Matt Taibbi: Twenty years ago, maybe even ten, I’d have found these stories about Elon Von Hitler-Musk detonating thousands of campus-related jobs horrifying. But the education sob stories now flying off the presses are a Burj Khalifa of “needs context.” A gigantic lie of omission is a constant feature of these stories…
New Rules
🚨 #BREAKING: Columbia University in NYC, the location of violent pro-Hamas riots, has just BACKED DOWN to President Trump after he pulled $400 MILLION in federal funding to the school
They will now:
➡️ Ban mask wearing on campus during “protests”
➡️ Hire 36 “special officers” to remove/arrest rioters on campus
➡️ Other commitments to be announcedThe school already began cooperating with ICE to remove foreign jihadists, and that will continue.
Juxtapose: Double Standards for Jew-Haters?
Heading For The Exits
I’m pretty sure that berating a company for leaving Canada not only confirms their belief that it was the right decision, but likely encourages others to consider doing the same.
Montreal-based TFI said it has decided to change its legal domicile to the U.S. because about 70 per cent of its operations are based there. The announcement annoyed the Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec, a public pension manager that has long fought to prevent companies from leaving the French-speaking province.
“The company has not informed us of its intentions, and we will express our dissatisfaction,” CDPQ spokesperson Kate Monfette in an emailed statement.
“Sorry you were fired, tell us what happened”
But watch it from the beginning when you have time.
The Peril of “Professional Tenants”
Being a landlord in Ottawa these days is often not enjoyable:
“I can’t believe this was the place I used to live, this was my family home. It just smells like a zoo, even a zoo smells better,” Salter said.
The 29-year-old takes in the damage she says was caused by her previous tenants. Salter says they only paid rent for three months of their 13-month tenancy, owing her more than $35,000.
She invited CBC for a tour of the property just minutes after she got the keys back following a lengthy battle at Ontario’s Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB).
The tour revealed damaged baseboards, holes in the walls, broken lights and faucets, a clogged toilet, broken banisters and carpets covered in stains.
“Fake It Til You Make It”
Hearts And Minds
Trudeau's Christmas vacation at Red Mountain is pissing off the locals
The Prime Minister is cutting in front of the lines on the ski lifts like he's the king
His security detail is also clogging up the hotel and made their experience horrible for the regular customers pic.twitter.com/PtIjT7PXKi
— The Pleb 🌍 Reporter (@truckdriverpleb) December 26, 2024
h/t Mike
Digging Your Own Grave
As the post office inevitably transitions to a horrifically expensive junk mail delivery service, this allegedly climate-change driven “death trap” is starting to look more like a suicide pact. The postal strike has certainly pushed me to go paperless for all my critical invoices and to use Amazon or a courier for parcel delivery from now on. I’m quite certain I’m not the only one.
Enslin, 41, has worked at Canada Post for 16 years and said the extreme weather brought on by climate change — whether it’s inhaling smoke from wildfires or delivering mail during storms — has added significant physical and mental pressure to their jobs.
And that’s one of the reasons postal workers are demanding more support for these challenges in their new contract, he said.
It Was His Understanding There Would Be No Math
A total 880 Canada Revenue Agency employees fraudulently claimed pandemic relief cheques, the highest figure disclosed to date, Revenue Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said yesterday. It followed claims by an Agency executive that “not very many” employees were cheats: “We have a zero tolerance policy for fraud.”
A Nice Parting Gift
Most wage earners would not be surprised to see a recession in the near future; for many, it’s already begun as prices have outstripped wage growth for many months.
Over 20.5% accumulated inflation over the past four years, government deficit spending has reached nearly $2 trillion annually despite record tax receipts and a growing economy, public debt has reached almost $36 trillion, and the monthly job figure includes an astonishing 43,000 new government jobs each month. In 2023, nearly 25% of all job gains were government ones, and the entirety of the growth of the labor force in the past four years came from foreign workers.
The Biden-Harris administration has left a massive time bomb for Trump and Elon Musk’s government efficiency office…
Unicorn Economics
There’s no magic formula that’s going to make a ponzi scheme sound, but that doesn’t stop a lot of academics from trying to find one. I also have to wonder how the author comes to the conclusion that Canadians pay less taxes than they used to.
