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“Powerful” Hurricane Teddy Strengthens To Cat 4 With Canada In Crosshairs; Tropical Depression 22 Forms In Gulf

September 18, 2020

“Powerful” Hurricane Teddy Strengthens To Cat 4 With Canada In Crosshairs; Tropical Depression 22 Forms In Gulf

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is closely monitoring “powerful” Hurricane Teddy as it continues to churn in the Atlantic Ocean and could make landfall in Canada early next week.

As of 0500 ET Friday, Teddy is generating 130 mph winds (Category 4) while moving northwest at 12 mph and located about 900 miles southeast of Bermuda. The system is expected to make landfall near Nova Scotia, Canada, as a Category 2, on Tuesday/Wednesday.

Chief meteorologist Cindy Day of SaltWire Network, a Canadian newspaper, said Teddy “would come into Canadian waters late Monday night, and we’d start to get impacted Tuesday afternoon in Nova Scotia, Wednesday in Newfoundland.”

“It’s still quite a distance out and a lot of things could happen between now and then.

“It looks like it’s going to intensify to a 4 maybe by the end of the afternoon (Friday), so it’s a powerful system. The danger with this system is that it’s not tracking over or close to land. When systems do that, the outer bands … when they start to brush up against coastline or land, it weakens the storm system. There’s no land around. It’s out in the mid-Atlantic and it’s just churning and the sea surface temperatures are warmer than normal. So right now, there’s nothing to weaken this system,” said Day.

Day said some weather models have Teddy taking a northwest turn before heading for Nova Scotia, indicating landfall could be between Yarmouth and Halifax.

“That’s how I see the path unfolding, but again a little shift in the system over the Labrador Sea and the high coming in from Quebec and that could get squeezed further to the left or further to right. It looks like there’s going to be some impact, but how significant and where landfall is going to be – it’s a little bit too soon to say just yet.”

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Carbon price wars–BC, Ontario or Quebec?

September 5, 2018

Carbon price wars–BC, Ontario or Quebec?

The question of how the Canadian provinces should deal with the issue of greenhouse gas emissions continues to be contentious and occasionally acrimonious.

The new provincial government of Ontario has declared its intention to cancel that province’s cap-and-trade system—referring to it as “a punishing, regressive tax that forces low-and middle-income families to pay more.” A week ago the province of Alberta threatened to pull out of the Federal government’s carbon pricing scheme after progress on building the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline ground to a halt. Progressive Conservative leader Andrew Scheer has vowed to shut down carbon pricing asserting: “Conservatives know that carbon tax isn’t just bad for big business; it’s bad for everyone. And that’s why, come 2019, my first act as prime minister will be to get rid of it once and for all.”[1]

So is it? Bad for everyone?

There is no question that pricing carbon works. Over 51 countries and subnational jurisdictions are now operating carbon pricing systems, or planning to do so.[2] A report last year by two of the world’s top economists was clear: “A well-designed carbon price is an indispensable part of a strategy for reducing emissions in a efficient way.”[3]

Earlier this year, Environment and Climate Change Canada published the results of a modeling exercise which showed that a carbon pricing system applied across Canada would reduce greenhouse gas pollution by between 80 and 90 million tonnes by 2022–making a significant contribution to meeting Canada’s Paris Agreement target of a 30% reduction over the period 2005 to 2030. [4]

But some forms of carbon pricing systems seem to work a lot better than others. Can we learn a few lessons and draw some conclusions by looking at the performance of the four Canadian provinces where carbon prices have been introduced: Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia? Of the four, British Columbia’s revenue-neutral carbon pricing system is widely regarded as a major success.[5] But the latest data on Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions paint a rather different picture.

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The Separatist Movements in Canada & One-Size-Fits-All of Marx

December 15, 2017

The Separatist Movements in Canada & One-Size-Fits-All of Marx

Many people are aware of the various attempts of Quebec to separate from Canada. What they are unaware of is the supporters of the Western Independence Party of Alberta. There has been an undertone of the separatist movement in Alberta which actually stems from the Great Depression usurpation of the Federal Reserve by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Why is the Western Canada separatist movement caused by Roosevelt’s usurpation of the Federal Reserve? Everyone looks to the United States and assumes whatever structure they adopt must be correct. The Euro was crafted because the USA has a single currency. They did not consolidate all the debts and that has created a nightmare. Canada, likewise, assumed the one-size-fits-all policy of Roosevelt and has been paying the price regionally ever since.

