Its hardly news that the CBC is a biased network. They have been left leaning to say the least for decades and that is undeniable from anybody who sits to the right of communism.

Media bias in general is hardly new. Private networks and papers have their leanings and they always have. I have no issue with this. People can vote with their subscriptions and advertising dollars.

Taxpayers have no choices. We have to fund the CBC whether we view and listen to them or not. With no accountability to the viewership, the CBC has been getting more and more biased while their entertainment productions are becoming terrible.

The CBC shilling for the Trudeau government in this election has been nothing less than reprehensible and shameless.

There is little doubt that the biggest blow to the Trudeau campaign has been the exposure of his repeated propensity to dress himself in racist blackface costumes. Since this scandal the CBC has been working tirelessly to try and change the channel and create a conservative scandal. They dredged up Scheer’s responses to questions from 10 years ago. They dug into conservative candidates statements and backgrounds.

The CBC shed what tiny bit of credibility they had when they tracked down and harassed the man who shared the yearbook photos of Trudeau.

“Refused to elaborate”?

Who the hell do you think you are?

Adamson spoke to the press awhile ago, said he felt that Canadians had a right to know and that he had nothing further to say. What the hell elaboration is required? What do you expect?

What the CBC is doing is trying to imply that Mr, Adamson had some nefarious hidden agenda or that he is tied with an organization of some sort. It is sleazy crap journalism and I am ashamed that my tax dollars fund this.

These asshole “journalists” are trying to shoot the messenger in hopes of saving Trudeau’s hide and it’s disgusting.

Why do we need the CBC in this day and age?

Satellite TV and radio now provide coverage to every community in the nation. We have the internet and access to hundreds of news sources at our fingertips. Why does the government need to remain in the media game?

Conventional media is suffering from an increasing deficit of money and credibility as modern technology has flooded the world with information (and misinformation) in an unprecedented way.

The CBC is feeding public distrust of the media in general with their gross bias and they are stealing hundreds of millions of advertising dollars from the rest of Canada’s media outlets as they can undercut other networks due to their getting over $1 billion tax dollars per year.

We can do better things with those tax dollars and other networks can do better things with those advertising dollars.

Its past time to shut down the CBC and sell its assets. Let the private market adjust to the changing world of information and put those scarce tax dollars into services such as health and education where they belong.

Its bad enough that our blackface wearing Prime Minister is a national embarrassment. Lets not have our obsolete State Broadcaster as one as well.

Andrew Scheer’s Conservatives have taken the approach of pretending that Bernier and his People’s Party of Canada doesn’t exist. They avoid referring to them or debating them. They are hoping that the party will simply sail into the sunset without making any measurable impact on the election. Is this a wise strategy though?

While many try to paint Bernier as an extremist, he doesn’t present as one when speaking and the proposals he makes are supported by a large segment of Canadians. It must be remembered that not long ago Bernier lost the leadership race of the Conservative Party of Canada by only a hair’s breadth. He clearly resonates with many within conservative circles.

I ran Twitter a poll as something of an experiment as a response to the somewhat Liberal leaning outcome of the popular Twitter personality of “Crackmacs”. I contended that the outcomes of Twitter polls only reflected the following of the person posting the poll as opposed to people at large. I cut and paste the same wording of his poll and posted it, including hashtags.

Some folks carry more politically diverse followers than others. Clearly I am not one of them. I knew that I would have a strongly Conservative leaning poll outcome but even I was surprised with how much this was the case.

With nearly 5000 voters we found over 90% choosing Conservative.

Years of my abrasive style of tweeting and my political leaning has developed a pretty strong pool of Twitter followers. Again though, these results only tell tales about my social media following and are useless when compared to the electorate at large.

One may note the 300 comments on the poll. Of those, there were well over a hundred people manually responding that they will vote for the PPC but didn’t have the option in the poll that I had presented.

This prompted me to post a new poll with just 24 hours to vote and to only give the CPC and the PPC as options.

In drilling down with the assumption of the voting pool being predominantly conservative to begin with, we can get some numbers where more can be read in to the results.

With over 3000 votes in 24 hours this is a pretty healthy sampling of a conservative pool. Again though due to the type of following I have gathered, the libertarian leaning would be stronger and the red tory types would be weaker. PPC support in that case would be a bit over represented as well.

I think there are enough numbers in there to make some broad conclusions though.

Support for Maxime Bernier’s People’s Party of Canada within conservative circles is too strong to continue to ignore. Those kind of numbers cut clearly into spoiler territory in many ridings in Canada and it would be foolhardy to ignore them.

