52 Replies to “June 8, 2018: Reader Tips”

  1. CAPS WIN !!!
    and they were the nice guys in this one.
    I think the folks in Winnipeg probably agree.

    You could craft a story like this around most successful individuals.
    (Not that the Shoemaker story required any “polishing”.)
    But could you do a convincing one on Trudeau? I think not.

  3. Less than 24 hrs in and the media has already started to undermine Ford.
    Apparently he’s the uncooperative one.
    Hopefully in one respect wrt a federal carbon tax, yes I hope he tells juthtin if he wants to impose his carbon tax he has to collect it himself.

    We are all uncooperatives now.

    2. A number of left-wing Globe and Mail writers are crying sour grapes this morning (Friday morning), now that their big, corrupt government might be endangered. I never watch CBC or CTV news, but this morning I am making an exception, looking at the sad faces.

    3. Of course. I told the boys at my local pub that crap would star tomorrow. I was wrong. We will see this shit for his entire term just like Harper and Trump. The level of stupid out there has expanded exponentially. We need to start beating the shit out of liars. I may be censored for this but I am sick of stupid. Close the media down . They are in no way helping Canada.

      1. The 1 in 10,000 is based on total population, not by total deaths. The same link shows 1.4% of deaths by suicide (1.4 in 100). I can’t find the link to the article I read but 2 factors come into play. First is the recent and very rapid growth of suicides. Second is death by drug overdose, which should be classified as suicide if intentional (but difficult to prove). But you’re right, the 1 in 10 deaths being suicide might be high (by 2-4 times).

      2. Just noticed an item about opiod deaths in the National Post today. One in five of deaths of people between 24 and 34 is attributable to opiods. 1.5% of all American deaths in 2016 is due to opiods — this figure is higher than the number of people who died in Vietnam in 68 — the year with the highest death toll in the war. Gun deaths are well publicized, but given the number of guns in the US, they are not a major cause of death outside of gang activity. I read that some time ago and do not have actual figs., but that was certainly my take-away at the time.

    2. His death by suicide vindicates my assessment of Bourdain’s character. A phony opinionated elitist whose disdain for anything not like New York City was obvious. Never understand how people could watch him babble about nothing. But to be clear, though I won’t miss him, I never wished him dead………..

      1. He was honest. He presented more about himself and his lifestyle, than what was required for his show, Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown.

        He had a gift for writing. He loved food and drink and knew how to cook, mostly he loved life. He knew people and understood the character of man, good and bad. His friends around around the planet will miss him.

        I have 21 of his travelogue shows on P.V.R to view that I have not yet seen. I shall view them with a box of tissues close by.

        R.I.P. Anthony, au revoir, merci, ons vous aimes beaucoup toujours.

        1. How could he have “loved life” if he killed himself?
          Never watched him, can only watch a few reality TV shows. He seemed like a real “wanker” in interviews. When Access Co-operative puts up my TV/Internet rates, I will be cutting out the TV portion – just a bunch of crap anyway.

          1. Bourdain’s death could have been accidental. There was no indication he was the very ugly name that you called him, you say you never seen his travelogue show, so I can’t understand where you get this. I disagree with you but not with your right to freedom of speech.

          2. He may have seemed like a wanker, but I had held out some hope for him. I remember watching his show when he went down to Ted Nugents ranch with his NYLib attitude and came away a slightly changed man. Hunting your dinner with a machine gun can have that effect I guess. He also got Ted Nugent to drink a beer, which is no small accomplishment.

          3. I never watched any of his shows, so I’ll go with Alex Jones on this. Bourdain did indeed love life, but was getting too woke so was “suicided” to keep him quiet.

        2. I knew nothing of Bourdain. I’m not a tv guy.
          Suicide always hits me hard as I have first hand experience with it in my immediate family. Nobody is immune from mental illness.
          I do love to cook tho and have a large collection of cookbooks.
          Entertaining at the trap shack is an ongoing event.

          1. exactly.
            one can love life and still have unbearable albeit temporary low low points aka severe bout of depression brought on by [insert medical condition].
            anyone here passing moral judgement and condescending tone needs to walk a couple hundred meters in their shoes

            oh neat, the captcha is ‘bicycles’ !!

    3. How long will it take before someone on the left claims that it was actually an assassination? After all, didn’t Bourdain want to poison Trump?

      I know that’s far-fetched, but when it comes to liberals, logic and reason don’t work and Occam’s Razor doesn’t apply.

  5. Company in Squamish B.C. has developed a cost-effective method of extracting carbon out of the air to make a carbon-based fuel.

