Voting Only Encourages the B@$#@rds

Prove me wrong.




Andrew Scheer's (who should have resigned, one might add) new right-hand woman apologises for comparing marching in gaudy Saint Patrick's Day parades with marching in pervert parades:

Newly appointed deputy Conservative party leader Leona Alleslev is taking heat and has apologized for equating marching in Pride parades with St. Patrick's Day parades. 

In an interview with CBC Radio's The House, Alleslev was asked about Conservative Leader Andrew's Scheer's struggle to quell questions about his personal beliefs on same-sex marriage during the election campaign. 

(Sidebar: issues that, though they make the average Canadian squeamish and paranoid, had nothing to do with the election.)

The Liberals had resurfaced a video from 2005, when Scheer spoke in the House of Commons against it. Scheer is also the only federal party leader who has not marched in a Pride parade. 

"I think that that's obviously his choice and we live in a country where that's his choice," Alleslev told host Chris Hall. "Have we asked anybody if they marched in a St. Patrick's Day parade?"

The backlash on social media was fierce after the interview aired, with many criticizing her choice of comparison. 

And you apologised for that?

The correct response to that sort of haranguing is: "Cram it".

But I suppose that sort of fortitude is beyond the Tories and that is why they are playing second fiddle to the village idiots.




A member of the Nazi Liberal Party calls another MLA "Hitlerish" for demanding vaccinations:

Liberal MLA Cathy Rogers took to Facebook to call New Brunswick Minister of Education Dominic Cardy “Hitler-ish” over Cardy’s support for mandatory student vaccinations.

Rogers made the disparaging remarks about the Education Minister on Monday. The post which was originally posted in September 2019 has since been deleted. 

“Sounds a bit Hitler-ish to me. Kill everyone around me. I’m the only right person. Ugggg,” Rogers wrote.

You and your party ought to know about fascism.




Would these be the "infrastructure" projects that weren't even started after 2015?:

Canada's cities say the federal Liberals are willing to find creative ways to remove political roadblocks from provinces to fund billions in municipal projects, a sign of hope that comes as they ask Ottawa for more money and new ways to fund local work.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, his deputy Chrystia Freeland and other newly named cabinet ministers have given "very clear signals" about easing the flow of funds as part of their conversations with city leaders, said Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson.

Iveson's comments came near the end of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities' conference in Ottawa this week, which included a meeting with Trudeau and Freeland on Thursday afternoon.

The federal government has options to make the money move, Iveson said, pointing to the doubling of the gas-tax funding this year, which the Liberals called a one-time arrangement to do an end-around on problematic provinces.

The Trudeau Liberals will have to lean on provinces to remove hurdles — political or otherwise — that hold up federal spending and, in turn, local construction plans for things like affordable housing, said Iveson, who chairs the federation's caucus of mayors from the largest cities in Canada.

Money is clearly no object.

It grows on trees in Shangri-La. 

Entitled to entitlements:

That’s one of the takeaways from a review of public and private sector wages and benefits conducted by the Fraser Institute. Researcher Ben Eisen, a senior fellow at the Fraser Institute, reviewed the wages reported to the federal government last year and found public sector employees made more money, had better benefits and pensions, took more sick days and retired earlier.

Is it any wonder that people like me get cranky when we hear public sector workers complain about how the Ford government is sticking it to them when it comes to contract talks?

I would like to see ridings where there are no members:

Days before a key deadline that will help find a “saviour” for the Ontario Liberals, the party is a husk of its former self.

The party is believed to have only 10,000 members now, down from the 44,000 on the rolls when Kathleen Wynne and Sandra Pupatello faced off for the leadership six years ago.

Let them fight:

The federal government has lost its bid to delay a deadline for compensating First Nations families torn apart by an underfunded child welfare system, as part of a Federal Court decision that looks to ensure children affected receive payments promptly.

Is that what Quebec will do every time Alberta plays hardball? Kill off old people?

Sick!:

A panel of experts is recommending the Quebec government expand access to medical aid in dying.

In recommendations made public today, the group said people should be allowed to make advance directives requesting a doctor-assisted death, which is not allowed under current law.

The panel suggests that to make such an advance request, a person should first have been diagnosed with a serious, incurable illness, including Alzheimer’s or dementia.

The person would designate a third party to authorize the assisted death when the time comes.

Also:

Quebec is running short of propane due to a strike by rail workers, and even though the strike has been settled the propane market is dangerously low.

Pembina Pipeline took the high road, sending a shipment of 105 rail cars loaded with propane in a “spirit of unity to secure a safe, reliable and long-term supply of energy from each other, rather than from foreign countries who do not share Canadian values” an FP article noted.

Pembina took the high road, but I won’t, because I’m not that kind of person, and because it is worth emphasizing (because the mainstream media will choose not to) the consequences of Quebec running out of a fossil fuel for which there is no replacement.

(Merci)




Getting good and hard the government they voted for:

Statistics Canada says the Canadian economy grew at an annualized pace of 1.3 per cent in the third quarter.

That compared with a revised annualized pace of 3.5 per cent in the second quarter. Economists had expected an annualized rate of 1.2 per cent for the most recent quarter according to financial markets data firm Refinitiv.

If Jason Kenney -

(Sidebar: this Jason Kenney.)

- wants to ride high for the next four years, he needs a bold move like this:

Three of Canada’s premiers will announce they’ll fight climate change by working together on small nuclear reactors, a company that’s developing the technology said Saturday.

New Brunswick-based ARC Nuclear Canada said in a news release that its president will attend a signing ceremony Sunday between the provinces of New Brunswick, Ontario and Saskatchewan to work in collaboration on the modular reactors “in an effort to mitigate the effects of climate change.”

Okay, it bears repeating that carbon is not a pollutant and "change" is what most people call seasons but I digress ...

It's hydro-electricity or carefully managed nuclear power stations.

Solar panels don't cut it in countries where the winter sunlight is four hours or less.