It’s Saturday On Turtle Island

11 Replies to “It’s Saturday On Turtle Island”

1. I’m surprised we haven’t blown a huge crater or hazardous materials that can’t be cleaned up on some of our highways and bridges with the amount of incompetence our politicians have shown in trying to switch over from fossil fuels.
   Anything that is burnable, our politicians deem environmentally hazardous.
   Even those old wind turbines could be recycled into different products or put in a furnace if our politicians were serious on the environment.

2. “Justin’s transportation minister”

   No surprise at all. Trains are bl00dy expensive to operate, and passenger trains haven’t made a significant profit for decades. And now our unnamed Prime Minister continually slaps more taxes, regulations, carbon fees etc on the railroads? And I bet if they raised ticket prices to reflect all the above, plus workers “working from home” resulting in half-empty trains, and railway workers out on CERB or – Heaven help us! – unvaccinated:

   1) nobody could afford their tickets,
   2) everybody would car-pool instead of taking the train, and
   3) everybody would complain, and said transportation minister would be pushing-through a cap on commuter ticket prices ( – to “SAAAAAVE THE EARTH!!!”, of course – ) and the railroads would be forced to eat it.

   Far better to bite the bullet now, and just turn-off passenger trains – if made to produce for lower than your costs, better not to produce at all. And the transportation minister is doing a FINE job – the Prime Minister thinks so, and nobody else’s opinion matters.

3. It’s to hell with, not the hell with. What the hell?

4. Trivia question. There are three townships in Ontario named after Lady Simcoe’s dogs. Can anyone name them?

   1. Evidently not..stumped me

      1. Tiny, Tay, and Flos.

         1. How soon before they revert back to their “original” names?

         2. Very nice! Yes, I was stumped, I was thinking “United Townships of Mopsy and Cottontail”.

5. To be fair, Via rail has been a joke since Moby Dick was a minnow.
   Shameful, because for shorter trips its way better than air travel.
   I’m not letting the ugly orc of a minister off the hook, but he’s just as incompetent as the rest.

   Everything Liberals touch turns to shit and that’s why Canada is becoming a shithole.
   But that’s their plan: fill everyone with frustration and then despair, make everyone wholly reliant on the government and proclaim that things were so much worse before.
   And don’t you dare challenge the narrative.

6. Re: Civil servants taught that Britain is racist

   That’s amazing: Whiteys being told that they should never contradict their ethnic colleagues. I mean, this is implied in much of the white privilege bullshit meant to demoralize whitey but I never expected to see it so boldly stated.

7. Why would anyone in the emerging markets wish to shackle themselves and their future to a monetary system and global trade mechansisms built by racist colonialist Empires, for the benefit of the wealthy elites in said racist colonialist Empires?

   I think the answers to this question are being given by the BRICS and the Saudis.