Money For Nothing

It’s all well and good to end the requirements for useless ingredients for streaming services, but why turn around and pay streamers directly for stuff no one watches?

The federal government will “eliminate” the financial contribution requirement for streamers set by the CRTC and replace it with government funding, it said in a court document.

Nonetheless, it’s anyone’s guess as to whether this will actually happen or not.

The office of Culture Minister Marc Miller did not immediately respond when asked to clarify the government’s stance or state whether the government plans to eliminate the contribution requirement permanently or temporarily.

 

How much? A zillion? Surely more than that!

NDP claim coal refurbishments will cost even more, while SaskPower minister tours Boundary Dam and Estevan mine

On a day when the Minister Responsible for SaskPower was touring the work done on the coal-fired Boundary Dam Power Station Unit 4 and the nearby Estevan coal mine, the Saskatchewan NDP was quoting another number, their highest yet, as an estimated cost of the coal refurbishments. But what are those numbers based on?
Pipeline Online digs into that analysis, and finds the scenarios each to have significant flaws.

Also:

Jim Warren: Why the biggest oil supply crisis in history hasn’t produced the highest crude prices in recent history

City Of Vanity Projects

Having witnessed its decline over the past two decades, my advice is get out of Saskatoon while you still can.

It’s about to get much worse.

Background on Today’s Fauci Hearings

Today, at 8:30am EDT / 5:30am PDT, the Senate Hearings on Anthony Fauci will be held. In preparation for that, here is much background:

Much more from Adam Carolla and Elisha Krauss

Emily Jashinsky: Fauci’s Ego Knows No Bounds

Dr. Kelly Victory and Dr. Drew: Dr. Fauci Had Heart Issue After COVID Vaccine But Kept It Secret

Valuetainment: The Real Dr. Fauci

“When my image came up, she GASPED and said that every time she sees me, her THROAT gets DRY and she gets nervous.”

Wednesday On Turtle Island

The Democrat Party’s America:    Communism and socialism.    VDH – The monster awakens.    Allegiance to Allah.    Newsom’s affair.    Islamic terror in NYC.

Carnival Carney’s Canada:    Beyond the tantrum.    Carney’s Toronto Star.    A giveaway.

Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC:    His facts are wrong.    Paul Joseph Watson – Are you kidding me.    Roger Watson – From the caveman.

Your morning meme.        Another meme.

I Couldn’t Help Noticing The Shouting And Crying

On racist gardening, and the somewhat doubtful benefits of polyamory:

And we mustn’t forget the tale, via New York magazine, of the Brooklynite comedian and podcaster named Billy, his girlfriend Megan, and his girlfriend Megan’s other boyfriend Kyle. An exhaustingly self-consciousness three-way entanglement resulting in a series of grimly farcical situations that were framed, rather coyly, as “relationship difficulties.”

The above, I should add, was one of several attempts by New York magazine to portray unfaithfulness and cuckoldry, and the consequent anxieties, as the very zenith of a progressive lifestyle.

As when a betrayed husband, Michael Sonmore, boasted, unconvincingly, that he “finally became a feminist” thanks to his wife’s nocturnal sexual adventures with a chap named Paulo. A wife who was “embracing herself” and becoming empowered, we were told, while her children, aged six and three, wondered where their Mommy was.

All this and more.

Lest We Forget

If you’re new to SDA or genuinely didn’t follow what happened in the first half of this decade, you may not be aware of the malevolence that was delivered to the people of the world. Before tomorrow’s Fauci hearings, you really may want to refresh your memory:

Updates:

Canadian Exceptionalism

When the Liberal backroom boys start to admit that the rest of the world couldn’t care less about Canada, you just know that your chances of “sticking it” to Trump are somewhere between slim and zero.

Clow said that while the world should have stuck together 18 months ago, it would be the wrong approach for Canada to unilaterally retaliate now.

“The ship has kind of sailed here,” he said. “For Canada to now move on its own and implement a whole bunch of retaliatory tariffs, I think, would leave us even more exposed to further escalation and further pain from the Trump administration.”

“The DNC is flat broke.”

The cash-strapped Democratic National Committee is in full-blown meltdown, according to a New York Times report, with its chair, Ken Martin, descending into fear and “a growing sense of paranoia” about his job security.

Facing a cash crunch, the Democratic National Committee has asked vendors to hold off on sending bills until after the midterms, The Times reported — an unusual move exposing the party’s financial struggles with just a few months left before the November election.

The comparative financial status of the two parties is stark: President Trump has a $400 million war chest — and the RNC has another $130 million available — and the DNC is reportedly about $2 million in debt, according to The Times.

Martin is reportedly growing increasingly anxious about the DNC’s financial woes and whether or not he will be able to keep his job. The chairman, responsible for fundraising, party operations, and campaign infrastructure, is “relying on a vanishingly small circle of people he trusts,” The Times reported Sunday.

It’s almost as though the tap to an invisible flow of money was quietly squeezed shut.

Corpus Derelicti

Jamie Sarkonak;

Heller’s saga began when he spoke up about the wording in the Indigenous competency course mandated for all lawyers by the B.C. Law Society. As things stood back then, all members of the profession had to read through materials endorsed by their professional overseers to maintain the ability to practice — only, the course materials were objectively false. The thousands of professionals gatekeeping everything from real estate deals to criminal sentencing — professionals from which the next generation of B.C.’s judges would be drawn — were being told to internalize the unproven claim that the bodies of children were found at the Kamloops residential school grounds.

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