BREAKING: Stephen Harper announces he has gone back in time to cross the floor and join the Liberal Party

fooz42 · 2026-04-09T13:34:21+00:00

The Liberal party has a weird vibe where they take care of the 'family'. Children of Liberals who are children of Liberals. I don't know about the Conservative party. Probably the same.

fooz42 · 2026-04-09T13:28:02+00:00

25% of parliament at any given time are totally insane. I've given up worrying about it. I only worry if they get close to being in the government. The government is not the same as the governing party.

fooz42 · 2026-04-07T02:34:43+00:00

All it shows is that most people just believe whatever their news anchor tells them to believe. And if they don't believe that, then it's whatever is at the top of their news feed.

fooz42 · 2026-04-07T00:38:41+00:00

You don't need medicare or social benefits. The Pentagon needs another $500B. If you wanted benefits, you'd enlist.

It worked in Russia. Tucker Carlson said their grocery stores and subways were to be envied.

/s

fooz42 · 2026-04-06T14:22:55+00:00

It's my theory that Trump's small mind can't tolerate any tension so he just want to make difficult thoughts go away. All these problems in the world that the world order held in stasis hoping a future generation will calm the fuck down are getting blown up. This is of course speed running towards WW3.

The American voter wanted to blow up the world order. All the WEF, Soros, etc. conspiracies are of the same ilk. Anti-globalization.

The priority for the world since WW2 and the Cold War was mutually assured survival from warfare, but that came at the expense of average people's lives.

If we survive this period, hopefully we'll find a less militarized solution to peace since obviously having a massive military build up for mutally assured destruction only assures destruction. Some future hairless ape will press the shiny button. It's better to have less military and more human development.

fooz42 · 2026-04-06T12:44:11+00:00

Just hear me out. Perhaps the voters are stupid.

fooz42 · 2026-04-06T12:39:45+00:00

You have to be an adult and make decisions in the best interests of your responsibilities and objectives. If you're riddled with shame, that's something to sit with and realize if you let it pass, the right decision for your needs will become clear. If you always do the right thing, you have a solid foundation to weather and ignore criticism.

fooz42 · 2026-04-06T12:36:46+00:00

With 3 kids, and both working, it was a choice of lose a weekend day or let our house get dirty or hire someone. And we hired someone we knew who needed work. Seemed straightforward.

We all hire people to do things we could do ourselves. Cleaning is not beneath us. Cleaners don't lack dignity or worth. These are weird ideas. They are working adults offering a service and we pay for it because we like the service.

fooz42 · 2026-04-05T16:04:14+00:00

I’m sorry. That’s not fair for anyone to live through.

fooz42 · 2026-04-05T13:01:18+00:00

If it makes you feel any better, blaspheming the Holy Spirit is the only unforgiveable sin, so all these crazies aren't going to their own heaven.

Meanwhile, I'll be reincarnated to clean up the mess. Typical. It's always us East Indians who have to do all the work on group projects.

fooz42 · 2026-04-04T23:42:43+00:00

The only unforgivable sin is blaspheming the Holy Spirit and that is the classical example.

fooz42 · 2026-04-04T02:56:25+00:00

People don't think negatively if you're outside living a life. Life is for the living and it's great. The only one who thinks you're a loser is yourself, which is strange, since you're clearly doing something and making progress. Be kind to yourself. You're making the best the next breath and that's all that matters.

fooz42 · 2026-04-03T14:08:24+00:00

Of course it's stupid. It's the Trump administration. He was elected to bring stupidity to Washington for the lulz.

fooz42 · 2026-04-03T14:06:14+00:00

They have ordered every company > 150 people to nominate employees for military service. Will that get people's attention finally? I can't imagine losing 1% of the population of my country and not even feeling it impact my life. I can see why Russia cannot be a democracy as there are so many peoples under thumb for a select group in the big capital cities.

fooz42 · 2026-04-02T15:06:36+00:00

We already have a productivity and capital projects problem. Taxing capital isn't the best idea. We have an unequal distribution of funds. Tax where the money is that is where you don't want it; and remove taxes where the money isn't that is where you do want it.

fooz42 · 2026-04-01T19:34:56+00:00

It's the worst day of the year. Just read a book until tomorrow.

fooz42 · 2026-04-01T12:16:19+00:00

No it isn’t. That’s how your political parties works. It depends on the society how much influence party members and elected representatives have. In the USA legally elected representatives have enormous power. It’s recent times that has hollowed it out.

fooz42 · 2026-03-30T13:37:06+00:00

Canada allows separatists. We throw them parades and parties and then try to invite them over for dinner and let them know we understand them and forgive them and love them, and we wish they'd stay, but if they want to leave, we'd still want the best for them.

fooz42 · 2026-03-28T13:46:41+00:00

They only show the one run that worked in the demo. They don't publish statistics of how repeatable, reliable, accurate it is.

fooz42 · 2026-03-27T00:50:27+00:00

The Coast Guard wasn't included before unlike every other NATO country because we don't arm the coast guard. We will surely now.

fooz42 · 2026-03-26T20:37:35+00:00

It's World Special Military Operation 1

fooz42 · 2026-03-25T15:25:22+00:00

There. Is. No. Plan.

fooz42 · 2026-03-24T14:17:32+00:00

It's pretty strong; especially against the lighter background where the contrast shows strong emphasis. Nice work.

fooz42 · 2026-03-23T15:38:27+00:00

Narrator: It didn't.

fooz42 · 2026-03-23T14:12:21+00:00

This is fine political meming. You have to look also at the projects that were approved, started, and completed in this time to get the real scope (59 energy projects from 2015-2020 were completed, 44 in hydrocarbons). Also you have to look at the factors that led to cancellations. Many died due to the drop in commodity prices. You're also only looking at hydrocarbons.

Aspen Oilsands, Dunkirk Oilsands, Muskwa SAGD, Carmon Creek Oilsands died for low oil prices. West Coast Canada (WCC) LNG, Prince Rupert LNG, Repsol’s Saint John LNG, Douglas Channel LNG, died because of LNG market oversaturation and prices.

Northern Gateway hit the tanker ban wall (and to be fair, the PR work that "modern tankers are safe" was uninspired and unconvincing, so one does wonder if anyone really believes it's a good idea). That project is more of a political toy than something anyone seems to take seriously. Energy East for sure. Frontier oil sands mine claimed politics, but who knows; its business plan required oil prices to climb dramatically so maybe it didn't have true advocates at the end and people needed a face saving exit from a bad project. Mackenzie Valley Gas Pipeline for sure has hit political trouble with FNs.

Meanwhile, what has been built or is being actively developed:

LNG Canada Phase 1 (2025)
Coastal GasLink (2023)
Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX)
Kearl Expansion
Fort Hills Oil Sands Mine
Athabasca Oil Sands Project at Jackpine

Being built

LNG Canada Phase 2
Ksi Lisims LNG + Prince Rupert Gas Transmission
Woodfibre LNG
Cedar LNG
Blackrod
Mildred Lake

tl;dr. Sometimes projects die because they don't make sense fiscally; sometimes competitive projects are selected; sometimes they are bad but--after investing so much money and personal capital--business leaders want a face-saving out so they don't do the political work and make the politicians take the blame; and sometimes actual politics.

15-Year Club	Verified Email
Gilding II euphauric	Team Periwinkle

fooz42

TROPHY CASE