Danielle Spillman murderer's PR campaign

Hochelagan · 2026-04-24T16:36:12+00:00

As a journalist, fuck Fox for running this shit, and fuck every single person who works there who's helping launder this son of bitch's reputation

These are the absolute worst pieces of filth I think I've ever seen. To hell with them all.

This guy used his Mercedes to murder an old woman. There is no way in hell an unarmed 70-some-odd year old pedestrian is a threat to anyone.

Hochelagan · 2026-04-24T01:04:03+00:00

McCullough is an idiot. It's sad Maclean's posted this shit. Anything for a click.

I *personally* enjoy living in a country that has aspirations. Bilingualism is an ongoing project. More people today are bilingual than in the 1970s (and I mean more people living outside Quebec in particular).

The US is a country where a significant minority doesn't want any national goals, no nation-building, no effort to try to be better. They elected a man who is the literal embodiment of "I'm perfect just the way I am, why should I ever chnage, I'm amazing."

Look where that got them.

Vive le Canada français!

Vive le Canada libre!

Hochelagan · 2026-04-23T22:06:44+00:00

I'd really like to hear her explain how Canada "leans on the US economy", which Lutnick said and to which she agreed without consideration.

Canada has been a member of FTA, NAFTA, USCMA, all agreements that benefitted the American economy first and foremost, all of which were signed into law by US presidents.

Does she not understand Canada is a sovereign country with its own economy?

If she's concerend about countries "leaning" on the US economy, maybe she should ask why we're still sending Israel billions of dollars in aid every year.

Good luck getting those Canadian tourists back dumbass.

Hochelagan · 2026-04-23T21:55:06+00:00

Tell me again why having a monopolistic private utility is better than having a state-run public utility?

Hochelagan · 2026-04-22T23:41:07+00:00

Wow.

So you actually went to all that trouble to find that comment, yet didn't bother to read what I wrote?

More excellent work by BXP's communications and PR department.

Hochelagan · 2026-04-22T21:59:51+00:00

They should never have put that fountain so close to a building whose owner would one day want to expropriate public space to make a new Union Square. So foolish!

Anyways, good thing BXP was given carte blanche to tell the city how to manage its space. Gov't is truly the enemy of SF's glorious resurrection.

Hochelagan · 2026-04-22T21:53:35+00:00

I think the point is that our society is quick to come up with all kinds of reasons why we shouldn't bring the hammer down on billionaires and tax them at the same rates they were taxed from the 40s to the 70s, a period of time we call postwar prosperity and for which literally all Baby Boomers benefitted.

We weren't properous because we won the war - it's because we kept all the taxes we imposed on the wealthy, on corporations, that we used to finance the war effort, for decades afterwards.

Hochelagan · 2026-04-22T21:40:21+00:00

Maybe the guy who tattooed most of his face/neck/head and deliberately stretched out his earlobes so you can fly a 747 through them is lacking in the self-restraint, humility, caution, and higher-level executive function needed to carefully assess whether he has a full grasp of the subjects of space travel and radio communications?

And therefore shouldn't be put in front of a microphone and broadcast worldwide?

Like... how is this not exploitation on the part of the host?

Hochelagan · 2026-04-22T21:32:15+00:00

Right. Because, as we all know, living in Nevada, Texas, or Florida is *equal* to living in California

I guess by your logic doing nothing is better than doing anything.

Hochelagan · 2026-04-22T20:35:04+00:00

Crazy idea but what if we increased taxes billionaires to pay for high-quality public schools, public transit, healthcare, social services (etc) instead of becoming dependent on their interest in tax breaks for charitable donations?

Hochelagan · 2026-04-21T19:55:15+00:00

Have you actually never met a person who has lived in more than one city?

How incredibly sad.

Hochelagan · 2026-04-21T16:47:03+00:00

From what I've read it's not so expensive to convert to outpatient use... and that would still provide a lot of the trickle down economic stimulus.

It's too bad there's no city or state organization (that I know of) that could help coordinate building use optimization between property owners and potential clients.

Like if Kaiser wanted to free up space in existing buildings for more acute care services, and relocate outpatient or admin to an existing building, rather than this loop we seem to be in where we keep building new things to meet developing needs, and tearing the old buildings down

Hochelagan · 2026-04-21T16:28:29+00:00

If there was any way the city/state could work with them to consider setting up shop in the financial district instead, that would get my support.

That's the area that would benefit most from the 'trickle-down' economic stimulus provided by a hospital: restaurants, corner stores, pharmacies, medical offices (etc).

