Tag: Canada
HEAR the joke that will cost comedian Mike Ward $180,000 (if Human Rights Commissions have their way)
Hat tip Francis Marion
Montreal comedian Mike Ward was hauled before Canada’s Human Rights Commission for making a joke.
(LANGUAGE WARNING:)
(This isn’t the first time this has happened, either; a few years ago, Vancouver comedian Guy Earle was also fined over ten thousand dollars for heckling back at some hecklers in a comedy club.)
We’ll tell you the joke Mike made and what happened next.
He and I laugh about this situation but of course, it is deadly serious. If we don’t push back against these censors, then fascism wins.
HOW THE OSCARS IS LIKE CANADA
Hat tip Francis Marion
Canada prepares for the U.S. election debacle
Hat tip vannalex
Liberals plan to build refugee camps on seven Canadian military bases — Taxpayers will fund mosques, Korans
Hat tip Francis Marion
The Canadian military has been ordered by Justin Trudeau’s Liberals to draft plans to house more than 6,000 Muslim migrants on a long-term basis at military bases, according to documents obtained exclusively by The Rebel (see below.)
Included in the Department of National Defence budgets are hundreds of thousands of dollars set aside for “religious support,” including the purchase of Muslim Korans, prayer mats and foot-washing towels.
The plans also call for the construction of mosques or “worship centres,” using taxpayers dollars.
The planning documents, in English and French, were released in response to a Rebel “Access to Information” request about religious expenditures by the Department of National Defence.
But the detailed Quebec budget plans also shed light on the sheer scale of the Trudeau government’s plans to set up refugee camp-style accommodations on seven Canadian Forces Bases across Quebec and Ontario.
The budget for Quebec alone totals more than $46 million for the first six months.
For a typical migrant family, that’s a $200,000/year subsidy — not including medicare or welfare.
It’s shocking that Canadian Armed Forces personnel will be ordered to abandon the coalition battle against ISIS and return to Canada to become waiters, chauffeurs and social workers for Muslim migrants, and that Canadian Forces Bases will be turned into squalid refugee camps.
It’s a disgrace that Canadian military personnel have been sent eviction notices to make way for foreign migrants.
But for the DND’s budget to be diverted away from military purposes and towards buying Korans and building mosques for foreign migrants, is especially outrageous.
Oil Bust Drags Canadian Dollar to Historic Lows
Frostback Tunes…
Guest Post by Francis Marion
Greetings fellow Romans. I bring you music from the northern colonies. Some well known… some not so much.
Hail Caesar.
Alberta
KD Lang…. don’t watch – just listen.
Newfie Music
Great Big Sea
CANADA – THE NEW ARGENTINA
Guest Post by Francis Marion
Prologue:
Please note that food prices in the territories have always been unreasonably high due to isolation. In the early 80’s I lived for a short time near the border of Alberta and the North West Territories. A medium pizza could run you upwards of 20 bucks Canadian or more in the small community I resided in…. that was 30 years ago.
We have been through this before.
The provinces are now feeling the pinch as well with the collapsing dollar. Anything bought and paid for by retailers in US$ has seen inflation of roughly 30% in the past year and a half. This includes some domestically produced product – which when bought is ironically paid for in US$ and sold in CAD.
I have seen cauliflower here for as high as $9.00 CAD a head. A box of ammo that was $10.00 a year ago is now $13.00 to $14.00
Fuel has stayed relatively expensive even with declining oil prices. A litre of regular grade fuel will run anywhere from .85 cents CAD per litre to 1.05 CAD per litre.
I believe this is what is eventually in store for the US $ as it slowly but surely loses it’s reserve currency status. I am not a huge believer in hyper inflation but inflation – and I would add an uncomfortable level of it – is on the horizon.
Welcome to our world.
Canadians Panic As Food Prices Soar On Collapsing Currency
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/13/2016 23:18 -0500
It was just yesterday when we documented the continuing slide in the loonie, which is suffering mightily in the face of oil’s inexorable decline.
