Canadian Government Spending Now 80% of GDP Growth

Canadian Per-Capita GDP Is Negative For A 5th Consecutive Quarter

Canada’s economy is expanding, but the details are worth reviewing before getting too excited. Statistics Canada (Stat Can) data shows real gross domestic product (GDP) grew more than expected in Q2 2024. A dive into the details shows productivity further eroded on a per capita basis, while household spending weakened. Most growth is now government spending, accounting for a whopping 80% of the quarter. Canada increasingly resembles an economy in recession, despite not quite meeting the country’s preferred definition of one.

It’s all smoke and mirrors folks. Lies actually.

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Stop testing children on times tables, lighten up on grammar teacher’s unions tell ministers

Times tables tests should be scrapped and grammar exams “stripped back”, teaching unions are urging the Government.

Ministers are being urged to cut down the number of tests in primary schools, which unions say lead to high levels of anxiety in children.

Tests on times tables are compulsory for all Year Four pupils at state schools in England.

Teacher’s Unions are dedicated to making children stupid.

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First transgender manager ignites row by signing biologically male goalkeeper for women’s team

Sutton United, who this year appointed Lucy Clark as the first transgender manager in the top five tiers of the English female game, have ignited controversy by signing a biologically male goalkeeper for their women’s team.

Blair Hamilton, 34, has been recruited by Clark despite having previously drawn criticism from women’s rights groups for taking the place of a female goalkeeper. Sharron Davies, the former Olympic silver medallist and long-standing advocate for fairness for women in sport, described Sutton’s move as “shameful”.

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University cancels Anglo-Saxon ‘to decolonise’ the curriculum

Masters course renamed as academics worry term suggests ‘nationalist narratives’

The term Anglo-Saxon has been removed from a University’s module titles to tackle “nationalist narratives”.

The University of Nottingham offers leading courses in Anglo-Saxon history and literature and is the only university in the country to offer a Viking Studies course.

But in a move to “decolonise the curriculum”, professors have renamed a masters course in Viking and Anglo-Saxon Studies as Viking and Early Medieval English Studies.

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British Columbia hospital distributing free crack pipes, snorting kits from vending machine

A British Columbia hospital now features a vending machine distributing free crack pipes and “safe” snorting kits.

In an August 26 video, Conservative Party of British Columbia candidate Gwen O’Mahony exposed that the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, which operates in the district in which she is running, is distributing free crack pipes and snorting kits at a vending machine outside its emergency room.

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Germany: A Cold Wind

Germany’s manufacturing sector, the backbone of its economy, has been struggling of late. It is having to contend with slow domestic demand, and exports, a key element in its success, are running into headwinds. Manufacturing is an energy-intensive sector, and Germany’s high energy costs are hurting its competitiveness. These costs have been driven higher by the withdrawal of “cheap” Russian gas, by Angela Merkel’s decision to resume the country’s reckless abandonment of nuclear power (which is now complete) and by another project eagerly backed by Merkel, massive investments in renewables. Climate policy makers boast about green jobs (and there are some, although many more in China), but the statistic that matters will be the net jobs number. Is the energy “transition” creating more jobs than it is destroying?

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Racism or brazen scam?

Groups of Travellers are behaving bizarrely in pubs while secretly recording themselves and then suing bar staff for thousands of pounds for refusing to serve them

Four Irish men walk into a bar. But this isn’t the first line of a joke. As hundreds of pub landlords are finding out, it can instead mark the start of a very modern nightmare.

Gary Sidwell is a case in point. He runs The Purley Arms, an old-school boozer in a working-class neighbourhood of South Croydon.

Here, his ordeal began on a Wednesday afternoon in October last year, when young, burly Brian Mongan visited the premises, accompanied by his brother Pete and their friends Paddy and Tom McDonagh.

Canada has it’s own “human rights and anti-racist” grifters.

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Man charged after alleged ‘indecent act’ in family shower area at Toronto pool

Maseehullah Stanikzai – Afghan Shower Guy

… Officers allege the accused was showering when someone saw him doing something indecent, prompting the suspect to threaten another person “who heard the commotion.”

Responding officers arrested the accused at the pool, and charged Maseehullah Stanikzai with indecent act and uttering threats. The charges have not been tested in court.

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WTF?

The incident occurred in 2019. In 2023 a jury found the assailant “Not Guilty”.

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (KABC) — A Victorville man accused of attempted murder and assault with a firearm on a peace officer has been found not guilty on both charges, despite cell phone video that showed a violent attack on a San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy in 2019.

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The usual losers are “protesting” the CNE Air Show

The pilots should be allowed one live ammo strafing run.

h/t Patti Jo

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