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It was his main campaign plank in 2015. https://www.reuters.com/article/cnews-us-canada-politics-trudeau-idCAKBN0NP1RP20150504 Don't make assumptions. You're putting the cart before the horse and assuming I don't like Trudeau and so am criticizing his policies. Isn't it just as likely that I believe his policies have been bad and deliberately divisive and that is why I don't like him? What do you regard as being on the Left? Castro? Trudeau has largely absorbed the policies of the NDP. And I make a distinction here between the federal NDP and its western counterparts. The federal NDP is the creature of college academics and public sector unions. It couldn't care less about blue collar workers, who don't speak their language and have often offensive views. It cares primarily about identity politics - same same as the Liberals.

Do you think marginalized men (I've never heard him referring to simply white men) are not perhaps encouraged to be less whiny and to take responsibility by listening to his advice? He's not incorrect about the problems faced by young men and boys, who increasingly perform less well, academically, than young women and girls. He's also not wrong in trying to tell them how to do better.

1. Ok, sounds good. 2. Well, JP says that Marx didn't talk about "nature" meaning natural resources. I advise you to go find other critics of Marx, there are many> 3. So he gets a participation trophy... good for him. Any individual talking out his ass is doing that. An academic doing that is showing he doesn't understand epistemology - which it is his actual vocation to do, before he practices even...

That's what I originally liked about Jordan Peterson. The Lindsey Shephard debacle at my alma mater years ago is what made me aware of him. When he was making intellectual arguments about freedom of speech and about some of the absurd examples of PC overreach, I vibed with it. Then he realized that he could make +$50,000/m validating the vague anxieties and grievances of incels and angry white dudes, and he decided to do that instead. I'm sure it's just awful for you, and that the secret police have your phone line bugged too. He's the dumb man's smart man. Watch one of his videos and you can see it in action. If he has an opportunity to say, "be cognizant of" instead of just saying, "know" he'll take it. This sort of pseudo-profound gobbledygook is impressive to a certain type. and that's just one among many of Jordan Peterson's bizarre contradictions. Women don't like weaklings and whiners, he says, an they "should be picky", but then the man spends his time and energy talking about how unfortunate and marginalized young white men are, fostering their anxieties and victim complex. Yay.

I thank God every day that I did not become Prime Minister. So should all of you.

Michael I’m surprised at you. Peterson worked for the UN and has demonstrated quite deep knowledge of green energy. He takes Lomberg’s perspective on climate change, which doesn’t deny it exists but brings in important doses of realism regarding what can reasonably be done. Peterson doesn’t pretend to be an expert on the subject. I’m not defending his knowledge universally across subjects, but I find it sad that you’re piling on against him without specifics. This seems to be the pattern. Did the Star or Globe and Mail tell you he’s a bad guy?

Let me be clear. I agree the health care system needs a lot more money. But that alone will not fix a bad system. It might improve it marginally, but it needs far more than money. The attached article explains why doctors are frustrated with all the red tape and extra hoops they must jump through continuously. Cutting Red Tape Could Let Canadian Doctors Provide 55.6 Million More Patient Visits per Year: Report (theepochtimes.com) The problem with a public health care system is it is bureaucratic with endless rules, red tape, administration that blocks innovations and unions that block changes and individual initiatives. Some doctors on the Vancouver Island are frustrated with their island administrator because he or she is causing them problems. The higher administrator backs that administrator 100% and so the system is paralyzed. They are not listening to the doctors on the front line. The system is paralyzed partly because administrators are stubborn, not innovative or inventive, refuse to change or allow any changes or freedom to use personal judgment and initiative. Being part of a public system, they prefer to hide behind the safety of massive rules, procedures, regulations, and red tape. Job security, pensions, and avoiding changes that could cause some upheaval, all contribute to the paralysis. There is no excuse for an emergency department to have only one doctor when people are waiting for six hours to be seen and there are other doctors in the community just working in their offices. Another example of bureaucratic paralysis. They kept the temperature turned down in the waiting areas of the ER probably to discourage people from going there and save a few dollars on heating, which by the way, they spend in many other ways. One doctor to see patients and many nurses running around doesn't sound rational. Some doctors are overworked and others far fewer patients. Yet people can't get a family doctor. The system is really dysfunctional and needs major changes. Since it is largely a public system run at the top by politicians and bureaucrats, I am doubtful it will be changed much. As you said there are many other demands by the population besides health care and politicians do not really give it the priority it requires. They are doling out money rapidly for all kinds of other things and spending time on many other issues. That's the trouble with a public system and why Canada ranks far worse than many other countries. Our political leaders have let the health care system go down to an abysmal state in the last number of years and done next to nothing to stop the disaster. Why should I believe they are suddenly going to change their attitude? I don't hold out much hope for the meeting today in Ottawa. They might throw more federal money at the system, but that won't fix all the problems. It requires far more than money. It requires the will of our political leaders, which I don't see. They are divided as is the population who have been constantly fed with propaganda. The NDP is more interested in placating the health care unions than fixing the system.

