See I do not think all folks get into politics for that reason but I am sure many do. Some may not even do it for the money but for the ego or power

Look at the floods in BC Many people built houses in flood planes. They knew they could not get insurance but did it anyways. Imagine being the elected official telling them you built were you should not have.

Lets say you bail them out and they build in the same place they should have to sign never to get another $ for flooding

I didn't claim you personally said this (although Shifty seems more enamored by the idea), I said you voted for the gang that is spreading this lie incessantly. You make a big deal about things you believe Trudeau is lying about, but oddly don't seem to notice when your party is trying to pull a con job on the canadian public for political gain.

Lets be clear all parties lie for political gain. So saying I voted for a liar when we all know JT has racked up more lies than we can list

Lets move on I dislike Trudeau Uke loves Trudeau. Ill continue to point out what I consider his mistakes Monteroy will Troll

Kudos to JT for closing travel from S.A though the experts say it really will not matter

IN other News The Fifth Estate interesting piece on how governments failed the citizens in the flood zones

We know things have got so bad when...



Facing shortages, Canada taps its strategic reserves of maple syrup

Amid shortages, Canada is tapping into its strategic reserves. This time, for maple syrup.

The Quebec Maple Syrup Producers, a leading trade group, said it is releasing roughly 50 million pounds from its strategic maple syrup reserves, almost half of the stockpile, ...

The government-supported organization, which is often called the OPEC of maple syrup, uses its reserves to control syrup prices and supply. As of 2020, Quebec produced 73% of all maple syrup in the world, and its biggest customer by far is the United States, which accounts for around 60% of Canada's export volume.

The strategic reserve was created to keep maple syrup in stock during bad harvest seasons or when demand spikes. That is the case right now following a hot and short spring that led to a lower yield. ...

The reserve has made headlines in the past. Between 2011 and 2012, 3,000 tons of maple syrup, valued at nearly $20 million Canadian dollars, were secretly siphoned from the reserve in a notorious theft known as the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist.

I thought organized crime controlled some of the Maple Syrup industry in Quebec

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ywnj...p-black-market

That is a pretty perfect real or beaverton article, especially so coincidentally timed with biden taping the strategic oil reserves

We've seen this show before; this does nothing. It's just a political play targeting rubes much like kissing babies on tour or posing with a construction hat when breaking ground

That is what the experts say so I may be 100 % wrong on this one.

Bottom line when we are giving ourselves third doses and not taking care of poor countries and leaders refusing to remove the patent protection you end up with more variants .

I do believe our leader is stalled on that as well with the USA & Europe also not bending


Amazing when you look at our deaths compared to the USA us 30,000 and USA over 800,000 factoring in 10 x the population have to happy with the numbers.

LOL Canada. Testing all arrivals except the u.s. Bc we all know the u.s. populace is totally responsible. This is based on science and science says don't test u.s. arrivals

I say we just start sacrificing goats when the next variant hits bc science

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tru...n-more-to-do-1

I suppose when the US will announce a first time case of the new variant , canada will start the test again for the Americans coming over here ?

Already one confirmed case in Alberta.

Makes sense bc a) it's always good to play from behind and b) the variant has been detected in every single country except the u.s.

Just remember this is all abt the science

Well yes to me it is .
There is no cases yet , shrug .

What I know for the few time i traveled in the US, in Canada we have it easy when we cross borders compare when you are on US soil .

Why not both?

But we should assume these politicians are making the correct policies when it comes to energy/climate change? Governments declare that we are in a "climate emergency" and do what? Do they prepare for natural disasters?fix dykes? Or just book flights to the next climate conference?

I'd be curious of how many parents also vaccinated for the flu? Or how many parents that got their kids the COVID vaccine got them the annual flu shot years prior.

Man I'm glad that's settled and we don't have to worry about inflation any longer. It's still transitory though right?

Because I assume you're looking to get to a bigger point here, and you could save us some time by just getting to it. So you can either do that, or or if you're actually looking to carry on a sincere conversation, you could stop selecting parts of my posts you want to respond to, and others you're going to ignore.

There are so many exemptions still in place from other countries as well . Lets just hope the new strain is covered by the vaccines

The sad part is all the surgeries that are being cancelled and the effects of that

Gosh, given this choice I was so sure Lozen would be right. Imagine my surprise when I read this:

https://www.wired.com/story/omicron-variant-facts/

So...it's better to wait for science rather than taking panicked knee-jerk actions that make the lozens of the world feel better? Shocking!

This seems familiar, taking me back to a time over a year and a half ago when I kept pushing back against all the overblown "We should have closed our borders immediately!" rhetoric, as if that was some kind of magic bullet.

This, this, this. A million ****ing times, this.

Yet our leaders pick and choose the science to follow

You are right on everything you said. Though you do realize there are so many loopholes that allow unvaccinated folks to travel into Canada.


Kudos to all parties that passed the ban on conversion therapy.

As omicron was discovered I had two simultaneous thoughts.

- it will make no difference if the US and others close their borders again and its silly and self/other destructive to do so
- the US and others have no choice but to quickly close their borders again


The media would absolutely fillet them if they did not close their borders and Omicron ended up being a deadly/devistating varient even if Omicron was already here. Endless interviews asking every Biden official 'why they did not act' and 'is it worse now and spreading quicker and in more locations because they did not act'.

The EV choice was to close the border, meaningless or not, just to take away that garbage question they would have been hit with constantly.

I wish that were not the case as I totally agree with you but I thnk the politics of this are pretty clear, sadly, in today's age.

How about this Canada is closing its border to all whom are not vaccinated period. No exceptions. You could even include a PCR test for countries you deem to be at a higher risk ie countries than have a vaccination rate lower than 60%

You are in areas of politics here that are harder to be so black and white on.

The science does not seem to suggest such harsh measures now that we have such a high percent of the populace vaccinated. I think the last I looked we have less than 20 covid deaths a day nationwide and the hospitalization rate is very low and both are almost exlcusively among the non vaxxed.

With this Omicron varient looking to be no more of a risk, I think the argument should be to open wide and let it rip thru the populace and let it cull the remaining unvaxxed to get them to a point of herd immunity.

My only hesitation on that is that with a seeming very big therepeudic so close (Pfizer anti-viral pill) it makes sense to hold off a bit until that is available. Although I doubt the anti vaxxers will rush to take it either.

Covid early on was all about Cases and we had to control cases as it was a clear straight line from Cases to hospitallzations and Deaths. That is not the case anymore for the vaxx'd. And as such I think society should be moving more to normal life while watching the emerging varients for data that suggests otherwise.

I agree with you. Its all about the Hospital beds. I saw a stat on the news and dont quote me on it but we are behind on surgeries by like 900,000.
You hear about all the folks that had serious surgeries postponed and it is shocking.