143 Replies to “I’m Sure It Will Balance Itself”

  1. Wanna get rid of your kids today?
    Trying to boot the little bastards into independence is impossible.
    Even as far away as North Bay, Ontario.
    The house went $125,000 over asking and 25 bidders were involved.
    My son-in-law tried this last week.
    An added burden to the household as you’d be co-signer and know your kid can’t make enough or just plain to lazy to work.
    And gets their ass canned.

    What to do, what to do?

    How’s that unlimited immigrants Ukraines situation coming?

    1. Don’t understand you.
      Need more context and info.
      Or if you are just venting, my sympathies to you.

    2. Yes. A distressing reality for young people trying to enter the housing market. I am surprised this is also happening away from major metropolitan markets.

      1. Even in little 5,000 population Osoyoos BC……..we purchased our new house less than 6 years ago, just SOLD it for double what we paid for it. Crazy. We bought a same sized new home in Medicine Hat Alberta for $400,000.00 LESS than what we sold the BC house for AND WE WON’T HAVE TO PUT UP WITH THE NDP ANY LONGER…..unless of course AB votes them back in, BUT I think they learned their lesson from the last MESS with NOTLEY……..

        Living the dream. 🙂 🙂

        1. I think they learned their lesson from the last MESS with NOTLEY

          Hahahahahahahahaha! Not in Edmonton. The majority of voters, to paraphrase George Wallace, want “NDP today, NDP tomorrow, NDP forever.”

          4. Art:

            We have the Don Getty PCs to thank for turning Edmonton into a government town. Oil companies closed their local offices and moved their employees to Calgary, while the government offices in Cowtown went north.

            I think Getty was kicked in the head too many times in all those football scrums he was in when he played for the Edmonton Offensive-Name-for-Natives.

          5. WakeUp:

            What do you expect when the mayor is a former Prinz Dummkopf hack?

      2. My wife of today always said I didn’t need a four bedroom house just for me, then she moved in and it was still too big. Now the step familly has moved in, cannot afford anywhere, so now a 4 bedroom house is not big enough. Extended familly living is going to become the thing again.

        1. To all who replied to LindaL’s post and to Robert especially I send this little ditty out.

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPOzQzk9Qo

          The bright side of the ongoing frustration equation is that we have solved numerous problems with the injections:
          -we’re eliminating/have eliminated a major sector of our population that require the largest portion of our health budget,
          -in elimination this sector we save tax dollars in pension benefits that are no longer needed,
          -we increase revenues from estate taxes,
          -we decrease the strain on housing requirements,

          So all in all these are just a few benefits off the top of my head, no doubt there will be many more in the days, months, years to come.
          Always remember Democrats live by the mantra “Never let a crisis go to waste.” Conservatives like to “Look for the silver lining in the dark clouds of crisis.”
          So always Keep the Faith, and always look on the bright side of life.

    1. That is the key, and the Convoy exposed it. There is a huge swath of the country that has had it with these “elites” and would overwhelm the voting booth for a Trump style populist who would take these clowns to the woodshed. The parade is already assembled, all someone need do is get out front.

      1. You still have to deal with the lower forms of government , provincial, municipal and school boards right down to the teachers unions and the janitor.
        The free shit brigade is deeply entrenched.
        Then there are the corporations, witness the banks.

        I think an asteroid would quicker .

        1. I would say something John but I figure I have covered all the bases over the decades. Canadians just are not bright enough to understand.

        2. Or mandated clot shots.

          Every day, I’m starting to believe the shots were a great plan.
          After economic collapse, they would have voted to try it again to protect their free shit.
          This seems easier. And as reality sets in, they can take care of the rest of our elites.

      2. Peter
        Well said!
        It shows how out of touch they are with the real issues. Too busy looking in the mirror.

        1. Not mirror, echo chamber. These people all go to the same dinner parties, cocktail parties and self-congratulatory award ceremonies and charity galas and balls.

