Retired data analyst. Enjoy watching the EPL and NFL. Have the travel bug. Now a grandfather.
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Jun 15
Exactly right.
Jun 15
We were told the war was necessary to:
• remove the ayatollahs and IRGC from power
• get Iranians to rise up and take control
• eliminate Iran's nuclear weapons capacity
• end Iran's support for terror around the globe
• create stability in the Middle East
None of those things happened. None.
Instead, Iran is getting billions. Its homicidal regime is intact, worse than ever before. It keeps its weapons-grade uranium. It gets to keep its proxy armies in Hamas and Hezbollah. It is getting de facto control of the Strait of Hormuz and has been transformed into regional superpower.
This "deal" is a fiasco. Not just for Israel, but for the world. And it will take years to repair the damage.
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Jun 13
Well done by the Minister and local groups on this file. It’s a good move to use the word ‘assisted living’, as a description of what service is needed. cbc.ca/news/canada/new-bruns…
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Jun 12
The Holt government is right to focus on retention, especially of new teachers, who then create families. While costly, this is NBers choice: retain your youth or increase immigration to have them create the families. cbc.ca/news/canada/new-bruns…
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Jun 9
Another ‘deer in the headlights’ look from the Holt government. A cabinet shuffle is overdue.
Big spike in Moncton overdoses prompts questions about Liberals' promise tj.news/new-brunswick/big-sp…
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Jun 5
An excellent infrastructure investment delivered in a timely manner. The Province should focus more on similar projects that have a real impact on residents. cbc.ca/news/canada/new-bruns…
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Michael Zinck retweeted
Jun 4
By burying the past, the Chinese government is also burying its future. Today we remember those who lost their lives in the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre--for what their lives could have been, and for what the country could have been. hrw.org/news/2026/06/01/chin…
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Jun 4
We continue to fail them in our quest for cheap goods and a marketplace. Our government is even more beholden thinking it will gain them something. A ship of fools.
#TiananmenSquare8964
The students’ courage to envision a democratic future was the CCP’s red line, as it threatened their power.
We, from the West, failed them by compromising our principles and opting for cheap goods.
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Jun 4
It’s what China could have become, the country and its people, had it taken a different path. Authoritarian regimes do end, unfortunately for the Chinese people that day is a long way off.
Jun 4
Your annual reminder of what the Chinese people aspire to and what the Chinese Communist Party is capable of. 勿忘六四.
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Jun 3
So, with another $2.8 billion debt for this plant, plus NB Powers debt and Provincial government debt, we are approaching $30 billion in total debt. Yes, electricity rates will rise.
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May 27
The EA may advocate for the rate at which electricity prices increase, but if it advocates for no increases it is doing us harm by not recognizing the cost of NB Powers high debt levels.
May 26
N.B. tables bill to create energy advocate to represent residents, small businesses
globalnews.ca/news/11864934/…
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May 27
If the Holt government can’t manage the basic issue of road fencing, how much trust can we afford them to allow the very complex Sisson mine to proceed? cbc.ca/news/canada/new-bruns…
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May 26
Not a surprise.
Holt Liberals 'don't understand competitiveness,' expert says of growth plan tj.news/new-brunswick/holt-l…
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May 26
The government is seeking the solution that allows them to talk about affordable/cheap electricity. There is no such option unless the utility/province takes on more debt. When the public asks for affordable rates they are implicitly asking the taxpayers to accept more debt
May 26
2 interviews with fin minister & neither were good. He basically skated through both interviews with canned comments.
Picky point: there is no write-down of NB Power debt by government. If (when) it happens, it’s a bailout by taxpayer.
Be honest and call it what it is. #nbpoli
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May 22
New Brunswick practices wage suppression to support exports. The results are: low growth, reduced consumption, expanding public sector and a growing reliance on food banks. The province suffers the paradox’s outcome for small players trying to low cost their way to growth.
May 22
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It's important to understand that this is not just a China issue. The issue is a global trading system that encourages a kind of Kalecki-paradox behavior, in which individual entities can grow faster by implementing wage-suppression policies that undermine collective growth.
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May 20
A great piece of work, with a good outcome for society. Kudos to the much maligned CBC. This is what Canada needs from a national broadcaster. cbc.ca/news/canada/entropy-l…
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Michael Zinck retweeted
May 18
Please see my statement on Taiwan
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May 17
This is what our Government should be saying.
May 17
Canada is an independent, sovereign country. We do not take direction from foreign governments on where MPs can travel internationally.
Taiwan is a democracy on the front line of threats coming from authoritarian states.
My statement on my visit to Taiwan.
#cdnpoli
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May 14
She asks intelligent questions. Unfortunately she asks them of people who don’t match her in intelligence.
May 14
🚨A simple question: how much is this Sovereign Wealth Fund going to cost? It hasn't been calculated.
So we are launching a Sovereign Wealth Fund using borrowed money without calculating the costs ..... what could possibly go wrong?
#cdnpoli
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May 13
I just supported Elias Rutten with CA$15 on @buymeacoffee! 🎉
You can support them here — buymeacoffee.com/ruttenelias
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May 13
Excellent article. I have copied this paragraph because what happened to Japanese automakers is now happening to NA automakers. NA automakers continue to rely on ICE, they too are being outflanked.
May 13
For those interested in understanding the pressures facing China today, the best place to start is by understanding the structure of Japanese growth in the 1980s and its adjustment in the next two decades. This two-part series addresses some of these.
eliasrutten.substack.com/p/j…
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