When it comes to the carbon tax, the truth never stood a chance
September 17th 2024
Excerpted from article:
The carbon tax was a litmus test for our collective ability to sort fact from fiction and put the interests of future generations ahead of our own. On both counts, we have failed miserably. The inevitable demise of the carbon tax is proof that the best ideas don’t automatically win the day, and truth is no defence against weaponized deceit. It’s also a victory for a kind of political nihilism that is ascendant across the Western world right now, one that doesn’t bode well for our ability to meet or manage the challenges that surely lie ahead.
OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre signaled the Liberals’ carbon price and the economy will remain his prime target when Parliament resumes this week.
He painted a dystopian picture during a Sunday morning speech to his caucus, saying the Liberal government’s plans to increase the price would cause a “nuclear winter” for the economy.
“There would be mass hunger and malnutrition with a tax this high … our seniors would have to turn the heat down to 14 or 13 C just to make it through the winter,” Poilievre said.
“Inflation would run rampant and people would not be able to leave their homes or drive anywhere.”
Source: Canadian Press Sept 15/24
In halls of governance, where power doth aspire, The heart reveals what flames within the fire. Behold! Pierre PoilLIEvre, his visage stark, Doth show his nature, deep within the dark. With venomous tongue, and words of disdain, He seeks the throne, his rule to stain. Yet, in his path, no care for those who chose, But only his grievances, his eyes do close. The office, once sought with noble grace,Would bear the weight of his long nosed face. He would govern not with love, nor with respect, But with a heart consumed by cold neglect. History would mark his reign with sorrow’s pen, For he shall know the judgment of all, amen. With PoilLIEvre’s rule, we may find no solace, But pray for mercy in his troubled palace.
Leaders of the Liberal,NDP and Conservative partys warm up for another session of rage farming in 2024.
Rage farming is a slang term for the political tactic of intentionally provoking political opponents in order to create or increase exposure for one’s group or cause
Leaders of the Liberal,NDP & Conservative partys yuk it up in pre rage farming 1979.
The SupremeMAGA Monarchist enablers in group picture.
Disturbing statistics: America’s popular vote for Trump: 62,984,828 :2016 74,223,975 :2020
Donald Trump ,the current MAGA Monarchist Republican presidential candidate ,made clear on Truth Social Sept 7/24 that his enemies list won’t stop with national Democrats should he win the Presidency in November, promising long term prison sentences for anyone he deems to have cheated in the upcoming election.
Donald Trump Truth Social post on September 7/24 before his election as President November 5, 2024
‘CEASE & DESIST: I, together with many Attorneys and Legal Scholars, am watching the Sanctity of the 2024 Presidential Election very closely because I know, better than most, the rampant Cheating and Skullduggery that has taken place by the Democrats in the 2020 Presidential Election. It was a Disgrace to our Nation! Therefore, the 2024 Election, where Votes have just started being cast, will be under the closest professional scrutiny and, WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again. We cannot let our Country further devolve into a Third World Nation, AND WE WON’T! Please beware that this legal exposure extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials. Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country.’
Court Painter’s Press Attache AHM and Resident Poet and Bastard Bard ,Chatterley Groan Preposterous Thumper (ChatGPT) together scrambled to draft a poetic interpretation of the TruthSocial ramblings of the current Facist Republican presidential candidate,DJT.
O noble MAGA citizens, give money and heed! I, with a host of toxic minds, (Attorneys and Legal Scholars)have sworn To corrupt the sacred 2024, Where my autocracy’s pure light shall not be torn.
For lo! I know, more than the common few, Of treacheries (rampant Cheating and Skullduggery)that in the past I did assume, Where cheating hands, in numbers unproven and untrue, Did mar my country’s pride(Disgrace to our Nation), its shining I construe.
Thus, with vigilant beady eyes and watchful gaze, I now attend this grand election’s tide. Votes freshly cast shall bask in virtue’s rays, While I, in triumph, (WHEN I WIN) claim my wrongful stride.
When victory is mine, and the truth I’ve sold, The fiends( Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials.)shall meet their fate. In dungeons deep, behind bars so cold, They’ll linger long, as injustice fills the state.
Forever shall I descend to lowly ends, (Depravity of Justice) A fallen nation on corruption’s shore. Rise, my MAGA people! Defend what dishonor sends, And let noble rights disgrace our land no more!
Beware, ye who conspire, in dark employ, For my judgment waits, and none shall it enjoy!
Never before seen, in my country behold, As chilling a tale, as fascism retold.
Court Painter has refused to comment on his recent pictures.Seems he’s annoyed however doesn’t want to talk about it…something about Ottawa blah blah blah…
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh pulls out of supply and confidence agreement with Liberals
Singh’s announcement comes less than two weeks before Parliament is set to resume
The Liberals and NDP entered into the deal in March 2022 and it was set to run until June of next year. It has allowed the Liberals to govern in a minority government for nearly three years, well past the average length of a minority.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau former prime minister and father of present prime minister Justin Trudeau won the 1968, 1972, and 1974 elections, before narrowly losing in 1979. He won a fourth election victory shortly afterwards, in 1980, and eventually retired from politicsshortly before the 1984 election.
His decision was made after a long, solitary walk through a blinding blizzard,”it seemed like a good day to have a last day … it was a great walk in the snow,” he said.
