Higher taxes and a bigger pain in the butt. Must be a Monday.
Financial Post- Importers gird for launch of new portal to collect taxes as system hiccups could hit consumers
Higher taxes and a bigger pain in the butt. Must be a Monday.
Financial Post- Importers gird for launch of new portal to collect taxes as system hiccups could hit consumers
Last night, I was forced to endure a minute long political ad featuring Kamala Harris asking for donations. She stated unequivocally that Donald Trump’s campaign is far outspending hers. This didn’t sound right so I did some research:
I sincerely wonder why Ms. Harris can’t be truthful about seemingly anything. Her statement took me less than 10 seconds to research and debunk. Why would she lie about this?
Sinwar’s bunker. Illegal worship in Algeria. The cultural barbarians. Protecting Islam in Holland.
Blackie’s Canada: A youtuber in Calgary. Justin’s secret citizenship guide.
Cackling Kamala’s America: Worse than Hitler. The Guardian effect. Victor Davis Hanson – The media.
Woke World: Gardening is dangerous. Queering the past.
And at the Bee.
NEW: Elon Musk tricks the mainstream media into reporting on his Pennsylvania petition.
Last night at his town hall event, Musk said he was restructuring things because the media wouldn’t report on his petition.
Musk made the stakes so high for his petition by giving away $1M… pic.twitter.com/MaV0Rp0bcu
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 20, 2024
This evening, we travel back to 1996 to watch the pilot episode of That Girl. Though you might not be familiar with this TV series (I wasn’t), it actually served as a forerunner for the much more famous sitcom, The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Bonus: Here’s an old Monty Python clip about a man who is going to jump across the English Channel. While watching it, I made a mental juxtaposition with Leftist coverage the past few years. Not altogether different in terms of the level of preposterousness!
Your best tips of late are always welcome here!
If you want to make a start in avoiding the shutdown of an entire power grid, maybe government officials could stop referring to each other as comrade. Then there might be some light at the end of the tunnel.
The electricity went out Friday in Cuba, affecting the entire island’s population of 10 million after one of its main power plants failed, according to Cuba’s energy ministry.
On Thursday night, [the Cuban government] announced schools would close and most state workers would stay home Friday in an effort to conserve energy. But it wasn’t enough and by 11 a.m. Friday, Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric, the largest power plant, went offline causing a grid failure.
Across the American West, fire wardens create firebreaks—vegetation-free swaths gouged through forests and fields to slow and limit the spread of wildfires. In U.S. presidential elections, the Electoral College serves the same purpose—limiting the spread of one state’s malfeasance, manipulation, ineptitude, and/or operational failure to other states. For all the trauma and bitterness that emerged from Florida in 2000, the catastrophe was limited to one state.
For years, a choir of voices has demanded that we eliminate the Electoral College and elect presidents via national popular vote (NPV)—an idea that is appealing in theory, but treacherous in execution. NPV is the electoral equivalent of filling firebreaks with pampas grass, scrub oaks, dead brush, bails of hay, and discarded chemicals. Eliminating the Electoral College could turn virtually every presidential election, every four years, into a 50-state Florida-2000-style conflagration—with a partisan arms race of electoral machinations in the years between elections.
Dr. Kristopher Wells- Using a students chosen name and pronouns is suicide prevention…
Minnesota Department of Health- Using a Person’s Correct Pronouns Saves Lives
In today’s episode, Jonathan and I discuss the biblical themes found in classical fairy tales like “Jack and the Beanstalk,” and the important role that storytelling plays in establishing our most deeply held cultural norms. Pageau also speaks to the modern uses of symbolism, from the prevalence of conspiracy theories to the real meaning behind the opening ceremony at the Paris Olympics.
Your doctor may be dumb as a post but at least he’s(she’s) not white(or Asian).
National Post- At TMU medical school, some students are more equal than others
Toronto Metropolitan University, will reserve 75 per cent of its seats for Indigenous, Black, and other “equity-deserving” groups including 2SLGBTQ+. These students will need an undergraduate GPA of only 3.3 on a 4-point scale, and maybe not even that; for comparison, the University of Toronto medical school’s average accepted GPA is 3.95. Able-bodied straight white students can’t apply for these seats. It’s TMU’s affirmative action school for doctors who can’t get in on their merits. Canada now has full-blown racial and gender discrimination. How did we get here? The Supreme Court of Canada is largely to blame.
Gay vs Trans
Spiked- How ‘gay rights’ charities turned against gay people
This fellow’s first person video about why he is leaving the UK will likely resonate with many Canadians.
Woke World: Skyline pigeon. Historians of the future.
Cackling Kamala’s America: This week in really big lies. Lizzo loves Detroit. Your morning cartoon.
Blackie’s Canada: Another 65 million for Ukraine. China Virus News: Proper treatment of the seriously ill.
Leana Wen is one of the very worst people to surface on TV screens everywhere during the Covid crisis. Here’s a conspiracy theory about her and her motives. Whether or not you buy into the theory, the thread documents the truly despicable things she said and did.
This evening, we present a 1957 film with high RT ratings of 80%/88%. Enjoy Reach for the Sky.
Do reach for the heavens and present us your best tips of late!
The polls have been closed for about an hour, follow True North for minute-by minute returns.
This might election come down to a few very competitive ridings in Surrey, Richmond and on Vancouver Island where the BC Conservatives and the BC NDP are neck in neck within 100 or so votes.
— Cosmin Dzsurdzsa (@cosminDZS) October 20, 2024
Open thread.
Special for the Hancock haters: Did A Global Disaster Secretly Change Human History?
You can see the whole concert on Prime if you’ve got it “Jeff Beck -Performing This Week: Live at Ronnie Scott’s”.