Business Is Business?

If Trump is such an existential threat to Canada, what explains the conciliatory tone that we’re now hearing from both Trump and our newly elected PM? The timing seems more than a little odd, but maybe there’s more to it than meets the eye.

If you’re like me you are scratching your head trying decode exactly what is Donald Trump’s play with Mark Carney? None of it makes any sense. We’ve gone from Carney’ reckless we’re done with America speech to a digital snog between the two men evoking an 80’s romcom, just 24 hours later.

Carney represents everything Trump claims to hate. He’s progressive, net-zero obsessed, effete and a globalist.

For all his good points, Trump hates being publicly embarrassed and is known for his brutal and sometimes comical retaliations. Yet Carney pokes away with hardly a jab. Hmmmm.

The gist is that Brookfield, Carney’s now former company — bailed out Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner to the tune of 1B. in an odd-looking deal even the Financial Times struggles to figure out.

 

Great Success!

Sun- NYC lost $9 billion of income to Miami, Palm Beach in five years

The two Florida counties gained households earning well above six figures, according to the report released Wednesday by the Citizens Budget Commission, a nonpartisan fiscal watchdog. Almost 20,000 people with a per capita income of about $190,000 left New York City for Palm Beach during that time, while more than 26,000 individuals with a per capita income of about $266,000 went to Miami-Dade, according to the group.

Truth Bombs from a Canadian Lawyer in Nashville

Daniela Liscio is a Canadian lawyer who left Canada but still wants the best for her homeland and her fellow Canadians.  In this brilliant post, she goes through some uncomfortable truths that many Canadians likely won’t want to hear, but must:

It is impossible to articulate the Canadian identity without referencing its adherence to its moral superiority.

Canadians believe they are an evolved society with a relatively peaceful existence because of their compassion, tolerance and virtue. In keeping with this identity of higher society, they are more likely to adhere to the belief in a single defined “public good” that apparently only a few (incompetent) bureaucrats at the top can define.

It’s why Canadians were more inclined to blindly follow pandemic restrictions …
… or believe that it was OK for Trudeau to invoke the Emergencies Act against the truckers protesting their subjugation of bodily autonomy …
… or give in to a politician telling them to open their hearts — and wallets — without question.

We Canadians are bred to show off our moral virtue especially compared to those gun-slinging racists to the South. We are taught to believe that our social safety net is stronger — and that’s the reason we have a kinder, gentler population that doesn’t get kids shot up in schools.

Ms. Liscio isn’t the only one who has noticed that something has gone very, very wrong in Canada. Simply put, why do so many Canadians hate Donald Trump specifically and Americans generally, than love their own country or future?!? Gad Saad coined the term “empathetic suicide”. This surely describes what just happened in Canada. Here’s his post from last night.

UBC Wants Your Money

As an alumni of the University of British Columbia, I received an email with this content from the UBC Estate Planning Review group.

Here’s what I wrote them back:

What gall you have to ask me to devote even one cent of my hard earned money to you and your fellow woke ilk. You don’t believe in free speech and are now in the midst of a major lawsuit by professors and a former grad student against compelled speech!!! Mere words can never adequately describe how deeply disgusted I am by all of you DEI Social Justice Warriors. You are truly bad, evil people.

In case you’re not aware, this is the lawsuit against UBC by four professors and a former graduate student.  Thus, if anyone donates money to UBC, this is what they are supporting:

  • Declaring that UBC is on “unceded” Indigenous land.
  • Requiring expressions of agreement with, fidelity to or loyalty to diversity, equity and inclusion (D.E.I.) doctrines or other political beliefs as a condition of applying for faculty positions.
  • Making declarations of support or condemnation of Israel or Palestinians or stating opinions on the absolute or relative morality, lawfulness or political justification for violence in Israel or Gaza.

The smiling a$$holes here think it perfectly fine to work for an organization that supports these things.

Lowering The Bar

Western Standard- Alberta sets groundwork for referendum day after Liberal election victory

To hold an independence referendum in Alberta, currently, the process can be initiated through two primary mechanisms under existing legislation, the Referendum Act and the Citizen Initiative Act.

A petition must collect signatures from approximately 600,000 eligible voters (about 20% of Alberta’s eligible voters, based on the 2019 election turnout) within a 90-day period.

If passed, the new law will cut the number needed cut in half to 10%.

Danielle Smith- Election Statutes Amendment Act (33 minutes)

Trust The Experts

National Post- Accused Filipino festival killer was under supervision of mental health team, says ministry

The statement from British Columbia’s Ministry of Health says Adam Kai-Ji Lo was being followed closely under the Mental Health Act, and there was “no indication of violence” in his presentation to the health team.

Interim Vancouver Police Chief Steve Rai said the morning after the attack that the suspect had a “significant history of interactions with police and health-care professionals related to mental health.”

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