Quote from: Lokmar on Today at 11:15:54 AMFundie Christianity vs fundie islam is no contest. Millions more die and suffer under fundie islam. I am also not aware of fundie pislamists having a change of heart and denouncing the murder of non pislamists in their midst. In fact, their behavior continues today.

How can anyone take people seriously who compare Christianity and Judaism to Islam. Only Islam kills people for leaving their death cult.

The Southern Poverty Law Center was federally indicted on April 21 for allegedly funneling millions of dollars to the very racist and extremist groups it claimed to be fighting, including the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nation, the American Front, United Klans of America, and the National Socialist Party of America.

The Alabama-headquartered smear- and fearmongering racket — charged with six counts of wire fraud, four counts of making false statements to a federally insured bank, and one count of conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering — pleaded not guilty on Thursday to all counts.

Quote from: DKG on Today at 09:48:16 AMMark Carney is performative not subatantive. He ran on specific economic promises that he hasn't even tried to fulfill. And the economic reforms this country needed yesterday he will not touch. But, his followers think he is a competent manager.

The easy fixes Carney isn't doing
If his whole plan to boost the economy, there are many levers he hasn't pulled

One year into the tenure of Prime Minister Mark Carney, it would be fair to say that his government is already flagging on its management of the economy, arguably the singular issue for why it was elected.

Unemployment is up. Deficits are high. Manufacturing is down. And the trade war with the United States – which Carney had once pledged to wrap up by last June – is now lurching into stalemate as U.S. negotiators pledge to take a hard line on renegotiations of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA).

Carney's economic strategy has focused heavily on offices and documents pledging to reverse all of these trends. A memorandum of understanding to build a pipeline to the Pacific. A Major Projects Office promising to "unlock Canada's economic potential." And nearly a dozen non-committal trade "deals" with non-U.S. countries.

But all the while, his government is neglecting some of the country's most obvious economic fixes — fixes that are often cited by economists and business leaders as to why Canada's fiscal decline persists.

Below, a cursory guide to some of the easier economic levers that are going unpulled by Ottawa. 

Repealing the industrial carbon tax

As Carney demonstrated after his swearing in, repealing taxes is extremely easy for a prime minister to do. All he had to do was order the carbon tax to be zeroed, and gas prices across the country dropped almost immediately.

As such, it would take about the same amount of effort to repeal Canada's other, less well-known, carbon tax: The industrial carbon tax.

Although it isn't itemized in the same way as the consumer carbon tax, a March report by the Fraser Institute estimated that it will slow down the economy just enough to equal $1,730 in lost income per employed Canadian by 2030.

The Conservatives have put the industrial carbon tax at the centre of their messaging against the Carney government, although the campaign has never managed to seize the public's imagination to the same extent as their crusade against the consumer carbon tax.

But businesses are indeed citing it as something that is scaring away investment.

Just this week, Cenovus Energy CEO Jon McKenzie told a conference outside Montreal that no other oil-producing nation maintains a similar tax, so rather than its intended purpose of incentivizing decarbonization, it "incents industry to invest outside of Canada."

"We have created a set of national policies and regulations that make resource development and investment in Canada uncompetitive with the rest of the world," he said.

Repealing the tanker ban

Right now, it is illegal to sail an oil tanker into the one stretch of Canadian coastline where it would be most profitable to establish an oil export port.

Under the 2019 Oil Tanker Moratorium Act, export tankers are forbidden from entering any of the waters between the Northern tip of Vancouver Island and the Alaska border.

That's the closest stretch of coastline to the oil sands, and it's been earmarked as a pipeline terminus before. The Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline, cancelled in 2016, had been planned to end in Kitimat, B.C.

If Northern Gateway had been built on schedule, it would currently be exporting 525,000 barrels of oil per day. Which, at today's elevated oil prices, is about $44 million worth.

All the while, the tanker ban has very specifically been cited as the reason no other company has stepped up to build a pipeline to the Northwest Coast.

"The previous government's tanker ban effectively makes that export pipeline illegal. No company would build a pipeline to nowhere," Enbridge CEO Greg Ebel told a meeting of the Empire Club of Canada last October.

He added, "the tanker ban is a great example of how things will have to change to allow our country to maximize its economic potential."

And the Carney government could feasibly scrap the provisions of the tanker ban within a matter of days.

