https://www.castanet.net/news/Penticton/627809/-It-s-just-magic-Penticton-Sikh-Temple-serves-thousands-of-Summerland-wildfire-evacuees

This is who Eby was paying his respects to.

Fraser Institute

Fraser Institute

Fraser Institute

Here is a hot take. Most of our housing crisis was from people abusing our Student visa program. It was dishonest and corrupt from the getgo. The students were trapped in worthhless diploma mills and were not on a path to citizenship anyways.

In that case, the people abusing the system were the diploma mills scamming foreigners and we should probably be pursuing legal action against such entities. But even so, letting those scammed students stay if they want benefits us because it provides both a consumer and producer of value to add to our society.

We couldn’t build housing fast enough so we get rooming houses, soaring rents and investor driven real estate prices. Notice how rents and prices have fallen significantly since we stopped this. It’s not anti-immigrant. Its closing a loophole. We needed to catch a breather.

They’ve fallen somewhat, but so have housing starts so this is short term relief that isn’t doing anything to fix the issue. The truth is that, it isn’t that we can’t build housing fast enough, it’s that we are choosing not to build fast enough because so many of the decision makers in our society have their wealth tied up in real estate. Until the government is directly building housing, we are not taking this problem seriously.

We still have abuse of the TFW program to deal with. Kids still can’t get jobs because employers prefer the abuseability of TFW.

I would say that the TFW program isn’t immigration at all. It’s a labour disciplining program. It should be eliminated entirely because we shouldn’t be having second class not-citizens in our society. But we should be bringing in similar amounts of people with the aim of making them full citizens who aren’t in a position to be abused the way TFWs are.

This turn against immigration is really the dumbest, most self-defeating thing Canada can be getting up to. You know why the US presents such a threat to us? Because they represent a productive capacity of around ~340 million people while we represent a productive capacity of ~40 million people. They managed that by having extremely lenient citizenship requirements (for whites, but we can adopt similar policy without the racism) for most of their history.

Pursuant to this power, Congress in 1790 passed the first naturalization law for the United States, the Naturalization Act of 1790. The law enabled those who had resided in the country for two years and had kept their current state of residence for a year to apply for citizenship. However, it restricted naturalization to “free white persons” of “good character”. Oddly, the law authorized any “court of record” to perform naturalization. In other words, for over 110 years, any federal or state court of record could naturalize a qualified applicant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_immigration_and_nationality_law_in_the_United_States

Which, far from collapsing, turned it into the wealthiest and most productive country on Earth at the time.

Trump is going to do what? Lean hard into a bubble before it pops? Great, let him do that. Let’s not compete with him on being as stupid as possible.

The issue with that is, by the time the US liquor is sitting on the shelf for sale the US producers already got paid. The liquor is first bought by provincial distributors, even in Alberta via the AGLC, and then sold to the public from government stores, or sold to private liquor stores who then sell to the public. So if that US liquor hits the shelf and we boycott it, it’s either our provincial governments or local liquor stores that take the hit. That’s why the provincial level bans are angering the US liquor industry so much.

Equivalent to getting two of these attached to your chest:

A labour friendly government would outlaw the practice so unions wouldn’t have to waste money and effort fighting this obviously unacceptable bullshit. Wish we had one!

Lots of people are swimming in a sea of American media. American personalities, American stories, American cultural touchstones. This effect is taken to extremes in the extremely online right, as there is a sort of transnational fascism emanating from there. This is why you get people who think Miranda rights are a thing in Canada, or the various amendments to the US Constitution apply. It’s also why we need to defend Canadian media. For better or worse, many people’s knowledge of the world around them comes from the media they consume. And an unfortunate number of Canadians are spiritually American as a result. For example, the premier of my province who thought premiers had the same power of pardon that US governors have, despite being an MLA for years and really having no excuse to not know this.

That’s amazing. Also, this is the sort of infrastructure project that will allow us to create a larger human footprint in the north, which would help us maintain real sovereignty over it more than any military base.

The NHL really doesn’t want me to watch the sport, huh?

Usually a question mark is where non-essential parts of a URL start. So for example:

youtu.be/T___j1atRAw?si=T9de90Ls3GhPIMvb

?si=T9de90Ls3GhPIMvb - This section of the url is for tracking. You can safely lop that off and the link will still work.

He claimed Alberta should also leave Canada largely because Ottawa has mismanaged Canada’s food system. He said not enough food is grown domestically and it’s highly processed.

“I just can’t even touch commercial chicken anymore. It’s just disgusts me,” he said.

If I gambled I think that would be a pretty safe bet.

[Edit] Not that I think these concerns on their own signify much, but taken as a whole with his other beliefs definitely paints a picture of the sort of granola fascist that supports RFK jr.

FAFO, bucko.

He said he disagreed with the public health measures put in place by Ottawa to curb the virus, including mask mandates.

“It really affected me personally because I have anxiety issues and not seeing faces really affected me,” he said.

Oh my fucking god, dude. None of us loved doing that. I’m sure the people with long covid are feeling pretty affected now, and the people who died might also have some opinions for you if they were still able to do things like have opinions.

“Even if we don’t separate, I mean, we ought to talk about this stuff, you know? People don’t want to talk about it.”

Yeah, you’re almost getting it. We want to talk and think about it so little you lost your business over it. Not that you’re learning any lessons from that.

I’ve mostly been around the western half of the country, but even with that limitation, there is a lot to see. We are really blessed with natural beauty.

The problem with the US system is how easily corruptible it is by people like Tobi Lutke. Not because one person is afforded one vote.

They shouldn’t even exist.

That would be great. The consolidation under iHeartRadio (nee Clear Channel) turned a lot of local stations into slop. They tuned the radio to one of their stations at work and I swear to god, it was the same playlist every single day maybe shuffled a little bit. And it seemed like half of the playlist was Taylor Swift. I’m not a hater or anything but that is a lot of radio time to give to one single (American) artist. I would love to have actual DJs showing me new music I haven’t heard before.

I’ll vote remain and no on all except abolishing the Senate. I happen to agree with that one, even though this is totally performative.

I’m sure he can tank ketamine like a champ.