Your middle-of-the-week jaunt to school ...
If one cared about results, Canada would be a different place.
Words and phrases like "innovation", "resource-based economy" and "melting pot" wouldn't be verboten.
Trading between provinces and applying trades and skills in other provinces would be par the course.
And one certainly wouldn't vote in a village idiot or an interloper just to spite some people south of the border.
That would be idiotic:
Knowing this, new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney slithered into office by relying on staple Canadian habits, counting on long-standing, feel-good anti-Americanism, ginned-up hatred of Trump, dependence on government doles, grants and subsidies, and conventions of vanity and jingoism dating from an earlier political era.
He comes to the job with a very distinctive plan in mind. It is all there in his book Value(s), a prelatical volume of vagrant and peregrine notions. Carney is not interested in Confederation. He has no love for Canada. He cares not a whit for the Western provinces that threaten separation. Hydrocarbon is a dirty word. He has other concerns and counts hordes of deracinated, oligarchic friends in the corporate and ideological communities. He is interested in so-called sustainable planetary resilience, diversity, inclusion and equity, ESG hedge funds, Net Zero, and anti-carbon environments. And Canada is the laboratory in which, like a cartoon mad scientist, he mixes the ingredients to bring his schemes and prospects to fruition. Canada is worth sacrificing to meet his aspirations.
One does not need to engage in gospel cleromancy to see what is coming. His now somewhat battered GFANZ alliance, to the principles of which he continues to adhere, gives us the measure of his intentions. In 110 pages of unreadable crankenprose, ten components grouped under five themes purport to show how the size, operating model, sector coverage, and other factors of financial and corporate institutions can be shrunken or taken apart to encourage low carbon economies. The entire market, financial and industrial portfolio and their ancillaries will be decarbonized and/or phased out: logging, agriculture, livestock, apparel, automotive, thermal coal, oil sands, drilling, the whole enchilada, and a Net-Zero Bank will be established to assist those firms that conform and punish those that resist. Companies had better deliver, or go out of business.
As Wyatt Claypool points out in The National Telegraph, Carney is essentially running a lucrative scam. Not only as the founder of GFANZ but as CEO of Brookfield Asset Management, he has cornered the government market on subsidies. His companies’ profit-making capacity is tied to political donations, patronage and loans as they lobby for Net-Zero.
How does Brookfield pursue its business? Let us consider a salient example, one of many. Carney is mandating that EVs replace internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles by 2035 through a series of graduated steps, a directive that is being objected to by both manufacturers and drivers. We can guess that Brookfield is heavily invested, assisted by government subsidies, in so-called Zero-Emission Vehicle sales. When government support ends, as it has in the U.S. under Donald Trump, it is safe to assume that Carney will import thousands upon thousands of Chinese-made EVs, in which Brookfield is also likely invested.
These vehicles are currently under embargo, for which China has placed a retaliatory 75 percent tariff on Canadian canola oil and meal along with initiating an anti-dumping investigation, which will effectively close a nearly $5 billion annual market to Canadian growers. These reciprocities are plainly temporary once Carney gets his China-favored act together and sees to the coercive imposition of the EV mandate. ...
This is how Carney operates. This is what is behind Carney’s EV plan: to reach Net-Zero by depriving Canadians of the freedom of movement, in violation of the Mobility Rights Section 6 (1 & 2) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms; to destroy the nation’s automotive industry; to confine Canadians to a narrow strip of decarbonized terrain; and to solidify relations with the Chinese communists with whom he is already financially interdigitated.
The Bureau reports that Carney’s Brookfield Asset Management invested hundreds of millions in renewable energy assets in China, including a 2019 Shanghai land purchase valued at approximately $2 billion. Carney’s firm also secured a $276 million dollar loan from the state-owned Bank of China. Meanwhile, he does nothing to resolve the Chinese investment infiltration of Canadian corporations or its overt interference into Canadian electoral politics.
Carney’s underlying purpose is to distance Canada from the U.S. and establish intimate bonds with China, and in the process to decorticate Canada beyond the possibility of restitution. We already know that he approved of the six-year UN/WEF program to eliminate dairy and meat and reduce the purchase of clothing to three items a year, all to diminish carbon—the element of life, as it happens—to as close to zero as he can get. We have brought this misadventure upon ourselves.