In fact, it would be rescinded just as easily as the Digital Services Tax, which Carney suddenly axed last June amid trade negotiations with the U.S.

All he had to do was instruct the Department of Finance to issue a statement saying that they wouldn't be enforcing the terms of the Digital Services Tax Act, and would repeal it in full at the next session of Parliament.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/easy-fixes-carney-isnt-doing

Unsustainable mass immigration. That is why we cannot have nice things in Canada.

Quote from: Herman on May 11, 2026, 10:39:43 PM

The Democrats want throw out the entire court because their plan to disenfranchise forty eight percent of the state's voters was ruled illegal.

Quote from: Blazor on Today at 11:47:08 AMLast week was 4 hours a day, 5 days. Which wasn't THAT bad, they are trying to work with me, but damn, I hate that place. This week is 6 hours a day, 5 days. Knee was hurting a lil last night, and so was my foot on the good leg. Next week is 8 hours, 5 days, and busy season is coming in a few weeks.

I need a change. Started looking at other jobs last week. Sunday I was exploring ideas in my head of what I could do differently. Really not certain what to do.

I thought you liked working there Blazor....is the change of heart due to your surgery?

My brother called me and told me he fell and suffered a dislocated shoulder.....has anyone here ever had that or know of someone who did?

Can it be repaired without surgery?

How long is the recovery?

Quote from: Shen Li on May 11, 2026, 11:29:12 PMOh wow. I thought your return was next week.

How are you adjusting? Are you doing 5 days/40 hours a week?

Last week was 4 hours a day, 5 days. Which wasn't THAT bad, they are trying to work with me, but damn, I hate that place. This week is 6 hours a day, 5 days. Knee was hurting a lil last night, and so was my foot on the good leg. Next week is 8 hours, 5 days, and busy season is coming in a few weeks.

I need a change. Started looking at other jobs last week. Sunday I was exploring ideas in my head of what I could do differently. Really not certain what to do.

Quote from: Herman on May 11, 2026, 10:25:59 PM

That's most people with families....we reject partisan politics and labels.

Quote from: DKG on Today at 09:58:49 AMAs I have said to cc in the past I will not get drawn into debates on religious texts. But, the problem as I see it with the anti Islam side is they assume all Muslims are devout. There are nominal Muslims just like there are nominal Jews and protestants. I am a nominal Catholic.

I know fundamentalism is dangerous. I have never disputed that. But, just because someone claims a certain religion we should not assume they are in the extremist camp. Everybody is an individual. I know this because I grew up around Muslims.

Fundie Christianity vs fundie islam is no contest. Millions more die and suffer under fundie islam. I am also not aware of fundie pislamists having a change of heart and denouncing the murder of non pislamists in their midst. In fact, their behavior continues today.

Quote from: Dove on Today at 01:50:38 AMI know. People who are unfamiliar with Christianity and Islam just kinda think "Meh. They are Abrahamic religions" and think these are comparable world views.

 And they are so fucking NOT. I mean Christianity built the western world. The principles of liberty and justice are borrowed directly from the word of God. People who hate "religion" hate this. Its true though.

 I wish people would dig deeper and really seek to understand more before they discard ideas or facts. But when people have their own issues and jobs and families to take care of, the tendency is to simplify and make a quick judgement. I GET it. But it's dangerous to do.

 Because one of these "Abraham's religions" built our whole way of life and grant us our human rights and human dignity....and the other is seeking to destroy it. And is making scary good progress in their 100 year plan.

 You will never see Christains seeking to live by the laws of the old covenant. Those were only for a certain chosen people for a certain time in human history and the core belief of Christianity is that Jesus fulfilled the requirements of the law and we are only reconciled to God through Him. Youll never see them setting up some government and forcing people to walk with Jesus. The gospel opposes that. People either come to Jesus or they don't and Christains are told to let them do as they will.

 And Islam? They will take the world by force for Allah and slaughter all enemies of allah....as commanded in the demonic books they live by.

As I have said to cc in the past I will not get drawn into debates on religious texts. But, the problem as I see it with the anti Islam side is they assume all Muslims are devout. There are nominal Muslims just like there are nominal Jews and protestants. I am a nominal Catholic.

I know fundamentalism is dangerous. I have never disputed that. But, just because someone claims a certain religion we should not assume they are in the extremist camp. Everybody is an individual. I know this because I grew up around Muslims.