December 4, 2020 – Reader Tips

Reader Tips 47 Comments

In honour of the birthday of a dear friend of mine in Calgary, tonight we offer you Alberta, as performed by Eric Clapton.

Your generous contribution of tips would be much appreciated!

47 Replies to “December 4, 2020 – Reader Tips”

    1. America and Canada have both been dead for a while now. Our failure to see that it has been happening has culminated in businesses being destroyed and millions of lives turned up side down and the entire population being placed under medical lockdowns, FOR A FLU VIRUS. The amazing treason in the US with an election fraud that any tyrant would be envious of, is just one more failure to “see” on the part of the people. I and others like me have watched the loss of freedom for decades now and our voices were ignored by voters and politicos. We have lost it all if we do not stand up to the tyranny that is now literally telling us when where and how we can go about our daily business, be that work, pleasure or just grocery shopping. WILL ANYONE FREAKING STAND UP AND SAY NO WITH SO MUCH FORCE THAT THE POLICE AND ALL GOVERNMENT WILL BACK DOWN? If not, then enjoy your slavery because this is now what you have become, a slave. Put your masks on and the f up.

    1. Wait till PM Queerdoh signs on and shuts down Alberta oil.

      But can’t import Middle Eastern oil fast enough. Now if Alberta were to sign over the oil sands to Quebec…..

      1. B.A.D.R. – Re: “Now If Alberta were to…” I thought we did that 30 years ago…

  3. Davenport’s first rule of how the world really works, “A politician will never, ever, get a better job once they are out of office.”

    1. Once they start collecting their big fat pension, why would they need a better job?

      1. Well there are UN missions, navel gazing inquiries, board memberships among other nuggets that follow a politician’s career. Name one field of endeavour where a loser can move from a short term $100K/year job to become a multi millionaire in a few years.

        1. And…don’t forget the all expense paid first class travel. Think of the benefits of traveling during the CV-19 plandemic, no traffic anywhere, empty airlines, room service at the Ritz. What can be better with the hoi polloi tucked out of sight?

  5. And now your Canadians are racist bastards story for today. Angry Adolf’s loyal CBC is excited that black federal employees are suing the government. Apparently they are not getting promoted to management positions fast enough, and their co-workers are racist bastards. No word yet on whether Justin will make a tearful apology and give each of them ten million dollars. As for myself, I would be just happy if after several hours on the phone trying to reach someone in Veterans Affairs, that I could talk to someone who speaks English. And CNN is excited about its interview with Dementia Joe and Heels Up Harris last night. Lots of questions on how wonderful Joe is, and great explanations from Joe on how wonderful he is. China Joe promises that the virus will go away when he orders everyone to wear a mask.

    2. OJ: you bring back painful memories of having to deal with Veterans Affairs on behalf of my father-in-law, a flying office in the RCAF who survived 30 combat missions over occupied Europe in WWII. He was in Quebec so I had to deal with Veterans Affairs “officials” based in that province. They were all officious, miserable SOBs who didn’t care the slightest for veterans. They had their guaranteed government jobs and they knew nothing you could do would make them do the job they were being extremely well paid to do. It tried my patience to the max. to not scream at them over the phone.

  7. Emperor Justinian The First will address his loyal media this morning from the steps of his Rideau Palace. He will explain how wonderful he is and how any problems is Harper’s fault. He then heads for his winter palace at Harrington Lake for a quiet weekend.

  9. Blacklock’s Reporter informs us this morning that Infrastructure Barbie blew one and a half million dollars on public relations and trips at her new bank that finance’s projects. The bank has also spent three quarters of its office budget on salaries and benefits. No actual projects though. And the carbon tax will cost farmers over two hundred and thirty five million dollars. Well, I suppose farmers could always apply for jobs planting trees for Blackie. We could then import our food from China.

  10. For today’s humour break – a comedian from Quebec who has the backbone to criticize the Quebec government for wasting money on language policing during the China virus “pandemic” (They want to ban the use of the term “Take Out” in the context of buying food from restaurants to eat elsewhere). Anglo refugees from Quebec should particularly enjoy this.
    [Note: when the comedian refers to OQLF he means the Office quebecoise de la langue francaise, aka the language police]

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Reop-4gArcM

    2. Ah ha,hahaha!
      As an Anglo ex-Montrealer and an historical English person I can honestly say this guy is for real and he’s got the culture down pat. What a hoot!

      Thanks for the introduction to this
      comedian- MJ from Ottawa.

      N.R.

      1. N.R. As another “historical English person” from Quebec, now resident in Ontario, I am glad to hear that that you enjoyed it. Based on some of the comedian’s other videos (well worth watching by the way), I am pretty sure he is an Italian Canadian, so he is likely tri-lingual (Italian, French & English).

        As a side note, when I was in public school in Quebec in the fifties and sixties, I was in the English Catholic system. There were lots of Italians in my classes. They were the children of recent immigrants. The French Catholics didn’t want them in their school system so, being Catholics, the parents sent the kids to the English Catholic system. Of course, 15 years later the Quebec government, because of declining birth rates, had a change of heart and moved to force as many Italian kids as possible to go to French schools.