So what is the link with the structural usurpation of the Federal Reserve?

When the Fed was created, it was the solution to the Panic of 1907, which was set in motion by the disruption of the internal domestic capital flows caused by the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. The insurance companies were in New York. Consequently, the cash flowed to the West and a shortage developed in the East.

The original structural design of the Fed was to establish 12 branches to manage the capital flows domestically. Interest rates would decline where there was an excess of cash and rise where there was a shortage. This, they believed, would cause capital to move between the branches to balance the national capital flows and economy. Each branch acted independently to manage the capital flows. When crops would come to market, then Kansas would have an excess of cash and rates would decline as we can see from the table showing the rates set by each branch in August 1927.

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Catalonia is not Just About Spain – it is About Brussels!!

October 23, 2017

Catalonia is not Just About Spain – it is About Brussels!!

There are of course those in Spain who side against Catalonia. Others write who are in Catalonia yet disagree with the separatists. Let me make this very clear. It is the government of Rajoy who has acted abusively, and this is all about protecting Brussels and federalizing Europe behind everyone’s back.

Rajoy should have allowed a fair referendum and then negotiate if they won. Canada allowed two refferendums in Quebec and Britain allowed the Scottish referendum. This nonsense that the Constitution does not allow any democratic process is pure TYRANNY. That was the same argument in America by England and in France that led to revolution.

Had Rajoy NOT played the hardline tactics, allowed the referendum to take place, then many who voted for independence may have not done so. This is about political power – not the dignity, right, or freedom of the people. This is basically stating the people mean nothing and you will obey or else.

This is a political power play that centers around the EU not just Spain.

If Texas or California want a referendum to separate from the USA, it is a human right to take such a vote. There can be no exceptions!!!!!

Quebec Is “Close To Its Limits” As Refugees Flood Across US-Canada Border

August 3, 2017

Quebec Is “Close To Its Limits” As Refugees Flood Across US-Canada Border

Back in January, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, his liberal savior complex in full view, announced that Canada would take in all refugees who are refused entry to the US.

“To those fleeing persecution, terror and war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength.”

Six months later, some Canadians are starting to question that decision as the country’s resources are stretched to the limit by an unprecedented wave of refugees seeking asylum.

As we’ve reported previously, a crush of migrants hoping to seek refugee status in the US have instead traveled north to Canada, fearing arrest – or worse, deportation – following the November election of President Donald Trump. Thanks to the flow of thousands of migrants from Central and South America flowing across the Canadian border, 2017 is expected to see the highest number of asylum seekers applying for asylum since 2011.

The crush of migrants has already overwhelmed Canada’s legal system, leaving many in an uncomfortable legal limbo.

Now, a wave of Haitian asylum-seekers are occupying most of the spare shelter space in a city where temperatures regularly fall below, as one supervisor at a government-funded aid program told the Montreal Gazette.

“Francine Dupuis, who oversees PRAIDA, a government-funded program to help seekers get on their feet in Quebec, said the number of refugee claimants is unprecedented.

Following a recent wave of Syrian refugees, most are now Haitians fleeing the United States for fear their temporary resident status will be revoked and hoping to find refuge in Montreal’s large Haitian community.

‘It’s unheard of,’ Dupuis said. ‘In 30 years, I’ve never seen this kind of volume or intensity.’

Dupuis said about 90 per cent of asylum seekers coming into Quebec now are Haitian. In July, PRAIDA received 1,200 new requests for refugees, nearly four times more than an average month.

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Canadians fight floods across the country

May 7, 2017

Canadians fight floods across the country

Thousands in Central Canada, the Atlantic and B.C. spend the weekend struggling with rising water levels

Erick Miner comforts a cat rescued by boat from a home Saturday on Rue Saint-Louis in Gatineau, Que., as rising river levels and heavy rains continue to cause flooding. (Justin Tang/Canadian Press) Poster of video clip

Across the country, thousands of Canadians are spending the weekend in a desperate struggle with rising floodwaters caused by unusually persistent rainfall.

More than 400 Canadian Forces personnel were deployed to western and central Quebec on Saturday as high water continued to threaten hundreds of residences, including some in the Montreal area.

Another 800 troops will be added to that total by the end of Sunday, officials have since announced.

More than 130 Quebec communities have been hit by flooding, with an estimated 1,900 homes affected and more than 1,000 people forced to leave.

