Canada promises to flush another $200 millions down the Kyiv commode

Why? If the $22 billion (roughly $500 million every month) we've already sent hasn't moved the needle in Ukraine's favour, why would anyone think another $200 million would do the trick? But such are the delusions of the "coalition of the willing." It's the same flawed logic that demands a 20th round of sanctions because the previous 19 have hurt Europe more than Russia. This latest tranche of boodle willl be sent to Washington, there to be bundled with tribute from other vassals and distributed to American military contractors as Donald Trump sees fit. Yup, we're sending Canadian tax dollars to enrich Boeing and Lockheed! For 200 million I hope PM Carney at least gets a pat on the back and an "attaboy" from the big dog. Speaking of which, what's the Orange Ogre up to in Venezuela? Pack your bags, Maduro! The Free World is about to gift your longsuffering people Human Rights and Democracy! Too bad about those innocent fishermen... to be honest, when I see three or four V-10 Merc Verados hanging off the transom of a thirty footer, I'm pretty sure those aren't fishermen. Which doesn't change the fact that killing them "extrajudicially" is considered a crime against humanity, or at least it would be if anyone other than Uncle Sam did it. I would guess it's beyond Trump and his minions to appreciate the irony of pardoning a man convicted of facilitating the import of 400 tons of coccaine into America while they're busy vaporizing small-time drug runners.

Canada's clean energy hype long on hype, short on clean energy

In 2022 a different Canadian PM and German Chancellor spawned acres of headlines with the wildly over-hyped ‘Hydrogen Alliance.’ Clean Canadian hydrogen would start shipping by 2025 (checks calendar…) oh! That’s this year! And how is that going, pray tell? Here’s a telling quote from the trade journal Fuel Cell Works. Just months before the end of 2024, no green hydrogen facilities in Atlantic Canada have been completed, financial terms with German companies remain elusive and infrastructure in Europe is far from ready. Hmm… hundreds of billions in loans and subsidies and there’s nothing going on! How is such a thing even possible? Clearly, the loans and subsidies are insufficient! So, no hydrogen on the horizon, but have no fear; we’re not only gonna be a leader in clean hydrogen, maybe, someday, if we ever get the loans and subsidies right, but we’re gonna be the next rare earths and critical minerals powerhouse too! And this time around we’ve got serious men in charge; Goldman Sachs alum Carney, and BlackRock veteran Mertz! We have reason to believe that heavy hitters like that will get the handouts right from the get-go! I’m not the only one feeling the good vibes. Check out this headline from the Globe & Mail today: Canada can, and should, be the worlds elder statesmen in critical minerals. Yowza!! Take that, Chinese commies! All we need to do is finish that access road into the Ring of Fire motherlode up there in Treaty 9 country. Of course, to finish it, we would have to start it first. I did a little digging and found some hopeful news. If all goes according to plan, the studies and assessments phase of the project should be complete by 2028. That’s not the road - just the studies… and then the serious work of applying for construction permits begins, so things are looking good to have that 300 kilometres of road in by the mid 2030s. A road is not a mine, of course. That will require more studies and assessments. I figure that should take another ten years, and then another ten to actually develop the mine, and by golly, we should be well on our way to untold riches around 2060 or so! Of course, bear in mind the aforementioned Treaty 9 folks will have de facto veto power every step of the way, and those people have wised up quite a bit since we rammed a railroad across the country in a mere ten years. They won’t be bought with some shiny baubles and a barrel of firewater like in the good old days. Yup, we’re destined to be a world leader in clean energy for sure!

The folly of trying to spend our way into Donald Trump's good graces

Mark Carney has a two-part strategy to get Canada off Trump’s shit list. It’s been a humiliating ordeal for every decent Canuck to hear those “51st state” jibes over and over again, even after our king politely hinted to the American king that many Canadians didn’t like it. Part one is spending a shit-load of money on what we call “defence.” This is considered a viable strategy because we know one thing Mafia Don really and truly respects, even more than women with big boobs, is shit-loads of money. Part two is hiding Part one from decent Trump-hating Canadians. Hence the “mis-direction” about turning to Europe for defence partnerships. That’s kinda rich, because, while CBC and the Globe would rather keep you in the dark, every leader in NATO is literally begging Trump to re-commit to America’s leadership role. That’s because they know they don’t have a hope of vanquishing Putin without him. The bad news is they won’t defeat Russia with him either. Here’s some numbers NATO fans should keep in mind. In 2021, the year before Putin’s full-scale and fully unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, combined NATO/USA military spending was 1.22 trillion USD. Russia’s was $66 billion. By 2024, Russian military spending had more than doubled, to 149 billion USD. That’s an $80B USD boost. NATO spending went from 1.2 T to 1.56 T. In other words, while Russia bumped spending by 80 billions, NATO bumped spending by almost 400 billions. And what happened on the ground in those two years? NATO and their Ukrainian patsies are making Russia look great again, that’s what! The only reason the war continues is because admitting defeat would mean the end of NATO, and there are far too many Important People collecting fat pay packets to ever allow that to happen. ONWARD FREE AND DEMOCRATIC NATIONS - TO THE LAST UKRAINIAN!