somehow, the liberals have managed to snatch imminent demographic irrelevancy away from the clutches of the right, and watched the conservatives build a natural governing coalition in the process.

what's left of the liberal voting coalition is going to be dead in five years - it's all fat, old, white men.

the liberals have suddenly become a party of gross, smelly, contemptible, revolting old men with disgusting religionist policies and that i would rather pepper spray than have a beer with.

it's a noticeable shift.

every time the liberals send somebody out to meet the cameras nowadays, it's the grossest loser i've ever seen.

they've become a party of middle-aged, balding, ugly, fat and mostly white men.

no.

the ruling is that the indigenous group always owned the land, and europeans just walked in and stole it. an analogy might be helpful.

suppose somebody steals your car, and sells it for a profit. the person that bought the stolen car has somewhat of a problem, in that they purchased stolen goods; they may not have known the goods were stolen, but they are now in unlawful possession of something that was stolen and have to return it if they learn the facts. now, there are two owners of the car - the rightful owner, who had the car stolen, and the person who bought the stolen car. in canadian law, the property must be seized and returned to the rightful owner that had their property stolen and it doesn't matter that you purchased the stolen property, you still have to return it, and can even go to jail if you know the property was stolen and choose to keep it, or evade enforcement around returning it.

i want to reiterate it that: in context, holding to fee simple on stolen property and choosing to evade enforcement is actually a crime that could lead to jail time. 

the government never owned the land, so the purchase of it from the crown was invalid. the land was stolen and needs to be returned. the people that purchased the land in fee simple bought land that was stolen, and it's just like buying a stolen car. some maybe didn't know, but most did and, frankly, they ought to be prosecuted for it.

once the property is returned to the party it was stolen from, the question as to compensation for the illegal sale becomes a civil issue, but the buyer really isn't guaranteed to recover those funds. that's what happens when you buy stolen goods from shady sources.

https://financialpost.com/opinion/is-your-house-just-going-to-be-declared-aboriginal-land-now

my understanding is that what they call "obamacare coverage" is what the health insurance industry elsewhere else calls "free consultation".

it's not a health care policy.

it's not even close.

did the democrats shut down congress for a month because insurance companies lobbied them to?

i can't prove that.

but, yes. probably. 

almost certainly.

i didn't write this article. i'm just posting it.

if i had made this obvious argument three weeks ago, you would have called me a conspiracy theorist, despite the obvious truth of it. it's there, though. you need to read between the lines a little.

that doesn't mean that trump or the republicans are the better choice, it means the democrats really aren't very much better, in truth, and that a lot of people allow themselves to delude themselves otherwise.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/16/insurers-pharma-drugs-obamacare-trump-lobbying-00652761

if the congress is going to waste it's time on gossip and tabloid-level discourse, maybe it's better if it stays shut down.

this is correct. the liberal party has, in line with increasing muslim immigration, taken increasingly pro-muslim foreign policy positions, and isn't interested in addressing the severe human rights consequence of islamic imperialism and arab colonialism in central and eastern africa or in the south-east asian region. we've become a bad global actor, and a borderline rogue state, and can be genuinely and honestly accused of increasingly providing material support for islamic terrorism. if canadians don't care about sudan, they should stop to wonder for a minute if these policies might eventually be used as a pretext for american military action, because the reality is that they would be justified in taking action to stop us from funding these terrorist networks.

the rsf is described as a "paramilitary group". it's a state-funded terrorist group and the uae is a state-sponsor of terrorism.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/sudan-uae-canada-carney-9.6976682

a hydro dam in iqaluit is a project of national importance?

the purpose of these projects is to increase stock prices, and that will probably work. almost none of this will get built.

the most important projects we could build that would benefit a majority of canadians would have to do with:

- planting trees

- increasing building efficiencies

- increasing inner city air quality using projects like green roofing

- healthcare investments

- education investments

- housing investments

- electric transportation infrastructure

there's not a trace of any of that in the government's priorities. it's all mining and fossil fuels.

