This is 1979, on the way to Orwell’s 1984
I will be attending federal Minister of Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson’s event with the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce in Regina on June 28. He will be talking about the “just transition,” which means to do away with the oil and gas sector, one of Saskatchewan’s most important industries. But you won’t be able to share any of my stories coming from that event on Facebook, or Instagram. I don’t even know if you can privately share it on Facebook Messenger. Likely not. So a federal minister might be speaking about the demise of your industry and livelihood, and you can’t share or even read those stories through Facebook. There’s a wee possibility that “just transitioning” your job out of existence might upset you. But that story will be verboten on Facebook. As will every other story.
Here’s the editorial on it. Read now, before more blocking takes place.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Woke America (And Canada)
Victor Davis Hanson writes about whether America is waking up to the woke nonsense.
Canada Has Queer Plants
I’m sure this will be a hit in the Toronto area. College hosting “Queering Nature” event.
Liberal Priorities
Our troops have to buy their own gear in Latvia. However Justin will provide $1.5 million dollars for security at gay sex events.
Embrace the minefield!
For a societal problem that is alleged to be so deeply ingrained as to be nearly intractable, it’s surprising to find out that employees of the City of Winnipeg can liberate themselves in about thirty minutes.
The course provides a great overview of the importance of using gender-inclusive language and looks at how misgendering, or using the wrong pronouns, can feel and shares best practices for avoiding misgendering going forward.
It’s Gay Sex Month
Apparently part of the celebration, is for men to expose themselves to children. What a country we have.
Chomping On Chomsky
If [linguistics] had been real science, the project would have lost its funding years ago for lack of results.
Not funny
As further evidence of the decline and fall of institutions of higher learning, I present this latest initiative from Cambridge University.
The Cambridge Footlights – whose alumni include Peter Cook, Clive James and David Mitchell – is now recruiting for a new ‘sensitivity reading’ service to ensure that ‘all student comedy’ is as ‘inclusive and welcoming as possible’. This is ‘to check for potential oversights regarding racism, classism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and ableism, or any other kind of sensitive or upsetting material’ to suggest ‘things that could be rephrased or improved, or things that should be cut.’
They Were Fleeing Their Privacy
The relentless pursuit lasted for over two hours: Prince Harry and Meghan in “near catastrophic” car chase, says spokesperson
Miss Information
Or should it be “Mr. Information”? So hard to tell these days. In any case, “misinformation” appears to be the new go-to phrase used to explain why someone rejects your ideas. Or in this instance, why people failed to cotton on to a new advertising mascot whose shtick openly mocked women.
Instead of taking the blame for the company’s catastrophic attempt to virtue signal, even if it means alienating the vast majority of its clients, Doukeris instead blamed online “misinformation and confusion”, including reports that Mulvaney’s Bud Light can is “a production can and every can would be like the one that was in that post . . . We never intended to make it for general production and sale for the public.” Well, that’s just a brilliant way for InBev to also alienate the progressives after scrambling to distance itself from the entire fiasco.
What do you get when you divide 6 by 3,618? The fraction of power output of Alberta wind on Thursday morning
One Alberta coal plant put out 135x what the whole wind fleet did. Not 1.35x, or 13.5x, but 135x.
Saskatchewan is going down this path. We are going to give up what we know works, for what we know absolutely does not work, on an irregular but frequent basis. SaskPower is intent on adding an additional 3,000 megawatts of wind and solar power production in this province by 2035. This will generally be done through independent power producers, with a power purchase agreement.
This low wind situation lasted from 3 a.m. until at least 2 p.m. on Thursday. And its low again right now, around 165 megawatts of 3618.
What will happen to our grid when 40% or more of it is wind and solar, everyone’s driving electric vehicles, and we have days like this? Do we not charge the ambulances? Or the grain trucks for farmers? Shut down Evraz and maybe a half dozen potash mines? Rolling blackouts?
I didn’t say what you clearly heard me say
At least that’s how the federal Justice Minister is spinning it on this natural resources dustup with the provinces. Moe, Smith and Stefanson are not happy.
Sure, let’s give instruction manuals to eco-terrorists. It’ll work out well
They actually made a movie called “How to Blow Up a Pipeline.” It opened April 7.
As a side note, when it comes to giving unhinged people bright ideas, the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, appear to have been closely modelled on the plot of the Tom Clancy Novel Debt of Honor, a 1994 book. The conclusion of the book saw a bereaved airline pilot fly an empty but fully-fueled Boeing 747 airliner into the United States Capitol Building during a joint session of Congress, killing the president and nearly every member of Congress as well as the Supreme Court. Seven years later, 19 Al Qaeda terrorists attempted a very similar attack, with the last plane, United Flight 93, widely believed to have been targeted at the U.S. Capitol. It was brought down by its own passengers, who fought the terrorists for control of the plane.
Why don’t you fight for what we have, and what works?
‘Why don’t you fight for what we have, and what works?‘ SaskPower holds open house in Estevan on $1 billion interconnect with US, solar and nuclear. The crowd was not at all happy.
This is real in-depth on what’s going on. Among the gems- we’re going to build up to 3,000 megawatts of wind and solar in Saskatchewan, stuff that totally fails on a irregular but frequent basis, and NOT build an accompanying 3,000 megawatts of natural gas generation to back it up for days (nights) the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow.
And a related story – did you know that the 650 megawatt power interconnect, the one that’s the same size as coal-fired Boundary Dam Power Station, and will carry carbon tax-free power from the US, will cost us a billion dollars? It turns out the NDP SaskPower critic did the math, and she was correct.
A whole smorgasboard from the CN Tower climber, and the feds in general
Saskatchewan is intervening this week in the “No More Pipelines Act” case. You know, the one that basically will kill any major energy project?
And if the No More Pipelines Act wasn’t enough, our good old CN Tower climber Minister of Environment and Climate Change wants to speed up emissions reductions by another 10 years. And remember, on any given day, Saskatchewan relies on up to 86 per cent of its power coming from coal and natural gas, as it did on March 15 (previously posted).
And when Guilbeault’s not doing that, he’s going to take a hard look at oilsands issues.
And on the lighter side of things, Quick Dick McDick shows us curling in a small-town, two-sheet rink with natural ice, perogies and curling for mickeys. Because nothing says Saskatchewan like curling for mickeys.
To Some The BBC is Too “Conservative”
Jeremy Clarkson: A Tory BBC? Everyone I met there in 25 years was flaming red
I know someone who was told to take down his Union Jack because it was “offensive”, and I was asked to remove my poster of Mrs Thatcher because it was upsetting people who walked past. I did, and replaced it with a picture of Kate and Wills, which somehow made them even angrier.
And who’s paying for that $9 billion stake?
The cost of the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline has shot up another 44%, to $30.9 billion. Project managers say it’ll be finished this year (from what I hear, not so much). And yet Indigenous groups are seeking a 30% stake in the project. Where’s that money coming from?
And on the topic of pipelines, it turns out Repsol said it would be too much money to pipeline natural gas from Western Canada to Saint John, New Brunswick, modify an existing LNG import terminal to export, and ship LNG to Europe. Would that be because the pipeline would have to go through Quebec, by chance? So there really wasn’t a business case, or there wasn’t a business case because of a.) Quebec and b.) the federal government? Would this have worked under a Harper or Poilievre government?
Is Coastal GasLink good or evil? Depends on who you ask
Wait, didn’t First Nations protests dramatically hold up the Coastal GasLink pipeline? And yet another BC First Nation wants to use that very same pipeline to supply its own liquefied natural gas terminal at Kitimat? How can this be? And the BC government just gave that LNG terminal the environmental go ahead?