Life is Overrated

Drain The Swamp 19 Comments

Fraser Institute- Taxes versus the Necessities of Life: The Canadian Consumer Tax Index 2022 edition

The average Canadian family now spends more of its income on taxes (43.0%) than it does on basic necessities such as food, shelter, and clothing combined (35.7%). By comparison, 33.5% of the average family’s income went to pay taxes in 1961 while 56.5% went to basic necessities.

In 2021, the average Canadian family earned an income of $99,030 and paid total taxes equaling $42,547 (43.0%). In 1961, the average family had an income of $5,000 and paid a total tax bill of $1,675 (33.5%).

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Coal will soon be gone, and nuclear is a long ways away for Estevan, and spinny things are not the answer

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Boundary Dam Power Station. On the left is the carbon capture unit.

 
The reality that coal-fired power in Saskatchewan is being forced to an end, despite the possibility of carbon capture technology, is now weighing heavily on Estevan, as reported by PipelineOnline.ca.

Estevan mayor on coal: “The closer we get without any good answers by 2030, the harder it is for everyone in our community. We deserve some answers”

Estevan Mayor Roy Ludwig:

“And we’re not getting any answers. I mean, we’ve been meeting now with the province a few times and we said, ‘Listen, we want to know. We have to start meeting. 2030 is coming very quickly. What are we going to do? We need the federal government involvement. They don’t even answer our emails. We have to get them to the table.

“They want to shut down coal, which is a great baseload power. The only option to that would be close to that would be nuclear. And that won’t be coming (soon). Once we make a decision toward the end of this decade, it probably won’t be built till 2035-2036, something like that.”

And

“It’s weighing on the employees already. We have people saying, ‘You know, I don’t know for sure what’s going to happen, come 2030, so I’m bailing now. I’m going to where the jobs are now.’

“And it’s this sense of frustration, this sense of not knowing, you know, it’s a killer. And the closer we get without any good answers by 2030, the harder it is for everyone in our community. We deserve some answers. And the federal government owes us some answers. And the province, well, we’re starting to talk with them. SaskPower, we have a pretty good relationship with them, but it’s, you know, the final decisions with SaskPower are made by the provincial government, not SaskPower.”

This is a follow up to Further carbon capture on coal “not an option,” according to CIC Minister Don Morgan

It’s Friday On Turtle Island

Turtle Island 9 Comments

Trudeau’s Canada:  You can shoot or stab someone in diverse Toronto, but offending someone is not allowed.  Rex Murphy on prosthetic breasts.  The unbiased Ottawa press gallery.  Canada heading for a painful recession.  But at least federal civil servants are doing fine.

Biden’s America:  Only idiots don’t go to college.  How China recruited scientists in the U.S.  A message from Joe Biden.  Your morning meme.  Life with Hunter Biden.

Woke Britain:  So when do descendants of British sailors that fought the slave trade get free college?  And PayPal censorship.

Today In Islam:  Turkey wants membership in the E.U.

Woke Australia:  Nobody ever accused socialists of being smart.  Leftist morons target wrong building.

The Othering of People Has Dire Consequences

Democrats Media The Libranos Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 13 Comments

In times past, people with different political views could agree to disagree. Then when #OrangeManBad came into office in 2016, folks of a Left-leaning bent developed a mental illness called “TDS” and essentially went crazy. Symptoms of TDS include overly large eyes when engaged in a political rant, an incapability to deal with facts and process them logically, a complete lack of self-awareness, an inability to realize rampant hypocrisy emanating from their TDS-infected brains, and a host of others.

Agree to disagree became You’re a Racist/Bigot/Sexist/Homophobe/Islamophobe/Transphobe if you dare disagree with any of my views, which more recently became You’re Evil if you disagree with The Narrative™ and must be dealt with accordingly.

Justin Trudeau and Joe Biden and their countless legacy media apparatchiks can pretend that their inflammatory rhetoric is not directly fueling all of this but they’re lying.  They know it.  We know it.  And they know that we know it.

Which brings us to a recent politically-motivated murder: Biden’s Demonic Speech Leads to Teen Murdered for Being MAGA:

At the beginning of September, in his second year in office, Joe Biden desecrated our nation’s birthplace with a hate-filled speech that can only be described as demonic, on sacred ground at Independence Hall. In this speech, Biden laid out all issues of the country at the feet of his target scapegoat group – MAGA Americans. Biden warned that MAGA Americans were a threat to democracy itself within our nation.

Two weeks later, a left-wing adult in rural North Dakota murdered a teenager for being Republican. He admitted this to police while seemingly unaware he had done anything wrong. In fact, he complained about his bail being too high. At this time, he has not even been charged with murder. Biden has claimed repeatedly to be interested in unifying the country, but perhaps what he really means is unifying the Left against anyone who disagrees with them.

Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Poley Bears

Climate Cult Y2Kyoto 20 Comments

Forgotten, but not gone… (sorry, link fixed!)

All predictions of disaster aside, in fact the polar bear is no closer to extinction than it was in 2005 as Arctic sea ice again steadfastly resists slipping past a catastrophic ‘tipping point’ — or the ‘death spiral’, as some chicken-littles continue to call it.

All predictions of disaster aside, in fact the polar bear is no closer to extinction than it was in 2005 as Arctic sea ice again steadfastly resists slipping past a catastrophic ‘tipping point’ — or the ‘death spiral’, as some chicken-littles continue to call it.

‘All I Want Is for My Kid Not to Get Kidnapped and Peed on’

More Pavilions At Folkfest 19 Comments

Grab a beverage.

Paulina Neuding- Two Bombings in One Night? That’s Normal Now in Sweden.

Since 2018, there have been almost 500 bombings—yes, bombings—in what is known as one of the most stable societies in the world.

There’s not just a bombing problem. There are shootings, too.

Sweden, which has a population of around 10 million, has the highest per-capita number of deadly shootings of 22 European countries. Forty-seven people have been shot dead so far this year, which, while far from American levels of gun homicide, is extreme for Europe. Other European countries have come to look at Sweden with horror.

There’s a Trend Here

Wuhan Flu 16 Comments

Experts who know better keep their traps shut so as not to upset the ruling class. Chaos and misery ensues.

Brownstone Institute- The Economists Self-Censored and Inflation Is a Result

Did economists not see inflation coming? Or, if inflation was not a surprise, why did economists not raise the alarm about the policies that led to it?

The answer to these questions is disheartening. Many in the economics profession did see that government policies of the last couple of years would result in high inflation. But most who saw it coming chose not to inform the public or raise the alarm until it was too late.

Thursday On Turtle Island

Turtle Island 11 Comments

Woke Britain:  Transgender outreach.  The Eco pigs.  Diversity outbreak spreads to Birmingham.

Biden’s America:  Woke censorship of Dilbert.  Man kills Maga extremist.  The worst argument against banning abortion.  The persecution of Donald Trump continues.  The Woman King.  How is Biden not guilty? Your morning meme.

Trudeau’s Canada:  Telling the truth is against the law in Canada.  Canada’s misguided drug dealers.  The Liberal three billion dollar error.

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