Floodwaters in Quebec are expected to peak today due to continued rain in most of the affected areas.

Premier visits flooded area

Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard visited the flooded Montreal-area community of Rigaud yesterday and urged people to heed authorities if they recommend they leave their homes.

Rigaud Mayor Hans Gruenwald Jr. declared a state of emergency Sunday morning and ordered a mandatory evacuation of the region’s flood zones, saying authorities could no longer guarantee the safety of residents.

Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre said he is also evaluating whether to declare a state of emergency after three dikes gave way in the Pierrefonds-Roxboro borough, in the city’s north end.

Homes have been evacuated in Pierrefonds, as well as on the two nearby islands, Ile-Bizard and the smaller Ile-Mercier.

flooding-central-eastern-western-Canada-military

Canadian forces have been deployed to help affected communities cope with rising water levels, including 80 soldiers in Gatineau, seen leaving their temporary headquarters here. (Ashley Burke/CBC)

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Wet weather walloping much of Ontario, Quebec and heading east

May 5, 2017

Wet weather walloping much of Ontario, Quebec and heading east

Ottawa River, Laurentian communities hit hard; New Brunswick expected to be next

Some Pointe-Gatineau, Que., residents have had to abandon their cars trapped by flooding. Firefighters have gone door-to-door in parts of Gatineau to warn residents of the dangers of staying put as forecasts call for rain throughout the weekend. (CBC) Poster of video clip Heavy rainfall affected airline passengers in Canada’s busiest airport on Friday, while voluntary evacuation orders were in effect in some areas of Ontario and Quebec.

Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for much of Quebec and a rainfall warning for much of southern and eastern Ontario. New Brunswick, particularly the southern part of the province, will be in the crosshairs of the slow-moving system beginning Friday night and into Saturday.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in Montreal on Friday morning, said the federal government is closely monitoring the flood threat.

“Our thoughts are with the families, the communities affected by the severe flooding that’s going on throughout Quebec and indeed across the country,” he said.

He praised the volunteers and first responders helping out and said Ottawa was ready to respond to formal requests for assistance.

“We will, of course, be there as the cleanup continues after the waters recede,” he said.

In all affected areas, residents are being warned to stay away from banks of rivers and streams and low-lying areas and to avoid driving into standing water. Homeowners are advised to ensure valuables aren’t kept in basements, to make sure catch basins and eaves are clear of leaves and debris, and to call 311 to report any flooding issues.

Quebec

The most wide-ranging threats of flooding are in Quebec, with 124 communities in the province affected.

Urgences Québec says more than 1,326 residences in the province have been affected by flooding this week, with at least 700 people forced out of their homes.

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Questions Remain As Shifting Narrative, Conflicting Testimony Indicates Cover Up in Quebec Terror Incident

February 4, 2017

Questions Remain As Shifting Narrative, Conflicting Testimony Indicates Cover Up in Quebec Terror Incident

Witness statements and reports which conflict with the Canadian government’s account of what occurred during the tragic January 29th, 2017 Quebec terror attack at the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City raise questions about what actually happened the night of the tragedy. The evidence indicates that contrary to the official narrative, there was more than one gunman and multiple weapons were captured in the possession of arrestees. Media outlets also were so eager to claim the incident was caused by white supremacists that they were fooled into reporting false information from parody news accounts on twitter.

I. Multiple Media Sources Cited Witness Statements Claiming There Were Multiple Gunmen, Number Of Weapons Seized Inconsistent With “Lone Wolf” Narrative

The Canadian government’s claims that the Quebec shooting was a “lone wolf” incident is not consistent with multiple media reports and witness statements that there were at least two gunmen participating in the incident. Canadian news source Le Soleil reported that “at least one gunman” participated in the attack. A witness told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that they saw two masked gunmen enter the building, shout the Takbir (Islamic phrase “Allahu akbar” which means “God is great” in Arabic) and open fire on worshippers. The Sun also ran a statement from a 22 year old student named Abdi, who was reading the Koran with his friends at the time of the attack. Abdi similarly said he was convinced he had seen two attackers and that they shouted the Takbir before opening fire. Reuters also ran an additional report citing another witness statement which said that three attackers had taken part in the incident.

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Will Cap-And-Trade Slow Climate Change?

March 2, 2016

Will Cap-And-Trade Slow Climate Change?

