Canada

Benighted? What a lovely word for such a sad state of affairs. It does crop up quite frequently in the press here during conservative reigns. But I don’t recall anyone I know using it to describe Americans; though I can see the resemblance.

As for beer availability being the measure of an enlightened civilization? Meh. I have a genetic quirk…[Read more]

Beer isn’t available at corner stores? And Canadians call we Americans benighted? No beer at the corner store is just, well, barbaric. Backward, at the very least. I mean that sincerely. As for bars, many of ours open at 6am. Now, that’s civilized! Of course, they have to serve breakfast, which is only reasonable.

But a 50% cut to the library…[Read more]

I’d have to do a bit of research to comment on the claims made about the OFL, but I can at least tell you that the information about the cuts is accurate. Additionally, they just cut 50% out of the budgets for library services and Toronto’s public health department. (He has a real hate on for Toronto.)  They also completely defunded the college…[Read more]

50 grand, eh? Well, I restarted the swear jar recently, and at this rate, I may be able to afford the trip pretty fucking soon.

And while I didn’t make it to Norway last week, I did get as far as Eugene, OR, where I parked outside the Sons of Norway Sonja Lodge to snack on some rakfisk. Not quite the same, I know; but you have to start…[Read more]

Hope you’ve got at least 50 grand or so to just get in the Norwegian door if you want to play expat. I’m in Ohio, and have no choice but to stay and fight. Looks like Canadian progressives have some fighting of their own to do.

Suckered Albertans on the oil thing, did he? Short-term interests, the lure of jobs, a sense of insecurity? That sounds familiar.

Completely agree.  I don’t like to make a habit of borrowing from Spiro Agnew, but Trudeau is an effete impudent smarmy snob, and so are most of his followers. Really though his feigned outrage to the underhanded recording is no different than the establishment’s response to the DNC leaks: how dare someone hack (ahem leak from) our organization;…[Read more]

I can’t listen to him speak any more. His voice grates on me too much. He’s almost as annoying as the liberal acquaintances I have who keep sending me articles justifying their mistreatment of JWR and JP. It completely floors me that the diehards are far more concerned about the recording of an incriminating conversation than they are with the…[Read more]

Watched a few minutes of Trudeau’s pathetic press conference yesterday during dinner. Almost choked every time he said “we promised in 2015 to be a new, different type of government….” yeah right. Still waiting for election reform too. Hopefully JWR joins the NDP at some point.

I’m not saying Canadians shouldn’t be angry. They should. It’s just that your people’s tolerance for sheer corporate corruption in politics is far less than that of my own. Under Bush and Obama, that kind of scandal became a weekly event. Under Trump, it’s practically a daily one.

Far too many Americans just accept it for the way it is, have more…[Read more]

Yes, this particular aspect dates back a few years, but the corruption is ongoing and extreme. Long read [here], but informative if you wish to understand why some Canadians are angry.

SNC-Lavalin now occupies the centre stage of a national political scandal. It’s but the latest for the engineering giant, whose list of bad behaviours is so long t…[Read more]