Author: lance

Alberta Election (Bumped)

The pundits and politicians have had their say. Give us yours. Eighty-seven seats up for grabs and the last election resulted in a 63-24 UCP win.

Things may be different this time if the polls are close to reality. I don’t think the polls are right. I figure a couple of UCP seats lost in Calgary and the Redmonton seat.

More info at Elections Alberta

Results now rolling in: @9:21pm with UCP leading in 51, NDP in 33. (10% reporting)

Lota of grumbling about slow returns: I’m wondering if I will wake up in the morning and have Biden as premier.

Don’t count him out.

10:15 update: Stockwell Day called it an hour ago.

CBC hardest hit.

Idiots

We said, “It’s a tax on everything and it’s going to raise prices on everything.”

They said, “Don’t be a denier. It’s ‘capitalism’. It’ll drive innovation.’

We said, “Costs will out pace the profit margins and business will cut back and increase the costs to consumers.”

They said, “Don’t be ridiculous.”

They said:

We said, “Told you so.”

Crackpot theory #1023

Eastern Canada’s PM is in trouble. Big trouble. I expect he’ll try to fight it as he can but IMO the “walk in the snow” happens before the summer break. I think the cabal around power in Ottawa is a little worried about the dope going up against the Conservatives. I don’t think they think he would win against Poilievre and let’s face it Pierre is as much a reaction to Trudeau as a reaction to the previous Conservative leaders.

In other words, while I think the CSIS thing is the real deal, I also think it’s being orchestrated.

That leads to a Liberal convention probably just before Christmas and a spring election next year with a different Liberal leader. Singh gets off the hook, Liberals get off the hook, the media gets a redo on the nasty Nazi running the CPC, etc. ad nauseum.

Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it.

We can seem, to them, to be weak and divided…

I support swift, sustained, coordinated and crushing sanctions against Russia.

I support the decisions of the Gov’t of Canada in regards to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Glory to Ukraine!

Blog Notes

Fun with cracks. The blank main page was redirected to an email harvester and the template was corrupted. We’ve reverted to a backup but expect further issues as we go through the process. At first glance it appears only the templates were affected but that’s an assumption of giant proportions.

If you’ve privileges on the site Kate will be in touch with you, but be proactive and change and harden up your passwords (standard rules apply: symbols, caps, etc), please don’t use the same passwords at multiple sites. Let Kate know _immediately_ if you have any issues changing your password.

Bumped for Update, from Kate: In response to some of the comments — site loading problems usually originate with the host server and are temporary, more rarely because something in the publishing software gets broken. When the day comes that I pack up the blog for good, I’ll say so on the main page. And should a terminal problem beyond my control take us down, I’ll ask Ed Driscoll to relay the information at Instapundit, and wish you all good luck in your future endeavors.

Electronic nicotine saves lives.

Via Instapundit, a study that compared 100k people aged 18-34, 10k of whom were from San Francisco for smoking rates.

San Francisco’s ban on flavored tobacco product sales was associated with increased smoking among minor high school students relative to other school districts. While the policy applied to all tobacco products, its outcome was likely greater for youths who vaped than those who smoked due to higher rates of flavored tobacco use among those who vaped.5 This raises concerns that reducing access to flavored electronic nicotine delivery systems may motivate youths who would otherwise vape to substitute smoking. Indeed, analyses of how minimum legal sales ages for electronic nicotine delivery systems are associated with youth smoking also suggest such substitution.

True North and Rebel News to court

What a jackass

Hypocrisy, thy name is Trudeau.

But that’s okay, though. Despite a massive amount of this campaign being about virtue signalling climate hysteria, this apparently wasn’t a secret.

That would be debate panelist Althia Raj….

Coulda had Max

Yesterday some wing-nuts tried to shut down an event with Bernier.

Today, the so-called “Conservative” wing-nuts shut down the Rebel.

Can you see the difference yet?

SNC Lavalin’s mentor

“I said, ‘I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars.’ I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in,’ I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’ Well, son of a bitch. [Laughter.] He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.”

h/t: Ed @ Instapundit

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