Your mid-week point of inspiration ...
Inflation drives up prices and makes life unlivable, just like taxes do.
Do note that when one casts one's ballot:
"It's troubling that Justin Trudeau seems to not care about the sky-rocketing cost of living that is being imposed on Canadians through inflation," O'Toole said in a statement.
Statistics Canada said the annual inflation rate in August accelerated to 4.1%, the highest level since March 2003, in part due to the soaring cost of gasoline and the fact that prices in August 2020 were depressed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Liberals, in power for the past six years, racked up record debt and the highest budget deficits since World War Two. Trudeau is promising more investments if he wins.
Investment in what? "Green" energy that doesn't work? Because it won't be the oil sector.
And who would want to invest in a country with high taxes, high unemployment, over-regulation and a government that would have to have brain cells to be stupid?
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Again, even during the pandemic, though tax revenues decreased for governments nationwide, taxes remained the single largest household expense for Canadian families. Last year, the average Canadian family (including single Canadians) earned $96,333 and paid $35,047 in total taxes—that’s 36.4 per cent of their income going to taxes—compared to $34,105 (or 35.4 per cent of their income) on housing, food, and clothing combined.
For another comparison, consider that annual housing costs (including rent and mortgage payments) for the average Canadian family amounted to $20,023 or 20.8 per cent of their income, which means the average Canadian family spends nearly twice as much on taxes than on housing.
Our total tax bill has also grown markedly over the decades. Since 1961, the average Canadian family’s total tax bill has increased nominally by 1,992 per cent, dwarfing increases in annual housing costs (1,671 per cent), clothing (629 per cent) and food (767 per cent).
And yet, the average Canadian family could see their tax bill grow higher in future years.
(Sidebar: and how!)
The federal and provincial governments have reverted to deficits to finance their spending in recent years, especially during COVID. Of course, taxes must one day pay for these deficits. Canadian families can expect to see tax increases imposed at some point in the future because governments will need to pay for today’s deficits and cover tomorrow’s debt interest payments. Indeed, the tax bill will likely climb higher than 36.4 per cent of the average family’s income.
The Liberal Party is, of course, the party of the elite, taxes, corruption, spending, waste, incompetence and total apathy:
And so far in Election 44, a pattern is emerging: The Canadians who earn more than $100,000 per year are disproportionately likely to vote Liberal on Sept. 20.
Perhaps surprisingly, one of the most hot-button issues among the high-income set is $10/day daycare. While the policy is often pitched as a hand-up to Canada’s working poor, some of the most vocal supporters of $10 daycare are those who can already easily afford conventional daycare, but would prefer to pay less.
(Sidebar: cheap b@$#@rds.)
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Cabinet aides were in personal contact with VIPs and Liberal Party insiders seeking federal Covid contracts from the outbreak of the pandemic, according to internal emails. Other suppliers were told to register with a federal website: “Could we reach out politically on this one as well?”
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Public Works Minister Anita Anand personally called a federal contractor in a cabinet colleague’s riding to “speak about your needs,” according to internal emails. Cabinet to date has not disclosed details of the sole-sourced $200,451,621 contract for Covid ventilators that were shipped for storage in an Ottawa warehouse: “I am reaching out to arrange a phone call.”
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We Charity spent nearly $20,000 hosting the Prime Minister’s wife at an event in Britain a month before cabinet aides began negotiating terms of what became a $43.5 million federal grant to the charity, according to records. It was the costliest of eight We Charity appearances by Sophie Grégoire Trudeau: “She got Covid from attending the We Charity event.”
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Hickey was asked about the issue of the government applying a capital gains tax on the sale of primary residences and he seemed to indicate it was something that would be done.
“But of course, anyone selling their primary residence, if you do make money on that, unfortunately you will have to pay tax on that. I wouldn’t agree to that either, but it’s what we have to do,” Hickey said during the online chat with residents of his New Brunswick Southwest riding.
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Did you see where the $61 million Justin handed out went to?
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No, he shouldn't but people tolerated his groping and racism for six years, so ... :
We have to remind all those who would dismiss this scandal that it was a case of Trudeau and those around him trying to interfere in a criminal prosecution for bribery and corruption.
