DON"T GIVE US THIS CRAP, STEPHEN !

Way back in 2006 you definitely said property rights were the most important thing, not victim's rights.

RUSSIA THREATENED COUNTRIES AHEAD OF UN VOTE

A spokesman for Russia's Mission to the U.N. denied that Moscow threatened any country with retaliation if it supported the resolution, saying: "We never threaten anyone. We just explain the situation."
Now where have I heard that before...oh ya!
The Godfather: "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse..."
Maybe the Godfather could have a manly chat with Obama.

MIND IF I CREATE WEALTH AND EMPLOYMENT?

British Columbia’s economy and workers benefit greatly from mining...
but
...uncertainty over which areas will be protected and unstable environmental regulations were also found to be factors deterring investment. Arbitrary removal of land from mining after significant mineral discoveries, lack of stability in environmental regulations, and the expropriation of legally obtained mineral claims all served to repel investment in the province.
Is it me, or are bureaucrats and politicians always the root of the problem?

IT'S A SUNSHINEY DAY

Sunshine list' 2014: Ontario's top public earners list released
Tom Mitchell, president and CEO of Ontario Power Generation, tops list with $1.71M in earnings...

THINGS YOU WON'T HEAR IN A TYPICAL CANADIAN CLASSROOM

How Government Wrecks the Economy
Although these are well-documented facts about the immense body count of socialism, you would hear nary a word about it in a conventional education, even in many private schools, let alone government-run institutions.

HUDAK POUNDS THE PODIUM IN OUTRAGE!

McGuinty and Wynne are accused as criminals!
Tim Hudak's outrage is shocking and awe-inspiring!!!
View the press interview here.

BUT, BUT, THESE ARE GOVERNMENT-BACKED LOANS!!

I wonder if China's economy will be considered "too big to fail"?
H/T SDA

ROB FORD WINS THE DEBATE

"Rob Ford wins the debate — and his opponents handed it to him"
Toronto Sun.
H/T SDA.

GEE, WHO'D A THUNK IT?

Ontario Liberals' Land Use regulations responsible for unaffordable housing.

"Ontario’s Liberal government passed legislation in 2005 to limit urban sprawl with new provincial planning policies, and it put a Greenbelt around the fast-growing GTA....Since Ontario’s government enacted these pieces of legislation and tightened development throughout the province, Ontarians have seen a dramatic decrease in housing affordability."

Something about Sherlock comes to mind. 

SO THEY PUT YOUR TAXES UP...

...and ya voted for them.

And then they put your electricity up...

...and ya voted for them.

And because they put your electricity up, now they have to put the gas up...

...and ya....

OPP INVESTIGATE WIPED COMPUTERS OF ONTARIO LIBERALS

  'The warrant says police believe information on the drives will yield evidence Livingston committed breach of trust in obtaining the access. '
Now I wonder whose orders were being followed in this smelly story of the gas plant closures in Ontario?

MOVING THE GOALPOSTS

  Ontario Liberals did not want to accept the final payment on the Debt Retirement Charge on your Hydro bill, so they devised a solution to that problem.  Clever, eh?

SHE'S A LIBERAL??

"Just when I think you [Liberals] couldn't possibly be any dumber, you go and do som'n' like this...AND TOTALLY REDEEM YOURSELF!!"
Martha Hall Findlay, December 2, 2013 in Winnipeg

ALBERTANS SHOOTING THEMSELVES IN FOOT

Alberta taxpayers are funding an anti-oil group. Kinda like writing your own suicide note.

AT THIS POINT, LIZZIE WILL SAY ANYTHING

Shooting Sports News writes: Green Party leader Elizabeth May, M.P. (Saanich-Gulf Islands) and recent Green acquisition Bruce Hyer, M.P. (Thunder Bay Superior North) are declaring their own war on the RCMP for the recent Swiss Arms and CZ-858 rifle reclassification.
However, there's also this: The Green Party will keep the gun registry
Never trust a greenie. That is all.

