Critics used to say that the villain’s in Ayn Rand novels were too over the top. If anything it was the other way around.
CBC- City repairs curb reported damaged 28 years ago — 16 years earlier than scheduled
NP- Experts thought mandatory roadside breath-testing would be unconstitutional, but Canadian judges say otherwise
Yes but were the workers repairing the curbs, using the proper pronouns and was gender equity involved.
I kept looking for pictures of the actual repair job … and seemed to only find a worms eye view of the new curb. I suspect the curve of the curb patch is anything but smooth and blended in to the existing. Hack government work.
And honestly … this tiny patch of curb on a private driveway … needs to be patched by the city? Puhleeze. Isn’t this man’s home worth 350% of its 1993 value? The homeowner can afford to fix his own damn curb … which should take a two-man crew about 4-hours to fix.
Kenji Agreed…
Seems to me the Snow PLOW guy was drunk…that’s quite a ways from the road no..??
And yea, I’d fixed that in a heartbeat…letting it sit like that for 16 years is Stupid.
But once fixed, I would also have planted a couple of 16′ long 6″ Sch 120 concrete filled Pipes about 12 feet down on either side of my driveway… “Go ahead ASSHOLE, hit that..!!”
“Hawley, who is a retired provincial civil servant, tries to be balanced over his criticism of the city’s slow pace to do the work, saying bureaucrats work hard and meet many deadlines.”
Pretty much when I stopped reading and frankly explains everything.
One call to my municipality about a pothole on my road had a crew there the next morning. Could’ve been my story about almost going ass over tea kettle with my bike one night which might’ve lit a fire under their ass.
Liability lawsuits are budget breakers.
Me before opening the link:
“I bet its Winnipeg”
It’s all about priorities.
When was the last time a group of disgruntled citizens protesting the slow pace of street repairs been reported having a mostly peaceful protest?
Ahem “ something something conservatives something failing to show up to protest”
Ahem, we call a conservative protest an insurrection.
If it wasn’t for thier sloven pace and priorities we’d know mandatory anal probing is as illegal as mandatory breath testing by now.
“Unconstitutional”??? canaduh doesn’t have a Constitution! It has some kind of weaselly bullshit that’s a lawiar’s wet dream! Drafted by lawiars for lawiars so they can bill hundreds of dollars an hour to argue ad infinitum over semantics and never come to any conclusions, other than ordinary people are going to get screwed some more.
You live in a communist dictatorship what the hell do you expect.
There was a saying in the USSR:
“We pretend to work, and the government pretends to pay us”
Welcome to our future.
The social contract is currently: You pay your taxes and agree to follow all of the rules we make and in return we will make sure you shut the fuck up and do as you’re told.
The population of this country would, with warm and fuzzy open heart, agree where the justice industry and police are combined to keep them in check, in case they would think different.
Totalitarian dictatorship is next, if not here, now.
Most Canadians love it and are eagerly waiting for more restrictions on their lives to be safe from the vagaries of uselessness of their existence.
The sheeple will not wake up until the captive bolt comes into contact with their foreheads.
https://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/programmes/en/empres/gemp/resources/prnt-stamping-out-03.gif
So basically evertime your rights are curtailed it lowers the threshold for further eroding your rights. Nothing to see. Move on.
>I find that the (mandatory screening) procedure is far less of an infringement than is routinely found at airports or courthouses and enjoys a very high level of acceptance among the public,” wrote Nova Scotia Judge Rosalind Michie
Yes, far less infringing than going to a place of higher security voluntarily, but I wasn’t aware that going about my daily business in a car gave government agents the right to stop me for any reason and demand I supply a sample of something. More importantly, what the hell does it matter if the public has a high acceptance of an unreasonable law? Is that really the level of constitutional protection we can expect going forward? If a majority likes a law then it’s A-OK? Mandatory vaxx for everyone, travel restrictions even across provincial “borders”? Maybe we can full Australian and refuse to let people leave Canada.
“OK now that you’ve proved you’re NOT drunk, it’s time to prove you’re not homophobic”
An American businessman was doing business in the Soviet Union. While at lunch, eating a sandwich on a park bench, he was observing two city parks workers nearby. One dug a hole, moved eight feet to dig another hole and so on. The other fellow followed by filling up the holes. Intrigued, he went and asked them what they were doing. The first guy replied, “I dig the holes, Ivan plants the trees in the holes and Vladimir fills in the holes. Ivan is sick so we keep working anyway.” That, my friends, is the direction in which we’re headed.
Headed? I’ve been in setting where that was common practice.
Then there’s the Soviet-era joke about a citizen wanting to have some electrical work done at his apartment.
“Comrade, the earliest we can get there is 20 years from now.”
“What date?”
“March 15th.”
“What time?”
“3 PM.”
“I’m sorry, Comrade dispatcher. That’s when I’ve got the plumber coming over.”
PHIL…
THATS hilarious…and I have no doubt its 100% true.
I expect nothing good from Supreme Court of Canada. Back in March, they ruled re carbon tax that “Climate change is real. It is caused by greenhouse gas emissions resulting from human activities, and it poses a grave threat to humanity’s future. The only way to address the threat of climate change is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”
So yep, SCOC is a bunch of party apparatchiks carrying water for the Prime Moron and his woke ideas. In all legal battles people vs gov, they will always side with gov.
Police associations were adamant this was a necessary new tool
The police are not your friends, and they have never been your friends.
Thanks Dan. That needs to said.
I had to stop saying;”You can’t make this up”.
As I was obviously wrong.
Even Ayn Rand could not have imagined our current state of moral depravity.
Or get published if she had tried to describe it.
If you were able to time travel,you still would not be able convince Canadians of two years ago,of what was to come.
We have all the rights and freedoms a Government Minion permits us.
We gets all the “rights” they believe we can responsibly handle…
This current State of Statism,reflects the utter contempt these parasites have for their host.
A State such a exists in Canada,must be destroyed.
I think Rand could imagine our current state of depravity and nailed it in a 1970 essay, “The Comprachicos” where she compared a rare hideous ancient Spanish practice of buying babies and deforming them for amusement to modern education. It’s a good read: https://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/RandAyn-The-Comprachicos.pdf (27 pages)
“It is ideas that determine the actions of all those people (she’s referring to those I call the institutional left), and it is the Educational
Establishment that determines the ideas of a nation. It is your professors’ ideas that have ruled
the world for the past fifty years or longer, with a growing spread of devastation, not
improvement—and today, in default of opposition, these ideas are destroying the world, as
they destroyed your mind and self-esteem.” – Ayn Rand, 1970
I have every reason to expect to see Rand’s books banned, at the very least in schools and public libraries if not by the publisher. The nerve of promoting individuality like that, the racist capitalist!
And meanwhile, texting drivers are responsible for far more fatalities than drunks, but the penalty for getting caught texting at the wheel is a traffic ticket.
I’ve got this theory that if the majority of texters were men instead of young women, things would be different.