No Country For Anyone

No more deals with Hamas:

Israeli forces have retrieved the bodies of two hostages, that of Ilan Weiss and another, unnamed, individual, that Hamas terrorists had kept in the Gaza Strip, the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem said on Friday.

Weiss, 56, was murdered on Oct. 7, 2023, while defending Kibbutz Be’eri, and his corpse was taken to Gaza, according to the statement. His daughter and wife, Noga and Shiri, were also abducted. They were released in November 2023 as part of a hostage deal.

The name of the other Israeli whose body has been retrieved in the joint IDF and Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) operation has not yet been cleared for publication.

With the retrieval of the two bodies, Hamas is believed to be holding 20 living hostages and another 28 bodies.

The new normal:

Ottawa police detectives are investigating after a Jewish woman was stabbed by a stranger Wednesday afternoon at a west-end grocery store known for the largest kosher selection in town.

The woman, in her 70s, was stabbed in the torso as she shopped at Loblaws at College Square on Baseline Road. The West Criminal Investigations Unit is leading the case, and confirmed Thursday that the police hate-crimes squad has been enlisted to help.

Investigators have confirmed that the suspect and the victim were not known to one another prior to the incident, said police on Thursday.

Joseph (Joe) Rooke, 71, of Cornwall, has been charged with aggravated assault and possession of a dangerous weapon. He is still under investigation and could face more charges in the case.

Police say the woman entered the grocery store with a friend around 1:35 p.m. on Wednesday when she was approached by a man and stabbed.

She was rushed to hospital with serious wounds, treated and later released. Police were called and the man surrendered peacefully.

In a Facebook post on Thursday, the Jewish Federation of Ottawa said the woman is a “cherished member of our community” and is recovering.

The federation said it won’t share further details out of respect for her privacy.

“We have all been deeply shaken by the stabbing incident that took place yesterday afternoon at the Baseline Kosher Loblaws,” said the Facebook post.

Your Disgusting Government and You

Vile, craven, and utterly without scruples:

The federal government is set to spend an estimated $71.1 billion on salaries, bonuses and other personnel costs in 2024-25 despite having shaved off around 10,000 workers from the public service last fiscal year, according to Canada’s parliamentary budget officer.

This was an increase from last year’s $69.6 billion spent on personnel, according to a new PBO report published on Aug. 28. Personnel costs are the largest part of operational spending and will present a challenge to the government of Prime Minister Mark Carney, which has promised to balance the operating budget all while capping and not cutting the size of the federal public service.

Last fiscal year, the size of the federal public service shrunk by 9,807 jobs, according to Treasury Board data. However, in July, the PBO released an analysis that showed the number of full-time equivalents in the public service has continued to grow.

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Federal payroll costs total a record $71.1 billion annually and are headed for more than $76 billion based on current trends, the Budget Office said yesterday. It follows cabinet’s Throne Speech announcement that it would be “capping the public service.”

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From the most "transparent" government in the country's history:

The Department of Canadian Heritage yesterday said it would not release until after the next federal budget a memo to Minister Steven Guilbeault on “a renewed approach” to CBC funding. Cabinet had promised the Crown broadcaster a multi-million dollar boost to its $1.4 billion annual subsidy if Liberals were re-elected: “It’s now or never.”

(Sidebar: why? Hardly anyone watches this ghastly mouthpiece.)

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Attorney General Sean Fraser is asking a federal judge to quash his own government’s release of a secret report deemed “injurious to national defence.” The Department of Justice seeks to block the scheduled release of the Access To Information document next Tuesday: ‘The risks are significant.’

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I doubt very much that the Liberals will move away from China:

The trade department in an introductory report to newly-appointed Minister Maninder Sidhu said Canada is “focused on diversifying away from China” as a risky market. The stark analysis comes five years after cabinet polled support for a free trade agreement with the People’s Republic: “Trade Commissioner Services have focused on diversifying away from China.”

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Like fun they did:

The federal government says it’s “looking into” what appears to be the accidental removal of a privacy provision in its Online Streaming Act.

Earlier this week, University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist outlined in a blog post that a privacy provision in the legislation was removed only two months after the bill became law, through an amendment contained in another bill.

The heritage department said it is now aware of the issue.