This wasn’t a decision to change policy or a clash of egos, this is the PM deciding that his office should get involved in a criminal prosecution to assist a company close to him and his party.
This was a case of apparent corruption, a case of allegedly upending the rule of law for the rule of political expediency. ...
If you won’t take my word that Trudeau isn’t fit to lead Canada, then carefully consider the words of Wilson-Raybould and Caesar-Chavannes.
Then vote accordingly.
(Sidebar: these women.)
So bad that not even Quebec's premier will tolerate him (until a manila envelope appears somewhere).
Who runs the country today, Justin? Is it China?:
“[If] the Canadian government puts those hawkish words into action, it will invite counterstrikes from China, and Ottawa is the one to suffer,” the report said.
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The Liberal government has directed a state-owned Chinese telecommunications firm to divest its stake in a Canadian subsidiary over national security concerns, prompting a court challenge of the order.
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The access that communist China’s Confucius Institutes (CIs) have to Canadian student data, as recently highlighted in New Brunswick, has several members of the Chinese dissident community expressing worry over the institutes operating in their own school district and on Canadian soil in general.
Sheng Xue, a Chinese-Canadian democracy activist in Toronto, said she is very concerned because access to CI student data can potentially threaten the safety of Chinese dissidents targeted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) who have any connection with the CI.
“A large amount of factual evidence shows that CI is not a normal educational or cultural exchange organization, but a spy agency that the CCP has penetrated into the international community, so it has the task of collecting intelligence,” Sheng said in an interview.
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The Conservative Party is seeking confirmation from the federal ethics commissioner as to whether clearance was sought on a book deal with a Chinese state-owned publishing house that republished Justin Trudeau’s private memoirs in 2016.
(Sidebar: what is the title? Memoirs of a Snowboard Instructor?)
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The Chinese influence is everywhere:
The Trudeau government is advising Canadian business on how to comply with China’s Orwellian social credit system as it applies to companies. A PPC government will not encourage anyone to do business there. https://t.co/GlXxYFpFLu pic.twitter.com/BmFxUonZHV
— Maxime Bernier (@MaximeBernier) September 13, 2021
This PPC:
So Maxime Bernier's PPC, with virtually no media coverage and banned from both leaders' debates, has more support that the Greens in many polls & could impact the election significantly in the race between the Liberals and Conservatives. #cdnpoli
— Lorrie Goldstein (@sunlorrie) September 9, 2021
Also - that's treason:
Costa and Woodward report, “Twice in the final months of the Trump administration, the country’s top military officer was so fearful that the president’s actions might spark a war with China that he moved urgently to avert armed conflict.”
In two secret phone calls, they report, Milley assured Gen. Li Zuocheng of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army that the United States would not attack Beijing. One call allegedly took place four days before the 2020 presidential election; the second was two days after the Jan. 6 Capitol siege.
And - hi, Vietnam. Nice country you have there. It would be a shame if anything happened to it:
China and Vietnam should refrain from unilateral actions regarding the South China Sea that could complicate the situation and magnify disputes, senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi told a Vietnamese official, China's foreign ministry said.
Your party is riddled with anti-Semites and you know it, Jag:
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says the antisemitic comments by two of his party’s candidates who resigned were “completely wrong.”
The party confirmed Wednesday that Dan Osborne, the candidate for the Nova Scotia riding of Cumberland-Colchester, and Sidney Coles, the candidate for Toronto-St. Paul’s, ended their campaigns and “agreed to educate themselves further about antisemitism.”
Speaking to reporters Wednesday in Essex, Ont., Singh said antisemitism has no place in his party.
“These candidates made the right decision,” he said. “They made the decision, and I support them in that decision.”
Rather, after some "soul-searching", they embarrassed you and you're glad that they're gone.
Why? Is there a holiday (public sector only) for all of the Chinese immigrants blown to smithereens constructing the railroads that spanned across this land? Where are those results we were promised in June? Who burned down and vandalised those (68) churches? :
Curtis Lindsay, press secretary for Indigenous Affairs Minister Greg Rickford, told CBC.ca the day will not be a holiday for the province.
