52 Replies to “Aug 13, 2018: Reader Tips”

    1. I visited a modest local history museum yesterday. It was a tribute to many who built our country. Their accomplishments– building roads, railroads, ships, factories and farms were truly impressive. In the midst of the visit I recalled the John A. statue issue. Indigenous societies failed because they were no longer viable. Where would they be today without colonial settlement? John A. was a nation builder and even his plan for residential schools was intended to ensure that young native children were not left behind. Anyone who now wishes to destroy this legacy should also be asked to sacrifice all the benefits of living in an advanced society.

      Taking down symbols of our heritage is an abomination, and It will do nothing to improve the circumstances of natives. In fact, it will likely bring further resentment on both sides. We are not reconciling anything, we are simply destroying pride in the legacy of our nation when it should be a source of national pride.

      1. Exactly. I agree. I must say that the Marxist led effort to “cleanse” and reshape our history, and the effort by many to thwart further resource development in Canada has led from my support for many real past grievances moving almost 180 degrees to almost total resentment.

        Where is the link from the other day that said Sir John A. actually wanted to give the vote to native men during his time in office?

    2. rt click on the link, select ‘copy link location’ then paste&go in a new tab.

      ‘picture worth a thousand words’ uhuh. and THOSE words aint worth diddly but the pic is still useful.

  4. The former owner of a Fredericton café is claiming he banned alleged shooter Matthew Raymond from the café for complaining too loudly about Syrian “refugees.”

    Of course, the shooter only killed Canadians, not Syrians.

    But someone whose business had just failed might have been tempted by an offer of big bucks to tell lies on Twitter about the poor white man important people want framed for murder, to give them the excuse they need to confiscate the guns of law-abiding Canadians.

    https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2018/08/12/fredericton-gunman-suspect-described-by-acquaintance-as-a-lonely-biker-that-loved-shooter-video-games.html

    1. I know it is too much to ask you to stop with such nonsense since you are too ignorant and stupid to grasp that. You love crazed theories, don’t cha?

    2. I live in Fredericton, and the posted Toronto Star story is just so much gossip. I know Brendan Doyle as a acquaintance (we used to meet him at the dog park where we ran our dogs), and Mr. Doyle is fairly left-leaning. His business was primarily an old-fashioned dead-tree magazine shop, and needless to say the shop was on a long downhill slope. He made things worse, about a year ago, by discotinuing all right-leaning magazines (i. e. magazines I used to buy, like the National Review and Commentary magazine). Anyone who ever browsed any magazine store realized the huge political imbalance, where socialist and communist mags far outnumber conservative ones, and this is before one adds the big, corporate leftist mags like TIME and Maclean’s. And bizarrely, Mr. Doyle two years ago discontinued selling the three New Brunswick daily newspapers — when the papers began to tilt opinion rightward — this for a store which is supposed to sell newspapers.

      So given Brendan Doyle’s rather bizarre leanings, I would not put too much stock in what he has to say.

      1. Don’t give the Star that much credit. They just cribbed the gossip from the Canadian Press.

        Rest assured I don’t believe a word of Doyle’s nonsense, Dr. Murrell. I’m just wondering why he was telling such tall tales at all.

        My guess is that Brendan did it because he really needed the money and the local Libranos were happy to slip him a few bills to help with their disinformation campaign.

  5. Re: “blocked in your country on copyright grounds” message.

    I got it on the first try. I’m in SW Sask.

    On the topic of SW Sask. Several claims were made by various media sources on August 11-18 that previous heat records had been broken. Perhaps heat records were broken for that particular date, when for example, Moose Jaw recorded 41.3° C , breaking the previous record of 35.4 in 1979. However the all time record for Moose Jaw was set on July 05, 1937 at 43.3°C. On that same day, at Yellowgrass and Midale (near Weyburn) the all time Canadian record of 45°C (113°F) was set, and still stands today. In any event, August 11-18 was hot, especially for the guys and gals who were out harvesting that day.

    The highest temperature ever (officially) recorded on Earth was near Furnace Creek, Death Valley, California on July 10, 1913.
    At 56,7° C or 138° F, the record still stands today. Previous claims that on September 13, 1922, at El Azizia, Libya, an all time world record high of 58°C had been set, have been recently disqualified.

  6. Eight months later, with the Antifa and BLM thugs completely out in the open with their “No USA” chant and their physical attacks on the police and press, the NFL seems so insignificant in comparison. However, I am still interested in what percentage of season ticket holders cancelled their season tickets from last year. That is because the NFL counts tickets sold not turnstile as “attendance,” so we couldn’t get an accurate count on the boycott last year.
    But through the first week of pre-season, and I understand pre-season tickets are compulsory for season ticket holders, I have not been able to find anything at all on the attendance. Does anyone have any idea?

