Prime Minister announces "Road to Resources" Mackenzie Valley highway to Arctic

The year was 1958, and the PM was John Diefenbaker, when the Road to Resources program was announced.  Apparently folks around Dief the Chief were under the impression such a road might facilitate economic development in the region!

Seventy years on, apparently the folks around Mark Carney are under that impression too! So what's been happening lo these seven decades of wasted time? Well, nothing, obviously, but why?

It's not as if modern infrastructure hasn't been built in other remote parts of the world. The Russians have enjoyed road access to their arctic since motorized transport was invented, so what's our problem? Obviously, laying down 500 miles of gravel isn't all that far up the tech ladder for a nation almost near the front of the pack in AI and quantum compute.

The think tank here at Falling Downs has studied the matter for years, and the answer is chrystal clear. The reason this great nation, a proud and resilient land of immigrants who once built a railroad from sea-to-shining-sea in ten years, can't build a 500 mile gravel road in seventy, is because of our CANADIAN VALUES!

Yes, unlike our adversaries, we are a DEMOCRACY where citizens have HUMAN RIGHTS.  If a citizen in Russia were to object to a gravel road, he or she would be shot dead in the town square as an example to the rest of the villagers. You rarely hear about that sort of thing happening in Canada, where everyone enjoys the basic human right  of tying up development in frivolous litigation for years.  And btw, Canada is so forward looking on citizens rights you'll get to enjoy them even if you just strolled down Roxham Road last week.

Or take the Chinese Communists. Sure, they may have built more high-speed rail than the rest of the world combined (and every inch of it with stolen IP), but ask yourself, are their people free?

There you have it, people of Canada!

You can have freedom and human rights, or you can have gravel roads. Sometimes difficult decisions must be taken

At least when Hitler did genocide, he had the decency to hide it

 Vile though they were, the Nazi bigwigs remained beholden to bygone moral codes. When they deliberately embraced evil, they knew enough to cover their tracks.

That was 75 years ago. The allied nations defeated those genocidal scum, and held them to account. The Nuremberg Trials happened, the highwater mark for human rights and freedom in the history of humanity!

Well, all I can say, is in the 75 years since the triumph of liberal democracy at Nuremberg, the very champions of freedom and free speech and human rights and democracy who prevailed then, have turned the world upside-down, and have non-stop beshat every civilizational standard we imagined we were upholding at Nuremberg.

As we gather once again on the eleventh day, etc, let's also take a moment to mourn everything we've lost, values wise. For three years the world has had a live video feed of genocide on their screens 24/7. Nobody is trying to hide anything, and no one is in the slightest perturbed. In fact, citizens of the liberal democracies who have dared speak against the holocaust happening now are hounded and harassed across the Nations of Virtue!

The leading champions of Western Civ are neck deep in the holocaust ongoing in Palestine, and we're not even trying to hide it? 

Here we go again - the annual 11/11/11 celebration of mass murder

There's  nothing more solemn than Remembrance Day, when we celebrate the memory of the Canadians who gave their lives in The Great War, so that the British Empire might survive.

Which it didn't, so a skeptic might wonder, what's the point? Well, the point is, the upper echelon of thought leaders today are totally baffled as to how they might entice the youth of today to die for our country. They seem to lack motivation to lay down their lives for our democratic way of life, which is about to be overrun by freedom-hating Persians, Koreans, Rooskies, and Chinese communists.

Fact is, they can't. And here's a big slice of the reason why. The vast majority of Canadian youth will never risk their lives to save their way of life, because their quality of life sucks shit! I think our Laurentian Brahmins might want to up their game a little before they expect a surge of volunteers at the CAF recruiting offices.

Things were different in the WW1.  On July 1 of 1916, almost three hundred young Newfoundlanders gave their lives for the British Empire in a single day, and that at a time when the pop of NL in total was under 300k! That would be the equivalent of 40,000 young Canadians gone in a single day of war today, to save our democratic way of life???

Fat chance!

From '66 hemi-Charger to '88 Mustang small-block, the never-ending downward spiral of my old pal Kipling

And wait till you get a load of his daily driver; a  four-door Pontiac Laurentian sedan, in factory original "firemist red metallic," three-on-the-tree, in case anyone remembers what that means, and a straight six! The darned thing is almost older than he is!

The humiliation must be constant, especially given Kipling's stature in the "supercar" community back in the day. That word had different associations fifty years ago. Today a "supercar" is a Maclaren or Bugatti a mid-level Ukrainian intelligence operative would be tooling around Monaco in, whereas the word formerly referred to American iron that was 500 hp or better, or at least close to it.