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-company-says-it-is-sucking-carbon-from-air-making-fuel-1.4696817

    As one commenter (Stephen McIntyre) puts it:

    “Suck carbon dioxide from the air to make carbon-based fuel for burning to create more carbon dioxide. I smell a net gain of zero. Is this not a scam and a bid for investor and government grant money?”

    1. “I smell a net gain of zero.”

      It may be a scam and/or it may take so much more energy to do than the product it creates …… that it’s actually a net contributor.

      In any case, the argument is “Carbon Neutral”. Everyone loves carbon neutral. And why not. It’s recycling. Inputs = outputs. No changes. Atmospheric co2 is stabilized (hurray). Almost like perpetual motion (sarc).

      1. Prime Minister Trudeau plans to raise the carbon tax to $50 CAD a tonne by 2022. This technology costs $94 – $232 USD to remove 1 tonne. It would cost almost 4 times as much to remove the carbon than to just pay the tax.

    2. Let me guess: the Brooklyn Bridge has been sold and cold fusion’s been debunked, so this scheme was concocted to get money from the suckers.

    3. Government and media are always falling for these perpetual motion machines. Maybe it could work in Ontario if they only ran it at night and were paid to take the useless wind power. Might even make some of the extra fuel required to support a wind heavy grid with peaking stations and spinning reserve.

  7. PET POT Cemetery Report.

    Stupid Liberal Justine say, condole to Bolshevik Wynnetario.

    …-

    “Trudeau looks to salvage G7 and his image amid furor over Trump’s tariffs” (FP)

    …-

    “Canada unexpectedly sheds 7,500 jobs in May, but wages grow by the most in six years

    The 7,500 decline in employment contrasts with economists’ forecasts for a gain of 17,500 jobs”

    http://business.financialpost.com/news/economy/canada-unexpectedly-sheds-7500-jobs-in-may-but-wages-grow-by-the-most-in-six-years

  8. …_

    Ford Nation crushes a socialist weeper.

    Socialism’s natural end result:

    “She was heralded as the Doug Ford dragon slayer.”

    http://storage.recorder.ca/v1/dynamic_resize/sws_path/suns-prod-images/1298014187174_ORIGINAL.jpg?quality=80&size=650x&stmp=1528430345142

    …-

    “Horwath’s Cinderella story dashed by PCs”

    “Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath wipes tears from her eyes as she speaks to supporters, after having conceded the Ontario election to PC leader Doug Ford in Hamilton, Ont., on Thursday, June 7, 2018. ”

    “Despite repeated promises, Ford never did release a detailed plan of where these cuts were going to be made or deliver a fully costed election platform.

    That didn’t seem to bother voters.

    As for Horwath, she did have a costed plan – only the NDP had goofed on the math to the tune of $1.4 billion. No wonder people weren’t comfortable entrusting her to run the government.

    In her third campaign as leader, Horwath clung tight to the hard left.”

    http://www.recorder.ca/2018/06/07/mandel-horwaths-cinderella-story-dashed-by-pcs

    1. Ford now has the unenviable job of sifting thru the wreckage. It will be a miracle if he can make a difference. He will need a highly effective media ability to place the blame where it should be the Liebels and Dippers.

      Media now reassures us that good Liebel fiscal policy of funding the debt over many years has locked in low debt carrying rates. Debt of $360 Billion (understated I am sure) is not a problem for a province that is in huge trouble. Family debt + provincial debt + Crown corp debt + unfunded social benefits + a massive industrial fail = inevitable collapse. Odds are massively against Ford.

      1. His first task then is to allow the Auditor General full access to audit anything she wanted to over the last 5 years.

      2. Ford’s early phase in Queens Park is going to resemble an episode of ‘Mayday’.

        we are ALL broken and failed humahns. the trick is to vore for the one who will do the least damage.
        mebbe get lucky and they actually implement improvements that outweigh the fcukups.
        which 1 of the 3 has the best odds of that?
        let’s leave it up to the voters. oh, wait, we just did !!!

    2. If this is the third campaign that she has lost, why isn’t she gone? Now I know she increased her seat count last night, but that was due to Liberal’s poor governance. Horwath has nothing to recommend her. When she speaks, I can only think of a muppet mouthing platitudes — on, and on with the same old rhetoric. The NDP will not win in Ontario with Horwath at the helm. I am rather sorry to anticipate the additional press coverage she will get as leader of the Opposition — or as CBC noted, she will have a better chance for Ontarians to get to know her. Thanks, but no thanks. There just is no spark there.