Rather than continuing to pretend that Max doesn’t exist, I think it is time that Scheer and company started to consider what Bernier is doing to draw people to him.

Conservatives are tired of being shut down on contentious issues. Political correctness has gagged too many players on too many issues which are important to Canadians. Bernier is taking those issues on directly while Scheer takes the standard mushy, noncommittal middle approach. We have had 4 years of mushyness with Trudeau. Its time to see somebody taking the reins and putting themselves out there. So far Bernier is the only one willing to do so.

Immigration is not a sacred subject and the extreme position is actually an open borders one. Nobody reasonable wants to halt all immigration but most people want to see an immigration system with reasonable controls. Equalization is a real issue to many in the West. Supply management and the ever increasingly expensive and biased CBC are subjects worthy of getting on.

Hell in 2016 Scheer said he would axe the CBC news division, now he is saying he would scrutinize their work to ensure more Canadian content. Come on! Take a stand somewhere!

If the CPC wants to stop the bleeding of precious votes to the PPC they will need to start talking the right language and talking it soon. If they continue to look like a somewhat more conservative version of the Liberals they will lose those votes for good.

Should the CPC suddenly embrace all of the PPC policies and platform? Of course not. Bernier is only polling at a few percent across the country.

Bernier is also taking a big bit out of the traditional conservative base though and the Conservative Party of Canada can’t afford to keep pretending that he isn’t there.

I first heard about the lawsuit against Eddie Maurice a couple nights ago in my pub. Some folks coming back from a fundraiser had been speaking to Eddie and popped by to tell me about it. I was astounded and disgusted that this serial criminal who had gotten himself shot while trying to rob the Maurice family late one night had the gall to try and sue Eddie for damages. Apparently he feels that he lost income due to his injury. How many less places did he break into due to it?

For those not familiar with the Maurice family saga of last year, I covered it here.

Eddie was dragged before the courts six times over the course of months before the stubborn Crown Prosecutor finally dropped the charges. At every hearing hundreds of Albertans rallied outside of the Okotoks courthouse in support of the Maurice family. While the prosecutors will never admit it, they had to bow to public pressure. Convicting this man for protecting the baby who was alone in his house was simply not going to happen.

This put the family through incredible stress and strain while this action dragged on. They finally thought it was over. I remember how much more relaxed Eddie was when he came out of that courthouse for (what we thought was) the final time. They could get back on with their lives.

While repugnant, it wasn’t all that shocking I guess to think of a junkie trying to screw a few dollars out of somebody with a lawsuit. There are always scumbag lawyers encouraging such actions.

I was utterly floored however when Rick Bell with the Calgary Sun reported that the government of Alberta was planning to sue Eddie Maurice as well!

What the hell is wrong with those fools in Alberta Justice? Did they not think that the Maurice family had suffered enough?

Perhaps they still saw Eddie as the one that got away. “How dare he defend his baby and not do time!”

Justice Minister Doug Schweitzer rightly dropped this idiotic government lawsuit the moment he heard of it. Good on him.

Dropping the suit is not enough however.

I am going to guess that this lawsuit was the brainchild of a Notley appointee. Who else but a raving NDP hack would conceive of something so stupid as having the government sue a victim of crime?

The Kenney government has a lot of housecleaning to do since winning their majority mandate and clearly the justice department is in dear need of it.

Whether it was a Notley appointee or not, the fool who came up with this lawsuit should be fired post-haste along with any other idiots who supported them. Rural crime is a powder keg issue as it is and dragging rural victims of crime before the courts won’t help.

If you are worried about folks taking the “shoot, shovel, shut up” approach to home defense I can assure you that stopping government lawsuits against innocent homeowners is a good start towards reducing that.

Eddie still faces the lawsuit initiated by the moron who tried to rob him. I wonder if the criminal who is suing Eddie was inspired or encouraged to sue Eddie by the government and it’s lawsuit? Crackheads are not typically known for taking initiative on anything so I would not be too surprised here.

I am glad that Doug Schweitzer acted so quickly to quell this idiocy. I hope he moves just as quickly to flush out the dolts who initiated it.

International respect is essential for any country that wants to be a player on the world stage. Some nations gain that respect with military might, Some nations gain that respect with trade clout.

Nations like Canada have to gain international respect through solid, strong and smart diplomacy and leadership. Under Justin Trudeau we have had none of that. Trudeau is turning Canada into an international laughingstock and we will all pay the price for this if the electorate does not choose to fire this buffoon next month.

