Born and raised in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, former NHL hockey player, Clark Gillies, has passed away at the all too young age of 67. Here’s a video of some of his highlights:
h/t The Other Larry
January 14, 2022: Reader Tips
On the eve of this magnificent day in American history, we proudly celebrate with this very special song:
And many the common sense and legal precedent set by SCOTUS today have a magnetic effect to pull Canada and its “leaders” back into the light.
Do feel free to share where were you when you heard the great news and what were your initial thoughts.
Open Thread on Kazakhstan
In the fog of a revolution or war, there is always much confusion and false information but here is an intro video, here is a more detailed one, and here is a video shared by ‘Sean M’:
If you have any additional information to share, it would be great if you could include a link.
Quebec’s Voluntary Servitude
Free Market Dairy?
Globe and Mail- First-ever ruling by USMCA panel finds Canada’s dairy trade conduct violates the treaty
In a decision made public Tuesday, the USMCA panel said Canada can no longer reserve preferential access, or tariff-rate quotas, for Canadian processors, which ends up denying U.S. farmers market opportunity to sell into this country’s market.
Year End Steyn
The Year That Was
Dave Barry- Year in Review: Wait, wasn’t 2021 supposed to be better than 2020?
Anyway, our point is not that 2021 was massively better than 2020. Our point is that at least it was different. A variant, so to speak. And like any year, it had both highs and lows. No, we take that back. It was pretty much all lows, as we will see when we review the key events of 2021, starting in…
R.I.P. Ted Byfield
National Post- Ted Byfield dead at 93: Journalist was a catalyst for the rise of Western conservatism. He coined the phrase ‘The West Wants In,’ which became a slogan for his magazine Alberta Report and for the Reform Party it inspired.
Kentucky Aftermath
90th Anniversary of the Statute of Westminster
90 years ago today the Statute of Westminster was passed:
Statute of Westminster gives legal status to the independence of Australia, Canada, Irish Free State, Newfoundland, New Zealand and South Africa.
The Statute of Westminster, passed by the UK parliament in 1931, gave legal recognition to the de facto independence of the dominions. The parliaments of Canada, South Africa and the Irish Free State swiftly passed legislation enacting the statute. Australia adopted it in 1942 and New Zealand in 1947. Newfoundland relinquished its dominion status and was incorporated into Canada in 1949.
And We Gave It Back?
National Post- The time Canada secretly hid Europe’s gold
Macy’s NYC Thanksgiving Day Parade
OMG how can anyone possibly survive the Covid virus … being outside at 11°C . . . oh wait!
I Fart In Your General Direction
CTV- Alberta judge convicts man of assault for coughing on server in Calgary bar.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Fall Of Civilizations
I can’t begin to describe how good this channel is. The latest installment dropped a few hours ago.
In this episode, find out about one of the most remarkable ancient civilizations: the society known today as the neo-Assyrian Empire. Discover how the Assyrians built their empire out of the ashes of the Bronze Age, and built an empire of iron that lasted for centuries. Explore the extraordinary flourishing of art and technology that they fostered. And finally, discover what happened to cause their final, devastating collapse.
Today in History
100 years ago, today, in Victoria, B.C. Canada, the Daily Colonist newspaper mentions the term “cold turkey” as a reference to quitting an addiction, the first known use of the term in print.
We March At Dawn!
We are living in a blizzard of lies.
Grab a beverage.
Steyn-A Hinge Moment of History
[W]e are more dependent on a handful of woke billionaires to tell us what reality is. They are far more open than ever that they get to determine what are the agreed facts. Google made an explicit announcement about this recently. They said that sometimes they would put warnings on things that are factually accurate because, even though they are true, they do not think it is in society’s interest for people to be seeing it.
El Salvador goes Crypto
El Salvador Becomes First Country To Officially Accept Bitcoin As Legal Tender
El Salvador, whose economy last year suffered its deepest crash in four decades, became the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender on Tuesday, a real-world experiment proponents say will lower commission costs for billions of dollars sent from abroad and which could spark widespread adoption among challenged, developing countries suffering from rampant inflation, but which critics warned may fuel money laundering. The revolutionary monetary change – first previewed here in June – means businesses should accept payment in bitcoin alongside the US dollar, which has been El Salvador’s official currency since 2001 and will remain legal tender.
“Hello Chaps, We’d like $3 Billion in Gold”
Exactly 50 years has passed since the US Government famously suspended the convertibility of US dollars into gold on 15 August 1971 in a speech announced by then US president Richard Nixon.
This convertibility of US dollars into gold applied to US dollars held by foreign governments and foreign central banks, which based on the rules of the Bretton Woods monetary system, allowed them to legally show up anytime at the ‘gold window’ of the US Treasury and exchange their excess US dollars for physical US Treasury gold.
There will be much written this month about the 50th anniversary of the closure of the US gold window, but less so about what exactly triggered it and why the timing had to be 15 August.
h/t Adrian