The upshot is that a once-free and prosperous country will plunge into a debt-ridden, unproductive, ESG-indentured third world crater. It’s all spelled out with burgravial self-importance in his book and other instruments which he has contributed to or endorsed. ...
Nonetheless, it needed to be examined by an adult electorate that, to the country’s ill destiny, turned out to be more than willing to be taken in by this master prestidigitator. This was not a time for negligence or apathy. This was not a time to act like a Canadian. The evidence was there for easy assessment by any sentient person.
Canadians who voted for this prime minister but did not take the trouble at the very least to skim his book or devote a couple of hours to check him out did not do their duty as citizens. They will live with the result: Value(s), GFANZ, Brookfield, and voters’ remorse.
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Trudeau’s former economic advisor and the present Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, considers values so important he wrote a book called Value(s) as a pre-emptive and presumptuous audition for the top job. Carney is a globalist and World Economic Forum adherent (its associated slogan is, “You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy”), so his Canadian values are not particular to Canada. Otherwise put, Canada is to be a branch-plant for globalist values without consideration of their relevance or value to Canada. Carney had management roles with Brookfield, which is largely American, and he was Governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England. Perhaps most instructive, Carney’s disclosure of assets revealed that of the 567 entities he is invested in, only three are Canadian. Fully 91.6% are American. If following the money is instructive, Carney knows where future economic prosperity lies. ...
There has been much said about Carney’s intellect. Sure, but intellect and good judgment often exist in an inverse relationship among over-confident brainiacs who don’t know what they don’t know. Though elected to be a Trump-slayer, Carney doesn’t know that his job is not about Trump. Trump’s MAGA moniker—antithetical to Canadian values—is at least indicative of what he intends to do in office. Love or hate him—and he does have a rather polarizing affect on people—he is pulling for Americans on all issues. Trudeau and Carney never seem to be clearly on Canada’s side, with Canada’s side disparaged for lacking global relevance. Creating wealth—in the country with the most abundant natural resources per capita in the world—though relatively easy, seems too bland, lacking that certain aesthetic je ne sais quoi? ...
There was nothing reasonable about Trudeau turning down German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Polish President Andrzej Duda, and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, all of whom hungered for long term contracts to buy liquefied natural gas (LNG) that would have helped address Canada’s trade dependence on the United States and provide billions to our coffers (there were at least nine countries interested, with Chancellor Scholz suggesting that a deal with the entire EU was possible). Trudeau disingenuously said there was no ‘business case’ for receiving these unsolicited billions, despite our astronomical level of debt and stagnating economy. It was well understood that Trudeau’s intransigence was due to his ‘decarbonizing the world’ environmental agenda—ideology without basis in reality—but the simple fact is, LNG is the cleanest fossil fuel in the world.
Trudeau for his entire wasted decade, and Carney in his first one hundred days, have actively and deliberately pursued an ideological agenda that is antithetical to Canadian interests. Which leaves us with a disheartening revelation of the obvious that cannot be explained away by naïveté. For all their pretence of leadership and originality, Trudeau and Carney are scripted followers of a globalist agenda that is making Canada unrecognizable to bewildered Canadians. Most troublesome, the gracious tendency of Canadians to extend benefit of the doubt (while denying the blatant opportunism of our trusted leaders) has real world consequences that are barreling down the highway like a twenty-four wheeler in a snow storm.
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Carney won this year’s election on the presumption that he was the best leader to tackle Trump. He presented himself as the polished technocrat, at ease in the corridors of power, projecting calm under pressure. And of course, he wasn’t Justin Trudeau.
But navigating trade wars isn’t the same as stewarding central banks. And so far, the government’s strategy has yielded squat on our most important file. With Trump playing hardball, Xi playing longball, and the rest of the world scrambling to save the furniture, Carney needs to up his game — or pay the political price.
No, that's for the proles to do.
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Can you believe that people voted for this?