Oh, I Think We Know the Motive

This denial is beyond parody at this point: 

Acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson said videos and writings the shooter left behind show that Westman “expressed hate towards almost every group imaginable.”

(Sidebar: particularly Catholics and children. Let's not forget that.) 

Investigators recovered hundreds of pieces of evidence from the church and three residences, the police chief said. They found more writings from the shooter, but no additional firearms or a clear motive for the attack on the church Westman once attended. Westman had a “deranged fascination” with mass killings, O’Hara said.

FBI Director Kash Patel said on X that the attack was an act of domestic terrorism motivated by hate-filled ideology, citing the shooter’s statements against multiple religions and calls for violence against President Donald Trump.  ...

Westman, who once attended the school and whose mother worked for the parish before retiring in 2021, left behind several videos and page upon page of writings describing a litany of grievances. One read: “I know this is wrong, but I can’t seem to stop myself.”

What appears to be a suicide note to family contains a confession of long-held plans to carry out a shooting and talk of being deeply depressed.

Lily Kletter, who graduated from Annunciation, recalled that Westman joined her class at some point in middle school and once hid in the bathroom to avoid going to Mass.

(Sidebar: no, not she. Not they. This worm of a man is no more plural or a woman than an elephant is an ant. Maybe if he did go to Mass, he would not have fired on innocent children. That would be a huge red flag for me.)

“I remember they had a crazy distaste for school, especially Annunciation, which I always thought was pretty interesting because their mom was on the parish board,” she said.

Federal officials referred to Westman as transgender, and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey decried hatred being directed at “our transgender community.” Westman’s gender identity wasn’t clear. In 2020, a judge approved a petition, signed by Westman’s mother, asking for a name change from Robert to Robin, saying the petitioner “identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification.”

There we have it.

Thanks, Mom.

Are we done catering to these delusions, which is really a form of grooming?

And screw your precious community.

There is more than enough proof that this sub-set is violent and emotionally retarded.

We can stop with the pandering now.

Some People Are "Special"

Especially if they have no ties to Canada other than being cheap labour:

Smith said Tuesday that the success of the local beef processing facility in her home riding, owned by Brazilian multinational JBS, shows why local employers should have more control over Alberta’s intake of migrants. 

”I think they began by recruiting people from Sudan, then Somalia, Mexico, the Philippines … the most recent individuals I met were from Ecuador,” said Smith.

“I don’t know how JBS manages to find (foreign workers) and use our program (but) they are reaching out throughout the world … to be able to do it. And I think that’s a very positive example of how other businesses would do the same.”

Smith said the Brooks, Alta., slaughterhouse triggered a “massive” local population boom by drawing thousands of foreign workers and their families to the area.

She was speaking at an Albert Next town hall in Fort McMurray, Alta., where immigration reform was one of six topics under discussion to be added to next year’s referendum ballot.

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Conservatives say courts should not consider the immigration status of convicted criminals when handing down sentences, warning that doing so would create a “two-tier” system.

 The statement comes after a recent court ruling that spared prison time for a convicted criminal to reduce his risk of deportation.

 “Non-citizens convicted of a crime should face the same consequences as Canadian citizens, and when they are convicted of serious crimes, they should be deported,” Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner, her party’s immigration critic, said in an Aug. 26 statement.

 

 

 

We Can Always Withdraw Their Funding

No funding and no donors:

Across the country, reports of antisemitism at universities like the University of British Columbia, Concordia University, Toronto Metropolitan University show how deeply this problem runs. 

Faculty and professors are not only tolerating such rhetoric but, in too many cases, emboldening their students to promote it. Remember when dozens of U of T professors “aided and abetted” last year’s illegal encampment on campus? Or the Wilfrid Laurier professor who offered students an extra two per cent credit for attending and writing a reflection on an anti-Israel rally held less than three weeks after the attacks on October 7? Or how about the Queen’s University Kinesiology professor who allegedly taught a class on “How Jews became White”?

 

Give universities nothing. 

They COULD trot out freedom of expression but we all know is not really allowed in Canada. 

 They can say what they like using their own funds.

 

The Idea Is to Get the Prole Never to Defend Himself

The victim will be financially exhausted proving his case to a system that already believes that he is guilty:

The Lindsay, Ont., man charged in an early-morning break-in last week wielded a crossbow in the incident and was out on probation at the time, according to court documents filed Wednesday.

