While my heart breaks for the people of Afghanistan, I want to point out that none of this should be any surprise.  The nation building experiment has been a dismal failure since the very beginning and government officials have been lying the whole time. Back in Dec 2019 the Washington Post released The Afghanistan Papers and it surprisingly got little press & if you haven’t read it, you should take a look.

“We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan — we didn’t know what we were doing,” Douglas Lute, a three-star Army general who served as the White House’s Afghan war czar during the Bush and Obama administrations, told government interviewers in 2015. He added: “What are we trying to do here? We didn’t have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking.”

“If the American people knew the magnitude of this dysfunction . . . 2,400 lives lost,” Lute added, blaming the deaths of U.S. military personnel on bureaucratic breakdowns among Congress, the Pentagon and the State Department. “Who will say this was in vain?”

Please read the reporting, it’ll shine a light at the lies & failures from political leadership in the US, failures that were bipartisan.  The US spent $300 million a day for 20 years, if that wasn’t enough then no amount of money & blood spent would make a difference.  While I’m a non interventionist, I do think the US had the right to go into Afghanistan to go after Al Qaeda & Osama Bin Laden but to shift their plans to try and build a Western democracy in a place like that was simply folly and too many people died needlessly because American politicians wanted to look good.

So we’ve invested pretty heavily in real estate and this BNN article is certainly alarming.

They’re the kind of exotic mortgages that one typically associates with the reckless, go-go housing market that gripped the U.S., circa 2005: Put down 5 per cent cash and get 3 per cent back; or, wilder yet, put down nothing at all. So when these products — and others like them — started popping up in the normally cautious Canadian financial industry, it raised alarm among policy makers in Ottawa.

This is year twenty-five of the great Canadian housing bull market, a nearly uninterrupted straight line up that has few parallels in the world. At a time of soaring real-estate prices all over the globe, only one major economy — New Zealand — has a frothier housing market than Canada, according to an analysis by Bloomberg Economics. And after all those years of price gains, including a 21 per cent surge since the pandemic began, millions of middle-class Canadians have no chance of scrounging together the money needed to make a conventional down payment of 20 per cent.

Source: BNN Bloomberg

Canada’s housing fundamentals are stronger than in the US because most buyers have a lot more invested (hence they can absorb a larger shock) and banks have more conservative lending principles but it sounds like there are people and financial institutions that are willing to go riskier.  People using these “exotic” lending practices simply can’t afford the house and I hope the government comes in and stops this immediately.  If not they’ll lighting a fuse that will surely detonate some time in the future, sigh frankly I have no faith that the governing Liberals will have the foresight to deal with this so perhaps it’s time for everyone to batten down the hatches!

It should be pretty obvious I’m no fan of the Liberal party and this sorry excuse for a party and now the federal government is suing its own Liberal speaker of the house.

I hope this does go to court so we can see what comes of it.

I’m against the federal Liberals Bill C-10 because it’s so vaguely written it could affect Canadian’s online free speech and this lawyer sums things up pretty well.

LOL I loved how he went through Trudeau’s ethics violations to give us a reminder of all the stupid corrupt shit our PM was caught doing.  I mean let’s say that you think the Liberals are trying to do the right thing with this law, do you really want to give this power to your political rivals?  It’s a guarantee that Trudeau will lose power at some point and then what?  Complain about it when it’s too late?  I’d prefer no government have this type of power, yes I have a problem with the Liberals & Trudeau but this is a bad law and it needs to die.

So the federal Liberal party came out saying they’re enforcing new gun control measures that will affect people like me but do absolutely nothing to prevent shootings.  In fact he suggested that this would help stop the gun violence that we’re seeing which is absolutely ridiculous!

The shooting over the weekend and a child’s birthday party were done by two individuals who both had prohibited firearms.  As a licensed owner for example, I cannot go and acquire prohibited weapons so how are new gun rules targeting legal owners going to stop things?  Sigh smoke and mirrors, that’s the only thing the Liberals can do.

Frank Magazine, a publication that I am not familiar got leaked 911 audio calls from the Nova Scotia massacre and the revelations are stunning.  It’s clear that the authorities knew early into the shootings (just after 10pm) that the gunman was driving around in a police car (replica), one of the kids even mentioned there was no license plate and another person that the gunman was dressed like a policeman.  The Nova Scotia RCMP did not notify the public till the next morning via Twitter which itself is completely ridiculous, that the gunman could pass for one of their own.

Still there was no public alert, no roadblocks and three more people would end up dying – RCMP Constable Heidi Stevenson, Good Samaritan Joey Webber and Wortman’s fellow denturist Gina Goulet, with whom he had had an affair.

One would think that all this would be the subject of the upcoming Mass Casualty Commission’s work, but the insider who supplied us with these tapes is skeptical about what the Commission will accomplish.

True Blue said that part of their motivation for coming forward is their personal frustration with the stonewalling by the RCMP, not only in this matter, but also in other cases in Nova Scotia in the past.

Finally, the 911 calls strike at the heart of the RCMP’s contention that it only knew about Wortman and the police car from Lisa Banfield.

That’s patently false, and raises serious questions about the nature of the force’s relationship with Banfield, whom the force has called a “victim” from the first week.

Source: Frank Magazine

This is absolutely damning, whomever suppressed the information about the gunman being dressed as an officer and driving a replica police car should be at the least fired & if possible charged with some sort of crime.  How many lives could have been saved that night had the police force been truthful and informed the public early.  What is clear is that the Nova Scotia RCMP and levels of government are more interested in saving their own asses than telling the public the truth (had to be dragged kicking and screaming into a public inquiry).  There has been a cover up from day one and I’m of the personal belief that the federal Liberals used this tragedy to justify it’s actions on banning certain guns (ideology) and as a way to take the heat off the RCMP.

The NS RCMP is using the victims & their families as a shield to protect themselves, promising to pursue the leaker and there have been a few hit pieces posted from other news orgs parroting what the local police force said.  Don’t fall for it, focus on the actual failures here that the Nova Scotia RCMP made a lot of mistakes, it cost a lot of people their lives and that they’re now doing their best to cover it all up.

Well it was bound to happen, Canada is now behind the US for moral high ground thanks to our useless Prime Minister.

Yeah COVID19 and the possible variants emerging may be bad but come on we can’t forget about the poor corporations and their profits…  His damn smug face, I can’t wait till he’s out of power, Canada will be better without him.

So I was rather surprised at this reporting from CityTV but good on them for showing where gun violence is coming from in cities and where those who commit crime are getting their guns.

It’s great that the reporter talked to people who lived the life of crime, to see how things are done there and to ask them what the solutions are, surprise surprise, they don’t think much of Trudeau’s gun ban.  There are actual solutions if as a society we really do want to deal with gun violence (it’s the poverty or misogyny) but instead all levels of government prefer flowery legislation that sounds good but actually does nothing at all.

I’m tired of it and will no longer put up with this BS, whether it’s gun control, climate change, taxation or housing the governments are not proposing real solutions to people’s problems and the sooner we all see it, the sooner we can demand better from our elected leaders.