On "Arrested Development"

Earlier this morning I was mulling over writing about "Junk Science" and how it and "Fake News" have merged to give us a Main Stream Media (MSM) that no longer fact checks and presents as news falsehoods. But then I read today's edition of the National Post and this was the headline:

"Arrested Development"

http://business.financialpost.com/features/arrested-development

The story summarises pretty well how any development, even when it has been subjected to rigorous environmental review, is attacked by Environmental Non Government Organisations (ENGO's), Not In My Back Yard types (NIMBY's) as well as First Nations trying to extract a better deal through extortion and obstructionism. All represent a distinct minority of the population but who are against any development and are given unfair and unjust coverage by the MSM such that the politicians who make public policy believe them rather than the person who is paying the bills and suffering the job losses, the average Canadian.

I have been searching for some time for a media source that I can rely on for truthful reporting and the only Canadian one I have found is the National Post. But even it is seriously wanting in that while it has on staff a number of pundits and columnists who mostly provide well reasoned commentary representing a variety of views the same cannot be said of the news editors who regurgitate the same nonsense as the rest of the MSM totally devoid of ethics and truth.

So now I am in a blue funk as while I try to be cautiously optimistic for the future I see nothing but doom and gloom ahead. We have a Prime Minister who is so blinded to reality that he is willing, as are all but two Provincial Premiers, to saddle all of us with job killing carbon taxes. In addition it was announced that the Federal Liberal Government is looking at taxing my health benefits that supplement the shoddy health care system we are so "proud" of. 

Here I have been "retired" all of 6 years and I see no resurrection of the mining industry that has served me and this country well. I see my pension, which at first I thought was alright, looking awfully inadequate; I can't even afford to move to any other place where I could be better off!

Just over a year ago the phrases "Anyone But Harper" and "Sunny Ways" turned the tide during the last Federal election. We are now into the dark of the storm and I do not think we will survive. I hate being repetitious but to once again paraphrase John Donne. For whom does the bell toll? It tolls for us Canadians, as we are doomed as long as the Liberals, both Provincially and Federally are in power. The only hope we have is that we can survive long enough to turf the bums out and even then it likely will be too late.