Making History

This is not the kind of history that any level of government should be making. But I guess it’s okay, as long as we call the spending “investment”.

The New Brunswick government says its investments in health care have helped push the budget into a record deficit. Introduced on Tuesday, the budget’s $1.4-billion deficit is the largest in the province’s history, according to Finance Department staff.

Speaking of investments…

The federal government is putting $200 million toward a Canadian-owned launch pad so it can send satellites into orbit without the assistance of other nations or other foreign third parties.

 

Keir Starmer’s Britain

Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and to their great regret, the “inspirational historical figures who have helped shape national thought” were distressingly white.

Among the criteria for selecting the banknotes’ theme is the effort to avoid “divisive” imagery: “The theme should not involve imagery that would reasonably be offensive to, or exclude, any groups.” Another criterion is “consisten[cy] with our legal obligations,” namely “considering the impact on individuals who share the protected characteristics set out in the Equality Act 2010.”

I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

Newsmax;

Meta is planning sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as Meta seeks to offset costly artificial intelligence infrastructure bets and prepare for greater efficiency brought about by AI-assisted workers.

Related: China’s biggest cybersecurity company apparently just shipped an AI assistant with its own SSL private key sitting inside the installer.

The Part I Like Best

About “Safe Supply” is the way it redirects the drug trafficking revenue of organized crime into the pockets of government health officials.

Former senior health officials in BC left their government positions and launched an opioid vending machine company and a company to manufacture injectable heroin.

A researcher who advised the BC government on addiction for 20+ years revealed at health committee that both officials used their government positions to push safe supply and decriminalization before building companies around those same policies.

Mark Tyndall launched MySafe Society while still serving as a senior government official.

The company installed vending machines that dispensed opioids to drug users.

The federal government gave them over $3.5 million in taxpayer dollars to do it.

Perry Kendall founded Fair Price Pharma while serving as executive director of the government-funded BC Centre on Substance Use.

The company’s goal was to produce a domestic supply of injectable heroin.

Video testimony at the link.

Put A Mullah In It And Him Gay

NY Post;

President Trump was stunned to learn last week that US intelligence indicates new Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei may be gay — and that his father, the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, feared his suitability to rule the Islamic Republic for that reason, The Post can reveal.

Trump couldn’t contain his surprise and laughed aloud when he was briefed on the intel, according to sources.

Others in the room also found it “hilarious” and joined the president’s reaction, while one senior intelligence official “has not stopped laughing about it for days,” said one person familiar with the briefing.

Related: Another one bites the dust

Coal three ways – four, actually

Three in-depth pieces on coal-fired power today:

NDP say coal refurbishment will double electricity rates by 2050, prefer natural gas and renewables instead

NDP analysis of coal refurbishment and its impact on rates, in depth

SaskPower Minister responds to NDP study on refurbishing coal and its impact on rates

In cased you missed this major related story on Monday:

BREAKING: Data centre hinges on dispatchable baseload power, including coal refurbishment

I would like to point out that the Leader Post, CTV and CBC failed to mention, or perhaps even realize, that it will be coal powering that new data centre in Regina. Where did they think that power is going to come from? I know! Solar, at night!

 

Tuesday On Turtle Island

China Carney’s Canada:    Carney outspends Blackie.    Islam in Montreal.    Marxist Canada.

The Democrat Party’s America:    Pro-Islam ideology.    War on the world.    VDH – A surreal war.

Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC:    Ramadan in France.    I hate Islam.    The Jevons Paradox.    Ignorant self-righteousness.    Project vaccine.    Islamophobia.

Your morning meme.      And at the Bee.

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