Tag Archives: Alberta

Plague Update: Pope Criticizes Selfish People Taking Holiday Trips

Posted on by John Klein

Since March it’s been known around the world that it’s not responsible to travel in the pandemic. With the curve spiking instead of flattening this winter, it’s even more extremely obvious that only travel that is life and death should be undertaken. Yet Alberta Conservatives, Saskatchewan Party Minister(s?), and Ontario Conservatives are among the Canadian political elite flouting their provincial lockdowns to vacation in Hawaii, Mexico, St. Barts, and elsewhere.

Kenny, Moe, and Ford should resign to make room for ethical leadership. I’m not sure there’s anyone suitable in Alberta’s government should Kenney be forced out, they should probably approach the Lieutenant Gov for an election in that dumpster fire of a province.

Our window to use the vaccines to make COVID-19 extinct will close one day. We’re in a race to see if humans win, or the virus and its coming mutations. Even as it enters wildlife, we can’t be sure we can beat it. I think trying is important.

There is an entirely too-slow roll-out of the vaccine so far. There’ve been 9 months to prepare a plan, if it’s not working smoothly by end of January, we should toss out political leadership getting it wrong.

Kenney Stands Up For Doomed Oil

Posted on by John Klein

Nowhere in Canada is more cursed than Alberta. It’s the Resource Curse. And Jason Kenney is the leader of the cursed.

Some people have to wait decades to learn how wrong they are. Kenney’s scheduled to see in only 5 years.

I don’t know enough to say that Kenney is an intensely stupid man, because it’s entirely possible he’s evil and conniving and knows that oil is done, but says these lies anyway to his political advantage.

Alberta RCMP Protecting Racists

Posted on by John Klein

That cop is really disturbing. Look at his smirk at the end of saying racists have a right to be as peaceful as they can manage to be, while shouting violent threats, and throwing elbow. It is worse than a shit-eating-grin. Smiley should be fired or demoted.

Plague Update: Saskatchewan Prepares To Increase Infections

Posted on by John Klein

It’s no surprise to most reading this that I have a low opinion of Saskatchewan’s Premier. He’s an unlovable oaf. He’s never been elected by the general electorate to be Premier, and his party takes corrupt corporate donations. Yet he gets lots of media support from Rawlco and other big media here, so he enjoys a bizarrely high approval rating.

This oaf, this Luddite, wants to start opening Saskatchewan back up while people around the world are dying in record numbers, so that people can go play golf. Yes, you read that right, golfing is one of the first public activities being allowed. Soon you can go hit the links with your buddies, and instead of dying on the fairway of a heart attack or lightning strike, you can die two weeks later in hospital from the plague, after giving it to your family.

Our doctors and scientists are fighting a battle around the world, to conquer COVID-19 before it mutates and remains a perpetual threat like polio and Smallpox once were. To give us our best chance, we need to all limit the spread as much as humanly possible for 1 year. It should be no surprise that Moe wants to undemine scientists and say its possible to break physics and chemistry rules. We know that gets people killed. He’s a climate crisis Denier too. That’s what they do.

When the US went to war in Iraq for the second time, they said it would be a quick victory. It’s dragged on almost 2 decades, and Americans put up with it. Meanwhile, scientists say we can have vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 in less than 18 months. We can’t fight the biggest plague of our lifetime (hopefully) for a fraction of the time and effort put into defeating so called terror?

Frisbee golf is closed in Wascana Park

Government of Sask is sending people onto thin ice

Is Oil Profitable? Negative.

Posted on by John Klein

Effing petroleum-heads and their cockamamie get-rich schemes have left us holding the bag.

We’ve got former Premier, and current Premier a-holes making total asses of themselves to defend their long held positions of stupidity and ecocide.

Look at this guy saying to put more gas on the fire in an effort to get the inferno under control.
Some rats know when to keep their mouths shut.
Look at Mr. Former Premier with his hand still out for more.

The best way to make money in oil now? Do like I’ve been saying for years, and Leave It In The Ground!

Imagine Alberta Without Kenney

Posted on by John Klein

Imagine an Alberta government not under investigation for election fraud?
One that doesn’t fire tens of thousands during a pandemic so Ottawa can pay them instead? A provincial government which doesn’t bail out sub-$4/barrel oil to the tune of billions, while cutting doctors’ pay.

UBI Universal Basic Income would allow people to stay home, and flatten the curve of infected plague carriers during a lockdown, and would save thousands of lives this year. Lots of climate change mitigation efforts save millions of lives in nebulous other years, but UBI saves people TODAY. What in the GD Hell are people arguing against it for? They hate people surviving if they didn’t directly earn less money than most people pay in taxes in half a year?

Greta Goes To Edmonton, Alberta Goes Nuts

Posted on by John Klein

If you want to read something funny about bad people, here it is. Climate activist and hero Greta Thunberg is in Calgary and on her way to Edmonton for a climate strike on Friday, and the Premier is flipping out. He’s one of the hypothetical middle age white guys threatened by a 16 year old girl bearing science data and a powerful message.

Conservatives Exceeding Election Spending Expectations

Posted on by John Klein

What’s that mean? You’ve heard the Con Premiers like Ford and Moe and Kenney are all threatening Trudeau, saying if he doesn’t do impossible things for the oil industry (because it’s rightfully dying), he’s threatening national unity because the Con Premiers will try to break away from Canada to have their own Petrostate?

It’s all part of the Conservative Party of Canada’s effort to exceed election spending limits. Kenney in Alberta is throwing $30,000,000 away on an “energy war” room to target environmentalists and other sane people who care about our planet. Basically it’s a way to funnel more money to crackpot media like Rebel, and climate change denial media like POStmedia. Their theory seems to be that if they can spend provincially, as a government, their ads indirectly supporting Scheer will translate into votes for him without running up the finite election spending limit federal parties face.

To the Rich Go the SpOILs

Posted on by John Klein

Oil and Gas don’t clean up their messes, we the Canadian citizen do.

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Unrelated, the Bare Naked Ladies song $1000000 mentions John Merrick.
“I’d buy you John Merrick’s remains”

Why did they suggest buying the skeleton for a million dollars? The King of Pop had something to do with that.

Accepting, Avoiding, and Talking About Collapse

Posted on by John Klein

Our best hope for survival is ‘too drastic‘. “The climate system is not stopping you [hitting the Paris talks target], global society is stopping you.”

That’s why the Alberta Premier gets away with saying the right thing here, but does the exact opposite in practice. $23M spent badmouthing BC environmentalists and scientists who want an end to new pipelines.

We’re undergoing a collapse of insects and life support systems of our planet. There’s one good newspaper in Canada talking about this news, and drawing the connections.

“When insects disappear, so do other animals. The population of one dazzling green bird that eats almost nothing but insects, the Puerto Rican tody, dropped by 90%.”