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This isn’t the time for “The Great Reset”

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5 years ago

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From the Facebook page of Red Deer – Lacombe MP Blaine Calkins

Recently the World Economic Forum developed a plan called “The Great Reset” as a way to use the pandemic to change the global political and economic systems. In September, Justin Trudeau spoke to the United Nations and used the phrase “the pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset.”
It is hard to believe that anyone would look at the human suffering and economic destruction caused by COVID-19 and see an opportunity. It’s even harder to believe that anyone would think that this is the right time to impose an agenda Canadians haven’t asked for which will create even more uncertainty.
As I wrote in my MP Report regarding the Speech from the Throne: “(Trudeau) has used the pandemic to pitch a massive shift towards socialism, with proposed direct government interventionism into all aspects of our lives.”
That is why he sees the pandemic as an opportunity – an opportunity to put his socialist ideology into action at a time when Canadians genuinely need government support to help get through the pandemic. With the light at the end of the tunnel now in sight, Trudeau is signaling he wants to use the “reset” to create permanent perpetual dependence on the government for all Canadians.
This is particularly true of Alberta and the West, where the values of hard work, freedom and self-reliance continue to be held close to our hearts. The Trudeau Liberal’s view the temporary hard times that the energy sector has fallen on as an opening to try and kill the sector. They believe that without this source of well-paying jobs and prosperity, that Albertans will lose their values and work ethic and allow themselves to become reliant on big government. We know that this isn’t what Albertans want.
This isn’t the time to be “reimagining” the economy and it’s certainly not time for Trudeau to toy with our future by using globalist organizations to impose his will on Canadians.
The only “great reset” we need is to change the government, which we can do as soon as the NDP stop propping up the Liberals.
Canada’s Conservatives priorities are jobs, growth, and prosperity. Under the strong leadership of Erin O’Toole, we will put Canada and Canadians first!
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Global Military Industrial Complex Has Never Had It So Good, New Report Finds

Published on December 1, 2025

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From the Daily Caller News Foundation

By Wallace White

The global war business scored record revenues in 2024 amid multiple protracted proxy conflicts across the world, according to a new industry analysis released on Monday.

The top 100 arms manufacturers in the world raked in $679 billion in revenue in 2024, up 5.9% from the year prior, according to a new Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) study. The figure marks the highest ever revenue for manufacturers recorded by SIPRI as the group credits major conflicts for supplying the large appetite for arms around the world.

“The rise in the total arms revenues of the Top 100 in 2024 was mostly due to overall increases in the arms revenues of companies based in Europe and the United States,” SIPRI said in their report. “There were year-on-year increases in all the geographical areas covered by the ranking apart from Asia and Oceania, which saw a slight decrease, largely as a result of a notable drop in the total arms revenues of Chinese companies.”

Notably, Chinese arms manufacturers saw a large drop in reported revenues, declining 10% from 2023 to 2024, according to SIPRI. Just off China’s shores, Japan’s arms industry saw the largest single year-over-year increase in revenue of all regions measured, jumping 40% from 2023 to 2024.

American companies dominate the top of the list, which measures individual companies’ revenue, with Lockheed Martin taking the top spot with $64,650,000,000 of arms revenue in 2024, according to the report. Raytheon Technologies, Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems follow shortly after in revenue,

The Czechoslovak Group recorded the single largest jump in year-on-year revenue from 2023 to 2024, increasing its haul by 193%, according to SIPRI. The increase is largely driven by their crucial role in supplying arms and ammunition to Ukraine.

The Pentagon contracted one of the group’s subsidiaries in August to build a new ammo plant in the U.S. to replenish artillery shell stockpiles drained by U.S. aid to Ukraine.

“In 2024 the growing demand for military equipment around the world, primarily linked to rising geopolitical tensions, accelerated the increase in total Top 100 arms revenues seen in 2023,” the report reads. “More than three quarters of companies in the Top 100 (77 companies) increased their arms revenues in 2024, with 42 reporting at least double-digit percentage growth.”

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Atlantic hurricane season is 8th this century with no landfalls

Published on December 1, 2025

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Nothing like Helene, and nothing like three hurricanes making landfall in 66 days.

Sunday’s end to the hurricane season for the Atlantic Basin was welcomed from the Gulf states to the Atlantic seaboard, with gratitude not a single one made landfall in the United States. A year ago, Hurricane Helene was among the three in just over two months that arrived in Florida, and its destruction was most heavily felt in North Carolina with 108 deaths and an estimated $60 billion to $80 billion in damages.

This is the 62nd week of recovery from Helene.

“That was a much-needed break,” said Dr, Neil Jacobs, under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration administrator. “Still, a tropical storm caused damage and casualties in the Carolinas, distant hurricanes created rough ocean waters that caused property damage along the East Coast, and neighboring countries experienced direct hits from hurricanes.”

This is the eighth year this century with no hurricane landfalls in the Atlantic season. The previous years were 2000, 2001, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2013 and 2015.

Thirteen storms reached a level to be named, five escalated to Category 1 (sustained winds of 74 mph or greater) and four of those eclipsed Category 3 (sustained winds 111 mph or greater).

Hurricanes Humberto and Imelda on Sept. 30 drew as close as 450 to 600 miles apart in the Atlantic Ocean, churning up the surf along much of the East Coast and drawing a warning for storm surge between Florida and South Carolina. Imelda ultimately was drawn toward and followed Humberto out to sea, enabling the Carolinas to avert catastrophe.

Erin, however, was a different story. Once a Category 5 (sustained winds 157 mph or greater) in the ocean, the storm temporarily shuttered four ferries in North Carolina and closed the 148-mile famed N.C. 12.

Tropical Storm Barry in June was the closest threat to Gulf Coast states. Imelda was the closest threat to Florida.

In Florida in 2024, Debby made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane near Steinhatchee on Aug. 5, Helene made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane in Dekle Beach on Sept. 26, and Milton made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane near Siesta Key on Oct. 9.

The 2024 season had 18 named storms, 11 reaching at least Category 1 hurricane level, and five of those accorded major hurricane level (Category 3 or worse).

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