CBC: There’s now a Bank of Canada number for carbon tax’s impact on inflation. It’s small
And that’s why they pay them the big bucks.
“…this estimate applies only to the direct impact of the carbon tax on those three products that are included in the consumer price index (gasoline, heating oil and natural gas). It does not attempt to capture any second-round or pass-through effects.”
Biden’s latest verbal mistake comes a week after he was ripped for inferring that African American and Hispanic workers don’t have “high school diplomas.”
This evening we learn about the Fur Wars in Canada.
Your best recent tips are appreciated.
Two years ago, I made the prediction there wouldn’t be a print newspaper in Canada in four years. Well, here we are, where Metroland, sister company to the Toronto Star filed for bankruptcy, laid off 2/3 of its staff, and ceased printing. What’s left will be strickly online. Hmmm, wonder why?
Here’s the Globe and Mail’s story (paywall). It notes more than 70 papers are done print. Here’s Metroland’s link to their brands.
In a related note, Pipeline Online is just two weeks shy of its second anniversary. Working in newspapers was like being a crewmember of the Titanic. It was just a matter of time before the thing went under. And thus, going on my own, being master of my own destiny, was necessary.
(From Kate: You need to add a “Support Pipeline Online” link to your website header, Brian. And you folks with ties to the energy industry, especially in SE Sask, should consider advertising. Use it or lose it!)
This evening we present a super rendition of Waterloo Sunset by The Kinks.
Your best tips of late are always appreciated.
I was previously unfamiliar with the concept of bra euphoria.
Hey, it’s a thing. And, it seems, a mixed blessing.
A sweet tune for a Saturday evening.
#BREAKING: Burning Man Festival Declares National Emergency as over 73,000 Campers are trapped Urged to Shelter in Place Amid Flooding Crisis
Currently, more than 73,000 festival attendees and campers are trapped with no access in or out of the… pic.twitter.com/gMxoFiFKdm
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) September 2, 2023
From the comments: “Burning Man was founded on principles of self-reliance, self-expression and decommodification. Money largely isn’t exchanged during the event, and organizers rely on participants to build and deconstruct the city each year in an effort to leave no lasting effect on the ecologically sensitive area.”
Tonight, we present a 1967 hockey film.
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What better song to start off this new month than September by Earth, Wind, and Fire.
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It has become a tradition for me to play this song before returning after a long journey. While my flight from Heathrow to Boston today isn’t exactly “home”, my adopted country of America definitely is. It has been an amazing time to be away, and a privilege to have worked remotely out of 10 European countries over 46 days, It also will be so wonderful to return to “normal” life again too.
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Yes, we’re aware that clicking on the comments currently delivers a “page not found” link. It’s being worked on.
This area of Nevada has treacherous heat. People backed up on these roads with children and animals in their cars could be in a life-threatening situation with no services for miles. These climate clowns are dangerous.
This is the way to deal with them.pic.twitter.com/QK4Xa2oV93
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) August 28, 2023
Longer version here.
According to Spengler, writing during the Great War, one should not see Europe or the West in ‘Ptolemaic’ terms as being the centre of history, and other cultures as orbiting around it. As Copernicus had done in astronomy, removing the centrality of the earth, the same had to be done with Western culture.
Moreover, he claimed, every culture has a unique ‘destiny,’ and all of them display developmental phases of life and death, just like living beings. Nor did he see European culture as being anything exceptional; in fact, at the time it was already in the declining phase of ‘civilization,’ instead of the earlier, vigorously creative stage of ‘culture’ that reached its apogee during the Enlightenment, and like all other cultures, would eventually perish.
Interestingly, Spengler noted that, during the creative ‘cultural’ phase, ‘spirituality’ occupied a prominent place, while the time of decay was marked by rootlessness and world-weariness among people, and by the dominance of machine organisation – the latter feature echoed by Max Weber, who famously wrote about humanity being imprisoned in an ‘iron cage’ of mechanisation.
It is not difficult to perceive in contemporary world (and not only Western) culture similar characteristics of cultural alienation and the predominance of machine culture, increasingly manifesting itself as the valorisation of AI. But instead of the cultural forces highlighted by Spengler, just over a hundred years after the publication of his epochal work it would turn out that a comparatively small group of individuals, motivated largely by financial and economic considerations pertaining to the possibility that they might lose their grip on power, would be instrumental in precipitating a catastrophic, controlled collapse of Western society, but also the rest of the world. Should their attempt be successful, a global collapse would be unavoidable.
