Friday On Turtle Island

The Democrat Party’s America:   Victor Davis Hanson – Ellis Island immigration and socialism has failed.  Straight from 1984.   American woman.

Conman Carney’s Canada:  Blackie 2.0   Dietary advice from the CBC.  Another Indian lawsuit.  Gay breakfast.

Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC:   Paul Joseph Watson – It’s changing so fast.   Too woke to save Sara.   Interfaith dialogue in Germany.   Interfaith dialogue in France.

And at the Bee.

Echo Chamber

Only customers with obsessive compulsive disorder would be bothered by any strike. The rest will just buy their latte at the myriad of coffee shops that can be found down the street from every Starbucks.

Starbucks Workers United said stores in 45 cities would be impacted, including New York, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, San Diego, St. Louis, Dallas, Columbus, Ohio, and Starbucks’ home city of Seattle. There is no date set for the strike to end, and more stores are prepared to join if Starbucks doesn’t reach a contract agreement with the union, organizers said.

The White Guilt Industrial Complex

National Post- The push to have Canadians hear a ‘slavery’ acknowledgement at public events

After a standard land acknowledgement mentioning the various First Nations whose traditional territories overlap with the City of Toronto, attendees were also asked to acknowledge “those who were brought here involuntarily; particularly those brought to these lands as a result of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and slavery.”

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Dispatches from the Maple Gulag Truckstop

Mark Carney is looking for a new  Parliamentary Budget Officer who has more “tact and discretion” because Mark Carney is tired of Jason Jacques telling the truth.

But you don’t have to be the Parliamentary Budget Officer to spot discrepancies in Liberal math.

The job numbers for October were made to look good at a glance, but if you read past the first paragraph you will see that the increase in jobs are all temporary part time jobs and the Canada lost 18,500 full time jobs.

The October increase was driven entirely by part-time work (+85,000), while full-time positions actually fell (-18,500). Most of the gains were in Ontario, which added 55,000 jobs, and in industries including retail and wholesale trade, transportation, and information and recreation. BMO chief economist Douglas Porter notes that this provincial strength might have a temporary cause, suggesting Ontario’s gains—particularly in information, culture & recreation and accommodation & food—may have received a bump from the Blue Jays’ playoff run. Construction employment fell by 15,000. 

If you look even further you will question the increase in transportation jobs. I’ve been in transportation for 34 years, the market has never been this slow for this long. EVER.

So how do you get an increase of 30,000 jobs in transportation when the industry is collapsing with bankruptcies everywhere?  There are so many bankruptcies that the auctions are overrun with equipment for sale.

There were more people working in wholesale and retail trade (+41,000; +1.4%), transportation and warehousing (+30,000; +2.8%), information, culture, and recreation (+25,000; +3.0%), and utilities (+7,600; +4.6%). On the other hand, employment declined in construction (-15,000; -0.9%).

This fall things have slowed down even more due to the tariffs in the US and a lack of economic activity in Canada, so how did transportation and warehousing gain 30,000 jobs when trucking companies are laying off staff?

It can be argued that some of my number are from months ago, but there are no economic indicators showing any postive news that would cause a reversal of the trend.

It’s almost like the Liberals are spreading misinformation…

Maybe Some Other Time…

I assume that if an Arctic hydro dam was a viable proposition, someone else would have already done it. But cost is apparently no object. In order to expedite that, a bitumen pipeline is going to get dropped from the list. What’s notably missing from the list as well is any mention of funding to complete a four lane highway across the country, which would finally put us on par with most semi-industrialized nations.

The Crawford nickel project in northeastern Ontario is also expected to be on the list, as well as Nouveau Monde Graphite Inc.’s mine and battery-materials plant project in Quebec, an Iqaluit hydro project and a major electricity transmission line in northern B.C., according to reports from CBC News and Bloomberg News.

 

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