The income taxes paid by Canadian millennials are being squeezed by population aging. The typical 35-year-old now pays approximately 20-per-cent to 40-per-cent more for boomers’ healthy retirements than boomers paid as young people to support the smaller number of seniors in their day.
This extra tax burden will only get heavier in the years ahead as Ottawa enacts planned increases for Old Age Security (OAS) and the Canada Health Transfer, and provinces increase medical spending for their aging populations.
The Children Meet Their Future
Generation Entitlement crashes into a job market squeeze.
Sana has been no stranger to rejections, as she has applied to hundreds of jobs since getting laid off last year.
“The hiring system is pretty broken,” said Sana, 27, who did not want her last name used because she continues to look for work.
She notes the issues she has faced are not unique to her industry. In fact, she is one of the large number of under-35-year-olds who are driving an increase in the unemployment rate in Canada.
“There’s no loyalty from organizations; they’re not approaching things from a way that’s recognizing the systemic failures that they have, like actually supporting and uplifting young people.”
But wait, there’s more punchline!
Sana, who lives with her family, said she did some unpaid work for a company that specialized in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) work before landing her first full-time job there after completing her master’s program.
“It was definitely a role that I learned the most from, but it was also exploitative,” Sana said, explaining that she worked in an fast-paced and demanding environment for little pay and no work-life balance. She said she ended up working long hours, sometimes ending the workday at 8 p.m.
You knew it was coming.
The Children Are Our Future
My open letter to @ChappellRoan: pic.twitter.com/lyf5rb4Sma
— Bill Maher (@billmaher) October 12, 2024
Collective Farming
Why are the Tories split on this issue? Do some of them actually think that the supply mismanaged dairy and poultry sectors should be allowed to hold the rest of the economy hostage?
This week, farming groups and former trade negotiators took turns trying to convince the upper chamber to either support or reject the Bloc’s private member’s bill to protect supply management from future trade negotiations.
The government voted in favour of the legislation last year, as did most Liberal MPs, the Bloc, the NDP and the Greens. The Conservatives were split on the vote.
Fly The Expensive Skies
If you think air fares are already high in Canada’s centrally planned airline market, just wait.
The airline has offered to increase the aviators’ pay by 4% annually over three years, plus an upfront 26% pay boost as well as other benefits, according to a source who asked not to be named to discuss confidential details of the agreement.
The 42% compensation increase over the four-year contract is expected to cost the carrier C$1.9 billion.
“This is a population rife for Leftist hatecraft …”
As many of you know, I’m currently reading (when I have time to read) about the historical facts of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, which are shocking. We know our kids are being made into a new Red Guard, but as I learn, I see it far more in the illegal aliens in our countries.
The details about how Mao, together with his general Lin Biao and propagandist Chen Boda, were able to build (1962-1966) and then unleash (June-August 1966) the Red Guard in China, especially Beijing, did not make me think of our brainwashed kids. They remind me of “migrants.”
Aside from the raging Communist hatred and focus on the person of Mao, there are two key forces that created the Red Guard:
1) A “dreamer” population whipped up against class enemies, that’s new to the population (kids in China)
2) A two-tier legal system protecting them.In China, Mao unleashed relentless propaganda, with the help of Lin and Chen, mostly targeting children, that
(a) extolled revolutionary heroes and martyrs
(b) decried secret class enemies through all the ranks of society.
Great Moments In Socialism
FDR began the food stamp Program in 1939.
The food stamp program is currently $120 billion / year
The food item most commonly bought on this program : soda
“You had one job”
More here.
Progressive parents have brought up a generation of entitled, selfish brats
In the UK, several “Just Stop Oil” protesters have received 4 to 5 year prison sentences. The folks at Podcast of the Lotus Eaters outline what happened.
Every one of these protesters appears to come from wealthy, very entitled lives:
It’s not hard to poke fun at today’s cohort of climate activists. The sheer number of double-barrelled names makes writing jokes feel too easy. But what isn’t so funny is watching the whining from these posh protesters when faced with the consequences of their actions.
I am die-hard when it comes to the freedom to protest. I’d like to see the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act repealed and the talk of buffer zones around political offices squashed. It’s outrageous that citizens now have to prove to police officers that they’re being the right level of “noisy” to freely challenge our political leaders.
If Women Ran The World
Maybe the Secret Service Isn’t a Vehicle for Female Empowerment