I do not have kids but if I did I would be inclined to send them to school. Though I may keep them away from Grammy and Grandpa. Reality is all the provinces other than Quebec have done a really great job ( stats say 1/2 of all cases and deaths are in Quebec). We get alarmed if we see 40-50 cases in a day in Alberta but doing the contact tracing allows us to stay on top of it in Alberta. As well we have rolled out the anti bodies test as well

The one area I think the provinces need to focus on is Immigrant workers. That still seems to be a problem area

A little humour directed for my Edmonton Canada bro's.

From a born and raised Edmontonian that was too funny

Remember that time that lozen said he wasn't a conservative?? Lol

I guess I am conservative on some issues and liberal on others.

• Climate Change -Real Serious Problem
• Gay Marriage- Dont want one dont get one
• Abortion- Dont want one dont get one
• Capital Punishment. Yes and Firing Squad or the Guilletine (Was for it, than against it now for it)
• New Gun Legislation- Nope but support banning ownership of handguns
• Legalize all drugs

That may be why in the Federal I voted Green, Liberal, Conservative last 3 Federal and Conservative, NDP, NDP Provincially.

Despise Trump but understand why folks voted for him last election and as disgusting as he is I get why some still vote for him.

Heading back to work next week and a couple days ago one of my kids wakes up with a runny nose (lasted a day) Booked an appointment and the family and I all got a COVID test. Came back negative today, not going to lie I was nervous answering the phone especially since they told me it would be an automated message if I was negative and a health nurse if I was positive, and it was a health nurse on the line when I answered.

Yeah even though its a child that is good news. I only know one person that has it which is a good thing . Also I wish the province would mandate masks inside of private businesses .

What was shocking to me I never knew that the border is open for air travel. You can literally vacation in Vegas and will be required to quarantine for 14 days. Hope folks do

Yeah it was only the runny nose and noone else had any symptoms so I was pretty confident it wasn't but still feels good to get tested and know for sure.

I know people that have been traveling to the US regularly for work. Their company just books them a hotel room when they get home to quarantine in.

356 Billion $ Deficit

Thought morneau did a great job today, with a detailed and transparent account of what they have done so far. I still have a huge amount of trouble grading this on a curve....it's gargantuan, but it had to be gargantuan, so hard to know. Neither Singh nor Scheer had a particularly convincing criticism. Scheer began his remarks not talking about the 356 billion deficit (border/airport issues) nor end them talking about the 356 billion deficit (the paltry 15 million for deputy prime ministers office). Singh of course has zero problems with that number eitherm just wants it spent more unrealistically.

Maybe Scheer should wear a mask the next time he is in an airport. And not pretend he was on the phone, even though that is still against the rules.

He is very well spoken. When originally they said 250 billion I thought it might be as high as 300 billion. 356 billion puts us over a trillion. I am more concerned were next year goes.

I didn't buy Scheers mask excuse either. I look forward to Mckay or Otoole taking over. I am very concerned wit h the increased air travel from the USA. How many folks actually quarantine for 14 days

There needs to be a clear path as to when CERB will end. I think I brought up my niece on here before who was asked to go back to her waitressing job. She refused and is continuing to collect CERB. I'm sure they will extend once again after the six months.. I also noted that my employer applied for and got CEWS. We did not hire back one single employee these last four months as the rules say you didn't have to, it was only encouraged. We will absolutely be hammered with future taxes. Look at TSX versus every US index....noone wants to put a dime in this country

I agree on CERB, these programs are hard to unwind and will be painful to unwind but it will have to happen, and soon.

TSX vs US is mainly oil. And also that the US markets are ****ing batshit crazy. Partly rational but bad (i.e. the system gave more money to corporate intrests relative to every day people compared to canada) and partly just irrational exubrance I think.

This is a very valid point. I know one person indirectly that got Covid. Though I know lots of folks collecting CERB were yes it meets the standards but they really do not need it. I also know many people that took the $40,000 dollar interest free loan with $10,000 forgiven that do not need it. Though there is some merit to the argument this money gets spent in the economy. Many of the businesses that really needed the $40,000 are just eligible this week with the new rules

2021 are we looking at a 100 billion $ deficit?