  7. “Cultural balkanisation brings distrust, social conflict, and potentially violence, as we are seeing everywhere. It’s time we reverse this trend before the situation gets worse. More diversity will not be our strength, it will destroy what has made us such a great country.”

    https://twitter.com/MaximeBernier

    1. Absolutely correct, too bad he had to say it in French, lest the CBC et al clutch their pearls for the nation.

      1. If you scroll up or down on Maxime’s tweet you will see the English versions of his tweets.

    2. Max is right….diversity will destroy this country as we know it. You can’t have a strong cohesive society in a country made up of communities living as they did in the countries they came from.
      Trudeau’s repeating the brainless phrase “diversity is our strength” is cringe worthy. It fits his suck up for votes but fractures the country. We will stand for nothing, better rewrite Oh Canada to fit the same agenda, it’s already been tampered with.

      1. The destruction is by design. If you recall from election night, Trudeau’s words, “We are now a post national state”.

        1. Too many people missed that and others don’t understand what it means. It means we are no longer a country as far as Trudeau is concerned.

        2. I think we are a UN experiment. Everything done by Liberals follows Agenda 21 (2030). The aim is to get rid of nation states in favour of one-world governance. Even suppressing our resource development fits that agenda. We are not just post- national, we are the FIRST post national state. Our country is being systematically destroyed.

  8. NO CNN NO DNC NO UN NO ANTIFA SCUM AT ALL GET OUT OF America right now Antifa scumbags

  9. Big Story in Minnesota.

    Keith Ellison, current US Congressman for the Minnesota 5th District and DNC Vice Chairman is running for MN Attorney General. The adult son of his previous girlfriend is accusing him of beating her. She is backing up her son and saying Keith had been mentally and physically abusing her. Supposedly she has been trying to get her progressive friends to support her, but they have been siding with the progressive power structure. They don’t “Believe All Women” after all. The Minneapolis Star Tribune position/ narrative is skeptical of her story. They at least are consistent, they never believed Kathryn Willey or Juanita Broderick either.

    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/08/the-latest-on-keith-ellisons-domestic-abuse-story.php

    The Minnesota Primary is tomorrow, August 14th. A lot of people have already early voted, over 100,000.

    1. Really don’t like Keith Ellison and hope he loses and joins Al Franken in exile and is never heard from again. (Start PC joke: A Hasidic Jew and a Moslem Iman walk into a coffee bar…….) But the timing of these allegations is very suspicious, right before an election.

      And I’m not a supporter of the #Metoo (or whatever it’s called) movement either. So there it is. What a pit politics is. It’s never about real issues. A pox on them all.

    1. Appears to be a lot of insanity going around. Immaturity abounds in Canada’s leadership and the same appears to be the case in Saudi Arabia. Do we not feel threatened? Should we feel insecure and on edge due to rank political stupidity or will Shiny save the day with his smile, his tears, his dramatic orations?

    2. “This whole spat began because Canada has publicly campaigned against the jailing of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi.”

      I stopped reading right there. With this flippant statement it is clear that the whole article will then be off on a false narrative. As I have said in previous posts, this is about poor diplomacy, about wording, about arrogance.

      Freeland could have advocated for Raif Badawi’s release without causing hurt feelings. She might have even helped the situation. But she didn’t, instead choosing to insult the Saudis either through ignorance or arrogance. That is not how diplomacy is done.

      1. What is interesting is the Saudis point to the high number of homeless people in Canada, the missing 1,000 aboriginal women, Canada’s treatment of aboriginal people in general, and the fragmented anglo versus french attitudes that still linger in Quebec … all perfectly real issues, although the latter is more political than problematic.

        But what is most interesting is the media doesn’t really deal with these issues at all. Their only response is, well, Saudi Arabia is much worse. Which of course is true, but where is the criticism about letting asylum seekers into Canada when there are so many homeless who have nowhere to go? What ever happened to the inquiry into the 1,000 murdered women in Western Canada, almost all First Nations? The Canadian media carefully pick and choose what they write to be offended about. Luckily for them the world has some very bad players. It makes us look good.

      2. Have you considered that the Saudi’s don’t want their Students indoctrinated into Canada’s SJW Agenda…. Canada should look themselves in the Mirror…. The converted Saudi’s would have been used up front & center until a 16 wheeler ran over them…If you have brains you don’t want your children involved in a Jim Jones movement.. All foreign Students need to flee Canada….

    3. And bizarre it truly is. Other than like-minded states in and around the Gulf, I have no idea who the Saudis think they’re fooling.

      By the way, Dear Leader, perhaps you might now also want to reconsider Canada’s childish infatuation with the UN?

      Start by considering this: in 2017, Saudi Arabia was elected to the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

    4. This is beginning to look like one of those juxtapositions again if you compare how juthtin is trying to negotiate the release of someone in Saudi Arabia vs how Trump is negotiating the release of an American jailed in Turkey.

  11. Old King Coal Shuts Down Leftist Bloomberg’s Bee-Ess.

    “Constructed in 1984, the facility provides an export point for the vast reserves of metallurgical and thermal coal in northern British Columbia and Alberta.”

    …-

    “Trump’s Trade Tirade Can’t Slow This Booming Canadian Port

    Prince Rupert is continent’s fastest-growing trans-Pacific hub” (bloomberg)

    …-

    The Port of Prince Rupert.