Time Magazine of the USA broke the story of Justin Trudeau’s blackface follies yesterday. Since then we have found that it is something of a pattern for Justin to paint himself black.

Today pretty much every major news outlet on earth along with every commentator and night time talk show host is taking about the ridiculous man who Canada calls their Prime Minister.

The stories seem to have no end and they keep emerging as more incidents pop up.

Canada has lost a lot of face on the world stage under Trudeau’s comical leadership this last four years. This weeks incident is nothing less than a catastrophe

People around the world can be very understanding.

Every democratic nation has elected a dud now and then. It can be forgiven.

What can’t and wont be forgiven is if Canada re-elects its dud!

Can you imagine Trudeau representing us in India for the next four years? The Middle East? Africa?

Nobody can take Justin Trudeau seriously and if we put him back in power for four more years, nobody will take Canada seriously either.

We have a chance just over a month from now to redeem ourselves by firing Justin Trudeau at the polls.

We had better not blow it or we truly won’t deserve the world respect that we need.

People are losing faith in polls and pollsters and its little wonder when you look at folks such as John V. Corbett.

In what was an outright vile tweet today, Corbett said he wished that the late Barbara Frum had died childless. I am presuming he has a beef with one of Ms. Frum’s children who have earned some profile and reputation. What a way to express himself towards them.

Vulgar, thoughtless tweets are hardly rare on twitter. What has to be kept in mind though is that Mr. Corbett is a pollster who the Toronto Star appears to use rather regularly.

In looking at the website for Corbett Communications, it is not hard to see the strong bias Corbett holds as a series of almost obsessive anti-conservative press releases are listed.

Pollster bias is hardly a new thing but John Corbett’s bias is beyond the pale and his repugnant tweet certainly exposed it.

The internet is forever so I thought it best that we document this online.

That way when one sees any polls from John Corbett Communications in Toronto Ontario they know what sort of biased pap this man produces.

It says quite a lot about the Toronto Star and the polling companies who choose to use John V. Corbett’s services as well.

Pretty hard to take anything released by this guy seriously.

In light of his tweet, he has some very serious issues.

Amnesty International used to be a respected organization worldwide. They used to target dictatorships where human rights were violated. Torture,imprisonment without trial, executions, infringements on free speech etc. were highlighted and exposed by Amnesty International for the world to see and condemn.

In light of Amnesty International’s absurd condemnation of Jason Kenney’s actions to protect Alberta industries, Amnesty International has demonstrated quite clearly that they have sadly degraded into just another extreme left group who has lost touch completely with their initial mandate.

The “war room” was a campaign promise made by Kenney and the left is furious that he dared to actually follow through with it. Alberta’s energy industry has been suffering under a coordinated attack from domestic and international groups who use our own court system along with a constant barrage of misinformation about our industries. These efforts to stunt Alberta’s growth have been successful as our resources are becoming increasingly landlocked while other nations enjoy fossil fuel production booms. We needed to organize to counter this and Kenney is doing just that.

The “war room” will counter misinformation as it surfaces and will work to ensure that Alberta’s interests are represented and defended in the seemingly endless legal battles.

While it is arguable as to whether or not this “war room” concept will be effective, it is without doubt that Rachel Notley’s policy of passive appeasement of energy opponents for four years was an abject failure. It will be hard to do worse than her on this file so there is little to be lost with the “war room” approach.

So what human rights are being violated with this war room effort?

Absolutely none.

Speech and assembly are as protected and free as ever. Our courts haven’t changed. No new laws have been created. No new police forces are on the move.

It is simply absurd and ridiculous that in having a government working to defend our local industries that we are accused of violating human rights.

The ridiculous actions of Amnesty International and the cranks who support them in their vapid accusations are undercutting the impact of real human rights violations that are actually happening around the world. This increasing derangement against a democratically elected majority government in a free country is doing a disservice to all the work that past human rights advocates have fought for.

Love or hate Kenney, he is violating no human rights in Alberta and this bullshit needs to be called out.

Unfortunately, we can look forward to accusations against Kenney becoming more shrill and absurd as he pursues the mandate that Albertans gave him.

Hell hath no fury like that of a socialist scorned (by the electorate).

Hypocrisy abounds among leftist circles.

One of the most egregious double standards we are seeing from the warriors of socialism is their selective support for the sovereignty of an individual’s own body.

“My body my choice!” is the simple but effective rallying call for pro-choice activists.

