Our largest trading partner. What could go wrong?
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Oh, Shiny Prime Minister
David Akin: The Trudeau govt is a month old: #Ottawaspends tally so far: 6 spending announcements totalling $2.849 billion. None to be spent in Canada.
Yes, I Know You Know This
It’s for your idiot friends who don’t. Pass it along.
Goodbye, Trudeaupia
Hello Trudeauistan: Sharia Law Supporter Omar Alghabra is the new Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs
This Is Awkward
The CEO Paying Everyone $70,000 Salaries Has Something to Hide.
As we talked about his wild six months, I brought up the lawsuit, asking if Price thought Gravity’s spending on the raises triggered his brother’s suit, as he’d implied. “I have no idea,” he slowly shrugged, looking right at me. “The quote in the Seattle Times from his attorney was, ‘It wasn’t only because of that.’ ” He twisted his beard between two fingers, contemplating the statement by Lucas’s attorney, Greg Hollon. “That one singular quote in the paper is the only information I have about if they were connected or not.”
It’s a poignant story, one that I almost wrote. Until I realized Price knew more than he was letting on. The lawsuit couldn’t have been prompted by the pay raise–if anything, it may have been the other way around.
Y2Kyoto: Da Proof Is Da Proof
“The agreement will be legally binding and it will have, as part of that, countries will be legally bound to provide targets. The actual target that each country provides will not be legally binding, likely, because that is the difficulty with many countries, including the United States,” she added.
“It’s really important that we have everyone at the table and come up with an agreement.”
Oh, Shiny Prime Minister
Is that my wallet in your pocket, or are you just happy to see them?
Canada is making a five-year, $2.65 billion contribution to help developing countries tackle climate change.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement Friday at the summit of Commonwealth leaders in Malta, where the battle against global warming is becoming the dominant issue.
The Things That Make You Go Hmmm….
Via email — “I came across this by accident scanning the comments section of a youtube
video.”
I have a friend that works at a CFB military base in Manitoba Canada she is a medic and a captain, has served two terms in Afghanistan, is
he young attractive woman, but her job right now is to babysit 1700 Syrian
refugees all of them are young man and show her no respect and show no
appreciation to the country that’s feeding them and housing them. Very few
refugees getting out of Syria are families, women, or children because the
young man can get out easier and they don’t help the others. Nobody knows
how many of these young men are Isis terrorist and our retarded government
thinks that none of them are. The officers and privates that are taking care
of them, hate it, they know better, they have been trained to pick them out
and some the refugees admit they are pro ISIS
Unverified of course, but hmmm.
The Convenient Memory Lapses of a Liberal
Though Charles Adler left his radio gig in Winnipeg to move to Vancouver, he has a new show on satellite radio, from which a podcast is published as well. In the most recent episode he interviews Warren & Lisa Kinsella. Much of the talk was about the Canadian Senate. Mrs. Kinsella has a “unique” perspective starting around 19:00 into the podcast:
“Because Stephen Harper first, of course, stacked the Senate. So we have an imbalance in the Senate. We have Conservatives dominating it.”
Her comment necessitated a quick check of Senate appointments:
Stephen Harper: 59 Tories
Jean Chretien: 72 Liberals + 3 Independents
It’s most interesting that such a prominent Liberal made such a comment, considering that her husband was one of Chretien’s BFF’s during his tenure as PM. Conveniently short memories.
Bomb Bomb Bomb
As Bloomberg reports, Bombardier Inc. will get a Quebec government rescue of as much as $1.3 billion as the struggling planemaker prepares to pump in even more cash into the tardy, over-budget CSeries jetliner.
How quaint. They say “Quebec government rescue” as if Quebec pays its own bills.
Funny how the "Bombardier needs a bailout" stories are in perfect sync with Liberals forming Gov. with a majority of Quebec seats. #cdnpoli
— Bill Brasky (@Polkameister) October 29, 2015
Macleans has a sunnier take.
Morning update!
Uh, oh. pic.twitter.com/4Ji2f1lNdQ
— Norman Spector (@nspector4) October 30, 2015
Wynneing!
Or Wynnescam?
Wynne was reduced to insisting “I’m not tone deaf” Monday as more revelations about self-serving relations between her government and the unions continued to spill out. “We have to remember that for years and years there were 72 school boards making these decisions,” in place of the centralized process put in place by her Liberals, she said. The fact the new process has proven slower, clunkier and far more expensive than anyone expected is just something voters are supposed to swallow. Unfortunately for Wynne, the size of the meal keeps growing: from $2.5 million paid to three unions when the news broke a week ago, the figure quickly grew to $3.7 million, and on Tuesday was reported to be as high as $7.1 million.
[…] According to one calculation, teachers and affiliated unions have spent $6.5 million supporting the Liberals in the past three elections, on top of direct donations to the party approaching $1 million. In return the Liberal governments of Wynne and predecessor Dalton McGuinty have rewarded union members with rich increases in benefits and salaries. Though McGuinty eventually came into conflict with union bosses as he tried to reduce Ontario’s swollen deficit, Wynne quickly mended relations by granting public school teachers $468 million in concessions in advance of the 2014 election. The unions repaid the favour with a fierce advertising campaign against Tory leader Tim Hudak.
“Problematize”
That’s a real word. To problematize something, to put it through the process of “problematicization,” is to pick nits about tiny things which are themselves of sub-nit dimension in hopes of sparking a class consciousness and hopefully that left-wing revolution Marxists pray for.
h/t Roseberry.
Wynneing!
Congratulations Kathleen Wynne!: A lousy 4522 YouTube views of your sex-ed video with 15 likes and 2,642 dislikes! https://t.co/rpMTdRcY4w
— Lorrie Goldstein (@sunlorrie) October 8, 2015
You broke it, you bought it.
Rachel Notley, Keystone XL a “threat” to Alberta because it further locks in the US as the client for Canadian Oil.
Related.
Not wanting to feel left out, Calgary’s Mayor weighs in on federal politics.
Sanctimonious crap
If it’s true that Justin Trudeau called David Suzuki’s views about climate change “sanctimonious crap,” then I wonder how Mr. Trudeau would describe the these comments….
The Brain of a Social Justice Warrior
h/t peter
The Sound of Settled Science
What is the opposite of diversity?
This article reviews the available evidence and finds support for four claims: (1) Academic psychology once had considerable political diversity, but has lost nearly all of it in the last 50 years. (2) This lack of political diversity can undermine the validity of social psychological science via mechanisms such as the embedding of liberal values into research questions and methods, steering researchers away from important but politically unpalatable research topics, and producing conclusions that mischaracterize liberals and conservatives alike. (3) Increased political diversity would improve social psychological science by reducing the impact of bias mechanisms such as confirmation bias, and by empowering dissenting minorities to improve the quality of the majority’s thinking. (4) The underrepresentation of non-liberals in social psychology is most likely due to a combination of self-selection, hostile climate, and discrimination. We close with recommendations for increasing political diversity in social psychology.
Oh, Shiny Pony!
Meet Ala Buzreba – Student, volunteer, optimist. Youngest Liberal candidate seeking to be Calgary Nosehills next MP.
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And she’s anti-bullying. (Oh dear. That link has gone dead, now that she’s “ethnically cleansed” her history on Twitter).
The Tolerant Left
Eating itself.
I smell Soros at work here.