Friday, June 30, 2017
The Justin's Messaging and Responses Must be Better Designed by his Puppeteers
I cannot believe the childish (and these were of course rehearsed) answers that the Justin and his advisors have decided to roll out knowing these questions are going to be asked.
Not only are the Liberals "governing by undoing", but now the construed answers and turned around responses must even make Liberal voters cringe.....
http://nationalpost.com/news/politics/justin-trudeau-electoral-reform-broken-promise/wcm/213e6355-448d-4b97-b633-865159102643
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Canada's 150th Birthday: 150 of my Favourite Things....
My 150 Greatest (and Favourite) Things about Canada (no particular ranking, other than alphabetically)....
1 1967 (Canada's 100th, Leafs win the Stanley Cup, Expo....)
2 "Eh"
3 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver
4 Affordable college and university education (ok, settle down Quebec)
5 Alexander Graham Bell (b. Scotland)
6 Algonquin park
7 All Four seasons
8 Almost every Conn Smythe trophy winner (~95% are Canadian)
9 An anthem that has two languages and are entirely two different songs
10 April Wine
11 Arctic Char
12 Backs of cereal boxes in two languages
13 Banff Naitonal Park
14 Bay of Fundy
15 Beaver tails (yes the pastry)
16 Beavers
17 Bilingualism/le Bilingualisme
18 Blackberry
19 Bob and Doug McKenzie
20 Bruce Trail
21 Butter tarts!
22 Canada Day in Ottawa (or anywhere!)
23 Canada Goose (the animal and the parka)
24 Canada-Russia ‘72 Summit Series
25 Canadian Club rye whiskey
26 Canadian Pacific Railway and the "Last Spike"
27 Canadian spelling
28 CANDU reactor technology
29 Canoes and kayaks (preferably inflatable)
30 Carnaval de Quebec (Quebec)
31 CFL
32 Chateau Frontenac (Quebec)
33 Cirque de Soleil
34 CN Tower
35 Cod tongues
36 Colbie Smulders (hubba hubba)
37 Concept of Standardized Time zones (thanks Sir Sanford Flemming – the travel industry loves you when they push their jet lag and 7 day minimum trips)
38 Confederation Bridge
39 Cottage country
40 Cross Country Skiing
41 Curling
42 Cycling through Eastern Townships
43 Darryl Sittler (hey I met him!)
44 Don Cherry
45 Downhill skiing (Whistler, Mt. Tremblant, Big White, Cypress, Grouse Mountain, Blue Mountain)
46 Drinking a Ceasar
47 East coast lobster dinner…in a church basement in PEI
48 Every province and territory
49 Five dollar note with the kids playing hockey on the back
50 Geddy Lee
51 George street festival (St. John’s)
52 Giant nickel in Sudbury
53 Gordon Korman (author)
54 Gordon Lightfoot
55 Green Saskatchewan Roughrider fans
56 Grey Cup week….in any Canadian city
57 Hockey
58 Hockey Hall of Fame
59 Hockey Night in Canada
60 Hotel de Glace (Quebec)
61 Hudson's Bay Company (the world's oldest incorporated company)
62 Incredible camping!
63 incredible hiking! (Joffre Lakes, Elphin Lakes, Whistler)
