Your middle-of-the-week mint julep ...
Inheriting money means not understand that budgets don't balance themselves and that inflation is really, really bad:
Trudeau was asked about the issue of inflation on the campaign trail Wednesday after Statistics Canada said that core inflation rose by 3.7% in July.
The price on some items were up dramatically compared to the same time last year, including shelter which was up by 4.8% and gasoline up by 30.9%.
Food, the most basic of necessities, was up 1.7% compared to last year.
The Bank of Canada is mandated with controlling inflation, though that mandate is up for review shortly after the election. ...
When asked his thoughts on allowing inflation to grow, Trudeau responded by saying he doesn’t think about monetary policy.
(Sidebar: quelle surprise.)
“When I think about the biggest, most important economic policy this government, if re-elected, would move forward, you’ll forgive me if I don’t think about monetary policy,” Trudeau said.
“You’ll understand that I think about families.”
Well, moron, that line may work well with people like you who don't understand that math is a real thing but inflation causes prices to go UP.
Little people didn't inherit money the way you did, Justin.
No money = no food.
Hungry man = angry man.
Do you understand that math?
Also:
This is just a preliminary analysis — exact figures are hard to produce given the lack of specificity within the NDP’s commitments. However, were the party to implement its platform, the result would undoubtedly be a revolution in public spending, with federal expenditures easily increasing by at least 20 per cent ($70 billion annually).
How does the NDP hope to pay for everything? When it comes to taxation, economic populism is the party’s ethos. “Just tax the rich” may be a popular slogan, but in practice it obscures the fact that the rich simply cannot by themselves fund what the NDP wants to do.
The NDP have proposed a wealth tax that would apply only to Canadians with over $10 million in net worth — taxing them at one per cent of all wealth above that threshold. They have also committed to increasing the top marginal income tax rate from 33 to 35 per cent, and have promised a two per cent luxury goods tax on things like yachts and private jets.
However, the PBO estimates that a one per cent wealth tax on those with more than $20 million in assets would generate only $5.6 billion per year — not a small sum, but still only a 1.6 per cent increase in federal revenue. The NDP proposal would generate more revenue through a lower threshold ($10 million versus $20 million), but even this is unlikely to yield enough revenue to fund much beyond one major spending program, such as national pharmacare. The revenue potential of wealth taxes are generally overblown, and making them work would require repeatedly expanding who counts as wealthy, as the NDP has already done (until last week, they were committed to the $20 million threshold).
Similarly, the top one per cent of earners in Canada made about $140 billion in income in 2018, representing around 10 per cent of national income. A two per cent increase in their top marginal tax rate would yield only around $2.8 billion — and that would be further diminished by the the behavioural effects of higher taxation (i.e. people working less, increased tax evasion).
And:
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is calling on the NDP to show proof that it had paid back the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) it had collected.
Did anyone find out who burned those churches?:
Suspect no. 1 is a white woman, who was wearing a blue baseball hat over a long pink wig and a mask.
Suspect no. 2 wore an olive green hat, sunglasses and was seen in a dark long-sleeve shirt. Police did not specify their gender.
Suspect no. 3 is a man wearing a camouflage hat, sunglasses and a denim vest.
Suspect no. is a woman with blonde hair and a black tank top.
The police are not really interested.
And why is that anyone thinks that Justin cares? He is, after all, campaigning on him 9and certainly not his corruption or stupidity):
Afghans who helped Canada have been basically told to ‘go underground,’ and the Canadian government has shuttered our embassy in the country.
Also, Trudeau copied Erin O’Toole’s position on not recognizing the Taliban, a day after the Trudeau government took a ‘wait and see’ approach that was widely lambasted ...
This Afghanistan:
A group of Catholic nuns in Kabul are safe after the capital city of Afghanistan was taken by the Taliban Aug. 15, the president of a children’s charity said Tuesday.
“We are in constant contact with the sisters present there and we pray for them. I can tell you that they are fine and that all channels have been activated so that they are safe,” Father Matteo Sanavio told CNA via email from Rome.
The president of the association For the Children of Kabul asked people to pray “so that all Christians present in Kabul may find salvation and, together with them, the poor and tortured Afghan people will soon be able to have a future of peace.”