Bombardier Thanks Canada For $1 Billion Bailout By Firing 7,000 People

February 17, 2016

Bombardier Thanks Canada For $1 Billion Bailout By Firing 7,000 People

Back in October, Quebec put taxpayers on the hook for a $1 billion bailout of planemaker Bombardier, which was having one hell of a hard time creating a buzz around its CSeries commercial jet program.

Bombardier has been around for nearly 8 decades and employs more than 40,000 people in the province. The company’s role in the provincial economy is “incalculable,” Quebec’s Economy Minister Jacques Daoust said last year. “How can I let them go?” he asked.

For its money, Quebec would get a 49.5% stake in a new business that will own the assets and liabilities of the CSeries commercial jet program, which isn’t exactly going well. In exchange, the company promised to manufacture the aircraft in the province for at least 20 years. “How confident is Quebec that this will fan out for the economy and taxpayers? That’s what we don’t know,” Paul Boothe, a former senior Canadian official who was the federal government’s lead negotiator with the domestic units of GM during bailout talks in 2009 said at the time.

Well, now we do know. On Wednesday, Bombardier announced it’s cutting 7,000 jobs as part of a “global workforce optimization.”

“Impacted positions are mostly based in Canada and Europe,” the company said this morning, after reporting results that missed estimates on both the top and bottom line. Here’s the breakdown:

So obviously that sounds bad, but don’t worry because the job losses will be “partially offset” by hiring in “certain growth areas.” Like the CSeries program. Which is “growing” so fast that the company had to take a $1 billion bailout from the provincial government to shore it up.

“Production rates for some models have been modified,” Bombardier goes on to say, in an attempt to explain the layoffs, “due to macroeconomic conditions.” For those who don’t read a lot of quarterly reports, that’s a polite way of saying this: “demand is really, really soft.”

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Bombardier’s strange chokehold on the public purse

November 3, 2015

Bombardier’s strange chokehold on the public purse

In today’s lexicon, government ‘investment’ means spending your money on someone else

Bombardier's new, much-delayed CS300 aircraft made its first test flight in February, but some investment analysts are wondering if the longer, narrow-bodied jet has missed its moment.

Bombardier’s new, much-delayed CS300 aircraft made its first test flight in February, but some investment analysts are wondering if the longer, narrow-bodied jet has missed its moment. (Christinne Muschi/Reuters)

Has anyone noticed how the word “spend” vanished at some point from the political vocabulary?

Governments simply don’t spend anymore, they “invest” on behalf of grateful taxpayers who put up the capital.

The political appeal of this semantic shift is obvious: “investing” has a virtuous ring; it implies prudent choices and a handsome return.

Put it this way, you might actually pay someone to invest your money, but do you really want anyone else spending it?

As for “bailout,” well, that term is about as politically acceptable nowadays as a racial slur. You bail out the weak and incompetent. You invest in winners.

So, this week, Bombardier is — once again — a “winner.”

“This will be a profitable transaction for everybody,” declared Quebec’s minister of the economy, Jacques Daoust, as he confirmed his government’s decision to “invest” $1 billion in the floundering airplane maker, which has been hemorrhaging money and missing delivery deadlines.

In addition, Daoust made it clear he expects “everybody” to include Canada’s new prime minister, Justin Trudeau, just as soon as he officially takes possession of the federal vault this week.

“I can assure you,” said Daoust, that upon learning the name of Trudeau’s new industry minister, “I’ll get his or her phone number and put in a call.”

Daoust is counselling a nice round “investment” figure for Ottawa, too. Say, another billion or so.

Trudeau hasn’t made any commitments, but Daoust’s message is pretty clear: You won with Quebec’s help, and it’s time to help Quebec.

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Bombardier investment launches Quebec into battle with aerospace giants: Don Pittis

October 30, 2015

Bombardier investment launches Quebec into battle with aerospace giants: Don Pittis

Is challenging Boeing and Airbus a savvy investment or a waste of taxpayer cash?

Fred Cromer, president of Bombardier Commercial Aircraft, presents Swiss Airline's new Bombardier CS100 aircraft. But delays in readying the CSeries for passenger service allowed giant competitors Boeing and Airbus to get a head start in selling into the same niche.

Fred Cromer, president of Bombardier Commercial Aircraft, presents Swiss Airline’s new Bombardier CS100 aircraft. But delays in readying the CSeries for passenger service allowed giant competitors Boeing and Airbus to get a head start in selling into the same niche. (Reuters)

In some ways it feels like throwing good money after bad.

