Canada

Briefly describes why:

as a rule, the older you are in Canada, the more likely your income is higher than the previous generation’s at that age; and the younger you are, the more likely your income is lower than the previous generation’s at that age. Therefore, it’s just as reasonable for a young Canadian today to believe they’ll end up poorer than their parents’ generation as it is for their parents to believe they’re entitled to live better than their predecessors did

Which leads to

young Canadians, are gloomier than ever, with so many feeling so down about their economic future that they’re turning against democracy. Surveys reveal that increasingly, young people are showing greater openness to authoritarian leaders who threaten to break a system they already see as failing them. This echoes research in many developed democracies, revealing a growing radicalism and anti-system sentiment among young voters.

Original: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-why-youre-miserable-weve-grown-too-comfortable-on-the-booming-riches/

Former Alberta MLA Derek Fildebrandt will return to court this year despite being acquitted on charges of uttering threats against a group of teen boys.

The Crown filed a notice of appeal at the Calgary courthouse, asking a Court of King's Bench Justice to overturn the acquittals and substitute convictions or, alternatively, order a new trial.

Fildebrandt's charges were laid last April following an incident in which he shouted at and then chased the boys through his southwest community of Crestmont because he wrongly believed the teens were damaging his lawn ornaments.

Justice Allan Fradsham found that Fildebrandt did tell the kids, "I protect my property and my belongings with a gun." However, the judge ruled the comment wasn't intended to intimidate and thus acquitted the accused on all four charges in November.

Good article except the use of the propaganda term "oilsands", it should be "tar sands".

A man convicted and sentenced to nine months in jail for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is snowboarding in Whistler, B.C. Though Antony Vo says he expects a full pardon from U.S. president-elect Donald Trump once he takes office, he is also seeking asylum in Canada.

Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada is likely to resign from his position this week as per latest reports, amid mounting pressure from his own political party and also the Opposition. If Justin Trudeau resigns, who may replace him as the Canadian Prime Minister? Take a look at the list of potential candidates…

• Chrystia Freeland
• Dominic LeBlanc
• Mark Carney
• Christy Clark

In a rather busy span last month, the Alberta government confirmed that former prime minister Stephen Harper would be the chair of a completely remade board of Alberta's investment megafund AIMCo, forecast a bigger-than-anticipated budget surplus, and announced the most substantial changes to the province's auto insurance system in at least two decades.

Boosters will call that firing on all cylinders. Critics will say she's flooding the zone. Alberta New Democrats privately grumble that Smith's been doing so much so fast that there's not been much bandwidth for them to get an idea in edgewise.

So let's consider all that she's doing and undoing.

• Dividing the health system into four agencies. Quadrupling the number of new school builds, and directing more resources and emphasis toward the charters and privates.

• Carving out with the sheriffs a new provincial police force to bolster local police and the RCMP (or replace the latter, should the RCMP one day leave community policing). Implementing an addictions strategy with forced treatment and recovery campuses, and less harm reduction.

• Overhauling both the electricity and insurance systems.

• Charting a new course for the province's $169-billion investment and public-sector workers' pension fund. A reshaped relationship with municipalities, in which the province takes more control. Consistently pushing back against Ottawa, so the federal government has less control within Alberta.

• Plotting new commuter rail lines all over Alberta, and putting itself in the middle of planning Calgary's next LRT line.

• Creating Canada's most wide-ranging rules governing transgender youth in health, education and sport.

I've been a trucker in the past, when something similar happened (rock through side window) i bundled up in a skidoo suit and all my jackets, except the one I tied around my face backwards like a scarf with the arms and headed off back to the shop. I don't know what sort of moron would do this but for Christ sake. EDIT: I'd like to retract all that. I failed to notice the hood mirror. It's a convex and he could see what was going on in the drivers side. Truckers never bother craning their head, that accomplishes nothing anyways.

Editorial on (still) wearing a COVID mask By Senator Paula Simons. Good read

The House of Commons is days from passing Bill S-210, a dangerously broad age verification bill that would put an age lock on most of Canada's Internet and threaten every Canadian’s privacy.

Outside Vancouver's Metro Theatre is a plaque commemorating a play that at least two people thought was terrible.

It describes how writer Raymond Hull was complaining about the atrocious production he had been watching while standing in the theatre's lobby during an intermission.

A tall stranger who was also in the lobby then tried to explain to him how such an awful play made it to the stage.

The stranger, Laurence J. Peter, told Hull that every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Workers, he argued, keep getting promoted until they are in over their heads.

The conversation in the lobby, which occurred sometime in the early-to-mid 1960s, sparked both men's imaginations and ultimately gave birth to their 1969 best-seller The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is said to be reflecting on his future over the holidays after the resignation of his top cabinet minister, Chrystia Freeland, in mid-December. The bombshell move prompted a fresh wave of calls for Trudeau to step down as Liberal leader from inside and outside the caucus.

With MPs set to return to the House of Commons on Jan. 27, the Liberal grip on power appears tenuous. The NDP, which has been a steady ally of the minority government since the 2021 election, is no longer planning to support the Liberals.

Regardless of whether Trudeau resigns as Liberal leader, the government could seek prorogation to end all House of Commons business.

Mexican airline Aeromexico had the world's best record for on-time arrivals in 2024, according to an annual ranking released Thursday. Delta Air Lines scored the highest among U.S. carriers despite a computer outage that caused thousands of flight cancellations in July.

Aviation-data provider Cirium said in a report that nearly 87 per cent of Aeromexico flights arrived within 15 minutes of their scheduled arrival, a widely used measure of on-time performance among airlines.

Canada's WestJet, Air Canada and Denver-based budget airline Frontier finished at the bottom of the pack among U.S. and Canadian carriers, with on-time ratings below 72 per cent.