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This Is Canada's Depression: Surging Crime, Soaring Suicides, Overwhelmed Food Banks "And The Worst Is Yet To Come"

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Back in March, we brought you “Drugs, Prostitution, Violence Plague Oil Boom Towns Gone Bust,” in which we detailed the plight of towns like Sidney and Bainville, Montana, where the slump in oil revenue has made it all but impossible for local authorities to cope with surging crime rates that some attribute to the influx of oil workers the communities experienced in the good old days of high crude prices. 

The problem, apparently, was that despite the dramatic slump in oil, companies hadn’t yet begun to cut jobs or slash capex and so, officials were left with less money to put towards policing their growing populations. 

As dangerous as it may be for small towns to experience exponential growth in what The Washington Post described as “highly paid oil workers living in sprawling ‘man camps’ with limited spending opportunities,” what’s even more dangerous is the prospect that suddenly, the majority of those workers will be jobless. That is, if there’s anything that’s more conducive to raising the crime rate than legions of highly paid young men living in small towns with “limited spending opportunities,” it’s legions of formerly highly paid young men stuck in small towns with limited job opportunities. 

With that in mind, America can look north to Calgary for a preview of what’s in store for America’s oil boom towns.

Although Alberta’s largest city bares little resemblance to Sidney and Bainville, the three do have one thing in common: oil. "Calgary boasted one of the lowest jobless rates in Canada as crude prices rose over $100 a barrel [but] it’s now reeling after a global glut pushed prices down by two-thirds,” Bloomberg notes.

For our part, we’ve spent quite a bit of time documenting the city’s trials and travails:

As we noted earlier this year, resource revenue makes up nearly a third of Alberta's annual revenue:

"Alberta’s real GDP is expected to expand in 2015, but at a much slower pace of 0.6%. This is down from the Second Quarter forecast of 2.8%," provincial authorities wrote in March, in their quarterly fiscal update. That underscores just how significant the swift decline in crude prices is for the province. Since then, the government's projection for 2015 GDP has fallen by a full percentage point, as the economy is now expected to contract by 0.6%. Here's more from the latest fiscal update:

The sharp decline in oil prices has substantially reduced capital spending in the energy sector. Oil and gas investment is expected to fall over 30% in 2015, with weakness carrying into 2016. Conventional investment has been hit especially hard. Rig activity has declined almost 50% through the first seven months of 2015. 

 


 

Lower oil prices are weighing on production and exports. Although exports remain an important driver in Alberta’s economy, the forecast for oil production has been revised lower since March. This mainly reflects unplanned disruptions in oil sands production and the significant slowdown in conventional drilling. In addition, weakness in the oil and gas sector has spread to other sectors of the economy. Alberta machinery manufacturing has fallen 20% since January. This can be mainly traced to declining industrial machinery and equipment manufacturing, which primarily serves the oil industry. 

Needless to say, this has had a dramatic impact on jobs. As we reported on Tuesday, Canada is expected to lose some 100,000 oil and gas sector jobs by the end of the year. Jobs like those Jillian Berling-MacKenzie, 25, and her boyfriend used to have. Here's Bloomberg:

Jillian was one of the lucky few of her graduating geology class to secure full-time work this year, at oil company ConocoPhillips. She bought a house with her boyfriend, also a newly graduated geologist with a job, before they both became victims of the cuts. A friend’s company has provided some contract work paying slightly more than employment insurance as Berling-MacKenzie tries to land positions just about anywhere, seeing no postings she qualifies for in her field.

And then there's Keely Eng, 27, who was fired from an engineering position in March at Nexen and is now so worried about her future in the field that she simply threw in the towel and decided to go to medical school: 

The dearth of opportunities has Keely Eng, 27, seeking a career change. Eng was let go from an engineering position in March at Nexen, the Cnooc Ltd. subsidiary. Dreading an extended job hunt, Eng took medical school exams and has applied to several programs.

And don't forget about Kevin Mulligan, 61, who was let go by Stampede and now works with his wife making Christmas decorations: 

Kevin Mulligan, 61, was among Stampede workers who “got the Tuesday boot,” he said. The former park maintenance manager, six years from retirement, is helping his wife with a Christmas wreath-making side business to supplement severance payments while job-hunting.


 

“My new job is finding a job,” Mulligan said.

As The Financial Post notes, Alberta's troubles go beyond falling crude prices. "Apart from the protracted price declines, Alberta’s oil and gas sector has also had to contend with a 20 per cent hike in corporate taxes, a carbon tax and new regulatory policies to limit rein in carbon emissions," the Post writes, adding that "a new provincial royalty regime is to be announced in January, leaving Alberta oil and gas producers under a cloud of uncertainty [while] the new federal government also plans to unveil new policies, including a review of the regulatory process, which the sector sees as more burden in an already difficult environment for the industry."

As we pointed out three weeks ago, the real casualties in Canada are no longer metaphorical economic objects, but the very people who until recently enjoyed comfortable lives only to succumb to an unprecedented collapse in the local economy. According to the chief medical examiner's office, 30% more Albertans took their lives in the first half of this year compared to the same period last year. Here are the numbers:

  • From January to June 2014, there were 252 suicides in Alberta.
  • During the same period this year, there were 327.
  • If the trend continues, Alberta could be on track for 654 suicides this year.
  • In an average year, there are 500, according to the Centre for Suicide Prevention.

Well, in the latest abysmal news out of Alberta, Bloomberg reports that food bank use and crime are now soaring amid the protracted slide in crude. "Calgary’s unemployment rate rose to 6.9 percent in November from 4.6 percent a year earlier, Statistics Canada data show, as 21,100 more were put out of work," Bloomberg writes. "Home sales have fallen 21 percent this year as the average price skidded 2.6 percent, according to the Calgary Real Estate Board." Here's more: 

Crime is rising, home prices are falling and food banks are overwhelmed in Calgary as job losses spread. And the worst isn’t yet over in the heart of Canada’s oil patch.

 

Some of the city’s largest employers are poised to cut more jobs in 2016 as they reduce spending for a second straight year, adding to an estimated 40,000 oil and natural gas positions lost across the nation since the crude price rout began 18 months ago.

 

“We all know someone who has lost a job,” Naheed Nenshi, the city’s mayor, said in a speech this month, lamenting the “funeral"-like atmosphere in the business community.

 

Brown Bagging for Calgary’s Kids is providing 16 percent more school lunches than in September -- about 2,900 across 187 schools. The rise is unprecedented, said Tanya Koshowski, the group’s executive director. Food bank use jumped 23 percent in Alberta in the year ended March 2015, the country’s biggest increase, according to Food Banks Canada.

 

Police are pointing to economic decline and rising drug use to explain Calgary’s crime surge. In the first 10 months of 2015, commercial break-ins almost doubled from a year earlier, bank robberies were up 65 percent and home invasions increased 52 percent, Calgary Police Service data show.