      2. In the case of most leftists, the public having a chance to know them better is not an asset.

  9. Mueller’s team perks up. Trump thinks Russia should be reinstated into the G7. Cue for head explosions.

    Maybe they can delay the IG Report of Trump surveillance just a few more months, even past November.

    There’s the ticket.

    Even if that fails, now they have Israelgate. After all doesn’t that make more “sense?”

    “Amassing further evidence of the Trump administration’s support for a key US ally, Schindler concludes: “It’s no wonder that Mueller and his investigators are trying to get to the bottom of what certain Israelis were doing in 2016 in secret to boost the Trump campaign. That answer may eventually prove just as important as Mueller’s inquiry into the Kremlin and its clandestine attack on our democracy two years ago.” Reached for comment, Schindler admitted that concrete facts in this case were in short supply. “There is as yet no sign that these individuals were tied to the Israeli government,” he said, “though the past connection of some of those individuals to Israeli intelligence raises obvious questions.”

    Who says we need concrete facts anyway; just take the evidence to where the disinformation leads you.

    “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.” It worked well for Stalin and Beria; luckily they weren’t fascists.

    http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/263976/how-russiagate-became-israelgate

  10. Ethos of a conservative:

    “These people had one significant thing in common: To a person, they believe in less government involvement in their lives, not more”

    …-

    “Christie Blatchford: In the heart of Ford Nation on election night, they rejoiced

    ‘Help’ arrived just 12 minutes after the polls closed, when the CP 24 desk first declared that the early results were showing a Progressive Conservative majority”

    “ETOBICOKE, Ont. — Help is on the way, as a clever strain of Doug Ford campaign signs put it.

    It arrived just 12 minutes after the polls closed across Ontario Thursday night, when the CP 24 desk first declared that the early results were showing a Progressive Conservative majority.

    The crowd at the Toronto Congress Centre in Etobicoke, where just a little more than two years ago the Ford family held a “celebration of life” after the funeral for Ford’s brother Rob, the former Toronto mayor, burst into cheers and hoots of joy.

    Three minutes later, the same election desk formally declared a PC majority.

    “We won!” said one man in a Ford T-shirt to another, who was looking confused by the sudden collective shriek and hopping in the air.”

    http://nationalpost.com/opinion/christie-blatchford-in-the-heart-of-ford-nation-on-election-night-they-rejoiced

    1. is this kinda like keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer?
      what’s better, to completely ostracize the unpopular one, feeding and cultivating their sense of alienation bordering on paranoia, or invite them to dinner once in a while and act CIVIL and RESPECTFUL.
      Putin is an astoundingly clever and manipulative WORLD leader. do not trifle with him. send some signals out that ‘we’ are still willing to talk, talk, talk, negotiate, all that ‘stuff’ that over time gives US some credibility and reliability in the eyes of the opposition, and, AND tends to head off those scenarios that over time result in missile tracks in space.

      etc etc

  12. Ethos of leftist socialists:

    “By contrast, the Liberal and NDP leaders outdid one another with promises to spend more, never less.

    They offered the status quo on steroids despite widespread public dissatisfaction about taxes, energy costs, and scandals.”

    …-

    “Doug Ford’s win sends a message to the rest of Canada’s politicians — including the Prime Minister”

    “The contest became a weird three-way race: Between a moderate and fiscally conservative businessman and two tax-and-spenders out of the public sector, one more extreme than the other.”

    “It was not a right, center and left contest. It was Doug Ford in the center versus a left and an extreme left leader.”

    http://business.financialpost.com/diane-francis/doug-fords-win-sends-a-message-to-the-rest-of-canadas-politicians-including-the-prime-minister

  13. Bongo’s world isn’t going well.
    Ford wins a majority.
    Now bongo’s outed…..as a groper. Trump shows up late at the G7 but not before he kicked sand in bongo’s face.
    By arriving late the Trumpster stood up the toot from Fwance….kept him waiting.
    It’s gonna be a fun weekend in quebekie bongo. Ha ha

  15. AGW’s Duck.

    If it quacks like a duck, and ducks like a quack, one knows it’s an AGW scam.

    …-

    “Welcome to the Duck Curve

    Each year as more solar power arrives when we don’t need it in the middle of the day, the belly of the load curve swings lower and lower.

    Then as the sun fades and the peak need of the day arrives after dark the demand ramps up, and so must the supply.

    This peak is the ducks head.

    The neck of the duck is when generators must ramp up steeply to take over from the failing sun. It’s often when prices spike.

    The tail of the duck is the secondary peak at breakfast.

    The belly of the duck is noon, when otherwise profitable cheap baseload electricity infrastructure sits around and burns cash.

