Every Saturday morning I have breakfast with a bunch of old farmers.
Discussion today was population decline and replacement rate in the US.
They've come up with a very simple yet elegant solution to increase birth rates.
Bring back bench seats in pickup trucks.
The world after Western dominance won’t be neutral. It will belong to someone else.
The “multipolar world” is being sold as the end of Western hypocrisy and the solution to the failures of the current order.
But power never disappears, it shifts. And an unstable multipolar world will eventually produce a new dominant civilisation, with its own values imposed on everyone else.
The real question is: are those values better than ours? I don't think so.
@kowalchukfarms1 25 years ago land was $800/ac. Today it is $8,000+/ac.
New tractor/combine was $100k. Today that is $1M.
Wheat was $7. Today it is… $7
BREAKING
The Liberals just voted to SHUT OFF THE CAMERAS at the health committee’s emergency meeting on PrescribeIT.
Conservatives moved to call in the Auditor General to investigate how $300+ MILLION was wasted on a failed program.
The Liberals’ answer was to hide the discussion from Canadians and silence the opposition.
What are they hiding?
@Martyupnorth You missed step 3: reintroduce a hidden carbon tax that will get passed to consumers, bring back EV subsidies for foreign EV's, and create more bureaucracy in housing profile to make more hurdles costs to build homes.
Why are Canadians calling for Chief Justice Richard Wagner of the Supreme Court of Canada to recuse himself from the upcoming appeal of the Emergencies Act case?
Easy. He's biased.
In April 2022 (while the Ottawa protests were ongoing) Chief Justice Wagner made strong public statements criticizing the convoy:
* He described it as the start of "anarchy."
* He said protesters were holding citizens "hostage."
* He reportedly characterized aspects of it in terms like "sedition" in interviews and remarks.
These comments came before any full legal determination by any courts on the Act's use.
This creates a reasonable apprehension of bias (the legal test for recusal in Canada). Any fair-minded observer might question whether he can impartially hear the appeal, given his pre-judgment of the facts and events central to the case.
Question is; will he recuse himself?
🚨Read slowly.
• Wife lives in the U.S. 🇺🇸
• Four kids live and study in the U.S. 🇺🇸
• ~91% of his portfolio in the U.S. 🇺🇸
• Home in the U.S. 🇺🇸
🇺🇸 Brookfield moved its head office to U.S . 📍
Yet he tells Canadians:🇨🇦
“Buy Canadian. 🇨🇦
We can’t depend on America.”🇺🇸
Do you see the contrast?
#cdnpoli #Canada #US #Reality #Trump
For no reason at all Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly shot-for-shot recreated David Bowie and Bing Crosby's "Little Drummer Boy" duet 😂 wait for the end
Former B.C. Premier, Christie Clark, drops a huge truth bomb..
"The Americans are moving all of this heavy oil from Alaska right down the same route at 12.1 nautical miles offshore in international waters. All kinds of oil is moving along that coast all the time every day and week. So for Canada to have a tanker ban that only affects Canada, and only constrains the Canadian economy while the American economy thrives is ridiculous"
We just love shooting ourselves in the foot in this country.
Canada's deficit this year will be north of $65 billion. The interest on the debt is another $52 billion ($1 billion/week).
For context, $65 billion would be enough to buy every professional sports franchise in Canada, our two main airlines, Canadian Tire, Lululemon, and still have money left over.
As indefensible and unjustifiable a decision as there has been in MLB Postseason history.
My day-after take on the Game 5 debacle by the Blue Jays, who took 'how and why' fully out of the realm of possibility.
* My MLB and Jays thoughts & analysis are powered by @BodogCA *
@KeeganMatheson I get pitch count a young arm, do t want to hurt him but maybe, he can get 10 or 12 k's and 6 inning saving our recovering bull pen... But always with the stats not but feeling it out.... Feels like money ball with the jays pitching, not experience.... And we have lots!