Here are the graphs from CPS:

And here are the visuals from Food Banks Canada:

While it's not possible to definitively identify the proximate cause, it seems clear that the same mindset which is driving the suicide rate higher is also compelling Albertans to commit crimes. As Nancy Bergeron, who has answered distress centre phone lines for a few years, puts it, "people are just at wit's end."

Why? Because, as we put it previously, "simply because the price of a commodity has dropped to a third of what it was just over a year ago, and the shocking impact has been a paralysis of every aspect of financial, economic and social life, first in Alberta, and soon everywhere else across Canada, as the local recession (on its way to a depression) spreads across the country and eventually crosses the U.S. border."

One person who isn't concerned is Greg Cosma, a 58-year-old engineer was let go from Cenovus in October and now builds houses for Habitat For Humanity as a volunteer.

His message to new graduates hoping to find gainful employment in Canada's oil patch: “If you’re good at something, you have a future. Don’t sweat it.

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Full Calgary Police Service report

2015 1st Quarter Statistical Report

 

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Wed, 12/23/2015 - 17:01 | 6957763 CHX
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I'll settle for a few yellow maple leaves...

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 13:11 | 6956649 CHX
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Crudelateral damage.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 13:12 | 6956654 Ghost of Porky
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What happened? Is their money printing press broken?

 

 

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 14:50 | 6957181 css1971
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No. He left for a better job in London.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 15:34 | 6957387 U4 eee aaa
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Not at all. The banks are making record profits. Over 5 billion the last quarter for a population of 30 million

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 13:16 | 6956682 Ms No
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So are Canadians seeing any big asset purchases and mergers?  Here our regulators have stepped it up a notch and are requiring extra cash kickbacks, higher quality adolescent hookers and better cut cocaine in order to approve the oligopoly merger of Halliburton and Baker Hughes (or is it duopololy?) this spring.  Tesoro seems to be nibbling at pipeline and storage as well.

http://www.thedickinsonpress.com/energy/oil/3904378-us-regulators-seek-more-concessions-ok-halliburton-baker-hughes-deal

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 13:18 | 6956691 buzzsaw99
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don't worry about ben or janet. they got plenty.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 13:19 | 6956699 hannah
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funny how i have been attacked by commentors from australia and canada and europe about how backass stupid america is and they are so progressive and smart....i have always maintained that the usa gives welfare payments to pretty much every country in the world and if we ever stopped they would shit the bed......we are now at that point and get to watch the whole fiat nightmare start collapsing.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 13:43 | 6956862 arbwhore
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Actually by occupying the position of sole world reserve currency printer, the exact opposite is true.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 16:46 | 6957698 hannah
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arbwhore - riiiight. that is why we have a global depression and are about to see the end of fiat money for a 1000 years give or take a century...LOL

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 13:22 | 6956714 mikemora
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Tough titties, I paid over $4.00 a gallon for an extended time and the oil people made hay on my back. Deal with it.....

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 14:11 | 6956994 Be_Optimistic
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The oil revenues also paid for a lot of the social programs you enjoy and take for granted. 

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 14:44 | 6957134 actionjacksonbrownie
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Still paying over $4.00 a gallon in kanada, so what's your point?

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 13:24 | 6956724 roadhazard
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Dear Canada,

Just go back to what you were doing before you figured out how to wring oil out of sand.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 15:36 | 6957397 U4 eee aaa
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You mean build cars and ship them south? That train has left the station also

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 13:26 | 6956736 ---------
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all canadas problems can be fixed with more muslim immigrants   look at sweden. they fixing their problems with 3rd world trash since years and everything seems to be ok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw6o72h6Hhg

we all need to learn from sweden how to do things

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 14:49 | 6957171 Deathrips
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AIIPA why is this blocked in the US?

FREEDUMB!!!

 

RIPS

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 15:28 | 6957337 ---------
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the video is blocked in the us?

 

i tell you the content:

i dont know if they are the creator but the videos is posted by jewish news network JN1

2000 swedes sing the russian anthem (in russian) for gays in russia

in the beginning of the video there is a swedish girl (around 12-14 years old) running towards a rainbowflag and it starts to sing in russian

then there is another girl or boy (around 12 -14 years old)  but its deressed like a boy with and rainbowflag on its head

he or she gives the girl and air-kiss and then they sing under a rainbowflag together with a baloon between them in form of a red heart

after that all kind of muliticultural mulattos, niggers and other swedes join them and they sing together with huge amount of rainbow flags everywhere

 

 

one of the comments under the video is:

"This is so beautiful. I am not Russian but I really do love the Russian culture. Their history, heritage and political stand align with me, it's really a country that I adore despite the fact that I am not Russian nor have I been to Russia (Plus, their anthem is just badass). I am also gay and my heart breaks to see the country that I love so much is not on good terms with homosexuality. I still do very much love Russia though. And good job Swedes! I love Scandinavian countries too, though Russia holds my heart. <3 Love from Canada.?"

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 23:52 | 6959147 Deathrips
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Yes it was blocked here. THats freedum.

 

People can do whatever they want..why do all the gay parades get all the media spotlight? Dont answer I know.

 

RIPS

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 16:15 | 6957562 August
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw6o72h6Hhg

Thanks for sharing.

I wouldn't piss on Sweden if it was on fire. 

And, come to think of it, it is.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 13:28 | 6956752 Clesthenes
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“America can look north to Calgary for a preview of what’s in store for America” from shore to shore and border to border.

Don’t worry guys, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has you well covered.

However, I don’t think you’ll like the way DHS has you “covered”.

For one thing, the DHS is a duplication of those instruments of terror employed during the French terror (1792-4, Committees of Public Safety et cetera), the Judeo-Bolshevik Cheka and the Nazi Schutzstaffel.

The problem, from our perspective, is, ‘How do we protect ourselves from their murderous political system?’  How, for example, do we protect our property (from physical gold, to businesses, to stocks and bonds (domestic and foreign)) from seizure by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)… or the US Treasury?  Furthermore, how do we protect ourselves from informers now being recruited, trained and protected by the DHS?

By the act of Congress that established the DHS a system was created by which informers could make false allegations against anyone they please with near-total impunity.  Of course, such informers aren’t described as informers; rather they are given the title “submitting person” and the DHS Act provided that their falsehoods will never be examined by any court or legislature or law enforcement agency.  The legislation even specifies how this immunity is obtained.  The “submitting person” only has to give an “express statement” that his lies were “voluntarily given” and that he expected “protection from disclosure”.  It’s all there, in the act that created the DHS.

I’m sorry guys, but silly season is over.  Even if you own physical gold, live in a cabin in the woods along with a stash of ammo and AK-47’s, you lose.  If you don’t fall to the horde of hungry homeless, you will fall to DHS death squads.  All the homeless have to do is to wait until you collapse from lack of sleep (24, 48, 72 hours), then they march in, slit your throat and… let your imagination run wild.

If you own stocks or bonds, guess what: you’re depending on criminal and useless classes to deliver your purchasing power at the moment of their greatest victory.  Did I mention something about ‘silly season’?

