Category: Great Moments In Socialism

Money For Nothing

Canada’s Bolsheviks More Money Than Brains 12 Comments

Now Wab proposes to hand out tax breaks for “investments” in the Port of Churchill. Newsflash: a 7% cost reduction is unlikely to convince any investor to sink money into a port that’s locked in ice for a substantial portion of every year. It’s doubtful the green lobby will like the idea of ships bulldozing polar bears either.

The province say the new tax measure would apply to proposals for a new energy corridor and liquefied natural gas facilities, upgrades to the railway that runs to the port and icebreaking capacity to support year-round shipping.

The Doctor Will Kill You Now

MAID Quackery Tommy Douglas: Not Dead Enough 19 Comments

A state-run euthanasia program governed by strict procedural safeguards.

It was Sunday, October 24, 2021, when 61-year-old Donna confessed to her family that she had been approved for Canada’s assisted-dying programme, officially known as Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD).

Her death was scheduled for the following Tuesday – expedited due to her having qualified for Canada’s streamlined ‘Track 1’ pathway, reserved for individuals whose natural death is reasonably foreseeable.

But Donna was not terminally ill, according to her daughters, who insist she was in the midst of a spiralling mental health crisis, triggered by a car accident and exacerbated by the isolation of the Covid-19 lockdown.

But most of all — it offers privacy.

Donna became the first known MAiD death in Canada to be investigated by police.

But the investigation grounded to a halt when the Fraser Health Authority refused to hand over the relevant records – the MAiD assessments themselves – to the police, citing privacy protections.

Please Don’t Be Normal

Forward! I, Napoleon 2 Comments

On verboten realities; on lessons in ‘radical’ theft; and on the progressive desperation to have an interesting child, one way or another:

Having, as she does, a degree in gender studies, Ms Myers is vexed by many things. Such as being asked, kindly, while pregnant, whether she was expecting a boy or a girl. This, we’re informed, is not “a simple question with a simple answer.”

Says she, “My partner Brent and I had found out our child’s sex chromosomes in the early stages of my pregnancy, and we had seen their genitals during the anatomy scan. But we didn’t think that information told us anything about our kid’s gender.”

No, of course. No clues there. No information at all, in fact. Just random noise.

Needless to say, Ms Myers’ website and Twitter feed are an endless churn of unconvincing smiles and rather desperate progressive signalling. We learn, for instance, that “Knowing the sex of a baby… does not tell us anything about the child’s… attitudes toward climate change.”

All this and more.

Economic Illiteracy

Canada’s Bolsheviks Insufferable Twits nannystate 21 Comments

Deliberately choosing to pay more than you need to for inputs doesn’t make your province richer; the reality is quite the opposite. My guess is that the “buy local” gambit is going to be used not only as an excuse to shut out American suppliers but suppliers in other provinces as well. In any case, there’s no way a few sales to the Quebec government can replace the losses from being unable to sell into a market ten times the size of Canada’s.

The Quebec government has announced a series of measures to promote buying locally in response to the escalating trade war between Canada and the United States.

Premier Christine Fréchette says the measures will inject about $1.5 billion into the Quebec economy in the next four months.

 

 

Left Coast, Lost Cause

Groomers Quackery Tommy Douglas: Not Dead Enough 28 Comments

CBC;

A B.C. family doctor has been ordered to pay $28,100 after refusing to inject a transgender teen with a prescribed hormone blocker, citing religious and cultural reasons.

Dr. Henry Ajaero, who has run a family practice in Delta since 2014, was ordered to pay the compensation in a Sept. 1 B.C. Human Rights decision, which found his conduct was discriminatory.

In March 2021, Ajaero told a transgender teen and her mother who made an appointment at his practice that he would not inject a prescribed medication called Lupron, saying “he did not feel comfortable administering it.”

A smart provincial government could be poaching those doctors seeking escape. This would, however, require the backbone to actually take on the child mutilation cult in Saskatchewan and shut it down.

Enjoy The Decline

Gradually Then Suddenly Great Reset New Governor 21 Comments

Why Mark Carney’s Canada Isn’t the One You Live In (20 minutes) – Analysis highlighting the loss of 42,000 jobs and high unemployment rates across various regions despite government claims of growth, contrasted with the thriving US economy.

Meanwhile, in Banff… With Canada’s very economic future on the line, the prime minister is bringing his team to one of the most expensive and exclusive hotels to meet about affordability

Stiffer Upper Elbows, Mates

Art Of The Deal Great Reset New Governor 29 Comments

Our new friends and overlords in the EU will step up to take it off our hands, right?

