I feel like a few months from now, a psychiatrist will be able to look back on this blog and track my slow descent into madness. Or apathy. Slow descent into apathy. As each post gets shorter and posted later. Oh well.
This story perfectly shows how Steve goes about his business. Quietly make shit difficult for people until they reach a point where they can't compete/complete and laugh as an enemy is quietly defeated. It's no secret that Conservatives hate the CBC. And you can spend a lot of time talking about privatizing the whole thing. Or you can just slowly turn back their funding, until they can't compete for important show contracts and just slowly disappear. Maybe the end of Hockey Night in Canada isn't a big deal? Maybe Don Cherry will finally just disappear into a basement to yell at his TV? But I think this is a turning point. And a montage. I feel Steve must be at lest the tiniest bit torn about this one.
Should I just end it there? One post about hockey and we're done?
Steve and his Australian buddy have decided to double down on their anti climate change agenda. Their distant relatives held a similar press conference years ago about refusing to kill jobs with a response to the nay-sayers and their made up asteroid impact.
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association makes a fatal assumption when they say things like "Back to the drawing board" with respect to privacy legislation. That assumption being that the Conservatives give even one fuck about what anybody thinks or whether or not something is legal.
Justin Trudeau is setting a bit of an odd precedent. He suggests that male legislators shouldn't be making decisions on a females right to abortion. Which I kind of agree with. But what other responsibilities is he going to try to shirk off next? Is he just going to sit in an office with a giant stamp that says something like "Sorry, I can't deal with this because I'm white and male"? Shit. If only Steve had a similar attitude.
Click through on this sucker and listen to the full interview. Chris Alexander is a master of not answering questions. And he sounds so hard done by. And then he hangs up the phone. Jason Kenney is also a master at not answering questions (about Temporary Foreign Workers).
The Robo-calls trial has given an insight into how political campaigns act in Canada. Like children. I'm surprised they aren't ordering dozens of pizzas to show up at the opponents campaign office. Actually, that would be a bit of a morale booster, wouldn't it?
I feel like I'm slowly descending into madness with respect to Vancouver real estate. It's easy to feel stupid for not buying a shitty house as values continue to rise into the stratosphere and an entire industry works to convince us that we're incompetent humans for not over-paying for a house already. So, the 2013 breakdown of incomes in Canada is very interesting. If you make more than $191,000 per year, you're in the top 1% of all income earners in Canada. So....if you are just barely in the top 1% of all Canadian income earners, you can barely afford the average Vancouver detached house (at $1,000,000+)? What's considered affordable? 5 times annual earnings, right? Less? It gets way, way worse when you look at median individual income ($27,600) and median family income ($76,000). Of course, you're thinking the median Vancouver income is higher than the median Canadian, right? Sorry.
MacLean's points out that we're really, really terrible at protecting our marine habitat. Like worse than Russia and China bad. Worse than the US, even.
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