“Ontario is working in collaboration with Indigenous partners, survivors and affected families to ensure the respectful commemoration of this day within the province, similar to Remembrance Day,” Lindsay said.
Is there a national holiday to commemorate all of the old people we let die during the pandemic? Is there?
Who thought that elevating one group over all others because of a special-interest group could be so sticky?
Yes, two jets hit the World Trade Towers. Yes, the fires caused them to collapse. Yes, the American government at that time gave the Saudis a free pass and yes, people are douchebags about people who were forced out of those buildings:
It was fire that caused this. And this fire is believed to have come from the burning of remaining aircraft fuel.
According to the FEMA report, fire within the buildings caused thermal expansion of the floors in a horizontal and outwards direction, pushing against the rigid steel columns, which then deflected to an extent but resisted further movement.
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Did You Know:
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) September 11, 2021
The 28 Pages show that two 9/11 hijackers tied to Saudi intelligence rented a room from an FBI informant in California before the 2001 attacks
The Director of the FBI kept this covered up for years
His name?
Robert Mueller
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As soon as I made this guy's vile tweet about 9/11 visible on my platform, he protected his tweets. Academia is filled with innumerable such folks. pic.twitter.com/Kl4I4tNSUI
— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) September 11, 2021
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A University of Toronto professor mocked Americans on the 20th anniversary of 9/11 for remembering thousands of victims who died during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The prominent Canadian academic called the day of remembrance a "dumb little annual pity party" in a since-deleted tweet.
Tension once more on the Korean Peninsula:
North Korea and South Korea test fired ballistic missiles on Wednesday, the latest volley in an arms race that has seen both countries develop increasingly sophisticated weapons while efforts to get talks going on defusing tension prove fruitless.
South Korea tested a submarine-launched ballistic missile(SLBM), becoming the first country without nuclear weapons to develop such a system. read more
South Korean President Moon was attending that test firing when word came of the North Korean launches, its first ballistic missile tests since March.
North Korea fired a pair of ballistic missiles that landed in the sea off its east coast, according to officials in South Korea and Japan, just days after it tested a cruise missile that is believed to have nuclear capabilities.
Japan's defence ministry said late on Wednesday the missiles had landed inside Japan's exclusive economic zone (EEZ), contradicting earlier government comments that they fell outside its waters.
North Korea has been steadily developing its weapons systems amid a stand-off over talks aimed at dismantling its nuclear and ballistic missile arsenals in return for U.S. sanctions relief. The negotiations, initiated between former U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in 2018, have stalled since 2019.
"North Korea fired two unidentified ballistic missiles from its central inland region towards the east coast, and intelligence authorities of South Korea and the United States are conducting detailed analysis for further information," South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in a statement.
The missiles were fired just after 12:30 p.m. (0330 GMT), flying 800 km (497 miles) to a maximum altitude of 60 km (37 miles), the JCS reported.
Imagine a virus so deadly that you could compromise with people to change the unreasonable standards you impose on everyone else:
Federal prisoners do not have to get vaccinated, the Correctional Service said yesterday. However prison guards as federal employees would be required to show proof of vaccination under a cabinet proposal: “The Covid-19 vaccine is not mandatory for federal inmates.”
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To be fair, Canadians think that anything American will lead them to dance and smoke, so ... :
Canadians share a lingering fear of crowds even after Covid runs its course, says in-house research by the heritage department. Most say they are uncomfortable or unsure it would be safe to attend indoor concerts and events once pandemic restrictions are lifted: ‘It would make me anxious.’
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I'm sure that won't cause any problems:
The chief executive of a hospital in Texas warned that his facility faces closure after President Joe Biden’s announcement last week that most healthcare workers get the COVID-19 vaccine.**
Across the country, hospital staff are leaving their jobs at an alarming rate. And that’s prompting experts and health-care workers to call for more action from the federal government.
Nearly one in five job vacancies in Canada is in health care and social assistance, according to Statistics Canada. In early 2021, those sectors experienced the largest losses year-over-year compared to all other sectors.
Weekly overtime increased, too, 78 per cent on average from May 2019 to May 2020, the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (CFNU) said, using data from StatCan.