        1. Exactly! Yes, right about how the French wanted to remain pure ‘Laine’ in their school systems! (More below)

          I watched a couple of Martin’s youtubes and I plan to enjoy some of the others this evening.

          It’s a balmy 13°C here and I’m taking advantage of the weather to window wash. The exterior ones out back face the southern sunshine so I’m getting some Vitamin D action at the same time. What a day! There is a huge park with a tree lined pathway out back. People are walking their dogs or jogging by. What a day!

          This Martin comedian is killing me with his comedy. He’s got the French Canadian thing in his DNA and I too suspected Italian roots when he mentioned “Nona” in his routine as it is the Italian word for Grandma. He definitely has the handsome Italian dark good looks.

          Yes – I do recall now that you said you grew up in Montreal. I went through the same school system as yourself. Grew up a few blocks from the mighty Saint Lawrence River in the deep South and went to school with the descendants of Caucasian Europeans and Anglos. There were English, Irish, Scots, Polish, Italians and a few Portuguese, Ukrainians and even some French kids whose parents wanted them in the English school system. What a mixture! We drove our teachers crazy! Also went to Dawson College CEGEP where the other half of Anglo Montreal hails from, i.e. the kids from the P.S.B.G.M. (Now under one roof, called the Montreal English School Board)

          I sometimes miss Montreal. Spent my youth there, did some bar hopping on Crescent Street and enjoyed the theatre scene as a seasonal ticketholder at the Centaur Theatre. Mostly did house parties though, bars were costly. I don’t get home much now as my parents and brother have now passed. I do, however, get cable T.V. and watch CFCF / CTV local News there to keep track of what’s going on in the City. It’s interesting to see all the changes going on.

          It is for this reason that I’ll include this video. I see Martin feels like I do about the new Champlain Bridge. What hideous lights!!

          “Martin’s take on the new Champlain Bridge”
          https://youtu.be/vavLNKOQw_U

          P.S. Thought I’d share the title of the excellent book I’m currently reading, perhaps you’d like it. It’s by Joe King and entitled: “Baron Byng To Bagels: Tales Of Jewish Montreal” Published by The Montreal Jewish Publication Society, March 2006.
          ODD TIDBIT: Dominion Square in downtown Mtl. used to be where the first Jewish Cemetery was in Montreal.

          Ciao,
          N.R.

          1. N.R. – I have now watched about 10 of Martin’s videos and can’t stop laughing. I see him now as an Italian-anglo that is expressing in his Quebec-french accent all of the many frustrations and aggravations of the remaining Montreal anglos.

            I married a young woman from Chambly (an anglo) and crossed over the old Champlain bridge many times – it was always being repaired and in danger of collapsing.

            I will look for the book you recommend. I went from my English-Catholic tribe (mainly Irish & Italian) in Montreal to McGill as a 17-year-old and was instantly subjected to cultural stock. I met Jewish Montrealers for the first time and all of a sudden was reading Mordecai Richler. What an eye-opener to another part of Montreal I knew nothing about.

        2. @7:23 pm OttawaMJ —
          “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz” is a favourite novel of mine. As you might already know, it was, in essence, Richler’s autobiography. It meant more colorful reading than novels like “Silas Marner” which was what they force fed us in our neck of the woods, back in the day. Very boring stuff, by comparison, to say the least.

          From the current nonfiction by Joe King, I read that Richler went to St Urbain Street’s Baron Byng High School (1921-1980) The school graduated some of the most important figures in Montreal history. The Gazette reported, in a 1980 story, “for decades Baron Byng students led the province in the high school leaving exams.”

          Richer wrote about the school:
          ” We were the progeny of taxi drivers, clothing factory cutters, junk dealers, peddlers and sewing machine operators, enjoined to do better or else, and so we did.”

           The words, “or else” … how quintessentially Richleresque, eh?

          In January 2021, it’ll be 20 years since Mordecai Richler’s death at age 70. Too bad he left us so soon. We could’ve had many more books from him.

          P.S.
          Btw, I see his name is Matthew Giuffrida. There’s a multitude of videos. Will have to email my sister in Montreal about him. She’ll be thrilled. Thanks again!
          Have you seen this one yet?
          Watch “MARTIN | Road Rage” on YouTube
          https://youtu.be/iOK8dfGyMsE

          It’s the W/E – have a good one!
          N.R.

  11. Statistics Canada has just released its report on employment for November. The legacy media will provide numerous interpretations about what they consider the most important numbers in the report. None of them will tell you what should be a central part of their reporting, namely the sharp contrast between the private and public sectors.

    In November, employment in the public sector was 1.6% higher than it was a year ago. This despite the fact that hundreds of thousands of public sector employees are receiving full pay and benefits, but are at home not doing any work.

    Meanwhile in the private sector, employment has fallen by 3.3% over the year. For the self-employed, jobs have fallen by 4.5%.

    How the public sector has prospered and the private sector has suffered from the China virus “pandemic” should be a major story in the news media, but it has yet to be even mentioned, let alone put in the headlines.

    https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/201204/t002a-eng.htm

  12. Blackie is winning friends around the world again. His loyal Globe and Mail reports that India has lodged an official protest over our little dictator supporting farmer demonstrations.

