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Trudeau begging for more U.S. vaccine: "Help me Joe Biden Kenobi...you're our only hope."

The Kyoto accord was 30 years ago (more or less). The above was the song and dance back then. You've had 30 years to make this idea make sense that China just needed to catch up. In the meantime we all would show them how it could be done. It was BS then and it's BS now. If China and India aren't cutting back nothing anybody else does would matter anyway. That's assuming you actually believe an apocalypse of too much nice weather is coming because your civilization got advanced.

Just saw on the news that 85% of adults in Prince Rupert, BC have been vaccinated and the number of new Covid cases has dropped from a significant number to just 3 cases in a one week period from April 11 to 17th. This comes after the area reported 27 new cases in the previous week, and 72 new cases in the week before that. This is a tremendous success demonstrating the wisdom of getting vaccinated for the safety of everyone in the community.

Bruce Beresford made this movie. And he made arguably the best canoe movie about Canada. Based on a good novel, it is about a young Australian girl, discovering life, in the 1950s. It misrepresents both Australians and Hungarians but somehow shows East and West.

This is normal? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56881083 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/india-covid19-patients-creamatorium-1.6001536

Its sometimes interesting to observe the bias distribution of what stories the media chooses to cover - and not cover. As in yet another riot in Portland. Ground News - Portland police declare riot Friday night after mayor's state-of-emergency extension

Probably just more empty posturing by our leader, the Luminous one. (“sunny ways...”)

The West has been spending a fortune on reducing emissions over the past decades. But it's a lot harder and more expensive to do that in an already heavily industrialized society than in one which is largely agrarian. So the developing world could do this fairly easily. Instead they're moving in the opposite direction by enthusiastically embracing coal. The likely results of climate change have been exaggerated. Especially for countries away from the equator. Canada and other northern countries would get off largely unscathed. It is the already hot countries which would suffer the most, and they are building coal plants.

Black police officer: Joe Biden is an idiot.

This is gold!

Another evidence that vaccine works and luckily this one close to 97%. You can't do better than this.

Biden administration using taxpayer money to buy Kamala Harris’ children’s book, to give out to migrant children.

The idea here is quite simple: if the developed world that is literally bathing in riches on the global scale of standard of living could not or wouldn't do it, nobody will and it does not even matter if they could. So pointing fingers at India or China is meaningless in this question, it won't solve anything guaranteed and stamped. And then humanity has, in essence two options: pretend that it isn't happening, find reasons and explanations for inaction and procrastination, point fingers at others and: see what happens. Maybe nothing will; or maybe oceans will rise and skies will burn and at that time, when everyone in every little corner will be able to see it with their own eyes (and feel with skin - and some are already seeing it right now) it would be too late to do anything. The other option is to show that it can be done. To show means make it happen, not write a nicer looking "program". And really, I couldn't care less who will make it happen Justin or Conservatives or Greens. But just observing what's going with Covid it doesn't look very hopeful that anything of substance can be done here anymore, writing programs and pointing fingers of course quite a different story.

It is little wonder that some Canadians are skeptical about getting a covid vaccine shot given the way that procurment was badly bungled by the Trudeau government, and the resulting desperation caused by supply shortages prompting health officials to stagger dosage intervals up to 16 weeks and even mixing vaccine types in Quebec. These vaccines were hastily approved for emergency use during the pandemic, and Canada was not even part of the phase testing trials for Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AZ, or J&J. Not following the manufacturers recommended and approved dosing protocols logically increases skepticism. Criticizing people for not taking or being hesitant about vaccines only increases anti-vax sentiments and behaviours.

A quick and easy debate tactic is to just say "OK, sure. Done deal." and then just forget about it completely. That's China: pay some lip service and then just get on with your day as if nothing happened. I can't say that I blame them. They have their own scientists so they don't care about the nameless consensus that CNN and Greta Thunberg refer to, and I'm sure that they don't watch John Kerry and Leo DiCaprio's lectures from their private jets.

I don't think we can legally keep Canadians from entering. Nor do we need to. We CAN force them into real, supervised quarantine in safe facilities for fourteen days while they take repeated tests. We can limit those who are exempt from this. We can force even truck drivers crossing the US border to be tested. But we're not.

I have to laugh at this post. Many years ago, we had just bought a new and quite expensive piece of equipment for our business, and my wife had been asking to think about a larger car for her as our 2 kids she hauled all over the place were becoming teens and were quite tall. We thought that we would look at a minivan because, what the heck, everyone else has one. Went to local Chrysler store and asked to see a loaded up AWD Grand Caravan - and they had one in off of lease with low miles. They gave it to us for weekend, and we left them telling that we would need to finance for a couple months as I had just spent all of our available cash. We ran our business on zero credit simply because we don't like debt. Brought the van back Monday telling them 16 mpg just didn't fit into our 60mpg normal experience. Finance guy said that this was fine since there is no way to extend any credit to us. Turns out we didn't have a good credit rating and we didn't have a bad one - we had NO credit rating at all so their lending protocols simply didn't fit. About a dozen or so year later, our youngest graduated and wanted to buy her first new car. She wanted a Jeep (for business use) so here we were back at the same Chrysler store. She had just bought a house and was to start work in a few days, so I slipped her a wad of cash for the downstroke and we took a test drive. When we came back, the finance guy was standing there with the other set of keys in hand and asked us to come in and sign off. About half way through, he looks at me and says: "I know you from somewhere" and after a bit...:"YOU'RE the no credit rating guy!". We both had a great laugh that someone who could most days stroke a cheque for any car on his lot he couldn't finance for a cheap used car but the kids we raised and put through 20 odd years of University could get a shiny new one AND a new house without even having a job!!!!!! You are so right: it is all about the credit rating - but that has nothing to do with "capitalist economics" it is about how the credit business has grown and evolved. In my much younger years as a banker, we were expected to know our customers and made lending decisions up to a branch limit right at the counter. Today, lending is so huge and involves so many poorly or untrained front offices (and this now includes banks) their book is controlled by procedures that take 99% of the discretionary authority away from the contact level operative. It has been replaced by protocols that simply refer to the very arbitrary and narrowly defined set of rules that establish a credit rating. This is nothing to do with capitalism, it is simply about consumerism. If it was about capitalism, a capitalist pig such as myself would be welcomed with open arms.

We’ve already had a big tax increase. It was the carbon tax. Now we need another tax increase? At a time when people haven’t been able to work and businesses haven’t been allowed to stay open? This is insanity. We’re the only G7 country that’s increased taxes during this pandemic. Because other countries know it’s a retarded idea. But not us! ?

What was completely missing from this budget, with its massive spending scattered almost everywhere, was anything for Defense, and anything about natural resources. Given how natural resources is a home-grown advantage for us and has always been a driver for our economy, that can only be based on Butts far left ideological beliefs. They don't want to develop oil and natural gas, they don't want to develop mines and forestry. They want solar panels and high tech. The problem is we have zero natural advantages for either. Other countries - lots of them, can do the same thing more cheaply than we can. Three hundred and fifty billion spent and it's not going to do much of anything for our economy.