https://c2cjournal.ca/2025/02/not-bluffing-donald-trump-and-canadas-role-in-the-defence-of-north-america/
“The geopolitical stakes could not be higher for the U.S. No longer fully protected by two vast oceans and all-but impenetrable expanses of Arctic ice and tundra, the world’s threats are lapping at its shores and encroaching upon its land borders.”
“ It is also worth noting that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, whose idea for a Canadian “border czar” became the basis for the recent creation of a Canadian “fentanyl czar”, recently suggested that Canada and the U.S. jointly build a large NORAD operating base in the Arctic. So far, just one small Canadian base of this sort is actually under construction.
Whatever one might think of Donald Trump the man – and it seems millions of Canadians have chosen to hate him – people need to set aside their emotions sufficiently to at least recognize that Trump the President is dead-serious in his foreign policy goals, including or perhaps especially as it concerns the security of the regions ringing his country. Placed under threat of tariffs, Mexico just one week ago agreed to deploy 10,000 troops to its northern border to help interdict drugs and illegal migrants. Canadians – and Canada’s federal government – need to accept that Trump clearly expects action and not just soothing multi-media “narrative”. For Canada, the U.S. President’s defence spending demands are almost certainly just the beginning.”
My mother quit working for the Calgary school board when ritalin was being handed out like candy
https://x.com/DeChristianLife/status/1942206978643919113
So well expressed!
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During the COVID-19 nightmare, I started following the writing of a professor who calls himself Eugyppius and who has recently retired in Germany. He has turned his sharp wit on what passes for informed governance in that country.
The relentless and highly concentrated stupidity of our rulers is a very great weight to bear. Every day they devise some fantastic new and heretofore inconceivable retardation.
Now that is next-level sarcastic humour!
I read his comment after filling out a City of Calgary questionnaire regarding plans to remove LRT parking and replace it with high rise apartments. Densification is the way to go, doncha know? Is this too an example of "inconceivable retardation."
In the questionnaire, I was asked what I like about my older vintage neighbourhood with mature trees, and mostly single-family dwellings. In response, I responded that I liked,
…the wide variety of home ownership options ... The area is mature and not "cookie cutter", which is a good ...
https://x.com/cnm5000/status/1941877185624916463
The Alberta Prosperity Project
has published a well researched, in depth report on a “draft fiscal plan” for an independent Alberta.
Not everyone has the time or inclination to wade through 43 pages; here is a short 4 minute “executive summary” for y’all.
@JeffreyRWRath
@ABProsperityPrj