Right?

President Donald Trump moved Tuesday to sharply escalate the trade war with Canada, seeking to block imports of some motorcycles, dairy products and alcohol.

Senior Trump administration officials said in a call with reporters that the move was in direct response to Canada’s latest retaliatory tariffs, which took effect at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday.

The ban on importing Canadian alcohol in particular closely mirrors bans on American alcohol that provinces across Canada put in place in early 2025. They were imposed after Trump introduced sweeping duties on Canada, America’s longtime northern ally.

The measures announced Tuesday were signed into law under Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, documents posted to the White House website show. That trade law was never used until Trump implemented new tariffs on Canada under the statute in late August.

A senior Trump administration official told reporters on the call that the White House also completed “housekeeping” on tariffs already in place. Tariffs on cement, road salt and hospital pads were removed and replaced with duties on all-terrain vehicles, some cheeses and motorboats.

Joly gets emotional.

At Whose Expense?

Canada’s Bolsheviks nannystate New Governor 30 Comments

Every time a politician tells you that his policy will “come at a cost“, you just know he doesn’t have your best interests in mind.

Carney discussed Canada’s plan to respond to the U.S. trade war by striking new trade deals with other countries.

“We have everything we need to pivot and prosper,” he said.

“That pivot will come at a cost. There’s always a cost to action. But it doesn’t come close to the cost of standing still.”

Priorities, Priorities…

Gradually Then Suddenly More Money Than Brains nannystate New Governor 14 Comments

Canada still doesn’t have a coast to coast four lane highway, but it seems the bigger priority is to subsidize water systems for ratepayers in the oil patch. And then there’s the requisite mention of community centers, as if it were literally impossible for such entities to be financially self-sufficient. The mind boggles….

On Tuesday, the federal government confirmed a contribution of up to $29 million to the North Calgary Water Servicing project, funded through the Direct Delivery stream of the new Build Communities Strong Fund…

…$17.2 billion for provinces and territories, $6 billion for direct federal delivery on regionally significant projects and $27.8 billion flowing to local governments for roads, transit, water systems and community centres.

The Part I Like Best

Great Moments In Socialism 21 Comments

About Canada’s progressive drug policy is the way it’s brought the international drug trade to its knees: Nearly two years after Mounties announced they had dismantled the “largest fentanyl superlab in Canadian history,” not a single person has been charged with producing or distributing the drug.

If only they had some leads.

First up, the FBI & DEA identified where the lab was located & who the players were & handed the entire package to the RCMP.

Second, it included the shipping routes (port of Vancouver) the Chinese players who were involved in importing the precursor chemicals, the Chinese players in Canada who sold it to Mexican cartel players living in Canada & operating labs primarily in rural BC.

They gave the RCMP the names of the various Sikh CDN’s who were running the logistics & distribution operations.

They outlined the destinations for the finished products which included the Philippines (distribution hub in Asia), the Netherlands (EU distribution hub), Portland (distribution hub in the western US) & east to a tribal reserve in Saskatchewan (distribution hub for eastern Canada & US). The primary players included Chinese gangsters, Sikh gangsters, motorcycle gangs, & indigenous gangs.

The Fourth Emergency Service

Forward! I, Napoleon 1 Comment

On maths purged of “whiteness”; on the alleged thrill of not owning stuff; and on the crime-fighting powers of the “non-binary” barista:

“Now that I think about it, like, I’m more qualified than a cop to come deal with half the situations that we would call them for,” says our coffee-serving, police-defunding “they/them, 22.”

“I’m a Starbucks barista at a drive-through,” says they. “I’ve de-escalated situations with people with guns… I’ve cooled shit down faster and better than a cop could.”

Readers are welcome to share clips of lively scenes to test this rather boastful hypothesis. It would, I think, have the makings of a compelling reality TV show. With preening, mouthy woke-lings encountering the realities they’ve so carefully ignored.

The subsequent tears and meltdowns could constitute a drinking game.

New Boss, Same As The Old Boss

#Brexit Climate Cult Gradually Then Suddenly Great Moments In Socialism It's Probably Nothing 12 Comments

The new guy doesn’t sound a whole lot different than Starmer. Good luck with your voting choices, Britain. You’ll soon be back to the dreary 70’s at this rate.

He said that greater public control over water, energy and transportation can drive economic growth and ease households’ financial burden, though it’s unclear to what extent he plans to reverse decades of privatization of key pillars of the economy.

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