If you want to survive, you have to combine with others of like mind for the purpose of mutual protection, among other purposes.  The big question now is, ‘HOW is this to be done?’  And the quick answer is, ‘You must establish First-Amendment assembliesthe only historically-proven method by which men have made their lives and property secure from rule by thieves.’

The American Revolution, for example, was powered by a large network of such assemblies: from town meetings, county meetings, state conventions and, ultimately, to Continental Congresses.

Let’s be realistic: this solution won’t be easy or quick… unprecedented adventures never are.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 13:47 | 6956884 SgtShaftoe
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Got community? Got garden?  Got community defense organizations and defendable terrain?

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 13:29 | 6956761 FedFunnyMoney
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Blame Canada? No.

BLAME RIYADH!!!!

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 14:41 | 6957123 Allen_H
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It's because they did not bomb Agrabah !

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 13:30 | 6956765 Son of Captain Nemo
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Just when will that good fortune migrate to there South?...

My Xmas wish is that a Jonestown on steroids takes place with every motherfucker wearing a U.S. military uniform forward deployed and a "daisy cutter" blast going off at every CIA safe house like a string of dominoes with the ultimate pyrotechnics completing the journey on New Year's day at Langley and the Pentagon!

What a celebration that would be!!!

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 13:36 | 6956820 headhunt
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May the same be bestowed on you.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 13:46 | 6956878 Lucky Leprachaun
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Drop this PC "Xmas" shit. Call it Christmas.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 16:51 | 6957314 Son of Captain Nemo
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My apologies but the Zionist kikes that own us said that using an "X" is more acceptable and politically correct than using the "Christ" word in front of it!  But you're right. Shame on me!!

Wishing you the Best Christmas ever with my fucking wish for the rapists and murderers in camo always at the ready to do it again and this time get obliterated for it!!!

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 13:33 | 6956790 Panic Mode
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Don't worry. Canada always highly regard itself has  "Moral Highground". That will magicially sort the country itself, no one will starve, poor, or without a roof.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 13:34 | 6956797 Calculus99
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If they've got soaring crime can I suggest that all Canadians start LOCKING their front doors...

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 13:35 | 6956800 headhunt
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The Cannuckleheads dollar is down too 72 cents to US Dollar - a lot of pain going on there and probably more to come.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 13:44 | 6956869 Lucky Leprachaun
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"The problem was that despite the dramatic slump in oil, companies hadn’t yet begun to cut jobs or slash capex and so, officials were left with less money to put towards policing their growing populations."

Right, so companies didn't cut jobs or other expenditure therefore the local authorities have less money.  AM I missing something here?

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 13:48 | 6956872 flysofree
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"Calgary’s unemployment rate rose to 6.9 percent in November from 4.6 percent a year earlier, Statistics Canada data show, as 21,100 more were put out of work," Bloomberg writes. "Home sales have fallen 21 percent this year as the average price skidded 2.6 percent, according to the Calgary Real Estate Board." 

 

Is there a city with REAL unemployment rate below 7% in US?

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 15:12 | 6957301 BurningFuld
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No.  Canada counts unemployment differently than the US. The figures are NOT comparable.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 13:48 | 6956890 Jack Burton
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One of the worst feelings in the world is to think you have finally 'made it' and then see it all fall apart. To get that good paying job with a secure future in a growth industry like energy. To get your own home and settle in with the family. Everything seems to be set for your future. You get used to the good pay and steady work, start buying things on credit etc.

Then a world market move takes your world away almost as fast as it came. Once you brought home paychecks worth cashing, now you have all the bills, and not a hope of ever seeing another similar job. It is the knowledge that you and tens of thousands of others are all going to be searching for that same 1 job opening somewhere.

 

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 13:55 | 6956918 bluskyes
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Boom/bust is no stanger to the oil business. Only the short sighted see perpetual blue skies.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 14:07 | 6956980 Be_Optimistic
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Like they say when prices are up theyre never coming down.. and when theyre down theyre never going  up!

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 15:32 | 6957367 bluskyes
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It's a golden age for the repo business... In a few years, RItchie Bros will be bemoaning the plight bestown upon their business.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 14:30 | 6957072 rejected
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True dat!

Worked in the industry during the 70's- 80's boom,,, then keeerash! Got the axe with 15 years on the payroll. BUT, there were still some work demand so I survived. Today, work demand equal zero, nada, zip, goose egg. Gonna be bad for many folks.

You know what's bad, is the greatest economies ever, were built in the western nations based on a decent wage to price scenario. Today, because of that, one needs about $20- $ 30per hour to support a decent middle income family BUT with the new fervor of a "global economy" propagandized by the internationalists we are somehow expected to compete with someone in Timbuktu earning $2 per day (without bennies). And of course the pricing remains the same providing billions to the Neo Oligarchs. Then to re-enforce that,  we are told that protectionism is baaaad. Tariffs are baaaad. 

So we simply die a slow economic death.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 23:29 | 6959069 Oldwood
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So much of this has always been in our hands, we just didn't realize it...largely because we were never told, and were always lied to. Just like with what we saw in NAFTA and every other trade deal that sold us down the river, we were told to continue buying the cheap import, to abandon our trades and manufacturing jobs to the Chinese and illegals, and wait for those new high paying, low labor, less demanding jobs just around the corner. And while we wait...and wait....and wait, just borrow the cash you need at ever lower interest rates and longer and longer terms. And while our lives become more and more devoid of any real meaning or satisfaction that decent jobs provided, we are to buy cool and interesting toys and delve deeper into more exotic and expensive forms of entertainment....and porn.

We are lost, and we know it. Many of us are very insecure right now...and for good cause, even if we don't know exactly what that is. We can feel it. All we have left are lies as the truth is too hard to bear for even the most rational amongst us.

The world has become fragmented, broken down into its many base components and mixed together by the imposed and deliberate chaos of economic destruction and divisive politics. It is all getting shoved into a centrifuge and is being spun up to increasing speed, re-concentrating these disparate components into high concentrations of fear greed and hate, and will ultimately be loosed upon the world as a great poison, like uranium mined from the core of our planet to ultimately be refined into a devastating and undesposable element. What will be the half life of this new world disorder they are creating? Will it be a thousand year reich?

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 04:51 | 6959522 MeBizarro
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No it is because the 'free trade' spewed today doesn't coincide with classic 'political economy' ideas that were the basis of trade ideas and policies until the 70s. 

We must always bear in mind that the classical economists did not speak of economics. They spoke of political economy, and the loss of the word “political” in the late 19th century is not one that Adam Smith, who wrote of the Wealth of Nations, would have approved of. The classical economists understood the true challenge of free trade: it is not that, in the long run, free trade doesn’t aid all nations, but rather, the long run could be very long in coming.

The comparative advantage between two trading partners could overwhelmingly favor one of the countries. The economic and political clocks run differently. Economic advantage can take many decades to show itself. The critical working lifespan of an individual is perhaps two decades. What he becomes between the ages of 20 and 40 determines who he is, and the loss of those years to the slow turning of the economic wheel inevitably creates political friction. This was well known to the classical economists and not always apparent to contemporary free trade advocates.