The Carney honeymoon ended fast. Days after his victory, he posed alongside U.S. President Donald Trump, mimicking Trump’s signature “thumbs up.” Trump took credit for Carney’s win and revived his “51st state” rhetoric. Carney’s team scrambled to downplay the moment, but the damage was done. This was the man who promised to stand up to Trump, not stand beside him.
Worse, Canadians soon learned that Carney had quietly removed most tariffs on American goods during the campaign, a politically clever move that stripped Canada of any leverage. As a result, Trump’s administration steamrolled Ottawa with 50 per cent tariffs on Canadian steel, aluminum and copper, and 35 per cent on goods not covered by CUSMA.
While Canada floundered, global competitors moved in. The U.K., European Union, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and the Philippines all inked new trade deals with Washington. Once seen as a preferred partner, Canada is now on the outside looking in.
Diplomatic humiliation followed. On the very day Poilievre won his byelection, Trump convened NATO allies to discuss a peace framework for Ukraine and Russia—Canada wasn’t invited. Once proud of our role as an honest broker and middle-power influencer, we’re now irrelevant.
Carney’s much-hyped economic expertise has also fallen flat. He appeared willing to govern without a federal budget—an act of arrogance or incompetence, take your pick. After backlash, he promised a fall budget, but there’s still no credible plan to rein in deficits or restore confidence. Even Air Canada workers ignored his calls to return to work.
A long-overdue defence spending pledge of $8 billion has been swallowed mainly by decarbonization programs, doing little for national security. Meanwhile, the government’s environmental agenda continues to punish the economy. Slashing the consumer carbon tax to zero was a headline grabber, but industrial carbon taxes and regulatory burdens continue to rise, choking off investment, productivity and competitiveness.
Perhaps the "elbows-up" crowd can tell everyone how things have gotten better since late April.
I'll wait.
Moving on ...
Where would Canada be without the rest of the village idiots?:
Cabinet to date is 89 percent shy of its target to plant two billion trees, figures show. The program announced by then-Environment Minister Catherine McKenna in 2019 has cost $267.7 million so far: “Why?”
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Steelworkers are “actually, personally very special to me,” Transport Minister Chrystia Freeland said yesterday in pledging to promote Canadian metal products. Freeland made no mention of taxpayers’ financing of steel-hulled vessels in a Chinese shipyard or Chinese tariffs on Canadian canola: “People who produce steel and aluminum in Canada are actually, personally very special to me.”
Speaking of China and its penchant for complete and utter prickishness:
Senator Yuen Pau Woo (B.C.), a Liberal appointee, claims “the state” drove a former Liberal MP from office on suspicions of foreign interference. “Who else can be targeted?” asked Woo, who accused police, Parliament and media of waging a witch hunt against friends of China.
Ask Chinese dissidents in Canada that, or Jimmy Lai.
What a self-important @$$hole.
Saying (eventually) what people were thinking:
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the Liberals to scrap the temporary foreign worker program and to stop issuing visas under the program.
Poilievre argues that a jobs crisis among young people has been caused in part by corporations hiring foreigners who work for less than Canadian citizens.
He is calling out specific fast-food chains he claims are hiring foreigners over locals, including through job postings that call specifically for temporary foreign workers.
Poilievre accuses the government of creating conditions that frustrate the efforts of young people to start their working lives.
If the program did not benefit the Liberals, it would have been scrapped ages ago.
How could the NDP have burned to the ground?:
Federal New Democrats were too immersed in “identity politics” and made the fatal mistake of voting confidence in the Liberal cabinet last fall, says Party leader Don Davies. “That was the beginning of the end,” Davies said in a candid podcast.
Oh:
Prospective federal NDP leadership candidates will have to raise $100,000 and amass 500 signatures from members — most of which cannot come from cisgender men — to be officially in the running, according to rules that were released on Tuesday.
Well, thank God we're not in some crime-ridden hell-hole in America!:
A 46-year-old father killed in Vaughan, Ont., was shot dead in front of his wife and children after he tried to protect them during a home invasion Sunday morning.
“This innocent man got his doors kicked in in the middle of the night, four people went in there — his three kids are there, his wife — had a gun to one of the kids, he went to protect them and these scumbags shot him right in front of his kids, shot him dead, twice,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford told reporters Tuesday afternoon.