    “RIDLEY COAL TERMINAL

    Ridley Terminals Inc. is one of the most advanced coal terminals of its kind, a world leader in the efficient and reliable movement of coal from unit trains to ships.”

    http://www.rupertport.com/shipping/terminals/rti

    1. They had a “Drag Queen Storytime” for kids at some library in London, Ontario in July.

      Child abuse. Little kids do not need to be deliberately exposed to this sort of nonsense.

      2. I think they must have some perverts running the library in London. That smacks of an agenda and is very inappropriate. Hopefully no one attended.

    1. yeeeeeeeeHAAAAAAAAA !!!!

      no bang heard.
      no flash seen.
      just all of a sudden blood and body parts flying.
      “the 40 yr old rifle was decommissioned to commemorate the shot”
      shucks. I was hoping to peer down the sights and try my hand, er, trigger finger . . .

      I wonder what the 72 virgins think of having sex with a martyr with no chest. LOL !!!

  15. Maxime Bernier is from the Beauce, an agricultural region of Québec that has traditionally been very conservative. And I mean conservative in its small-c sense here, not as the name of a political party.

    Canadians who know little or nothing about Québec are always surprised when they discover aspects about that province which do not measure up to the tidy stereotype they’ve built for themselves.

    Heh. This is also true for Québécois who know little or nothing about the rest of Canada too.

  17. Dinosaur Death Watch.

    At One Fell Swoop.

    …-

    “128 Establishment News Outlets Coordinate Attack on Trump”

    https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/08/13/nolte-128-establishment-news-outlets-coordinate-attack-on-trump/

    …-

    “The Day the Mesozoic Died

    How the story of the dinosaurs’ demise was uncovered.”

    ““Understanding how we decipher a great historical event written in the book of rocks
    may be as interesting as the event itself.
    —Walter Alvarez”

    http://nautil.us/issue/32/space/the-day-the-mesozoic-died

    1. One thing that receives little attention in the press is the fact that the USA is importing less oil, pumping more (made in the US) oil for domestic consumption and is looking at increasing oil exports. The oil currency that used to go overseas is now being recirculated inside the US economy. Imagine if Canada imported no oil. We would be paying Canadians to produce and move our oil east rather than Americans and Saudis to ship our imported oil. Huge difference.

      1. A truly independent and secure nation would have all of the following components: It could feed itself, it would have an abundance of fresh water, it would have sea ports, it would be dependant on no other nation for its energy or its security and it would be debt free. (I’m sure there are many other factors.) Canada’s inability to provide for all its energy needs, despite its ability, is embarrassing. Its unwillingness to protect itself is beyond comprehension, especially considering that so many Canadians are sickeningly anti-American.

  20. AGW FAIL.

    H/T MAGA.

    …-

    “Breaking the Climate Spell

    Getting out of the Paris Agreement was just the first step on the road to a realist global energy policy.

    Thirteen years ago, a Republican president who had pulled the United States out of an onerous climate treaty faced isolation at the annual gathering of Western leaders. “Tony Blair is contemplating an unprecedented rift with the U.S. over climate change at the G8 summit next week, which will lead to a final communiqué agreed by seven countries with President George Bush left out on a limb,” the Guardian reported of the meeting at Glen­eagles, Scotland. France and Germany preferred an unprecedented split communiqué to a weak one, the article said.

    George W. Bush, who had pulled the country out of the Kyoto Protocol in 2003, blinked and agreed to an official document that affirmed global warming was occurring and that “we know enough to act now.” The 2005 G8 put the United States back on the path that ultimately led through the Copenhagen climate summit—when China and India thwarted U.S.-led attempts at a global climate treaty—to the Paris Agreement 11 years later.

    There was a very different American president this June at the Charlevoix G7 (as it has been since Russia’s suspension in 2014). Had it not been for the row with Justin Trudeau, when the Canadian prime minister responded to President Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs with retaliatory tariffs of his own, the big story would have been the climate split. Where 15 years ago the mere possibility of isolation pushed Bush to compromise, Trump embraced the isolation and inserted an America-only paragraph into the summit communiqué outlining a position fundamentally contradicting the rest of the group’s.

    “The United States believes sustainable economic growth and development depends on universal access to affordable and reliable energy resources,” it reads, going on to offer a manifesto for global energy realism. That single paragraph is more definitive than the president’s announcement last August that the United States would be withdrawing from the Paris treaty.”

    https://www.weeklystandard.com/rupert-darwall/breaking-the-climate-spell

  21. AGW’s Breakdown.

    …-

    “Q&A: Behind the breakdown at UN’s Green Climate Fund

    TORONTO — Last month, the international climate change community was left reeling amid a disastrous fallout at the United Nations’ Green Climate Fund board meeting in Songdo, South Korea.

    The fund failed to approve almost a billion dollars in proposed projects, with board members still tussling over how to progress with GCF’s first official replenishment process.

    On top of that, the fund’s Executive Director Howard Bamsey unexpectedly resigned, leaving GCF scrambling to find a successor.

    With only a few months left until December, when the annual U.N. Conference of the Parties takes place in Katowice, Poland, many wonder how the world’s largest international climate fund will overcome its challenges.”

    https://www.devex.com/news/q-a-behind-the-breakdown-at-un-s-green-climate-fund-93250

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