Braid: Alberta oil revenue stages another fiscal rescue. What would replace it?

Once again, Alberta’s finances are snatched from the pit of hell by oil and gas revenues.

The UCP announced very strong economic forecasts Tuesday, far better than its earlier predictions for this year.

Thank goodness – now they’ll be able to make their equalization payments. By the way, on Sept 1 1905, Alberta became a province. 116 years of Eastern control.

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Amherst College Bars Students From Leaving Campus Without Permission

Under the college’s August 25 guidelines (active through September 13), “Students may visit the town of Amherst, masked when indoors, in order to conduct business (opening bank accounts, picking up prescriptions, etc.) during regular business hours, but may not go to restaurants or bars.” However, other “off-campus travel,” with the exception of travel to other nearby universities for classes, “must be approved by the Office of Student Affairs.”

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Let the Cover up Begin: Biden Officials Erased Afghan Weapons Reports From Fed Websites

The Taliban getting the weaponry was earning Joe Biden a lot of criticism — that more of it wasn’t destroyed or prevented from falling into the enemy hands.

So it’s more than a little troubling to read that the Biden administration told federal agencies to scrub their websites of the official reports about the $82.9 billion in weaponry the U.S. has provided to the Afghan army since 2001 (which is now largely in Taliban hands).

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Bombshell Report: US Knew About Kabul Bomber, Had Drone Lock but Didn’t Take the Shot

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Roger Pardo-Maurer dropped some incredible information during an interview and it’s huge, if true.

Director of MRC Latino, Jorge Bonilla, posted an interview of Pardo-Maurer. Pardo-Maurer, who was in the State Department for years, since at least 2001, said he was being told that the Department of Defense already knew who the bomber was ahead of time, before the bombing and when the Kabul attack would occur.

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Liberal Party releases multi-billion dollar election platform for post-pandemic recovery

The sprawling, 53-page platform proposes $78 billion in new spending. It differs substantially from the Conservative plan released earlier in this campaign in that it proposes to invest more in Liberal priorities — such as efforts to fight climate change, Indigenous reconciliation and the arts and cultural sector — while promising tighter restrictions on firearms and new money for provinces that ban handguns.

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UK: Welcome to the Medieval Era of 2021

Advocates of multi-culturalism demand not only that we should accept sweeping changes to our cultural landscape, but also that we should be far more welcoming of some of the medieval customs, traditions, and religious laws it has taken much of the world — often at great cost in the irrevocable currency of life as well as treasure — centuries to get rid of.

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Some Canadians really, really, really hate Justin Trudeau

The Trudeau government is the most divisive government in Canadian history – it’s no wonder so many Canadians are angry with Justin Trudeau.

Protesters confronting politicians is nothing new in Canadian politics. This happens to every politician, every party and during every election, but this didn’t stop the legacy media from defending Trudeau and making him look like some kind of hero.

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Gold Star Father On Meeting Biden: ‘Didn’t Go Well,’ Talked ‘More About His Own Son Than He Did My Son’

Gold Star father Mark Schmitz, whose son Marine Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz was killed in the terror attack at the airport in Kabul last week, slammed President Joe Biden during an interview on Monday for how the president handled himself during a meeting following his son’s death.

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Trudeau Bank Tax Risks Backfiring and Boosting Costs for Homebuyers

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s election campaign promise to raise taxes on Canada’s biggest banks could backfire and make home purchases less affordable, undercutting his goal of helping buyers in one of the world’s hottest markets, according to an analysis from Bloomberg Intelligence.

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Afghan interpreter who saved Biden in Afghanistan is now stranded there

Then-Sens. Chuck Hagel, Joe Biden and John Kerry in Afghanistan on Feb. 20, 2008.

An Afghan interpreter who helped in the 2008 rescue of then-Sen. Joe Biden and two other senators from a valley in Afghanistan was among the thousands left behind as the commander-in-chief pulled US troops out of the embattled nation, leaving it in the hands of the Taliban.

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