Mischief is important. So important, your life could depend on it.
The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada would like to know if you want medical training to be centered on social justice, or medical expertise.
Seriously.
Please fill out their survey. The survey closes Dec 31st.
h/t Ben
“As Canada slides ever further into Totalitarianism, the media averts its eyes and pretends it isn’t happening. Canadians need to wake up and realize what time it is.”
Or, “Twelve months of our betters being pretentious, neurotic, and perverse.”
A small taste:
Among the mighty titans encountered in November was a radical young lady named Margot, a “nutrition counsellor” who is “root-cause and system focussed,” and whose profound thoughts included “What do we eat during the revolution?” It turns out that you can’t agitate the proletariat without a solid meal plan. While her comrades “break capitalism” and “abolish” prison, Margot envisions herself “coaching people in how to eat from a revolutionary and resistance standpoint.” A task that involves instructing the little people on how to dry pepper seeds and how to wash foraged bin scraps in vinegar in order to remove any trace of those capitalist pesticides. The revolution, since you ask, will be fuelled by cashew milk and vegan pseudo-cheese. Because as capitalism is toppled, and amid the riots and burning cars, there will, it seems, be space for neurotic niche cuisine. Assuming, that is, that the proletariat are tempted by the prospect of economic ruin, roaming gangs of liberated rapists, and evenings spent washing other people’s bin contents.
Within two weeks of his (wrong) diagnosis, he was contacted by a therapist about MAID.
If “MAID” was not a Liberal population cull, what exactly would they be doing differently?
For those of you following the recent Colorado Supreme Court decision, here’s a seldom discussed bit of historical background. Other than the Civil War, the 14th amendment of the U.S. constitution was invoked on another occasion, this time to sanction a socialist Congressman who was a vocal critic of World War One. It’s another example of a relevant historical event that gets studiously ignored due to the need for narrative damage control.
When the United States entered the war and passed the Espionage Act of 1917, Berger’s continued opposition made him a target. He and four other Socialists were indicted under the Espionage Act in February 1918. The trial followed on December 9 of that year, and on February 20, 1919, Berger was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.
Berger’s conviction was appealed and was ultimately overturned by the US Supreme Court on January 31, 1921…
…the voters of Milwaukee once again elected him to the House of Representatives in 1918. When he arrived in Washington to claim his seat, Congress….declared the seat vacant, disqualifying him pursuant to Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Continuing the U.S. decline of the brand, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that approximately half of all Buick dealership in the U.S. have opted to take a buyout from GM, as opposed to spending millions in retooling, restructuring and retraining their staff to accommodate the EV influx.
Most of the EV’s shoved onto the dealer lots sit idle without customers to purchase them.
Video: Javier Milei announces “shock plan” to stabilize the Argentinian financial system.
We have never seen anything like this before in American history. – Victor Davis Hanson
…about mass immigration is how it fuels economic expansion and lowers our taxes.
The quarterly population estimate released by Statistics Canada should be sobering for Canada’s political class.
We are on track to add between 1.2 and 1.5 million new people by the end of this year. The real-time population clock, as I write this at noon on Tuesday, has our population at 40,720,342 with more than 1,400 new people having arrived in Canada since midnight.
But as we add this massive number of people, we aren’t keeping up with the required housing, infrastructure or health-care resources to match the population.
Just last week, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation announced housing starts were down 22% across the country in November — but Montreal was down 30% while Toronto and Vancouver were down 39% each. Nothing like solving the housing crisis by bringing in far more people while building fewer homes for people to live in.
MAID IS EASY: Barbie should consider expanding her medical and scientific careers into areas where women and other under-represented groups remain a minority, suggests a study published in the Christmas issue of The BMJ.
The new name for Yonge-Dundas square, has an interesting history.
