Birds Of A Feather

So Dougie is off to sell his pal Carney on the need to lower taxes. I’d prefer if he’d lobby for spending cuts instead, but he obviously thinks that out of control borrowing is somehow stimulative.

Ford says he’ll travel to Ottawa for what he calls a “heart-to-heart” meeting with Carney, who he says is doing a good job.

At end of the day, however, apparently there’s no ill that can’t be fixed with zero percent interest.

Speaking at an unrelated announcement today in Windsor, Ont., Ford also urged the Bank of Canada to lower interest rates.

China Is Asshole

Real Agriculture- China announces new 76 per cent “anti-dumping” tariff on Canadian canola

The Chinese government is imposing a new 75.8 per cent tariff on Canadian canola seed to begin August 14 — the latest development in the trade dispute that escalated a year ago when Canada announced tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and steel. The new tariff on canola seed, announced today (August 12,) is the preliminary result of the anti-dumping investigation that the Chinese Ministry of Commerce launched in September 2024.

Our master negotiator was unavailable for comment.

Podcast on Sask NDP’s take on coal, minister response

Pipeline Online Podcast: Aleana Young Ep. 15: Would the Sask NDP reverse the coal decision? And what about nuclear?

It was a pretty lively and interesting podcast.

And here’s the minister’s response to this text story: Coal Revival: Would the NDP reverse the coal decision? And why are they now big on nuclear power?

Minister’s comments:

Coal Revival: Harrison says NDP will shut down coal plants immediately if they were to form government.

It’s For Your Safety

Please stop what you’re doing for this important message from Susan Holt, the premier of New Brunswick.

@JohnLeePettim13: With $16.5 billion in revenue, Nova Scotia spends $1.1 million on wildfire equipment and training, $35 million on growing the green economy, and $80 million on school lunch programs. No wonder they can’t control their wildfires.

Never forget that they hate you.

Just Once, Maybe Twice

There’s an implied dare. The game being, “You won’t do what’s needed, despite our alarming and menacing behaviour, because you’re nicer than us, less vain, and not unhinged, and so we can dominate you and terrorise you, and break your stuff, for as long as we want, for shits and giggles.”

Well. I would suggest that the activists’ own actions render their wellbeing of very low importance.

On progressive concern for the wellbeing of burglars; on erotic entanglements with pets; on denouncing those who notice things; and when it turns out that there is a time and place for running people over.

Dispatches from the Maple Gulag Truck Stop

That’s a good question, because, does anyone remember the Coutts Nine? Does anyone even know who or what the Coutts Nine are? We should, given that they were arrested along with four other men who were charged with conspiracy to murder police at the COVID 19 mandate protest in the town of Coutts, Alberta. A protest that coincided with Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa that took place in the winter of 2022. Those four men came to be known as the Coutts Four, and while conspiracy charges were not laid against the Coutts Nine, it was implied, at the time of their arrests, by the RCMP and the government and the media, that they were involved in that plot. To that end they were all charged with mischief and weapons possession offences, and we have heard little of their fate since.

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