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I was fine with the review, even though the film was panned by an insider as being quite inaccurate [0], but this got to me: > Of course, Research in Motion im

I was fine with the review, even though the film was panned by an insider as being quite inaccurate [0], but this got to me: > Of course, Research in Motion imploded spectacularly… Blackberry went from controlling over 50% to now controlling 0% of the cellphone market, Alberta’s oil industry has been destroyed by a decade-plus of willful misgovernance, and Canada’s long national suicide continues even as it’s doctors encourage it’s citizens to opt for physician-assisted suicide rather than burden the system with their depression, homelessness, or wounds sustained in their country’s wars… Really? That much self-hate? Then stop voting in governments full of shallow, vapid people based on how they look, or how much money they give away. People deserve the governments they elect. [0] https://nationalpost.com/opinion/dennis-kavelman-i-was-a-longtime-senior-leader-at-blackberry-the-new-movie-is-not-our-story https://nationalpost.com/opinion/dennis-kavelman-i-was-a-lon...

Reason077 3y ago
For context, the National Post is a pretty heavily right-wing/conservative slanted publication. Basically the "Fox News" of Canadian newspapers.
- myth_drannon 3y ago
  Canadian media is not that polarized. Please stop comparing everything with Fox News, it became the new Hitler term.
  - Reason077 3y ago
    I wouldn't say polarized, but there is certainly a sliding scale. And the National Post is as right wing as it gets in Canada. Certainly some of their opinion pieces can get pretty extreme - see example above.
  - zeckalpha 3y ago
    In the US, the polarization has "improved" as far-right people are leaving Fox News for OAN and similar.
- icegreentea2 3y ago
  Btw, the quote isn't from the NP review, it's from the blog post. And as sibling says, while NP has a clear slant, it's hardly Fox News level. In any case, the quoted section blends right in with rest of the blog. And really the whole post blends in with the rest of blog, especially the choice to end with the post talking about the fundamental role of faith (and belief) in success.
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cmrdporcupine 3y ago
Alberta's oil industry hasn't been "destroyed" -- it just has a product nobody needs. When your chief export market for your product (the US) is also now the world's top oil exporter, sitting on its own reserves of oil, and the oil you're exporting requires heavy processing and is of generally lower quality... You're gonna have a bad time. New pipelines won't save you. So then their party-of-choice wasted a decade fighting to build infrastructure to export to China... who also doesn't need our product. It's froth-at-the-mouth rabid partisan bullshit, and Canadians need to learn to see through this crap. (Narrator: "they, didn't though") Alberta's government was captured long ago by oil industry shills who are increasingly angry at their own failures and looking for someone to blame and balkanizing the country in the process, and the National Post plays along, every year becoming more and more shrill.
- hajile 3y ago
  Oil prices dropped from around 2015-2020, but they are back up again. The question has always been "affordable at what price?" The US needs more oil than it pumps. For many industries, exporting good oil and using cheaper oil is a boon. There really have been economic pressures, but government interference via legislation or executive orders killing the Keystone pipeline also play a massive role in the ongoing issues.
  - cmrdporcupine 3y ago
    Keystone was always going to be controversial because, as I pointed out, the Americans are their own oil producer. Their need/desire to import from here is inevitably going to be subject to lobbying/partisan/sectoral pressures. Blaming Trudeau for Keystone's failure is dubious. As for government interference, could as much say things in the other direction: the Alberta government and the federal Harper government, aggressively subsidized -- both economically through direct subsidizes or preferential tax treatment, and ideologically through aggressive campaigns the development of the oil sands and oil and gas exploration and exploitation in the province generally. It has never been free from "interference"; pre-Trudeau or present. But the country as a whole, and the world's climate, does not owe Alberta the progress of this sector. Alberta needed to diversify yesterday. Instead it's doubled down, and now it's blaming everyone else in the nastiest way; down to banning the development of renewables and actually deliberately kneecapping diversification along with an aggressive propaganda campaign of lies. It's almost comical, but actually it's f'ing enraging. Line 9 runs right behind my house, like 1 or 2km away. It carries Alberta oil to Ontario and Quebec, where 90% of oil/gas consumption is domestic and the remainder imported from the US. A fact not apparently recognized in Alberta, where bullshit propaganda about "Saudi oil tankers in the Gulf of St Lawrence" runs rampant. Grew up there, family still there, held thoughts for years of going back. After this last provincial election and what's falling out of it? Never. Folks like Smith are like the Slobodan Milosevics of Canada; vicious ideological shit disturbers balkanizing and building a personal empire out of lies and division, and the end result of it -- as should have been clear from what happened last winter in Ottawa and Couts, etc. -- is going to to get really really ugly.
suoduandao3 3y ago
You're not wrong about deserving the government we elect, but the options on the short list aren't exactly inspiring. I blame party politics. We could get great people elected locally if they didn't have to move in lockstep to one of three to five simplistic marketing brands.