        2. Not the Mirror Lance….they have their heads buried in TikTok, Instagram, Fascist Book etc….24/7…..and Legacy News.

          5 Days now in Alberta: All restrictions supposedly gone. And this part blows me the fk away: 40% of the population is STILL wearing a FACE DIAPER….Outside..!!!!

          1. 40% of the population is STILL wearing a FACE DIAPER….Outside..!!!!

            I saw that yesterday at the nearby recycling depot. Someone drove up, face diaper and all, got out of his car, dumped off his stuff, and drove on.

            A few minutes later, I went to buy groceries, bare-faced, of course and I was the only one I knew of who was so adorned. A few disapproving looks, but not one peep out of anyone, including one of the store’s managers.

            But, it’s Edmonton and I was disobeying Mayor Soapy’s imperial edict.

          2. BA … it’s AT LEAST 75% here in the SF Land of Fruits and Nuts. I look at these sheep and resist the urge to bleat “baaaaa baaaaaaaa” in their covered faces

        1. Cult of personality ain’t doin it for some of us.
          And anyone who thinks a K-becer has the solutions they might want to look at the history of K-bec Prime Ministers starting with the current SOB.

    2. JoJo

      Canada has ZERO gold “reserves”…maybe few dozen bars to make Maple Leaf Coins.

      We could not go back to that if we tried…only way I see, is to become a World Producer/Exporter of Oil…But with those inbred Green NAZI Klunts in Ottawa…??
      Fat chance of that – ever.

      1. Mr. Stilgar of the Fremen,
        I do believe your average coin shop and local coin collectors probably have more gold in reserve than the government. Just over ten years ago the mint sold off a selection of $5 and $10 dollar gold coins from 1912-14 era, 35,000 coins in all.. these were sitting in the vault at the mint along with around 200,000 others. The remaining coins were melted down and cashed in, along with most of the remaining gold in the vault.. might be enough to make a few collector coins, but within no gold standard to base the currency on, all the gold is gone… Somewhere..

  5. If Canadians really wanted to save the environment they’d remove the pestilence of Liberal voters from the face of the earth.

    1. Putin can arrange that if necessary 😉

      Friendly reminder that freezing in the dark is no longer their worst case scenario.

    1. It’s a feature , not a bug.
      The better to enslave you with a centralized Worldwide government.
      More catastrophes are in the pipeline, coming soon.
      All going to plan.

  7. I went to the grocery store and saw something I have never seen before. Almost every item in the meat section had “reduced for quick sale” stickers on them. This is what they do when items get to the end of the shelf life and they have to sell it that day or throw it out.

    I assume what happened is that prices have gone up so much that people aren’t buying. This is scary. The grocery store is going to take a huge hit, which means they won’t stock as much stuff if people can’t afford it, producers will produce less, since they have costs to cover and this will ripple up through the entire supply chain making the situation even worse. We’re heading for hard times.

    1. No, No, No……Biden promised that if companies paid higher wages, reduced their costs/profits, then we’d be in ‘Boomsville’…..surely he can’t be wrong……..again?

    2. Already saw this at a local Walmart of all places.
      Food and damaged products placed in a certain area at reduced prices.
      Been going on for a long time with most retailers I’ve been to.
      Although at certain stores like Home Depot/Costco they would rather send it to the dump and destroy it then give it a new life as parts.
      That may change though.

  8. After being forced to live in BC for a year, all I can say is “too bad so sad”…..

    Bunch of granola chomping hippies…..oh, and more homeless people and drug addicts than you can shake a stick at; or walk over on your way to work.

    Let’s see how many of them want to “save the planet” when they have to decide whether they want to drive into work, or have their $7 Starbucks each morning.

    Reality – it’s a bitch.

    But I’m sure the CBC and the other usual suspects will blame Russia…and not the idiotic policies of LIberals and NDP’ers.

    1. Having lived in BC under a Mike Harcourt government, it amazes me that people there would ever vote NDP again….but, I guess there’s a new batch of no nothing voters in every election.

      1. it amazes me that people there would ever vote NDP

        I asked that question 50 years ago when B. C. voted in the Dave Barrett hooligans.