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A 25-year-old man who police allege forced his way into a home during the night in Welland, Ont., and violently sexually assaulted a toddler inside has been arrested and charged — and neighbours and friends say they are outraged that the man had been released from jail in March from a previous child sex offence.
While police described the incident as a stranger attack, several friends of the victim’s mother say the man arrested was known to the victim’s family and had previous contact with the young female victim. ...
“After speaking with the child’s parents, it became apparent an unknown person defeated the lock on the front door and entered the residence sometime between Sat. Aug. 30, 2025, at 10:00 p.m. and prior to the incident being reported on Sun. Aug. 31, 2025, at 8:59 a.m. While inside the residence, unbeknownst to the parents, their child was sexually assaulted,” police said in a news release.
She remains in hospital and is listed in stable condition, police said.
The accused is identified by police as Daniel Senecal, 25, of Welland. He is charged with aggravated sexual assault on a child, assault, assault by choking, breaking and entering a home and sexual interference with a child. ...
Another mother in the area told National Post the suspect is the same man who sexually attacked her young son in 2021. She said the attack on her son largely mirrored the allegations in the weekend attack, including a nighttime sexual assault, although he did not break into the home as he was a guest at a relative’s house. She said he was arrested, charged and after two years of court hearings was sentenced to 18 months in jail, but was released six months early, in early March.
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This isn't quite true.
— Dean Skoreyko (@bcbluecon) August 31, 2025
The Ontario police told the locals to stop complaining about the Muskoka bridge shooting fests by Indo gangsters.
They only started a 'investigation' four days ago because the videos and photos went viral and the Toronto Sun picked up the story. https://t.co/hhvQ2WjIJM pic.twitter.com/iRwUA7cKGC
No country for anyone:
“Not only was humanitarian aid to Gaza not halted, it was actually increased,” emphasizes Prof. Orbach. Contrary to the often-cited figure of “500 trucks daily,” an average of only 73 food trucks per day entered the Gaza Strip before the war. During the war, particularly in 2024, the average rose to 109 per day – an increase Orbach sees as a “factual refutation of the starvation narrative.” Local food production was also factored in. There can be no talk of deliberate starvation of the civilian population.
In other words: During the war, Palestinians were supplied with more food per day than before the war. This is a fact – meaning people in the Gaza Strip suffered more hunger under their own Hamas regime than during the war.
The fat people there gave me a clue.
But, you know, squeaky wheels:
A Toronto air show has been accused of inflicting "deep trauma" on Palestinians in Canada.
Critics argued that the presence of F-35 fighter jets at the Canadian International Air Show triggered the families of those living in Gaza.
Also - this was a show of power:
Every week, for the last several months, Islamic afternoon prayers have been held outside Montreal’s Notre-Dame Basilica. The prayers are hosted by the group Montreal4Palestine, which has used the space outside the church to protest Israel’s continuing war in Gaza.
Calling it now - a Rosary to convert those showy masses.
Vaguely related - do you know who wasn't afraid?
Nearly half of all Canadian university students are actively concealing their real opinions for fear of sanction or mistreatment, according to a comprehensive new survey published Wednesday by the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy.
Of 760 university students surveyed, 48.1 per cent expressed reluctance to reveal their opinions on a “controversial political issue.” The survey found that 27.5 per cent of students were somewhat reluctant and 20.6 per cent were very reluctant.
And this wasn’t because the students were particularly reserved or shy in class discussions. When respondents were asked about giving their views on a “non-controversial” issue, 93.4 per cent said it was no problem.
“Inescapable from our study is the recognition that classroom discussions on controversial topics on university campuses fail to reflect the actual cross-section of opinions of students in the classroom,” wrote researchers for the Calgary-based think tank.
And fear of speaking out changed drastically based on a student’s identity. Some groups described campus environments in which virtually all of their opinions or views could be expressed without consequence.
While others said campuses had become places where a failure to exercise proper self-censorship could risk lower grades, the opprobrium of peers or even investigation by campus authorities.
This "opprobrium" disappears when you stand up to the indentured bullies.
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