. AGW RIP.
    …-
    “Green power projects at risk”
    “… he is concerned people are connecting an increase in their hydro bills to an increase in renewable energy projects in Ontario.”
    ““Right now, the sun is shining and the panels are generating the electricity that’s running my computer right now. I think, down the road, it might be a more common type of means for people to be more green by using a renewable source, the sun, to generate electricity, as opposed to using other things like coal and nuclear.””
    http://www.recorder.ca/2016/10/04/green-power-projects-at-risk
    …-
    “Fracking given UK go-ahead as Lancashire council rejection overturned”
    “The move marks a major step up in the scale of exploratory fracking in the UK, as it green lights four wells compared to the single well approved for fracking in North Yorkshire earlier this year.”
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/oct/06/uk-fracking-given-go-ahead-as-lancashire-council-rejection-is-overturned

  24. What else would you expect from these big companies? They answer to shareholders who expect them to maximize profit. A high profile public fight with the government is a prescription for desaster and they know it. They try to operate profitably within the rules of the game. Playing the cards they are dealt.

  25. Would this apply to our lovely Red Rose Province with the NDP leading the pack?
    Environment – bah, humbug.

  27. This is why your child gets a “classroom supplies list” at the start of the school year
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    Nearly 80% of all increases in public-education spending in the country went to compensating teachers and staff, the Fraser Institute report, entitled 2016 Understanding the Increases in Education Spending in Public Schools in Canada, shows.
    http://www.ottawasun.com/2016/10/06/80-of-all-increases-in-school-spending-went-to-salaries-benefits-and-pensions-fraser-institute

  28. “I think that collaboration is, in reality, reluctant.” It is called feeding the alligator.
    I don’t think it’s ‘reluctant’ at all. Costs money to keep the competition at bay. Cheaper, and more efficient, to have the gov’t do it for you. The costs all get passed on anyway for anything sold domestically. Plus a few cents for ‘administration’.

  29. That may well be.
    Remember, though, that Red Rachel and her gang are hard-core socialists and communists. They would think nothing of confiscating company assets in the name of ideology (euphemistically called nationalization), giving those firms nothing in return.

  31. They would think nothing of confiscating company assets in the name of ideology (euphemistically called nationalization), giving those firms nothing in return.
    Somebody still has to run the company…probably for even larger wages.

  32. In the case of a nationalized firm, the management are often socialist government cronies. Think back to who first ran PetroCan and why the company was established to begin with.

  34. Liberal Wynnetario.
    “It was the End of Coal,”.
    …-
    “How Ontario’s pursuit of renewable energy broke its electricity system”
    http://business.financialpost.com/fp-comment/boondoggle-how-ontarios-pursuit-of-renewable-energy-broke-the-provinces-electricity-system?__lsa=9421-5795
    …-
    “J. V. Stalin
    A Letter to V. I. Lenin
    March 1921”
    “A Plan for the Electrification of Russia.”
    https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1921/03/x01.htm

  35. PET Cemetery Liberal Librano$ Bull-tip.
    “Young Denis describes his UFO sighting “.
    …-
    “Mayor Coderre told to heel in pit-bull court case
    Description: Short, stocky with large head. Difficult to control in crowds or around cameras. Tends to snap quickly at anything that catches his attention without regard to consequences.” (googoo)
    …-
    “Space case Denis Coderre claims UFO sighting!
    Awesome. He MUST have been kidnapped, and they tinkered with his modesty and inherent human goodness. It explains a lot.”
    http://lepolitico.blogspot.ca/2007/06/space-case-denis-coderre-claims-ufo.html

  37. How come scum always rises to the top?
    Probably because scum is defined as: a layer of unpleasant or unwanted material that has formed on the top of a liquid. If it didn’t rise to the top it wouldn’t be scum, but rather sediment or sludge, which falls to the bottom.
    It’s a function of relative density.

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