wow, almost exactly the scene from Zoolander

in pencil

Yves Engler still owes me money…

love it, I will sign it if it becomes an official parliamentary petition instead of a thing on a non-Canadian website. That does happen from time to time.

“we will never lose again”

we don’t want any of these screwworms, aka “US fentanyl”, coming across the Canadian border. We demand a Screwworm Czar.

it will be a public funded, money-losing pipeline that subsidizes the profits of the foreign companies that extract 70% of Alberta oil.

Just like TMX.

would love to read more of that. Website seems entirely broken. Not going to instance. Oh well.

Meow (Human Voice)

would be helpful to post a link to the poll

sounds pretty good, but no RSS feed available. Easily forgotten.

the only period when it stopped happening much was when the Russians were super-broke and in a friendly period. That went away very soon after the Yeltsin-Putin transition.

cedar? That has to be good for you, smells really nice.

Housing is Canada’s biggest problem and this announcement is half what the oil industry gets every year, not counting the $100B+ in recently announced subsidies.

this has been happening for decades in Canadian and other western countries. Canada’s financial sector firms are a c-suite, reserve accounts at the BoC, and a giant pile of services purchased from the US, India, Colombia etc.

The cancelled digital services tax was the lightest of scratches at the fixing the problems of trade in services.

All the noise about resources and goods tarrifs? Trade in services is larger, and services are a vastly larger share of the non-trade economy.

even for schools, some have pointed out that the protest laws would ban the teacher’s unions from picketing their own school.

So it has to be done carefully to permit reasonable protests like labour action and prohibit unreasonable protests and intimidation.

a bit thin. pretty short. kinda dumb. kinda poor. youngish. single. no pets. far right. unemployed. illiterate. bad with computers. homeless. lesbian woman. shoeless. naked. long hair and pretty much zero body hair.

Doesn’t sound great but I could make it work.

I’d be less disappointed if the companies building cars in Canada were Canadian and building cars for the Canadian or global market. They aren’t. They are US companies building cars for export to the US. Why should every Canadian be paying to protect them while the US tarrifs its own companies?

the Conservatives are not a solution, especially under Poilievre.

there’s a big strategic hole in this article.

The federal govt. spends first, taxes later. So spending isn’t constrained by taxes collected.

The debt/deficit argument is ONLY used against social spending. When it comes to pro-capital spending, the argument vanishes. $40B for pipelines? $150B in military spending? $80B in annual subsidies to give big investors risk-free bonds to buy? These are also all deficit spending.

Progessives should avoid reinforcing the debt/deficit spending myth, since it’s only used against progressive spending.