Why, they were directed to under threat of punishment of some sort for not complying? Following this how do executives of these companies pass these directives down to their reporters and researchers and such? There must be a paper or email trail of some sort not to mention whistle blowers. Do you have anything like these to corroborate what you just said here? An actual copy of the script would be best but if all you have is one of these, never mind.

Maybe you don’t like Peterson now that he’s standing up to the woke mob that’s created a chill over free speech and turned university campuses into EDI indoctrination centres. Basically he is one of a few brave as yet uncancellable voices. Liberal Arts education is gone. University debates are finished. I experience this movement first hand in the workplace. People are saying what they don’t believe out of fear. I feel sorry for the vast majority of people who don’t have Jordan’s platform and influence who have been canceled and silenced. Parts of the US left are taking up the cause of defending academic freedom and keeping ideologues from imposing political agendas on faculty and curriculum. However, Canadians have folded under the pressures of this inquisition. Our Constitution seems to be too weak and/or the courts, media, and the stakeholder capitalists running our corporations are reinforcing the groupthink identity politics. If you don’t believe the woke-green orthodoxies in Canada, as defined top-down by government Ministries, you’re a sitting duck. Even Peterson is struggling to escape the wrath.

Of course not, but that has nothing to do with this scenario. The FBI had Hunter's laptop for 11 months by Oct of 2020, and they knew that the information leaked was 100% legit. They just chose to lie about it because they knew it had serious ramifications for their presidential candidate: "It's Russian disinformation!" Then the TNI members, CBC and Twitter included, had to follow the script. For the purposes of "Can Hunter be charged criminally for evidence of things like gun crimes or drug crimes that were on his computer?", no, he can't be charged for that. For the purposes of espionage, treason, sedition, etc, the US would absolutely use that against him if there were military-level secrets on his laptop. Privacy laws wouldn't shield him from illegal storage and sharing of that type of information - he'd be a dead man - but there's no reason to believe that his crimes and sleaziness went that far. The kinds of things he did would no doubt be of concern to other countries that trade with the US, definitely to other American companies, maybe the SEC, but I don't think the Bidens were selling their country out totally. It's weird how every member of the Biden family is just such an oozing pustule of sleaze and grift. Their daughter left her diary behind to be discovered with evidence of her involuntary & sexy showers with her dad, Hunter left his laptop behind to be discovered with evidence of all his depravity and his underhanded leverage of his father's position, Joe's quid pro quo is right there on tape along with all of his various lies about his knowledge of Hunter's nefarious deals with foreign powers, the photos of kid-sniffer Joe smooching and sniffing little kids.... Their family is a genetic cesspool. If they were a foreign family or American conservatives the comedians and the late night shows would be having a hay-day with it all, but because they're powerful leftists SNL and the rest leave them alone. Wanna do a little experiment? Walk up behind your wife and slowly slide your hands over the top of her shoulders and then just sneak a 1-second long sniff of her hair. I'm telling you, it's creepy AF, even with your own wife. If you don't let her know it's coming, she'll be revolted.

I used to admire Jordan Peterson 5-6 years ago (back when he was actually still making academic arguments and focusing on things like free speech). He's undoubtedly smart, but he uses this gift to cash out on grievance-peddling, and he's a total charlatan now. I suspect he'd be happy to lose his psychology license, as this sort of "martyrdom" would undoubtedly endear him to his audience of incels and other ignorant losers.

