Tag: Canada

Eugenics in Canada

 

Most of the discussion around eugenics has been about the planned evolution of humanity. Designer babies and the elimination of genetic defects and diseases. But there is also the other end of eugenics, thinning the herd, eliminating defective and undesirables from society.

This week, the Canadian government released its fourth annual report on medically assisted dying in Canada, finding that 13,241 people were killed by the medical systems, making it #5 on the hit parade’s top ways to die in 2022.

Kamala Harris Explains World War II To Canadian Parliament

 

World War Two was… a war, right? (Cackle.) On one side was England, the United States and Russia. Only then Russia was called the “Soviet Union.”  On the other side was Germany and Japan. Oh, and Italy (cackle). Love Italian food. Love it. (Cackle.) Anyway, some countries like Ukraine were caught in the middle. Some Ukrainians sided with Russia and some Ukrainians sided with Germany. The Russians were communists and the Germans were fascists (cackle). So it was sort of like choosing between fat or carbs, amirite? (Cackle.)

So anyway, we, in partnership with Canada, took the side of fat. I mean carbs! No wait… I’m getting my analogy all mixed up here! (Cackle).

Anyway, after the war, lots of people were displaced. All mixed up like a salad, okay? Some Germans moved to Argentina. That’s in South America. And some Ukrainians moved to Canada. Canada is your country that I’m talking to now that has healthcare. So continuing with this theme, some of the people who moved to Argentina did very bad things during the war: that’s why they were in Argentina. Kind of laying low. (Cackle.) And some of the people who moved to Canada did bad things during the war, too. Some of the people who moved to Canada had helped the people who had moved to Argentina.

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Michael has long been an advocate of modern forest management (a combination of logging, thinning, and controlled burns) to prevent wildfires, and has done several cartoons critical of California’s lazy practices.  An interesting fact I learned from a neighbor who volunteered to help fight wildfires in Montana;  fires actually can travel through the roots of […]

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Quote of the Day: Francis Parkman

 

“If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seeks an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar.”
American historian Francis Parkman (1823-1893)

My favorite era of American history is the first. Europeans arriving on the shores of a primeval wilderness, wondering if it’s a second Eden or a green hell. Native Americans stumbling upon pale creatures in bizarre clothes rowing to shore from floating wooden islands.

The earliest historian to fully document these encounters is Francis Parkman, a Harvard-educated Boston scion who set aside Yankee comforts to tramp over snowcapped mountains and muddy battlefields.

What Do Electric Vehicles and Eating Insects Have in Common?

 

Channeling his inner Marie Antoinette and demonstrating an example of the Biden Administration’s unparalleled tone-deafness a few weeks ago, US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has simple advice for combatting higher gasoline prices: Buy an electric car.

At least he hasn’t advised us to eat more insects yet. But it may be only a matter of time. The same interests and climate cultists pushing EVs also encourage you to eat bugs. Behind all this is a punitive and bizarre economic and cultural agenda. More sustainable for the planet, they claim, as they move us towards a “net zero emissions economy” by 2050. If not sooner. More about that later.

Join Jim and Greg as they celebrate Arizona leading the way on universal school choice – including parents keeping money for private tuition or homeschooling. They also groan as Canada’s vaccine mandate for people entering the country will mean 10 players for the Kansas City Royals can’t play in Toronto. And they analyze polling showing potential Georgia ticket-splitting as Gov. Brian Kemp enjoys a healthy lead while GOP Senate nominee Herschel Walker is slightly behind.

 

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Part I can be found here. Books and movies have forever influenced culture. But some have had an outsized influence on public policy and laws. Rachel Carson’s 1962 “Silent Spring” influenced the John F. Kennedy Administration and future regulators to curb or eventually ban the use of chemical insecticides like DDT. The movie “One Flew […]

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China’s Vast Sovereignty Claims Are Becoming Reality

 

On June 13, China’s foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin held an extraordinary press conference in which he made a series of audacious statements about the sprawling reach of the Middle Kingdom’s territorial sovereignty. Placed in the context of China’s other recent actions and statements, the incredible size and shape of its regional ambitions are brought into sharp relief.

In simple terms, Beijing is determined to thoroughly dominate its region.

Don’t Canada America, Redux

 

What started as a Chinese-style “social credit” financial system focused on protesting truckers four months ago has now expanded to guns, mainstream and social media, and religion.

Following the tragic massacre in Uvalde, Texas last week, Canada’s government, some 2,000 miles away, decided they needed to do something. There is no right to gun ownership in Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, backed by masked and clapping seals from his Liberal Party caucus, announced that legislation would be forthcoming to ban (sorry, a “national freeze”) the sale and transfer of all handguns.

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A favorite podcast is “What the Hell is Going On,” featuring the American Enterprise Institute’s Marc Thiessen and Danielle Pletka. Their most recent podcast featured law professor and former Supreme Court law clerk John Yoo on Roe v. Wade. It is the best discussion I’ve heard of Justice Samuel Alito’s leaked draft opinion to overturn […]

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“The Constitution requires that the president ‘shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union,’ The Washington Examiner began its editorial this morning following one of the most forgettable “State of the Union” (SOTU) speeches in modern times. “From President Thomas Jefferson to President William Taft, this communication […]

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Two Lessons to Learn from PM Trudeau’s Emergency Powers Declaration

 

To many Americans, the shocking invocation of emergency powers by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, while troubling to say the least, still seems distant and somewhat disconnected from daily life.

After all, our neighbors to the north live without the robust protections of the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and reams of U.S. Supreme Court precedent to keep an overreaching government at bay.

Don’t Canada America

 

No posts of my mine receive fewer clicks than ones about Canada. I suspect you have long either taken our northern neighbor for granted or perhaps find the world’s second-largest nation (geographically) north of our 5,525-mile border quaint if not dull.

Consider our respective nations’ unofficial mottos. We have long enshrined “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” from our Declaration of Independence. In Canada, it’s “peace, order, and good government.” Our national emblem is the soaring, sharp-eyed bird of prey, the bald eagle; in Canada, it’s the noble, industrious beaver. Since our war for independence, Canada – whose head of state remains the British sovereign – works hard to be different than Americans, despite common heritage, values, and proximity. Really hard.

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Remember this movie plot: A corrupt head of Government provokes a war with a trade Federation (i.e. people who transport goods from one place to another) in order to invoke Emergency Powers that give him virtually unlimited power? Canada’s PM Trudeau: “Even though the blockades are lifted… this state of emergency is not over.” Preview […]

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It took a little longer than usual, but I did manage to get in to the office today. I went out and got some photos this afternoon, which I’m currently processing and I’ll post in the comments. Apologies for the poor quality of the videos. I used my older cameras because they have better battery […]

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