When I tried mentioning this during my Ph.D. economics program, people looked at me like I was crazy. It was largely because they have never exactly read Adam Smith's work or really much economic history at all. They would rant about Marx, Engels, and others but never actually read any of the stuff they wrote.  Instead everything was almost done in an abstract mindset with a series of complicated econometric models. Nevermind it ignored a host of issues. 

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 14:51 | 6957187 OldPhart
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We're old and jaded and have seen the cycles.  None of what we know is taught in schools and young people have no clue as a result.  So they wade into life with false expectations.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 14:02 | 6956949 Chuckster
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and ?  Will the Muslim transplants save us?  Will O'Bummer come to his senses?  The oil industry has had booms and busts for all of it's history.  Marketing will come up with a new peak oil theory soon.  A damn good war would flush out the system.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 14:49 | 6957168 Allen_H
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I did not write this, but it is good, the Paris summit recently:

17 goals and targets that will stimulate action over the next fifteen years in areas of critical importance for humanity and the planet: 

Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
    Translation: Continually engineer boom/bust and other financial crisis; centralize all ‘private banks’ – IMF, World Bank, Fed/BOE etc to control all finances via a digital one world currency; a cashless society administered via personal implanted RFID chips; continue to encourage and Increase dependence on personal debt by continually raising inflation/prices above earnings; make interest rates negative and then ‘charge’ for keeping balances in the black; make it impossible to function in society without chip i.e. no access to work, food, healthcare, buying and selling, transport etc

    Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
   Translation: 
Codex Alimentarius (opens in this window); full corporate control over the supply and production of only poor quality GMO (Frankenstein) food – causing cancer and genetic abnormalities leading to population reduction; encourage and promote vegetarianism with high consumption of GMO crops;  make meat eating increasingly  unacceptable by continually pushing the environmental damage and cancer causing message

    Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
    Translation: Full government control and rationing of poor quality health care; compulsory health destroying vaccinations; legalize and advocate euthanasia; sexualization of children and minors; legalize and enable taxation of all drugs plus promote their widespread use

    Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
    Translation: UN propaganda, constant and relentless brainwashing delivered through all forms of media and compulsory ‘education’ from cradle to grave; use famous celebrities, actors, musicians and role models (that the elite control) to directly influence public opinion; label anyone who questions the status quo and refuses to conform, as mentally ill and incarcerate them indefinitely for their ‘own safety’

    Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
    Translation: Population control through forced “Family Planning”; promote ‘alternative lifestyles’; destroy family and societal cohesion; ‘normalize’ all sexual orientations; feminize, ridicule and diminish traditional male roles

    Goal 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
    Translation: Privatize all water sources; add fluoride and cancer causing chemicals to supply; increase charges and encourage the separate purchase of ‘safe’ drinking water

    Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
    Translation: Phase out ‘fossil fuels’ and replace with 100% electricity supply and control network; Smart grid with smart meters on everything; peak pricing; personal carbon rationing through RFID; draconian punishments for ‘excessive’ and ‘irresponsible’ usage

    Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
    Translation: TPP; free trade zones that favor mega corporate interests; excessive taxation and red tape leading to eventual bankruptcy for all small/medium ‘non-corporate’ (elite owned) businesses; endless global and regional conflicts/terrorism/war leading to ‘job creation’ for the young by enforcing conscription into the security/armed services; vast labor factories, expansion of service sector and government assigned ‘non jobs’ with no upper age limit or retirement prospects for ‘workers’

    Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
    Translation: Promote and expand public transit; remove free/subsidized travel; apply environmental restrictions on personal travel; introduce a pay per mile/km auto tax and expand toll roads; build and maintain privately owned infrastructure using public funds by increasing levels of personal/carbon taxation

    Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
    Translation: Replace current systems of governance with one based on socialism and corporate control; introduce even more regional government bureaucracy and intrusion like a mutant octopus; open borders with unlimited and unchecked migration from Islamic countries causing widespread racial and religious wars/conflict/terrorism (thus population reduction on a grand scale); promote, normalize and enforce diversity with extensive and relentless media campaigns plus
 impose restrictive and punitive race/equality laws to silence any objection

   Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
    Translation: Big brother big data surveillance state; destroy rural communities; encourage city occupation, promote the affordability and environmental benefits of living in ‘sustainable’ compact micro units controlled and connected to the ‘smart grid’; restrict personal movement through RFID tracking/logging and no go zones

    Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
    Translation: Forced austerity; limit availability and ration purchases of essential goods with RFID based cashless society; wipe out the ‘useless eaters’ then maintain the worlds population at under 500,000,000

    Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
    Translation: Cap and Trade; carbon taxes/credits; footprint taxes; direct RFID credit/cash deductions for personal carbon usage; aggressively promote climate change as the ‘new religion’ and sanction ‘deniers‘; set-up eco-courts to enforce global and local climate laws and to punish ‘eco-crime’

    Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
    Translation: Environmental restrictions; control all oceans including mineral rights from ocean floors; restrict public access to coastal areas
 and criminalize all unauthorized and unlawful infractions

    Goal 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat decertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
    Translation: More environmental restrictions; more controlling of resources and mineral rights;  restricted public access to vast areas of open space and woodlands etc with harsh penalties for all unauthorized and unlawful infractions

    Goal 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
    
    Translation: Use the NATO alliance and UN “peacekeeping” missions/proxy armies along with the International Court of (subjective) Justice, to force regime change on uncooperative nations and join desperate people together via fake refugee and other engineered crises; mediate with more “UN peacekeeping” and gain full control over regions and counties when tension breaks out; remove the 2nd Amendment in the USA using false flag events to sway public opinion and send all dissenters to ‘re-education’ camps

    Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
    Translation: Promote and expand globalism and a bloated Orwellian bureaucratic state under the ‘authority” of the UN (by initiating world war if necessary); implementation of a ‘one world government‘ with open borders and removal of national sovereignty worldwide; implement a fully biometric/RFID human control network

The last line of the agenda document (opens in this window) reads:

 

We reaffirm our unwavering commitment to achieving this Agenda and utilizing it to the full to transform our world for the better by 2030

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 16:14 | 6957559 Never One Roach
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Yeah. When I was a yute and stupid my New Year's Rez always included things like ... a prayer for world peace, no more starving children in Biafra, and a clean environment.

 

Now I just hope for a job all next year and 3 delicious squares a day. Oh yeah, and a new president ASAP.

 

Screw the other things 'cause they ain't never gonna happen 'cause Bankers rule the world.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 15:21 | 6957327 Chuckster
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When we hit "peak Muslims" everything will be alright.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 18:42 | 6958149 FredFlintstone
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Does anyone know why oil was only $17 bbl 16 years ago? Why do people build dreams on shifting sands?

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 22:45 | 6958949 reinhardt
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true

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 13:50 | 6956899 Able Ape
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Well, we certainly won't be starting a war over oil, we're drowning in the shit, we already used "weapons of mass destruction" - what's left?; The perennial "Die for your country" is not generating a lot of traction, communism is passe-no need to kill a Red. How about over money, NOPE, nobody has any so who cares... We DESPERATELY need a reason to go to war, please send in your suggestions to President Obomber...

