Pipeline Online did In depth interview with the woman at the centre of the carbon tax storm, Conservative Natural Resources Critic Shannon Stubbs. This is part 1.
Also, hope for rising oil prices to lead to an increase in activity were dashed, so one of Saskatchewan’s serial entrepreneurs relocated one of his operations, based in Regina, to North Dakota, instead. Anyone care to guess why Canada’s oilpatch didn’t see an uptick in activity, and does it rhyme with “Doh?”
Continued existence of small and vulnerable countries hinge on Western alliances and support. – Victor Davis Hanson And the West must wake up.
Religion Of Peace News: Do Palestinians want peace and prosperity? A Muslim girl calls for killing all Jews (JW). Islamists and leftists attack Jews outside Holocaust museum.
Dementia Joe’s America: Mostly peaceful in D.C. Mentally ill man gets elected in Virginia. Taking down Rashida Tlaib. A TikTok robbery. The Jew detectors at Harvard. Vegan godfather of animal rights, promotes sex with animals.
Woke Britain: Government reassurances on Covid vaccines are based on worthless data. The Hamas supporters in London.
Blackie’s Canada: Art in Vancouver. A Muslim teacher in Doug Ford’s Ontario. Women don’t have penises.
Your morning meme. Bonus meme. And another meme.
Harrowing images captured the shooter, a frustrated elderly man, climbing out of his car to argue with the eco-protesters who had stopped traffic on the Pan-American Highway in the town of Chame.
He initially attempted to reason with the protesters, but moments later pulled a handgun from his pocket and began gesturing wildly as his frustration grew. Despite the imminent danger, the protesters stubbornly refused to curtail their demonstration and continued to argue back and forth with the disgruntled motorist, who became visibly more enraged with each passing moment.
For a time it looked as though the gunman was prepared to back down, but when one protester holding a flag stepped towards him, he snapped the pistol back up and fired at his target from mere feet away.
Terrified onlookers and other protesters helped move the victim to the side of the road and laid him down on the ground as the gunman calmly began dismantling a small barricade made of stones and tyres erected by the demonstrators.
Still undeterred, another protester wearing a black t-shirt and jeans tried to confront the gunman and was also shot. Footage shows how he recoiled from the shot, holding his upper chest in pain and with an expression of disbelief on his face.
Tonight we present a Cold War comedy called The Big Lift (1950) (alt. link)
Your hot, not cold, tips are appreciated!
Saskatchewan talk show host, John Gormley announced on this morning’s show that he’s leaving on November 24th. I’ve known John since he ran for the PC nomination in the Battlefords, later overturning the NDP encumbent to serve a term as an MP with the Mulroney government.
Gormley leaves giant shoes to fill – especially as it concerns provincial politics.
Rawlco Radio’s John Gormley shared with listeners Wednesday morning that he is stepping away from his flagship radio show that has shaped Saskatchewan conversations for more than two decades.
While hesitant to call the move retiring, he is departing from the broadcast world to pursue other interests after marking a 25-year milestone in September. His last show is to air Nov. 24.
The big reveal as to his replacement is tomorrow.
Update: The new host will be former Regina City Police Chief, Evan Bray.
The only thing staff at the office of the BC Provincial Health Officer will be doing is undoing and unlearning their capacity for critical thought if they take any of these admonitions seriously.
One snippet explicitly endorses a secular version of original sin that, naturally, applies only to white people:
Recognizes the truth that Indigenous-specific racism is perpetuated through white supremacist policies and practices that remain hardwired into our systems and processes, and that impede the health and wellness of Indigenous Peoples.
I’ve got $5 here that says the syringes were full of saline.
I guess we can expect plenty of future Liberal Party ads about this. Far-left journalist tries to cancel Pierre Poilievre’s wife.
Washington Post- Pakistan carries out a mass expulsion
Sarfraz Bugti, Pakistan’s caretaker interior minister, has framed the decision as one shaped by security imperatives, claiming that 14 out of 24 major terrorist attacks carried out this year within Pakistan have been by Afghan nationals. Pakistan is struggling to rein in the Pakistani Taliban outfits operating within the country; these factions have loose connections to the Taliban government next door in Afghanistan, which has denounced Pakistan’s planned expulsion of its nationals.
More than 50 years of chaos and strife in Afghanistan have sent waves of refugees to neighboring Pakistan and Iran. The latest flow came after the Taliban’s 2021 takeover in Kabul, but many Afghans have resided in Pakistan since the days of the Soviet invasion.
If you weren’t paying attention, they’re going through the floor in recent days.