As regular readers are no doubt acutely aware, Canada is struggling through a dramatic economic adjustment, especially in Alberta, the heart of the country’s oil patch. Amid the ongoing crude carnage the province has seen soaring property crime, rising food bank usage and, sadly, elevated suicide rates, as Albertans struggle to comprehend how things up north could have gone south (so to speak) so quickly.
The plunging loonie “can only serve to worsen the death of the ‘Canadian Dream'” we said on Tuesday.
As it turns out, we were right.
The currency’s decline is having a pronounced effect on Canadians’ grocery bills.
As Bloomberg reminds us, Canada imports around 80% of its fresh fruits and vegetables. When the loonie slides, prices for those goods soar. “With lower-income households tending to spend a larger portion of income on food, this side effect of a soft currency brings them the most acute stress” Bloomberg continues.
Of course with the layoffs piling up, you can expect more households to fall into the “lower-income” category where they will have to fight to afford things like $3 cucumbers, $8 cauliflower, and $15 Frosted Flakes.
As Bloomberg notes, James Price, director of Capital Markets Products at Richardson GMP, recently joked during an interview on BloombergTV Canada that “we’re going to be paying a buck a banana pretty soon.”
Have a look at the following tweets which underscore just how bad it is in Canada’s grocery aisles. And no, its not just Nunavut: it from coast to coast:
The Great Canadian Identity Crisis
Guest Post by Francis Marion
Prologue:
Hi Jim and the rest of the crew at TBP,
In the spirit of HSF rehashing of old pieces I thought I’d send you this. It is an old piece I wrote shortly after I graduated from university – a lifetime ago…
Little known fact about yours truly. I used to do a fair bit of writing – paid and unpaid during this time period. I was blogging before it was called blogging and had a ‘webzine’ of my own along with a paid artist and – when I could – I even paid my contributors. It helped – as Montefrio (I think) stated – to pay the electrical bill but not much else. I quit doing it when we started having children as my focus changed to more productive economic activities. This piece got more milage than it should have. It garnered me the attention of our largest news radio station on the west coast accompanied by an interview which I struggled with. I am a better writer than speaker and later when our national state owned broad casting company invited me to come on a political program they were doing I declined.
I have lots of these – but this is one of the first I ever wrote and I thought it relevant to folks on both sides of the border so I am sending it.
As a side note I thought I’d lost interest in writing anymore until I stumbled across TBP (a few years ago now) but as someone stated elsewhere – this site and sites like it are why the internet was built. Like many here I come to the TBP because in a world of lies, distraction and superficialness the TBP is an oasis. Free speech tempered with shit flinging and thoughtfulness is the best way to describe this place. It’s an odd concept by today’s standards but critical to intellectual growth. I can imagine that the old philosophical schools of the ancients would have resembled this place somewhat. It is a combination of free speech, rational thought and merciless shit flinging (when mouth or fingers are engaged before brain). Thank God for it.
This place is what our modern educational institutions ought to resemble but don’t. So – thanks to Jim and the rest of you who make this place what it is. Don’t ever change…
“An Open Letter to the Prime Minister of Canada”
Submitted by Francis Marion
Letter by Scott Wilcox, Cold Lake Alberta
“An Open Letter to the Prime Minister of Canada”
Prologue:
This is a little long, but very accurate and truthful, something we are not
getting from our Politicians and Media. I can vouch for the details on
screening as articulated very well by this gentleman.
•Ed. Rockburne, Retired member of the RCMP and Canadian Security and
Intelligence Service, of 25 years.
November 16, 2015
To the Honorable Justin Trudeau, Members of Parliament, and Provincial
Premiers:
Will We Learn Nothing From Paris?
I am a proud Canadian, and proud of our heritage of being a true global
leader in Humanitarian efforts. Given the events of recent years and
more importantly the recent week, however, I believe prudence requires
a pause in our assistance package for Syrian refugees, and indeed all
refugees and asylum seekers. I say this not in a tone of political
partisanship, but one of Citizenship. Any Parliament, be it Liberal,
Conservative, or NDP has as its first mandate the protection of our
country and its citizens. This must take precedence over all other
considerations and activities.