instead of building projects to increase the quality of life for canadians, carney is concerned solely in building export economies designed to generate profit at the expense of quality of life and, more importantly, to benefit foreign investors, and that should have been obvious to voters, but wasn't.

we need an immediate election. the conservatives might win, but that would send the liberals the memo from canadians and be a better outcome than letting the liberals govern like conservatives.

to be clear: we need more hydro power development, and i would support more money for more hydro more generally, but the population of baffin island, which is more than twice the size of britain, is less than 15,000. that's the population of a city block in toronto. even if climate change accelerates off the rails, that area will still have six month long polar nights with weeks of -50 weather, and these rivers being considered to be dammed will freeze over solid for months of the year for decades or centuries to come. it's nonsense.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/second-round-major-projects-nation-building-9.6976532

my father, however, would have argued that gretzky was overrated, and that mario lemiuex was a better hockey player, but it's probably because he was french canadian.

i know a fair amount about wayne gretzky, and it's not exactly because i'm canadian. my father has a hockey nut. i didn't share his interest, as a kid, and he found that hard to understand, but he knew i liked to read. he bought me a fair number of sports related books, including books by ken dryden and an autobiography of gretzky, up to the mid 90s, as written by a ghost writer. 

so, i read gretzky's autobiography when i was a kid. i was about ten. that's how i know he didn't go to high school.

he didn't go to high school because he was a child hockey prodigy and he didn't make the time to finish grade school while playing professional hockey, as a child. nowadays, he wouldn't be allowed to do that. further, he states in his book, via his ghost writer, that he regrets not finishing grade school, as it left him unable to do basic tasks for himself, like count how much money he has. his agent ripped him off pretty badly.

gretzky commands a lot of respect on the canadian political right, but the truth is that what is known about his public life experiences suggest he wouldn't be very good at tabling a budget.

it's not even clear if he can count to 92.

i was initially considering buying a makeup table for the bathroom, and i still might, but i first need to look at getting a mirror over the sink, with some lights. i'm going to have to screw it over a window, so it's a little awkward. i was going to buy a $40 light fixture with four 100 watt replaceable bulbs, then turn it into a plug-in lamp by connecting it to a lamp cord i can plug into the wall, which would cost an extra $25. then, i'd need to buy a $50ish mirror.

it turns out that there's currently a lot of mirrors on the market that essentially do this for you in one step, but they're in an extremely disappointing state, at the moment. first, if i'm going to buy a mirror with built in lights, i need to be able to screw the bulbs in and out and that is instantly going to tripe or quadruple the price. it makes essentially no sense to spend $100 on a disposable mirror with lights, but the alternative is spending $300 on the same thing in order to get screw in lights. second, while essentially all of these mirrors have an operating system installed in them that allows for touch functions in the mirror, the only thing these programmable mirrors can do is turn the lights up and down, which is trivial and useless. a programmable smart mirror should allow the user to zoom in and out like they can on their phone, and to alter the brightness of the reflected image in real time, like you would in a basic photo editing software. i have yet to find anything like that; what i've found are $1000 mirrors that show you the weather in the form of a windows vista gadget and are probably connected directly to cia data centres as intelligence gathering tools (what a perfect surveillance tool, eh?), or that let you stream netflix in the background, like we needed another kind of fucking tv. instead, you have to buy smaller mirrors with built in magnifying levels (2x, 3x, 10x, 20x) on different screens, and no zoom functionality. if you want to zoom in to 5.5x and then out to 3x and then into 10x, on the fly in real time, you're at best needing to find an app for your phone or ipad instead of a smart mirror, but the truth is that such a thing doesn't seem to exist at all.

a smart mirror should be a smart mirror! the future ought to be in smart mirrors with stub versions of android installed in the mirror that allow it to act as a smarter mirror with usable smart mirror functionality, but we're not there yet.

so, i don't know what i'm going to do, yet.