How Soon We Forget

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Actually we don’t even know now. Publius:

…Our historical amnesia is not the product of an administrative accident. Mistakes like these are never accidental. If people don’t remember what Canada was like before, say, 1963 it becomes much easier to redefine Canadian identity…
…little Johnny Canuck leaves school wondering why people make such a fuss over John A. Didn’t he just stagger around drunk and hang Louis Riel? Once upon a time grandma and grandpa might have corrected Johnny by mumbling something about a railroad and nation building. Unfortunately this “killing” of Canadian history has been going on so long most people don’t remember the other bits…

Let’s Erect A Plaque At 787 Dundas St W To Remember Jack Layton

Gopher News 83 Comments

Keep flappin’ those gums, Mulcair;

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall said on Monday comments made by federal NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair about the country’s resources sectors are “very, very divisive.” […]
Wall also weighed in via social media, posting on Twitter on Monday morning, “If @ThomasMulcair thinks a strong resource sector is a “disease”, what is his “cure”? Higher resource taxes? NDP needs to explain” and that, “Resources have been the cure not the problem, NDP.” The remarks were in response to comments made by Mulcair on Saturday when he said that, because of the way it raises the value of the Canadian dollar, other parts of the country are paying a price for the prosperity enjoyed by natural resource sectors.
Mulcair pointed to the oilsands in Alberta as a case in point. “It’s by definition the ‘Dutch disease,’ ” Mulcair said Saturday on the CBC Radio show, The House, referring to what happened to the Netherlands economy in the 1960s after vast deposits of natural gas were discovered in the nearby North Sea.

13 Saskatchewan MP’s send their regards!
Update:

You can send Nathan Cullen your regards here.

Reader Tips

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Music and politics generally make for a poor mix, but blogger Lexington Green of Chicago Boyz may have found the perfect theme music for Obama’s campaign kickoff rallies, which the New York Times’ Mark Landler recently described as “having the feeling of a concert by an aging rock star”: here are The Evaporators and their impossibly handsome lead singer Nardwuar the Human Serviette performing Half-Empty Halls.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.

It’s Probably Nothing

It's Probably Nothing 25 Comments

Via John Mauldin (free subscription);

“We are monitoring the BROAD rise in Youth Unemployment Rates, across the EU (this March, versus March of last year):
— Bulgaria … 32.8% … up from 26.7%
— Portugal … 36.1% … up from 27.6%
— Denmark … 15.1% … up from 13.7%
— Ireland … 30.3% … up from 28.7%
— Cyprus … 28.8% … up from 18.8%
— Hungary … 28.8% … up from 25.4%
— Netherlands … 9.3% … up from 6.9%
— Poland … 26.7% … up from 25.7%
— Slovenia … 16.5% … up from 16.3%

Related; Our cultured cousins, the Europeans — role models for higher Dems — hate math. So last weekend they voted against it.

This Is My Brother Mohammed, And This Is My Other Brother Mohammed

Religion Of Submission 12 Comments

Remember back in 2008, when Iran Photoshopped an extra missile into a photograph of its missile test? Turns out, bad habits die hard. The Atlantic Wire has caught Iran’s semi-official Mehrs News Agency (MNA) using another digitally-altered image to depict its missile program. Only this time, the image is even more egregiously Photoshopped.
On the homepage of its website today, the image appears next to a story downplaying the threat of Iran’s ballistic missile program. It’s a small image but upon closer inspection, you can see that something is amiss.

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We Could Give Them Separate Entrances!

The "W" Word 47 Comments

Their own drinking fountains! And special seats on buses!
A reader writes;

I was at the Toronto District School Board “Futures” conference on Equity the last 2 days and it was every bit as frightening as you would imagine. 300 teachers gave race huckster Tim Wise a standing ovation after he concluded his idiotic rant (via Skype because his flight was fogged in) about how al the ills in the education system are caused by “white privilege” and we need to focus on and accommodate non-whites the way we do disabled people.

Update – The Toronto District School Board is putting the “cult” back in multiculturalism

The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire

Roadkill 15 Comments

Democrats: They’ll do for America what they’ve done for Detroit.

The latest scandal, which leaves even hardened observers of the abysmal Democratic machine that has run the city into the ground bemused, involves a real estate firm which gave the felonious mayor massages, golf outings, trips in chartered jets and other perks as this enemy of the people went about his hypocritical business of pretending to care about the poor while robbing them blind. The firm, apparently run by a sleazy low class crook named by the reprehensible Kilpatrick to be the Treasurer of what was left of Detroit’s finances, used Detroit pension funds to buy a couple of California strip malls. Title to the properties was never transferred to the pension funds, and they seem to be out $3.1 million.

French Voters Choose the Road to Greece

Baiting The Left 60 Comments

The voters of France have elected a devout socialist by the name of Francois Hollande to lead them … perhaps on a direct path to where Greece is today.
When economic realities meet socialist delusions, we’ve all seen which one wins:

Paris has a strange atmosphere right now. It is hard to get a table at the bistros of Saint-Germain, yet people have a sense of foreboding.
They know austerity has hardly begun. The press is full of stories that the biggest property bubble ever known in France has begun to deflate. Yet the party goes on. Perhaps this is what it felt like in May 1931, avant le déluge.
Germany took its medicine with the Hartz IV labour reforms eight years ago – under a Social Democrat, nota bene – when the world was humming and EMU competitors were merrily inflating their way into varying degrees of fixed exchange rate Hell.
France will have to take its medicine in less propitious times, somehow clawing back 20pc in unit labour competitiveness against an austere Germany.
It is not easy to see how France can pull this off. Little has been done so far beyond repeal of the infamous 35-hour week. Labour rigidities – employment protection, high tax wedge and minimum wage (SMIC), etc – are among the most entrenched in the OECD club. The unreformed French state takes 55pc of GDP.

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