According to the CFNU, that number jumps to 137 per cent in Quebec and Ontario.
In Canada’s largest province of Ontario alone, the president of the CFNU told Global News it estimates there are more than 16,000 vacancies.
For those, like Halupa, who haven’t quit, the workload, she said, is crushing.
I will leave a comment here to explain what this truly is about:
The unvaccinated as a target group is a very timely arrival to divert attention away from the catastrophic mismanagement of the pandemic. Now there is someone to blame other than the mid level bureaucrats with email who spent the last year and a half justifying their existence by writing protocol changes.
So, remember that, you dreadful skeptics!
And now for something completely different ... :
Sir Christopher Merrett was possessed by an insatiable curiosity. A librarian, gentleman scholar, physician, and, in the terminology of the time, a “natural philosopher,” Merrett was one of the founding members of the Royal Society: the “invisible college” where the greatest minds of the age investigated the minutiae of the known world. His output was extraordinary. He even produced an exhaustively comprehensive book attempting to list all the fauna, flora, and minerals of England.
But it’s his 1662 paper, Some Observations Concerning the Ordering of Wines, that has had the longest legacy. “Our Wine-coopers of latter times use vast quantities of Sugar and Melosses to all sorts of Wines,” he wrote, “to make them drink brisk and sparkling and to give them Spirits.”
What Merrett was describing was the méthode champenoise, the act of secondary fermentation where still table wines are loaded up with sugar and molasses to get the yeast going again, then sealed in a bottle to produce an effervescent, bubbling concoction. It is a method made famous, as the name suggests, by the French in the Champagne region. But here is the first known description of making “sparkling” wine—and Merrett writing that British vintners had been doing this for years.
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The Tetney Golf Club sits near the North Sea about halfway up England’s east coast, 10 km south of the town of Grimsby, on the marshy lands surrounding the mouth of the River Humber. When workers were digging at the pond a couple of years ago, the machine’s bucket hit something hard — unusual in the soft earth.
Some four metres under the surface, the team found “an extremely rare” prehistoric coffin containing a skeleton, the New York Times reports. The coffin, three metres long and one metre wide, was actually huge hollowed oak tree, now broken into pieces and soon to begin deteriorating as the air reached it. Such log burials were conducted some 4,000 years ago, during the Bronze Age, and, along with an axe still in the hand of the man, denoted a high-ranking individual given that the effort to carve out, lift and lower such a weighty object (about 450 kg) would have required quite some manpower.
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Wyszynski was Poland's primate, or top church leader, from 1948 until his death in 1981. He was under house arrest in the 1950s for his refusal to bend to the communist regime, and was considered by some to be the true leader of the nation. His long resistance to communism is credited as a factor that led to the election of a Polish pope, John Paul II, and ultimately the toppling of Poland's communist system in 1989.
Czacka, born in 1876 to an aristocratic family, went blind as a young woman and devoted the rest of her life to helping others. The Franciscan nun helped develop a Polish version of Braille and opened a center for the blind near Warsaw.
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Jack Kirby is an inspiration to many readers and creators artistically but you may not know how his and Joe Simon’s work during the Golden Age inspired one 20th Century priest to serve The Lord all over the world and into the heart of danger itself.
Meet Venerable Father Aloysius “Al” Schwartz whose life and path to sainthood, along with a book about his life, were covered on a recent episode of The Catholic Talk Show.
Author Kevin Wells wrote the book on Fr. Schwartz (or Fr. Al), Priest and Beggar, after researching other saintly priests for another work when he heard the Fr.’s name “kicking around Washington” at a time when not many people – not even in the Church – knew who he was.
Born in 1930 at the height of the Depression into a family of eight children, Schwartz lived in poverty and a bad neighborhood when he “fell in love” with the DC comic Boy Commandos by Kirby and Simon around the age of thirteen.
According to testimony from Wells’ research, Schwartz read issues of Boy Commandos in bed before falling asleep with the comic on his chest and, inspired by the heroism of the characters in the story, he vowed to wed the intrepid adventuring with a zeal he developed early on to find and spread the love of God in the least favorable areas.
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Norm MacDonald.
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