“It’s going to be more expensive to buy stuff and your dollar isn’t going to go as far,” Lydia Miljan, a professor of political science at the University of Windsor, told CTV National News.
“The cost of borrowing is higher and so obviously that is going to put in some recessionary pressures.”
A weak dollar has traditionally served as a “subsidy” for exporting manufacturers etc allowing them to forego productivity investment.
There’s always a silver lining for somebody just never us.
King Charles III dedicated much of his time as Britain’s longest-serving heir-apparent to activism, particularly on environmental issues, prompting speculation about whether his political activity will end following his accession.
“He’s got involved in all sorts of quasi-political areas and expressed his views, and he’s launched charities to further his views, and that has made him pretty unpopular,” said royal biographer Penny Junor.
The Leopard doesn’t change its spots.
I envision a short public honeymoon followed by a very unpopular reign.
Charlie can’t help but be an Eco-Scold of the worst sort.
It doesn’t help that he has a carbon footprint larger than many small countries.
Which of his many homes will King Charles live in?
There are many perks to being King. Not having to worry about a roof over your head is definitely one of them.
As well as the very well-known castles and palaces, the properties at King Charles III’s disposal include some relatively modest cottages – modest by royal standards, anyway.
Some of these come with the job, others are privately owned by the King himself. There are also buildings belonging to the Duchy of Cornwall, the private estate of the Prince of Wales, which he made his home during his time in the role.
Meet Canada’s new Tory leader vowing to boot out Justin Trudeau
Canada’s new populist Tory leader claimed Justin Trudeau’s government had ruined “the lives of its citizens” as he kicked off his bid to boot the prime minister out of office.
Pierre Poilievre, 43, has branded the country’s decades-high inflation “Justin-flation” to hammer Mr Trudeau’s public spending levels as he becomes his main challenger.
It was this combative style that propelled him to a landslide victory last Saturday in the Canadian Conservative Party’s leadership election.
The Liberal establishment’s total paranoia about last winter’s truckers’ protest in downtown Ottawa – not some real national crisis – was behind Justin Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act.
Canadians probably don’t need more examples of just how overwrought Ottawa’s ruling elite was about the “threat” from the Freedom Convoy. Nonetheless, yet another example surfaced this week.
Standing in the gloom, Maksim Maksimov pointed to the spot where he was tortured with electric shocks. Russian soldiers took him from his cell in the basement of Izium’s police station. They sat him on an office chair and attached a zig-zag crocodile clip to his finger. It was connected by cable to an old-fashioned Soviet military field telephone.
And then it began. A soldier cranked the handle, turning it faster and faster. This sent an excruciating pulse through Maksimov’s body. “I collapsed. They pulled me upright. There was a hood on my head. I couldn’t see anything. My legs went numb. I was unable to hear in my left ear,” he recalled. “Then they did it again. I passed out. I came round 40 minutes later back in my cell.”
An ax-wielding wingnut ran amok inside a Delancey Street McDonald’s, terrorizing patrons and causing thousands of dollars worth of property damage, officials said.
@CrimeInNYC NYC always good for some chaotic mayhem. He didn’t hurt anybody, but could have been ugly ! pic.twitter.com/I6WvqROuGR
— Shakes Mcgoo (@McgooShakes) September 17, 2022
Many Canadians have been taking to Twitter to post their portraits and bios since Sept. 13, saying how because of their choice to remain unvaccinated they’ve been tagged with derogatory labels.
Martin Bélanger from Alberta says he posted the original tweet that started the trend on Tuesday morning.
Three in Ten Americans Still Refusing to Get the Coronavirus Jab
The percentage of Americans who are refusing to get a vaccine for the Chinese coronavirus is remaining consistent, as nearly three in ten have yet to receive a single jab for the virus, a poll from The Economist/YouGov found.
The Halton District School Board is “standing behind” an “accepted” transgender teacher who has gone viral in social media video posts.