It wasn't hard to separate the wheat from the chaff in that arena. A 12 second quarter miler with wheelie bars is a sure sign you're a poser, not a player. That's why Kipling was a local legend after he'd had three bona fide American supercars for sale on his front lawn at the same time! We're talking not one, but two of the legendary solid-lifter big-block SS Novas, and, hold on to your hat, one of only eight '66 hemi-Chargers sold new in all of Canada!

Fast forward 150 years or so, and the poor sod was up eyeballing the Mustang Fifty that's been sleeping under a blanket of birdshit in my garage the last ten years or so. On a good day she wouldn't have made half the horsies of a hemi or a rat, but by golly, my old pal is in the mood to fix up something not-too-scary for the grandkids who get a little closer to driving age with every passing year.

In the three or so hours of poking and prodding under the hood and under the car itself, we learned she's not the worse for ten years coated in bird droppings, and when his grand-daughters hit driving age, they'll show up to their high-school in a 40 year-old classic!

Well, the cars may be slower, but Kipling still has the touch. Had I taken the 'stang to a shop in town, I would have bid farewell to the better part of a grand to learn what my old pal figured out in three hours, for the price of breakfast!

Oh shit! I think he even paid for that!

Something nasty is blowing in...

Just came in from the stoop, where I' d briefly retreated for a breath of fresh air, and also had a whizz, since I'm out there anyway,  and I gotta say, the sky ain't lookin' happy.

There's some nasty shit a-brewin', and  so far there haven't been any weather alerts..

Be that as it may, I'm gonna take a chance and call it a day... let the cold front blow through while I catch some much-needed rest...

Yet another great thing about life in this fair land, at least for those of us not living in dumpsters, the nastiest shit blowin' in is a cold front, whereas our EU allies just learned the Towelheads o' Terror in Tehran have a new long-range hypersonic missile they're itching to try out!

Our EU/ NATO allies are anticipating an imminent hot front!

In the 56+ months since Putin's invasion, Kyiv's NATO sponsors still desperately searching for "whatever it takes"

From the looks of things, the actual armories of the world's free peoples,  exhausted by years of war, are now emptier than Western Civ's Strategic Petroleum Reserves !  But NATO will never quit! 

Putin has been staggering from one disaster to another in his losing struggle to hold back the vastly superior NATO sponsored, supplied, and trained Ukrainian army, equipped  with the latest state-of-the-art American weapons.

Here in Canada, home of the world's second biggest Ukrainian diaspora after Russia, we will never rest until Russia is vanquished once and for all. Or if not Russia, at least Putin, because he's the real problem. Why, just a few days ago, the Globe & Mail released a deeply personal excerpt from Big Steve's forthcoming memoir, revealing for the first time that Putin is evil!

And if that doesn't wind down the war, the current PM upped the ante by announcing neither Russia nor Belarus will be allowed to participate in the World Junior Hockey Championships. Ouch! That's gotta hurt... we know how Putin feels about ice hockey!

And we haven't even discussed the huge developments unfolding at  breakneck speed in Canada's defence sector. As recently as two years ago,  membership in the Canadian defence contractors lobby numbered 600 firms. Once our political leadership embraced Donald Trump's demand we quadruple our military spend, from 1.2% of GDP to five,  so many entrepreneurial patriots have rushed to incorporate new defence companies, that number has almost tripled!

What virtually all these new entities have in common is no defence experience,  no financing, but a burning passion to stand up for freedom and democracy. With the new defence spending paradigm imposed by Mafia Don, good things will be happening soon!

Sit tight Zelly,  "whatever it takes" is coming right up!  You'll be swimming in missiles in no time once the can-do Canuckistanis jump into action! Just a matter of government money, building the plants, getting the contracts...

Hey, we should be ready to ship death and destruction around the time our German submarines arrive!

Hello there! My name is Fascismo... I think we've met before...

 I wonder what some of the oldsters would think of the current situation. The situation wherein a handful of billionaires own our economy, our politics, and our future.

A world where Facebook, the news source of choice for a vast cohort of Americans, is permitted to fob off its fact-checking responsibilities to various NATO/Atlantic Council affiliates.

A world wherein the arguably most influential news title in the world is owned by a billionaire with intimate connections to the CIA.

A world wherein everything you watch and read is vetted by unaccountable entities with a vested interest in the preservation of American Exceptionalism.


For well over ten years our serious media have treated us to a side-show of Russia-Trump foolishness, ostensibly because a few hundred thousand dollars worth of Facebook adverts upended democracy in America and put Trump in the White House.

Meanwhile, Mariam Adelson's meddling in that and every other US election, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, passes without comment. Or without a Mueller investigation, one might add. And Adelson is just one of many ultra-rich who make a hobby of dabbling in politics.

Foreign policy too is dictated by the same donor class. It's pretty much a closed loop between the industrial-military complex and the billionaire corporatists who own the information infrastructure.


I think the old-timers would have a word for that.


Fascism.