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And then: A guy named Milton Friedman wrote a six page essay titled "The Social Responsibility Of Business Is to Increase Its Profits", which, through leaders like Ronald Reagan and Margret Thatcher ushered in the age of neo-liberal economics that basically said the bottom line is everything...

Useless Trivia: The singer of "The Purple People Eater", one Sheb Wooley, is also credited with being the voice behind the "Wilhelm Scream", a sound bite that has achieved a cult following among motion picture sound editors.

That line probably sells in Alberta of Sakatchewan, but not anywhere else. The oil producers themselves have been hammering away at trade unions (and wages in general) since the bottom came out of the market in 2014, it was the same no matter what government was in power federally or provincially.

That's true, McDonalds has great coffee. And it fits the same specifications as everything else on their menu, you don't need teeth.

Yup. Hot market here in BC's Okanagan Valley. Prices dropping all over, sales inventory up. About freaking time.

Russel Brand, an out-of-work stand-up comic who found he can make more money generating clicks on YouTube than he could cracking one liners at seedy bars. Whatever pays the bills.

No TV down there?

What leads you to believe that? I have found Mr. Poilievre to be conspicuously short on actual policy suggestions, and the issues that he is using to froth up his supporters are more designed to stoking the populist fires than actually producing positive change. He is just a politician, and a...

Gotta give her some credit for being willing to put herself out there like that.

I think it became obvious that Kenney was not the one to lead a fight against Notely's NDP in the next provincial election, the NDP have been polling well ahead of the UCP for some time now based largely on Kenney's unpopularity. While Brian Jean is a front runner in the race to succeed Kenney...

Twitter users rallied around plus sized model and recording artist Yumi Nu after Jordan Peterson posted an unsolicited opinion on her appearance as a Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition cover model that she was "not beautiful". A storm of responses tore him apart prompting him to say he was...

What am I missing here ? What does a war half way around the planet have to do with gas prices in Western Canada ? We produce more than we use, the costs of production and transport haven't changed, and the oil producers are bragging about record profits. It's clear who the winners are.

I love this shit. There's something to be said for simple escapism.

I'm looking forward to seeing how the series progresses, what sort of mix of "stand-alone episodes" and multi-episode story arc they choose. The first episode was pretty much an introductory, meet the new crew outing.

Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerer's ways.

I'm not against it, I'm for it being distributed more fairly.

True. Could be a lot of things. GDP is not an accurate barometer of how average Canadians are doing.

"Cut government spending" is an easy default position, but things get awfully quiet when it comes time to suggest where the cuts should be made. At the other end of the equation, nobody in government wants to talk about raising revenues. The corporate tax rate is less than half of what it was...

There's that. If you read in investment circles there is a widespread consensus that we will be in a recession by the end of 2022, or 2023 at the latest. Efforts by central banks to cool an overheated economy and curb runaway inflation will have an effect on productivity by making it harder to...

You have an odd idea of what constitutes "help". ;)