The same day that Canada’s leading transport manufacturer, Bombardier, announced $5 billion US in losses, Quebec taxpayers have invested more than $1 billion of their own in the company.

And despite a backlash from many Quebecers who think there are better things to do with a cool billion, the Quebec government may have made a smart investment in its future. But as Bombardier goes head to head with the world’s biggest aircraft makers, there’s no question it is a gamble.

In the short term it is a certainty that keeping Bombardier’s aircraft development program alive will be good for Quebec’s economy, specifically in terms of jobs.

“The government’s stepping in because there’s about 17,000 to 18,000 Bombardier jobs in Quebec,” says McGill University’s Bombardier-watcher Karl Moore. “When you look at the tier-two suppliers, there’s probably about 40,000 people in Quebec who make their living from Bombardier.”

Lots at stake

The CSeries is the biggest commercial airline Bombardier has made. It will have to go head to head with new aircraft just released by Boeing and Airbus that use the same quiet engine. (Bombardier )

But as usual with such investments, if it were merely a question of a few years’ worth of jobs, there might be a cheaper way to inject that money into the Quebec economy. There is much more at stake.

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Dozens arrested in anti-capitalism May Day protest in Montreal

May 2, 2015

Dozens arrested in anti-capitalism May Day protest in Montreal

Eighty-four protesters arrested, Montreal police use tear gas to disperse demonstrators and bystanders

Police arrested 84 people, including 27 on criminal charges, and used tear gas to disperse demonstrators at a night-time protest in downtown Montreal organized by a local anti-capitalist group called CLAC.

Hundreds of people gathered at at least three different locations around the city, well before the protests officially got underway at 7 p.m. ET.

The group called on protesters to cause the “maximum disruption possible” to businesses downtown.

However, the majority of the crowd were people carrying anti-austerity messages with no intention of vandalism or violence.

By 7:10 p.m., police had already declared the demonstrations illegal and began ordering protesters to disperse.

As demonstrators moved up McGill College Avenue from de Maisonneuve Boulevard, police began launching rounds of tear gas.

Children gassed by police

Families and bystanders were among those gassed early in the demonstration. One woman said she brought her family to the protest thinking it would be peaceful.

“Suddenly, there was tear gas all around us,” the woman, who did not give her name, said, as one of her children cried in the background.

“We have a baby with us.”

Montreal police Sgt. Laurent Gingras said it’s regrettable that families were caught in the fray, but he said police warned people to leave the area before firing rounds of tear gas.

Montreal police confirmed there were arrests, but did not have a final tally.

Police kettled protesters

Gingras said one of the challenges police face was splinter groups that appeared across the city, making it difficult to disperse protesters.

Bystander Sarah Campbell was walking home from eating dinner near Sherbrooke Street and Hutchison Street when she saw police approach one of the splinter groups, comprised of around 15 protesters.

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Quebec City climate-change march draws 25,000 people

April 12, 2015

Quebec City climate-change march draws 25,000 people

March is in advance of premiers’ summit next wee

A climate-change march drew about 25,000 people to the streets of Quebec City on Saturday, as protesters try to encourage premiers to take a tougher stance on climate and pipeline regulations.

The march was organized by Act On Climate — a coalition of groups including environmental groups, unions, students and aboriginal groups.

It’s in preparation for a premiers’ summit on climate change which will take place on Tuesday, April 14.

The focus is a greener strategy for Canada’s provinces and territories.

About 100 buses were driven to the rally with many passengers from different parts of Quebec. Once there, they marched for about three kilometres to the National Assembly.

Protesters wore red and arranged themselves so that from the sky it looked like a bursting thermometer.

Protesters against pipelines

High on the list of demands from the group is stopping the building of new pipelines, including Keystone, Energy East, and Northern Gateway.

Serge Simon, the grand chief of Kanesatake, said Quebec environmentalists should look to British Columbia.

“You could take the example of the B.C. premier [Christy Clark]. The B.C. premier had a lot of pressure brought to them and they put these conditions that stopped Northern Gateway,” he said.

“The premier of Quebec [Philippe Couillard] can do the same thing if he stops catering to big corporate interests. I don’t see why he can’t do this.”

Saturday’s march concluded with a concert featuring Les Respectables, Yann Perreau and Sarah Harmer.

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