The Spectator- Victoria’s absurd new minister for men’s behaviour
On her Twitter account, Allan announced that ‘We have appointed the first Parliamentary Secretary [equivalent to a junior minister] for Men’s Behaviour in Australia’. She’s actually wrong: it appears this is the first appointment of its kind, anywhere.
But it should be.
I won’t spoil the ending: When a plane goes down they look at the plane’s maintenance schedule. Sounds reasonable to look at the busted pipe’s maintenance schedule.
You don’t have to dig far into the details to find out that this “loan” is really just a giveaway, or, in modern parlance, a “special-purpose vehicle”.
The government sent a letter to First Nations groups last year proposing a special-purpose vehicle that would hold a stake in the pipeline, and individual groups would be able to choose whether to opt in. For those that want a piece of the action, the government intends to provide risk-free access to capital, the letter said, without providing details such as how big of a stake it would sell.
Is there anything more frustrating than some court economist declaring that we face serious economic problems but the causes are just a bewildering puzzle that largely defy explanation? Just for starters, Tiff need look no further than the current federal government’s open hostility towards investors.
At the conference, Macklem said the central bank expected productivity growth to pick up coming out of the pandemic as companies found the workers they wanted to hire and the supply chain started to normalize.
“It hasn’t happened,” he said. “That’s why we made such a stark statement.”
The solutions are apparent — more investment in machinery, equipment, information technology, etc. — but Macklem said the tougher question is why that isn’t happening.
“There are some puzzles there,” he said. “We have all the ingredients; we have got to cut through obstacles.”
Blacklocks- Inflation Hikes Poverty Rates
“We noted a growing sense of hopelessness and desperation,” said a Council report Blueprint For Transformation. “Persons with lived expertise of poverty and service providers alike told us things seem worse now than they were before and during the first years of the pandemic.”
“Recent increases in the cost of living represent one of the most important socioeconomic challenges faced by people living in Canada following the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic,” wrote the Council. “It is expected this will put upward pressure on poverty rates.”
Updated and bumped for the May Party’s China nexus.
Reached by phone Wednesday, an NDP spokesperson said Ashton was in Quebec City “to discuss language priorities”…
An NDP MP who frequently joins parliamentary proceedings remotely from her riding billed the House of Commons for a trip she took to reportedly meet with “stakeholders” over the Christmas holidays in Quebec — travel that included bringing her husband and kids along at taxpayers’ expense.
Parliamentary travel records indicate NDP MP Niki Ashton was only in Ottawa on one occasion for four days during the fall 2022 sitting.
But on Dec. 21 of that year, Ashton flew from Thompson, Man. to Ottawa — five days after the House of Commons had already risen for its Christmas break.
Ashton’s partner Bruce Moncur, a former NDP nomination candidate, and their two children also made the trip with the MP to the nation’s capital.
Then, on Christmas Day, 2022, the family of four travelled to Quebec City. Ashton billed the Commons for some of the expenses they incurred along the way.
Social media posts show Moncur and the children took in some of Quebec City’s winter attractions, including an ice slide and snow tubing at Village Vacances Valcartier outside the city centre.
Ashton is also seen in those posts skating with her children and visiting the city’s German Christmas Market.
The more violent campuses and streets become, the more clueless the mobs seem about the cascading public antipathy to what they do and what they represent. – Victor Davis Hanson
The World Economic Forum’s Ida Auken wants to correct your primitive lifestyle.
Because having strangers, people you don’t know, taking your car, apparently at random, would be terribly progressive and super-convenient, and “fun,” and “not annoying.”
Oh, and forget about owning clothes.
And it’s racist of you to ask.
Calgary Herald- City of Calgary says nothing of busted crisis-causing water pipe
On the sixth day of water restrictions and with another week before we find out when we’re back to normal, it’s the moment for the simple question. When was the last time the City of Calgary inspected this segment of pipe, this particular pipe that is no more? And when the City of Calgary inspected this pipe what did they find?
The question is handed off to Francois Bouchard, a big shot at the city. “I don’t actually have any specific data to share with you.”
If someone’s going to question whether a $510 million legal fee is excessive or not, why not ask the same question about the $10 billion settlement that triggered the fees in the first place?
Two First Nations have launched a court application against the lawyers who helped bring forward a $10-billion settlement with Canada and Ontario, saying the $510 million they’re set to be paid is too much.
“The legal fee is extremely over-the-top,” said Garden River First Nation Chief Karen Bell.
She said she has an “obligation to seek accountability and transparency,” and the application should not disrupt payments to beneficiaries. Those payments are scheduled to start flowing in August.
Where would all the fake news come from?
Blacklocks- Paid $233K For Ghostwriters
“How much did the Government of Canada pay to publish news written by government employees?” Records showed the Revenue Agency paid as much as $1,000 apiece to distribute faked news stories.
The ghostwritten articles meet the federal definition of fake news. The Department of Canadian Heritage in a 2017 Memorandum To The Minister described fake news as “state-sponsored” content.
Reason- California Is Doubling Down on Banning Plastic Bags
“Last year, Californians threw away more plastic bags, by weight, than when the law first passed,” according to a recent New York Times article, which called it “an environmental rule that backfired and inadvertently made the matter worse.”
Two bills are now making their way through the Capitol. Senate Bill 1053 and Assembly Bill 2236 would also ban the thicker plastic bags that replaced the thinner previously-banned bags.
Leftist losers react in Europe. A Paul Watson video.
I always thought Canada already had laws against uttering threats, but it seems the Quebec provincial legislature thought that elected officials needed more wiggle room on that score. It’s anyone’s guess how much of a field day the courts will have enforcing it. Like our constitutional rights, everything hinges on one weasel word: reasonable.
The new Act makes anyone who hinders the exercise of an elected officer’s functions by threatening,
intimidating or harassing the officer in a manner that causes them to reasonably fear for their integrity or safety liable to a fine.Anyone who hinders the exercise of a Member’s functions by threatening, intimidating or harassing the Member in a manner that causes them to reasonably fear for their integrity or safety is liable to a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $1,500.
If you want to download the whole PDF document, here’s the link.
If Biden and his handlers have taught us anything, human nature cannot be fooled, and the current four year experiment will have to end before it ends us-and soon. – Victor Davis Hanson
Toronto Star- Doctor says his granddaughter was almost a third death following tonsil surgery at McMaster Children’s Hospital
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Second featured comment: Joe
Not only will you own nothing in the future, but you’ll also be wearing nothing.
The haute timelessness of the togs notwithstanding, recent research from Guangdong University of Technology found that wearing a pair of fast-fashion jeans just once creates a whopping 2.50 kg of carbon emissions.
…making fast-fashion finery emits ghastly amounts of greenhouse gasses (GHG) — which cause global warming and climate change — into the atmosphere.
Also.