Reason077 3y ago

For context, the National Post is a pretty heavily right-wing/conservative slanted publication. Basically the "Fox News" of Canadian newspapers.

myth_drannon 3y ago
Canadian media is not that polarized. Please stop comparing everything with Fox News, it became the new Hitler term.
- Reason077 3y ago
  I wouldn't say polarized, but there is certainly a sliding scale. And the National Post is as right wing as it gets in Canada. Certainly some of their opinion pieces can get pretty extreme - see example above.
- zeckalpha 3y ago
  In the US, the polarization has "improved" as far-right people are leaving Fox News for OAN and similar.
icegreentea2 3y ago
Btw, the quote isn't from the NP review, it's from the blog post. And as sibling says, while NP has a clear slant, it's hardly Fox News level. In any case, the quoted section blends right in with rest of the blog. And really the whole post blends in with the rest of blog, especially the choice to end with the post talking about the fundamental role of faith (and belief) in success.

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cmrdporcupine 3y ago

Alberta's oil industry hasn't been "destroyed" -- it just has a product nobody needs. When your chief export market for your product (the US) is also now the world's top oil exporter, sitting on its own reserves of oil, and the oil you're exporting requires heavy processing and is of generally lower quality... You're gonna have a bad time. New pipelines won't save you. So then their party-of-choice wasted a decade fighting to build infrastructure to export to China... who also doesn't need our product. It's froth-at-the-mouth rabid partisan bullshit, and Canadians need to learn to see through this crap. (Narrator: "they, didn't though") Alberta's government was captured long ago by oil industry shills who are increasingly angry at their own failures and looking for someone to blame and balkanizing the country in the process, and the National Post plays along, every year becoming more and more shrill.

hajile 3y ago
Oil prices dropped from around 2015-2020, but they are back up again. The question has always been "affordable at what price?" The US needs more oil than it pumps. For many industries, exporting good oil and using cheaper oil is a boon. There really have been economic pressures, but government interference via legislation or executive orders killing the Keystone pipeline also play a massive role in the ongoing issues.
- cmrdporcupine 3y ago
  Keystone was always going to be controversial because, as I pointed out, the Americans are their own oil producer. Their need/desire to import from here is inevitably going to be subject to lobbying/partisan/sectoral pressures. Blaming Trudeau for Keystone's failure is dubious. As for government interference, could as much say things in the other direction: the Alberta government and the federal Harper government, aggressively subsidized -- both economically through direct subsidizes or preferential tax treatment, and ideologically through aggressive campaigns the development of the oil sands and oil and gas exploration and exploitation in the province generally. It has never been free from "interference"; pre-Trudeau or present. But the country as a whole, and the world's climate, does not owe Alberta the progress of this sector. Alberta needed to diversify yesterday. Instead it's doubled down, and now it's blaming everyone else in the nastiest way; down to banning the development of renewables and actually deliberately kneecapping diversification along with an aggressive propaganda campaign of lies. It's almost comical, but actually it's f'ing enraging. Line 9 runs right behind my house, like 1 or 2km away. It carries Alberta oil to Ontario and Quebec, where 90% of oil/gas consumption is domestic and the remainder imported from the US. A fact not apparently recognized in Alberta, where bullshit propaganda about "Saudi oil tankers in the Gulf of St Lawrence" runs rampant. Grew up there, family still there, held thoughts for years of going back. After this last provincial election and what's falling out of it? Never. Folks like Smith are like the Slobodan Milosevics of Canada; vicious ideological shit disturbers balkanizing and building a personal empire out of lies and division, and the end result of it -- as should have been clear from what happened last winter in Ottawa and Couts, etc. -- is going to to get really really ugly.

suoduandao3 3y ago

You're not wrong about deserving the government we elect, but the options on the short list aren't exactly inspiring. I blame party politics. We could get great people elected locally if they didn't have to move in lockstep to one of three to five simplistic marketing brands.