Robert Lyman (Financial Post);
The International Energy Agency, in its reports on energy financing, breaks down global energy investment into investment in fossil fuels, on the one hand, and in “clean energy,” on the other. In 2023, estimated investment in “clean energy” will be close to $2.2 trillion (in C$). That is an almost unimaginable amount of money, made only slightly less daunting when portrayed as $6 billion per day. […]
What has been the result of these gargantuan expenditures? The effects of current investments in electrical energy infrastructure won’t be fully apparent for some time, but we should be able to see the effects of spending that has been rising for more than 20 years. To find out, I consulted the authoritative Statistical Review of World Energy 2023, published by the Energy Institute, the successor to British Petroleum as the producer of the Statistical Review. It works closely with KPMG to produce the report.
The share of the world’s primary energy consumption produced by renewable energy has essentially doubled since 2015, from about 3.5 to seven per cent of the world total. Yet, fossil fuels (oil, natural gas and coal), which accounted for 85 per cent of primary energy consumption in 2015, still accounted for 82 per cent in 2022. At that rate of reduction — three percentage points every seven years — we will not get to full decarbonization (i.e., zero use of fossil fuels) until well into the next century.
As usual, the news is buried in the opinion pages.
Related: Whoppers and moer whoppers in the WSJ
You’re a man who serves as Chairman of the Board of a large University who led the search for the recently hired president.
Your wife runs a non-profit in the DEI space. She is the only full-time employee of the organization, serving as Founder, CEO, and CFO. You serve as Treasurer. The non-profit ostensibly sells two principal products in the DEI space:
1. “Evidence-based ‘how-to-guides’ and
2. “The most comprehensive intersectional analytics platform of its kind…”but the non-profit has no revenues. It relies entirely on contributions to fund its operations, which principally consist of your wife’s salary and some other ancillary overhead.
There have been only two contributors to the non-profit, the University whose board you chair, which has contributed:
2018 $100,000
2019 $300,000
2020 $150,000
2021 $600,000
2022 $789,000
The Venezuela Effect: The secret to Trudeau’s hold on power is to flood the zone with so much incompetence and corruption that the nation surrenders in defeat.
Cabinet budgeted $37.4 million and spent a quarter of it on a gun buyback program without buying any guns, records show. Newly disclosed figures follow an internal Department of Public Safety report that warned the program was prone to “wasted time, energy and funds.”
Variable rate mortgages are a sweet deal when interest rates are falling, but apparently not so much when rates go in the opposite direction. It makes for a life just full of surprises, but not the happy kind.
We had a 1.3 per cent variable mortgage rate, which amounted to two payments of $1,275 each month, plus $370 in monthly maintenance fees.
On June 1, the Bank of Canada raised its key interest rate to 1.5 per cent, a half per cent hike. That month, our biweekly payments rose to $1,500.
July rolled around and our payment increased yet again. A couple days later, I went to buy gas for our car, thinking Evelin and I had $600 in our joint account. To my surprise, there was only $100 in there.
We’re paying more than $5,000 a month to live in a 900-square-foot townhouse, and $3,500 of that total goes to interest alone.
During Krushchev’s reign in the Soviet Union, the state embarked on a massive residential building spree which was so ineptly carried out that Russians referred to the buildings as khrushchebys, which is a play on the Russian word for slum. Fast forward to 2023, and the Trudeau government has unveiled its own version of centrally planned housing development.
It’s not that the federal government is going to give you a house, but they will provide you with an architect at taxpayer expense to create pre-approved blueprints which they are certain you will love.
“The catalogue of pre-approved designs, is going to be tied to existing building codes — the National Building Code, which we will seek to make changes to in the future — but will also be designed to mirror the requirements of provincial building codes that are implemented across the country,” he said.
“We’re going to ensure that the pre-approved designs meet the standards to access CMHC programs so we can reduce the administrative barriers on applicants who are seeking to go through the process.”
…and it doesn’t want any competition.
Tim Moen- When the state gives you a lethal injection it’s compassionate healthcare. When this guy provides poison to suicidal people it’s murder. Of course without this double standard we’d be living in a stateless society
CBC- Kenneth Law charged with 14 counts of 2nd-degree murder in multiple Ontario deaths
A charge sheet from the Ontario Court of Justice in Newmarket shows Law was charged Monday with 14 counts of second-degree murder, in addition to the 14 counts of counselling or aiding suicide that he was already facing.