‘The Liberals must now prepare for an election, which will happen when the election wants to happen, not when Liberals want it to happen. Preparing will include nominating candidates. It’s going to be hard to know how many they will need to nominate, because they’ll have no idea how many incumbents will run again.
Justin Trudeau, who fired his foreign minister and his finance minister and his justice minister, who called an early election and now warns others against early elections, has converted late to the virtues of tenacity. Others are responding accordingly. Even Jagmeet Singh has managed to outflank him. Soon Canadians will get their chance to thank Trudeau for refusing to change.’
Donald Trump has a seriously abusive relationship with the media. He bashes them as “enemies of the people,” tries to discredit them as “fake news,” and even calls for reporters and anchors to be jailed, yet much of the so-called ‘liberal’ US media seem to give him a pass on so much of the shocking stuff that he says or does.
No lessons seem to have been learned from the 2016 debacle, and our media is now bent on trying to find some sort of ridiculous equivalence between the ordinary exaggerations and misstatements of the Democrats and the brazen gaslighting and fabulism of Trump and the GOP. By trying to look ‘neutral’ and ‘unbiased,’ the press has effectively assumed the role of Trump normalizers, at best, and Trump apologists, at worst.
So what’s wrong with our ‘liberal’ media? And how do we fix it before it’s too late?
To answer these questions and more, Mehdi was joined in the studio this week on ‘Mehdi Unfiltered’ by two of the US media’s most eloquent critics. Journalist and author Wajahat Ali, who publishes the Left Hook Substack newsletter, and veteran reporter and author James Fallows, who was chief speechwriter to President Jimmy Carter, and publishes the Breaking the News Substack newsletter.
Canada’s record 2023 wildfire season emitted so much carbon into the atmosphere that it put the country on par with the annual fossil fuel emissions of India, a new study finds.
The study’s results also illustrate the fraught politics of carbon accounting, since Canada does not report wildfire-related emissions to the U.N. under the Paris Agreement.
The paper, published in the journal Nature by an international team of researchers, provides a warning about designing carbon offset programs around ecosystems long thought to be relatively stable.
In just five months,Canada emitted enough carbon from wildfires in 2023 — 647 million metric tons — to be comparable to the annual fossil fuel emissions from the top 10 largest emitters.
The study notes that Canada does not currently report its emissions from wildfires, treating them as “natural disturbances” despite the ample evidence of how human-caused climate change is worsening these blazes.
Court Painter seen with an AHM painting
Images: Allan Harding MacKay Smouldering Boreal Series 2024
Breaking News: Federal labour board orders rail workers back on the job, imposes binding arbitration
Union will ‘lawfully comply’ with ruling but plans to appeal, Teamsters president says
Court Painter harkens back to a famous train wreck in the Paris Montparnasse terminus in October of 1885 which is presented here for dramatic effect!
OTTAWA — The future of an unprecedented Canada railway stoppage hinged on a decision expected Saturday from a federal labour board amid an ongoing, bitter contract dispute between the country’s two largest railway companies and the Teamsters union representing thousands of their workers.
Teamsters, Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Kansas City were all waiting on a decision after a “marathon nine-hour hearing” before the Canada Industrial Relations Board, the union said.
“The union will lawfully abide by any decision from the CIRB, and is prepared to file challenges in Federal Court if necessary,” the union said in a statement issued after Friday’s hearing.
Freight shipments and some major commuter lines across Canada came to a standstill on Thursday when CN and CPKC locked out workers after months of increasingly acrimonious contract talks failed to yield a deal. It marked the first time there were simultaneous work stoppages at the railways. Source :Canadian Press August 24/24
Railway shutdown expected to cost Canada $341 million a day
Labour dispute disrupts transport of $1-billion worth of goods a day
Excerpts from CBC article Darren Major · CBC News · Posted: Aug 22, 2024
Labour minister says federal government is sending rail dispute to binding arbitration
Minister of Labour Steven MacKinnon says he has directed the Canada Industrial Relations Board ‘to extend the term of the current collective agreements until new agreements have been signed and for operations on both railways to resume forthwith.’
Contract talks between the union and the two companies usually take place a year apart, but in 2022 — after the federal government introduced new rules — CN requested a year-long extension to its existing deal.
This first-ever simultaneous shutdown of both rail networks blocked the movement of roughly $1 billion in goods.
Mark Thompson, a former labour arbitrator and professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia, said the unprecedented nature of the stoppage pushed the government to act.
“No government of whatever persuasion is going to stand by and let a national [work stoppage] by both railroads go on for very long. The impact on the economy is simply too great,” he said.
Prime Minister & Deputy Prime Minister…whaddya gonna do…
Lisa Raitt, who served as labour minister in the government of former prime minister Stephen Harper, said referring the dispute to the CIRB won’t instantly end the work stoppage. She said the companies and the union first have to agree to binding arbitration.
“You can try to get the parties to agree to binding arbitration. Maybe you can write to the CIRB and ask them to impose binding arbitration… but there’s no way a minister can write a letter and say that everyone goes back to work and I’m sending you to binding arbitration,” she said.
MacKinnon stopped short of saying the work stoppage would be ending as a result of his actions.
“We’re confident that it will,” he said.
Both rail companies released statements Thursday saying they would restart operations following MacKinnon’s announcement, but neither offered a timeline.