Though money is cheap and the interest payments are smaller today then what we paid on our debt last year. That stat blew me away

Here in Alberta I like the fact that Jason Kenney pumped a billion into infrastructure but further cutting corporate taxes is just plain stupid.

So the WE can we call it a scandal is getting spicier

Trudeau did not excuse himself from cabinet on the decision to ward a no bid contract of 900 million which should get him his 3rd Ethics violation and his brother, mother and wife all paid for speaking engagements.
Now the amounts pale in comparison to someone like Hilary .

I'm really, really, struggling to give any shits about this. Like I guess it isn't zero spice. But we are still talking about a 1/10, aren't we?

If we thought he was giving away this fairly small 20 million contract to personally enrich his family, or was paying back a favour, then I'd think that was pretty bad. But it seems more that they were working a lightening speed to create a tonne of covid-19 programs, didn't think the federal government had the capacity (and are correct about that) and was aware of a good charity he had worked with before that could do the task and so did a sole source bid just like the federal government very often does for things like this.

I think it's sort of similar to my opinion of SNC being massively overblown. That is, they did something they genuinely thought was best for the country (and I agreed with their analysis fwif), not of any nefarious intentions, but didn't follow perfect protocols to make it happen. Ok, you can think that is bad, I won't take that away from you, but I'm not going to be getting all excited about this without some more significant news.

So aslong as you are doing what you think is best for the country it's ok to abuse power or break rules and laws?

I didn't say that.

I actually think you did

nope, i really, really didn't.

Just gets worse gave more government $ to WE. Justin if its such a great charity Why would your family charge them?

Justin's excuse. I am not responsible to know what my brother, mother and wife do?

He is so lucky he has Donald Trump who folks measure him up against.

https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/its-...all_We_charity

For some Trudeau could shoot someone on Baystreet and it be ok

That 'opinion piece' is total trash holy **** lol Stephen Harper's head of communications

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5645781

This is a much more reasonable take on the situation.

I feel it's more of Trudeau being a cocky mfer and more or less what uke is saying. No one intelligent actually cares about an already famous family getting paid peanuts to speak for something. Justin isn't twisting his mustache saying MUAH I'm going to get my family PAID and you can't do anything about it.

Just streamed a good chunk of the ontario covid announcement. It was hyped, and I am impressed with how it went. The premier answered straight up like he wasn't afraid to admit when he didn't have an answer, and he passed it off to medical and financial aides who appear to be agreeing of parameters regarding their field of expertise and working together while "knowing their role"

Ontario covid announcement was good. Ford is navigating this well.

Oh its an opinion piece and heck even the CBC is being tough on him. I give him credit that he finally came out of the cottage to answer questions as the story wasn't going away just getting worse. Is it possible WE was the best charity to handle this? Of course. I do believe they only get 20 million of the billion. If only him and Bill had recused themselves in the decision.

In parliament the question was asked about his communications with WE prior to warding it and if the involved Justin. The minister refused to answer. I do not think the Conservatives need to ask for the RCMP to investigate but this will definitely add another ethics violation to his resume. Though remember folks HE did it for the children


I agree Ford has done a great job as has Kenney and not a fan of either. I think we can agree overall only one premier has done a bad job and its one of the reasons they have 1/2 the cases and 1/2 the deaths.

Though Florida had 15,000 cases in a day.

Lol at of all the articles out there - all of which are critical - lozen goes for the most over the top one from the most biased sources.

Appropriate and humble apology today. Even though this is pretty minor, it is still a mistake and appropriate to apologize for that, especially because of the unfortunate side consequence of the students whose summer will be significantly disrupted. Good job Trudeau for owning up to this mistake.

Excellent marks to Legaut whose has gotten a big boost in polling for his handling of the crisis, now by a good amount the most popular premier in the country. Presumbly quebecors are more capable of recognizing that the distribution in cases can only ever be partially a result of public policy moves. Quebec got unlucky, just like how italy blew up big or new york blew up big, etc. You have to go deeper than "lolzen 50%". Kenney......not so popular. https://nationalpost.com/news/canada...ting-most-poll