64 Insulin (Banting and Best)
65 Jacques Cartier (honorary Canadian)
66 Kitsilano Beach
67 Klondike Gold Rush
68 La Citadelle de Quebec
69 La Francophonie
70 Lacrosse
71 Lake Louise
72 Long and McQuade
73 Manon Rheaume
74 Maple Syrup
75 Maple syrup festival (Elmira)
76 Marcia McMillan (hubba hubba)
77 Member of the Commonwealth and yes, we have a Queen for that
78 Montreal “establishments”
79 Montreal smoked meat
80 Moosehead beer (the last of the Canadian independents)
81 Mountain Equipment Co-Op
82 Mr. Dee
83 Newfoundland accent
84 Niagara falls
85 Northern lights
86 Okanagan wine (LCBO please wake up!)
87 Our banks (great dividend payers)
88 Outdoor skating…on a pond
89 Pacific and Atlalntic Salmon
90 Parliament Hill (although I don't always agree with what goes on there or who is running it)
91 PEI Potatoes
92 Pierre Berton's books
93 Pizza Pizza
94 Plentiful and cheap electricity (until Wynn f$%&ed it all up)
95 Polar Bear viewing in Manitoba
96 Portaging from lake to lake (in Algonquin)
97 Poutine
98 Rideau Canal
99 Roch Carrier
100 Rush
101 Saguenay River Fjord (Quebec)
102 Saint Joseph’s Oratory (Montreal)
103 Samuel de Champlain
104 Santa in the North Pole = Canadian
105 Screeched in (Nfld)
106 Shinny hockey
107 Signal hill, St. John's
108 Silver Dart
109 Sir Alexander Mackenzie
110 Sir Julian Byng (although British), Lady Byng (as in the trophy) and more importantly "Byng's Boys" whom he lead at the battle of Vimy Ridge
111 Skating on the Rideau Canal, Ottawa
112 Snow shoeing
113 Some really really really Great Lakes
114 Sortilege maple whiskey, Pinnacle Ice Cider, Coureurs du Bois maple Irish Cream, Caribou or any booze from Quebec
115 St. Hubert
116 Stanley Cup
117 Stompin' Tom Connors
118 Street hockey
119 Sunsets in Whitehorse
120 Swimming in a lake (cold or not)
121 Swiss Chalet
122 Tecumseh
123 Terry Fox
124 Thanksgiving (and although the Americans may not like to hear it, Sir Martin Frobisher may have held the first in 1578 in Nfld.)
125 The ability to one day be a “Snowbird”
126 The Avro Arrow
127 The Blue nose
128 The Calgary Stampede
129 The Canadian Flag
130 The Group of Seven
131 The names of our change
132 The Rocky Mountains
133 The Tragically Hip
134 The Trailer Park Boys
135 The Trews
136 Tim Horton and the franchises with his name on them (there is only one Tim Horton, but for some reason it is pluralized)
137 Time zones invented by Sir Sanford Flemming
138 Toques and the word “Toque” (I just love saying it)
139 Toronto Argonauts - North America's OLDEST professional sports team
140 Toronto patios (well, anywhere really)
141 Tourtiere
142 Trans Canada Highway (amazing road trips and a lot of nothing)
143 Uranium (yes I said it, we are good at mining it and using it properly)
144 VIA Business class between Toronto and Montreal
145 Vimy ridge
146 Wayne Gretzky (I met him!)
147 We have a Queen (like it or not!)
148 Wheat fields of Saskatchewan
149 Whistler
150 White water rafting near Ottawa (Forrester's Falls)
2 "Eh"
3 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver
4 Affordable college and university education (ok, settle down Quebec)
5 Alexander Graham Bell (b. Scotland)
6 Algonquin park
7 All Four seasons
8 Almost every Conn Smythe trophy winner (~95% are Canadian)
9 An anthem that has two languages and are entirely two different songs
10 April Wine
11 Arctic Char
12 Backs of cereal boxes in two languages
13 Banff Naitonal Park
14 Bay of Fundy
15 Beaver tails (yes the pastry)
16 Beavers
17 Bilingualism/le Bilingualisme
18 Blackberry
19 Bob and Doug McKenzie
20 Bruce Trail
21 Butter tarts!
22 Canada Day in Ottawa (or anywhere!)
23 Canada Goose (the animal and the parka)
24 Canada-Russia ‘72 Summit Series
25 Canadian Club rye whiskey
26 Canadian Pacific Railway and the "Last Spike"
27 Canadian spelling
28 CANDU reactor technology
29 Canoes and kayaks (preferably inflatable)
30 Carnaval de Quebec (Quebec)
31 CFL
32 Chateau Frontenac (Quebec)
33 Cirque de Soleil
34 CN Tower
35 Cod tongues
36 Colbie Smulders (hubba hubba)
37 Concept of Standardized Time zones (thanks Sir Sanford Flemming – the travel industry loves you when they push their jet lag and 7 day minimum trips)