The violent episode on Aug. 18 — which led to charges laid against both the alleged intruder, Michael Kyle Breen, and the home's resident, Jeremy David McDonald — set off a cross-Canada debate over what constitutes legal self-defence.

According to a charge sheet, Breen, 41, destroyed a window and screen at McDonald's home in Lindsay, part of the city of Kawartha Lakes, in Ontario cottage country. Breen is charged with four counts, including break-and-enter and carrying a weapon — the crossbow — to commit an offence. He is scheduled to appear for a bail hearing next week. ...

McDonald, 44, is charged with aggravated assault and assault with a weapon — allegedly a knife.

 

It would have been easier for Mr. McDonald to let Mr. Breen kill him.

 Allegedly. 

 

Oh, Did Everyone Just Change Their Minds on Canadian LNG?

I guess bar tabs DON'T pay for themselves:

With an estimated price tag of US$44 billion, Alaska LNG would see a 1,300-kilometre pipeline traverse the state from north to south, passing through treacherous terrain to deliver an average of 3.5 million mmBTU a day of gas to a liquefaction plant in Nikiski, south of Anchorage. The project also includes a carbon capture plant by the gas fields on Alaska’s North Slope.

Some of the gas would be for Alaskans’ needs, but most would be loaded onto tankers and sold across the Pacific, the same markets Canadian LNG developers want to tap.

“It would be beneficial to Canada to not have Alaska LNG be built,” said Mills.

But if it did go ahead — and that’s a big if — it would be after 2030, she added.

Late last month, the state corporation behind the massive endeavour, Alaska Gasline Development Corp., signed Glenfarne Group as lead developer on the project. Glenfarne, a U.S. builder of energy infrastructure, now owns 75 per cent of the project, AGDC holding the rest.

A final investment decision on Alaska LNG is expected some time this year.

Kent Fellows, an economist with the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy, said contracts to buy LNG are signed before plants start up and usually span several years.

So the trade chaos Trump has unleashed with a bevy of tariffs against one-time allies does the Alaska project no favours.

“It can be really costly to make some of these investments if you're not sure that trade relationship is going to be stable going forward,” Fellows said.

“One of the huge advantages that the United States had up until about 12 months ago (is) they had a reputation for being a very stable economy, being an economy that believed in global free trade.”

If Alaska LNG is somehow successful in sewing up contracts with Asian buyers, it makes it harder for B.C. projects further behind in development to secure enough demand to justify their own plants.

"With an LNG market, that competition happens at the time the facility is built, so timing the market can end up really, really important," said Fellows.

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German companies are looking to buy and swap Canadian LNG cargoes shipped off the Pacific coast to help meet European demand, Canada's Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson said on Wednesday.

Canada, the world's fifth-largest natural gas producer, shipped its first-ever liquefied natural gas export cargo in June from the recently constructed LNG Canada facility in British Columbia, which is led by Shell and is the first North American LNG export site with direct access to the Pacific Ocean. 

The bulk of LNG Canada's exports is expected to ship to Asia, but Hodgson told reporters the cargoes are also drawing interest from European buyers pursuing swap opportunities.

 

I was assured that there is no business case for liquid natural gas. 

 

 

It's Just Money

Yep:

Write-offs under the most popular pandemic relief program are near $34 million, according to Access To Information figures. Data show the equivalent of nearly half the national workforce claimed $2,000 monthly cheques under the Canada Emergency Response Benefit Act: “This includes potential cases of intentional misrepresentation.”

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A Liberal Senate appointee who denounced Conservative critics as “cold-blooded” on climate change jetted home each weekend to Winnipeg for no official reason, accounts show. Senator Charles Adler (Man.) yesterday had no comment: “No matter how much I read, I never feel I understand enough about the issue of our time, climate change.” 

Doing the Math On Taxes

Canadians, on average, spend $667.03 on basic staples at the grocery store.

The weak dollar, food seller monopolies leading to limited competition, transportation, and smaller population also contribute to higher prices at the grocery store. 

What is not discussed is how taxes like the carbon tax is passed on as an additional cost to consumers:

The 2,440% increase in the tax bill has also greatly outpaced the increase in the Consumer Price Index 802%), which measures the average price that consumers pay for food, shelter, clothing, transportation, health and personal care, education, and other items.