YEE HAW! HERE COMES THE SOLAR VORTEX

After the coldest winter in decades the news of a El Nino forming seems to be welcome news.
But don't throw out the feather duvet just in case.

ATTENTION: BOUNTY HUNTERS

CRA offers a finder's fee to turn in international tax evaders.

THE BAD NEWS KEEPS ON COMING

Only last week it seemed as if Pauline Poutine would be the answer to all our prayers...

I WONDER IF THE FANS AFFECT FORAGING BEES?

...the ongoing obsession with climate change means that many environmentalists are turning a blind eye to the ecological costs of renewable energy. What they clearly don’t appreciate — for they know next to nothing about biology — is that most of the species they claim are threatened by ‘climate change’ have already survived 10 to 20 ice ages, and sea-level rises far more dramatic than any we have experienced in recent millennia or expect in the next few centuries. Climate change won’t drive those species to extinction; well-meaning environmentalists might.
And it gets better...

AND ON A CLEAR NIGHT

You can hear the rats scampering down the docking ropes.

BUT ETHANOL SIMPLY HAS TO WORK...

...maybe if we voted for it a fourth time?
"Germany has been experimenting with its renewable energy law for 14 years and is now highlighting its failures. Ontario, which copied that law, will likely do the same."

WELCOME TO THE DENIERS CAMP...!

IPCC admits the "scientific consensus" on biofuels was all bullshit.

PINK PRINCE TO RED QUEEN

So, this socialist chamber pot points his finger at the commie toilet and says...

THREATS OF INSURRECTION

...interim police chief, Ruben Santiago, justified the acquisition saying that the MRAP "will be a barrier between the public and a hostile person or situation such as a barricaded suspect with weapons who may be threatening someone's life." We are quickly redefining what a rational response to a security threat looks like.
Yup, that's for sure. Well, unless you're deemed special.

STUPID STUDIES

Evolution sucks
Humans can detect one trillion smells...but horseshit, bullshit and dogshit aren't on the list.

AN ANALYSIS OF YANKEE IMPOTENCE

John R. Schindler's wonderful diagnosis (post-mortem?) of the sickness that cripples the US (and by extension, Western Society).
"...the ignorance of reality found among our Bright Young Things in DC is hardly their own fault. It can be attributed to their deformed education..."

PROGRESSIVES VS LIBERTARIANS

...the Fresno County Division of Public Works and Planning has zoned most of the land here “exclusive agricultural” in order “to protect the general welfare of the agricultural community from encroachments of non-related agricultural uses which by their nature would be injurious to the physical and economic well-being of the agricultural district.”
Fear not Nate. Let's just put our faith in the central planners. They know best, don't they?

ENJOY YOUR FEED IN TARIFF WHILE IT LASTS....

...because Ontario's turbines will come tumbling down and your panels will waste away.

PAN AM GAMES: GREEN PASTURES FOR LIBERAL LOSERS

If you can stand the incest, you might be an Ontario Liberal

"...since former Liberal premier David Peterson took over as PanAm’s board chair in September."
and
"He did not provide her exact salary, but said it would be similar to that paid to Peter Donolo, the committee’s former senior vice-president public affairs, who resigned last year. Mr. Donolo made $183,846.09 in 2012."
and
"...Neala Barton will join the organization as the executive in charge of public affairs. Once communications director to former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty, Ms. Barton most recently worked in the office of outgoing Alberta Premier Alison Redford."

OH NO!! NOT THE VODKA

A Canadian province considers a "ban" on Russian vodka.

RURAL ONTRAIO INSTITUTE SUMMIT

This evaluation needs to be measured against a known baseline with specific objectives in mind.
Oh Mr. Freshwater, you're so right about that. Our former Liberal Premier evaluated and measured rural Ontario precisely, and then began systematically confiscating its assets with precision and efficiency. He's down at Harvard right now teaching young Liberal Americans how to screw rural Kentuckians out of their property rights as well.

IN A CLEAR-CUT CASE OF BULLYING...

...they all picked on Pauline Poutine.