38 Confederation Bridge
39 Cottage country
40 Cross Country Skiing
41 Curling
42 Cycling through Eastern Townships
43 Darryl Sittler (hey I met him!)
44 Don Cherry
45 Downhill skiing (Whistler, Mt. Tremblant, Big White, Cypress, Grouse Mountain, Blue Mountain)
46 Drinking a Ceasar
47 East coast lobster dinner…in a church basement in PEI
48 Every province and territory
49 Five dollar note with the kids playing hockey on the back
50 Geddy Lee
51 George street festival (St. John’s)
52 Giant nickel in Sudbury
53 Gordon Korman (author)
54 Gordon Lightfoot
55 Green Saskatchewan Roughrider fans
56 Grey Cup week….in any Canadian city
57 Hockey
58 Hockey Hall of Fame
59 Hockey Night in Canada
60 Hotel de Glace (Quebec)
61 Hudson's Bay Company (the world's oldest incorporated company)
62 Incredible camping!
63 incredible hiking! (Joffre Lakes, Elphin Lakes, Whistler)
64 Insulin (Banting and Best)
65 Jacques Cartier (honorary Canadian)
66 Kitsilano Beach
67 Klondike Gold Rush
68 La Citadelle de Quebec
69 La Francophonie
70 Lacrosse
71 Lake Louise
72 Long and McQuade
73 Manon Rheaume
74 Maple Syrup
75 Maple syrup festival (Elmira)
76 Marcia McMillan (hubba hubba)
77 Member of the Commonwealth and yes, we have a Queen for that
78 Montreal “establishments”
79 Montreal smoked meat
80 Moosehead beer (the last of the Canadian independents)
81 Mountain Equipment Co-Op
82 Mr. Dee
83 Newfoundland accent
84 Niagara falls
85 Northern lights
86 Okanagan wine (LCBO please wake up!)
87 Our banks (great dividend payers)
88 Outdoor skating…on a pond
89 Pacific and Atlalntic Salmon
90 Parliament Hill (although I don't always agree with what goes on there or who is running it)
91 PEI Potatoes
92 Pierre Berton's books
93 Pizza Pizza
94 Plentiful and cheap electricity (until Wynn f$%&ed it all up)
95 Polar Bear viewing in Manitoba
96 Portaging from lake to lake (in Algonquin)
97 Poutine
98 Rideau Canal
99 Roch Carrier
100 Rush
101 Saguenay River Fjord (Quebec)
102 Saint Joseph’s Oratory (Montreal)
103 Samuel de Champlain
104 Santa in the North Pole = Canadian
105 Screeched in (Nfld)
106 Shinny hockey
107 Signal hill, St. John's
108 Silver Dart
109 Sir Alexander Mackenzie
110 Sir Julian Byng (although British), Lady Byng (as in the trophy) and more importantly "Byng's Boys" whom he lead at the battle of Vimy Ridge
111 Skating on the Rideau Canal, Ottawa
112 Snow shoeing
113 Some really really really Great Lakes
114 Sortilege maple whiskey, Pinnacle Ice Cider, Coureurs du Bois maple Irish Cream, Caribou or any booze from Quebec
115 St. Hubert
116 Stanley Cup
117 Stompin' Tom Connors
118 Street hockey
119 Sunsets in Whitehorse
120 Swimming in a lake (cold or not)
121 Swiss Chalet
122 Tecumseh
123 Terry Fox
124 Thanksgiving (and although the Americans may not like to hear it, Sir Martin Frobisher may have held the first in 1578 in Nfld.)
125 The ability to one day be a “Snowbird”
126 The Avro Arrow
127 The Blue nose
128 The Calgary Stampede
129 The Canadian Flag
130 The Group of Seven
131 The names of our change
132 The Rocky Mountains
133 The Tragically Hip
134 The Trailer Park Boys
135 The Trews
136 Tim Horton and the franchises with his name on them (there is only one Tim Horton, but for some reason it is pluralized)
137 Time zones invented by Sir Sanford Flemming
138 Toques and the word “Toque” (I just love saying it)
139 Toronto Argonauts - North America's OLDEST professional sports team
140 Toronto patios (well, anywhere really)
141 Tourtiere
142 Trans Canada Highway (amazing road trips and a lot of nothing)
143 Uranium (yes I said it, we are good at mining it and using it properly)
144 VIA Business class between Toronto and Montreal
145 Vimy ridge
146 Wayne Gretzky (I met him!)
147 We have a Queen (like it or not!)
148 Wheat fields of Saskatchewan
149 Whistler
150 White water rafting near Ottawa (Forrester's Falls)
....and a whole bunch of others I left out.
