I mean he’s not winning the election anyway, may as well go for it.

I wonder what would happen if he announced tomorrow that he had a really good acid trip the other day and came to the conclusion that what the government must do is abandon the F-35 jet fighter deal, stop subsidizing oil companies, stop subsidizing car companies, stop pretending that rapid population growth is good for us, nationalize most of the telecom sector, get serious about fighting back the power of the other oligopolies that run most of the country, double the carbon tax, cut the income tax, eliminate most of the deductions that make it so complex, tax capital gains at the same rate as other income, consult with economic experts willing to design an effective regime for preventing businesses from growing too large, renew efforts for electoral reform, cancel all the bad Internet bills, fund electrified passenger rail transport, and run all government systems with 100% free software.

Mark Carney, apparently. I thought he was still Governor of the Bank of England, but he went on to work for Brookfield and Bloomberg and is now being talked about as a likely successor to Trudeau. Perhaps Canada will follow a few years behind the UK. Some seemingly endless years of thorough mismanagement by the increasingly delusional Conservatives, followed by a nominally left-wing party lurching to the right to occupy the conservative but slightly less-insane position the Tories once held.

The problem remains: Who else have they got?

… rather than advocating for a two-state solution comprised of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Oh, so those are the two states everyone keeps talking about. Thanks for explaining, National Post!

The contrast illustrated here between the reporting on the least salubrious of the groups angry about Israel committing genocide and the reporting on Canada First, which gets a very brief mention, is certainly interesting.

If they annoyed everyone in the area, became a public nuisance for a year, and left behind a big mess, well that is a small price to pay for the nation’s children finally being saved.

I hope the Greens make a comeback. They were the “can’t vote for any of these other charlatans” party of my youth.

If they manage to do it by 2029 it will have been roughly one quarter of a century since it became obvious to anyone who cared to look into it that it needed doing.

It really isn’t. Today’s unpowered gliders are astoundingly capable compared to anything the Wright brothers lived to see, and that they’re not suitable for replacing all of commercial aviation as it exists today should not be taken as a slight against them.

Most of it will need to be replaced by ground-based transport.

It’s more appealing to everyone, irrespective of age. Wikipedia suggests that it’s been popular since the 19th century at latest. It was flavoured cigarillos that were the first tobacco products that tempted me, at a young age but not a child. Later, when I was much old, if pleasingly-flavoured vapes had been unavailable I would’ve had a much more difficult time quitting the nicotine.

But anyway, it’s the misguided notion that enjoying things which taste good is childish that I find offensive. Advocate for banning all tobacco and I can’t really say you’re wrong to suggest it, but don’t fall for that nonsense.

first commercial flight on an electric plane

Oh, it’s a flight school. Perhaps it’s not a scam, then. Places where electric planes might make commercial sense: Pretty much anywhere you could use an unpowered glider.

If anyone’s claiming that any of these things is equivalent to another it isn’t me, but marketing campaigns aimed at children (for tobacco and in general) are also something we’d be better off without.

Tobacco is the health hazard to children and adults alike, not the flavours added to it. But that’s another moral panic.

What a joke politics has become. Since the 1990s “protect the children” has become a perennial excuse for absurd legislation that does nothing of the sort, and not one party has learned how to stand firm against the calumnious deceit of the people who habitually abuse it. The Liberals feel confident enough to oppose this bill only because they have their own which is almost as bad.

Strange to think that only a few generations ago Canada was known for “good government.”

It would seem highly improbable that Trudeau will ever see past the edge of the reality distortion field generated by his own ego interacting with the sycophants surrounding him.

Canada’s total trade balance with the world came in at a surplus of $367 million in February compared with a deficit of $595 million in January.

That is the most interesting of these various data points and ought to be the headline, not buried right at the bottom. Stats Canada is as much to blame as the journalists, who have demonstrated conclusively that they can never be expected to understand anything involving numbers.

But anyway it’s good to see Canada’s balance of trade looking a little more healthy than it did for most of the past 15 years.

strings attached

Don’t worry about those strings, housing developers know exactly where to find those giant ceremonial scissors.

I don’t know about “credit” but Canada does get lots of international recognition for its fossil fuels exports. If we replace the carbon tax with new carbon subsidies I imagine we can garner even more such attention pretty quickly.

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Oh, I guess that really was the whole thing then. I’m sympathetic to the premise that BC might be doing better than Ontario recently in housing policy, but it’s unclear how much cherry-picking was involved in finding that one data point. Considering how far prices had risen out West it’s going take more than that to convince me that they’re “beating it back.”