the watcher

Crazy stuff. You can't tell me where I can go with my unvaccinated body but I can have absolute control over your pregnant one.

I'd make a pretty bid to get to be the driver.

Add in a protest at a Steibach school that has caused it to go into lock down.

You gotta admit she has quite the flip flop , blow in the wind ability . She must have realised how pissed off people are getting at her base. She must be afraid she will be relegated to a Bernier level.

I'm hoping there is a ground swell of anger over this that forces governments to act. Mayor Bowman is calling for towing and clearing, Jagmeet Singh is calling for a crackdown, real truckers are demanding it be stopped. Maybe it's time for the % 70 to be letting our various representatives we want it stopped both whatever means are necessary.

I think all levels of government need to use whatever means they have available to come down as hard as they can. They are blocking #75 with trucks and farm equipment. Apparently some are parking there and leaving. Real truckers are complaining they can't get through to do their business. The RCMP SAY technically they can tow and charge but they don't want to inflame the situation. Totally wrong in my opinion . Hook on, tow them and charge the owners with the max you can and everything you can. Make them pay for lawyers to defend themselves , then we will see how many show up again. ......Hammers , I want hammers. Great big F...ing hammers .It's time.

I teach a martial art and right now it's mostly kids. I work them hard for an hour with masks on. I give them a chance a couple of times to separate and have a drink with their masks off for less than a minute. So ya, I think shopping is possible. Maybe not for the anti mask softies mind you. A quote from the book I'm reading, in reference to the American state of a affairs but it fits here. " Factual evidence, since it is an impediment to what we desire, is banished " Its become a huge issue in the world. From Covid, to climate change, to politics , the facts and the truth no longer seem to matter. I'm so sorry to hear that Tracker. That's an awful thing to have todeal with.

Just a couple of thoughts : Its sad to see AH go. He put on some of the best performances ever and at crucial times. He will be missed but it's pro sports. We've all seen it before. I'm still going to miss AH but I'm excited to see what our young Canucks can do with more time on the field. There was no way we weren't going to lose a bunch of players. The dominance during the regular season was epic. It is something we will talk about for years. When that happens the teams we dominated are going to come hunting. Alot of these guys have a 3 to 5 year window before they are done/ trail off. So you know they need to capitalise. All Walters could do was to prioritise who we could or couldn't keep.

At some point those children need to be sent to their room. In this case home. I use to send my kids out and tell them they could come back whenever they wanted. As soon as they were willing to behave. It usually worked. But I didn't ignore them.

Ive had enough of this crap. You cant let less than %15 if the population do this much damage to the Canadian soul. Come on JT lay down the law. This is your " Just watch me " chance. Continue the legacy.

Lol, I just said to my wife they are like spoiled kids stamping their feet , and yelling , I don't want to, you can't make me. The whole thing is asinine. 1- Most restrictions are done by Provincal governments. You can protest all you want in Ottawa, the Provincal govs don't care. 2- IF the Feds changed the border crossing rule , my understanding is it wouldn't effect anything as the US have the same resticions. 3- IF you are a trucker and won't vax, just haul in Canada. Companies are desperate for truckers. 4- No society has ever or will ever have no rules and no restrictions on freedoms. 5- I'd love to see both politicians and the press start to call these idiots out. Make these points and others in press announcements. Show these idiots up for what they really are. Spoiled, selfish children without a clue as to what they can and can't get. What society needs to function. I've heard enough of "we need to respect their views and decisions."

There will a bigger backlash against that kind of support than positivity from it. It gives a whole lot of ammo for the other parties.

Previously in Canada when a member of your household got sick with one of the many epidemics that swept through, a card went up on your door or gatepost. . Each disease had a different colour so people knew what that household had. Only the Doctor was allowed in or out. This was within my parents time. Our local cemetery started where it is because two neighbors lost kids and decided to bury them together. If you walk through that cemetery there are monuments where you can see that a family would lose 5 or 6 children over a 2 year span. Imagine being alone in your house. Your child gets sick. You have seen it before with the other little ones that have died. The Doctor might come, you would hope, but down deep you would know they were dieing. Going through that , 5 or 6 times , in a couple of years. Typhoid, diphtheria, scarlet fever, influenza, polio..... This is why there was no discussion when I was a kid about getting a jab. My parents remembered the days before science and medicine won out over these diseases. And now we protest over wearing a mask and getting a jab . Edit : My mother was a nurse in the 1940s .She dealt with alot of polio victims during a bad outbreak including some that required a " iron lung " to breath. I can't imagine what that tough no nonsense lady would have to say. She would be pretty disgusted by all the silliness.

" Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire

Agreed, his environmental record left alot to be desired.

I find it interesting / odd that the Conservatives have forgotten what should have been their biggest lesson from the Harper years. You need to be pragmatic if you are a Conservative and want to govern Canada. The guy governed for close to 10 years by suppressing the more radical, members of his party. He was ( I think ) a born again Christian who wouldn't allow his members to table an abortion discussion. He was elected in Alberta yet kept the PAL requirement for gun use and ownership. He recognized the importance of officially naming 1st Nations as a separate nation within the nation. He may have been despised by the left but he knew how to pull the central vote his way. He knew what he could get away with and what he couldn't and forced his party to comply. I had hoped O Toole would have this ability but he wasn't even close. What the PCs are embracing now will keep them out of power. At least I hope it does.

Im was watching the news and They were interviewing a protestor. A supposed trucker. He said he lost his job and now he might lose his home. Well idiot, go home and get to work. There is a desperate shortage of truckers right now. That has always been the case and now it's even more so. I remember getting my Class 1 back in the 80s and a friend said " you realize once you have your class 1 that's all you will get to do right ? " When I ran equipment I sometimes wouldn't tell employers I had my class 1 or I'd be trucking. My point being he made a choice, work or hang out with the idiots there. On top of that, I could have him a job today , vaccinated or not and I haven't been in a truck in 4 years. What a load of BS.

My brother in laws brother is apparently anti vax. He told my sister that Germany was building camps for the unvaxed. I mean really , how stupid are these people. My sister did remind him that her son lives in Germany and would probably have mentioned that to her.

They have latched on to the Pro Choice slogan. There is a couple of minor differences. This 64 year old man will neither get pregnant or have an abortion from close contact.

A couple of comments from someone who votes conservative occasionally : I view this as political suicide. They are ignoring one huge fact. This country is %85 vaxxxed. That %85 will generally be disgusted by the support many PCs are giving to the idiot convoy. They will be pleasing the part of the nation that votes for them no matter what they do. They will be angering the part ( %85 ) of the nation that they need to convince to vote them into power. I can hear the Liberals giggling from here. I often heard people complain that Harper was to controlling. That everything the party did in his time needed to cross his desk and get his stamp of approval. I bet O'Toole wishes he had that kind of control. Aside from the afore mentioned political astuteness or lack thereof, I find the reaction of the PC's disgusting. Not only the support of the vocal ones but the deathly silence of the rest. The PCs challenge is always to appeal to moderate voters. It's the only way they will ever attain power. What's going on now will set their party back to the days of the Reform Party.

I'd like to know how many of these people at the " truckers protest " are actually truckers. Even the ones who actually drove trucks. A good percentage ,maybe half of farms have semis now, or often multiple semis. That doesn't make them truckers. A trucker is someone who makes his living trucking. I have my class 1 and drove trucks both in construction and farming but I'm not a trucker.

I don't care what I was protesting , old man or not, if someone is carrying a Nazi flag by me the war is back on. These damn cowards down there protesting are to gutless, or have no problem with Nazis so they allow it in their protest.The same with what went on at the tomb of the unknown soldier. It's disgusting.

Canada - % 79 fully vaccinated plus %6 partially vaccinated for a total of % 85 vaccinated . The other %15 I'm sure include a % or 2 who can't get Vaccinated and I feel for them. The rest can sit down, shut up and F off. I have no time for them.

Space junk is an ever increasing issue. Several manned units have had to alter course to miss junk lately. This one mind you ,is just interesting. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jan/26/out-of-control-spacex-rocket-on-track-to-collide-with-the-moon

I don't know if I should put a crying face because he died or a laughing face because of your comment. Well said regardless.