Category: Great Moments In Socialism

More Pavilions At Folkfest

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All cultures are equal, except yours.

When Stephen Taylor read a CBC Nova Scotia story about the imminent closure of Parks Canada’s Canadian Register of Historic Places website, he knew he had to act.

The register is a national searchable database of historic places recognized by federal, provincial, territorial and local governments.

It contains about 13,500 listings and is slated for decommissioning this spring.

“Reading into it… I felt it would be a tragedy to lose that resource,” Taylor said.

“I felt there was a huge urgency to preserve it, ironically preserving our history, even though that was the point of the original website.”

As a partner and chief technical officer at Shift Media Strategies, Toronto-based Taylor knows a thing or two about web technologies.

That weekend, Taylor used artificial intelligence tools to download all of the data on the old Parks Canada site and rebuild it using modern web standards.

Pretty sure he’ll be arrested.

If Wishes Were Mortgages…

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Mortgage broker Ron Butler goes off on the concept of “blanket appraisals” in the Canadian mortgage market. Basically, they’re a form of fraud that allows lenders to pretend that mortgages on their balance sheets are worth much more than they actually are.

“…I bought it for a million… My lender says it’s only worth 820 and I don’t know what to do. Oh, don’t worry. Don’t worry. We have this… uh, developer loan bank. Yeah. No, no, we can get it done. Don’t worry…”

Unity In Disunity

Canada’s Bolsheviks Insufferable Twits New Governor 16 Comments

The cheery facade belies the deep divide that actually exists within “Team Canada”.

Eby said later that Alberta has yet to identify sites where a pipeline would exit, it has not yet identified a proponent who would fund it, nor engaged with coastal First Nations.

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew has also protested Ford’s plans to pull Crown Royal whisky from government-run liquor store shelves. The product is made in Gimli, Man.

Ford said he understands Kinew is “doing what any other premier would do, try to protect his jobs,” while Ontario is doing the same.

Cult Classic

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Maybe it’s time for a passive/aggressive approach to idiotic court rulings. In this case, I’d suggest putting every single story house on Bonaire on stilts and/or prohibiting the occupation of the first floor on multi-floor buildings. That much stair climbing will see that residents grow tired of climate change hysteria in short order.

A court on Wednesday ordered the Dutch government to draw up a plan to protect residents on the tiny Caribbean island of Bonaire from the effects of climate change — a sweeping victory for the islanders.

The Hague District Court, in a stunning rebuke of Dutch authorities, also ruled that the government discriminated against the island’s 20,000 inhabitants by not taking “timely and appropriate measures” to protect them from climate change before it’s too late.

That Sinking Feeling

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If Carney’s polling numbers hold up, a spring election is a distinct possibility, and a Liberal majority would be the likely outcome. The reason is simple enough: once again, NDP and Bloc voters are stampeding to the Liberals. Inevitably, some will suggest that the Tories reinvent themselves to appeal to the left, but a string of electoral defeats with Red Tories at the helm points to the futility of that gambit. If that’s the best conservatives could do, why have a conservative party at all?

From coast to coast, Léger finds Mark Carney’s Liberals at 47% support among decided voters, up four points since Léger’s previous poll back in December. And this newfound support for the Liberals does not come at the expense of the Conservatives, who sit at 38%, themselves up two points.

When Pretending Just Won’t Do

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Readers may wish to ponder the implication that a high-trust society can somehow be maintained unilaterally, simply by not caring about the number of people who violate that trust, and who do so repeatedly, whether in ways that are audacious or just wearyingly routine but nonetheless degrading.

As if pretending not to mind the evaporation of civilised, reciprocal standards – and pretending not to be alienated by primitive behaviour – somehow means that said behaviour isn’t there and didn’t happen. And that it won’t happen tomorrow, or the day after. And with ever greater boldness.

As if a high-trust society means letting antisocial fuckers act with impunity.

On high-trust societies and those who struggle with the concept.

Strongest Of The Weakest

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As economist Daniel Lacalle points out, the rising dollar price of gold does not mean the US dollar is on the way out. Things are a bit more complicated than that in a fiat currency world with no exit ramps.

The same sources that show soaring gold demand also show that there is no true “dedollarization” in the sense of a fiat‑to‑fiat substitution. This also makes sense. The US dollar is the world’s strongest weak currency because it has a higher level of liquidity, more independent institutions, and better legal and investor security than any alternative. The US dollar is losing its place as a global reserve to gold but not losing its position relative to the euro, yen, pound, or yuan.