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Research involving scholars worldwide, including 13 peer-reviewed studies, paints a troubling picture of Canada’s approach to carbon pricing. It reveals that the policy’s impact on food security, competitiveness, and affordability has been underestimated. While retail food prices cannot be directly correlated with carbon pricing due to numerous influencing factors, wholesale food prices in Canada have surged relative to other countries. This suggests that the competitiveness of Canada’s agri-food sector has been negatively affected, partly due to the carbon tax. The long-term implications for food security and affordability are significant.

 

The industrial carbon tax has not been removed.

The supposed removal of the consumer carbon tax was merely a distraction.

If it costs more to produce and transport food, the costs have to be recouped somewhere.

That, or an industry or a business fails.

Cue to the seventeen cent tax on gasoline which will drive up costs for motorists and businesses alike:

Clean Fuel Regulations that will add 17¢ to a litre of gasoline by 2030 should be repealed, Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre said yesterday. In-house research by the Department of Natural Resources found most Canadians were unaware of the impact of the regulations: “Have you been able to afford the energy bills for your household’s daily needs?” 

 

What has become cheaper in the past ten years?

Nothing.

We are paying more in taxes than receiving in goods or services.

Costs and taxes are hidden in prices.

Does that show up on a receipt? 

It's Like There Is a Pattern

Jordan Peterson was fired for not catering to a delusion:

The shooting took place at around 8:15 am. Police confirmed that two children, ages 8 and 10, were killed, and 17 other people were injured, including 14 children. The gunman took his own life inside the church.

Authorities identified the shooter as 23-year-old trans-identified male Robin Westman. Investigators say Westman opened fire with a rifle through the school’s church windows. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara described the shooting as a “deliberate act of violence against innocent children." FBI Director Kash Patel said the FBI "is investigating this shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and hate crime targeting Catholics."

Westman, a biological male who identified as female, had reportedly posted a video on YouTube prior to the attack referencing other mass shooters. Footage showed Westman displaying firearms and ammunition magazines, with messages written on the weapons that included taunts as well as tributes to past shooters.

 

There is no gun nor a president to blame. 

 

🚨 Despite making up roughly .05% of the population, trans identified young people are increasingly at the center of a surge in violent incidents.

Cross sex hormones combined with mental illness is a seriously deadly combo. https://t.co/EeH39EiXNJ pic.twitter.com/MEPqQs3Ua1

— Gays Against Groomers (@againstgrmrs) August 27, 2025

 

It really is the sad and bloody product of fatalism and delusion. 

 

Fifth grade student says wounded classmate saved him from Annunciation Catholic School shooter: “My friend, Victor, like saved me, though, because he layed on top of me. But he got hit.” pic.twitter.com/rWmMC9tUIc

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) August 27, 2025

 

Mid-Week Post

Your middle-of-the-week spark ...

 

Duping the public with anti-Trump feeling was Carney greatest accomplishment:

Canadians elected Mark Carney believing he was a strong leader who could go toe-to-toe with U.S. President Donald Trump. But instead of a knight standing on guard for thee, they got the victim of an abusive relationship.

Not even half a year has passed since Carney appeared in a campaign ad with comedian Mike Myers telling Canadians to put their “elbows up,” a reference to the type of hockey people of a certain age were accustomed to before the NHL removed most of the violence — and the fun — from the game.

Yet the prime minister’s now saying that although “there is a time in a big (hockey) game, and this is a big game, when you go hard in the corners, you elbows up,” there’s “also a time in the game when you want the puck, you want to stick-handle, you want to pass, you want to put the puck in the net. And we’re … at that time in the game.” 

Which begs the question: what changed? Has Trump agreed to abide by the trade deal he negotiated and signed during his first term? Has he realized that tariffs were a bad idea and apologized for threatening to turn Canada into the 51st state? Of course not.

Since Carney was elected on April 28, Trump has upped the ante almost every month, increasing steel and aluminum tariffs to 50 per cent in June, boosting the levy on non-CUSMA compliant goods to 35 per cent in July and tacking a 50 per cent surcharge on some copper products at the start of this month.

