Here’s an excerpt from The Government of Canada’s Update: Improvements and changes to the Public Service Health Care Plan:
h/t James MacMaster
It’s Good To Be King
Blacklocks- Exec Stands By $100K Bonus
Catherine Tait, the $497,000-a year CEO of the CBC, yesterday declined to forego her $100,000 annual bonus even as the network issues layoff notices. “It is extremely difficult to not have the love,” Tait told the Commons heritage committee: “This is performance pay.”
“The Last Refuge of the Pointless Politician
Spiked- I ban, therefore I am
Beware a politician in search of a legacy. Rishi Sunak, in a desperate attempt to find something, anything, to point to as an achievement, has taken to banning things that this teetotal, straight-edge prime minister has probably never tried and clearly doesn’t understand.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Residents in the Shelltown neighborhood along Beta Street were quick to blame the city for failing to keep the channel clean before an atmospheric river hit. Many count the clogged channel as another example of neglect these residents feel by their city government.
But the city can’t just dredge or deep clean a channel when it wants to, at least, that’s what Kris McFadden, San Diego’s deputy chief operating officer, explained during a press conference last week in response to angry residents whose homes were swallowed by the Chollas Creek topping its banks.
That’s because the city’s channels and creeks, even if lined with concrete, are considered wetlands and protected and regulated by several state and federal agencies, McFadden said.
It’s Probably Nothing
h/t Melinda Romanoff
What ‘doubling the electrical grid’ really means
Brian Zinchuk: Imagine twinning every highway, grid road, street and alleyway across the country in 25 years. Because that’s what doubling the #grid is going to be equivalent of.
The Bad Argument Contest Winner Is….
While John Ivison starts out with a sensible premise, that the Trudeau liberals are sending the Canadian economy off the rails, he can’t seem to resist sending his own op-ed off the rails by attempting to associate a discredited Keynesian nostrum with libertarian Argentinian President Javier Milei.
At the same time, Milei’s invocation of the animal spirits of wealth creation is all but absent from the collectivist capitalism pushed by Freeland and Justin Trudeau.
It gets even worse when Ivison blames the 2008 financial collapse not on inept monetary policy driven by a failing fiat currency system but rather on the leftist boogeyman of “deregulation”.
What about the crash of 2008, which was the product of too little regulation, rather than too much?
Green Crime Pays
At least for thieves, Communists and environmentalists. – Daniel Greenfield
Wednesday On Turtle Island
Blackie’s Canada: Trudeau rewards his Liberal friends. One of Justin’s favourite events. A Lavalin storage secret.
Dementia Joe’s America: Its offensive to identify as straight. Biden and his buddy Xi.
Woke Europe: Must not upset the terrorists.
The infamous climate hockey stick goes on trial.
Your morning meme. Another meme.
January 31, 2024: Reader Tips
To end the first month of 2024, we present a fun video about the Trump Town Megastore in Boones Mill, Virginia. Yours truly has been there!
Your best month-end tips are most welcome.
Mortgage Market Blowup?
I’ve been expecting an implosion in the mortgage market for some time given the rise in interest rates relative to the debt that has to be supported, but so far that isn’t happening. It seems our friend Ron Butler has become privy to information that indicates a black swan event may not be far off, however.
Mortgage Investment Fund Blowing Up Soon: What Investors Need To Know About Mortgage Related Funds
We will read about a multi-million dollar Mortgage & Promissory Note Fund blowing up in the coming days & weeks
I will let big media with lots of lawyers name names
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— Ron Butler (@ronmortgageguy) January 30, 2024
Margin Of Fraud
Taibbi: The recent ballot access challenges, political investigations, and canceled primaries are just an extension of a phenomenon we should have seen coming twenty years ago
Theory vs Reality
Transgender Is A Stalking Horse For The Normalization Of Pedophilia
“Growing Up”, aimed at 6-8 year olds teaches that doctors assign a s*x when a baby is born and can be wrong.
It also includes a glossary of words like “wet dream” which teaches kids about erections.
Watch as author Rachel Greener barely containing her excitement while showing s*x scenes and naked people in her other book for kids to look at.
When You Piss Off People Who Work With Heavy Equipment
Telegraph- Farming is in peril throughout Europe
Telegraph- French farmer vows to ‘starve Paris’
A tractor blockade established at eight points around Paris is intended to “starve Parisians”, a French farmer has claimed.
Benoit Durand, a grain farmer, told French broadcaster BFM TV: “We are holding a siege in Chartres, one hour away from Paris. It’s part of the blockade… the goal is to put pressure on the government.”
The Government Will Kill You Now
Ban All The Things!
At the Conservative Party conference last year, Sunak decided that making England ‘smoke-free’ would be his chapter in history. So he announced Britain’s biggest experiment in prohibition for generations: a phased-in ban on tobacco products that will mean today’s 15-year-olds will never legally be able to buy cigarettes.
Now Sunak is going after disposable vapes, too. This is despite the fact that vapes are at least 95 per cent safer than cigarettes and currently help between 50,000 and 70,000 people in England quit cigarettes each year, giving ex-smokers the pleasure of puffing without the considerable health risks. We can’t be having that, it seems.
Making Headlines
Professor Glenn H. Reynolds, the great Instapundit himself, writes about Prime Minister Trudeau in The New York Post.
“His critics call him Prime Minister Zoolander after the vacuous male model in the movie of the same name.”
“But Canada’s Justin Trudeau is someone much more sinister.”
“Harvard University’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, Sherri Ann Charleston, appears to have plagiarized extensively in her academic work”
Sorry guys, we didn’t make the new rules. But those are the new rules.
The Libranos: ArriveScam
In the world of Canadian government contracting, there’s a rule that’s supposed to symbolize transparency and accountability: every contract over $10,000 must be publicly disclosed, its details available for every Canadian to scrutinize online. This rule is more than a mere procedure; it’s a commitment to open governance, a pledge that taxpayer money is being spent wisely and fairly.
But, as we peel back the layers, a different picture emerges, one mired in negligence and possible corruption. A review of 41 contracts tied to the ArriveCAN app reveals a disturbing trend. In 17 cases, critical information about the contracts or substantial amendments – each well over the $10,000 threshold – were conspicuously absent from the public record.
The saga deepens when we look at a specific $25 million contract awarded to GC Strategies Inc. The details of this contract, the manner in which it was awarded, send up a forest of red flags. The criteria were so narrowly defined, so peculiarly tailored, that they seemed to have been written with GC Strategies in mind. Their past experience with the Government of Canada mirrored the requirements almost exactly, a coincidence that stretches the bounds of belief. Unsurprisingly, GC Strategies stood unchallenged in the bidding process.