TAKE A BOW, ONTARIO VOTERS

Ontario Finances "worse than California".

HEY ROCK ! YEAH YOU, ALAN ROCK !

Listen up, you dickhead!
 “To be able to speak freely without retaliation is a principle that should be a reality on campus and the jurors reassured that.”

DID OL' YELLER MAKE YOU CRY?

If you're over-extended or betting on a stock market that soars like a runaway helium balloon, you might need a tissue. Yellen takes heat for being too honest and open...

KOO-KOO-KA-CHOO

Dovish and less-dovish: How Stephen Poloz and Janet Yellen crushed the Canadian dollar...
Going to the candidates' debate.
Laugh about it, shout about it
When you've got to choose
Every way you look at this you lose.

REDFORD RESIGNS!

This is what happens when you're not a real conservative.

PROGRESSIVISM: REAP THE REWARDS

If the wheel squeaks, grease it.
If the union strikes, relent to it.
If the stock market declines, inflate it.
If you spend more than you earn, borrow the balance.
If you can't repay or service the debt, print more money.
If everything continues to worsen, massage the metrics.
Deny, deny, deny. A crook's mantra.

OH, HOW WE WISH THERE WAS SOMETHING WE COULD DO...

"Ottawa wishes the rules at Garden Hill First Nation complied with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, said a statement issued from the office of Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt. Under new rules set last week at Garden Hill, no one under age 50 may run for chief and no one under 40 for council. Further, people in common-law relationships will not be allowed to run for either chief or council."

Oh, I don't know...isn't there a faucet that could be turned off somewhere?

LET LOOSE THE REVISIONISTS!!!

Who writes this crap?
Redford makes sudden, clean break
Premier beats disgruntled colleagues to the punch

TWO SEPARATIONS AT ONCE???

How could we be so lucky?????

Leaders from Mohawk communities near Montreal say they will likely declare their own independence if a re-elected Parti Québécois succeeds in winning a third sovereignty referendum. “We’d never be part of Quebec or cede out of Canada because we don’t believe we are Canadians to begin with. Our ties are to the land,” said Grand Chief Michael Delisle of Kahnawake..."

Stop teasing us like that, Mike...

WHAT DIFFERENCE, AT THIS POINT, DOES IT MAKE?

Is your farmland WET yet?
To be eligible for the program, farm properties must be located alongside a watercourse or have a stream, shoreline, wetland, pond or river on the property. Farm properties must be actively farmed (be able to provide a FBRN or equivalent) and have completed a third or fourth edition Environmental Farm Plan.

HARMLESS AS AN ENEMY; TREACHEROUS AS A FRIEND

The central issue is America's credibility and will to prevail.

IF YOU DON'T LIKE TURDS, BUT WANNA SWIM IN A CESSPOOL....

...you might be a Liberal.

"I still believe that the Liberal Party of Canada remains the most forceful defender in this country of social progress, fiscal responsibility and national unity."

SILLY YANKS

If they'd only approve Keystone they wouldn't have to do this stuff...

CLEAR THE DECKS! SAUVE QUI PEUT!!!

The rats are gathering by the hawser lines!  The SS Redford just struck a poll!

SUNDAY NIGHT CARTOONS

Sometimes cartoons tell it exactly like it is:
US vs. Russia

GLENGARRY-PRESCOTT-RUSSELL: OLD MOHAWK PHRASE, "LAND OF BEGGING MILLIONAIRES"

Here ya go, Buddy.  The people who can't pay their electricity bills will help you pay yours...
Within the last week, in this rural Ontario backwater squeezed up against the Quebec border, the Wynne Liberals have been shovelling millions upon millions upon millions of tax dollars towards businesses owned by the wealthiest families in the region.

We're betting this blatant vote-buying is going to work.  And we're also betting that there will be no effort made by anyone in the media to dig around for the quid pro quos.

MO' MONEY!!

Are the Wynne Liberals running scared in Glengarry/Prescott/Russell?
We sure are popular this week with yet more announcements of money! money! money!