And what does the man who ran on an “elbows up” platform do in response? Like the victim of an abusive relationship who keeps coming up with excuses, Carney now says that the situation Canada faces is “still better than that of any other country,” and that we must “do everything we can to preserve this unique advantage.” ...

Yet Carney did blink, choosing to put his elbows down and lining up behind virtually every other world leader to kiss Trump’s butt in the hopes of securing a deal that may be sub-optimal, but has the potential to prevent our much larger neighbour from picking on us for the next four years (or longer, if Trump gets his way). 

Before you accuse me of being an anti-globalization leftist or a tariff-happy MAGA supporter — which these days aren’t all that different — I will say that I’m not a fan of trade barriers of any kind.

The Americans have good reason to be upset about Canada’s unfair trade practices — namely, the unconscionably high tariffs placed on foreign dairy, egg and poultry products to protect our system of supply management. But this is no reason to upend a free-trading relationship that has benefited both countries for over 36 years.

And although many Canadians could use the dose of humility that comes with realizing that we are not, and never have been, a world power of any consequence, we also don’t want to come across as a nation of wimps who are unwilling to fight fire with fire to protect our sovereignty.

 

The Liberals have done their best to keep the status quo in Canada and anger the Americans with uneven trade deals.

Now they met an American who wouldn't budge. 

This was a long time coming.

 

 

You mean they lied:

Late last year, the federal Liberal government said it would cap the number of people entering Canada through the Temporary Foreign Worker Program at 82,000 for 2025, but so far this year they’ve allowed in 105,000. Meanwhile, the International Mobility Program was supposed to be capped at 285,000 and in the first six months, but we’ve added 302,000 through this program.

“Mark Carney promised to fix it, but these results show he’s worse. He supports the same out-of-control Liberal immigration policies that delivered a triple-header crisis in housing, health care and youth unemployment,” Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said.

“These breaking numbers blow through the government’s own targets midway through the year with some on course to be the highest on record.”

No wonder the Carney government was hiding immigration data. 

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In the first seven months of 2025, Canada accepted 246,300 new permanent residents, according to data released last week by IRCC.

If this level of intake keeps up for the rest of the year, Canada is on track to bring in approximately 422,000 new permanent residents by year’s end.

This would be despite Liberal government promises that the intake for 2025 would only be 395,000, as part of a new reduced immigration schedule designed to avoid overwhelming “community capacity.”

With an average of 1,200 new permanent residents accepted in Canada every day, the country is still operating at a rate of immigration intake well beyond almost any other point of the last 100 years.

 

 

The village idiot has been admiring and courting China for years, as his father had done.  

China kidnapped and help prisoner two Canadian nationals until the Americans intervened. 

China has been operating secret police stations in Canada for a long time and nothing has been done about them.

Then there is the interference in elections. 

There are several cases of foreign intrusion on Canadian soil.

Yet only now do Canadians think that there might possibly be something wrong:

Nearly six in 10 Canadians feel their country is more dangerous than five years ago, before Russia invaded Ukraine, India was linked to the murder of a Sikh-Canadian and Canada reckoned with the scourge of foreign interference.

 In fact, only a paltry three per cent of Canadians believe Canada is a safer place now than it was five years, according to a January Ekos poll done on behalf of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and recently published online.

 The poll suggests the number of Canadians who feel Canada is more dangerous now than five years ago also more than doubled since 2021, the last time CSIS put the question to the public. 

 

Let's trust the agency that has done nothing about these things to safeguard this country.

Oh, wait ... 

 

 

An NDP MP wants to send the RCAF to Gaza:

New Democrat MP Heather McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona) yesterday sponsored a Commons petition to have the Royal Canadian Air Force rescue refugees from Gaza. McPherson, the Party’s foreign affairs critic, has repeatedly accused Jews of genocide and compared Israeli military action in Gaza to the murder of civilians in the Second World War: “Deploy Canadian military aircraft.” 

 

 

Also - this maroon would not be saying such things if the Liberal establishment and their donors did not feel it:

We’re saving your tweets, @mohamadfakih8. History has a long memory — it will mark who stood with the only democracy in the Middle East, and who chose instead to excuse genocidal Islamic terrorists. And now, in full view of Canadians, you’re openly threatening anyone who dares… https://t.co/ykoZqmwuDN

— HonestReporting Canada🎗️ (@HonestRepCanada) August 27, 2025

 

 

Our ever-diligent government and its agencies:

Canada Revenue Agency managers enjoy watching daytime TV in business hours and do “not have to account for the time,” according to evidence in a labour board hearing. Sports were popular, testified one manager: “You have to ask, where is the money to blow on TVs?”

