Category: Great Moments In Socialism

Canada Is Back, Baby!

Venezuela 13 Comments

BBC- How Canada became a car theft capital of the world

Early this summer, Interpol listed Canada among the top 10 worst countries for car thefts out of 137 in its database – a “remarkable” feat, said a spokesperson, considering the country only began integrating their data with the international police organisation in February.

Authorities say once these cars are stolen, they are either used to carry out other violent crimes, sold domestically to other unsuspecting Canadians, or shipped overseas to be resold.

Interpol says it has detected more than 1,500 cars around the world that have been stolen from Canada since February, and around 200 more continue to be identified each week, usually at ports in other countries.

Tinkering At The Fringes

More Pavilions At Folkfest nannystate 31 Comments

I have a better idea: Why not shut this thing down entirely? There’s no way to make an institution premised on the idea of collective rights somehow less bad than it actually is.

The Opposition Conservatives vowed Friday that a future Pierre Poilievre-led government would remove the man the Liberals just appointed to lead the Canadian Human Rights Commission.

[Lantsman] said Dattani has a “long track record of anti-Israel statements,” including a “justification of terrorism,” and that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should demand Dattani stand down or “fire him.”

If it’s not shut down, then travesties like this one will just become commonplace.

 

Appeasing Your Enemies

Canada’s Bolsheviks 14 Comments

Does not make them your friends.

National Post- Corporate Canada betrayed capitalism. Now it has been betrayed

Progressive statism has never been about the climate, or transgenderism, or whatever the cause du jour. The target has always been Western values and principles. Free enterprise is anathema to its aspirations, and as it turns out, so is prosperity itself. Canadian companies have betrayed the economic principles of their own society. How does government change one side of a bargain? When there is no other side.

The Canadian business community still does not understand the point of the revolution. There can be no survivors.

Best Healthcare System In The World

MAID Tommy Douglas: Not Dead Enough 25 Comments

Trust the experts.

Calgary Herald- Long waits for cancer treatment worsens illness, endangers lives, infuriates patients

A heartbreaking video is circulating on social media from a young Edmonton woman whose husband was diagnosed with gastric cancer on May 2, but two months later has no appointment to see an oncologist.

She says he’s developed severe related problems and has been in hospital. Gastric bleeding. Stomach perforation. A collapsed lung.

Diversity Inns And Suites

Great Moments In Socialism More Pavilions At Folkfest Shiny Pony The Libranos 21 Comments

Countersignal;

Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced that he might start buying up hotels to house the surge of refugee claimants.

Miller said the move would reduce costs associated with long-term hotel bookings, which is one of the government’s current strategies.

Currently, Ottawa is funding approximately 4,000 hotel rooms for 7,300 asylum seekers, many transferred from provincial shelters and churches, as reported in the Globe and Mail.

“Despite efforts to stabilize the number of asylum claimants, these numbers aren’t going down drastically anytime soon,” Miller said.

The Immigration Minister further said the Liberals’ latest strategy to buy up hotels could include federal and provincial officials to provide services on-site.

From February 2023 to February 2024, over $100 million was spent putting up refugee claimants in Niagara Falls hotels alone.

Do not fear. He has a way to pay for it.

Reversing The Onus

Cronies I, Napoleon Ukraine 44 Comments

Offering up yet another example of his incredible arrogance, Volodymyr Zelenskyy demands to know how Donald Trump would end the war if he becomes President again. I’ve got a better question: how does Zelenskyy propose to win it?

“If Trump knows how to finish this war, he should tell us today,” Zelenskyy said in a Bloomberg Television interview in Kyiv on Wednesday.

“It’s not a deadlock, it’s a problematic situation,” he said. “A deadlock means there’s no way out. But a problem can be solved if one has the will and has the tools. We do have the will, and the tools – they haven’t arrived yet.”

 

 

“Barbaric”

Canada’s Bolsheviks Juxtapose! 15 Comments

Global- Greece is bringing in a 6-day work week

The pro-business government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the changes are “growth-oriented” and are necessary given the country’s shrinking population and lack of skilled labour — a crisis Mitsotakis has described as a “ticking time bomb.”

However, the move is not finding many takers here in Canada.

BBC- Greece starts six-day working week for some industries

New legislation, which came into effect at the start of July, allows employees to work up to 48 hours in a week as opposed to 40.

It only applies to businesses which operate on a 24-hour basis and is optional for workers, who get paid an extra 40% for the overtime they do.