      2. Nemo2, not only is there no cure for stupid there also seems to be no cure for socialism. It damn near always comes down to something for nothing and life really isn’t like that for most of us.

      3. Many years ago, after my first political argument in BC. One of the participants who had contributed much good sense to the discussion, with out indicating any partisanship, returned to the table after setting his tab to say, “Well, I voted liberal because I don’t think they can steal it, as fast as the NDP can waste it.” People get tired of seeing their hard earned tax dollars going into the pockets of grifters who have done nothing to earn them, so tired that they may choose to believe an obvious liar who promises change…. Very sad and will not improve until the real criminals get very long prison time.

      4. Nemo2

        I grew up there (Richmond & Vancouver)…immigrated in ’57 left in ’76 for Calgary.
        The Freaks and Hippies from the late 60’s early 70’s are now your staunch COMMUNISTS that inhabit the lower MAOland & YVR Island. You couldn’t ever pay me enough to return.

        Closest I get is the Shushwap in Summertime…for 10-14 days of Hot weather and Clear warm Lakes. Truly Gods country …

      5. Here’s the key, “why do they keep voting NDP?”

        As they have been borrowing and spending at levels that would make your head swim, incomparable to past NDP debacles, there has been little to no impact on taxpayers. THAT is a temporary issue, sooner or later, taxes must go up to start paying interest on those massive debts.

        Interest rates are now starting to creep up, the NDP won’t be able to keep up their Unicorn and Rainbows economic schemes much longer. All it will take is the housing market to slow down, dropping those revenues Yugely. RE is the biggest industry in BC, aside from “government”. Bad times on the way for everyone here that isn’t financially stable.

      6. They live in their downtown condominiums. Their world is a 10 square block area and a train ride to the airport. They have no clue how the commoners live. Before the scamdemic, commoners could go to Pt. Roberts for cheaper fuel. Now they are stuck with the 60 cent/litre levy to pay for electric busses and trains.
        The elitists just don’t give a damn.

        1. They live in their downtown condominiums. Their world is a 10 square block area and a train ride to the airport. They have no clue how the commoners live.

          That description could fit the management of my apartment complex. The office staff only steps outside if it’s time to go home, give potential tenants the grand tour or to go fetch coffee from the Tim’s in the nearby shopping centre.

          Completely clueless, otherwise.

    1. Johnson

      EXCELLENT CATCH ..I think that article sums it up pretty well.

      Many Americans made a shit ton of coin as well in arms deals and other such endeavours….as did their Ukrainian cronies.
      I heard that6 Zelensky has a mansion in South FLA..?? ~35 million USD apparently..?
      Imagine dat eh.?

  13. Well now that the low information voters have had their way the green freaks are running the show both here and the US of A .I guess the whole concept of energy independence never entered their pea sized brains . Dan S I like your idea about April 1.

  14. The price of gas is based on market factors. Carbon taxes have a minimal affect. If that wasn’t so, we would never have seen the cheap gas of 2020-2021.
    But I am sure you won’t let facts get in the way of your dark money-funded narrative.

        4. Chelsea spends most of its time masturbating over its own comments. Quite troubled.

        5. When chelsea got his pecker cut off, he also got a lobotomy.

          He/she/it now feels right at home among leftists.

    2. Market factors:
      More taxes = higher prices. That’s the feds, provinces and municipalities.
      Less supply = higher prices. That’s the feds.
      Printing money = higher prices. That’s the feds.

      You are an idiot.

    3. Did you read the story? We understand that. If you had a normal reading comprehension level you might understand what other people are talking about.

    4. How does someone with such an obviously rotten piece of dog excrement for brains actually function? Asking for a friend.

          1. Yup. The comparison is purely coincidental, I assure you…..

      2. They dont.
        Chelsea is a troll with an agenda of gaslighting and outright lies , directed by its masters.
        As some are fond to say ” Don’t feed the troll “, although I do understand how it gets on your nerve.

