Your Move, Jagmeet
I looked him right in the eyes, I said. We’ll never support […] back to work, binding arbitration.”
Freight traffic on Canada’s two largest rail networks could resume “within days,” Labour Minister Steve MacKinnon said Thursday after sending two labour disputes to binding arbitration.
Canadian National Railway Co. (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. (CPKC) locked out 9,300 engineers, conductors and yard workers just after midnight Thursday, capping months of increasingly tense and bitter labour negotiations.
Less than 17 hours after the lockout began, MacKinnon announced he’s using his powers as labour minister to step in.
Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code allows the government to refer a labour dispute to the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) to find a solution.
It’s all bullshit, of course.
Strongly worded tweet update!
Punchline: Air Canada pilots vote 98% in favour of strike action.
Food Prof Been Sayin’
Remember this report filed in October 2022? It included many recommendations made by the task force, to which we contributed.
On page 32, it states that ‘The Minister of Labour should urgently convene a council of experts to develop a new collaborative labour relations paradigm that would reduce the likelihood of strikes, threats of strikes, or lockouts that risk the operation or fluidity of the national transportation supply chain.’
Yet, absolutely nothing was done. Here’s a link to the report:
Hold Your Horses
Blacklock’s- Adler Appointment Not Final
Broadcaster Charles Adler has not yet met legal requirements to become a Senator, authorities confirmed yesterday.
“An appointment to the Senate is made by summons from the Governor General under the Great Seal of Canada effective from the date of the writ of summons,” said Alison Korn, spokesperson for the Senate. The required legal notice typically takes two weeks from the issue of a news release.
Spokesperson Korn also confirmed under Senate Procedure And Practice no appointee may take a Senate seat without first signing the roll and taking an oath of allegiance to the King. “Yes, that is correct,” she said.
Both legal requirements must occur in person on a day when the Senate is in session. The Senate is currently on summer recess. It is scheduled to return Tuesday, September 17.
Might?
Toronto Star- Liberals go hog wild on immigration, hoping to secure victory in 2029 and beyond
One has to wonder if Trudeau has weaponized our Immigration system in an effort to build a new base of more than six million grateful future Liberal voters. What might look like “incompetence” may actually be the Liberal 2029 election strategy at work.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
Just when things were starting to look up for wind power, new troubles are pulling it back down.
In recent years, soaring inflation, supply-chain chaos and rapidly rising interest rates shocked turbine manufacturers and their customers, upending a business model that depended on cheap financing to compete with fossil fuels.
Companies across the industry suffered steep losses and saw investors flee, despite the promise of huge growth as governments try to deliver on pledges to prevent a climate calamity.
This year appeared to promise a return to stability and profitability, with turbines’ main input — steel — getting cheaper, inflation cooling and interest rates starting to fall.
But a recovery is proving elusive. The bad news started in recent weeks just off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, when a turbine blade plunged into the sea, sending debris onto the beaches of the billionaire-inhabited island.
Dispatches from the Maple Gulag Truck Stop
Gord Magill goes indepth on the Coutts trial Part II, the Crown’s appeal of the aquittal, and asks questions about section 465 (1)(b) of the criminal code, Conspiracy to Prosecute.
The Doctor Will Kill You Now
Sheila Gunn Reid looks at documents exclusively obtained by Rebel News showing how Veterans Affairs Canada attempted to hide a paper trail of evidence relating to caseworkers suggesting ailing veterans choose to access the Medical Assistance in Dying program.
Veterans Affairs Canada began using verbal updates to communications managers and bureaucrats to prevent leaving a paper trail amongst those handling the fallout of the scandal of department case workers who offered suffering and desperate veterans euthanasia instead of treatment.
And I have the documents to prove it.
Quick Dick McDick takes on the rail strike/lockout. Much truth ensues
Quick Dick McDick: Canada rail strike/lockout
What is the point of an economy if a few thousand people can shut down the entire economy??? Those are my words. Quick Dick’s are much harsher.
Free speech and rail
Op-Ed: Bill Whitelaw: Will my job title get ‘Greenhushed?’ More on free speech, or lack thereof, and Bill C-59
Also:
What to know about the potential work stoppage at Canada’s two biggest railways
Wrongthink
I can think of a couple of issues besides plate tectonics where scientists have not lived up to the ideals mentioned. Can you?
