National Post: ‘Secret’ CBC documents from board of directors meetings haven’t been made public since last August
h/t Bob
Born That Way
What slippery slope? A pedophile on attraction, love and a life of loneliness
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Wynneing!
Ontario’s big, green assisted economic suicide plan
…this new plan, billed by the Liberals as a “once-in-a-lifetime transformation” for Ontario’s economy, may also prove the end of Ontario’s lifetime of economic progress. In an era where assisted dying is the big thing with Liberals, this could be the first case where it’s tried on a province.
The leaked cabinet document, reportedly signed-off on by Premier Kathleen Wynne, lists a jaw-dropping 80 or so policies including: The eventual ban on heating new homes and buildings with natural gas, with only electric or geothermal being legal; $4 billion to be doled out by a “green bank,” funded by carbon taxes, to subsidize retrofits of buildings to get them off natural gas; the requirement that homes undergo an “energy-efficiency audit” before they can be sold; and a stack of rules, regulations and handouts to get an electric car into every two-car household within eight years, including rebates, free electric charging, and plug-in stations at every liquor store. Naturally, there will be billions more in traditional government-spending programs on public transit, bike paths, upgrades for schools and hospitals, and “research” funds and centres of climate excellence, not to mention new ethanol fuel standards that will gratify the Liberals’ top corporate donors in the biofuel lobby.
All in the family: Wynne’s Brother-in-law the new CEO of EHealth, BUT he also has deep ties to the Wind Industry
Don’t Contaminate My Black Purity
The spokesmen at Black Lives Matter 101 gave voice to what would quickly be recognised in any other context as claims of racial exclusivity. They were not shy about this or worried that it would undermine their larger claims. But, in fact, this view does undermine their larger claims. Their eagerness to take racial categorizations as fundamental, unalterable, and essentially “true,” contradicts their sense that racism is unjust and wrong. Replacing one form of racism with another takes us no closer to a fair and just society… What is the use of protesting racism by affirming an intrinsic all-powerful racial identity?
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
Red bus symbol represents a bus driver assaulted, blue passenger symbol represents a bus rider assaulted, handcuffs symbol represents a bus rider sexually assaulted, knife symbol represents a knife reported on bus, gun symbol represents a gun reported on bus, black bus station symbol represents an assault at a bus stop.
Helpful. (h/t Patrick)
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An instant classic, I’d wager. Tips open. (h/t Dave)
I Felt A Great Disturbance In The Narrative
The expert is always the last to know: Crime researcher reverses course, Ferguson Effect now ‘leading hypothesis’
Looking at data from 56 large cities across the country, Rosenfeld found a 17% increase in homicide in 2015. Much of that increase came from only 10 cities, which saw an average 33% increase in homicide.
“These aren’t flukes or blips, this is a real increase,” he said. “It was worrisome. We need to figure out why it happened.”
All 10 cities that saw sudden increases in homicide had large African American populations, he said. While it’s not clear what drove the increases, he said, he believes there is some connection between high-profile protests over police killings of unarmed black men, a further breakdown in black citizens’ trust of the police, and an increase in community violence.
Podcast – The Conservative Party Leadership is officially a race
The Conservatives have a real race on their hands for party leader. Michael Chong has announced and Maxime Bernier has relaunched his campaign. Meanwhile Kellie Leitch is upping her game online. Chong and Bernier join Brian to discuss their campaigns plus Alise Mills of Conservative Voice calls in to give her thoughts on the race.
Also on the show, David Martosko from The Daily Mail on the US political race and Adrienne Batra, Editor in Chief of the Toronto Sun on Sophie Trudeau’s tone deaf call for a “team.”
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
Har.
h/t euan (bookmark his site).
How Deep, Señor Maduro?
The only thing standing between Venezuela and mass graves is the availability of diesel.
Lie Back, And Think Of Merkel
All is proceeding according to plan.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Take the scenic route through Black Bear Pass, Colorado. Elfie will be your tour guide.
(Sorry about the double tips post! Bad time stamping on my part, so updated the post title.)
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Clifford claims to have a sappy tune that tops last night’s Debbie Boone selection. You be the judge: Charlene — I’ve Never Been To Me.
Tips invited.
More Pavilions At Folkfest
“He was in tears, saying he did not know what to do,” a supervising physician told the researchers behind a revealing new Canadian study. “He’d been sent into the delivery room to take care of deliveries … and he had never even seen a lady with her clothing off.”
Thanks, Tommy.
Pat Condell on Fire
The sad part is that most Leftists the world over wouldn’t understand why he is so upset.
Bill’s Wife
How Deep, Señor Maduro?
With the economy dead, the only thing remaining is to watch as society implodes. To that end, Oscar Meza, Director of the Documentation Center for Social Analysis (Cendas-FVM), said that measurements of scarcity and inflation in May are going to be the worst to date. “We are officially declaring May as the month that [widespread] hunger began in Venezuela,” he told Web Noticias Venezuela. … “As for March, there was an increase in yearly prices due to inflation — a 582.9 percent increase for food, while the level of scarcity of basic products remains at 41.37 percent.”
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The is why, Español Ramón Muchacho, Mayor of Chacao in Caracas, said the streets of the capital of Venezuela are filled with people killing animals for food. “Muchacho reported that in Venezuela, it is a “painful reality” that people “hunt cats, dogs and pigeons” to ease their hunger.”
Related! “We’re going to tell imperialism and the international right that the people are present, with their farm instruments in one hand and a gun in the other… to defend this sacred land,”
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If you thought last night’s selection was sappy, you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. Debby Boone, You Light Up My Life. (1977)
That’ll be hard to top. Tips open.
The Sound Of Settled Science
Actual, original data have been changed so much and so often that they are almost unrecognizable from the original entries. For example, the 0.7 degree Celsius (1.3F) of cooling between 1940 and the 1970s – which had the world worried about another Little Ice Age – has simply “disappeared” in these corrupted-computer-model re-writes of history.
Wynneing!
Ontario’s industrial structure continues the decade-long shift from its traditional pillars of manufacturing and finance to government-directed investments in transportation and utilities. Before the recession, capital spending by manufacturing and finance reached $18.3 billion. Now, they total half that. In their place, investment in transportation and utilities has doubled from $10 billion to $20 billion. Instead of world-class factories and banks, Ontario now invests in mass transit and green-energy projects, mostly dictated by government.
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The contrast between business investment in Quebec and Ontario shows that the billions poured into government infrastructure and green-energy projects has not “kick-started” Ontario’s business investment as the government hoped. In fact, the high taxes and electricity rates needed to pay for these schemes seems to be driving investment out of Ontario, especially from its manufacturing core. Slumping investment is hardly surprising since business confidence in Ontario is the lowest in Canada, with only 30 per cent of firms saying the province is headed in the right direction. Not even a lower dollar has made it worthwhile for firms to expand. Instead, Ontario’s building a magnificent transportation infrastructure to carry imported goods that used to be made here and to ferry commuters to jobs that will not materialize as long as business investment flounders.
Shocker, I know.