bucky1980

husband of one, father of two.

[Paul Vieira @paulvieira]

Cenovus Energy CEO Jon ​McKenzie said Tuesday ‌Alberta's proposed 1 million barrel-per-day pipeline to ​British Columbia's ​Pacific coast cannot be ⁠financed by the ​private sector under ​Canada's current regulatory regime. https://t.co/osEvB0QORN

[bucky1980 @bucky19802]

@bruceanderson @ChantalHbert Puttting aside your hurt feelings about his delivery…is he wrong in his message?

[bucky1980 @bucky19802]

@erinotoole @DNSWilson Sometimes people get harmed going for a walk in the forest. That doesn’t mean the government should ban it…oh wait, they already tried that.

[bucky1980 @bucky19802]

@BernieSanders Please explain how it’s “fair” to take $ from someone who’s earned it and give it to someone who hasn’t? I’ll wait.

[🚫👁️Drinks on Saturday🇺🇸 @drinkonsaturday]

It’s cheating—plain and simple.

Smearing lotion on the lens to blind the proctoring AI isn’t “gaming the system”; it’s exploiting a technical flaw to get credit you didn’t earn. Tests exist to verify you mastered the material, not to see if you’re a better hacker than the software.

And who learns? Nobody. The AI spits out answers; you copy-paste. You walk away with a grade and zero retention. Six months later you’ll still be googling the basics while the honest kid who studied actually knows their stuff.

Short-term win, long-term self-own. College is already expensive—why pay for a credential that proves nothing? Use the AI to master the content instead of dodging it.

[bucky1980 @bucky19802]

@manofbird @MarcLevesqueEco Ferme ta putain de gueule

[bucky1980 @bucky19802]

@MelissaLantsman @kinsellawarren Why are you not the leader of the conservatives?

[Martin Pelletier @MPelletierCIO]

Here is a stat for you. At today’s consumption rates, the recent increase in gasoline prices amounts to roughly a $350 million per day consumer “tax,” according to @GasBuddyGuy . On an annualized basis, we estimate this drag is comparable in magnitude to the impact of a 50‑basis‑point rate hike, though it operates through household cash flows rather than financial conditions.

Let that sink in on today's FOMC. @unusual_whales

[bucky1980 @bucky19802]

@CateSask @TheoFleury14 Theo played for hockey Canada and was a hero. You’re in absolutely no position to tell him anything about hockey. You’re entitled to your political opinions but have zero authority to tell someone who played for our country (and went through what he did) that he is a stain.

[bucky1980 @bucky19802]

@acoyne you purposely omit the fact that Quebec’s advantage lies in “accounting tricks” due to, Crown ownership + pricing control + domestic consumption = hidden value
Alberta’s situation: Private extraction + market pricing export commodity = fully visible revenue.

[bucky1980 @bucky19802]

@CateSask @myabradshaw78 Canada is part of the global community, yes.

[bucky1980 @bucky19802]

@CateSask @myabradshaw78 Brookfield is an asset management firm. They’re influential in global infrastructure and energy transition investing, and they’ve been extremely active in deploying capital toward the shift to clean energy and sustainable infrastructure.

[bucky1980 @bucky19802]

@CateSask Alberta, is the prodigal one in your mind? Interesting take…not sure denigrating Albertans is the correct approach - nor the Canadian way.

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

Ginny Roth on Carney's speech in Davos

"And then the bigger problem for me was the pivot to Canada and what we're doing. And I thought that was honestly a wild exaggeration and just not at all true."

"Like this idea that we've removed interprovincial trade barriers, we have not."

"This idea that we've invested in the military, we have not. There's not even appropriated funds, let alone spend funds to get defense spending to where it needs to be."

"The idea that we're getting natural resources to market, that we're driving billions in investment, none of this is true. It's all talk."

"But eventually he's going to get off a plane in Ottawa and Canadians are going to start to say, like, okay, now what? When does the rubber hit the road?"