They rightly make the case that neither the state nor the church has the authority to tell a person what they may or may not choose to do with their bodies, at least they do in the case of a pregnancy.

The ultimate form of private property is the body of the individual, or at least it should be.

If it is an immutable right for a person to have a ball of cells (sanitized term for fetus) surgically removed upon the whim of the individual, why does this right not apply to the rest of the cells that compose of one’s body?

What I am getting at is our blood, sperm, plasma and organs.

Who the hell are you to tell me that I can’t negotiate a price and sell a portion of my body or something that my body produces?

Canada’s ideologically rigid health care system has made it illegal for us to choose what we may or may not do with our bodies and we all are paying the price for it.

Let’s start with plasma. Canada is chronically short of it thus we buy 80% of our blood products from the USA where they pay donors!

Step back a moment and look at just how profoundly stupid this is. Some folks feel it is morally wrong to pay for blood or plasma so they ban the payment for it here. We then buy it at a premium from American suppliers who have a surplus because they pay their donors.

What a moronic, ideological hill to die on. Are there any fewer paid donors due to this? No! Is any real medical purpose being served by this? No! Is there any rational reason to continue this practice? NO!

Let’s quit being damned idiots and start paying plasma and blood donors in Canada. The left loves to decry any time that Canadian dollars go to foreign corporate interests, well dammit they should be furious that scarce health care dollars are going to American companies for something we can produce for less right here at home. We just need to pay the bloody donors as they do all over the world.

Look, in an ideal world we would fill all of our donation needs through altruistic donors. Realistically, it just ain’t happening and it wont.

We shouldn’t stop with blood products. Sperm and eggs are in low supply for fertility treatments in Canada due to our foolish laws. Open it up and pay donors.

Further from there, we should allow for payment for living organ donations. Yes this makes people squeemish but get over it! We have thousands of Canadians languishing on waiting lists waiting for organ donations. Many of these transplants can be done with living donors but if we really want to draw these donors out we are going to have to start paying them.

If you don’t like it, don’t sell your blood, sperm, plasma, organs etc. Nobody is forcing you and spare me dystopian visions of a world where people are suddenly forced to donate. Proper protection of private property means that nothing ever gets sold through coercion or without a sales agreement between parties. There is no reason that these laws can’t or won’t apply to our own bodies.

Canada’s health system is a system of waiting and many people are dying on those waiting lists. Socialized medicine=rationed medicine. Our organ/blood etc shortages are only one symptom of a troubled, ideologically rigid system which forces long waits for treatment upon us. We need many reforms to address these wait times. Paying donors should be a no brainer to begin with though.

It’s my body. The state has no right to tell me what I may choose to do with it.
Its time that the state stopped doing so.

Let’s not beat around the bush here.

Canada is currently enjoying the reign of the dumbest Prime Minister in our country’s history.

Justin may have the hair and he has the family name, but he simply doesn’t have a hell of a lot between his ears. Four years of his follies have established that pretty clearly.

Now put yourself in the shoes of a Liberal strategist. Would you really want to give Trudeau any more chances to screw up than you have to?

Things are looking pretty good. Jagmeet Singh has proven to be only a little brighter than Trudeau and Andrew Scheer couldn’t inspire a circle jerk at a sex addicts convention.

Despite the scandals, it looks like all the Liberals have to do for the next 38 days or so is to hold the course and not make any profound mistakes.

The biggest liability the Liberals have is when Justin tries to think for himself and goes off script. We saw how dearly he suffered when he tried to explain how his family drinks from water box sort of thingies and his antics when he chewed through his straps while in India will be comedy gold for decades.

The Liberals will coach Justin long and hard with hopes that he manages to get through the one and only debate that he will be participating in.

Justin will simply have to regurgitate his rehearsed lines for a couple hours while Rosie blows kisses at him from behind her podium.

There simply is no way they could put Trudeau in any other debates. There aren’t enough weeks remaining to train him for it and they will never find another panel more Liberal friendly. They have everything to lose and little to gain by putting the Little Potato on the microphone any more often than they have to.

It is frustrating and annoying to see the Prime Minister avoiding open engagement with Canadians during the very period that he should be speaking the most, but one can understand why his handlers feel it must be so,

Our Imbecile in Chief simply needs to look pretty and to avoid trying to think for himself until election day.

The worst part of all is that this strategy may very well work. Justin may be an idiot but his strategists aren’t.

Just imagine what the Little Potato could do with four more years to use parliament as his personal playpen.

After weeks away from city hall, the Mayor and council couldn’t even make it an hour back in session before the entire chamber devolved into a bitch match with insults, threats of ejection and demands for apologies.

