Carney in China

 Is Carney is intelligent and malevolent  to real Canadian interests, or he is plain stupid?  Frank Vaughan, my current favorite commentator on Canadian affairs figures the former and suggests that maybe Carney is a double agent serving Trump’s purposes.  Carney’s financial holdings are in American holdings, said Vaughan.  Carney’s policies of embracing the EU and China over our nearest, biggest and best trading partner are self-destructive for Canada, thereby allowing the America’s eventual takeover of the Canadian carcass, Vaughan continues.  Carney benefits personally from that.

Is theory plausible?  The Liberal Party of Canada has been dedicated to destroying the old, legacy Canada and replacing it with something else, as long as it is the party in power running the show.  Carney could be using this LPC for his own purposes, the Canadian media and LPC voters loving whatever he does under the cover of he being a LPC PM.  Or maybe Carney is as stupid as his followers. I can’t say for sure.

So what do I think of Carney’s trip to China?  I find it funny because some have given me hell for having lived in China for twenty years and telling me what an evil dictatorship it is.  And yet what is the government of this country seemingly doing?  Embracing China.

Should Canada embrace China?  There are some things I wish we could copy from them.  Canada should disavow its liquor communism, make it viable for mom & pop shops to exist, make it easy to start businesses, really do things to encourage manufacturing, resist mass immigration, embrace conservative social morality, have a great variety of cuisine, and not hate itself.  However, there are a lot more things about China that we should reject:  their Internet censorship, their corruption, their persecution of religious minorities, their placing of party agents in every company, their massive state surveillance,  their top-down urban design, and their subsidizing of dumb industries like EVs; to name but a few.  We should deal with China as it is:  a far off dictatorship that we should be wary to be cosy with, but deal with all the same.

Do we want to have Chinese EVs in Canada?  A lot of Chinese don’t want them.  Why should Canada?

Accidental Selfies

 Are selfies properly photos or do videos also classify as selfies?

I wonder because here are photos I inadvertently took while making my quote videos, which get lots of interaction in China compared to on YouTube.

Saturday 6:57 AM: Perfect Streak Continues

 First thing I do every morning is extend the streak.

Then, I run downstairs to the bog.

It felt cold when I got out of bed.

Let’s see what the weather app says:

Yes. It is nippy.

Now I will plan the rest of my day.  I’ve got a 2-7 shift, some reading, some praying and some uploading to do.

I will upload a video now:

Eroticism, sensuality and love.

Tony got his bobble head doll

 My son Tony went to Tonight’s Wheat King game.  He was one of the first thousand fans to get a bobble head doll.

Chipping away ice

 I have been proudly proclaiming that I have been shoveling snow for the first time in many a year. I now have another new-for-me sensation to report.

Last evening, I chipped away the ice that had formed on the sidewalks of the yard on account of the temps going above the freezing level of water.  My Mom found a metal chipper for me to do this chore, which I find very tiring for my arms.

Friday 7:38 AM: Good & Bad

 

I will be fundraising at Canadian Tire today which is good because I’m working and I don’t have a long-ass drive to get there. But it is bad because I can’t attend my beloved Friday Mass.

Arrest at NHS

Yesterday, I drove to pick up my son at his school.   Stopped in front of the school entrance, I saw a police cruiser parked across the street from me.  I thought they were there to maybe look for people going over 30 km/h.  But two cops then came out, and I saw one of them handcuffing a kid who I assumed was a student and then leading him into the back of the cruiser.  I saw the school principal talking to the other cop.  I wondered if Tony had heard anything about it,  but he said he hadn't.

Thursday 10:00 AM

 

The sun is in a position in the sky which is not good for my taking view photos 

Strange life I lead.  I will be talking to people in Toronto, Brazil, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Brandon.  And I got to take my mother grocery shopping.  I will be spending too much time looking at my watch.

Here is today’s quote video:

Visited my Dad yesterday

 He is surrounded by snow.

The Valley that is South of Erickson on the #10 Highway.

 Driving on the #10 between Erickson and Minnedosa, you will drive through two valleys.  The first one, I would call the Minnedosa Valley through which the little Saskatchewan River runs.  The second valley which is even more beautiful, I feel, is south of Erickson.  The little research I has done has not given me a name to call it.  If any readers do know, I would appreciate you making a comment below.

Here are photos, I took as I drove through this valley on Sunday.  I was heading in a northward direction to Erickson.