Category: Great Moments In Socialism

Fire Them All

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Here’s hoping that Javier Milei’s labor market reforms continue to gain traction. Notice how the news item is framed in such a way as to draw no connection between the undeserved power of Peronist labor unions and “frequent economic shocks”.

The bill, which grants employers greater flexibility in matters of hiring, firing, severance and collective bargaining, has drawn fierce opposition from labor unions and their Peronist allies, who argue it would roll back measures that protect workers from abuse and Argentina’s notoriously frequent economic shocks.

Keir Starmer’s Britain

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Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and a no terror suspect goes unnoticed.

Tommy Douglas, Not Dead Enough

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Juxtapose time: Tens of thousands of Canadians died waiting for medical care in the past year

h/t Thought criminal

Money For Nothing

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If John Risley typifies the mindset of the business community in this country, we’re all done for.

He sold the company in 2021 for $1 billion. But instead of enjoying his money in retirement, he kept backing massive projects with global ambitions, including a stalled wind-powered hydrogen energy operation in western Newfoundland.

Risley was in Ottawa in December to drum up support for a deepwater port in the Arctic.

Under the increasing interest rates, the US$250-million loan inflated into a debt reaching nearly US$1 billion, the documents said. CFFI planned to sell off a few major investments and pay off the debt, but the sales never happened, the papers said.

Ontario Is For The Birds

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Where would society be without the Chimney Swift and the derelict industrial chimneys that they call home? How dare those evil contractors disturb a nesting site!!

Marble Arch and Adam Watson significantly damaged the chimney’s function as a habitat for the Chimney Swift by carrying out demolition work during the birds’ migratory season, and by leaving a large hole in the side of the chimney for the remainder of the 2020 season.

 

Keepers Of Deep Knowledge

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Three tales of leftist librarians. And the loud buzzing inside their heads.

Something-something “white supremacy” something-something “privilege.” I’m paraphrasing, of course.

But really, it’s the same doctrinaire horseshit we’ve seen a hundred times. And according to which, the world will be enormously improved by the “abolition of policing in all its forms.” If that isn’t sufficiently unambiguous, our Ivy League librarians insist that their “ultimate goal” is, and I quote, “the complete abolition of law enforcement… everywhere.” Because “a world without policing” will somehow, rather conveniently, be a world without crime.

And because helping people find the books that they’d like to borrow is just too boring and insufficiently high-status for minds such as these.

Oh, there’s more.

Ones And Zeroes

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Money has to be the most marketable commodity, not lines of code on a hard drive. Investors in the latter are finding that out the hard way.

Bitcoin is now down 24% this year and remains roughly 47% below its October all-time high.

The largest failure so far this year has been Blockfills, a midsize prime broker that halted deposits and withdrawals earlier this month amid the decline in bitcoin prices.

 

Money For Nothing

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If Carney’s defense “plan” doesn’t fit the definition of a slush fund designed to line the pockets of Liberal cronies, I don’t know what would.

Carney’s strategy in making sure this actually gets done is a familiar one: create a new agency (in this case, the Defense Investment Agency) headed by a suit (investment banker Doug Guzman) whose job it will be to streamline processes and deliver results. That’s in addition to the existing entities charged with the work of defense (the Department of National Defense), subsidizing defense (the Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development) and purchasing the tools necessary for defense (Public Services and Procurement Canada).

Keir Starmer’s Britain

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Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and the Magna Carta is a bird cage liner.

In a recent interview, Cleese observed that the government’s new speech standards would classify many citizens, including himself, as presumptive criminals for criticizing certain policies. He observed that ”As I am an Islamosceptic, I’m now worried that the Labour government may categorise me as a terrorist…”

The government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer has continued its headlong plunge into the criminalization of speech. The guidelines include a section on cultural nationalism, stating that such views are now the subject of government crackdowns. To even argue that Western culture is under threat from mass migration or a lack of integration by certain groups is being treated as a dangerous ideology.

Cleese responded by saying, “I’m clearly a terrorist, so I’m afraid they are going to have to arrest me.”

The tragedy is that this is no wicked Monty Python joke. Cleese has every reason to be concerned.

Can Canadian Conservatives Find a Backbone?

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In Britain, it appeared that Nigel Farage and his Reform Party were sailing towards a victory at the next election in a few years. Many right-of-centre Britons had reservations about Farage but realized they had no other way to effect change in their nation. Recently though, a gentleman named Rupert Lowe launched a new party called Restore Britain and many expect them to capture a large amount of support in the coming months and years, sweeping Farage into the dustbin of history.

In Canada, many have questioned if Pierre Poilievre is a real conservative and not merely a placeholder as the junior member of the Uniparty. These suspicions are rising as Poilievre has chosen to criticize, rather than praise, Jamil Jivani for his recent actions to help resolve Canadian/American relations.

Circling The Drain

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Is the federal NDP a political party or a suicide pact?

… the all-anglophone field stumbled through November’s French debate in Montreal. Interim leader Don Davies even jokingly called the Franglais-filled evening a morale booster for the Bloc Québécois.

Activist and filmmaker Avi Lewis comes into the debate as the clear frontrunner…. He’s also driven much of the conversation with progressive proposals like a public option for groceries, national wealth tax for the top one per cent of Canadians and a so-called Green New Deal to transition fossil-fuel workers to sustainable industries.

 

“My friends watch out for the little fellow with an idea.”

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Antizionism is utter cyanide poison for democratic governance not due to anything related to Israel, but because it turns your lawmakers into conspiratorial imbeciles. I can think of no more textbook example of this than the complete ruin of the NDP.

A fitting postscript to the story of the little fellow who brought us cradle to grave health care by the shortest route possible.

Circling The Drain

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It’s probably not a good idea to stick a thumb in the eye of your biggest trading partner over Cuba, but what else would you expect from the NDP? Failed political parties tend to have a lot in common with failed states.

Last week in the House of Commons, NDP interim leader Don Davies urged the government to “support Cuba in the face of aggressive U.S. imperialism,” arguing this would give heft to Carney’s speech at the World Economic Forum that urged middle powers to stand up to intimidation by superpowers.

Taxes For Detox

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It’s one thing to admit that BC’s approach to hard drugs has failed, but it’s another to offer up taxpayer funded treatment programs for every addict for as long as it takes as the alternative. I’m pretty sure that Elenore Sturko’s not planning to fund any of that on her own.

“If someone voluntarily wants to get help, I am your biggest champion,” she counters. “I want you to walk into any door and to be able to say, ‘I want detox today, and I need to go to treatment, and I’d like lifelong support and counselling if I need it, and a nice place to live that’s drug-free and safe for me.’

The Part I Like Best

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About drug decriminalization is the way government follows science in determining best practices.

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