Continue reading ““An Open Letter to the Prime Minister of Canada””
Black Lives Comes to Canada
Guest Comment by Francis Marion
I live in a major metropolitan area in the western part of the country. In the last week I can count on one hand how many black people I’ve seen. Lots of Asians and imported Indians but next to zero black folks. I understand there is more black people in eastern Canada than in the west but overall they constitute about 2.5% of the entire population. That’s right – 2.5%. There was never slavery in this country unless you were a native enslaved by another tribe or a young white kid living in indentured servitude on some Quebecois farm during the 19th century.
You’d never hear this kind of horse shit from the Asian population here who comprise at least 15% of the over all population and depending on what city you are in – often comprise a near majority. This is because Asian people come here to do this thing called ‘work’. They are self motivated to be successful. They are citizens. They do not complain about racism because by and large it plays such a tiny factor in our lives that to dwell on it borders on moronic. That is unless you are a college student at a modern institution of Marxist indoctrination… most commonly called a university.
I can hardly believe this garbage has finally come to this country. Makes me want to puke.
Story Below via Via The Rebel
“Don’t devalue my degree with your nonsense.” Black Coalition demands Ryerson University change its name, remove Egerton statue
Black students at Ryerson have put together a list of demands aimed at the University’s administration.
The Black on Campus Coalition posted their demands to their United Black Students Ryerson Facebook page. Their first demand states, “in solidarity with First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities, we demand the university administration launch a process to rename the university and remove the statue of Egerton Ryerson.”
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They go on to demand more scholarships for black students and a reduction in tuition fees. In addition, they want a ten percent increase to the number of Black tenured faculty, upper administration and full-time staff.
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When it comes to actual education, they demand more courses that “speak to the histories, experiences and realities of Black and Racialised communities to be taught by tenured Black and Racialised faculty.”
Their full list of demands can be found at this link.
They conclude by saying, “Ryerson University must make a commitment to acknowledge its ongoing racist practices that have contributed to the violence and trauma faced by black people on our campus for the purpose of profit and upholding it’s investment in white supremacy.”
Outgoing Ryerson president Sheldon Levy spoke to the Ryersonian regarding the demands. “Do I think the campus is perfect? Absolutely not … when there are these types of protests and movements, many times they make us take a harder and a better look at things.”
“They can protest higher fees, they can do all that. It’s all legitimate … I would rather have a society that feels they can take on these issues and push the administration … for change, than to say you’re not allowed,” Levy said.
WATCH: Students react to University of Ottawa cancelling yoga classes over “cultural appropriation”
Meanwhile the Facebook post that encouraged supporters to ‘share widely’ has been criticized by at least one student.
“A process to rename the university,” Joshua D’Cruz quotes. “Please don’t devalue my degree with your nonsense.”
CANADA TO IMPORT 25,000 SYRIANS BY CHRISTMAS
Hat tip Francis Marion
The “Bloodbath” in Canada Is Far From Over
The “Bloodbath” in Canada Is Far From Over
By Justin Spittler
The oil price crash continues to claim victims…and many of them are in Canada.
The price of oil hovered around $100 for most of last summer. Today, it’s trading for less than $45.
Weak oil prices have pummeled huge oil companies. The SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF (XOP), which tracks the performance of major U.S. oil producers, has declined 36% over the past year. The Market Vectors Oil Services ETF (OIH), which tracks U.S. oil services companies, has declined 30% since last November.
Weak oil prices have even pushed entire countries to the brink. Saudi Arabia, which produces more oil than any country in the world, is on track to post its first budget deficit since 2009 this year. If oil prices stay low, the country could burn through its massive $650 million pile of foreign reserves within five years.
