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I be loving season 2 of Fargo. Quirky Coen Brothers stuff, a dash of the old uber violence a la Tarantino. I missed the first season but will be tracking it down.

Incorrect. CEOs are very often not promoted from within, they are brought in from other industries that are unconnected to their new job. For the reasons I stated. Strategy and people, bigger picture stuff - those are the skills needed. Subject matter/tech/finance people can be hired much more easily than great managers.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/crude-oil-tanker-traffic-moratorium-bc-north-coast-1.3318086 With the new moratorium on coastal tankers imposed by Trudeau, the pipeline is done like dinner now. Supposedly it the is 'north BC' coast, but of course BC has no coast a few kms north of Prince Rupert, which is about where Alaska starts. It is an end run around his own federal agency, the NEB, which approved the pipeline some time ago. How long until he finds a way to cancel or indefintiely delay the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion? Or will he seek a cancellation entirely of the existing KInder Morgan line, which has operated with tankers out of Burnaby for some 60+ years?

Trudeau better hope nobody delivers a white feather to him on-camera at the G20. Nearly all of our 'allies' will be there .

No, there is no change in tone at all. We might have to increase the number of warm blankets we send. Excuse me while I puke. Shameful.

But what does 'qualified' mean when the job is to run a large organization ? Does the person in charge of General Motors have a vast knowledge and deep background of assembly lines, or car design, finance or marketing? What do you think a high level manager actually manages? Money? Projects? research? I'll make it easy for you. What the CEO manages or should manage is two things: people and strategy. Every corporation or govt department has many layers of subject matter specialists who are deeply involved in the minutiae of issues. A CEO (Minister) must be able to grasp the issues and devise strategies to address them. The other task is to recruit and retain the very best people to execute those strategies. In this of course a govt minister is hampered by having to , for the most part, take a staff of people that are hard to hire and fire. The prime requisite for the top jobs is not detailed and specific knowledge of the subject matter, it is management abilities.

Sikhs are 1.5% of our population , yet have 13% of the Cabinet. Chinese are about 11% of our population, yet have 0% of the Cabinet. No black persons, no Arabs, oh so many disenfranchised.......

Yet that Minister- and many others in our history- did not translate personal beliefs into action. Harper is a Christian, yet did nothing to affect access to abortion. Same for Chretien and Martin, both lifelong churchgoing Christians who did the same nothing on this file. Those two Liberals even changed their minds on same sex marriage. Actually Chretien and Martin both changed their votes on SSM- first voting against it, then later voting for it. So it matters less what you think, and matters more what you do.

You are apparently unaware of how the planet actually functions. Sweden is one of the economic success stories, largely due to their shift towards the kind of cooperative governance that countries like Germany, Netherlands, Denmark Japan etc enjoy. They all have this in common: the government works closely with corporations and closely with unions to ensure a coherent economci policy that enhances both profits and worker prosperity. They do not exist in isolation, all three must row together- and they do. As long as we have your 'we vs them' mentality, Canada will not achieve this type of progress. hth.

Any estimate that originates with National Capital Commission is two things at the same time: - a number plucked randomly from their corporate colon - wildly low If the NCC says $10 million, the final cost will be at least $40 million. It has little history that matters. If we must spend a fortune on a residence, build a new one.

I'm surprised if he signs for so little term and cash. Pitchers are always overpaid in free agency , and he knows the Jays are absolutely desperate for pitching

Perhaps you should take your own advice. I reckon you've entirely missed Michael den Tandt, one of their principal columnists? His columns appear very often in all the Postmedia papers. Mike has been an absolutely relentless cheerleader for Trudeau for about 4 years now. And a Harperhater for much longer than that.

And another shoe drops in the imminent slaughter of this source of jobs for our country: Multimillion dollar grant awarded to examine fossil fuel industry in Western Canada The Parkland Insititute describes itself as 'non partisan', but is in fact somewhere hard to the left of Mao. It is staffed and funded by universities and labour groups in Alberta. This project- which is phrased carefully as an 'examination' but will be a scholarly hatchet job on the industry and everybody associated with it. The research, papers and conclusions are already done, they'll just have to space out the release over a bit of time to support the charade. This multimillion dollar project is funded by the federal government(the board of the funding source in govt is nearly all civil servants and university faculty) and by Parkland Insititute 'community partners' which is their doublespaeak for public sector unions. Effectively, taxpayer money. Manufacturing sector: disappearing. Resource sector: in the bullseye.

The staff of The Ascended One is combing the caucus to find a visible majority, bilingual, transgendered, and disabled humanoid to fill the role. It is 2015!

