Hibernation Day #152 | Went to the cold and windy demo at the Legislature. About a third the people as last week which makes sense. The EA is dead. However, the vax pass and the vax mandate layoffs are still with us. This is a long fight. #honkhonkhonk #bankruncanada 1/
But "Ukraine" yell the great and the good. Hate to say it, but given the lineup of spivs rooting for Ukraine and pouring their Russian vodka down the drain, I can't get all that excited. Yes, Putin is a bastard. Knew that already. #honkhonkhonk #bankruncanada 2/
When Warren Kinsella, David Fisman, Andrew Coyne and every politician in Canada line up on one side of an issue I have to admit I take a long, serious, look at the other. The Ukrainians seem to be giving the Russians more of a fight than they expected. Good. #bankruncanada 3/
Frankly, I'd like to see the Russians' nose bloodied and then a negotiated settlement. Let's hope that happens. And I admire the people of Ukraines willingness to use Molotov cocktails and light arms against tanks. #honkhonkhonk #bankruncanada 4/
However, Canada has no dog in this fight. Nor should we. For all of the political grandstanding, neither Russia nor Ukraine are all that significant to Canada in the grand scheme of things. Our best move is not to do much. #honkhonkhonk #bankruncanada
What we should be doing is building out our huge oil infrastructure and building pipelines and ports to export our huge volumes of natural gas. Become a neutral energy mega nation - we have the reserves. #honkhonkhonk #bankruncanada /5
It is amazing how quickly the Ukraine situation has shut down discussion of COVID. We are hearing next to nothing about the great plague and the useless "public health" measures which were supposed to contain it. #honkhonkhonk #bankruncanada /6
Right now, in my little bit of Victoria, we are having what I hope will be the last winter storm. 80 kph winds, horizontal rain. But warmer. The daffodils are about to bloom. Spring is nearly here. 7/7

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Mar 1
A lot of people in BC are more than a little annoyed that we are in the running to be the last province to lift COVID mandates and vax passports. I'm annoyed too but there is one upside, this reveals the whole thing as purely political. #honkhonk 1/
Back when the mask mandate came in it was an order from the Attorney General rather than the PHO. And it was in response to a request from the BC Retailers' Association, not the public health community. So, political. #honkhonk 2/
The vax passes were not about health either. They were about "incentivizing" people to get the jabs. Jabs which did nothing to prevent infection or transmission and, were essentially useless against Omicron. So, political. #honkhonk 3/
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Hibernation Day #154 | Much of Canada will be dropping the COVID restrictions and mask mandates in the next few days. A good thing as very few of them were effective. Take up of the 3rd jab has dropped dramatically. #honkhonk 1/
Does this mean COVID is over? I doubt it. The NPIs and the jabs were a response - and not a very good one - to an actual virus which is, as we speak, out there mutating away. Yes, there was a lot of BS surrounding COVID but it actually revealed a bunch of issues. #honkhonk 2/
First, Canada and British Columbia have a really rickety Health Care system and no one seems willing to even begin to fix it. We lack the ability to rapidly surge ICU capacity. We lack that ability not because we don't have the room, rather because we don't have the people. 3/
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Hibernation Day #153 | Watching Canada's Establishment fall all over itself to support Ukraine is interesting. Our Finance Minister, Twitch, is out marching, maskless, in Toronto. Every mainstream party is onboard. #honkhonkhonk #bankruncanada 1/
Legacy media is full of stories of "plucky" Ukraine standing up to Putin's Bear. Again, I have no special expertise on Ukraine and no idea of the rights and wrongs of the current conflict; but our establishment seems certain. #honkhonkhonk #bankruncanada 2/
Russia bad, Ukraine good (ignore the Nazis, just Russian misinformation.) Could it be that simple? Maybe. But the establishment's track record on things like COVID and the truckers is not encouraging. #honkhonkhonk #bankruncanada 3/
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Hibernation Day #119 | Went to the BC Legislature for the rally. My lovely wife came too. Great crowd, lots of trucks, lots of Canadian flags, huge support for the truckers and freedom. #TruckersForFreedom2022 1/
The truckers and this sort of rally are about creating a counter-narrative. It is very easy, especially if you get your information from legacy media, to think everyone agrees with the government's policies. #TruckersForFreedom2022 2/
Simply by showing up the truckers and the people at the Leg demonstrate that this is not true. There are lots of people, jabbed and unjabbed, who oppose mandates and passports. By showing up they give politicians the prod needed to change policy. #TruckersForFreedom2022 3/
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Hibernation Day #118 | A bit grey and still cool here in Victoria. The truckers and their supporters are pulling into Ottawa. The CBC notes they don't have a permit...peak karening. #NoVaccinePassportsAnywhere 1/
There is more than enough commentary on the truckers and their meaning for Canada and Canadian politics. For legacy media the storyline today seems to be "white nationalists with unacceptable views and big poopy heads." Whatever. #NoVaccinePassportsAnywhere 2/
Meanwhile, Ontario's CMO said that COVID was something we are just going to have to learn to live with. There is a lot of that sort of talk. Omicron has downgraded the virus from airborne ebola status. #NoVaccinePassportsAnywhere 3/
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Hibernation Day #117 | Lovely, clear, sunny day. A bit cold here on the Island. But watching our truckers and their overpass and parking lot supporters in -40 I count my blessings. #FreedomConvoy2022 1/
I have never been more proud to be Canadian. This has the same feeling as the first Russia Canada all the way back in 1972. A nation standing together. But the truckers are about more important things. #FreedomConvoy2022 2/
So are the thousands of people standing in the freezing cold on the overpasses. Or the people handing out home made lunches at the truck stops. Or the people pushing the GoFundMe over 6 million. #FreedomConvoy2022 3/
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