    6. Carbon taxes raise the price of everything. This is a problem when we are already facing serious inflation as a result of supply chain issues and lockdowns, The increased carbon tax is very damaging to the economy and especially hard on those with limited income.

    8. Beyond DENSE…as always eh Commie beotch.??
      “Dark” money..?? WTF is that even..hmm.?

    9. Seems to me “Chelsea” …
      …not your real name whatsoever eh..?? GERALD BUTTS..

      This from Terrance Corcoran at the Financial Times:

      “…For the past two years, Butts told the Times, Canadians have been largely locked down at home, forced to spend more time in front of their television screens. As they did, they absorbed the American culture war being played out from Fox News to Breitbart. As a result, Trumpian ideas took root in Canada. At the same time, foreign and “dark” money arrived….”

      FUCK OFF & Stay Fucked off you NAZI POS.

      1. Why wouldn’t Canadians absorb the American culture war being played out from CNN to NBC? There is this mythical Canadian who watches all the right-wing television and then votes Liberal. I’ve yet to meet one (thankfully).

    10. Carbon taxes have a huge effect. They are not just on gasoline, dolt. Half of my natural gas bill is carbon tax. You really are a mental midget when it comes to gas prices (and pretty much everything else).

  16. There’s a YouTuber from southern Russia named Dan Sheekoz. He’s just an ordinary guy, certainly no oligarch, showing how the average person gets by in Russia. Yesterday’s video was comparing gas prices in his area. Regular gas is USD$0.47-49/litre, or USD$2.00/gallon. He posted another video showing how they were going to cope with sanctions: planting a huge garden at his inlaw’s rural home. His inlaws are pretty well self-sufficient when it comes to heat & food supply. If you’re an older Russian, this certainly isn’t your first rodeo. Even if you live in a Moscow apartment, you probably have older relatives with dachas, or who still live in rural villages.

    2. Average Russian income is less than 500 US dollars per month, which is about 1/10 of what a Canadian makes, so even if the price looks cheap from where you’re standing, it’s a lot more expensive for a Russian than 2 bucks a liter is to a Canadian.

      1. Dan also had a video showing the apartment he & his wife lived in before they built their house. Rent was $100/month which included a small garden & cherry tree.
        The apartment—or a small house, as Dan identified it—has an annual property tax of $10. The 190 square-foot apartment, which would be comparable to a Canadian studio/bachelor unit, needs up to $2 to cover the water bill, and $8 for electricity. Garbage removal is $2 per person per month (so Dan, living with his wife, needs to pay $4), and the gas heating bill fluctuates between $2 in summer and $25 in winter. One of the larger bills is for the internet, which comes to $10.
        Mind, we’re not talking Moscow & St. Petersburg here. Just as if you live and work in Toronto or Vancouver, cost of living and rent are going to take a larger portion of your income than if you live in a smaller city with corresponding smaller salary.
        Russia, like Canada, also has free health care and education up to the college level, some of which is free.

    3. Makes you wonder what the price of gas would be here if Harper’s dream of Canada becoming an energy superpower hadn’t been derailed by the anti-pipeline crowd, both here and in the US. Russia’s price seems to be at least partly insulated from “market forces” because Putin developed the resource. Would that also be true in Canada? I guess we will never know. But at least we have legal cannabis, right?

    4. Yea watch his video’s every now and again, some good incite into everyday Russian living. I thought his video the other day was eyeopening as well $0.62 CAD a litre, and they’re complaining. Ouch.

  17. 2 bucks a litre gas hasn’t taught them anything about economics or geopolitics or voting for politicians because they have nice hair.
    Let’s bump it up another buck to see if they are capable of learning.

    1. I’d like to see $ 10/litre but by that time the economy will be in the dumpster long before that price.
      Only good thing is it will thin out the traffic on the roads, like it was at the start of the plandemic.
      Too bad, I won’t be able to afford rocketing down the hwy like last time.

    2. Yeah Stan, I’m on your side here, let’s get it to $3 or more.

      Then the NDP and LIEBrawls voters will take it straight in the head. But they probably still won’t get it, playing the blame game and being manipulated by same governments.

