“No More Bollywood Dancing, Justin Trudeau.”
I’m DYING.
“We are your white fringe minority!” say two Indian freedom protestors in a message to Justin Trudeau! pic.twitter.com/BLv58gkxAw
— Angelo Isidorou (@angeloisidorou) February 5, 2022
A gold standard
When fiat currency fails, the most marketable commodity will find its way back for widespread use as money.
…in the barber shops and restaurants and hotels that constitute the main strip of one dusty little outpost after another, you’ll find prices displayed in grams of gold.
How It’s Done
Some valuable insight.
Mikhaila Peterson: How we built the Jordan Peterson media empire.
In 2016 my dad, Jordan Peterson, went viral. That sudden fame and all the controversy that came with it was incredibly hard on my family, but it also opened up boatloads of opportunity. My dad took advantage of it all. He said yes to everything that came his way, especially podcast invitations, and his family helped him make time for it all. I’ve been the CEO of his company Luminate Enterprises, Ltd., since the beginning of 2018, when he published his book 12 Rules for Life.
A fascinating look behind the curtain. Read the whole thing.
Galt Oil, Inc
Canadians watching Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election might be tempted to find comfort in their certainty that such foreign interference could never happen here.
Except it already has. And while the Russian government at least denies interfering in American political affairs, the perpetrators who meddled in Canadian elections have publicly trumpeted their success in devising and executing their plan aimed at helping elect who they wanted.
And now they’ve come for agriculture, while even purportedly conservative provincial governments remain asleep at the wheel.
Galt Oil, Inc.
“There is no work here. And it’s not because there’s no oil here. It’s because you are systematically – the province and the federal government – destroying this industry.”
h/t Ken (Kulak)
Galt Pipelines, Inc.
One of the largest foreign holders of Canadian energy stocks says investors are turning away from the country, frustrated over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s failure to get pipelines built to ease a record discount for oil-sands crude.
In a letter to the prime minister, Darren Peers, an analyst and investor at Los Angeles-based Capital Group Cos., warns investors and companies will continue to avoid the Canadian energy sector unless more is done to improve market access.
“Capital Group’s energy investments are increasingly shifting to other jurisdictions and that is likely to continue without strong government action,” Peers wrote in a letter dated Oct. 19. “I hope that your government will be even more proactive in securing market access which will assure the competitiveness of Canadian energy companies.”
Related. The price of Western Canadian Select closed at $13.46 US a barrel on Thursday. Meanwhile, the American benchmark price, West Texas Intermediate, closed at $56.49 US.
h/t Ken (Kulak)
Bye, Bye Angela
Douglas Murray has written a comprehensive article about what went wrong with the “EU Vision” and what may happen now that Angela Merkel is soon gone:
But the mistake which was to prove the turning point for her chancellorship, and the European project, was the migration crisis. At its peak, in 2015, Merkel showed not only her immovability, but a unilateralism which was staggering. Throughout that period, Merkel seemed to think that she had the right to continue making decisions on behalf of an entire continent. When she unilaterally announced the suspension of normal border and asylum procedures in August that year, inviting refugees to Germany and declaring ‘We can do this’, she consulted few of her counterparts and listened to the warnings of none.
Only as Germany became overwhelmed did the Chancellor’s presumption become clear — as did the consequences. Just as Europe had in her view shared the burden during the financial crisis, so should fellow member states split the bill that Merkel had run up alone in Berlin, in her one heady moment of moral intoxication. But the rest of Europe turned away. From Westminster to Warsaw, nobody wanted to share the burden for decisions that they knew their own electorates would not forgive.
Galt Province
Galt Pipelines
Calgary-based Crescent Point Energy is cutting their workforce by 17%.
Now, Suncor Energy has announced that any expansion of crude production has been put on hold.
Related.
I remember when the NDP supposedly fought for working people. The steel toed set. Truckers, pipefitters, welders, crane operators, rock & tunnel and miners. Oh & the other unions that rely on a strong economy like teachers & nurses. Blue collars take heed: you’ve been abandoned. https://t.co/zTPdEW8DAh
— Kris Sims (@kris_sims) September 4, 2018
h/t RALD
Art Of The Fail
“8,000 jobs disappeared this morning, and one of them was mine”
The #TransTrudeau Pipeline
The #TransTrudeau Pipeline
@DrJacobsRad – Did Trudeau just spend $4.5 billion of taxpayer’s dollars NOT to build a pipeline?
That’s my bet.
Discuss.
Galt, Incorporated
The president and chief executive of Cenovus Energy warns investor confidence in Canada will erode further if the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion doesn’t get built.
“Canada really is at a crossroads,” Alex Pourbaix told BNN Bloomberg in an interview Thursday.
“This country has extraordinary oil resources, the third-largest resources in the world, and a track record for responsible development,” Pourbaix said. “And I think right now the international community – and particularly the investment community — is watching.”
But ‘going Galt’ isn’t just for pipelines anymore.
Car2Go, the prominent car-sharing company that claims 80,000 users in Toronto, will stop operations in the city on May 31, it announced Thursday in a release.
The company blames city hall, saying a new free-floating car-sharing pilot program passed by council in April after months of debate is overly restrictive and renders its service “inoperable.” Specifically, it called the parking permit fees of about $1,500 per vehicle “unprecedented.”
“City councillors have passed a heavily restricted pilot that ultimately weakens mobility options for Torontonians,” said Car2Go North America chief executive Paul DeLong in the release. […]
Mayor John Tory issued an email statement accusing Car2Go of choosing “confrontation over collaboration with city council.”
Maybe he should just sue them back into business.
h/t Raid, Dan T.