 

 

From the most "transparent" government in this country's history:

Details of federal aid to Ukraine are being censored by the Department of Finance. The department in an Access To Information memo concealed budget line items listing Canada’s $22 billion in aid but predicted Ukraine’s postwar recovery will take 10 years and more than a half trillion: “See table below for a full breakdown.” 

 

 

Will Moldova be the next Ukraine?:

Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Moldova has been popping up in the news with increasing frequency.

The Republic of Moldova is a small country on Ukraine's southwestern border, and in the spring of 2022, it seemed possible that Russia might also invade and occupy it.

This would have opened up a second front for Ukraine and brought Russia right up to the southeastern border of both the EU and NATO. 

Since then, politicians in Germany and Europe have been paying more attention to Moldova than ever before.

In a show of solidarity, the EU granted both Ukraine and Moldova candidate country status in June 2022. Several European countries, above all Germany, provide Moldova with military support.

 

 

What the hell is Trump thinking?:

Republican New Hampshire House candidate Lily Tang Williams on Tuesday warned that allowing more Chinese students to migrate to the U.S. would not be a smart move for the country.

President Donald Trump said on Monday that he would enable 600,000 students from China to study in the U.S. Williams said on “Fox & Friends First” that Chinese citizens are legally compelled to assist the Chinese government or else face repercussions and therefore must “be very carefully vetted.”

“Well, people have to understand there are different kinds of Chinese students: people like me who come here in the 1980s and 1990s, really want to come here, live under freedom and the land of free, for opportunity to have better lives,” Williams said. “Then later, after China joined the WTO [World Trade Organization] they’re still going to come here. They are the wealthy, powerful children and they come here with a certain test to perform.”

“Now, with [Chinese President] Xi Jinping’s Chinese national security and intelligence laws, they have to actually assist, to perform tasks for the Chinese government asks them to perform. Otherwise there will be serious consequences,” she continued. “Anybody who carries Chinese passport potentially needs to be very carefully vetted. And so I think this is not a good idea right now. And plus, we have so many come in during the [former President Joe] Biden years through the southern border. And where are they? Are they all out of our country yet? And are they vetted?”

 

Your Useless Government and You

Elbows and so forth:

Canada’s public debt – and the cost of maintaining it – is increasing so quickly that it is now costing $2,000 per Canadian, per year just to cover the interest charges.

According to a new analysis published by the Fraser Institute, the cost of servicing Canada’s combined provincial and federal debt hit an unprecedented $92.5 billion in the 2024/2025 fiscal year.

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Executives at the Public Health Agency in an internal report admit they were unprepared and poorly trained to manage the Covid outbreak that killed 60,871 Canadians. The acknowledgement came three years after the Agency awarded a pandemic hero’s medallion to every manager and employee for “their commitments towards pandemic relief.” 

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Yes, that's helpful:

The Department of Employment yesterday said it will hire more consultants, this time to interview employers to gain an “in-depth understanding” of its hire-a-student program. The department earlier confirmed it tripled spending on consultants because none of its 34,410 employees were “available.” 

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The new alchemy:

Robert Lyman is a retired energy economist, former federal public servant, and diplomat. In his May 28, 2025, report “Energy Superpower Vs. Net-Zero? Don't Jump!” He wrote, “The Liberals promise to advance the Pathways Project to capture and store some of the carbon dioxide emitted by oil sands production. This project would be hopelessly uneconomic without major government (i.e. taxpayer) subsidies. The Tax Credit for Carbon Utilization and Storage already offers to cover 50% of the costs of the Pathways Project. The Government of Alberta, through the Alberta Carbon Capture Incentive Program, is providing a 12% grant for all CCUS projects. The Pathways Consortium wants subsidies raised to at least 75%, leaving Canadian taxpayers on the hook. The new Carney government, it claims, will try to implement pragmatic policies that build energy infrastructure so as to facilitate access for Canadian oil and gas to more domestic and export markets. Yet, the government cannot ignore the fact that the principal barriers to such developments are its own policies and legislation.”

