Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?

Chief Big Screen TV We Are All Treaty People 13 Comments

Big Chief Librano;

While most First Nations continue to comply with Stephen Harper’s controversial financial transparency law, a National Post analysis has found the compliance rate sharply dropped after Justin Trudeau’s government dropped a key enforcement mechanism.
As a result of the Trudeau government’s rule change, some bureaucrats are worried they won’t be able to properly account for and administer the billions of dollars transferred each year to the country’s First Nations.
Moreover, the Post has learned that the drop in the compliance rate to 85 per cent this year from 92 per cent in Harper’s last year may be the fault of the federal government itself which, in some instances at least, may have failed to live up to its obligations under the First Nations Financial Transparency Act (FNFTA).

Red Rose Country

Great Moments In Socialism Political Animal 37 Comments

Calgary rec centre eyes turning off arena heaters due to carbon tax;

Turner said operators have estimated the impact of the levy would increase the facility’s annual natural gas bill, which last year was about $60,000, by about 33 per cent without any changes. More troubling is on the electrical side of the bill, also powered by natural gas, which is expected to see an estimated 20 per cent hike on its annual $360,000 bill.

They have their global warming to keep them warm.

Oh, Shocking Prime Minister!

Political Animal Shiny Pony The Libranos 50 Comments

A shocking new report quietly released by the federal government admits that their finances could collapse in the coming decades if politicians don’t make responsible choices.

Shocking!

Two days before Christmas, when most politicians and their staffers had long left their offices for the holiday break, the finance department released — without fanfare or wide notice — a surprising update on long-term economic and fiscal projections.

Shocking and surprising!

[…] The forecast also assumes that the budget won’t be balanced until 2055. Projections show it peaking at $38.8 billion in 2035.

Well, THANK GOD for that carbon tax and killing off our energy industry, is all I can say.

If Obama Had A Daughter

Drain The Swamp The "W" Word 19 Comments

[Chicago police] were questioning four people on Wednesday as video circulated online showing a white teenager tied up and beaten as a group of young African-Americans shouted antiwhite messages and insulted President-elect Donald J. Trump.
[…] A roughly 30-minute video clip shared widely online appeared to show a Facebook livestream of the assault. A group can be seen taunting and physically assaulting a man amid cursing and laughing. Much of the video focuses on one woman as she rambles, at times incoherently.

“India knows. China knows. Russia knows. The US knows.”

Ethical Energy 38 Comments

The world’s media treats new energy supplies like an infinite number of $100,000 prizes landing in your lap. We will never be short of energy, because there is always a new major discovery – Angola, Kazakhstan, Brazil, shale this and that, etc. – to meet rising demand. And they have been sorely needed, because oil demand has grown by 10 million b/d in the past decade alone.
These big discoveries are getting rarer and smaller, while the world continues to rely more and more on fossil fuels. All the major discoveries listed in the last paragraph combined don’t offset demand growth over the past decade, never mind offsetting natural declines. This fact remains true despite the ungodly furor made over renewable energy and electric vehicles, which are hardly gaining traction despite massive incentives and media hype. This fact also is not lost on hugely populous countries, particularly China and India, which are nervously eyeing the world’s oil supplies and buying up whatever crap comes on the market (apologies, Spyglass).

Which brings us to Canada…
h/t Ken (Kulak)

Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Greenland Glaciers

Climate Cult Unsettled Science Y2Kyoto 12 Comments

Greenland’s ice sheet kicked off 2017 gaining about eight gigatons of snow and ice, which is well above what’s usually added to the ice sheet Jan. 1 for the last 24 years, according to Danish meteorologists.
In fact, Greenland’s ice sheet has been gaining ice and snow at a rate not seen in years based on Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) data. DMI reports the Greenland ice sheet’s “mass surface budget” has been growing significantly since October.

Dr. Judith Curry

Moonbats Science Unsettled Science 13 Comments

… has resigned her tenured position at Georgia Tech.

A deciding factor was that I no longer know what to say to students and postdocs regarding how to navigate the CRAZINESS in the field of climate science. Research and other professional activities are professionally rewarded only if they are channeled in certain directions approved by a politicized academic establishment — funding, ease of getting your papers published, getting hired in prestigious positions, appointments to prestigious committees and boards, professional recognition, etc.
How young scientists are to navigate all this is beyond me, and it often becomes a battle of scientific integrity versus career suicide (I have worked through these issues with a number of skeptical young scientists).

Robert E. Lighthizer, Trump’s New Trade Representative

Trump 32 Comments

And it’s a whole new ball game:

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday named Robert Lighthizer, an official in the Reagan administration and harsh critic of China’s trade practices, to be his chief trade negotiator, responsible for better deals aimed at reducing U.S. trade deficits.
Trump, who promised during his presidential campaign to renegotiate international trade deals like NAFTA and punish companies that ship work overseas, said in announcing his choice that Lighthizer would help “fight for good trade deals that put the American worker first.”Lighthizer is a former deputy U.S. trade representative under former Republican President Ronald Reagan who helped to stem the tide of imports from Japan in the 1980s with threats of quotas and punitive tariffs.
His return to the agency follows nearly three decades as a lawyer representing U.S. steelmakers and other companies in anti-dumping and anti-subsidy cases.

Here’s a discussion from 2007 on his views concerning the World Trade Organization.
Given the brain trust we have in Ottawa — or is it the Bahamas this week? — we’re probably doomed.
Related…

The Sound Of Settled Sinking

Roadkill Unsettled Science 33 Comments

An Irish journalist claims in a new documentary that fire, not ice, was responsible for the most famous nautical disaster of all time.
Senan Molony, a newspaper editor and large-boat enthusiast, says newly unearthed photos suggest a fire inside the Titanic’s coal room was much more serious than anyone previously believed.
In Titanic: The New Evidence, which aired Sunday in Britain, Molony claims the flames, which were burning before the ocean liner even left Europe, weakened the ship’s hull from the inside out.
By the time the boat reached the waters off Newfoundland, its skin was so brittle, Molony believes, that even a minor collision could have caused it to tear.

Here’s the Youtube version. h/t Melonhead

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