OK, maybe it is related.......http://calgaryherald.com/business/energy/encana-shifting-spending-to-texas-from-alberta-on-policy-reviews In a nutshell, Encana has 'deferred' a long planned gas plant in Alberta. It is the latest in an increasingly long string of projects cancelled when faced with the double whammy of low prices(today) and a government they do not trust- actually two governments not trusted now.They have not cut back their overall capital budget, just shifted the expenditures to another country while they wait for the NDP to decide on a royalty regime in Alberta. Encana is purporting waiting to see the results of the royalty review, but in reality the energy industry is abandoning Canada for good reason, and taking many many jobs with it. But hey, the budget will balance itself. Do the math. This Encana bizness is linked to another NDP announcement , their plans to phase out electricity produced by coal power in Alberta and replace it mostly with... natural gas. Its not clear where the gas comes from since projects like Encanas are unlikely to proceed. http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/notley-serves-notice-alberta-will-move-to-curb-coal-emissions-hints-at-higher-carbon-levies The hidden script here that really has the industry shaken is the strong possibility that the Alberta government will legislate coal plants out of business without compensation. In any case, between heavy taxation on energy that is clearly forthcoming, and the switch to vastly more expensive electrical generation technologies- Alberta will very soon be joining Ontario as a place that is hostile to investment. Consumers -industrial and residential-can expect some very serious hikes to utility costs.

Little federal infrastructure money is ever spent in Alberta , really. And the irony is that because the province still retains fiscal capacity, it will continue to finance equalization as it own economy tanks. Please don't leave out that other chronic teatsucker- Manitoba- out of your comments. They like to brag about their success, but resent any mention of that backdoor cash they get every year. I agree. In retrospect, it was a mistake by Harper to cave in to the demands of The Coalition of Bloc Quebecois, Liberals and NDP and create the economic stimulus plan that basically did nothing, as usual. The Trudeau plan will accomplish even less. They never work, and have been tried for decades including by Trudeau the Elder. Perhaps we'll see a return to another bout of good old some wage and price controls in a few years, when all this flops. But YES WE CAN!!!

And why would she be leading a team of virologists and epidemiologists on an expedition to Norway to unearth old frozen tissue? I know she is a geographer, but Norway is not that hard to find on modern maps.

Oh, and the change in sitting hours is supposedly to make the Legislature more 'family friendly', so MLAs can spend more time with their families. Of course, only about 20% of MLAs are from Edmonton where the Legislature is located, so 80% of the MLAs are by necessity away from their families in any case. And of course, some of the remaining 20% do not have families, some of them are barely old enough to vote themselves.

In the meantime, Notley completely refuses to even look at government costs in Alberta, despite a bloated and overcompensated civil service. In an environment of private sector layoffs, cutbacks and personal sacrifice, nobody in the public sector is going to suffer in any way. Instead, she is running up the deficit and debt as hard as she can by spending and borrowing. There is no doubt she will use a fiscal situation that she will materially and deliberately worsen to implement a sales tax. The only question is 'when'? Politically, she'd better do it now since if the economic situation worsens and she adds 5% to the cost of everything on top of that in a couple years, there will be lynch mobs. The idiot and former social worker that is now Finance Minister will be her fall guy if she does it now.

let us not forget Chechyna, where Putin has installed a franchised kleptocracy. Oh, a few of the 'Stans know they are a heartbeat away from rejoining the new USSR, like it or not here we come!

Party? Did Nigel Wright send $200 million taxpayer money to his own party? Where did you hear that? Got a link? The piggies are back at the big trough, the one they belong at in their minds.

It is astonishing to me that the hypocrisy of this is not trumpeted on CBC. Ok, I am not so surprised at that. But 8 billion liters is a lot of shit on any scale. Quebec was deeply concerned about the potential for harm to beluga whales with an oil pipeline/terminal. But releasing a toxic load of turds on the poor critters is A-OK.............

Next one up: Enbridge has had an application to increase capacity on the existing Alberta Clipper oil pipeline between Canada and the US since 2013. The Clipper (also called Line 67) is a big one, but was only built in 2010, when it was deemed to be in the national interests of America. The applciation has been pending since 2013. Waiting for Obama. He sure is a slow thinker.

according to an analysis by Andrew Coyne some time ago, he found only 15% of Trudeaus promised 'infrastructure' deficit for the foreseeable future was related to capital improvements, actual physical infrastructure. The rest is 'social infrastructure', which is Orwellian NewSpeak for social program spending, new and old. In other words, he is busting out the VIsa card to buy groceries. Forge ahead indeed.

Yeah, those bastards sent $200 million of my taxpayer money to themselves and Montreal ad agencies. Oh wait, that was somebody else that did that. These guys sent $90k of their own money. Same thing innit?