In addition, HDSB Chair Margo Shuttleworth tells the Toronto Sun that staff are looking at “going through creating a safety plan” to ensure the Oakville Trafalgar High School teacher’s security as they prepare for potential protests when the school opens for classes Monday.
To start with I’d obtain a court order barring the HDSB from having contact with children.
Bill Maher says that woke schools’ lessons on critical race theory and decisions to conceal transgender students’ new identities from their parents are driving liberal voters into the arms of Donald Trump and the Republican party.
During a discussion screened Friday with Trace Adkins, Julia Ioffe, and John Meacham, Maher stated that his two biggest issues when it comes to voting are democracy and the environment.
He admitted that he doesn’t have children but said his friends who do have kids ‘don’t like it when they come home and say they divided the class today into oppressors and oppressed.’
I’m referring to the excitement, which some partisans found as inexplicable, that attended Pierre Poilievre’s campaign for leadership — the huge enthusiasm for his rallies and the great numbers that attended.
The ugly attack on the BAPS Swaminarayan Temple in Toronto has once again exposed Canada as a hotspot for pro-Khalistani elements sponsored by the Pakistani deep state as opposed to the image of a multicultural Canada that its Prime Minister Justin Trudeau loves to flaunt internationally. The temple was defiled on Tuesday with anti-India slogans scribbled on the walls of the premises.
I work nights for a government contractor on a federal base. Tonight we had a mandatory training that I just got out of a couple of hours ago. It has become clear that if you want to hold a job that isn’t your own small business, or at another small business owned by like-minded people, then your views aren’t welcome if you hold any kind of traditional view regarding sexuality, gender, society, and nationhood. Is this the “free market?” It doesn’t feel free. It feels like oppression. The same way you couldn’t participate in Soviet society if you didn’t conform to the state religion is how we are now. We aren’t a free country. Hell, if you own your own small business, and make your views even minimally known against the queer religion of the US government, then you aren’t safe either. Good luck staying open or staving off audits and indictments and lawsuits.
The final novel of C.S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy, That Hideous Strength, brings to a crescendo the themes at work in Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra. While reading the book in its intended context provides a richer experience, Lewis wrote this final novel so that it could stand alone. For those of us attempting to weather the unsettling global upheavals in the twenty-first century, That Hideous Strength is vital reading to understand the network of connections in the cosmic battle in which we find ourselves.
… As Mark attempts to pierce the inner circle of the institute, he discovers that each higher clique of elites smugly assumes its “real” goals. Planned riots, scripted news stories, corruptly installed officials, checks and balances bypassed as so much “red tape,” declared states of emergencies: the tools of the N.I.C.E. might have come across as unlikely scenarios to Lewis’ original readers. To a reader who has suffered through 2020, 2021, and 2022, it reads like current events. Particularly painful is the sanitation work of the institute, hell-bent upon improving “health” at the expense of much of what makes life livable and dignified.
Campaigning on issues like immigration, religion, crime and the cost of environmental rules, the Sweden Democrats, a party with neo-Nazi roots, grew its support.
STOCKHOLM — Magnus Karlsson, 43, works in information technology and is about to start his own company. Articulate and thoughtful, he follows the news carefully, both in Sweden and globally.
But fed up with what he considers the complacency of the Swedish political establishment toward issues of immigration, crime and inflation, he voted last week for the Sweden Democrats for the first time.
The New York Times is scared.
Amita Kuttner claimed that online text reading ‘she’ instead of ‘they’ illustrated a ‘system of oppression.‘ Now the party’s president has resigned, and the movement is in chaos.
Green parties have become a significant political force in many Western nations and sub-national jurisdictions. While “Green”-branded platforms vary from one part of the world to the next, they all typically draw in heterodox left-of-centre political figures who trumpet ecological sustainability, grassroots democracy, and social justice through non-violent means. In some nations, such as Finland, Germany, Ireland, and Austria, Greens have gained cabinet representation and membership in ruling coalitions. In Latvia, Green politicians have even served as prime minister and head of state.
h/t CV
