We’re always here (more or less) and gardening is always a safe topic. 
Is it the pipeline thing?
Fueled on spiteful bitterness towards Scheer, love for free market economics, and quite a bit of booze; Maxime Bernier introduces his PP to Canada. Hmmm… sounds like he is playing for soft support from the Caquistes voters. 
I am astounded that Bernier thinks that his new right-wing movement should be cribbing names from the friggin’ Warsaw Pact. This little ego trip of his is going to die a quick and deserved death.
US Border Control announces that any Canadian who admits to using pot, being involved in running pot companies in Canada once they become legal, or own shares in legal pot companies, all face lifetime bans from the US.
Investors and employees in cannabis companies may be banned from entering U.S., report suggests
Share trading for the main pot companies on the TSX were apparently quite volatile in the aftermath of the announcement.
I would.
It would be a rather more impressive effort were it not for the fact that he appears to be the party’s only member.
My wife and I went to Port Hope, ON yesterday to see the salmon running. We were confused by all of the U.S. flags that were hanging on the main drag. It took us a lot time before we figured out that it was set dressing for “It - Chapter Two”!
Following up on the pot thing, i sent an e-mail to my investment person, saying I don’t want to be invested in any marijuana companies, or any mutual funds that invest in marijuana companies.
Seems clear the US government is trying to cut-off investors for Canadian pot companies. It’s working!
Should be the opposite, every Canadian should buy stocks in pot companies and show up at the border wearing one of those Canadian flags with the maple leaf replaced by a marijuana leaf… Anyways, at this point only the super masochists visit that basketcase of a country. I haven’t been there for more than a decade, and I used to live and work there, have close relatives living there. It’s just not worth the hassle.
I take a direct flight to Mexico and points beyond. There, they just scan my passport, stamp stamp, “bienvenido a Mexico,” done. No surreal integoration, no accusations of wanting to live there illegaly, or being a drug-user, or a communist… In a couple of years the Americans will probably be demanding that every visitor recites a passage from the Bible from memory. No wonder foreign students are flocking to Canada and all the conventions and conferences are moving away from the States.
There hard line on immigration is our gain, and Aero Mexico’s in my case.
My (now ex-) wife and I went to visit friends in Port Perry, Ontario, years ago. Imagine our surprise when we found the same thing. It looked like the Fourth of July in an American small town–which it was supposed to be. Port Perry, Ontario stood in for Mooseport Maine, in 2004’s Welcome to Mooseport, with Ray Romano and Gene Hackman. No, they were not filming when we were there, but it was still a little weird.
Northern Piper, do you think US authorities will be quite that strict? I have investments, among them mutual funds, but I have little knowledge in which companies or industries they are invested. As long as my investments do well, I’m happy.
It would be one thing if I was a stock market player and I was to call my broker, telling him or her, “Buy 1000 common shares of Consolidated Marijuana Inc.,” because then I’d know I was investing in marijuana, and I could admit such to US authorities truthfully. But I’m not such a player.
Letting my investment guy know that I do not want to invest in mutual funds that include anything marijuana may be prudent, but is it really necessary, do you think? Isn’t it too far from directly knowing that one is investing in marijuana?
For a routine border crossing, no, they probably won’t be that strict. For an O1 visa, the background checks are pretty stringent. I really noticed the difference pre- and post- September 11, 2001. My jobs there in 1999 and April of 2001, the visas were easy. April 2002 and May 2003 were a lot harder, with stringent documentation about membership in groups, financial interests, and charitable donations all required. I think it was a year or two later when I lost a job offer, because the company in question simply didn’t have the resources to pursue an O1 visa for me.
It would not surprise me at all to learn that they want to see the complete holdings of your mutual funds in a visa application.
Not an issue for US or dual US-Canadian citizens. Many of these stocks are traded on US stock exchanges.
Most recent Quebec poll shows a dead heat:
Quebec election blog Sept. 18: New poll indicates François Legault’s CAQ is losing steam
It’s interesting to watch Quebec politics move away from the binary choices the sovereignty debate imposed on debate.
I don’t know about that. The heavy focus on immigration makes me think they’ve just changed the window dressing on pure laine politics.
Maybe, but immigration can involved degrees and relatively easy adjustments year to year if required.
Well Hydro Ottawa is doing awesome work bringing the city back to life. They had about 180,000 customers down the day after the storm ripped through the city blowing out a primary transformer station. We’re back to only 80,000 down - my power came back in at 4 AM or so.
It’s been not too bad but we’re likely better prepared than some. We have a camping stove and propane and a babr-b-que so things that were going to thaw were cooked up. Hope other Ottawans are doing ok and getting back on their feet as well.
For fun here’s the current outage map https://hydroottawa.com/outages/info/outage-centre
What caused the outages?
Tornado hit a power transmission station along with a bunch of other stuff, like every pole.