29 Replies to “March 29, 2024: Reader Tips”

    1. “The Municipal Government Act does not provide the Minister of Municipal Affairs with any role in the adjudication of sanctions imposed by a council under a code of conduct bylaw.”

      The Minister of Municipal Affairs has absolute power to fire municipal boards gone astray. Typically they only do it with little shithole councils where there are no political consequences. Edmonton City Council always consists of overly political incompetent knuckle dragging morons but nothing can ever be done politically because it would alarm the Marxist voters.

      1. Scar – I wonder how the petition to remove Calgary’s woke mayor is going. They have until April 4 to collect 514,000 signatures, an amount equal to 40 per cent of Calgary’s population in 201.

  7. Dear Danielle Smith:

    I read recently your observation made in Sodom-On-Rideau at the House of Commons operations committee that the upcoming federal carbon price increase is “inhumane.”

    So brave.

    Standing up to facism like that, you deserve a medal.

    Or something, depending on one’s point of view.

    Perhaps scorn.

    Personally, I take the latter approach. Wait. What? How can that possibly be? How can I, Dumb Biker, a staunch small-c conservative my entire life, possibly disagree with such…reason?

    ‘Cause you and your band of willfully ignorant, under worked, over paid so-called “conservatives” accept this entire Globull Warming fraud hook, line & sinker. How else can we interpret the fact that you have precisely the identical end goal as the Commies & Liars, merely shoved back 15 years (from 2035 to 2050)? Tell me, how is, “Vote for us, we’re delaying the final solution by 15 years” an acceptable election slogan? We may as well vote for the Commies & hit rock bottom sooner, as it is well known that in order to recover, one must begin from the start.

    Why delay the inevitable? To what end? So that you can inveigle yet one more generation into the Globull Warming mantra?

    The entire lot of you need to reverse your cranial-rectal inversion & deal with this garbage now. You claim that Blackie’s carbon tax increase is inhumane. You’ve accepted the premise and are merely negotiating the terms. By doing so you have lost the battle already.

    I’d go a step further and posit that you & your governments’ denial of the truths in this matter are far more injurious to Albertans than a lousy $15/tonne carbon tax increase. When the power finally goes out in a cold spell (and it will, no matter how many mythical bird & bat choppers you erect, backed up with unicorn-fart batteries, all subsidized with my hard fought tax dollars) you and your denialist comrades will receive your comeuppance as killers.

    I hope your conscience will rest easy.

    The denizens of this erstwhile fine province may not let you off so easy.

    You want to be seen as providing a service? Actually reducing harm to Albertans? Stop this shit in its tracks. Not tomorrow, not today, but yesterday.

    If not, I may just as well vote for the Commies & bring this to a head sooner.

    Regards,

    Dumb Biker

    Carbon price increase is ‘inhumane,’ Alberta premier tells committee

    https://globalnews.ca/news/10389793/carbon-price-increase-danielle-smith/

    1. You’re right in your position but you don’t understand politics, the CO2/Climate Emergency hoax is taught in school and pervasive in pop culture/media. Politicians have to tread very carefully to avoid pushing themselves into what might be perceived as a fringe position, it’s up to the scientific community and individuals in their personal circles to change public opinion on this great hoax. Until the public starts to clue in (and more are every day) all politicians have to tread very carefully if they wish to remain mainstream.

      1. I understand politics just fine, thankyouverymuch.

        I also understand yellow-bellied cowardice. An apt description for your average politician.

        I also understand that the pricks work for us, not the other way around. The sooner we hold their feet to the fire, the quicker this shit stops. They aren’t going to fix problems. We, the people, will. I don’t have enough years in me waiting for their “Road to Damascus” moment.

        Contact your local reps & tell them flat out that you’ll vote for the Commies & Liars unless they get their poop inna group. Tell ’em you’ll run against them next election. Get on your local constituency associations, run for the provincial boards, hell, sign up for the local school & library boards. Get involved instead of merely bloviating from the anonymity & safety of your armchair.

        Do what a bunch of Albertans already have. There is much more to come, including dealing w/ this Globull Warming BS.

    2. I think many leaders are banking on the climate change scam collapsing in the coming chaos and maelstrom.

      1. I have had the good fortune to meet Tom and hear him speak on several occasions. A wonderful guy who preaches only one thing: climate truths.

  11. U-Tube has some interesting videos about the operation of a number of ships and after the ship-bridge collision this week I thought I’d throw this conspiracy theory out for some comment. Hypothetically just suppose the DALI collision was a covert attempt by Russia as payback for the Nordstream explosion. Naw! Couldn’t be! Those things only happen in Mission Impossible Movies, right. I mean, Right? I mean America was p*ssed that Germany industry was paying for Russian gas and thus helping the Russian economy. So Russian payback time, maybe Russia was p*ssed that America was sending aid to Ukraine.

  12. All Canadian provinces are now sanctuary provinces. The CBC is very proud of the role it played in bringing this about:

    “Newfoundland and Labrador has informed the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) that it will no longer incarcerate people detained solely for immigration purposes in its provincial jails as of March 31, 2025, according to information obtained by Radio-Canada.

    The province sent official notice to the agency on March 12, 2024, eight days after a Radio-Canada story stated it was, at the time, the only Canadian province intending to maintain the controversial practice.

    The detention of migrants for administrative reasons in the same facilities as people charged with or convicted of crimes has been denounced by many experts as a violation of international law.”

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/all-10-provinces-to-stop-jailing-migrants-after-newfoundland-vows-to-end-practice-1.7150085

    1. I’m wondering if this explains the behaviour of the Ontario PC party.

  14. “Since the beginning, it’s been obvious that Gaza was in many ways a fight between International Law and the US’s “rules-based order”.

    This whole episode around the UN resolution is a perfect illustration of this. There is no debate amongst international law scholars that resolutions by the UN Security Council that “demand” certain actions are binding (good explanation by a legal scholar here: https://verfassungsblog.de/why-todays-un-security-council-resolution-demanding-an-immediate-ceasefire-is-legally-binding/). In fact resolutions by the council ARE international law, article 25 of the UN Charter clearly states: “The Members of the United Nations agree to accept and carry out the decisions of the Security Council in accordance with the present Charter.”

    Yet the US now argues that the “rule” is in fact different: “It’s a non-binding resolution, so there’s no impact at all on Israel”.

    Where is this rule written, that somehow when the UNSC “demands an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan respected by all parties leading to a lasting sustainable ceasefire”, it’s non-binding and “there’s no impact at all” on the warring party? Nowhere, that’s the beauty of the rules-based order: the rules are made-up in the moment to fit the interests of the U.S. and its henchmen, depending on the circumstances.”

    https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1772818294363521429

    All killing of all innocents must stop immediately. Everyone knows this.

    1. 1. That “demand” runs counter to the Geneva conventions on the Rules of War so there needs to be an impeccable line of reasoning as to why the new law must supersede the old one.
      2. Israel as the defendant has the right to prosecute the war to a successful conclusion by said “laws.”
      3. There is no law that says one interpretation of a religious system must supersede any other interpretation of the religious system, or indeed, any other religious system or international law.
      4. The war can cease if the belligerent, Hamas, surrenders. That there is no restriction or even request for the belligerent to do so renders this “demand” invalid.

      At least from what I can remember of international law governing the rules of war. If anyone nows better can you please correct me.

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