Strike never and substitute 'has not worked in decades'. It's a different world. No, Trudeau started out blaming 'the rich' and promising to take more money from them and give it to the more 'deserving' middle class. He appealed to people's resentment and greed. His time in office has been marked by him blaming people for various improper ways of thinking and behaving in order to curry favor with specific identity groups. Or to draw in another topic you and I were just discussing, to make things sound worse than they are to Muslims and then set himself up as their protector. "Look at how much danger and hatred of Islam there is! Only I care about you. Only I can protect you! Vote for me!" People seem to always be calling out populism from the Right but largely ignore it on the Left. Perhaps because our society and culture have been influenced by the revelations of how evil the Nazis were but has never taken in how evil the Communists were to the same degree.

BTW in your world all EV development would stop until it meets and exceeds the range and availability of an ICE vehicle. No one is being forced to get an EV. Even in a decade people could keep their ICE vehicles as long as Gasoline was a reasonable fuel source, which I suspect it might not be. Battery tech will have to scale, Green Tech will have to grow, and charger availability will have to grow. It's not there yet. I'm the first to say that these are really only for commuters with Single-Family homes in places with reasonable electricity rates. But even at that, carmakers can't keep them in stock.

Tax money alone won't fix the system, but it will go a long way towards improving it. The system needs many more doctors, nurses and support staff and a lot more hospitals, beds and infrastructure. You cannot get those without money. Innovation and efficiency will do a bit but the system is on the verge of doing more with nothing. It will take a decade or more to recover the system. The fault lies with taxpayers who continuously demand more from a government but also demand lower taxes. Premier Moe of Saskatchewan is demanding more money from the feds, but had enough spare change to give every one of us a cheque for $500. Maybe the federal government should cancel the F-35 and put that money into healthcare. The F-35 will likely never be used, but we need to start fixing healthcare now.

The Durham Probe Was Barr’s Witch Hunt A shockingly unethical and failed crusade to vindicate Trump.

No, you’re just a left wing authoritarian.

You're trying to reason someone who posts the conclusion of their argument with a bunch of insults. So good luck with that.

We'd have to ask Michael Burry. A one-word tweet isn't informative. If I were to guess, I'd suspect he doesn't have much faith in January's stock market rally. He may be right on that, as we're (probably?) headed for some sort of recession in 2023, but why don't you tell us what you think it means? ? As for Jeremy Grantham, I suspect again that you don't actually know how he feels or what he's thinking, and he's almost always a bear (at least in public). Meanwhile, leaders of bigger and better firms than his are predicting 2023 ends up better than 2022, Goldman Sachs among them. How do you feel about the January 30th job numbers, by the way? You were eagerly anticipating those numbers, as I recall. ?

I've already tried posting my own data. Your answer was "MSM something something government-friendly statistics". When you're circuit trips and you revert to that tired old rag of an argument, you make it clear that you're not actually interested in a reality-based discussion. That's why you've stumbled into quoting multi-level marketing scam artists like Kiyosaki. ?

These are tired and debunked talking points everyone uses. A few years is 12. Even if you wanted an EV right now you couldn't get one because demand is so high.

Who tells him and how exactly? Email, phone call, fortune cookie?

Just whom are you referring to as the communist here? Zelensky or Putin? Just for your information, Russia is not communist anymore. And the last I heard was that Russia was winning the war with Ukraine. The warmongers in America knows that they cannot defeat Putin unless they try and use nuclear weapons to do so. That ain't going to happen, pardner. The war is over. Now all that is needed is for Fascist Zelensky to raise the white flag and surrender. It's sad for me to see so many of my white brothers and sisters killing each other. ?

Leftists be all like "NBC checked with Adam Schiff and thoroughly debunked anything bad about the Democrats" ?

Vox is a joke.

Are you sure that's the government, or is it the professional society that governs psychologists in Canada? Jordan Peterson stopped practicing Psychology in any recognizable form close to 10 years ago, selling out to get in front of the mob of dumdums to echo their anger back at him. His fellows want to take away his license because he's an embarrassment to the profession. OPPOSE EVERYTHING! Be angry about EVERYTHING! Believe NOTHING (unless it comes from a Slovenian troll-farm)! You are a funny guy.

1. It's also a critical framework, and an examination of history. If you like watching Peterson because there are some good bits you should also read Marx by principle. 2. I have to turn him off when he talks about things that aren't "self help"... saying "there's no such thing as climate" on climate change, talking about Nietzsche and saying "he was right about this" "wrong about that" is ridiculous, he's way out of his depth with no clue... saying Marx didn't consider the limits of nature, critiquing economic theory.... I'm too old to be hoodwinked... I can listen to people who are wrong but not people who just talk out their ass.