Years of terrible, self-centered leadership from Naheed Nenshi as Mayor has created the most toxic and dysfunctional city hall that Calgary has ever seen.

Business crushing tax increases as high as 400% last spring finally managed to force the Mayor and council to admit that they had a crisis on their hands. With weeks of fighting and disparate plans, they dumped an order upon city administration to cut $60 million in spending (a drop in the bucket). City administration of course cut in the most painful of front line spots in hopes of souring Calgarians on any future spending restraint.

Meanwhile businesses continue to fail and downtown languishes with nearly 30% commercial vacancy.

Having kicked the fiscal can down the road, the Mayor and council then focused on pressing issues such as increasing the network of underutilized bike tracks in downtown and public art.

Meanwhile businesses continue to fail and downtown languishes with nearly 30% commercial vacancy.

Since city administration has proven itself to be utterly incapable of reasonably reigning in the out of control spending of city hall, Jeromy Farkas proposed a common sense solution of creating a “blue book” system which could help target areas of spending waste. This would be a listing of all city expenditures over $10,000 which the public would be able to access. Taxpayers will be far more effective at identifying spending waste than city administrators who are only concerned with feathering their own nests while not rocking the boat.

As usual, the Mayor and his collection of city council mushrooms dog piled on Farkas. They pointed to some gormless, weak motion that Diane Colley-Urquhart tabled last spring which they intend to talk about at the end of the month. In light of this, they voted down Jeromy’s motion.

Meanwhile businesses continue to fail and downtown languishes with nearly 30% commercial vacancy.

High spending city hall bloat supporters Shane Keating and Ward Sutherland chimed in of course.

Sutherland hates how Jeromy’s relentless pursuit of city reform exposes Ward’s goal of riding out a simple quiet few terms in office in order to collect a generous pension. Sutherland attacks Farkas at every possible opportunity. Parasites always lash out when one tries to dislodge them.

Keating yelped on about how categorizing all that spending would actually be wasteful in itself. This would really not take much effort folks. This is simply a cowardly dodge by a freespending councilor who doesn’t want the accumulated city waste exposed while he was on watch

There is a fiscal crisis in the city of Calgary. The Mayor and council dedicate the majority of their time pursuing vanity projects and embroiled in petty fights with each other while pretending that problems aren’t happening.

It will take nothing less than a flush of at least 80% of council in the next election to fix this mess.

Let’s just hope that the core of city businesses is still salvageable by that point.

In light of the latest campaign promise from NDP leader, Jagmeet Singh, the question above is not unreasonable.

Today Singh announced that he will raise the minimum wage in Canada to a “living wage” which is quoted as being $21,75 per hour in Toronto right now.

If the solution to people living in poverty is so simple as forcing businesses to pay higher wages, why on earth would anybody stop at $21,75 per hour? Why not $50? Or $100 per hour?

Seriously, if you are going to completely ignore the impact that massive minimum wage hikes would have on employment, the cost of living and the economy in general, you may as well shoot for the moon and try to make everybody rich right?

The Bank of Canada reported that as many as 60,000 jobs may be lost due to minimum wage hikes at the $15 level. What do you think will happen at $21,75? How many jobs will be lost? How much higher will the cost of everything go? How much more investment will be driven from Canada?

Everybody wants somebody else to pay everybody else more money. Alas, life and economics just don’t work that way.

The bottom line is that if raising minimum wage by massive amounts was actually an effective policy to fight poverty, every developed country in the world would be doing it already.

Just as rent controls actually lead to less affordable housing and just as printing money to pay the debt only leads to hyperinflation, raising minimum wages have a negligible impact on poverty at best.

That won’t stop myopic dingdongs such as Singh from trying though.

Normally we can dismiss the ramblings of an economic illiterate such as Jagmeet Singh but we are in a singular situation with the way this upcoming federal election may play out.

Jagmeet Singh may hold the balance of power in a minority Trudeau government!

Rational people wouldn’t bring in a $21.75 minimum wage but we won’t be dealing with rational people.

Elizabeth May could be part of a coalition too.

Just imagine the damage that triad of twits could cause!

A $15 wage hike has harmed businesses in the retail and hospitality industries. A hike to $21.75 will decimate it.

If indeed we go down this road, we may as well go full bore.

Raise the wage to $100 per hour. Lets do a service to the world to show just how idiotic this approach to the economy is.

If Trudeau, Singh and May are running the nation, we will have little to lose anyway.