Economy
Arnold Schwarzenegger calls for rebranding climate change: ‘No one gives a sh– about that’
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Read MoreThis essay provides a rough estimate of the environmental benefits associated with
imposing the GHG cap on the oil and gas industry. We show that eliminating all GHG
emissions from the oil and gas sector in 2030 would reduce Canada’s projected GHG
emissions by 29 percent. This is not a trivial number, as an absolute value, even for a
single sector of Canada’s emitting industries.
However, when seen in a global context, even if Canada eliminated all of its GHG
emissions expected in the year 2030 as a result of the new greenhouse gas caps implemented by the current government (187 Mt), the emission reduction would equal fourtenths of one percent of global emissions, a reduction unlikely to have any impact on
the trajectory of the climate in any detectable manner, and hence, to offer only equally
undetectable environmental, health, or safety benefits
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The LA Dodgers has decided to fully embrace the LGBTQ agenda, and this has set off some Christian athletes. I guess the MLB didn’t learn from Bud Light.
2 ways to fight ESG:
1. Lawsuits based on Collusion/ Anti-trust violations
2. Shareholders suing for damage to value of company
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Read MoreWant to invest in the right-wing blowback to corporate diversity, equity and inclusion efforts? There’s a SPAC for that.
Driving the news: It’s called Colombier Acquisition Corp., and earlier this year agreed to merge with PublicSq, an online marketplace for companies in what it calls “the patriot economy.”
If the deal closes, the combined company’s board will include failed U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters and former Mike Pence strategist Nick Ayers.
Why it matters: This comes at a moment when anti-LGBTQ activists have helped tank stock prices for companies like Anheuser-Busch InBev and Target.
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Read MoreThis is the moment that a furious motorist drives through a crowd of Just Stop Oil eco zealots during the evening rush hour.
The frustrated driver can be heard pleading with the eco-clowns before he loses his patience and tells them: ‘I will run you over’.
In chaotic scenes, the protesters can be seen trying to thwart his attempts to move them out the way but he presses on, managing to part the crowd before driving off.
Just Stop Oil supporters took up positions on London’s bridges on Tuesday afternoon, bringing traffic to a standstill during rush-hour.
A mob of 68 Just Stop Oil climate activists took a stand around Waterloo, Blackfriars, London Bridge and Tower Bridge – but police were quick to move them off the road.
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Read MoreAdding bureaucracy just makes things more expensive for Canadians, argues Matthew Lau in the Financial Post. To support his argument, he cites Cardus Senior Fellow Andrea Mrozek’s work in The Hub detailing the bureaucratic bloat that comes with child care spending in Ontario.
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Read MoreSimilar to Target, Walmart’s environmental, social, and governance (ESG) report reveals that the company makes special provisions for LGBT groups, including specifically sourcing supplies from people professing such identities.
Target has been the focus of boycott calls due to offering Pride products this year aimed at children. Target’s 2022 ESG report (pdf) shows that at least 51 percent of its suppliers are “owned, controlled and operated by women, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, veterans or people with disabilities.” In addition, 59 percent of their Pride Month assortment was created by LGBT creators and brands.
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Read MoreCabinet seeks to break a month-long filibuster that has tied up Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s omnibus budget bill in the Commons finance committee. One Liberal MP called it “arbitrary filibustering” to upset cabinet’s calendar.
“What happens when you filibuster needlessly? Not for any real point,” said Liberal MP Terry Beech (Burnaby North-Seymour, B.C.), parliamentary secretary for finance. “The point is quite clear. The point is to obstruct the bill and to prevent it from passing or at least to delay it as long as possible.”
“All the Conservatives are doing by continuing this filibuster is proving the fact they intend to do nothing except obstruct for obstruction’s sake,” said MP Beech. He served notice of a motion that the finance committee limit Conservatives to a maximum 15 additional minutes of debate on Bill C-47 the Budget Implementation Act.
Conservative MP Rick Perkins (South Shore-St. Margarets, N.S.) denied gamesmanship and called C-47 a far-reaching and costly bill that must be thoroughly studied. Minister Freeland “built up a level of distrust in this committee and in the House,” said Perkins.
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Read Moreollapse of the legal pot trade has seen two thirds of marijuana dealers fall behind in tax payments, says a federal report. Dealers owe the Canada Revenue Agency millions.
“The total amount of unpaid cannabis excise duties has continuously been rising since legalization,” said a report by the Competition Bureau. “Sixty-six percent of licensees required to remit excise duties had an outstanding debt with the Canada Revenue Agency.”
Unpaid taxes last year totaled $52.4 million. The value of delinquent payments was projected to nearly double to $97.5 million this year, said the report Planting The Seeds For Competition.
Parliament on legalizing marijuana in 2018 taxed it at $1 per gram plus GST. “With the average price per gram for dried cannabis falling since legalization, excise duties now take up a more significant portion of cannabis producers’ revenues,” up to 30 percent or more, wrote the Competition Bureau
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