If Article 5 is invoked, Russia ceases to exist overnight.

The evening of the first day Russia fucks up, the US demonstrates why Americans don’t have healthcare. It swoops in with a couple dozen stealth fighters, eliminates air-defence, decapitates the entire chain of command, then levels every military and military-adjacent structure from west to east and east to west and south to north at the same time. I sincerely doubt a single American life would be lost.

By morning, there’s nothing of consequence left, and regular NATO fighters have control of the skies, taking out leftover smaller targets and industrial infrastructure… and that’s it, game over.

My lunatic anti-vax, anti-pharma, anti-government mother in Grande Prairie will eat this shit up.

Let’s not forget that his shithead junkie brother cancelled MOST of Transit City – a plan developed & designed for maximum impact for the least expense… Costing the city of Toronto nearly $100M in wasted work and cancellation penalties (which massively benefitted developers).

He fought like hell for the city to build subways rather than surface rail on a separated grade from cars, which is far cheaper, and nearly as effective as subways when approaching streetcars get priority from traffic lights.

Just have to get more than 41% of people to show up to vote for a provincial election.

Mike Harris’ wife says “Thank You”.

If you want to look up why sociopaths are so desperate to get into political offices, just look at the example of griftmeister Mike Harris.

Yeah, I see no problem putting #SpaceKaren in charge of our telecommunications.

Oh. Wait. He turns off Starlink to entire countries when he feels like it, and tells entire countries to fuck off when they ask for reasonable limits on accounts of bad actors. There’s also a very odd connection to Russia… a lot of this exceedingly bizarre behaviour started after having met with Putin a couple years back.

Relying on this increasinly unreliable idiot for anything is a bad idea.

Burning debris in the upper atmosphere has unknown effets on the environment,

Man, just wait until you find out about naturally occurring meteors… They’re loaded with metal and are vaporized in the upper atmosphere 24x7x365… and have been doing so for pretty much all of the 4 billion years the planet has been around.

Sorry, how much is PP’s net worth? Working a government job? And having earned his pension in his 30’s?

Pot. Kettle. Black.

Let them say with a straight face that they’re not using ClearView AI (or something similar) to identify protesters who aren’t committing any crimes, then I might have an ounce of sympathy.

The hypocrisy is what gets me… Yeah, axe the tax… But let the forests keep burning, the rain keep flooding, the heat keep broiling people and droughts starving us…

It’s not rocket surgery… Make the thing that is bad for us more expensive, and use that money to make things that are good for us LESS expensive. I still don’t know why there isn’t a tax on gasoline and diesel and natural gas that doesn’t DIRECTLY fund public transit…

Just wait until you find out his brother wrote a one-page memo on mayoral letterhead, cancelling a transit project that had been years in the making, and with the stroke of a pen costing the city nearly $100 million dollars in wasted effort and cancellation penalties. Oh, and the beneficiaries are the same construction-and-development types that Drug Fraud is courting with changing zoning laws and paving over agricultural land for an expressway that nobody asked for.

Yeah, Ford wants Singh to know that, in no uncertain terms, he should be grifting his way to a fabulously wealthy retirement by lending political favours to developers and private healthcare companies, just like Mike Harris did.

So we need to make them care again with regulations, fines, and even criminal charges when it reaches that threshold

It’s a crown corp. “We investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing.” is the order of the day.

If you can’t negotiate and come to an agreement with your union, and ask the government to intervene, the government should impose conditions that are better than what the union is asking for.

I mean, they won’t do it… Even though CN made $5B last year, and $4B the year before that, then turned around and spent most of it on stock buy-backs to inflate their share price, making insiders an insane amount of money…

Works in Ontario. A friend of mine generates 2x to 4x more power than he uses. He had a 10k kW solar roof put in, it faces south, and the pitch of his roof was actually optimized for power output in the winter. His heat is propane, which isn’t optimal from an environmental aspect, but it’s modern and otherwise power-efficient.

Yeah, I wonder if they considered at all the consequence of potentially having BOTH CN and CPKS in the position to strike. Or, if they did, and this is what they came up with… Wow. What a fuckup.

Hard to make a comment when your mouth is full with the dicks from the C-suite at CN and CPKS.

And less than 48 hours later… The union serves strike notice. These greedy fucks are going to get what’s coming to them.

In the old days, greedy fucks who tried to break the union ended up getting dragged from their homes in the middle of the night and beaten to death on their front lawns, often in front of their families. So, like… That’s your history lesson for the day.

In case you were wondering why CN and CPKC are fighting so hard against this… It amounts to a rounding error on their balance sheet at the end of the year. They’ve spent nearly $10 BILLION on stock buybacks since the start of the pandemic.

They could double the number of unionized workers, and it would make practically no difference to their bottom line. They could triple the union’s demands, and again, the real-world cost in dollars in negligible, but the real-world improvement in safety and standard of living for the workers would be incredible.

But they won’t do it without being forced, because… greed.

If the government gets involved, it should mandate that the union gets 2x or 3x their demands. 7% raise? Now it’s 14%. 14 days vacation? Now it’s 28. Unions are asking to reduce shifts from 16 hours to 12? Congratulations. Now it’s 8.

If companies force the government to get involved, it’s the companies that should get fucked in the ass with a stick for dicking around.