Why, then, would the Liberals be interested in CCS? Probably as a means to set a high floor price for industrial carbon taxes. The goal of European climate activist scientist Johan Rockström, who recently did a webinar with Canada Pension Plan Investments, is to have a base carbon price of $400, and to institute a global carbon tax law.  A large CCS project in Canada would help lock both of those in and empty your pockets.

Meanwhile, our largest trading partner and largest oil/gas customer, the US, has just issued a new climate science report titled, “A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate.”

The report presents remarkable insights on climate science and economics rarely heard in the mainstream press. Regarding climate-related economics, “…economists have long been reluctant to endorse attempts to “stop” climate change or even aggressively reduce GHG emissions because the costs would not be worth it.”  Immediate decarbonization is too expensive. “Most climate economists thus recommend humanity to just wait-and-see.”

The US is Canada’s largest trading partner and will remain so for decades to come, despite efforts to diversify our trading partners.  How long can Canada continue pushing expensive Net Zero policies that rely on taxpayers to fund them when our closest and most important trading partner is taking a wrecking ball to climate hysteria? The US vehemently rejected the International Marine Organization’s efforts to impose Net Zero targets on the shipping industry as a “global carbon tax.” The USA is dismantling the so-called “climate cartel” which they claim has declared war on the American way of life. This “climate cartel” has been cornering much of corporate America into Net Zero promises that no one can keep, for which taxpayers have to pay the tab. 

While there are large CCS pipeline projects in the US, Robert Kennedy’s documentary “The Pipeline Deception” reveals the shocking outcome of a pipeline break and the devastating risks to human health, including death, when concentrated CO₂ clouds settle in communities. A leaked plume of ~95% CO₂ from a CCS pipeline is heavier than air and takes time to disperse. The air we breathe typically has a harmless minute concentration of CO₂. There has been no discussion of this risk aspect of the Pathways Alliance project at all in the press. 

In Lyman’s May 2022 report, he sees CCS/CCUS as the ultimate “Carbon Capture and Storage Trap – for Taxpayers.” He warned us then that, “Whatever its technical merits, carbon dioxide capture and storage remains fundamentally a money-losing option that can only be made viable through the transfer of immense subsidies from taxpayers and energy consumers to the oil-producing industry. It is a bad solution to the non-problem of impending climate emergency. It is imperative to expose the non-problem for what it is — an economy-destroying trap, and instead to abandon the Net-Zero goal.”

 

Getting What You Voted For

The Americans didn't notice when Canada put tariffs on things and we now offer the world nothing, not even velvety words signalling virtue.

And it wasn't Trump who caved in; it was Carney:

Canadians supported retaliatory tariffs against the United States even if it meant job losses, says in-house research by the Department of Foreign Affairs. The public expected cabinet would “not back down” prior to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s decision to fold $30 billion in retaliatory tariffs: “I know it’s a little complex.” 

 

Elbows up, everybody.

 

The Age of Irrelevance

Under the village idiot's government and now a few months into a very similar government, Canada has become so irrelevant, catching the public's attention for the worst reasons:

Canada’s exclusion from last week’s White House meeting of NATO members and the Ukrainian president was likely behind the prime minister’s surprise visit to Kyiv this week.

That’s according to defence policy expert and Macdonald-Laurier Institute senior fellow Joe Varner, who said Canada’s diminishing profile in global affairs is likely why Prime Minister Mark Carney chose to visit Ukraine on Monday.

“The government was struck by the fact they weren’t invited to Washington,” said Varner, who previously served as policy director for former defence minister Peter MacKay.

“I think that, in part, drives the prime minister’s trip to Ukraine.” ...

Canada was conspicuously absent at last week’s meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump — which included NATO chief Mark Rutte, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

“Canada is not viewed as a reliable ally by a lot of our NATO friends, and certainly not by the United States,” said Varner.

“In terms of the global firepower index, Canada ranks 28th — we’re a G7 country, it’s ridiculous.”

 

Yep. 

The deadbeat of nations. 

