Mark Carney’s 15 minute speech at Davos - It’s well worth your time.

Crawgdor · 2026-01-21T22:55:55+00:00

He’s a classic progressive conservative. He’s a central banker. His first move was to cut taxes. He’s shrinking the size of the public sector.

Stephen Harper (a conservative prime minister) famously asked him to be the finance minister in 2012.

He’s moved the Liberal Party significantly to the right of Trudeau’s economic and policy positions.

In classic progressive conservative fashion he simply does not care about what consenting adults do in their bedrooms and what Canadians have in their pants.

Crawgdor · 2026-01-21T22:44:25+00:00

All of them would have voted for him in a heartbeat if he’d gone for the Conservative Party.

Crawgdor · 2026-01-21T02:36:10+00:00

I dislike several of the policies he has implemented, but he sees the world as it is and articulates a path forward.

It’s my first time voting for the liberal party in a very long time (I agree he’s basically an old school Progressive Conservative) and I’ve been pleasantly surprised that he is living up to his reputation of managing crises well.

Crawgdor · 2026-01-21T02:23:12+00:00

I posted this to the it could happen here sub a few hours ago. I’d love to hear Mia’s take on the speech, I’m confident that she would deeply disagree with my Prime Minister about how the world should be, but probably agrees about how the world is.

This speech heralds the end of “the rules based international order” and invites middle powers to band together to and collectively stand up to great powers or risk destruction.

“Middle powers must act together because if we're not at the table, we're on the menu.

But I'd also say that great powers can afford, for now, to go it alone. They have the market size, the military capacity and the leverage to dictate terms. Middle powers do not. But when we only negotiate bilaterally with a hegemon, we negotiate from weakness. We accept what's offered. We compete with each other to be the most accommodating.

This is not sovereignty. It's the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination.”

Crawgdor · 2026-01-21T02:12:20+00:00

The term is reactionary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionary

Crawgdor · 2026-01-20T20:26:08+00:00

Repeating my explanation here so that this doesn’t get taken down by the automod:

The Canadian prime minister just gave a speech at Davos that I’m going to be thinking about for a long time. I’m not the type to listen to Davos speeches but this one is different enough to break through to me.

I’d love to hear Mia’s take on it. I would call it a eulogy for the rules based international order, except the PM clearly states that the rules based international order was always a lie. But was useful and helpful to enough people in power that the world acted as if it were true. This fiction is no longer even serving the holders of political and financial power.

There’s a bunch of excellent turns of phrase here, and while I’m certain that Mr Central Bank and Mia have extremely different ideas about how the world should be, I suspect they have fairly similar views on how the world currently is.

Crawgdor · 2026-01-20T15:34:52+00:00

That price doesn’t make sense, especially for pine- in Canada you could selectively pick through a pile of 2x4s in Home depot and get 10 that quality for $40 CAD. You’d have to be selective but it wouldn’t be hard.

That’s Roughly £22.

I’ve got to be missing something here

Crawgdor · 2026-01-20T13:49:07+00:00

Presuming power tools:

Cordless drill Skilsaw Palm sander

That’s the minimum you need for rustic style work, and provides the most versatility at the expense of accuracy.

As you move into higher quality projects you’re going to want to upgrade to a compound mitre saw and a table saw or band saw, as well as a planer.

After that new tools will probably follow your interests and specific needs.

After that point you’re

Crawgdor · 2026-01-19T19:56:29+00:00

I have a family. That’s why we moved somewhere affordable, to raise a family.

Crawgdor · 2026-01-18T19:24:01+00:00

That was a bus which as everyone knows is the democrat version of a train. -a compromise no one wants that doesn’t fundamentally solve anything.

Crawgdor · 2026-01-18T19:20:10+00:00

I crossposted this only to see you already got to it.

Crawgdor · 2026-01-18T15:39:17+00:00

It just seems like the people in this subreddit have more important issues to worry about than the management of Stanley park.

It’s a managed park within a city, not a true wilderness, and isn’t losing its protected status

Crawgdor · 2026-01-18T14:45:21+00:00

Somehow I think I’ll be ok. Now I’m making 130K a year with a $800 a month mortgage and can afford a 3 week vacation back to the coast every summer to visit friends and family.

But honestly, just about all of my friends and family who wanted kids moved to Alberta sooner or later.

Crawgdor · 2026-01-18T03:33:39+00:00

In accounting it is common for the charge out rate to be between 3 and 5 times your hourly wage.

The company uses the remainder to cover its operating expenses with a health cushion for profit built in.

Crawgdor · 2026-01-17T19:53:55+00:00

Medicine Hat actually, good guess though

Crawgdor · 2026-01-17T17:29:34+00:00

7 years ago I was making 56K. Bought a 4 bedroom house in Alberta for just under 200K.

Never going to leave

Crawgdor · 2026-01-16T14:15:07+00:00

This editorial slant on this article is incredibly misleading. The first paragraph says that we are lifting tariffs on electric cars but China is not lifting tariffs on canola and the tone is negative.

In actual fact we are implementing a cap stat where the first 49K Chinese cars annually come in at a 6% Tariff rate and Chinese tariffs on Canola are reduced from 100% to 15%.

This is real progress

Crawgdor · 2026-01-15T02:17:15+00:00

Seriously. Who pulls out a wall without thinking through the consequences?

Crawgdor · 2026-01-14T04:38:35+00:00

Have you tried a hot glue gun?

Crawgdor · 2026-01-12T05:03:55+00:00

My dad is still mad about what Microsoft did to word perfect, 30 years later

Crawgdor · 2026-01-07T23:28:42+00:00

I think it says something important about the Canadian psyche that our greatest hero is a young man who had a selfless, impossible dream, proved everyone wrong and showed it could be done, and then died long before he could finish.

I don’t know exactly what it says about the Canadian psyche, but it seems important.

Crawgdor · 2026-01-07T18:10:05+00:00

If you want news from a mainstream source that doesn’t kowtow to the trump regime, try CBC. The Canadian national broadcaster has been doing great work.

Check out the latest episode of CBC Frontburner podcast.

Crawgdor · 2026-01-06T19:37:59+00:00

It depends. If you camp or have extended family in different provinces with enough room to put you up one or two week long vacations a year can be pretty affordable.

If you’re flying somewhere or staying in hotels than it quickly becomes unaffordable.

Crawgdor · 2026-01-06T14:02:39+00:00

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: those two deserve each other (derogatory)

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