And the Rest of It

Observe:

Canadians shouldn’t even know the name of the Line 5 pipeline.

It should be completely inconsequential to our fortunes.

It shouldn’t matter at all.

After all, we’re a country that is absolutely swimming in oil, with some of the largest reserves on the planet.

We could easily pump out enough oil to serve our own domestic needs many times over, put a bunch into a strategic reserve, and make billions selling it around the world, with tonnes left over even after all of that.

Yet, here we are, dependent on a foreign pipeline to supply some of our most heavily populated regions.

Quite frankly, it’s a disgrace.

And it shows how foolish our nation is, and how lacking we are in any sense of our national interest or strategic acumen.

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Ottawa says it will create a new digital platform to help process immigration applications more quickly after the COVID-19 pandemic underscored the need for a faster shift to a new system.

 

Voters blocks.

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Melinda French Gates began working with divorce lawyers well over a year before her split with Bill Gates was announced last week, partly over concerns about her husband’s dealings with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The 56-year-old spoke with attorneys from several firms as early as October 2019, saying the marriage was “irretrievably broken,” the Journal reported Sunday, citing documents and people familiar with the matter. Her unease about her ex-husband’s ties to Epstein dates back to at least 2013, the paper said.