My understanding is that the federal Tories were going to axe the carbon tax. When did that change to “remove a few victims from the scope of the tax”?
I Hope They Figure This Out So We Can All Line Up For A Lifesaving Government Injection
And The Budget Will Balance Itself
WHEE! The Liberal Govt announces a $40B deficit with $50B in debt servicing costs, or $95K a second!
@RealAndyLeeShow is following the shitshow so I don’t have to.
Budget 2024 includes $411 million to support healthcare for asylum claimants and refugees, along with $79 million improve immigration holding centres and $141 million for lodging for asylum seekers.
Meanwhile, $8 million is dedicated towards preventing migrant smuggling.
CBC gets an additional $42 million taxpayer-funded bump in the budget.
It’s painful to listen to @cafreeland speak, but a necessary evil. Major capital gains tax increase pretends to be a wealth tax but actually will be imposed on any Cdns who have retirement savings & other investments. So most of us
“There are very few measures that are designed to increase capital investment and enhance labour productivity.” #cdnpoli #Budget2024 ~ Fred O’Riordan, economist
Hit me harder, daddy: … new controls and taxes on real estate to take effect in 2025. Measures to be detailed in “consultation” documents this summer include a tax on undeveloped property…
Tax and Spend. And spend and spend and spend.
I want a new country.
Hey Danielle, Justice Needs a Little Help from You!
Persecution of Coutts Political Prisoners via Denial of Medical Treatment:
An unsung hero of the ongoing Coutts Political Prisoners story is Nikki Thom, friend and business associate to Tony Olienick, one of the remaining Coutts “2” of the Coutts Four prisoners, arrested on February 13, 2022, and who remains in custody, having been denied bail and yet to face trial.
Nikki has been tirelessly advocating on all four men’s behalf since day one, taking on what amounts to another full time job, doing the work of endless paperwork, emails, meetings, court appearances, and untold hours of legwork in assisting their legal counsel.
h/t James MacMaster
“Turbo” Cancer?
It’s like regular cancer… but faster.
Peer reviewed paper mentioned in the video.
Statistically significant increases in age-adjusted mortality rates of all cancer and some specific types of cancer, namely, ovarian cancer, leukemia, prostate, lip/oral/pharyngeal, pancreatic, and breast cancers, were observed in 2022 after two-thirds of the Japanese population had received the third or later dose of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA-LNP vaccine. These particularly marked increases in mortality rates of these ERα-sensitive cancers may be attributable to several mechanisms of the mRNA-LNP vaccination rather than COVID-19 infection itself or reduced cancer care due to the lockdown.
Pollspotting!
Do you like what you saw during a pre-budget tour by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his team over the past several weeks? (h/t Joseph Fisher)
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
A California bill working its way through the legislature would make the crime of buying child sex a serious felony, replacing current statute in the far-left state that treats soliciting a minor for sex as a misdemeanor.
A bipartisan bill would raise solicitation of a minor from a misdemeanor to a felony punishable by up to four years in prison, and a fine of up to $25,000. The bill would also require a person convicted of soliciting a minor to register as a sex offender for 10 years.
The measure, introduced by Republican State Senator Shannon Grove in February and co-sponsored by two Democrats, is scheduled for a committee vote on Tuesday, but it faces an uphill battle for passage.
As of Thursday, the new bill did not have the votes to make it out of committee. Critics are concerned it could target minorities…
Is Canadafornicated a word?
Helen Taylor, vice president of impact at Exodus Cry argued that eliminating sex trafficking requires going after the demand and implementing proper deterrents.
“For this to currently be a misdemeanor, and frequently prosecuted as such, reveals an inadequate understanding of how serious of a crime sex trafficking is,” Taylor told The Daily Wire. [….]
“Our laws send a message about what behaviors we are willing to tolerate. Paying money to abuse a child is something we will not tolerate,” Taylor said. “It is surely a ‘no brainer’ to make buying a child for sex a felony in California and if not, we have a serious problem.”
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
Where, oh where, did the stupid rich people go?
As automakers continue to delay their electric-vehicle plans and report lower-than-expected sales, Canada’s goal of ensuring that at least 20 per cent of new vehicles sold by 2026 are electric seems to be in jeopardy.
Ford Motor Co. last week said it was going to delay EV production at its assembly plant in Oakville, Ont., by two years to 2027 from 2025. The additional time will allow the company to take advantage of an emerging battery technology and let the number of consumers grow.
Earlier this month, Tesla Inc. reported a decline in quarterly deliveries for the first time in nearly four years. The Elon Musk-led company attributed the fall to logistical issues, but analysts say that slowing demand for EVs also played a role.
General Motors Co.’s chief executive Mary Barra referred to this slowdown as well on an earnings call in January, when she said the slowing pace of EV growth had created some uncertainty. She still expects EV sales in 2024 to improve, but said “if demand conditions change, we’ll take advantage of our manufacturing flexibility … to build more internal combustion engine models and fewer EVs.”
Emphasis mine.
“Authorities have repeatedly declined to state the religion of the alleged attacker”
“Despite the media’s ill wishes, the priest is expected to make a full recovery”.
World War II – Why Did We Bother?
Police in Brussels have stormed a right-wing conference attended by Nigel Farage and Suella Braverman after orders for the event to be shut down.
Local authorities ordered the controversial National Conservatism (NatCon) Conference to be closed to “guarantee public safety”.
Ms Braverman, the former home secretary, and Mr Farage, the former Ukip leader, were among the political names advertised to speak at the event on Tuesday alongside right-wing Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orban. […]
Emir Kir, [the son of Turkish immigrants] mayor of the area where the conference was held, said: “I issued an order from the mayor to ban the ‘National Conservatism Conference’ event to guarantee public safety.
Officers arrived after the event began at the Claridge venue in central Brussels to tell organisers the event would be shut down. According to a report on social media, police arrived while Mr Farage was addressing the event, giving attendees 15 minutes to leave the venue. However, officers did not appear to force the event to shut down and speeches continued.
Police have now said they will not let anyone else into the venue and people can leave and not re-enter.
Byline Jabed Ahmed.
Today In Islam
Tuesday On Turtle Island
Blackie’s Canada: Celebration in Toronto. Hamas supporters shut down B.C port. CBC’s Kids for Hamas. Justin’s Governor General gets political.
Dementia Joe’s America: A final warning. They used to hang pirates, now they import them. Chicago leftists show their love for America. And Joe Biden is a coward.
Global Warming Scam News: We need a cooling down tax.
Your morning meme. A cartoon. Another cartoon.
Pleasuring Themselves
On bridge blocking and other terribly radical acts:
Note the lofty defence offered by our pronoun-stipulating champion of the obstruction – that “protests are meant to be disruptive. It’s the whole point.”
A protest, then, is not meant to persuade the general public, or to get them on-side, or to make others sympathetic with whatever this week’s cause may be. But simply to be disruptive. To gratuitously frustrate, and aggravate, large numbers of law-abiding people. To exert power. By doing random harm. That’s “the whole point.” A vision doubtless attractive to those with antisocial inclinations.
And those inclinations aren’t being indulged and given rein reluctantly or under duress. The screwing-over of others is sought out and chosen, over and over again. This is recreational sociopathy.
April 16, 2024: Reader Tips
This evening we zoom back to 1969 to enjoy Shocking Blue performing Venus.
Your most shocking recent tips are very welcome here!
Gentlemen, Seize Your Engines
“I think this is likely to be the worst budget since the [then-finance minister Allan] MacEachen budget of 1982, in the sense of pointing us in the wrong direction as to how we go about raising the incomes of Canadians and actually making Canadians feel better over the medium term,” Dodge said in an interview on CTV News Channel’s Power Play with Vassy Kapelos.
In a time of high interest rates and inflation, the 1982-83 federal budget, under then-prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, became the object of political fury over spending, taxation, and wage restraint measures within it.
Dodge, who was governor from 2001 to 2008, was referencing the strong indications that in order to help finance the nearly $40 billion in pre-announced new spending without raising the deficit, the federal government may impose some form of individual wealth tax or excess profit tax on wealthy corporations.
Freeland will present the budget in the House of Commons on Tuesday afternoon, vowing a plan centred on “generational fairness.”
Seen somewhere: Why do they tax cigarettes? “To disincentivize smoking.” So why do they tax income?
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Jenny McCarthy’s Not Looking So Crazy Anymore
Grab a beverage.
The Forgotten Side of Medicine- How Much Damage Have Vaccines Done to Society?
In many cases, the severe “mysterious” injuries we see now are remarkably similar to those that were observed over a century ago. Unfortunately, a widespread embargo exists on ever allowing this data to come to light (as that would instantly destroy the vaccine program).
A variety of independent studies (summarized below) have shown that vaccines cause a wide range of chronic illnesses.
We Don’t Know And We Don’t Care
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors
So cheap and efficient only the rich can afford it: South Africa’s Solar Boom Is Worsening Inequality
If you want something done, sometimes you just have to do it yourself. That’s the attitude taken by many South African households and companies as they invest in alternative-energy sources to avoid blackouts and soaring electricity tariffs. This movement has clear winners and losers.
Fed up with weathering the worst power crisis on record as state-owned utility Eskom struggles with debts and aging coal-fired power plants, businesses are finding ways to generate their own electricity. Most recently, Africa’s biggest mobile phone group, MTN, announced that it’ll spend 1.9 billion rand ($101 million) by the middle of the year on generators, batteries and renewable energy.
Being free of the creaky grid, which shuts down periodically in what’s known locally as load shedding, could help South Africa’s economy get back on track after being derailed by rolling blackouts. Consumers are saving money on their steeply rising energy bills and regaining a sense of control over their power access. It’s also reduced the severity and frequency of load shedding, as demand for Eskom-generated power drops.
But the full picture is more complicated.