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 13:53 | 6956908 bluskyes
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Why aren't they publishing stats on the ability of Calgary's police force to solve crimes?

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 13:56 | 6956916 Dark Daze
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Boy, somebody at ZH is really out to nail Canada. Day after day a repeat and a rehash of the same old, same old. The facts of the matter are that in Canada we have this thing called 'equalization payments'. When a province or provinces drop under the average they get large fiscal transfers from the others to make up for costs in health care, services etc. 

The bottom line is that the worst city in Canada is still 1,000 times safer than the best city in the US.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 14:12 | 6957000 pitz
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I guess you've never been to Dartmouth.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 14:56 | 6957211 Deathrips
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Canadians like to shoot messengers. Hey princess you need a tissue. Where were you on all the other FACTUAL articles written on ZH? The reality is now your butt is hurt cause your glass palaces toilet still has shit in it.

Fuck off pussies.

 

RIPS

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 14:12 | 6957002 rejected
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Maybe because everyone is leaving?

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 14:15 | 6957007 arbwhore
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It reinforces the ZH meme of worldwide collapse and helps the biggest readership, the US, feel slightly better about themselves as they weren't among the first to fall down the rabbit hole. Truth is, outside of Cowtown and The Chuck, I have seen very little change in financial circumstances over the last year. If you travel around in Texas and then the rest of the US, the story is the same. Some localized pain but broader stability (but no real growth to speak of).

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 14:47 | 6957161 GhostOfDiogenes
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"but no real growth to speak of)."

Florida hasn't stopped growing.

Plenty of idiots still moving here who don't want to pay property taxes and cool in the air conditioning their whole lives.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 14:53 | 6957200 arbwhore
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Haven't been there in the last year outside of Orlando which hasn't changed much from what I could see. Maybe Miami and the South coast is doing better.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 14:37 | 6957101 matinee55
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Yeah, it's called bailing our Quebec for decades so they can destroy English

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 13:57 | 6956926 Herdee
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Just in Alberta alone the suicide rate is approaching the 700 mark this year.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 14:45 | 6957147 GhostOfDiogenes
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I understand yah.
If I lived in canuckistsn I would commit suicide too.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 13:58 | 6956934 vincent
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So, when can this United Statesian afford to relocate to Vancouver? And, should I even consider it?

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 14:11 | 6956996 PhiBetaZappa
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'And the worst is yet to come'

I doubt it. Hitlery isn't running for president of Canada is she?

 

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 14:15 | 6957004 Kirk Lazarus
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It's shockingly ignorant to generalize Canadians or Americans. There are good and bad people in both countries, with individual stories to tell. As societies they aren't that different except in matters of the military industrial complex, universal health care and gun control. As a society Canada may be slightly more tolerant than America, but not uniformly. Both countries have corruption in government and radicals on the margins of the political spectrum. In most other respects you will find Canadians as a whole very similar to Americans as a whole- that is not similar at all. Albertans compared to Nova Scotians? Texans compared to Oregonians? You see my point.

Alberta is hurting. Mark Carney is right to invoke sympathy for the tens of thousands who are suffering out there. Meanwhile Toronto and Vancouver are booming. The world loves a safe haven and Toronto fits the bill.

Advice to the sad souls here- your time is better served searching out meaningful and productive pursuits that add to the greater good of humanity as well as your own individual cause. Your cloud of negativity, jealousy and envy hurts you the most. Zero Hedge yes, but maximum optimism, possitivity and effort.

That's how I made my fortune.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 18:11 | 6958037 Allen_H
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Just what the rest of the English speaking world think, a person cannot differentiate between the two, I hear though the different sounds of words a Canadian makes though, but saying this, us Scottish are fucking nothing like the english fucks. They are an alien satanic race compared to us.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 14:16 | 6957013 insanelysane
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Canadians better watch out.  Someone is practicing kamikaze drone maneuvers to kill downhill snow skiiers.  From a legal standpoint, when Amazon tries to deliver a package via drone to my house, am I responsible if the package and drone land on someone?

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 23:36 | 6959092 Oldwood
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It depends on who has the best lawyer....what do ya think???

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 14:17 | 6957017 Baron von Bud
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Americans will know their future soon enough. 'Ol Hillary used her position as Sec of State to shake down governments for donations to the clinton foundation. That's why she had the private server. To hide any evidence from future FOIA requests. They'd pocket the loot and walk away. But, Valerie Jarrett gave the media a hint about the server and now the FBI is all over it. If that grifter isn't indicted and forced out of the campaign then anyone with a little sense will know what happens if she becomes president. Right now they lie about the unemployment rate and weep crocodile tears over 9/11 while waging wars and atrocities that the media wont' report. Stage 2 is when they turn on us at home. An economic depression will be a problem for sure but we'll all feel the boot heel on our necks. If the Obama justice dept doesn't indict you'll have your answer and you will all need to get prepared. Hunker down and diversify out some dollars quietly. Trump is a loose cannon to the .1% and they'll do him in for sure. They want Hillary or Jeb - the same outcome, but will take a second rate, greedy stooge if they must. Watch it play out.

 

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 23:48 | 6959127 Oldwood
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Democrats have a problem, as do all politicians right now. There is every possibility that there is gong to be some really bad news in all our futures very soon, and if these asshole politicians share one common trait, it is that NONE of them want any responsibility for anything bad. Miraculously Obama has largely successfully avoiding taking any heat for any of the last seven years, with the press mostly pushing all blame onto Bush and the republicans when forced to admit anything bad. But that will be a hard sell for Hillary. If things go to crap with her in office, they won't be able to cover for her...or Obama. As reverend Right always says..."the chickens will come home to roost"!

The progressives just can't imagine giving up their power at this crucial and "transformative" moment that an unwasted crisis can provide, but on the other hand, they are not well equipped to win an argument much less a debate. They just may let Hillary slide into her legal pile of shit just prior to the election so as to have a rational excuse for losing, shooting the messenger rather than the message as it were. She has been asked to take one for the team many times before (ask Bill and Obama). It will be interesting if she can do it again.

In politics, NOTHING is what it is claimed to be.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 14:31 | 6957075 Tumbleweeds
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ZH - there is no depression in Canada; there is no paralysis of social life. Alberta, and Calgary specifically, is going through a rough patch, but they have been on an enormous roll for decades. Everyone knows oil is boom and bust. Alberta is still the lowest taxed jurisdiction in Canada, by far. (Do low taxes equate to a depression?) Getting Albertans to pay an average tax rate would go a long way to alleviating pressures on food banks and maybe would help the crime rate. Stop equating a dip in Calgary's fortunes with a general Canadian depression - sheesh. Life is pretty good in the great north; economies are always moving up or down; it does not seem to me that Canada's economy is any worse than the rest of the western world; and I'd rather be here than anywhere else I can think of. 

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 18:28 | 6958078 Deus Irate
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That's great white north young fella. I know just saying the word white can leave a bad taste in yer maw after a few years in university, but the snow is still the same colour as it always was.