Father Sanavio said he could not give more information about the sisters’ situation at this time due to security concerns.
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A Jesuit priest stranded in Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover of the country said the situation is “changing” and “chaotic.”
“The way the situation is changing in the country, it is anyone’s imagination,” said Father Jerome Sequeira, head of the Jesuit mission in Afghanistan, in a letter to friends and colleagues.
The priest said the mission has already suspended its activities across the country and has ensured the safety of all its staff.
Why not defund their - and MPs' - pensions instead?:
Public Safety Minister Bill Blair’s department commissioned confidential research on whether to defund police. Data showed the largest number of Canadians surveyed said police should get more money, not less: “Which would you choose?”
Also - it's alright when SOME people do it:
The Ethics Commissioner yesterday fined a political aide in Foreign Minister Marc Garneau’s office, Sara Amash, for breach of the Conflict Of Interest Act. Opposition MPs have sought an increase in the current $500 maximum fine for scofflaws: “Retaining public trust remains an ongoing challenge for institutions in Canada.”
I'll believe it when I see it:
The Conservative Party yesterday said it will repeal a half billion in federal subsidies for the press if elected September 20. Leader Erin O’Toole also pledged to review $1.2 billion in annual funding for CBC-TV’s English language service: “Government funding of ‘approved’ media undermines press freedom.”
Review? Not get rid of? Like the CRTC, for example.
Also - Sloaned, he chose his own path:
The Yukon candidate disqualified by the Conservative Party of Canada over opposition to vaccine passports and employer vaccine mandates will be running as an independent.
Jonas Smith, a mining industry advocate and former Conservative national councillor, was removed as a candidate last week over what the Conservative party said was an “unwillingness to support public health guidelines.”
Smith said it was about his “opposition to calls for implementation of mandated workplace vaccinations and vaccine passport requirements in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
People’s Party leader Maxime Bernier yesterday opened his national campaign with a pledge not to promise any new programs. The Party polled 294,092 votes in the 2019 campaign but did not elect an MP: “All the other parties play this vote-buying game.”
Fires are still raging in British Columbia:
According to the B.C. Wildfire Service, the Mount Law wildfire grew overnight to 800 hectares.
But ... but ... the American system!:
A father, a grandfather, a great-grandfather. A lover of life, a master of one-liners and a caring husband of 58 years.
Keith Harker of Bedford, N.S., was all of those things and many more, according to his widow, Simone Harker.
“I found out after he passed how much he was loved, because everyone’s comments were how wonderful a man he was,” she said. “He was really, really, a wonderful man.”
Keith died in late July, sitting in a wheelchair in the lobby of the Cobequid Community Health Centre’s emergency room, waiting to receive care. He was 78.
We don't have to trade with China:
A young Chinese woman says she was held for eight days at a Chinese-run secret detention facility in Dubai along with at least two Uyghurs, in what may be the first evidence that China is operating a so-called “black site” beyond its borders.
The woman, 26-year-old Wu Huan, was on the run to avoid extradition back to China because her fiance was considered a Chinese dissident. Wu told The Associated Press she was abducted from a hotel in Dubai and detained by Chinese officials at a villa converted into a jail, where she saw or heard two other prisoners, both Uyghurs.
She was questioned and threatened in Chinese and forced to sign legal documents incriminating her fiance for harassing her, she said. She was finally released on June 8 and is now seeking asylum in the Netherlands.
While “black sites” are common in China, Wu’s account is the only testimony known to experts that Beijing has set one up in another country. Such a site would reflect how China is increasingly using its international clout to detain or bring back citizens it wants from overseas, whether they are dissidents, corruption suspects or ethnic minorities like the Uyghurs.
Also:
The Chinese military conducted live-fire exercises near Taiwan on Tuesday, responding to what it called "provocations" by US and separatist forces on the island.
Doesn't the US like using its own oil?:
Joe Biden’s request of OPEC+ to pump more oil has been flatly rejected. Reuters reports that the oil cartel, which now includes Russia, sees no need to increase oil output beyond its current levels.
No way out of that policy, I see.
New documents obtained by Judicial Watch show that the University of Pittsburgh may have been involved in harvesting organs and other tissues from live fetuses for the purpose of medical research. Much of this research was funded by tax dollars disbursed via federal grants, according to the report.
