For a Saturday

In a way, it is pointless to note that the Canadian economy is tanking severely and will ruin what is left of the country. Justin doesn't care. He has his pension and his father's money. He will never be unseated by anyone residing in this country. It is just as pointless to try convincing anyone the sound wisdom of personal and national fiscal responsibility. All one can do is watch as this country self-destructs:

On Friday Bloomberg reported that Canada’s job market weakened, unexpectedly, for the second month in a row. Citing Statistics Canada figures, Bloomberg reported that Canada shed 71,200 jobs in November — the biggest drop since 2009. In total, Canada has added 285,100 jobs in 2019.

Pouncing on the November drop Parscale, citing Bloomberg reporting run online by the Financial Post, highlighted the fact that American job gains under Trump compare favourably to Canada’s numbers. The most recent U.S. Labor Department figures show the U.S. gained 266,000 jobs in the same month.

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Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are to hold their first face-to-face meeting since the federal election.

Kenney says he and eight of his cabinet ministers and other senior officials will be in Ottawa on Monday and Tuesday to discuss issues ranging from pipelines to equalization.

They will be “making the point that Alberta has been a massive contributor to Canadian jobs and prosperity, to social programs and social progress,” Kenney said Friday.

“And yet we are not getting a fair deal with the blockage of pipelines (and) with the lack of market access.”

Kenney said he is to meet Trudeau on Tuesday afternoon and will bring up a resolution passed unanimously at the recent meeting of provincial and territorial leaders to consider changes to the fiscal stabilization fund.

Kenney is wasting his time. His efforts would be better spent withdrawing from national schemes like the CPP.

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In fact, 62 per cent of millennials could rack up more than $500 in debt over the holiday season this year, according to a recent Credit Karma survey.

Now one knows how Justin got to be PM. Only someone with no idea how money works can vote for someone like Justin.




You had your chance, Andy:

Canada's new minority Parliament got down to work Friday with Andrew Scheer staking out the Conservatives' ground as the only party that will unabashedly support the energy sector and never relent on its opposition to carbon taxes.

Responding to the Liberal throne speech that opened the new session of Parliament on Thursday, the Conservative leader proposed an amendment that would, among other things, commit the government to scrapping the carbon tax and stopping what Scheer called "the attack on the western Canadian economy."

All the other parties in the House of Commons support the tax and advocate bolder action to tackle climate change making it virtually impossible for the Conservatives to find support for the amendment.

Because cowards and morons at least know they can get a pension no matter how corrupt or stupid they are. 

These cowards and morons:

There is not a sane Canadian anywhere in this great land who has so much as postponed a trip to Canadian Tire to pick up a bag of cement or a lug wrench because the throne speech was on. And there is certainly not one Canadian, sane or otherwise, who backed off a dental appointment to harvest the wisdom of after-panels giving lip-service to “what it really means.”

The speech from the throne is the corporate mission statement of the government, and like all corporate mission statements, it is a semantic graveyard, where dullness and pretentiousness conspire, successfully, against the life and lift of our two wonderful official languages.

It is my serious view that hardly anyone really pays any attention to this show except those who are paid to pay attention to it. And even they must sometimes question whether they really profit from the barter.

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NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh visited a Fredericton abortion clinic today that is struggling to remain open because New Brunswick does not cover abortions performed outside hospitals.

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Nikki Haley, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, accused Canada of striking a deal with the devil over its recent support of an anti-Israel resolution.

Haley said Canada’s decision to change diplomatic course and support the resolution at the United Nations in a bid to secure a seat on the Security Council was an example of “cultural corruption.”

That's Canada for you.

As long as Justin thinks he has struck it to the US, the open anti-semitism that now is de rigeur in this country worth getting the support of North Korea which, typically communist, will not denuclearise (and shame on the US to think it can reason with it or the Taliban) and letting the UN dictate policy in Canada.

Petty little blowhards enjoy that kind of attention.

Has anyone asked if Justin is mentally ill? Because they really should.




The consequence of not nuking Saudi Arabia:

The Saudi student who fatally shot three people at a U.S. naval base in Florida hosted a dinner party earlier in the week where he and three others watched videos of mass shootings, a U.S. official told The Associated Press on Saturday.

One of the three students who attended the dinner party videotaped outside the building while the shooting was taking place at Naval Air Station Pensacola on Friday, said the U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity after being briefed by federal authorities. Two other Saudi students watched from a car, the official said.

The official said 10 Saudi students were being held on the base Saturday while several others were unaccounted for.

Yes, that's correct. It is the right for anyone to say whatever they please, even if factually incorrect and morally abhorrent, just as it is the right for people to champion such causes because they don't like Jason Kenney:

A coalition of academics at the University of Alberta is coming to the defence of a lecturer who declared in a Facebook post that the Holodomor famine was a hoax spread by fascists, which led to widespread condemnation and calls for his resignation from the students’ union and other groups.

“The learning environment is not … made ‘safe’ when any individual or group attempts to prevent another’s exercise of freedom of expression,” the letter says. “It is fundamentally undermined, as the ability to examine, analyze, and critique all ideas is the lifeblood of the university.” ...

The controversy began in November, when Dougal MacDonald, a lecturer in the faculty of education and former candidate for the Marxist-Leninist Party, called Holodomor a myth, and wrote that “in Canada, former Nazi collaborators and their spawn have long led the phony (sic) Holodomor campaign.”

Bhatnagar calls the initiatives taken by the university steps in the right direction. “The university’s in a tough spot because this is something that was on a personal Facebook page of a professor,” she said.

Denial of Holodomor received staunch criticism from Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, who condemned “Western, supposedly-progressive voices who were complicit in one of history’s great cover-ups.”

“These were the useful idiots of whom Lenin wrote. Westerners who purposefully lied about one of the great acts of mass murder in human history,” said Kenney.

Make the cause of freedom of speech into a petty little quest for vindictiveness. It is your right to appear small.

Let's see these people defend Professor Jordan Peterson.

Wear out the parents' patience, teachers' union. See where that goes:

A one-day strike by Ontario public high school teachers and support staff at select school boards across the province on Dec. 11 won’t include Ottawa schools.

However, Ottawa students will be affected next week when public elementary teachers ramp up their job action by withdrawing more services, including not arranging field trips.

Four major education unions are engaged in an increasingly heated confrontation with the Conservative government over new contracts.