Great Success!

Drain The Swamp The Libranos 9 Comments

Dan Knight- Debt Costs Now Outpace Canada’s Core Services

The federal government is planning to spend $486.9 billion this year. Nearly half a trillion dollars. Of that, $222.9 billion needs Parliament’s approval. The rest? $264 billion is already baked in. It’s called “statutory spending,” and it’s automatic. No debate. No vote. No accountability. Ottawa wrote itself a blank cheque—and keeps cashing it, year after year.

Now here’s the headline no one wants to talk about: $49.1 billion of that spending goes just to service the debt.

Aretha, Updated

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From the comments: “what happened to that little motorcycle you used to ride and write about?”

I sold Aretha about three years ago to a vintage motorcycle dealer, and heard nothing more until this February, when an email from the UK landed in my inbox.

Back in my youth (1981/2) I owned one (mars bar colours as it’s known in the UK) and always missed it. Move forward a few years (understatement) and bikes, decided I’d look for another. July last year I found one advertised, went and viewed it and a deal was done on the spot.

It has been totally rebuilt to almost as new condition. Quite a few parts were refurbished and as many of the original’s retained. These bikes are rare in the UK now in this sort of condition.

The guy I purchased it from had sourced it from Canada, I’ve even got the old number plate JZ-396 and Saskatchewan Certificate of Registration signed by yourself in August 2012 (were you the last owner?). I googled a few things and came across your website and your diary of LC life. Looks as though you had a great time with it.

I’ve attached a couple of pictures, they don’t really do the bike justice. I ran it in last year and currently waiting for better weather (salt on our roads!) before I get out on it again.

It’s in good company in my garage as my wife’s Triumph Bonneville and son’s Ducati Cafe Racer, not to mention my BMW R9T keep it company.

She landed softly.

Multi-tier Policing

We Are All Treaty People 16 Comments

Blacklock’s- RCMP Would Enforce Bylaws

The RCMP and Crown prosecutors would enforce First Nations bylaws under private bills introduced yesterday in the Senate.

“Given that all First Nations have distinct legal traditions, cultures, histories and languages, the First Nations’ representatives explained from their perspective that federal, provincial and territorial governments should recognize the needs of First Nation justice systems are distinct from one nation to another,”

 

ArriveCan Has Now Been Confirmed to be ArriveScam

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Company that worked on ArriveCan app barred from government contracts for 7 years:

Ottawa says it has banned the largest contractor that worked on the ArriveCan app from entering into contracts or real property agreements with the government for seven years.

Public Services and Procurement Canada has announced that GC Strategies Inc. has been deemed “ineligible” after an assessment of the supplier’s conduct.

Last year, the department suspended the security status of GC Strategies, which the auditor general says was awarded more than $19 million for the project.

For those not aware, the first ArriveCan contract was initially valued at just $2.35 million, but then ballooned to $60 million. And the elbows-up crowd gleefully voted for more of the same!

The Art Of What Deal?

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I’m not sure who’s worse. The water carriers who write such vacuous puff pieces or the water carrier who currently inhabits the office of the Premier of Ontario. These alleged negotiations are starting to sound like an episode of Secret Squirrel. All Carney needs to complete the charade is a hat with eyeholes in the brim.

When reporters on Parliament Hill asked the minister if Canada is close to a deal with the U.S., Joly bristled. “Guys, do you really think I’ll answer that question?” she asked rhetorically. “I won’t answer that question. We won’t negotiate in public and we’ll let the prime minister do his work.”

Earlier in the day, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Carney is in “deep, deep discussions” on trade with Trump. “I’m not going to speak on behalf of the prime minister. I just know that they’re right at the brink,” Ford said at the Ontario legislature. “They’re working hard around the clock to try to get a deal.”

Fancy a Pint?

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Telegraph- Britain’s pubs are being ‘taxed out of existence’

There were more than 60,000 pubs in Britain at the turn of the millennium, but today that number has fallen by a quarter to 45,000, according to the BBPA. Publicans have had to put up with steeper taxes, the pandemic lockdowns, surging energy prices and, most recently, Rachel Reeves’s hike in National Insurance contributions on employers, which has pushed up staff costs. The BBPA estimates that £1 in every £3 taken at the bar goes straight to the taxman: of the surviving pubs and bars, one-third are operating at a loss as a result of being so heavily taxed, the UK Hospitality trade group reckons.

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