Category: Little Known Facts

Que The Music From Jaws

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Tasha Kheiriddin- Carney will have no choice but to kill supply management

If Carney is serious about leading this country and these talks, he must put the national interest ahead of political orthodoxy. As this weekend showed, Trump will not hesitate to call Canada’s bluff. The Americans want the big cheese — and they’ll hold everything else hostage until they get it.

Macdonald Laurier Institute- Quebec’s dairy farmers are blocking free trade in Canada

There are just over 4,200 dairy operations in Quebec out of 9,400 nationally. The objectives of supply management focus on protecting these 4,200 operations at the cost of the other 190,000 Canadian farmers, as well as Canada’s 40 million citizens.

The Visa Account Updater

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News you can use.

In December, I drove to Pennsylvania. I had to use the toll road that was unmanned at the time. There was no way for me to pay, so I was expecting a letter in the mail at some point later per the sign that they had put up. They clearly screen license plates and this is how they get the address.

So, when in February, I got a text message about toll violations hit my phone – – You see where this is going, right? – – I stupidly gave out my credit card number. And… within an instant regretted it. How could I think they would be able to contact me directly? I had been driving a company car. They would have contacted my company and my company would have contacted me.

I immediately closed my card and requested a new one. I am financially savvy after all. So I thought.

For about two months, absolutely nothing happened. So, I thought I did the correct thing.

Then, three fraudulent charges hit.

The Future of War

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Real Reporter discusses how the Russians are catching up in drone technology, which possibly explains why Putin seems disinterested in peace talks.

“Today’s guest is Serge a Russian engineer and entrepreneur developing military drones for the Russian army. At the start of the war Russia was embarrassingly behind in drone warfare but as the battlefield evolved private startups like Serge stepped in to help Moscow catch up. Now Russia is closing the gap with Ukraine not just in the number of drones but in their quality and tactical innovation. What makes this conversation stand out is Serge’s perspective. He’s not part of the military which gives him a rare level of freedom to speak openly. His insights into modern and future drone warfare are sharp and at times surprisingly candid.”

Hat Tip: Neil

No One Reads ANYTHING Anymore…

2025 Federal Election Little Known Facts We Are All Treaty People 36 Comments

With the talk of secession since Monday it is of course inevitable that everyone is going want to have a say. What is also inevitable is that many of the opinions expressed will be ill informed.

You would think with treaty acknowledgements being in vogue that there would also be an effort to teach what is written in the treaties, but there isn’t. So let’s do it here.

Please take the time to read a few treaties in their entirety as they also list what First Nations receive in exchange for the peaceful surrender of territory; you see there are no limits on education or healthcare. Also remember that while seemingly well intentioned, the government of Canada did not serve the First Nations well.  In some cases the provinces were even worse.

Another very interesting treaty is the Jay Treaty of 1794 that permits indigenous people to move freely across North America, living, working or going to school where they chose with all the rights of their chosen country, state or province, with the exception of voting rights which are reserved solely for citizens.

 

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Business Is Business?

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If Trump is such an existential threat to Canada, what explains the conciliatory tone that we’re now hearing from both Trump and our newly elected PM? The timing seems more than a little odd, but maybe there’s more to it than meets the eye.

If you’re like me you are scratching your head trying decode exactly what is Donald Trump’s play with Mark Carney? None of it makes any sense. We’ve gone from Carney’ reckless we’re done with America speech to a digital snog between the two men evoking an 80’s romcom, just 24 hours later.

Carney represents everything Trump claims to hate. He’s progressive, net-zero obsessed, effete and a globalist.

For all his good points, Trump hates being publicly embarrassed and is known for his brutal and sometimes comical retaliations. Yet Carney pokes away with hardly a jab. Hmmmm.

The gist is that Brookfield, Carney’s now former company — bailed out Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner to the tune of 1B. in an odd-looking deal even the Financial Times struggles to figure out.

 

Nothing Better To Do

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It beggars belief that the federal government actually involves itself in determining the correct number of lanes for city streets, but that’s the state in which we now find ourselves. I’m reminded of an episode of The Simpsons where Homer becomes the Springfield Safety Czar and pegs the downtown speed limit at 5 miles per hour.

Federal transportation officials once heralded road diets for cutting crashes by 19% to 47%, but criteria for an upcoming round of road safety grants say projects aimed at “reducing lane capacity” should be considered “less favorably,” the administration said.

Happy Propaganda

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Every once in a while we hear about some happiness report which usually concludes that Nordic nations are generally happier than everybody else. The same analysis often smuggles in a plug for a generous welfare state as an explanation. Not surprisingly, it seems that the conclusions are based on some very flimsy evidence.

But upon closer examination, it turns out that the World Happiness Report is not based on any major research effort; far from measuring how happy people are with some sophisticated mix of indicators, it simply compiles answers to a single question asked to comparatively small samples of people in each country:

“Please imagine a ladder with steps numbered from zero at the bottom to 10 at the top. The top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you and the bottom of the ladder represents the worst possible life for you. On which step of the ladder would you say you feel you personally stand at this time?”

Broken Record

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With all the ongoing talk about how Canada needs to bolster the security of the Arctic, maybe we could just try completing the last project that was supposed to do that.

The Nanisivik Naval Facility, Harper’s deep-sea port meant to support the AOPS, is still not finished. It has become the white elephant in Canada’s north.

Now a part-time, summer-only maritime gas station, the significantly stripped-back Nanisivik port project is mired in construction delays, cost overruns and serious questions about its long-term viability.

And now, Global News can reveal the construction company building the facility went into receivership a year ago — leaving the Department of National Defence to backtrack on its earlier plans for a long-awaited 2025 opening date.

 

25% Of Zero Is Still Zero

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Thankfully, there are a few adults in the room available to point out that Doug Ford’s plan for a 25% electricity surcharge on exports to the US is plain idiocy.

“..experts here however say Ontario actually generates too much power and there are no firm contracts with US markets so electricity is simply offered up on demand and an extra charge amounts to nothing.  In some cases we’ve offered exports at what we call negative prices… we [are] literally offering to pay people to take the power off our hands…”

America vs. The Rest of the World

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Though this graphic focuses on the US vs. the EU, it’s very clear that the UK and Canada are in exactly the same boat as the latter. They’re all highly bloated, overtaxed, overregulated entities in which those in the public sector have convinced/coerced everyone else to pay for their lifestyles.

h/t ‘Lupus solos’

Ideas Matter

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Critics of Trump typically assert that his political moves are motivated solely by a desire to be a bully, but in reality there’s a fairly complex political ideology behind them. It’s not new and it’s been in the works for decades, as Julius Ruechel points out in this Substack essay. No matter what you think of Trump, it’s important to understand the ideas that motivate him and his supporters. And it’s clear that Trump is not a fan of limited government.

In [Bannon’s] view, the only question was whether the future would be populist nationalism or populist socialism.

The populist nationalist is essentially Trump’s “Make America Great Again” or Putin’s conservative nationalism — state-regulated capitalist nation-states unashamedly acting to defend their national interests and acting for the collective benefit of their own citizens, much as nations have always done, but with both military and corporate might harnessed to an even greater degree to defend national interests and optimize society. Individuals and businesses inside the “national fortress” are largely left in peace to pursue “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” within the confines of the nation’s sandbox as long as their activities don’t impinge on national interests, even as the largest corporations are incentivized and/or coerced to pursue objectives that the political leaders believe will serve the country as a whole…

 

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