    1. Ah! The loyal G&M “and for the invitation mistakenly given to a Sikh extremist”

      Trudeau said previously that he was concerned about the protests in India and that Canada would always support the right of farmers to be heard – remarks the Indian government now says amount to interference in its affairs and potentially damaging to its relations with Canada.

      “Canada will always stand up for the right of peaceful protest anywhere around the world. And we’re pleased to see moves toward de-escalation and dialogue,” Trudeau said Friday when asked about India’s criticism of his remarks.

      Many of the farmers are Sikhs, and Indian media reports say Trudeau is playing to Canadians of Sikh origin by wading into the matter.

      Trudeau has been facing criticism in India from politicians and pundits since his appearance on Monday in a video town hall meeting with the Canadian Sikh community to celebrate the festival of Guru Nanak Dev Ji Gurpurab, which marks the birthday of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism.

      It wasn’t the first time Trudeau has offended Indian sensibilities. He was widely criticized during his February 2018 trip to the country for dressing up in local garb, and for the invitation mistakenly given to a Sikh extremist to one of his events during that visit.

      On Friday, the Indian foreign ministry posted a statement that said Canadian High Commissioner Nadir Patel had been “summoned” to its headquarters and told that comments by “the Canadian prime minister, some cabinet ministers and members of Parliament on issues relating to Indian farmers constitute an unacceptable interference in our internal affairs.”

      The statement also said the comments “encouraged gatherings of extremist activities in front of our high commission and consulates in Canada that raise issues of safety and security.” It called on Canadian political leaders “to refrain from pronouncements that legitimize extremist activism.”

      The statement said that if “such actions” continued they would have “seriously damaging impact on ties between India and Canada.”

    2. He cares about foreign farmers, he cares about farmers in Quebec, but when it comes to farmers in western Canada, he doesn’t give a rat’s patootie.

  15. Among the pop stars of the last 70 years, how many have composed and recorded a song as a tribute to veterans? Chris de Burgh may be the only one. His song “The Soldier” is very moving, and in this video it is accompanied by WWI photos of what appear to be mainly Canadian troops in action in France, with one photo from a military hospital in Edmonton.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfK6dPKMG1o&t=12s

  16. In today’s Chinada news:

    “Beijing has become the mainstream now in Chinese newspapers or magazine here,” he said. “I cannot find a real independent and non-partisan newspaper here reporting Chinese affairs. I cannot find one for you.
    …
    The pro-Beijing perspective is amplified now by free newspapers distributed to the Chinese-Canadian community, some of which Ho suspects are actually being funded — directly or indirectly — by the People’s Republic.

    He worries about the impact of all this on the 1.8-million-strong community, that it will make people less likely to challenge Beijing or push for a stronger Canadian stance toward China.”

    https://ottawacitizen.com/news/canada/inside-canadas-chinese-language-media-beijing-has-become-the-mainstream-says-ex-sing-tao-editor/wcm/cd854f92-d43d-455c-bb25-b5e0d19a6d9b

    1. beyond too little too late. Canada and America have allowed the same thing and twadels riding is rife with those who hate us. Too bad they would not hate him first.

  19. Both Rex Murphy and Conrad Black have new stories at the National Post. Black’s is long but one of his best.

  21. Oh my God! America is so screwed. Just watched Dementia Joe’s press conference. What an embarrassment. And of course the so called journalists asked him questions on how wonderful he is and how evil the Republicans are.

  22. Two personal mask incidents here in Edmonton today.

    Earlier today, I went to a nearby shopping centre to buy groceries. Afterwards, I went to drop something in a postbox by one of the entrances. I started chatting with a young chap who was outside minding his own business. Neither of us wore a mask.

    An elderly couple came along and she started berating him and, presumably, me as well because we were bare-faced. They went through the entrance and he started moving in the same direction. Just as he reaches for the door, she angrily pulled the door shut on him.

    No accounting for the rudeness of some people, eh?

    Fortunately, the second incident was much more pleasant.

    While I was at the checkout, without a mask, one of my fellow customers came up to me and introduced himself. We first met when I had set up my telescope outside when we had the partial eclipse a few years ago.

    He thanked me for that as it inspired him to do some stargazing with his kids. I mentioned about Jupiter and Saturn being visible in the southern sky and he knew all about it.

    That conversation might never have happened if I had worn a mask.

  23. The Dear Leader’s instructions have no doubt gone out to the legacy media, which he continues to prop up with taxpayer money: “Do not, I repeat, do not report on this news”

    “The US hopes to be able to immunize 20 million people against COVID-19 this month — and 100 million by the end of February, according to a leader of the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed.”

    https://nypost.com/2020/12/03/us-hopes-to-vaccinate-20m-this-year-100m-by-the-end-of-february/

  24. Chang at Fox News website explains how China is collecting DNA from around the world, to develop more bio weapon viruses.

    1. That’s Xim/xer/xit Tam’s greatest dream.

      There’ll be lots of people here in Edmonton who’d gladly go along with it.

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