      High taxes, and high regulations are the ultimate cause. Funny, huh, the same reason fueling high home prices too!

  18. Paying more for gas, having guns confiscated, internet censorship, being deprived in detail of our civil liberties, etc are a small price to pay for Standing with the Ukraine and the WEF, amirite?

  19. Actually, fuck it. Lets just go with rationing, like the Brits in WW2, oh, and confiscating pots, pans and fencing to build weapons to defend the Ukraine.

    1. Yes and confiscating the hoard of food and Victory gardens , along with your precious metals , fuel , anything Dear Leader deems for the good of the ” Children “.

  20. They want us to pay more for gas regardless of what’s going on internationally. This is a feature not a flaw in their plan. The Great Reset. I think they are all in on it and this time they are ALL IN. John Kerry just told us that “climate change” will be fought to the very last Ukrainian if necessary.

    1. Lurch ain’t the sharpest knife in the drawer.
      He’s reading from a prepared script by his masters.

        1. Yes I know that.
          I just wanted to get a dig in on Kerry.
          Makes me feel better, reduces the pain in some way.

          2. Kerry is the most transparent & Utterly useless Climate Change promoting POS I’ve ever witnessed…Everything he says is imbued with that mantra.

          3. The guy failed at everything he done.
            There, it would follow he is going to follow on track.
            The best thing would of course be, if he faded into dark to be never seen again in the position of power.

          5. i have a sister who lives in Boston, with a head on her shoulders, she refers to natives as “massholes”. Kerry is the biggest masshole of all.

    1. It wasn’t booming 3 weeks ago when diesel was around $1.50 in Edmonton.

    2. The Global oil patch laid off or retired it’s experience and equipment gradually since 2014, especially in Canada. It’s going to take a long time to get that old tractor fired up and running on all cylinders again.

    4. The oil companies have been burned by the clowns in Ottawa one too many times. They are sitting back and taking profits. Nobody wants to invest in the junior companies that do all the exploration just to have them shut down again
      the next time the boy king and demo dolts in the states up the anti on slot cars.

      1. @Nini – “Nobody wants to invest in the junior companies that do all the exploration…”

        True, also as Garth Wood indicated “the majors” sit on their laurels especially in international markets. Canadian energy has been stalled for 7 years due to global low prices and regulation. The problem now for Canada and much of the US markets has been the divesting not only in the markets but with experienced employees at all levels and the Service equipment from rigs to water hauling and everything in between. Wireline, Coil Tubing, Downhole Tools, Fracing the list is endless. It takes allot of training and investment in both manpower and equipment to gear up to handle a “boom”, and it has mostly gone rusty, been chopped up, retired, or moved on to bigger better things,

        Things will turn around for NA junior Oil & Gas giving it enough time to re-tool and find a workaround Liberal regulations, but it will be a much longer recovery than many think regardless of higher global prices. Stocks of course will not accurately reflect the reality until enough time passes to call it a stable recovery and the Rig Counts get up and maintain historical levels.

  22. We need a poll.

    How do the people of Quebec feel about their decision to not have a pipeline through Quebec result in the death of babies in the Ukraine and the push to the brink of WW III?

    Canadian Oil would allow the world to cut off Russia military funding.

    1. I like that, reverse logic although the Frenchies are too obtuse to see past their nose or bellies.

    3. They don’t care.

      If they don’t care about other Canadians, dead babies in Ukraine are nothing to them.

      Besides, Quebec seems to excel in family murders, so …

  24. Gotta love the ones that say the carbon tax is just a one time hit to pay at the pump. It compounds ! Every good and service has the added cost as it makes its way to the consumer

    1. And don’t forget to add the GST/HST to the carbon tax. Government loves to tax the tax!

  25. I remember seeing old electrical wiring that used paper insulation between the copper conductors. I suppose all the new wiring for all the new EV superchargers will need to use the same once we have wiped out the oil and gas industry with our green initiatives.
    Hold onto your old extension chords.

