For a Tuesday

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Petty little mincer pretends that people are privileged to take a moment of his time away from surfing even though it is (ostensibly, anyway) his job to serve the public and conduct business of state with other members of Parliament.

It does not go well:

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said he is looking at ways to expand provincial autonomy after meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa on Tuesday morning.

“We’re going to look at opportunities to expand our provincial autonomy. That includes expanding our presence around the world in those areas where we are exporting our agri-food products, our energy products,” Moe said.

The premier was light on details about what other measures his government might pursue. He said those details would be coming in the next couple of days.

Moe added that he was disappointed that Trudeau did not commit to his “new deal with Canada.”

And you expected him to because ...?


Also:

The greatest contribution to Alberta’s downturn, the flight of much of its capital, and the low morale in the industry generally, has been the continuous and furious assault the province, its oil industry, and Fort McMurray in particular, have endured for well over a decade. The globalist international movement of apocalyptic climate change has marked Alberta and its oilsands as its chosen target and symbol. There has never been so concentrated and focused an attack on any industry or project that equals in scale the relentless, propagandist denigration of the Alberta oilsands and the town of Fort McMurray.

It would be a real challenge to simply count the negative talks, conferences, papers, news reports, pseudo-science reviews, environmentalist alarms, protests, lawsuits, op-eds and latterly sermonettes from Grim Greta, that have sought to shame and demonize the oilsands, the workers and the entire oil and gas industry of Alberta.

Whole continents and countries, whose oil production is exponentially more massive, have been ignored. No demonstrations in front of the great coal plant construction in China. No “down with pipelines” in Beijing or Delhi. A pipeline in Alberta gets world coverage; oil production in Nigeria will never find the front page of the Toronto Star. Neil Young will yodel his way to Fort Mac and wail “this is Hiroshima” but we will not see him pluck his loose strings to protest in China, in India, or even in his resident homeland, the U.S. — now the world’s No. 1 producer of oil energy.

The Suzukis, the Sierra Clubs, the always railing Greenpeacers, the fund-raising behemoths of the eco-industry, and the swarms of petty NGOs, self-appointed activists, and trippy climate celebrities — Bill Nye the Foolish Guy may stand for them all — have feasted on the portrayal of Alberta energy as world-damaging, nature-offending and planet-despoiling.

It was and is a gang-up on a global scale. One fragment, one singular project of an entire world industry in a little corner of Alberta has been painted as the villain of planetary disaster. Under the specious umbrella of “we must save the planet”  and “global warming is an existential crisis” the energy industry of a single province has endured a vicious, unfair and fanatic assault.

After being his usual self, hockey-commenting legend finds himself thrown under the bus and fired while a true racist and enemy of veterans still hangs onto his job:

Cherry, 85, made the comments during his weekly Coach’s Corner segment on Hockey Night in Canada that sparked fierce condemnation from the public, politicians and the National Hockey League.

“You people … you love our way of life, you love our milk and honey, at least you can pay a couple bucks for a poppy or something like that,” Cherry said. “These guys paid for your way of life that you enjoy in Canada, these guys paid the biggest price.”

Yes, about those comments:

More lies from the mainstream media. This time from CTV, who lie and say: "During his “Coach’s Corner” segment, the 85-year-old Cherry claimed that immigrants do not wear poppies or support veterans."

Nope. He didn't say that. Liars. https://t.co/1IFi2vNrG1

— Candice Malcolm (@CandiceMalcolm) November 12, 2019

But facts interfere with the Narrative, so ...


Also - vaguely related:

A professor from the University of British Columbia is facing heat online for a Remembrance Day tweet that some deem to be disrespectful.

Economics professor Marina Adshade sent a tweet directed at UBC president Santa Ono, questioning why members of one of the university’s fraternity houses were laying wreaths as part of the school’s Remembrance Day ceremony. She asked why “more representative groups” weren’t included instead.

If you didn't run from heavy artillery fire, I don't care what you think.

It's not like China or Russia have designs on the Arctic or anything:

The delivery date for the navy’s first Arctic and offshore patrol ship has again been pushed back.

The original plan was to have Irving Shipbuilding in Halifax deliver the ship in 2018, but in August that date was pushed to the end of 2019.

Did Scott Brison resign for nothing?!




Remember - the Trudeau government hid a protective measure in an omnibus bill to save this Quebec company:

Jacques Lamarre, the former head of SNC-Lavalin, authorized the purchase of a $25-million luxury yacht for Saadi Gadhafi, a Quebec Superior Court jury has heard.

The purchase came in 2007 shortly after SNC-Lavalin secured a multimillion-dollar contract in Libya, the jury was told.

What could go wrong?:

Hundreds of thousands of lives lost from infections that have been treatable for the last century. Fewer organ transplants and joint replacements because they’re just too risky to perform. Stigma against “carriers” or “the infected.” A shrinking economy.

A new report is raising the stark possibility of Canada returning to an almost pre-antibiotic era — the prospect of a future where antibiotics against common infections no longer work.

“There have been few health crises on this scale in Canadian history,” warns the Council of Canadian Academies expert panel report, When Antibiotics Fail.

While it’s not quite the apocalyptic world others have warned of, if the overuse of antibiotics isn’t slowed, if the number of effective drugs continues to run out, “Canada will be greatly changed within a few decades,” the report warns.

Already, 26 per cent of bacterial infections in Canada are resistant to the first-line drugs generally used to treat them, according to the panel’s estimates.

I'll just play some Johnny Cash right here: