BeaverFever

Yeah as a Canadian right now I care more about Ukrainians than Americans. Then again USA isn’t being invaded like Ukraine is and the president of Ukraine isn’t trying to annex his neighbours like Trump is. Unconditionally allowing Russia to invade and annex its territory is surrender. Period

For countries it is the party of self-defence. As usual we see republicans have no values or principles at all. No, at this stage allowing Russia to keep what it conquered without having to provide anything in return is unilateral surrender.

That’s the pathetic excuse like Trumps claims about Canadian fentanyl. Ukraine in NATO was never a serious or imminent prospect, could he addressed through diplomacy anyways and invading and doesn’t justify invading and annexing Ukrainian territory anyways. In fact it only justifies Ukraine in NATO. You know, Germans had legitimate complaints against the European powers after WW1 but only a gullible stooge would try to claim those justified the rise of Hitler and WW2 or that addressing those complaints were all Hitler was trying to accomplish If Russia had never invaded in the first place Ukraine in NATO probably wouldn’t have happened. And since NATO is a defensive alliance and Ukraine had barely any military at all they wouldn’t be “backed against a wall”. Before Putin started all this bullshit the West wanted to trade with Russia and had invested heavily in doing so. Russia was never in any danger of being attacked. So whatever ridiculous fantasy you have about “Russia being backed against a wall” is nonsense in any event.

Rittenhouse and Penny are not countries and they aren’t innocent victims defending their homes either. Any seal where Ukraine has to cede territory to Russia is a unilateral surrender. Russia is not giving up anything in return by simply agreeing to go home. No. You’re celebrating a pending Russian victory. You don’t give a shit about peace.

Nope we’re also the party of self-defence and peace through adherence to the rule of law . It’s republicans who are the party of perpetual war and hatred because they want to reward and Russia for its act of aggression and encourage others to do the same. Also Republicans have no problem with perpetual war and hatred when it come to Israel. ANYONE WHO IS TRULY FOR PEACE WOULD DEMAND RUSSIA GO HOME. PERIOD You’re demanding the victims surrender to the violent criminal in the name of peace. What stunning dishonesty.

You’re celebrating a dictator illegally invading annexing another country’s sovereign territory and intentionally bombing children’s hospitals and schools and civilian structures, forced relocations of Ukrainian children into Russia …..and you think you’re the good guy. No different than cheering for Genghis Khan or Hitler.

They demanded Ukrainian territory be ceded to Russia by right of conquest in violation of international law and all norms Russia can go home any time, dummy. They never should have invaded in the first place.

Putin’s useful idi0ts in the Trump Whitehouse and their useful idi0ts who apologize for them on forums like this one dont want peace they want a Russian victory, full stop. Just compare their position: Ukraine: Ukraine must unilaterally surrender because the world must have peace at any cost and all lives are sacred Territorial boundaries are meaningless and not worth dying for Israel: Israel must fight a forever war against it enemies no matter how many people are killed in the name of revenge and defending and expanding territorial boundaries

And in Hockey News:

I have long held that opinion of you, due to your obvious gullibility

You remind me of a high school girl who believes she got gonorrhoea from riding a tractor in her bathing suit

Your BS has been debunked so many times over the years your insistence on repeating it is a testament to the sheer id1ocybof the MAGA cult. 1) Azov started as a citizen resistance movement not a government army 2) Ukraine absorbed and cleaned up Azov and purged it of extremists a decade ago- you’re repeating obsolete propaganda It is now a regular army unit and countless recruits from across the country have cycled through there over the years 3) For you to claim that the entire country up to and including it’s Jewish president are Nazis just because this ONE army unit ONCE had Nazi sympathizers is beyond stupid. I mean MAGA is full of Nazi sympathizers and Trump was endorsed by KKK …are you admitting that all republicans and Trump and therefore Nazis and KKK?

LMAO those Jewish Nazis! And your narrative is all messed up, Ukraine amd Russia weren’t “part of an alliance”. Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union and ruled by Moscow, first formally and then as a puppet state after the cold war ended. For you to suggest that only a Nazi wouldn’t want to live under Putin’s boot is ridiculous.

Nonsense. America is a trading nation and it foisted globalization upon the world because its businesses grew too large to satisfy themselves with domestic markets and its wealth and insatiable appetite also means it needs to import goods and resources from around the world to feed domestic demand and production. There is this little thing now called the European Union. You should look it up.

Trump is a liar and an id1ot, everyone knows that. The only thing to puzzle is where the lying ends and the stupidity begins. What more is there to say about this clown. Part of me wants the 30 days to be up already so we can start watching this dipshit damage his own regime with these tariffs and we can get a few shots in on him too

More drivel from the Telegraph, one of the worst right wing propaganda platforms out there. The claims that authorities aren’t taking action for fear of being called “racist” is false. The real culprit is British police snobbery towards the girls themselves, because they come from underprivileged backgrounds and have checkered pasts, with officers dismissing them as “having made bad choices” to “hang around bad boys” The Home Office commissioned a study of the available data in 2020. It said: "The academic literature highlights significant limitations to what can be said about links between ethnicity and this form of offending." "Research has found that group-based child sexual exploitation offenders are most commonly white." "Some studies suggest an over-representation of Black and Asian offenders relative to the demographics of national populations." It found there was limited research on offender identity and poor quality data, which made it difficult to draw conclusions, however "it is likely that no one community or culture is uniquely predisposed to offending". A previous piece of research from 2015 found that of 1,231 perpetrators of "group and gang-based child sexual exploitation", 42% were white, 14% were defined as Asian or Asian British and 17% black. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65174096.amp

No, he’s clearly doing 2 separate things: waving to the crowd and putting his hand over his heart. Even in that deceptively edited clip (typical of MAGA trolls and propagandists) you can tell it’s not the same thing as Elon’s nazi salute.

To recap, in just the past couple of daysTrump has -Falsely accused Ukraine of starting the war -Suggested that Ukraine (not Russia) is solely responsible for continuing the war, by not making concessions even though Russia could singlehandedly end the war at any time simply by ending their invasion - Held “peace talks” with Russia without even including Ukraine…..Sudetenland, anyone? - Provided a “support offer” to Ukraine that would have required Ukraine to provide USA 50% ownership of all its critical minerals while US offers no security or support guarantees in return - Called Zelenskyy a dictator - A lengthy track record of repeating Russian false narratives about the war Anyone who can’t see that Trump is playing for Team Putin is fooling themselves.

Canada to acquire an unspecified number of switchblade anti personnel and anti-armour kamikaze drones (kinda an awkward time to buy American though) …In support of Op REASSURANCE and our continued commitment to strengthen NATO’s Eastern Flank, the Minister announced that Canada has finalized an agreement to acquire the Switchblade 300 and Switchblade 600 loitering munitions systems from AeroVironment Inc., to be deployed in Latvia. The $67-million investment will provide land-based precision-fires weapon systems able to reliably locate, track, and neutralize adversary targets beyond visual line of sight to a range of 40km. It will also allow the Canadian Army (CA) to develop and refine its tactics, techniques, and procedures for the coordination and employment of precision guided fires, setting the conditions for the successful integration of future long-range precision fires and loitering munition capabilities.… https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/news/2025/02/minister-blair-concludes-productive-visit-to-europe-and-announces-additional-support-for-ukraine-and-canadas-contribution-to-natos-eastern-flank.html

Huh? Democrats had a policy of Canadian conservatives sucking up to USA? Everything I described was a Reform/Alliance/CPC policy advocating for closer integration and greater subordination to the US. It is true that if someone from the Canadian Conservative mainstream wanted to run for election in the US on a CPC platform they would have to run as a Democrat and Republicans would consider him a leftist. It’s also true that if someone friend the Democrat mainstream wanted to run for office in Canada on a Democrat platform they would have to run as a Conservative…at least on economic issues, culture war notwithstanding. Its not silly. The Reform-Alliance formed into the CPC when it absorbed the last remnants of the old “Progressive Conservative” party (which was the actual party of John A MacDonald, an Ontario Laurentian elite. But I digress). The CA formed the largest constituency of the newly named CPC. Harper was a Reform/Alliance member and so was Poillievre who worked directly for CA leader Stockwell Day, who co-authored that grovelling letter to Americans in WSJ. By contrast The Liberal Party was not formed by the NDP. Yes they have long had close ties both formal and informal through networking, sharing right wing think ranks, pundits and influencers, and the “International Democracy Union” a trans-national organization of right wing political parties. Harper had a warm relationship with Bush and a frosty relationship with Obama. The Mulroney-Reagan bromance is one of the things Mulroney is most famous for. The two regimes were ideologically aligned and the leaders were personal friends. The friendship between Reagan and Mulroney is often referred to as the high water mark of Canada-US relation in that regard. The deal was not contentious between the two of them and there was virtually no serious policy friction between their regimes. Harper was not known for being tough on Americans either. Softwood lumber is an issue that every PM has to deal with Harper’s turn on that file isn’t any more notable than anyone else’s. And again like Mulroney Harper isn’t known for having stood up to the US on any matter of substance but he is known for protesting Chretien’s rightful refusal to participate in Bush’s Iraq folly and begging Americans’ forgiveness over it. Its also been suggested that the reason Canada had such high per-capita casualties in Afghanistan is because Harper was desperate to atone to the Bush administration for not going to Iraq and so expanded the CAF’s role there so aggressively it went beyond what CAF was properly equipped to handle- eg CAF initially lacked sufficient helicopters and MRAPs to protect against mines and IEDs Conservatives have a problem with sucking up to USA in general but it’s only worse when Republicans are in charge. And Bush’s Iraq folly/fraud was deeply unpopular amongst the overwhelming majority of Canadians Only those on the right supported it and even among the right it wasn’t popular With all respect to the CAF, In Desert Storm Mulroney/Campbell sent a token force which mostly stayed in the rear well out of harm’s way. CF-18s flew CAP against the non-existent Iraqi airforce that had been obliterated on the ground in the conflicts opening hours long before we showed up. By chance we got a single opportunity to make a strafing run on a coastal patrol boat with no air defence capability and it still got away from us because we had no air-surface ordinance And we dropped some “dumb” bombs on an undefended artillery position in the war’s closing days Similarly our navy ships with no credible air or missile defence were far from danger guarding the rear from the non-existent Iraqi navy While the Army contingent was Engineers from 1 CER (not infantry) also far from the front. THE CF-18s were based out of Qatar. But yes from a certain perspective I guess technically it counts the conservatives sent forces to Desert Storm But we did not send any forces to Bush’s Jr’s Iraq invasion, period. This is a completely different war more than a decade after the first one don’t mix them up. Canada did not send Hillier to Iraq. He was already on a long-term exchange assignment with the US Army when the war began and he went to Iraq under US orders and on the US dime, not Canadian Yes we could have pulled him out and the handful others on exchange like him in various places in the us military but we didn’t because their presence was trivial and incidental. Chretien and Canada endured a decent amount of abuse by Bush and Americans for not joining the war because we didn’t Yes it is a feather in our cap that we didn’t participate in that completely unjustified war, which was clearly waged under an obviously false and fabricated pretext. Being an ally isn’t a pledge to be a partner in someone’s crime whenever they order you to. And the US didn’t “need” us for anything in that except to help make their invasion appear legitimate because Canada had a well respected international reputation For anyone to suggest that Canada should have destroyed that reputation and killed hundreds of our soldiers just to serve Bush’s crooked political agenda simply because we’re “an ally” ought to give their heads a shake

My take on his speech is that he (mostly) said the right things in terms of how to deal with Trump, pipelines notwithstanding. He has a point about treating Liberals’ sudden policy reversals on topics such as defence with healthy skepticism given their track record and we should openly question how quickly they would abandon these principles as soon as circumstances appear to change. But by that same note Canadians have healthy skepticism about Conservatives standing up to the USA, especially Republicans, given their track record of sucking up to Americans and allying with Republicans. It was Poillievre’s party and it’s Reform-Alliance predecessor who among other things at various times advocated for increased US integration, adopting the US dollar, adopting the US healthcare system, adopting USA’s lax standards for food safety, consumer protections, pesticide use, merging the Canadian Forces into the US military and so on. It was Stephen Harper himself who protested Chretien’s obviously correct and decision to not join W Bush’s illegal and obviously fraudulent invasion of Iraq. Harper didn’t even try to dispute the very obvious fact that the purported justifications for the war were clearly false, he simply said it’s Canada’s duty to fight any war America tells us to and to jump whenever USA tells us to jump. Harper even went so far as to pen an op-ed in the wall st journal condemning Canada’s very correct decision to avoid the war begging Americans for forgiveness. It’s great that Harper has now come out to say if PM today he would sooner “impoverish the country” than bow down to USA but it’s an 11th hour conversion. And for a flag day speech celebrating Canadian identity it’s worth remembering that historically the conservatives opposed a Canadian flag and having any identity separate from the UK

But of course GOP and most other politicians are firmly in the pocket of Big Pharma. In fact most of RFKs healthcare beliefs are directly antithetical to GOP inter He’s opposed to highly processed foods, pesticides, all kinds of pollution, Big Agro, Big Healthcare, Big Insurance, Big Sugar, and more. All these industries have been Republican Sugar Daddies for generations and continue to be. . He won’t go far with any of those issues.The one narrow overlap RFK has with the MAGA cult is vaccine quackery but otherwise expect to find him blocked and obstructed from addressing any of his other core beliefs, he probably won’t last the 4yrs. And to be fair in the corrupt US political system these industries also own a majority of Democrats also which is why RFK was an independent in the first place

Why Canada’s Oil Sands Aren’t Coming Back I used to be an oil executive. Here’s how market forces, not politics, killed the oil boom—and why new pipelines won’t save the country. By Ross Belot …Canada’s first oil sands boom was triggered by geopolitics: in 1973, OPEC imposed an oil embargo, creating an artificial shortage that ended decades of crude prices below $4 per barrel. …Two decades later, in the mid-2000s, an oil sands boom formed again, born from a perfect storm: declining production in traditional oil regions, like the U.K.’s North Sea and the U.S., and China’s skyrocketing demand. The price of crude rose from $13 per barrel in 1998 to over $140 per barrel by mid-2008. The world turned to Alberta’s oil sands once again. Hundreds of billions of dollars flowed into Alberta. But exploiting the oil sands was not an optimal way to meet global demand: producing and refining oil sands crude is capital-intensive, energy-intensive and requires navigating harsh conditions and long distances to market. The crude’s poor quality requires high-cost specialized equipment to refine. It was a last resort—difficult, expensive and dirty, but technologically accessible. For example, the 300,000 barrels per day Imperial Oil Kearl Lake project took over $20 billion to build. It also required a pipeline built by Inter Pipeline for $1.4 billion to bring diluent in from Edmonton, and another billion-dollar pipeline built by Enbridge to bring the diluted bitumen to Edmonton. That was all needed before any of that crude left Alberta. Meanwhile, horizontal drilling and fracking—a technology that had been inefficient at lower crude prices—began unlocking vast reserves in places like North Dakota’s Bakken and Texas’s Permian Basin. Unlike the billion-dollar requirements of oil sands projects, there is a much lower barrier to entry for fracking: a typical 500-barrel-per-day well would cost only $5 to $10 million to build. The oil flows and refines easily, without the complexities involved with bitumen. Fracked wells produce most of their oil within three years, making them far less susceptible to market changes. …The lack of investment in Alberta wasn’t and isn’t because of the government, insufficient pipelines or overregulation. It’s because U.S. fracking is inherently more economic, higher-quality and less financially risky than the oil sands. The near-term outlook for reviving oil sands is bleak. Gasoline demand has peaked in major markets like the U.S. and China. The International Energy Agency predicts global peak oil demand in the next few years. They’ve also flagged a huge oversupply of crude oil from new global production over the next five years. The longer-term outlook for crude demand gets even worse as the world goes off fossil fuels to fight climate change. In a scenario where the world successfully fights climate change, the Canadian Energy Regulator predicts the country’s crude production will fall 75 per cent by 2050—not due to Canadian impediments, but purely the lower global demand for crude. … When I retired, fracking had already killed interest in major new oil sands investments in Canada. I began writing op-eds to help change the conversation around pipelines and oil sands. In one of my earliest articles in 2016, I explained why Energy East was no longer viable. Yet, here we are in 2025, with Poilievre still promising to revive Energy East and telling people that the lack of pipelines and refineries are the problem. As far as Poilievre’s proposals, large-scale oil sands investments aren’t coming back and production will decline no matter what Canada does. The country’s oil sands boom arose out of a time of tight supply, growing demand and limited options. Today’s reality is the opposite of that time. Once we accept this truth, we can focus on preparing this country for the futureinstead of wasting time trying to resurrect a past that has no place in today’s world. So, when our natural resources minister suggests a pipeline as the solution to U.S. tariffs, we should think twice. Tariffs on Canadian crude are likely temporary, mostly paid by American consumers, and can be partially offset by exporting out of the U.S. Gulf Coast using existing pipelines. The real question is: who would spend tens of billions of dollars on an uncertain, uneconomic business case for a product with poor long-term prospects? Hopefully not Canada. Trump’s tariffs aren’t going to kill investment in new oil sands plants. Fracking already did that. … https://macleans.ca/economy/why-canadas-oil-sands-arent-coming-back/

Meanwhile Dictator on Day One has banned Associated Press from the White House because they won’t update the style guide for their writers to call Gulf of Mexico to Trump id1otic “Gulf of America”