Oh, and I forgot: Albertans pay just as much tax as the rest of us -- only no provincial taxes on top. In fact, the fees, licensing and other hidden taxes are even higher in Alta than most other provinces. You also pay a premium for healthcare, much as we do on the left coast, and when it's all totalled up it is not enough difference to matter much for the things you feel need more funding. But just wait a few years and see how fast your fellow Albertans boot Nothead and crew back over the mountains, for good. Nobody likes paying higher taxes -- except for fools and left-wing politicians. Alone in a polling booth, folks get pretty darned conservative about their own money -- especially when they have so much less each year.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 23:51 | 6959143 Oldwood
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You must be confused. In a progressive world, it is always the other guy, most specifically the rich other guy, who pays all the taxes.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 21:43 | 6958734 bunnyswanson
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Elimination of the middle class across the globe is underway and for you not to recognize this is truly astounding.  Theft of wealth is nearly complete.  Working class will replace middle and lower classes.  The oligarchs will infuse wealth into their accounts and say it was just a coincidence.  Genocide is what is underway;

Here’s my list of killer actions:

  • Suppress unions.
  • Substantially reduce dividends paid by public companies.
  • Lower interest rates on bonds, deposits, and CDs to laughable levels.
  • Fire middle managers and at the same time raise compensation for upper-level managers.
  • Shift the burden of health care costs from businesses to employees.
  • Underfund pension plans.
  • Raise college tuition .
  • Make greed more attractive.
  • Make debt attractive.
  • Allow the economy to become over-dependent on consumer spending, and encourage citizens to buy disposable consumer items. (all made in China).
  • Embrace a tax policy inconsistent with the growth of the middle class.
  • Facilitate and protect a bought-and-paid-for Congress beholden to the wealthy for their campaign expenses.

— Tom Shachtman

 

http://tomshachtman.com/a-dozen-ways-to-eliminate-the-middle-class/

Fri, 12/25/2015 - 22:03 | 6964018 SeekingNuNormal
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You forgot poison the food supply. This makes everyone dependent on the backwards sick care system

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 14:33 | 6957083 matinee55
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The shinny cuttie pony Tredum & extreme leftist gov's. will save the day by stealing from whomever's got it!

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 14:36 | 6957099 Laddie
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Oh Canada! Well they welcome the deliberate changing of the demography of Canada so they should enjoy...

Patrick Drahi: The Israeli Oligarch Taking Over French and American Media

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 14:40 | 6957114 orangegeek
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Bye Bye Canada.  

 

Ammo up 'cause all you "no guns" morons are going to be lying face down in a ditch soon if you don't.

 

Bring your riot gear and maple syrup - the party has started.

 

Fucking moron Canadians keep voting in socialist gubbermints expecting a different result.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 15:13 | 6957304 Omega_Man
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you are the fucking moron. I have an SKS, SCAR, Mauser and can buy a 50 cal if I want, all legal. WTF are you talking about?

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 18:14 | 6958041 Deus Irate
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Yep, and I have 2 700 Remingtons, 2 Mosberg 12ga, a Mauser, an FN, a ww2 vintage Parker-Hale 303 and was just down at the range last week with a buddy who was firing a few rounds out of his brand new M82. But that won't stop these mindless drones spouting rubbish. They get half of it from ZH.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 14:49 | 6957173 rfbear
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The sad truth is, had the US had the balls not to bail out every bad apple it could find in 2009 we would all be better off now and have a real economic renaissance to grow alongside. 

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 14:56 | 6957212 pachanguero
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I hunted Mt goat and elk in Canada north of Edmenton.  Great people who are a lot like the great people of Alaska.

They hate their government, eat off the land and work hard for their familys.

French Canadians suck big time....

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 14:58 | 6957226 FranSix
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The Canadian economy relies on its services sector, like as in banking and securities, rather than oil. Which is why the housing bubble is still ongoing. Oil? It's already passé.

Looks like we don't have to worry aboot peak oil then, eh?

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 15:09 | 6957284 chickadee
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Natural Resources contribute 7% to GDP. This article is bullshit. If you believe it you are poorly educated and poorly informed.

http://www.horizons.gc.ca/eng/content/significant-shifts-key-economic-se...

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 15:15 | 6957311 Grimaldus
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OMFG! The sky is falling! Oil price is low! Danger Will Robinson! Tanks in the streets!

F-ing spare me please. What will the young men do? Stampede? ha ha!

The "oil must be high priced" propaganda is getting trickier but still easy to spot.

This is just a correction back to normal from the criminally contrived "oil price bubble".

Nothing else to see here....move along.

 

 

Grimaldus

 

 

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 15:17 | 6957318 malek
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Why would formerly highly paid young men be stuck in small towns?

Wouldn't being highly paid have allowed them to put some money on the side, for rainy days?

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 15:35 | 6957390 perkunas
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Easy to say, but in the real world, your living expenses in those Oil towns, were astronomical,

You either paid it, or you were unemployed. If you were stupid enough to buy a trailer home, for over 1 million, your life is over. Now what where do you go, Ontario no jobs there either.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 15:44 | 6957429 V for ...
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Tragic. This is what happens when politicians lie to trusting people and insolvent banks put their own theft above the hard working person who makes the world rather than exploits it.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 05:50 | 6959560 messystateofaffairs
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Politicians only lie to stupid people, stupid like how a rabbit trusting a wolf is.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 17:19 | 6957858 malek
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It doesn't help bringing up the usual excuses, as it only turns the question into a different variant:

If your high pay doesn't result in any better net results because the costs for accommodation are astronomical, why are you even working there?

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 15:32 | 6957352 V for ...
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Sad, isn't it. All the lies by insolvent banks and their pet politicians; their hubris.

Now the Canucks suffer for globalisation. Very sad.

Canada, a place rich in resources both human and material; wasted by the City of London's bitchez, and the mannequin queen licking the jackboot of misanthropic zionists, and their wannabe fiefdom, Israhell.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 15:32 | 6957368 Omega_Man
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Canada should kick out all US and Israeli companies and citizens... then all will be fine.

no trade in US dollars... 

 

problem solved.

no Wall St BS

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 15:35 | 6957395 V for ...
V for ...'s picture

Canucks are like well trained pets, begging to be liked. Still sad to see them kill themselves rather than end their oppressor, the crazy Bronfman family  and other rabid zionists in their midst.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 15:35 | 6957377 In.Sip.ient
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All Rubbish!!!

 

This is not the first cyclical downturn in Canada's oil patch.

Sure as h___ won't be the last either.

 

Canada's biggest problem lies squarely

at the door fo the Bank of Canada.

( Yeah we have a central bank... too )

 

Those numbskulls bungled policy and

triggered a capital flight situation.

( read: wanna know why the FED raised rates? 

answer: They saw what happened when Canada didn't!!!)

 

Even so, Canada isn't anywhere near as bad

off as some of the headlines would make you believe.

 

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 15:40 | 6957399 V for ...
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Bank of Canada, beholden and doing the bidding of the Ratchild City of London, and the mannequin queen.

