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The Libranos: To Boldly Launder

Everything you need to know about the ‘spaceport’ in Nova Scotia

I write this from my home in Canso, Nova Scotia, less than three kilometres from Maritime Launch Services’ “launch pad.”

Little more than a concrete shed pad at the end of a gravel road with two sea cans, Maritime Launch’s “Spaceport Nova Scotia” was recently lavished $20 million a year for 10 years by our federal government to further develop its facility, and as it now boasts to investors — send rockets into space on “150+” launch days a year.

Seems legit.

Let’s start at the beginning with the company itself, an American-Ukrainian start up that called itself Maritime Launch Services, and registered with Nova Scotia Joint Stocks in October 2016. […]

A project of the Ukrainian Space Agency, MLS was created specifically to launch the Cyclone 4M, a rocket designed by Yuzhnoye, the Ukrainian agency’s design and business office.

Despite claims for years that they were “maturing the launch vehicle,” this rocket has never been built.

The Ukrainian Space Agency suffered a series of losses due to ongoing scandals, mismanagement, malfeasance and corruption Among them was a spectacularly failed 10-year project in Brazil, and allegations of deals with North Korea, a breach of contract case with Boeing that would cost them USD $200 million, and the theft of over $10 million from Export Development Canada funds provided in a deal with MDA, a scam that would span 2011-2017.

Despite this history, in 2017 the Government of Canada, including then President of the Canadian Space Agency, Sylvain LaPorte, signed an agreement to “co-operate in space.”

Read the whole thing.

@TraceyKentIt gets worse. Their entire FB page is promo shots of endless Liberal politicians and CGI pics of non-existent space travel

Faint Hope

So Canadians rewarded Carney with a majority government so that he can try to backfill a hole previously created by his own party?  Note that this is merely a discussion forum as opposed to the implementation of any actual business plans. The mind boggles.

A recent report from RBC says that last year was Canada’s first to attract more than $100 billion in foreign direct investment since 2015.

More than $1 trillion in foreign investment exited the Canadian economy between 2015 and 2024, what the report calls the “largest capital exodus in Canadian history.”

No Country for Young Men

Alexander Brown has written a critically important editorial about Canada’s devolution:

The solution, of course, should be an obvious one: get our house in order; rebuild an immigration standard; send home those on expired and expiring ‘temporary’ status in areas we do not need; borrow from your betters when it comes to layered, nuanced healthcare delivery; reinforce laws, and civilisation itself.

Instead, Pichette went further, doubling down on decline, and arguing for triple the amount of mass immigration, as if millions of potential fast-food workers entering through the TFWP, IMP, or foreign-student stream can replace our problems of top-tier brain drain, and an anemic economy that runs on far too many zombified, unproductive businesses allowed to limp along through subsidisation.

Alarming The Warming

Now that Carney has a majority, expect his government to start taking these fools seriously again.

“It feels to me like this (climate) has been somewhat deprioritized. And that’s why we’re going to, as an industry, keep it at the top of the table,” Rowan Saunders, the CEO of the country’s fourth-largest property and casualty insurer ⁠Definity, said in an interview.

“We’re at a point now in Canada where we can have what used to be a year’s worth of severe weather losses happening in a single day. And ​we don’t have the level of public investment commensurate to that reality right now,” said David Leibl, vice president of sustainability and corporate affairs at Winnipeg-based insurer Wawanesa. “We ​need to close that gap.”

Nobody Voted For This

Literally, nobody voted for this.

They’re shopping for MPs like they’re filling a baseball team roster.

He Admires Their Basic Dictatorship

Via @RealAndyLeeShow;

Patrick Pichette served on Twitter’s board of directors during a time period when many political dissidents – myself included – were banned. At the same time, he sat on the board of directors at the Trudeau Foundation.

Elon Musk fired him.

Will Canada’s Woke Army Soon Be On the March?

In some far off distant place, if an army is built to primarily crush its own citizens, how would you describe that place?

The Betrayal of the Elites

Related: Are any members of the Elbows Up Cult capable of seeing Conman Carney’s hypocrisy?

Slush Funds For All

Well, slush money for Montreal at least. It’s anyone’s guess why a port currently at 72% capacity really needs to expand, but we can dream, can’t we?

Nathalie Pilon, the chair of the Port of Montreal’s board of directors, said the expansion is needed, despite a recent decline in overall cargo traffic she attributed in part to U.S. tariffs. She said the port is at around 72 per cent capacity now, and that problems arise when 85 per cent is attained.

You’d think that having a four lane highway across the country might be a priority too, but roads to the Arctic seem to be the all the rage now. Mexico’s got a better road network than Canada at this juncture.

The prime minister said construction on another project, the Mackenzie Valley Highway in the Northwest Territories, would begin this summer

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