Maybe the climate change science isn’t all that settled, after all, especially when it comes to climate models, writes University of Regina professor James Warren.
And if Newfoundland (which votes Liberal) does it, then drilling for oil isn’t so bad, now, is it, Minister Guilbeault?
And capturing CO2 from the air – isn’t that what trees do?
I was out running errands in Saskatoon when I heard the news, and meant to post yesterday but it didn’t happen. One of my “top ten” favourites of all times – thank you, and RIP Mr. Robertson.
Scandal-Plagued Stanford President Resigns…
Following the Stanford Daily’s initial report about manipulated studies last November, the college’s board formed a special committee, led by former federal prosecutor Carol Lam, to review the claims. The committee then engaged former Illinois federal judge Mark Filip, and his law firm, Kirkland & Ellis, to conduct the review.
“I expect there may be ongoing discussion about the report and its conclusions, at least in the near term, which could lead to debate about my ability to lead the university into the new academic year,” said Tessier-Lavigne in a statement describing his reasons for resigning.
The university has named Richard Saller – a professor of European studies, as interim president, effective Sept. 1.
The panel’s report, which is 89-pages long, was based on more than 50 interviews and a review of more than 50,000 documents which concluded that members of Tessier-Lavigne’s labs engaged in inappropriate manipulation of research data or deficient scientific practices which resulted in significant flaws in five papers which listed Tessier-Lavigne as the lead author, the Times reports.
The panel found that in many instances, he took insufficient steps to correct mistakes, including the 2009 Alzheimer’s paper after subsequent studies revealed that its key finding was incorrect.
h/t Jojodogfacedboy
Water, wood, fire, earth and metal: James Lindsay describes a broad, comprehensive strategy for fighting Woke Marxism by analyzing it from the perspective of traditional five-element theory.
The left likes to treat skeptics of electrical cars as if they were Luddites. Truth is, making an existing product less efficient but more expensive doesn’t really meet the definition of innovation.
Even the purported amenities and technological advances EV-makers like to brag about in their ads have been a regular feature of gas-powered vehicles going back generations. At best, EVs, if they fulfill their promise, are a lateral technology.
Which is why there is no real “emerging market” for EVs in the United States as much as there’s an industrial policy in place that props up EVs with government purchases, propaganda, endless state subsidies, cronyism, taxpayer-backed loans, and edicts. The green “revolution” is an elite-driven, top-down technocratic project.
And it’s increasingly clear that the only reason giant rent-seeking carmakers are so heavily invested in EV development is that government is promising to artificially limit the production of gas-powered cars.[…]
In today’s real-world economy, though, Ford announced this week that it was firing at least 1,000 employees — many of them white-collar workers on the EV side. Ford projects it’s going to lose $3 billion on electric vehicles in 2023, bringing its EV losses to $5.1 billion over two years. In 2021, Ford reportedly lost $34,000 on every EV it made. This year it was losing more than $58,000 on every EV. In a normal world, Ford would be dramatically scaling back EV production, not expanding it. Remember that next time we need to bail out Detroit.
Then again, we’re already bailing them out, I suppose. Last week, the U.S. Energy Department lent Ford — again, a company that loses tens of thousands of dollars on every EV it sells — another $9.2 billion in taxpayer dollars for a South Korean battery project. One imagines no sane bank would do it. The cost of EV batteries has gone up, not down, over the past few years.
“He said, ‘Mom, look, they are teaching us about finger f****** at [elementary] school …”
Global News is reporting that it was an accident:
“The Kootenay Lake school district is issuing an apology to parents and providing counselling resources to students after a graphic sex education guide was mistakenly distributed to elementary school students last week.”
Note that the school board itself is not saying it was an accident.
A low on the totem pole public health department worker is just shrugging and saying she didn’t review the whole book. Whoops. No biggie.
There was no accident here, and the corrupt Trudeau-funded eunuch media of Canada is playing cover for dangerous child predators and perverts who are in positions of power and influence and who have easy and unfettered access to children.
They are in every element of public life and public policy in this country.
**CATIE, the organization that produced the booklet, has yanked it from the Internet.**