Oh, Canada, so beautiful. Time to be true to your own.

Being in a jolly mood at the moment at this time of year, and now sitting in London, although I live in the USA, here's a story I hope you will like. My family married 'out' for the first time a couple centuries ago: she was Canadian ;-)

Best wishes to Canada. Happy Christmas, and a peaceful New Year.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 15:39 | 6957406 perkunas
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Dont worry Canada, those 25,000 syrian refugees, will fix things.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 15:50 | 6957448 The Fonz...befo...
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stop dreaming about pipelines and just build your own refineries......who cares about environmental impact......radioactive Fuku water laps the shores of British Columbia daily and nobody seems to care or even acknowledge it....but its not about environments its about control........just extract the oil and ship to USA and we will refine it and take care of the rest.......works well when oil in demand but when it isn't well then go pound sand while the rest of the world continues to add to the glut desperate to gets any precious dollars it can....Canada has to layoff and sit on its hands and wait I it out....

I agree bank of Canada is to blame so are regulators and GOV for buying all in on UsA money printing, all media is captured Bank of Canada has zero gold ownership, destroyed its rich mining heritage, allowed the major banks to buy and own the countries stock exchange, sold off naturalassets to foreign funds

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 15:54 | 6957466 Hungarian Pengos
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I live in the USSA close to the Canuckistan border and I love Canada. 

Seriously - they're friendly, laid back people with a lot of great outdoor areas and everytime I buy a meal there, I don't worry about eating a bunch of GMOs.  Just look at a yogurt label in Canada for example versus the same exact brand in the U.S.   U.S. = high fructose corn syrup, guar gum, modified milk enzymes, some sort of preservative chemicals, etc.  Canada = Yogurt, live yogurt cultures, orange juice for sweetness.  That's it.

I also love hockey and can't buy enough of their .9999 fine maple leaf coins, so maybe I'm biased.  Actually, maybe I need to move north!   The beer does suck there though -- one downside.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 16:00 | 6957504 PGR88
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Yeah but they have free health-care, or something.

At least that's what self-righteous Canadian progressives always tell me.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 16:03 | 6957512 fiftybagger
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72 cents on the dollar?  Time to run up and open a bank account there.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 16:16 | 6957522 Skiprrrdog
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What am I missing with stories like this one... Canada is kind of a socialist oasis now. If it were me and not that took wearing fag PM Justin Beeber, I would immediately shut down all of the borders, (possibly) kick out all of the desert dwellers, shut down trade, everything. As mentioned by others, Canada is rich in resources, both human and otherwise. Arguably if they did not export their oil, they would have enough to last themselves for a looong time, do all their own agriculture, etc. Take all of their bankers and financial people who are not *immediately* on board out in the street and execute them, then set up real banks. Then all of the Rotchilds and demented/spastic golfing white castle porch monkeys can go about their various evil agendas without dragging Canada into the toilet with the rest of the world. Cut off the head and the body *will* die. That way, any bad news at all, depressions, wars, porch monkeys that seem to have a half life of forever and Canada can just say, "gee, that sucks, eh?" "Lets crack open those Mooseheads and watch that new show, 'Escape from DC', you know, the one where US citizens finally reach terminal velocity with their general disgust of all things federal, and build a giant wall around washington to keep all the cunts in.".

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 18:03 | 6958017 Deus Irate
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Careful Skipr, you'll get a reputation as a clever fella. But cheers, I prefer Labatts Blue. Old school, but refreshing when yer lost out on the tundra without a compass. Still pours at -40.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 22:21 | 6958865 Skiprrrdog
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I am not against immigration, per se, (after all, we were all immigrants at some point) but keeping in line with the Canadian experiment and the adoption of a *completely new* governmental/social paradigm, at least in the beginning I would stop it so as to implement a new protocol for robust vetting of people that want to move there.

Labatts is good...yah hey dere, Canadians are tough, if the beer freezes theyll drink it with a spoon.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 19:40 | 6958367 MeelionDollerBogus
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If you did that would kill the economy.

Migrants are good for the economy 99% of the time.

If anything we should make the act of closing a border itself a crime punishable by life in prison.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 16:12 | 6957549 Hyjinx
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Time for a wall on the Northern Border too!

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 16:19 | 6957580 certified for silver
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As sad as this all is...I'm rather enjoying the awakening many of my coworkers are having just now. "Oh this was why farmland and metals?!?! Now I get it" :D 

 

Full disclosure: Born and raised in Alberta. 3400 hours per year employment in oil and gas across the province.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 18:30 | 6958107 RonArgent
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I retired 3 years ago. My co-workers used to say I had a collection of tin foil hats. Now I get a call, visit or email about 3 times a month by amazed people who can't believe that the crazy old white guy was right.

 

When you are one  step ahead of the crowd you are "lucky", 2 steps ahead and you are "informed", 3 steps ahead, a "genius", four or more steps ahead, a fucking crackpot in a tin foil hat.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 16:20 | 6957587 Juliette
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Frack you, Canada and USA!!! 

Russia can cope with low oil prices, they got both the largest and the cheapest-to-produce oil reserves in the world. And Russia does not employ any fucking fracking, you losers!

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 16:57 | 6957741 Deus Irate
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Russia fracks a lot you dope. Find a book written by somebody other than RT and learn something about the real world.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 16:57 | 6957743 certified for silver
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Lol! There's a reason Gazprom and Rosneft have been directly poaching skilled trades and engineers straight from the core of SagD land near cold lake Alberta! Perhaps they can cope with the low oil prices. Can they cope with the lack of experience and knowledge? Further why exactly does Russia need expertise with steam injection? Low reserves? We'll see how long this lasts.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 17:08 | 6957810 MoHillbilly
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Julie,

I can see why you hate the U.S. but what did Canada ever do to you?

The NHL has employed many Russians for years

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 16:26 | 6957607 DosZap
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"Moore is right that the incidence of gun violence is far lower in Canada than the USA. It is not zero here and he never claimed it was. 

There are 89 guns per 100 people in the USA ve 31 per 100 in Canada. 

According to a report by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, roughly 11,000 homicides were committed using firearms in the U.S. in 2011. Statistics Canada reports in the same year Canada had 158 homicides committed using firearms.

US population is about 10x higher than Canada, so that makes the US gun homicide rate about 7x higher.

Also gun homicides with a legal registered firearm are very rare here in Toronto. Most are illegal unregistered weapons that find their way here from the US.

( SURE they do, they FLY in?).

 

If you took suicides,gang bangers,and druggies out of the US figures they would be less than 50% of what they are.Too bad our  PC govt will not break down homicides by race, and other deaths by category.Figuring out of roughly 310 million folks and over 400 million firearms, that would be statistically FAR less than many,if not most countries.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 16:36 | 6957651 chickadee
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OIL IS ONLY 3% OF CANADIAN GDP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

READ IT YOURSELF:

 

http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21641288-growth-shifting-oil-prod...