Thursday, June 15, 2017
BANANA and NIMBY Groups: The World Wants Canadian Oil and Gas...If this was the Marijuana Industry, Government Would be Bending Backwards
If any industry in the world (nevermind the controversial marijuana industry) had i) such positive demand and positive supply economics, ii) the word's best practices and standards, iii) the rule of law and lowest political risk for foreign and domestic investors, iv) high barriers to entry and v) was producing such a non-luxury product that fuelled transportation, energy, heating homes, manufacturing and GDP, governments would be bending over backwards to foster that industry.
As an example to measure the standard of "bending over backwards", I would use the provincial Liberals in Ontario of what yoga experts they are in "bending over backwards" to shut down coal fired plants, cancelling contracts, instigating wind energy at all costs (and all tax breaks), approving less-than-cost power agreements with NY and other neighbouring jurisdictions and saddling all Ontarians with bills that are five to eight times larger than what they need to be thanks to unnecessary debt charges and delivery charges on top of the cost of electricity and over a decade of energy gaffes, starting with its previous leader Dalton McGuinty.
But nooooooo, the vocal and persistent leftist BANANA ("Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Nobody") and NIMBY ("Not In My BackYard") groups have head-locked, if not tricked, the media into siding with the "big, bad, dirty" side of anything not on their approved list and as such whenever someone mentions oil on a news cast, the accompanying image behind the broadcaster is one of shock and horror.
Of course, the answers from the naysayers to this would be "But IF and WHEN there is a spill...we should not have new pipelines and reliance on oil". Based on this argument, we should not have roads because there are cars that can have accidents and spill their chemicals on the road and burn into the air; we should not have airports, because "what if there was an accident?" like crashing into an urban centre, we should not have railways, because if the train derails that could kill dozens of people or the train's cargo may spill. LET'S STOP ALL TRANSPORTATION AND GO BACK TO HORSE AND BUGGY BASED ON "WHAT IF THERE WILL BE AN ACCIDENT".
From the article, "...let’s build the safe, clean infrastructure we need to transport products that are essential and in demand. And let’s allow the whole world to benefit from Canadian energy and expertise." For an unbiased contemplation on this statement, remove "energy"from the sentence, and it is purely the Canadian thing to do.
http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/a-new-poll-shows-the-world-prefers-canadian-oil-and-gas-over-other-exporters-so-lets-start-getting-it-to-them
As an example to measure the standard of "bending over backwards", I would use the provincial Liberals in Ontario of what yoga experts they are in "bending over backwards" to shut down coal fired plants, cancelling contracts, instigating wind energy at all costs (and all tax breaks), approving less-than-cost power agreements with NY and other neighbouring jurisdictions and saddling all Ontarians with bills that are five to eight times larger than what they need to be thanks to unnecessary debt charges and delivery charges on top of the cost of electricity and over a decade of energy gaffes, starting with its previous leader Dalton McGuinty.
But nooooooo, the vocal and persistent leftist BANANA ("Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Nobody") and NIMBY ("Not In My BackYard") groups have head-locked, if not tricked, the media into siding with the "big, bad, dirty" side of anything not on their approved list and as such whenever someone mentions oil on a news cast, the accompanying image behind the broadcaster is one of shock and horror.
Of course, the answers from the naysayers to this would be "But IF and WHEN there is a spill...we should not have new pipelines and reliance on oil". Based on this argument, we should not have roads because there are cars that can have accidents and spill their chemicals on the road and burn into the air; we should not have airports, because "what if there was an accident?" like crashing into an urban centre, we should not have railways, because if the train derails that could kill dozens of people or the train's cargo may spill. LET'S STOP ALL TRANSPORTATION AND GO BACK TO HORSE AND BUGGY BASED ON "WHAT IF THERE WILL BE AN ACCIDENT".
From the article, "...let’s build the safe, clean infrastructure we need to transport products that are essential and in demand. And let’s allow the whole world to benefit from Canadian energy and expertise." For an unbiased contemplation on this statement, remove "energy"from the sentence, and it is purely the Canadian thing to do.
http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/a-new-poll-shows-the-world-prefers-canadian-oil-and-gas-over-other-exporters-so-lets-start-getting-it-to-them
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