    1. I am tuning up the bicycle with new bearings/races and tubes/tires.
      Maybe even a little trailer to follow along.
      That seems a bit better than walking.

        1. I will.
          I think he had the convertible Saab last time, all washed up and no blood stains.

  26. “Gas prices are so high that I can’t afford an Uber to go to the next anti-pipeline protest!”

  27. All based on a vile disgusting lie, and these vile Liberal F—ing pigs know it.

  28. Um, I’ve seen a few videos from people on Twitter displaying videos of military type vehicles (Leopards methinks) cruising the streets in Toronto, Montreal, Hamilton and Brantford just to name a few, I mean they could be filling up before Apr.1 but somehow I doubt it.
    Weird.

    1. On sale for US $ 25.00 for a pkg of 100, nice.
      I like the Biden sticker ” 1 out of 3 Biden supporters are just as stupid as the other 2 “.
      Lol.

  32. Leftists leaders will raise taxes and will block oil production and do all kinds of crazy things to make sure filling our gas tanks costs so much that we will buy their freakin awfully inneficient electric cars that will NOT change the climate anymore than dancing causes rain to fall.

    Then they will do with it beef and other meats until we all become vegetarians.

    The covid showed them how easy it is to bring us to our knees, they are drunk with tyrannical power and now they want more.

    We have entered a new dark age of feudalism ( in the pejorative sense of course ) and authoritarianism that will be bigger and uglier than any before because our advanced technology will help the tyrants tremendously.

    If you refuse to conform, they will cut off heating in your house, cut off water, cut off the power in your electric car( or only let it take you to important places such as the doctor or picking up kids at school but you will not be able to drive to a conservative event or an anti-leftist protest) , and if you still refuse to submit to their authority they will freeze your bank account.

    Your name will be in a register, your good or bad citizen score will be available to the police, the bank manager.

    Hitler, Stalin and Castro from their graves are thinking ; ” damn ! I wish I had had that much power when I was around!”

  33. May I suggest that if oil hits $200 a barrel, Zelensky be nominated for the Alberta Order of Excellence.

    Posthumously.

  34. Do you really think that Prinz Dummkopf is going to Europe for a peace pow-wow? Maybe he’s hoping he can get a few clues from what Vlady’s doing in Ukraine and use them against western Canada with the help of all the PLA soldiers who just happen to be “training” here.

  35. There is certain feeling of schadenfreude relative to the BC sect of AGW that have to pay the price, though one would think that it is not high enough.
    That is not to say that previous sentence applies to the normal people of BC.
    Once worked as the head count on the federal elections in the deep south of Okanagan.
    Happen to have the rich neighborhood at the polling station.
    Guess who they voted for.
    Yep, the socialist extremists of the eNDeePee.
    You see even the rich socialist suckers like to keep their money and want all the ‘free’ benefits.
    They can’t die fast enough.

    1. There is certain feeling of schadenfreude relative to the BC sect of AGW that have to pay the price, though one would think that it is not high enough.

      When I drive to and from my house in B. C., I use Grande Prairie as my refuelling stop. Half a tank takes me from there into Fort St. John and back to GP. There’s a reason why I do that…..

  36. Ukraine has a former comedian running the country.

    Canada has a former drama teacher running the country.

    Ukraine’s leader has risen to the occasion. His country is being razed and his capital city is being bombed. He has stayed home and appears daily defying the tyrant and rallying the citizens.

    Canada’s drama teacher disappeared at the first sign of trouble. Hiding out away from the citizens when a peaceful protest developed. Cowardice is not something the proles respect.

    1. Cowardice is not something the proles respect.

      So how do you explain his being re-elected….. twice?

  37. I will take some comfort in the knowledge that the highest gas prices will be in area’s of the country predominantly represented by liberal, NDP, or green MP’s.
    They voted for this, now they can get it good and hard.

  38. New Zealand got busted down to third world status in the late 80’s, now it’s Canada’s turn.

  39. There’s not any hope Trudeau will can the April fools’ tax. We need to prepare for a lean summer, travel won’t be affordable, food banks will be busy.

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