 

 

No Country For Anyone

The press has zero scruples:

But while Drezner acknowledges that Israel faces “disproportionate criticism” for its conduct from the international community, he doesn’t mention that many of the alleged images of starving Gazan children have turned out to be nothing of the sort. An investigation for The Free Press by Olivia Reingold and Tanya Lukyanova of 12 photographs of allegedly starving children revealed that every single one of them “were already facing grave situations because of their health, irrespective of any third-party action.”

Reingold and Lukyanova point out that, after publishing a photo of an emaciated Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq, The New York Times had to revise the story to acknowledge he “had pre-existing health problems affecting his brain and his muscle development” (other photos of the child showed his brother to appear healthy and well-fed). The paper also added a brief editor’s note to the piece. Children portrayed in other images published by the AP, CNN, and other outlets suffered from ailments ranging from cystic fibrosis to cerebral palsy to genetic wasting conditions.

But, as the saying has it, “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.”

Unfortunately, this is part of a pattern of behavior by the press. Even before the recent flurry of “starvation” photos from Gaza, The Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) and the Rutgers University Social Perception Lab published a report in July cautioning that too many journalists have been uncritically citing the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry on conditions in Gaza. “The result is a narrative that masks its source and misleads the public about who is to blame.”

 

They're called lies.

 

 

Some People Are "Special"

Shovels in the ground, please:

Here we go again. More announcements that “graves” have been found at former Indian Residential Schools, more flags lowered in mourning and more uncritical press coverage.

And yet times have changed. There is less news coverage of these events, there’s no federal flags flying at half-staff and there appears to be a marked lack of national angst.

The best example that things are different is over at the Law Society of British Columbia (LSBC) which has done a stunning reversal in how it sees the residential school graves controversy.

The LSBC is being sued by one of its own lawyers, Jim Heller, for libel. Heller claims he was accused of being a racist and a denialist for trying to get the LSBC to insert the word “potential” in educational material by the law society about the 215 “bodies” discovered at British Columbia’s Kamloops Indian Residential School (KIRS) in May 2021. ...

Meanwhile, earlier this month, The Times Colonist informed us in a headline, “Archival research has found 171 confirmed deaths at Kuper Island residential school, 50 more than previously thought.”

The story went on to relate how one survivor saw a nun killing a young girl by pushing her out a third-floor window; that a furnace near the school was believed to have been used to dispose of children and infants; that an area behind the school was used to bury victims of sexual assaults by nuns and priests (aborted fetuses and murdered infants were buried there as well) and that some children were put in burlap sacks, weighed down with anchors and tossed into the sea.

It is unfortunate that First Nations are reluctant, or unable, to provide precise details in these cases since they almost certainly warrant some kind of criminal investigation even at this very late date.

Money certainly wouldn’t be an issue.

Since Kamloops, the federal government has given $246.7 million (as of March this year) “to Indigenous communities and organizations to support community-led and Survivor-centric initiatives to document, locate and commemorate the children that did not return home and unmarked burial sites associated with former residential schools.”

And the money appears to be just the beginning. The government’s statement says that the current knowledge gathering, archival research and non-invasive fieldwork “is necessary before work can begin on exhumation, identification and, if it is the wish of families, repatriation of remains.”

To date, no “graves” have been exhumed, but if that is to happen, the costs will surely rise.

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The claim made in Sechelt, British Columbia, is that radar has identified the graves of 81 children. When the Kamloops hoax was announced, it made international headlines. The response to the latest hoax has been more muted. Only a few outlets have given it any coverage.  The Sechelt one didn’t make many waves, though the CBC dutifully called the radar anomalies unmarked graves. After a backlash over the inaccurate and inflammatory reporting, CBC reporter Alanna Kelly deleted the posting where she said graves have been found and locked down her account on X. People are getting sick and tired of being fed this hoax.

Another grift being carried out by many indigenous bands is to do GPR surveys over known cemeteries and then acting aghast when indications of graves are found. That was done in Grouard, Alberta, in 2022, and it was reported as a possible mass grave site. The news faded away when it became clear that all they had done was prove that a cemetery contained bodies. ...

At a church site in Manitoba and at a hospital site in Edmonton, activists made the error of actually excavating the alleged graves identified by the radar. In both cases, not a single body was found despite oral history claiming burials there. Since those failures, indigenous bands have learned not to excavate. They just do radar surveys and demand money.