One aspect of science, however, is a good model for our behavior, especially in times like these, when so many people seem to be sure that they are right and their opponents are wrong. It is the ability to say, “Wait—hold on. I might have been wrong.”
Not all scientists live up to this ideal, of course. But history offers admirable examples of scientists admitting they were wrong and changing their views in the face of new evidence and arguments. My favorite comes from the history of plate tectonics.
Hostage Situation
Harry Siemens- #railstrike
The Canadian rail strike has escalated to a full shutdown of both of Canada’s major freight railways, Canadian National Railway Co. (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. (CPKC), following a failure to reach a new contract agreement with the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference before the midnight deadline on August 22, 2024. Here’s what’s happening:
Blacklock’s- Calls Rail Shutdown Sabotage
“It is totally unacceptable for us as a country to sabotage ourselves right now,” said Freeland. “We have been through a lot. We have made so much progress with our economy. Canadians from coast to coast to coast are depending on the employers, are depending on the union to get a deal done and to get it done with alacrity.”
“What kind of contingency plans does the government have?” asked a reporter. “Our plan is for the parties to listen to Canadians,” replied Freeland.
Trump Shooting: Lone Gunman
“Why does a 19-year-old kid who is a health care aid need encrypted platforms not even based in the United States, but based abroad – where most terrorist organizations know it is harder for our law enforcement to get into?” asked [Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.)]
“That’s a question I’ve had since day one,” the Republican panel member said, before pivoting to bash the US Secret Service and FBI for declining to release the full findings of their investigation into the July 13 shooting at a Trump rally.
“They need to be releasing information as they come across it, because this wasn’t an isolated incident. The threats are continual,” Waltz claimed, citing the alleged “sophisticated plot” by an Pakistani national who paid off purported hitmen to assassinate Trump and other US officials.
Thursday On Turtle Island
Comrade Kamala’s America: The patron saint of child indoctrination. Class warfare at the DNC.
Blackie’s Canada: A railway stoppage. Stop hating Jews. Justin’s Muslims are upset with him (CBC).
Woke World: Paul Joseph Watson – Some good news. Just like in Canada, everything in Britain is racist.
Your morning meme. Another meme.
August 22, 2024: Reader Tips
Tonight, we present a treat from 1942: Glenn Miller – Orchestra Wives.
Your best news tips are always welcome here!
I’m finishing up 5 days in NYC, accompanying longtime friends from Vancouver. We were walking this evening and a mid-30’s fellow from Maine, who was here on business, joined into our conversation. The discussion turned to San Francisco, where I happened to work out of the past 10 years. I mentioned that the city fell apart during Covid so I left and have been working remotely ever since. I added that this was due to the city being badly mismanaged. Here’s what then transpired:
Him: So you’re a Republican?
Me: I’m Canadian.
Him: Oh that’s good, because there’s no way I could ever vote for Trump . . . blah, blah, blah.
Me: A lot of people in California are not big fans of Kamala.
Him: Well, at least you never elected a buffoon as a Prime Minister!
To say that I was shocked by the depths of inanity/stupidity/ignorance of this comment, would be understating my reaction by 1,000%.
Me: Sorry, but I’m not a fan of Trudeau. Have a good evening.
Skip The Expense
If the economy were as prosperous as we commonly hear, why is the marginal consumer acting like he or she is tapped out?
About 800 Canadian employees are being laid off by SkipTheDishes and its parent company.
Roughly 100 Canada-based workers will depart SkipTheDishes, the food delivery service’s chief executive Paul Burns revealed on LinkedIn on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, some 700 staff members who work for its owner Just Eat Takeaway.com will also lose their jobs, he added.
Dissecting the Endless Lies @ the DNC
How do you know when a Democrat is lying? Whenever they say anything.
Mischief Is Important
And it is present in abundance at the DNC: This is the greatest interview with the BBC you’ll see about Kamala Harris.
When You Go Full “Bud Light”
Bloomberg- Harley-Davidson Drops Diversity Efforts After Attacks by Anti-DEI Activist
Harley joins Tractor Supply Co., Deere & Co., and competitor Polaris Inc. in scaling back or changing DEI policies following an ongoing campaign by activist Robby Starbuck on social media against what he calls woke corporations. The retreats are part of a broader backlash against corporate DEI that has companies re-examining programs added over the last several years.