Also - troll level - MASTER:
Catholics gathered across the street from Denver’s Planned Parenthood abortion facility, the largest in Colorado, on Saturday for the launch of a new pro-life initiative: 40 Days for Life 365.
In doing so, Denver joined a growing list of cities in the US hosting a year-round prayer vigil rather than a fall and spring campaign of 40 Days.
“God has shown us through tens of thousands of saved babies (i.e. miracles) that prayer is our most powerful weapon against this evil,” said Brad Maddock, one of the organizers of the Aug. 14 event and Denver Prays for Life.
What an extraordinary mouthpiece she is:
Hong Kong's government may cut ties with one of the city's key legal profession associations if it gets involved in politics, leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday in her latest warning to civil society groups.
Does Jacinda Arden behave this way all the time?:
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern put the country under national lockdown after authorities detected a single case of the CCP virus, likely the Delta variant, in the city of Auckland.
The entire nation will go into “alert level 4” for at least three days, starting from 11:59 p.m. on Aug. 17, the ministry of health announced. The regions of Auckland, the country’s largest city, and Coromandel will be under strict rules for seven days.
Also:
An August 11 Twitter poll conducted by the London Free Press found that out of 9,060 votes, 77.7 percent of respondents do not support “having a #COVID19 vaccine passport in Canada.” Only 22.3 percent of respondents voted in favor of vaccine passports.
And:
On Tuesday, Trudeau was jammed deeper into his unprincipled corner and he was left scrambling after it was revealed that the federal government website essentially said the exact same thing as O’Toole. Not much of a “wedge issue” if the outcome is identical.
The Nazis used to inject people with stuff under penalty of more death, too.
The culprit was an over-the-counter German-made sedative that once came close to rivalling aspirin in total sales. As thalidomide sowed disaster in worldwide maternity wards throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, only one developed country would be spared — and it would be thanks almost entirely to a Canadian.
Approving thalidomide for the U.S. market was to be Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey’s first assignment with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. ...
The pill was already being sold in more than 20 countries. At the time of application, almost 2.5 million thalidomide pills had already been administered to about 20,000 patients, many of whom were pregnant.
But Kelsey, along with two other FDA officers held out their approval, citing a lack of clinical data to support the claims that the drug was safe and effective. ...
Kelsey and her team also reviewed several studies attesting that if a child lived long enough to make it out of the womb, many were born with severe deformities including atrophied limbs, missing toes and fingers, and even absence of the anus and organ damage. Kelsey even met with pediatrician Dr. Helen Taussig at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, who had seen the effects of thalidomide first-hand in Europe. ...
It was ultimately denied by Kelsey and her team, citing that thalidomide’s safety was unproven. Furthermore, it caused significant harm, particularly to the unborn fetus. Within months, growing evidence of the toxic effects of thalidomide would ensure Kelsey’s title as “the most famous government regulator in American history.”
Had thalidomide taken root in the U.S. at the same rate with which it did in the U.K. or Germany, thousands of Americans — now in their 60s — would still be carrying the signs of thalidomide deformity. Instead, just 17 “thalidomide babies” were born in the U.S.
Kelsey’s home country would not be so lucky. Thalidomide was released in Canada on April 1, 1961 and officially pulled from shelves three months later after the damage had become apparent across Europe. In 2015, the federal government admitted fault and granted pensions to the nearly 100 thalidomide survivors still alive.
The canonization cause of Nicholas Black Elk, a Lakota holy man and Catholic catechist who brought 400 Lakota people into the Catholic Church, is right now being examined by the Vatican. At a July 26 Mass with Lakota traditions celebrated by Bishop Peter Muhich at St. Isaac Jogues parish in Rapid City, South Dakota, the bishop revealed that the positio was not only complete and in the hands of Rome — but Pope Francis was personally interested in the cause.
Japan is expanding incrementally:
A new crescent-shaped island has been spotted in the Japanese archipelago following a nearby undersea volcanic eruption, scientists say.
The Japanese coastguard said the new island, about one km in diameter, was formed about 50 km south of Minami Ioto, the southernmost island in the Ogasawara archipelago, reported the Guardian. The volcanic eruption occurred about 1,200 km south of Tokyo.
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