I went to the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada convention again this year. It was a success. I met friends and family and enjoyed great company with great people. I was able to find a few Gold exploration companies drilling right beside old Gold mines.
I also walked about looking at the state of affairs in Toronto. Observations follow.
Revolution...Deleted.
The PDAC attracts a wide range of protests. The most prolific form of protest is the poster.
Here is a poster of a type that was plastered on walls and pillars all around the convention when I arrived on opening day.
Power to the PEOPLE!!! Fight the Power!
Or...maybe not. Right behind the people fighting the Man and putting up these posters was this guy...
Notice the line of posters on the pillars in the background. No Brownshirts here, just a guy with a scraper. Have the forces of reaction ever looked so plain?
Bye, Bye Pot Boom
Pot was legalized shortly after Trudeau came to power in 2015. What followed was the Wild West of expansion of pot retailers, to the extent that even in Ottawa there are now more than 100 pot stores.
The era of expansion that has seen thousands of independent pot shops pop up everywhere has almost ended. The era of mass bankruptcy and consolidation is about to start.
Here is a dead pot shop...the first one I have seen to date.
Here is what will soon be a brand new entrant into an already saturated market...
There is only so much pot that any society can smoke! Hopefully up next, an audit of who got what pot retail licences and when, how are they related to people in power, and were there any shenanigans in the granting of those licences? What did the Premier do for a living in high school?
Dougies!
Please see the temporary residences (a.k.a. "Dougies") of some failed stock brokers on lower University Avenue here...
I lived in Toronto for a total of nine years. I don't recall semi-permanent tent homes festooning lower University Avenue at any time. I think this didn't happen because the cops would very aggressively move people along had they tried to set up such structures way back when (the 80's and 90's). It is illegal to live where these tents are set up. Why are these people not moved along?
Sorry, but I'm such a heartless bastard!
A question for the bleeding hearts. If someone thinks these people should be allowed to live wherever they want, in whatever structure they want, would those people also be OK if the poor set up tent structures right across the street from they live? Likely not.
Point - The do-gooders who support things like this mostly don't live downtown. They support stuff like this downtown so that it will stay downtown, far from where they live, which is not downtown.
I have way more time for people who want to enforce the law and get rid of these types of structures, while looking for proper housing for these people, than I do for the chatting classes whose real motivation is hypocritical self-interest, expressed as "shame and blame" directed at anyone who disagrees with them.
Bitcoin's Real Market!
Who The F*^k really uses Bitcoin?
Here is the type of place that advertises Bitcoin for actual acquisition, and presumably for future use. Note the "Bitcoin" sign at the top.
This place is similar to other corner stores in Ottawa that offer Bitcoin for sale, usually located in residential areas populated by people on welfare and the working poor.
The people who buy Bitcoin...and, sorry Mr. Poilievre, these are the only people who actually use Bitcoin as currency...are drug dealing pieces of shit that launder drug cash through conversion to Bitcoin. These are also the people who are directly responsible for this...
https://health-infobase.canada.ca/substance-related-harms/opioids-stimulants/
Hmmm...just shy of 27,000 overdose deaths in Canada in five years...about one death every hour and a half, for five years. Maybe we should be making it harder for the pieces of shit who are dealing mass death by at least limiting their convenience store-based money laundering opportunities? Is this hard?
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