IMF COFER figures show that the US dollar’s share of allocated FX reserves remains at 59.6%, and when adjusted for exchange‑rate moves, the IMF itself concludes that the dollar’s share has been broadly stable, with recent declines explained mostly by valuation effects, not active selling. The euro, at 20.3%, is not even close to being a contender.

The Doctor Will Kill You Now

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I’m old enough to remember when this was called “killing”;

An elderly woman in Canada was euthanized only hours after telling doctors she wanted to live and receive hospice care instead.

She had become very ill after heart surgery and was being cared for at home by her elderly husband, who doctors noted was experiencing “caregiver burnout.”

According to an official review, the woman told one assessor she wanted to withdraw her request for assisted death, citing “personal and religious values,” and asked for hospice care instead.

Her hospice placement was quickly denied, and her husband requested an “urgent” reassessment for assisted dying, saying he could no longer cope with caring for her.

She was euthanized that same evening.

Three MAID “providers” voted, she lost in a 2-1 split decision: Pg 21

Golden Opportunity?

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Gold (and silver’s) near meteoric rise in terms of dollar price over the past few months periodically rekindles interest in “monetizing” the gold stock that sits in the vaults of a number of central banks, in the belief that this will usher in a financial bonanza. In my most recent Substack article, I demonstrate why such a move won’t do anything of the sort.

…the proposal that the Treasury can unlock over a trillion dollars of capital, and borrow against it, by correcting a bookkeeping error…might work if the Treasury had not undertaken to rack up $36 trillion in debt in the period since 1973, but that’s clearly not the case today. Simply put, the gold stock has already been borrowed against. Creditors have lent this sum of money to the US government with the knowledge that the gold stock is already implicitly underpinning the debt, even though today it can only underpin a small portion of it.

Because They Care So Deeply…

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It is no secret that JFK interfered with the 1963 Canadian Federal election.

But did you know why?

Kennedy was keen to draw Canada deeper into the American sphere. Diefenbaker, who held the more traditional attachment to Britain, balked at the invitation to join the Organization of American States.

Montreal StarDiefenbaker would not allow American nuclear warheads on Canadian soil and Pearson would.

The first US nuclear-armed missiles arrived in Canada on December 31, 1963. These were CIM-10 Bomarc surface-to-air interceptor missiles, which were equipped with nuclear warheads and deployed to Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) stations in North Bay, Ontario, and La Macaza, Quebec.

all U.S. nuclear weapons were removed from Canadian soil by 1984, …with the final nuclear-tipped Genie missiles leaving Canadian bases  in July 1984…

The Liberals were willing to do anything to win the 1963 election, even sell out Canada’s sovereignty and security to a foreign nation. The placement of US nuclear warheads on Canadian soil made Canada a potential battleground in a Nuclear war between the United States and Russia.

Diversities Learing?

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Rather than shovel ever more taxpayer dollars at administratively bloated post-secondary institutions, why not privatize them so they are free to allocate resources based on actual demand from employers? Otherwise, they’ll just continue to give gender studies the same priority as engineering.

Ontario’s universities and colleges are looking for billion-dollar funding boosts in the province’s upcoming budget, investments they are framing as critical to Premier Doug Ford’s plan to “protect Ontario” from tariff impacts by strengthening domestic capabilities.

The Council of Ontario Universities says in its pre-budget submission that its institutions are at “a breaking point” and they are calling for an additional $1.2 billion in operating funding next year, with that amount increasing to $1.6 billion by 2028-29.

Related (from Kate): Up to 25 percent of U.S. colleges may close soon, Brandeis president warns

Keir Starmer’s Britain

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Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and Starmer Clears China’s “Mega-Embassy” Near Tower of London.

The approval comes in the wake of the Starmer government’s decision to wind down a counter-intelligence case alleging that two former China-based language teachers penetrated Westminster and passed sensitive political information on Conservative lawmakers pushing a tougher stance on Beijing—sending real-time reports up the chain toward senior Chinese intelligence, in an operation that reports alleged was tasked by a top Politburo figure close to President Xi Jinping.

Washington’s China hawks had already framed the collapse of that case as possibly linked to the mega-embassy approval, and characterized the embassy decision as a test of allied intelligence cohesion.

Crack And Badger

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Come to think of it, I’m not entirely sure what loving one’s body might mean, beyond the obvious off-colour jokes. But apparently, it’s something that one is supposed to proclaim as an accomplishment, a credential of progressivism. I have, however, noted that it tends to be announced by people whose declared triumph in this matter is not altogether convincing, and whose basis for doing so is generally much slimmer than they are.

On the ideological gratification of thwarting clever children; on shoehorning pretentious racial guilt into the world of dentistry; and on not wearing knickers in a terribly radical way.

All this and more.

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