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 18:06 | 6958028 robertocarlos
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True but the 97% government jobs part of the GDP is not going to pay the bills.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 18:24 | 6958089 RonArgent
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Fish cheeks and seal jaws are more than 3% in the Maritimes

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 16:49 | 6957710 Spungo
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I don't understand why losing hundreds of thousands of jobs is bad. According to central banks and most economists, unemployed people spend way more than employed people. 

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 16:52 | 6957723 Deus Irate
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Holy cow. Give it a rest will ya. Jeez. No depression, no "surge" in suicides, No unrest to speak of, just a lotta noise from the media about how awful things are when they are decidedly not awful, at least for 99.9999% of the population.

Sure, my guess is some banksters and some oil-patch gamblers are about to jump to death -- if they haven't already -- but for the rest of us the shit ain't anywhere near the fan yet, so just settle down.

Absolutely, once Turdeau and Nothead dismantle both Canada's and Alberta's economies (respectively) we will surely face some troubles up here on the tundra, but they haven't actually done much, yet. Talk about jumping the gun. I guess that's so ZH can crow about how far ahead of the curve they were when the inevitable happens. Whatevs.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 16:55 | 6957736 moneylover3
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oh my allah!

What will happen to those poor muzzie bastards coming planeloads from shitworlds?!

Boo hoo

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 17:27 | 6957891 silverer
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Well, there's a lesson for you.  Only take gold for your oil.  'Cause the paper won't save you.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 17:29 | 6957902 moonmac
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Home Flipper Reality TV Shows in Canada are hurting!

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 17:39 | 6957934 SurlysonofaBitch
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Ted Cruz for Prime Minister of Canada. 

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 18:21 | 6958082 RonArgent
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Barak Obowelmovement for homosexual execution in Kenya

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 18:21 | 6958083 RonArgent
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Barak Obowelmovement for homosexual execution in Kenya

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 17:42 | 6957946 piratepiet2
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will this affect house prices in Toronto or not ?

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 18:01 | 6958010 Toronto Kid
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Yeah, it will. Oil and gas was the last big employer. Ontario has chased out most manufacturing companies and continues to do so. I sold my place back in 2010 and have rented since then.

Keep an eye on greaterfool.ca

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 18:10 | 6958038 piratepiet2
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thx for the link. 

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 21:06 | 6958612 pocomotion
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Garth Turner will be proven a dud, imho.  There will be a bottom in oil, gas, and basically all commodities.  Cycles say so...  The green movement, solar and other crap will not make up for the enormous need for energy.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 17:49 | 6957974 rsnoble
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Fuck the world, I live in the land of the Digital Zero machine. LOL.  Surely we can continue our ways.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 17:59 | 6958001 FredFlintstone
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GDP expected to grow 0.6% = Depression? I thought a depression looked like a 10% to 20% drop or more?

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 19:36 | 6958341 MeelionDollerBogus
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easy: just re-write the equations for GDP until a 20% drop is no longer reported.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 23:58 | 6959166 Barrack Chavez
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Not if your socialist government has already spent 15% more -- honest net growth is -14.4%

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 18:04 | 6958019 robertocarlos
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If we run of of Kraft Dinner there is always PC Mac and Cheese. It's pretty good.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 18:11 | 6958047 chickadee
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Even an a per capita basis, Texas will have way more suicides than Alberta. Now taking bets

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 18:12 | 6958051 RonArgent
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There's a moose loose in my hoose.......

 

 

Confession time, I'm an American citizen but I may as well be Canadian....and yeah I shot many a seal and collected the bounty in Looneys...oh the good old days

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 18:27 | 6958097 22winmag
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Canada "Schlonged" for being U.S. waterboy and "immigrant safehaven" for too long.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 19:19 | 6958265 MeelionDollerBogus
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Except a lot of immigrants are good workers and business owners which is actually good for the economy.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 18:33 | 6958115 ZombieHuntclub
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Fuck'em

Not my monkeys. Not my zoo. 

 

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 18:36 | 6958127 FranSix
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Want to see a nice River in Canada?

http://youtu.be/ybn69NPoTiI

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 00:30 | 6959220 Catastrophus
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That river belongs to the United States of America.  President Trump's orders.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 07:15 | 6959604 FranSix
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Ok, so you might like the less pedestrian Stikine Grand Canyon

http://youtu.be/c2LTDRKNbew

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 20:31 | 6958513 Grandad Grumps
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It is getting really hard to take ZH serious and post serious comments. ZH has just gone too far with full-tilt fear porn and divisiveness ... no cred Fred.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 21:25 | 6958638 Atomizer
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Real estate ATM free market coming to a end. NAFTA ran its course. Off too TPP exploitation.

Ministry - Useless  

Tell me what I want what I need for all my [sweating(?)]
Show me what I get what I earned and why
Keep me all yours, braindead and useless
Take my cues when the crippled many
Must sit with you, corrupt, without pity
The slogan [ream on(?)] greed, lust and power
Feeble, missighted, without honor
The failing marriage slowly grinding into nothing
A bleeding union only left with trying offspring
Suffer, this simple nagging wound
This childish riddle, this dumb cartoon
Keep me all yours, braindead and useless
Keep me all yours, braindead and useless
These fucking [dense(?)], form English hands
Reaching for my throat, to coddle, and throttle, remove all hope
Try your best to choke the very meaning from my life
A callous whore, a cheating wife

https://ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements/trans-pacific-partnership/tpp-issue-issue-negotiating-objectives

 

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 21:27 | 6958668 firewolfsblog
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So Canada's screwed eh hoser?

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 21:48 | 6958744 Atomizer
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Reminds me of the McKenzie brother's, Great White North skits.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 21:38 | 6958709 lost in the cosmos
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True, we really do need a tuneup up here.  But it's still in the early stages, give it another year for the headline to be true.  There are tons of suicides but that's due to Godlessness not poverty.  Americans have no idea how many immigrants there are in Toronto and area..i was in North York on business and on a crowded street it takes five minutes to spot a Canadian.  If anyone dares to point out that FACT, they're told they're a supremacist.  The lies are tiresome and it would be nice if the funny money dried up and a few of them decided they were better off returning home.

 

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 21:54 | 6958771 Atomizer
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All kidding aside, How do you spot a Canadian? Was he carrying a molson beer can or trying to use his universal canadian medical card to seek healthcare in NYC?

Just humor.. Laugh about it. ;p

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 22:19 | 6958846 lost in the cosmos
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No worries bro...  Your countryman Ronny sums us up if you jump to the 5:40 minute mark of this 2007 interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqo9qP5z_nw

 

 

 

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 06:52 | 6959593 Lucky Leprachaun
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We all know what we mean by a Canadian: The descendants of the Europeans who built the land. The current Muslim enrichers and those from the Indian sub-continent have shown they're incapable of running their own countries. They're not going to be any different in Canada.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 21:55 | 6958774 squid
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The obvious solution is 100,000 Syrian refugees.

 

Go on Justin! It's for the children after all.

 

Squid

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 21:59 | 6958790 Atomizer
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Someone needs to be forced into buying the ACA (Obamacare) ponzi exchange.

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