    The middle of the day is “theoretically cheap” but the rest of the day gets more expensive.

    If we add more storage, we just toss more money in the pit in an attempt to flatten a curve that we created in the quest for greener electrons.

    The solution, just stop, stop already!”

    http://joannenova.com.au/

    …-

    Solar 1.8%

    http://live.gridwatch.ca/home-page.html

  16. Witness worried trucker had fallen asleep just before killer crash on Hwy. 401
    …Mohinder Singh Saini, of LaSalle, Que., 73 at the time, has pleaded not guilty to four counts of dangerous driving causing death and nine of dangerous driving causing bodily harm at the judge-alone trial before Justice Bryan Shaughnessy.

    The Crown alleges Saini slammed into vehicles that had stopped for lane closures between Brock St. and Salem Rd. at about 10:30 p.m. on Oct. 2, 2015…

    http://torontosun.com/news/local-news/mandel-witness-worried-trucker-had-fallen-asleep-just-before-killer-crash-on-hwy-401

  17. Rex Murphy:

    “The fate of the Ontario Liberals is an ‘evidence-based’ illustration of what happens to a political party when it is captured by Greenism”

    AGW Kills Political Parties.

    …-

    “Ontario did not elect its “first” Green politician Thursday night. It has had a whole government of Green politicians — named Liberals — for the past 15 years. For which Doug Ford is now infinitely thankful.”

    “Rex Murphy: It may have been many things, but Ontario’s election was not ‘historic'”

    http://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-it-may-have-been-many-things-but-ontarios-election-was-not-historic

  18. Sask. cab company investigating video of dragged passenger
    Saskatoon / 650 CKOMChris Vandenbreekel
    June 08, 2018 12:05 pm
    Sask. cab company investigating video of dragged passenger

    A video posted to Facebook on June 7, 2018, shows a taxi driving away with a passenger’s feet still on the ground. (Andrea Fiss/Facebook)

    A Comfort Cab taxi driver is facing an immediate suspension after a video posted to Facebook showed him driving off with a passenger’s feet still on the ground.

    The minute and a half long video, taken by a witness from across a busy street, was posted to social media shortly before midnight Thursday….
    http://www.ckom.com/?p=localnews&action=view_title

  19. this just in, ms wynne has officially changed her name to ms losser.
    my oldest tenant is a hard core liberal from monrayall cuebeck.
    I said wynne’s concession *before* election day showed just how disastrously inept she is.
    he didnt vote lieberal.
    my candidate won.

  21. …-

    Bolshevik Wynnetario’s gonzo: no whimper; no bang.

    Justan implosion.

    ““It would be implosion, it would be turmoil within the party, recrimination within the party and a very difficult climb back up to credibility and legitimacy.”

    It’s PootinTrump’s fault.

    …-

    “G7 leaders expected to endorse significant measures to protect elections against foreign interference” (g-m)

    …-

    “Official ‘implosion’: What no longer being a ‘recognized party’ means for the Ontario Liberals

    There won’t be 12 months of grief within the Liberal Party, an expert predicts, but an immediate blame-game”

    “Asked before the vote what the impact of losing recognized party status would be on the Liberals, Ryerson University political science professor Myer Siemiatycki said bluntly,

    “It would be implosion, it would be turmoil within the party, recrimination within the party and a very difficult climb back up to credibility and legitimacy.””

    http://nationalpost.com/news/official-implosion-what-no-longer-being-a-recognized-party-means-for-the-ontario-liberals

  22. Ontario Premier-designate Conservative Doug Ford Has Vowed to Kill AGW Carbon Indulgences.

    Ford “has vowed to kill the local cap-and-trade program, “.

    …-

    “Doug Ford begins his foolhardy, costly fight against carbon pricing in Ontario

    Opinion: Now that the Ontario PCs have earned a majority mandate, Ford is set to see through his vow to scrap a ‘carbon tax’ that isn’t a tax—and potentially sue the feds” (macleans)

    …-

    “Ontario’s Election Brought Down Carbon Prices 2,000 Miles Away”

    “New premier Doug Ford has vowed to ditch cap-and-trade

    Ontario, Quebec have linked with California’s carbon market

    When Ontario elected its new premier on Thursday, the price of carbon in California fell.

    Why? Because the Canadian province and California run a joint carbon market, so a carbon allowance traded in Ontario is essentially the same as an allowance traded in the Golden State.

    Doug Ford, Ontario’s next premier, has vowed to kill the local cap-and-trade program, a move that would sever its ties with the market.”

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-08/ontario-s-election-brought-down-carbon-prices-2-000-miles-away

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