"Like none of the actions actually speak to the urgency that he's gesturing at." @GinnyRothTO

[bucky1980 @bucky19802]

@deAdder Unfortunately, I’m not sure Liberal/NDP voters are the voting block capable of putting up any physical resistance…Sasky farm boys on the other hand would put up a hell of a fight!

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

This👇”story” is an object lesson for why trust in legacy media has plummeted, and alt right media audiences have grown.

Here CTV “digital news producer” @AngeMAmato (she/her) writes a story about “experts” calling the use of Sec. 33 “a threat to democracy.”

Who are the experts?

A left wing academic, and a left wing activist. The latter, Howard Sapers, is a former Liberal MLA (which the article does not mention) for a party that is so marginal, it has not elected an MLA in over a decade.

For good measure CTV goes on to quote two left wing union bosses, who of course are predictably outraged.

A more accurate headline would be “Four people on the left angry about use of Notwithstanding Clause.” Which is the opposite of news. It’s the ultimate “Dog Bites Man” non-story.

Did the CTV producer make any effort to post a balanced story by asking for comment from academics / lawyers / think tanks who support use of Sec. 33? Did she call the @CDNConstFound or the @MLInstitute’s Judicial Power Project? Did she attempt to reach any of these four scholars, who just published their views in a @nationalpost op-ed last week? https://t.co/R1Amug7rFj

Did she have an editor who asked why her story lacked any attempt at balance?

And did anyone at CTV pause for a moment to ponder how tendentious it is to accuse a democratically elected legislature of acting “undemocratically” by invoking a power whose entire purpose is to ensure democratic accountability?

She provides some historical context about prior use of Sec. 33. Why does that context not include the fact that most democratically elected provincial governments (including Alberta under Premier Lougheed, and Saskatchewan under NDP Premier Blakeney) agreed to adopt the Charter *only if* it included the Notwithstanding Clause to allow democratically elected Legislatures to ensure a democratic check and balance against the abuse of undemocratic, unaccountable judicial power?

Why does she not mention that for the first 33 years of the Charter era, the Canadian Courts ruled that there was no constitutionally protected right to strike?

Why doesn’t she quote an expert pointing out that Allan Blakeney defended the Saskatchewan Legislature’s 1982 use of Sec. 33 to end a strike as “a legitimate use of the Notwithstanding Clause?” Or refer to Peter Lougheed’s 1987 commitment to use Sec. 33 if the courts invented a right to strike?

Many thoughtful criticisms can be levelled against Section 33. Being undemocratic is not one of them.

So why do we see so much agitprop like this masquerading as news from so many legacy media outlets?

IMO, there are two possible answers:

1) They are blind to their own biases; and / or

2) People like @AngeMAmato believe that they have a moral imperative to be “progressive journalists” which trumps the boringly old fashioned professional imperative to be objective and balanced.

Whatever the reason, “journalists” like this have no one to blame but themselves for growing distrust of legacy media, and the consequent emergence of non traditional media platforms.

[bucky1980 @bucky19802]

@KatKanada_TM Based solely on the verbiage of your comment, I would say this:

Why shouldn’t the world aspire to be like Canada? Canada is amazing! The LPC isn’t.

Being committed to human rights & freedoms is a good thing.
Diversity at its’ core, isn’t bad; most ppl of all races are good.

[bucky1980 @bucky19802]

@atRachelGilmore It’s not just their name…The Nazis did in fact, either directly seize, or directly control, the means of production in several key industries including: heavy industry/armaments, energy, infrastructure & transportation, banking and naval & aviation industries…so, there is that!

[bucky1980 @bucky19802]

@acoyne Toxic masculinity at its’ finest!

[bucky1980 @bucky19802]

@HugoMonster96 @CBCNews Respect is earned, not given. To date, Carney’s done nothing to earn the respect of Canadians.