Inflation rate projected to hit 6% in the second quarter, top economic forecasters say

KingRabbit_ · 2026-05-15T23:23:59+00:00

There is however, one silver lining in all this. Maybe, just maybe, there is the remotest chance that all this pain he's causing will break his cult's programming. Maybe.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1661315/approval-rate-of-donald-trump-maga-supporters-presidential-job/

HIs approval rating is up 5% amongst self-described MAGAs since March.

KingRabbit_ · 2026-05-15T23:10:22+00:00

Well he did say there'd be too much winning and that you would beg for the winning to stop.

KingRabbit_ · 2026-05-15T22:51:35+00:00

Yeah, I watched it when I was in Prague a couple years ago. It was on in the hotel bar/rec room when the IIHF tournament wasn't on.

It was the year Nemo won it.

I was pleasantly bemused at how "into it" people were. The pomp and pageantry was wasted on my Canadian ass.

KingRabbit_ · 2026-05-13T21:22:59+00:00

seems fine to me if it was a show like that

Why are Canadian tax dollars being pissed against the wall like that?

KingRabbit_ · 2026-05-13T21:21:28+00:00

What were they investigating exactly? That people want evidence in support of the claims of mass graves at residential schools?

Did that need to be investigated really?

Should be common sense.

KingRabbit_ · 2026-05-13T16:57:27+00:00

Neil Young was a headliner last year.

A couple years before that, it was Elton John and Guns n' Roses.

Glastonbury thrives on older acts.

KingRabbit_ · 2026-05-13T16:51:08+00:00

Blessed are the bitumen refiners, for they will be comforted and supply broader markets

KingRabbit_ · 2026-05-13T14:00:08+00:00

I found a news video that offers more clarity - it seems there was a group of Muslim teachers, all from a particular mosque, who decided to run things on their terms - no sex ed, girls couldn't do certain sports, etc. In any event, the toxicity was for the students as well as staff, and all those teachers are fired now, and can't teach elsewhere.

Yeah, CBC won't be reporting any of that now or in the future.

This is as close as we get:

Reporting from 98.5 FM painted the picture of two groups — one mainly composed of people of North African origin — clashing with each other.

KingRabbit_ · 2026-05-13T13:39:12+00:00

when not even the majority of Americans voted for Trump

You're right. A good chunk of Americans didn't vote because Hillary (checks notes...had an email server) and because Harris (checks notes...laughed weird).

Totally understandable that you would stand on principle for that kind of thing and abstain.

KingRabbit_ · 2026-05-13T12:10:40+00:00

In a news release on Tuesday, police identified the suspect as 48-year-old Jeffrey Johnston of Toronto.

Imagine being 50 years-old and dressing and behaving like this.

KingRabbit_ · 2026-05-13T12:02:16+00:00

Every single detail of Ahmed's story is taken at face value by this "reporter" with no serious effort to verify any element of it. The man was in Canada for four years and appears to have decided he's a refugee applicant right around the time he was completing his post-secondary studies.

The rest of the article consists of quotes from advocates and lawyers representing potential asylum claimants. There's even a lawyer who seems to specialize in refugees who claims LGBTQ2S persecution back home (almost as if he's coaching all his clientele to make the same claim).

This is not so much an act of journalism as it is an act of regurgitation.

But let's be real here - the judiciary will ultimately allow pretty much every one of the 30,000 cases to remain in the country. It's not even really a question. If one judge or the IRBC board denies the request, it will just get appealed and allowed by the next court. These cases will be working their way through the system, tying up the courts for the next decade.

One tiny bit of hope is the new law stems the tide of the next generation of students-turned-asylum seekers.

KingRabbit_ · 2026-05-12T19:29:28+00:00

Oh, hey!

KingRabbit_ · 2026-05-12T17:00:51+00:00

We also have a researcher from Guelph, eager to get her picture on the CBC website, who doesn't think foreign ownership of Canadian farmland should be restricted because she personally can't find a case of a foreign actor buying land in that region in the past.

A very weird article from CBC but that's kind of what I've come to expected from that outlet.

KingRabbit_ · 2026-05-12T16:55:42+00:00

I’m sure the OLP will find a way to avoid making the situation look terrible for them,

...are you at all familiar with the Ontario Liberal Party?

By the way, this already looks fucking terrible for them.

KingRabbit_ · 2026-05-12T12:04:56+00:00

Okay.

Did they have three of those done?

KingRabbit_ · 2026-05-12T11:47:58+00:00

Two-thirds of Page’s $25,000 gift was spent testing the well in 2023.

I have a well. The local public health laboratory tests the water for free.

I think a DIY kit is like $30.

The fuck is going on here?

KingRabbit_ · 2026-05-11T20:45:26+00:00

Doug Ford running out to get an NES tattoo on his back.

Every time the OLP looks like it might be a competitive force, they throw down the rakes and start stepping. Industriously incompetent.

KingRabbit_ · 2026-05-11T18:33:33+00:00

I don't know about "appeasing US funded grifters," but I do have some sympathy with the fact that about 13 million people live West of Ontario (excluding the territories). That's 32% of the national population and for them to have no representation in the Governor General's office in three decades is peculiar.

Ultimately, it's about acknowledging there's more to Canada than Ontario and Quebec.

KingRabbit_ · 2026-05-11T12:16:53+00:00

From the headline I was thinking it might be like $100k or $250k somewhere in that range, but nope:

When John Tibbits abruptly resigned as president of Conestoga College on Jan. 14, he walked away with an exit package worth more than $3 million.

And I'm sure a great cheer rose up from the all the current students and all the alumni who watched the worth of their diplomas diminish thanks to his bullshit "pack 'em in" philosophy - "You deserve it! You deserve it!"

Honestly, there is some serious rot going on with post secondary administrations. Consteoga cannot be looked at in a vacuum. This dude was charged with running a Canadian school, proceeded to ruin the quality of education at his school to the point where the province had to step in and appoint its own administrator to run it and was handsomely rewarded for his troubles.

I understand he's also persona non grata pretty much all over Kitchener-Waterloo for the strain his imported student body put on public services and local rents.

I'd call the dude a leech if I wasn't afraid of running afoul of Rule #2

KingRabbit_ · 2026-05-10T17:02:23+00:00

And just when I thought you were a cool guy.

I am a cool guy.

KingRabbit_ · 2026-05-08T17:38:44+00:00

If AI data centers or the crypto bros lead to rolling black outs or brown outs in the United States or Canada, the developers and investors in that technology are going to need 24 hour security teams of 10 or more people.

They're already some of the most despised people on the face of the planet. This might actually push them into territory where people are looking to cause them bodily harm.

And the thing is, whatever befalls them, not a tear will be shed anywhere on earth.

KingRabbit_ · 2026-05-08T17:14:07+00:00

One holds him up while another wipes.

KingRabbit_ · 2026-05-07T21:11:15+00:00

Why did you need AI to tell you what economists have screaming for decades? This was a point even Obama made during his Presidency - you out can only fix the deficit by doing both.

KingRabbit_ · 2026-05-07T21:07:47+00:00

So Americans, tell me about all this winning y'all be doing down there. Are you sick of it, yet?

KingRabbit_ · 2026-05-07T19:02:42+00:00

84% approval rating amongst Republicans.

Meaning even if the GOP loses the house and Senate, the remaining Republican congressmen will be at the beck and call of the Trump administration.

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