HEY! GO FOR IT! THEY ALREADY FELL FOR IT 3 TIMES!

The Ontario Liberals won't raise taxes...not yet anyway.

CONSPIRACY THEORY IS CONSPIRACY FACT

NSA is expanding its' ability to covertly hack into computers on a mass scale.

IT'S TIME TO BUILD A CABIN AND STOCK UP ON AMMO...

...when the stupidities of the state trump the silliness of art.

Hey, Hey, OFA!

Ontario Federation of Agriculture applauds Wynne's decision to name herself agriculture minister

Shake those Pom-Poms Yay, Yay, Yay!
The University of Guelph is shuttering two agricultural campuses in Eastern Ontario, looking to save millions of dollars as enrolments have fallen.

NERO FIDDLED WHILE ROME BURNED

Obama takes a page out of the Dalton McGuinty handbook: How to systematically destroy your jurisdiction's potential for prosperity. Unfortunately, President Obama has a much larger sandbox.

TIME FOR A NEW EAST - WEST INTERSTATE....

...from Massena New York, to Calais Maine

"Marois says rest of Canada would be welcome to visit an independent Quebec"

h/t to Borque Newswatch

FISCAL IMBALANCE IN CANADA

A Look at the Opportunity Costs of Equalization, by Eric Merkley
 "There is little opportunity for reform of the system, as the political incentives at the federal level are stacked against it. "

pdf of 16 pages....charts and graphs with figures that might surprise and annoy you.

PRAY TO THE SACRED BLEEDING HEART OF ST. KATHLEEN...

...that your shekels will only be squandered on millionaires.
"Ontario is helping Hiram Walker & Sons Limited expand their operations to become an industry leader in the premium distilled spirits market. The province is providing $1 million to support the purchase of new equipment..."

YOUR TAX-DOLLARS - HARD AT WORK HELPING OUT MILLIONAIRES

Hey Kathleen.  Can you squeeze in the words "ripping off the taxpayer" between hard work and determination?
 "Through hard work and determination, I know St. Albert will once again be a vital part of the region’s economy and provide good jobs for local families."

MUSICAL CHAIRS AT OPG & HYDRO ONE

  Chiarelli trying to appear concerned regarding the reports from Ontario's ombudsman and the auditor general:
“These findings are not acceptable,” a grim-faced Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli said after the auditor tabled her 444-page report"
  Sandra Pupatello and Bernard Lord are appointed to deal with over billing fiascos at Hydro One and the "bloated public utility" that is OPG.   According to Chiarelli, these appointments will cause  OPG and Hydro One to be "providing value to Ontario ratepayers,”
   Good luck with that.

ANIMAL FARM 2014

You know when animal welfare activists call Canada's new code of practice for the care and handling of pigs a "watershed" moment that the pigs have won.

MILK IT FOR ALL IT'S WORTH, STEPHEN!

PM heads to South Korea.
"...The leaders will discuss ways to increase trade and investment in order to further strengthen the strong bilateral relations that already exist, while continuing to create jobs and opportunities for citizens of both countries."

" BAMA: WE DID NOT VOTE FOR KXL "

XL Dissent:
An entire movement has thrown itself into the Keystone fight, from local frontier groups to big national green organizations.

SUPPLY MANAGEMENT PREVENTS TAXPAYER ABUSE

Ever heard the old argument that supply management proponents always use? SM farmers are "supported" through the marketplace by consumers and don't take subsidies and handouts from taxpayers? Well that's not exactly true.

THE STORY OF LITTLE MAN AND TALL BOY

Rex nails it
"...he is a man instead, all hollow style: the upturned head at the microphone; the pose of nobility; mesmerized by his own words."

NEB APPROVES THE REVERSAL OF LINE 9

Reliable, competitive Western Canada crude oil will be delivered to refineries in Ontario and Quebec via pipeline # 9.

Lefty heads exploding in 5...4...3...2...

If YOU THINK A TEACHER MAKING $94K NEEDS INCENTIVE PAY...

...you might be an Ontario Conservative.

