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  1. Ron in Regina

    Canadian Federal Election Outcome October 20th (or 27th?), 2025.

    ….& here we are halfway through an election cycle, being the shortest allowed by law, and Jagmeet Singh & his Coalition NPD/Libs are absolutely tanking. No longer being the blue collar party they started as many decades ago, and being completely tone deaf to the taxpayers, or to the concept...
  2. Ron in Regina

    Kelly McParland: How decades of Liberal indifference created Danielle Smith

    The Liberal leader and prime minister was asked if he would make a commitment. A solid concrete commitment to do everything in his power to see that new oil and gas pipelines and new LNG projects will be on the list of projects he wants built. Carney made no such commitment...
  3. Ron in Regina

    The Tarriff Hype.

    And they’re still more than what? 1/3 are the global population…& their combined economies are…? Significant? And BRICS is now more than just a core countries whose letters are represented.
  4. Ron in Regina

    The Tarriff Hype.

    Things are a mess right now. It might be a port in the storm. I wouldn’t count it out.
  5. Ron in Regina

    The Tarriff Hype.

    Did the BRICS go away? Really? And now many countries are being forced to reassess the relationships between themselves and others…& find alternative trading partners to avoid Trump & his instability at least to some extent to at least partially insulate themselves from his bipolar flip...
  6. Ron in Regina

    Canadian Federal Election Outcome October 20th (or 27th?), 2025.

    Nationally, the volume and severity of crimes has gone up since 2015 — with Statistics Canada reporting a third consecutive annual increase in 2023, when the agency's "Crime Severity Index" went up two per cent from 2022. Toronto police statistics show reported shooting incidents in the city...
  7. Ron in Regina

    The Tarriff Hype.

    Without naming the U.S., Mr. Xi called on the European Union to join China in resisting “unilateral bullying,” and noted the two economies account for “one-third of the world’s total economic volume.” “There will be no winners in a tariff war, and going against the world will isolate oneself,”...
  8. Ron in Regina

    Mark Carney (Trudeau Liberal Replacement) as PM

    (YouTube & Liz Truss on Mark Carney) http://apple.news/AaFOaREV2Rim8qebh8ukJxQ Carney has no love lost for Truss either…
  9. Ron in Regina

    Mark Carney (Trudeau Liberal Replacement) as PM

    Liberal Leader Mark Carney says he had never heard of a pro-Beijing lobby group in the Toronto area despite photos on the Jiangsu Commerce Council of Canada’s website showing him with members of its leadership.🤥 He was asked Thursday about Peter Yuen, the Liberal Party candidate for the Ontario...
  10. Ron in Regina

    The Tarriff Hype.

    Speaking at the White House, Trump said: “We think we’re in very good shape. We think we’re doing very well. Again there will be a transition cost, transition problems, but in the end it’s going to be a beautiful thing.” http://apple.news/AyCbOUTTpT6-mmrohKVu_FQ The market seems to be in a state...
  11. Ron in Regina

    The Tarriff Hype.

    The fight is between Xi & Trump, we’re collateral damage in the middle, along with 180 other countries I’m assuming.
  12. Ron in Regina

    Have You Been Polled?

    In person on our doorstep.
  13. Ron in Regina

    The Tarriff Hype.

    Is Brazil the only BRICS (original ones) that’s not a nuclear power?
  14. Ron in Regina

    Have You Been Polled?

    The Sunday that the election was announced was the first and last time I spoke to anybody about the election, officially.
  15. Ron in Regina

    The Tarriff Hype.

    Or Americans are going to have to pay more for products from China until/if they can be sourced elsewhere depending on what they are, etc…
  16. Ron in Regina

    The Tarriff Hype.

    Ok, why get rid of gold?
  17. Ron in Regina

    Mark Carney (Trudeau Liberal Replacement) as PM

    The Liberal candidate selected by Mark Carney to replace one who was dropped over a China-related controversy is a member of a Beijing-friendly lobby organization and has given talks at events honouring a Toronto group that advocates for the annexation of Taiwan by China. Onetime Toronto police...
  18. Ron in Regina

    The Tarriff Hype.

    Shortly after US markets opened on Wednesday morning, Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social: “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT”. Less than four hours later, he shocked investors by announcing a 90-day pause on additional trade tariffs on most countries except China, sending...
  19. Ron in Regina

    The Tarriff Hype.

    Asked why White House aides had been insisting for weeks that the tariffs were not part of a negotiation, Trump said: “A lot of times, it’s not a negotiation until it is.” There’s the consistency for businesses to plan around. Stock markets, etc…
  20. Ron in Regina

    I bought some silver the other day...

    I have a big set of bolt cutters, and ethics that don’t allow me to use them.