The Democratic strategist credited with leading former President Barack Obama’s 2008 victory has suggested that President Biden drop out of the 2024 presidential race after a damning poll showed him trailing behind former President Donald Trump.
David Axelrod pointed to Sunday polling from the New York Times and Siena College that shows the president lagging behind Trump in the five key battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania — states which Biden won when he faced Trump in 2020.
Axelrod wrote on X that the data “will send tremors of doubt thru the [Democratic] Party” and will create “legitimate concern” about having the president seek re-election.
“Only Joe Biden can make this decision,” he said of having the president run in 2024.
“If he continues to run, he will be the nominee of the Democratic Party,” he posted.
“What he needs to decide is whether that is wise; whether it’s in HIS best interest or the country’s?”
And then he “backtracked” because the deed is done and he can throw the knife down a sewer grate.
@RealAndyLeeShow has compiled a list of companies receiving millions in Trudeau government contracts, and with the help of volunteers on the ground, they’ve been checking out their official office premises.
Or shall we say, lack of them.
Update on “office” number four of a company receiving multimillion dollar government contracts, which is supposed to be another headquarters in Ottawa, and is their registered corporate address.
The company says online they have 300 employees.
Where are they hiding all of them?
Another update: “office” number three supposedly hosting a company receiving massive government contracts never existed at a listed address.
Unfortunately Andy’s posts aren’t threaded, so I can’t collect them with a threadroller, and without an account you can’t view them all. I’ll update if they’re collated later.
Cameco closed its purchase of 49% of nuclear reactor company Westinghouse. So if Saskatchewan chooses to build Westinghouse reactors, is that “buying local? even though those reactors were never designed here, nor were any of those parts made here, either?
And that’s why my retirement plan includes collecting useful recipes.
Something strange is happening with teenagers’ mental health. In the US, Britain, Australia and beyond, the same trend can be seen: around the middle of the last decade, the number of young people with anxiety, depression and even suicidal tendencies started to rise sharply. Jonathan Haidt, a psychology professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, noticed a change when students who were brought up with smartphones started to arrive on campus. They were angrier. More fragile. More likely to take offense.[…]
“It’s what I’ve been calling the phone-based child,” he says. “For all human history, millions of years, all mammals play. Anyone who has had a puppy knows it’s all about play. So we had play dates in childhood, up until around 2010.” In Britain, he says, the number of children who went on real-life playdates then fell sharply. Lockdown, needless to say, didn’t help.
“I’m calling it the great rewiring of childhood… It hit the US, Canada, Britain, Australia, New Zealand in exactly the same way.” Social media is a bit of a misnomer, he says. It’s no longer about connecting people, but “performing on a platform.” Perhaps this is fine for grown-ups, but not for children, “where they can say things in public, including to strangers, and then be publicly shamed by potentially millions of people… Children should not be on social networks. They should be playing in person. Social media platforms should never be accessed by children until they’re eighteen. It’s just insane that we let kids do these things.”
The only upside I can see in this story is that most governments in the world are in even worse financial shape than the U.S. federal government. But that will just delay the inevitable.
What should we call a government that must borrow $1T to pay interest on existing debt & another $1T to cover operating deficit?
(FYI – companies in such situation are called "Zombies") https://t.co/Iw3o7g63mO
— Simon Mikhailovich (@S_Mikhailovich) November 7, 2023
DISTURBING: Video shows University of Calgary bathroom vandalized with hateful & violent anti-Semitic messages, including “f*** the Jews,” Swastikas, and “kill the Jews, then the whites, praise Allah.” (sent to me by a @UCalgary student)
Hans Gruber wants the peasants to suffer more, in order to save the planet. But the feds are exempt.
Woke Britain: Another history lesson with Neil Oliver. Thugs call for Jihad.
Dementia Joe’s America: Target CEO blames trans backlash. The secret to Marxism’s success.
Fascist China News: Communist Prime Minister of Australia gushes over Xi.
Global Warming Scam News: A death cult. Rich countries must compensate developing countries.
Blackie’s Canada: Jewish union members file human rights complaint against CUPE. Hamas’s Ontario MPP. The Cows and Plows clause (CBC). An ISIS sexy senior.
Religion Of Peace News: It’s a miracle (JW). The Hamas hospitals. Hamas use of children as human shields (JW). There is no moderate Jihad.
Your morning meme. Bonus meme. A cartoon.
On crime, punishment, and the progressive flattening of values:
Flattening values, such that the criminal and their victims are somehow equal in moral worth, is a staple of progressive schtick. But it seems to me that the decision to try to steal someone’s dog is precisely how you know that that person’s wellbeing is of very low importance.
There follow some quite vivid examples of the schtick in question.