Independence is Overrated

Cronies Media Sleeping With The Enemy 17 Comments

Sun- Ford gov’t supports Ontario-based news publishers with $25M in advertising

“This is important. Everyone understands the value of journalism and a free press and its criticality to Canada and to democracy,” said Andrew MacLeod, Postmedia’s president and chief executive officer.

“I’m certainly extremely grateful to the leadership of Premier (Doug) Ford and his team. My hope is this will serve as an example, a North Star, not just for other provincial governments, but for the federal government and for major corporations.”

MacLeod said the initiative is something the publishing industry has been lobbying for with the Ontario government and other governments in Canada, including the federal government, and that it “didn’t make sense” that advertising dollars, paid for by taxpayers, were going to Google and Facebook.

The Doctor Will Diversify You Now

Canada’s Bolsheviks Quackery Tommy Douglas: Not Dead Enough 7 Comments

As if Canada’s single payer system were not plagued by enough problems as it is, our medical schools are happily wasting their students’ time with every manner of woke propaganda.

“I always used to think that physicians are critical thinkers,” my source laments. “I now recognize we are not critical thinkers; we don’t train critical thinking. We like head-nodders and rule-followers.” It transpires that admissions interviews are now so peppered with the word “intersection” that it’s hard not to feel nauseous, but in fairness, eager students are simply box-checking and are not themselves to blame.

“Do we need three hours on decolonization?” But the professors were told this was a sacred subject, and the university forbade any discussion because, my source says, “It was outside our teaching expertise. … Nobody was allowed to question the invited speaker. Everything was racist.”

And The Budget Will Balance Itself

Canada’s Bolsheviks Chinada entitlement generation The Libranos 32 Comments

Because we want rid of him, Blackface Boy-man will burn everything you’ve worked for to the ground.

Home prices are unsustainable and have normalized a “massive increase in value” for retirees, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He made the remarks at a private seminar with Canada’s leading advocates of a home equity tax: ‘It’s not like your grandparents saying, ‘Ah, bread used to cost me a nickel.’

Related: The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board put more than $600 million in China’s electric vehicle sector accused by cabinet of unfair trade practices. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland blamed Chinese industry for job-killing schemes, telling Canadian workers: “We are going to protect you.”

Cycling To The Races

Great Healing Forward Insufferable Twits More Pavilions At Folkfest 22 Comments

Who knew that an inequitable distribution of bicycle infrastructure was indicative of racism? It’s anyone’s guess as to what an equitable distribution might be or how one could even determine that. If you have an opportunity to build bridges, why not just burn them instead by making prospective allies feel like chumps?

But until white allies in the biking community recognize diversity in cycling and see it as more than just a sport but a way of life, Williams says, those disparities will persist.

But the biggest and most important thing an ally can do is shut up, listen, and amplify the voices of Black and brown folks, who are often silenced, Williams says.

By 1 p.m., the predominantly Black and brown mechanics she’d hired had already tuned up more than 50 [bikes].

One supposes that any white mechanics were instructed to fix the damned bikes in silence.

Bolshevik History Lessons

nannystate Religion Of Submission The Tolerant Left 11 Comments

Leave it to these barely coherent, shopworn Marxists to claim that the source of Iran’s problems lie not with a brutal Islamist dictatorship with zero respect for individual rights, but rather with an insufficiently generous welfare state and too much freedom for entrepreneurs. Apparently, if the West didn’t impose sanctions on Iran they would be able to embrace rigid central planning and usher in utopia. Who knew?

Sanctions have separated Iran, a neoliberal state with Iranian characteristics, from the neoliberal world order it looked set to join in the 1990s. Since then, the government has eroded Iran’s once generous welfare state and cut subsidies on bread, fuel, and other staple commodities. Responding to its sanctioned public realm, Iran’s leaders have expanded a gray, pseudoprivate economy unregulated by the democratic state to reach international markets through front companies. The middlemen doing these deals, “black knights,” satisfy Iranian military-industrial and consumer demand and provide the country with off-the-books cash to support the “axis of resistance,” Iran’s regional allies from Yemen to Syria which look likely to enter a regional war against Israel.

 

I Need More Stimulus!!

Gradually Then Suddenly It's Probably Nothing nannystate 5 Comments

Economic growth predictions are notoriously hard to make accurately, but at some point saddling the economy with destructive mandates and borrowing to fund politically motivated boondoggles has to be reckoned with. It’s not a matter of if, but when.

Berezin expects that recession to begin either later this year or in early 2025.

He rattled off a number of indicators suggesting that the torrid pace of pandemic-era hiring has given way to something far less appealing to workers. As official job-openings data show, the number of open positions have fallen substantially, as has the quit rate. And private surveys of job openings reflect an even more dramatic decline.

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