"Saying the minority Liberal government isn’t doing enough to improve the teaching of math, the Progressive Conservatives are calling for steps like incentive pay for teachers whose students boost their marks."

$94K, 12 weeks annual vacation, a 7 hour workday, 20 days of sick-leave, and a pension plan to die for...and they need incentive pay to do their job?

ANOTHER GREAT ARTICLE BY MARK STEYN

So before China switched to buyin' gold, they were buyin' USA T-bills, notes and bonds, right? They bought more than a few.
Steyn quotes The Weekly Standard: "New analysis by the Senate Budget Committee Republican staff finds that, under President Obama's proposed budget, interest payments on debt will exceed the defense budget in just 5 years...So, within a few years US debt interest payments would be covering the entire cost of the Chinese armed forces. If they ever have a military showdown over Taiwan, Washington will be funding both sides of it."
I wonder if the "math is hard" crowd will find this tidbit even the least bit worrisome...

WHEN YOU CAN'T SEE THE FOREST...

...for the trees are all gone up the alternative energy smokestack.
But only an amount "equal to clear cutting mature  forests 10 times the size of Toronto each year."

HAVE YOU HUGGED YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD BAMBI TODAY?

Oak Bay, BC has too many deer.
They're a nuisance and a threat to vehicular safety.
A sensible Municipal Council has a solution.
Capture the deer. Kill the deer. Eat the deer.
But it's never that simple any more, eh?
Guess what happened next...

HUDAK'S AVERSION TO OVERPAID BUREAUCRATS

Hudak has a bold plan.
Hudak has white papers.
Gonna shoo away the pigs at the public trough.
So he hired himself an experienced milkmaid... (2005 info)

CNIB

FLASHFORD

SHARON

Director, of Marketing

$109,214.56

To bring in the cash cows.
Gee, I wonder what she's bein' paid now.

AH, THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT

Ooops! I meant to say entitlement...

VLADIMIR! DON'T YOU DARE!

Vladimir Putin
Didn’t need no shootin’
Knows Obama’s red line
Ain’t wuth no nevermind
‘Bama’s jeans he do pee
While Putin takes the Crimee
And the ol’ Chinee
Giggle peals of glee

WHERE'S CHIEF SHAKING RABBIT WHEN YOU NEED HIM?

Why, if he wasn't so busy taking on battle-scarred veterans, I'm sure he'd get right over there and teach those pesky Indians a thing or two. 

WHY PIERRE'S PUP WILL BE OUR NEXT PM

The message that Harper, Hudak and all their little advisors refuse to hear:

It has been observed that the conservative family seems increasingly estranged from the Conservative Party of Canada. It's not just policy questions, I think, but the simple question of ambition. Like Mark Steyn said, Mr. Manning and his fans don't want a government called Conservative; they want conservative governance.

GREENPEACE: WHAT'S TRUTH GOT TO DO WITH IT?

From the Edmonton Sun:
Once again, serving up scenes of desolation and slaughteration...
"Greenpeace Canada has tried to paint a very grim picture of Canada’s forestry industry...these environmental militants have created yet another myth to push their anti-development agenda forward: that is, the woodland caribou is at risk of becoming extinct as a result of the logging industry’s destruction of its habitat."

...remarkably (but oh so predictably) at odds with the truth.
"according to the most recent inventory of the woodland caribou conducted by the Government of Quebec (made public last month), the caribou population has actually been thriving since 1999. The study, focused on the Saguenay Lac-Saint-Jean region where the logging industry is most concentrated, highlights that the caribou population has nearly doubled on a territory where 70 % of its habitat was disrupted by logging activities."
h/t Manitouwadge

AND ON A CLEAR NIGHT YOU CAN HEAR...

...over the noise of the turbines, the red-necked hicks shouting "We told you so!"

"...the court countered, saying the Tribunal should have assumed the MNR knew what it was doing, and that the Tribunal’s conclusions should have meshed with those of the MNR’s Endangered Species Act....The Green Energy Act has gone dark. This is bad for all Ontarians."