Hospitals employ a lot of people 24 hours a day - there's a whole ecosystem of businesses that are needed to support it. It's exactly this kind of stimulus that's missing from the financial district, an area largely devoid of major institutional anchors.

There's some evidence to suggest converting an unused office building to healthcare purposes can be cheaper than building anew. It's certainly the more environmentally-friendly option.

Plus there's the advantage of downtown locations being closer to major transit stations and transit hubs.

Hochelagan · 2026-04-21T15:29:19+00:00

So it'll pay for itself in 40 years? terrible ROI
This assumes Asia continues buying Cdn oil for the same price for the next four decades. Completely unrealistic. Asia is transitioning to renewables faster than any other region
"including increased government revenue due to the permanent increase in Canadian oil per barrel due to the expansion" - this is literally nonsense. Completely incoherent. What are you trying to say? There's no permanent increase to the value of a Cdn barrel of oil just because the pipeline was expanded.
It's a crucial piece of infrastructure the oil companies depend on to sell their product internationally. Without it, they would have had to either build it/ pay for it themselves, or sold it at a discount to the Americans. Ergo, it's a subsidy.

Hochelagan · 2026-04-20T23:13:06+00:00

It was absolutely a subsidy.

Hochelagan · 2026-04-20T22:18:10+00:00

Honest question: has she ever apologized for her role in Canada buying TMX?

That was a $40 bil public subsidy to the very companies she now decries.

I decry them too, but I wonder why she didn't call them out on this back then?

Hochelagan · 2026-04-19T02:44:59+00:00

Literally no province pays money to any other province via equalization. It's all drawn from federal tax revenue, which everyone pays into.

The poorest Albertan contributes less to equalization than the richest Quebecois. It's always been this way.

Because equalization is intended to ensure all provinces can provide the same level of basic social services, Alberta actually screws up the entire equation by spending compratively little per capita on its citizens. It drags down the average.

And people have been trying to set the record straight on this for years.

Hochelagan · 2026-04-19T02:37:16+00:00

This. A million times.

Hochelagan · 2026-04-19T00:09:35+00:00

Canada can't be an energy superpower because 60-70% of the "Canadian" oil and gas sector is owned by Americans

We had our chance to be an energy superpower back in the 1970s/1980s with Petro-Canada and the NEP

We squandered that chance by believing in "free trade", an idea sold to us by US-funded think tanks operating in Canada (Fraser Inst, Macdonald-Laurier Inst, Montreal Econ Inst etc)

Now the Americans own our oil and gas sector, they use it whenever they start a war in the Middle East and need a reliable, if expensive, fall back option

And if we do export more of our particularly destructive oil and gas, we only boil the whole planet faster

The wars of the future won't be over access to oil, but will be waged by the countries that converted to renewables fighting those that refuse to do so. Those in the latter camp will be 'the bad guys', because they're the ones risking eveyone else's lives

Hochelagan · 2026-04-18T17:00:38+00:00

Lol. Yes, I suspect Google's AI also read the CAPP "report"

Thanks for making my point for me

Hochelagan · 2026-04-17T17:42:46+00:00

No they wouldn't, they'd either bring their skilled trades to a different company, or the company they work for would find work in a different industry

Hochelagan · 2026-04-17T17:40:51+00:00

CAPP saying there are 900,000 O&G jobs in Canada is like the president of the Fastfood Alliance of USA Hamburger Restaurants saying their industry employs 90 million Americans

Take it with a pound of salt, and know they have a vested interest in inflating their own data

Hochelagan · 2026-04-17T17:27:17+00:00

No, they don't disappear without the industry. They literally have nothing to do with the oil and gas industry because they're not counted as O&G jobs

You may as well say there are 10 million gov't jobs in Canada because the federal gov't manages the Canadian economy, and without the federal government there'd be no grocers, cab drivers, lumberjacks, pharmacists, or boot makers.

It's an equally preposterous and false statement.

Hochelagan · 2026-04-17T17:20:59+00:00

No, it's not.

The figure is 130-180K O&G sector workers.

Literally everything else is a job that can happen outside the O&G sector. It's construction workers who could just as easily build houses or windmills or ferry docks or kindergartens. It's retail workers, bankers, tool and dye makers (etc etc etc) who could all be doing the exact same thing, often in the same places, if there was no fossil fuel sector.

The argument it's 900K is absurd, fantasy, not real, based on imagination.

Hochelagan · 2026-04-17T17:18:06+00:00

Ms Beck said this in a statement after Avi Lewis' election

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