• Oil’s collapse is also creating big problems for Canada’s economy…
Canada is the world’s sixth largest oil producer. Oil makes up 25% of its exports.
Last month, The Conference Board of Canada said it expects sales for Canada’s energy sector to fall 22% this year. It also expects the industry to record a net loss of about C$2.1 billion ($1.6 billion) in 2015. That’s a drastic change from last year, when the industry booked a C$6 billion ($4.5 billion) profit.
Major oil firms are slashing spending to cope with low prices. Last month, oil giant Royal Dutch Shell plc (RDS.A) said it would stop construction on an 80,000 barrels per day (bpd) project in western Canada. The company had already abandoned another 200,000 bpd project in northern Canada earlier this year.
The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers estimates that Canadian oil and gas companies have laid off 36,000 workers since last summer. Most of these layoffs happened in the province of Alberta…
• For the past decade, Alberta was Canada’s fastest growing province…
Its economy exploded, thanks to the booming market for Canadian tar sands.
Tar sand is a gooey sand and oil mixture that melts down with heat from burning natural gas. More than half of Canada’s oil production comes from tar sands. In Alberta, they account for 75% of oil production.
Tar sand is generally more expensive to produce than conventional crude oil. Canadian tar sand projects made sense when oil hovered around $100. But many of these projects can’t make money when oil trades for $45/barrel. Last year, Scotiabank (BNS) said the average breakeven point for new Canadian oil sand projects was around $65/barrel.
This is why giant oil companies are walking away from projects they’ve spent years and billions of dollars developing.
Continue reading “The “Bloodbath” in Canada Is Far From Over”
A Letter to My Countrymen…
Originally published at https://canadianguns.com and written by Francis Marion, valued TBP member. The articles are meant to educate Canadian gun guys on elementary political philosophy, as Francis lives in Canada. The wealth of writing talent among TBPers is truly amazing.
First columns are among the worst sort. Deciding where and how to begin is an agonizing, hair pulling, brain splitting task.
Where to begin? How about with right now? Where are we and how did we get here?
By the time you, dear reader, see these words the 2015 Canadian Federal election will have come and gone. For better or for worse and regardless of the outcome the challenges that face us as nation will remain the same. “How can this be??” you will most assuredly ask. For if our firearm friendly Conservatives are voted back into power, either with a minority or a majority, we will be safe from further encroachment upon our beloved past times, sports and property for a few more years. If either of the other major opposition parties are voted in we will be instantly on the defensive. There is a good or bad outcome by most voting standards whether you are left or right leaning.
But I would argue that this is true only to the extent that our political system in general is on life support. We are, at this stage in our history as a nation, and indeed in the broader perspective as a piece of western civilization, in a state of terrible decline. Most of the battles fought and won whether for property rights, self defence, freedom of speech or conscience are in a sense a rear guard action. We win battles dear reader but the broader conflict we are constantly in jeopardy of losing. Whether you recognize it or not western civilization, its democracy, its freedoms and its culture, is in a fight for its very existence.
HOPE & CHANGE, EH
Offering free shit to lazy, unmotivated, low IQ voters always works, until you run out of other people’s money. Congratulations Canada. Maybe you can hire Obama as your Hope & Change consultant in 2017 when he ends his phenomenal 8 year hope and change tour in America.
Will China Invade Alaska, Canada? Will Russia?
Hat tip Thinker
Guest Post by
The theory of 65-year cycles points to a critical moment in China’s evolution
Five Chinese navy ships are currently operating in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, marking the first time the U.S. military has seen them in the area. Why the sudden interest?
Because the Chinese have been studying the cycles. From generational theorists William Strauss and Neil Howe, they have learned that political/cultural cycles last only 65 years, and then they collapse, cycles first observed by Taoist monks and Roman philosophers. And China is exactly 66 years advanced since the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949. In terms of generational cycles, China is on the eve of destruction. (In terms of the Strauss/Howe theory, so are we.)
Continue reading “Will China Invade Alaska, Canada? Will Russia?”