Dear Canadians,
Remember that if you dare disagree with your elitist rulers, YOU are the problem!
Even about something like this.
Signed,
The Totalitarian Left
Postcard From Argentina
The Spectator- ‘The public sector is the illness’: Javier Milei on his first year in office
‘I work all day, practically… I get up at 6 a.m., I take a shower and at 7 a.m. I am already at my desk working. And I work all the way until 11 p.m. I enjoy my job. I enjoy cutting public spending. I love the chainsaw.’
Reporter: “Why do you call leftists ‘shit’?”
Milei: “Because they are shit! If you give them an inch, they will destroy you!”
Justin’s Wonderful Life
Our Dear Leader and his lapdogs eat well wherever they go. 71k on food for a four day trip.
Eastern bastards
Holy mackerel! This story is well worth reading. The Churchill Falls deal between Quebec and Newfoundland was the most atrocious you could possibly imagine. On Thursday, a deal fixing that was signed.
Quebec and Newfoundland end one of the most bitter energy disputes in Canadian history over the horribly lopsided Churchill Falls deal. Quebec was getting power nearly free, and making billions off it while Newfoundland starved. No more.
FYI, Churchill Falls can produce more power than all of Saskatchewan, if every dam was full, every coal plant running full out, every wind turbine cranking and every natural gas plant humming. The deal that had been in place until 2041 would have had Quebec pay 0.2 cents per kilowatt hour until then. That’s effectively free. This changes all of that.
If Quebec and Newfoundland can make peace on this, maybe some day they’ll allow a pipeline through la belle province? Don’t bet your kids’ college fund on it.
Also:
Let those Yankee bastards freeze in the dark?
Ontario mulls U.S. booze ban as Trump brushes off Ford’s threat to cut electricity
That’ll go over well. The 10th Mountain Division will be invading the next day. Their home base is at Fort Drum, New York State. It’s within spitting distance of Kingston, Ont. So, good luck with that.
Friday On Turtle Island
Blackie’s Canada: Explosion of Jew hate. Will a trade war help Trudeau? Liberals praise themselves.
Dementia Joe’s America: The Obama mystique. China Joe. Next one to collapse. Pardon for Fauci?
Today In Islam: This would explain a lot of things. Somalis in Minnesota. This week in jihad.
Woke World: A Christmas ad. Canada’s future. Your morning meme.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including super-bouncy shoes; a bathroom visitor; how to compress a sofa; and nail-biting scenes from a Japanese bed-making competition.
December 13, 2024: Reader Tips
Tonight, we present an interesting video about the political rise & fall of Ross Perot.
Your best tips of late are appreciated!
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Why Engineers Can’t Control Rivers
Great Success!
What’s the wait time for MAID?
National Post- Canadians faced longest ever health-care wait times in 2024, study finds
The 30-week wait is the longest ever recorded by the Institute — longer than the 27.7 weeks in 2023, 20.9 weeks in pre-pandemic 2019, and 222 per cent longer than the 9.3 weeks in 1993, when it began tracking wait times.
It is estimated, across the 10 provinces, that the total number of procedures people waited for in 2024 is 1,543,994.
Vibecession? What Vibecession?
Unless you regard net worth as equivalent to income, you’re probably questioning this headline a bit. Not to worry, though. When the Bank of Canada is done slashing rates all the way back to zero, asset and real estate prices can get on an even steeper trajectory.
Canadians’ collective household wealth climbed to $17.3 trillion in the third quarter, marking the seventh increase in the last eight quarters — a period during which household net worth ballooned by nearly $1.9 trillion, according to Statistics Canada.
The most recent RBC housing affordability report indicated the typical family would have to devote about 60 per cent of their pre-tax income to afford homeownership today, compared with the 44 per cent quarterly average recorded in 2019.
If It Wasn’t For Government…
… who would figure out how to lose money with a Tim Hortons?
National Post- Canada’s subsidized Tim Hortons lose another $500,000
“Years ago, we were able to contract out the main cafeteria services to the private sector on the agreement with the union that the Tim Hortons operation would remain under the collective agreement,” the hospital’s then CEO David Musyj told Postmedia in 2023.
This is also the singular reason the locations are so unprofitable. Instead of paying the entry-level wages typical to a Tim Hortons, Windsor Regional Hospital is paying its Tim Hortons employees at the same rate as unionized hospital workers.
Team Canada
Bronwyn Eyre: Fractured Federation: How the Liberals Destroyed ‘Team Canada’
When I was Energy Minister, American investors would ask me, “What have you guys got going on up there?…What country does that to itself?”
The Tolerant Left
I’m old enough to remember when extremist rhetoric was a bad thing.
The Unabomber’s unhinged demonization of modernity and capitalism was a fringe position in the ’90s. Now the unhinged demonization of healthcare insurance, the pharmaceutical industry, and Big Oil (all industries, despite their inadequacies, that make lives better for everyone) is the norm. A generation of college students have been indoctrinated into believing the profit motive is killing people when the opposite is true.
One expects Mangione’s writing will be largely indistinguishable from what a person hears from elected progressives and pundits. Yet few will ponder why a seemingly rational Ivy League-educated engineer decided to become a hit man.
Have Canadians Completely Lost Their Sense of Humour?
Following Trump’s lead, the fellows at the Ruthless Podcast, go out of their way to offend uppity Canadian urban bigots aka Leftists. They ask an interesting question: Does the exodus of many Canadian comedians, to seek fame & fortune in America, mean that those Canucks left in the Great White North have lost their sense of humour?! Are the humourless scolds on the Left representative of Canadians in 2024?
If you don’t appreciate the fine art of trash talking and trolling, then you do not want to listen to this episode.
Related: In less of a trolling bent, here are 2 Canadian gentlemen discussing the mess that is Trudeau’s Canada.
A Most Important Discussion About Free Speech
Neil Oliver interviews Matt Taibbi. Grab a coffee. It’s well worth a watch.
Thursday On Turtle Island
Dementia Joe’s America: Another victory for a Christian baker. The radicalism of Jay Bhattacharya.
Blackie’s Canada: Diversity outbreak in York Region.
Woke World: The hidden Pfizer report. End of the world. Women’s liberation.
Today In Islam: Syrians in Europe. Muslims visit a church. Christmas in Germany.
Your morning meme. Another meme.
The Bleeding Unobvious
Again, and let me stress this, most of us don’t want to know about the stains in your underwear. It’s not the kind of information that many of us crave.
Thanks to a “scholar of feminist media,” I bring you radical menstruation news.
Digging an Even Deeper Hole for All Canadians
Piggybacking on yesterday’s post by Francisco, Gad Saad chimed in, which drew Elon Musk’s attention.
I then saw a photo of Elon Musk carrying his little son on his shoulders, part of “Take Your Child to Work Day” in April. I asked X’s Grok to draw an image of Justin Trudeau being taken to work on “someone’s” shoulders and it provided this rather apropos gem:
Finally, if anyone actually thinks that what Trudeau said about Harris is sincere, you need to go back and read about him firing Jody Wilson-Raybould because she refused to go along with his corruption. He DOES NOT respect women, let alone aboriginal ones!
December 12, 2024: Reader Tips
IMO Montréal has the greatest public market in North America. Enjoy this wonderful video about the Jean-Talon Market.
Do share your best food & drink tips, or anything else that strikes your fancy.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Yellowstone National Park’s zone of death.