Your middle-of-the-week sunshine ...
Your incompetent government and you:
Anonymous hackers breached an undisclosed number of email accounts and telephone numbers used by Canadians accessing federal services, the Treasury Board confirmed last evening. The Board has called data breaches a daily occurrence at the Government of Canada: “There is a tremendous amount of information available.”
(Sidebar: this is the same government that expects to censor the Internet, by the way. It's also the same government that is "monitoring" Alberta's efforts to exclude genetic males from girls' teams.)
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The Department of Health ordered so many surplus ventilators from Baylis Medical Technologies Inc. it couldn’t give them away, Access To Information records show. Ex-Liberal MP Frank Baylis (Pierrefonds-Dollard, Que.) credited the sole-sourced $237 million contract with helping rescue his company during the pandemic: “We re-mortgaged all our buildings; we extended our line of credit.”
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The Department of Public Works in 2024 approved the sale of up to 19,000 costly new ventilators as scrap metal without ever bothering to remove them from original shipping crates, Access To Information records show. One manager warned of “high reputational risk” if taxpayers found out.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney’s undisclosed 2025 deficit is likely in the $80 billion range, the Bloc Québécois yesterday estimated based on current and promised spending. The Conservative Party earlier put the shortfall at $80 billion or more, the highest since the pandemic: “This is an historic amount.”
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Our country is lacking the charging infrastructure to support an entirely electric fleet of vehicles, and we aren’t building chargers anywhere near fast enough to close that gap. We’re also in a period of serious electric grid insecurity, largely the result of the Net-Zero nuttiness and anti-oil and gas policies enacted by our ruling class over the past decade or more.
Where exactly do they think they’re going to get the electricity to power the millions of battery-powered cars they want to be plugged in every night? Wind turbines and solar panels? Give me a break!
And then there’s the fact that we live in an extremely large and famously cold country, and EVs are even less reliable than usual in the cold. It’s enough to make you wonder how familiar the Trudeau/Carney Liberals even are with Canada!
Of course, they didn’t say any of these things in their announcement. They did try and push off some of the blame on the necessity of helping out the auto industry, which has been “impacted by US tariffs and trade disruptions.” And there is a kernel of truth in this. The Canadian auto industry, which was happy to accept tens of billions in taxpayer-funded subsidies and other forms of investment to produce EVs in Canada, certainly has been impacted by recent and unexpected changes in American policy.
Tariffs are certainly one of those.
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For all the talk of whether Canada needs a new oil pipeline, there's one thing missing: a company wanting to build it.
In June, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said there was "no proponent" and no proposal on the table by any company, but pledged, "There will be soon."
So far, that has yet to materialize.
The federal government is opening the Major Projects Office in Calgary with the mission of identifying critical infrastructure projects and fast-tracking their development. The initial list of what Ottawa considers to be nation-building projects is expected to be released later this week.
The Alberta government is keen to see a new pipeline on that list, especially as Prime Minister Mark Carney has said it's "highly, highly likely" that such a proposal makes the cut.
Alberta's Minister of Energy and Minerals Brian Jean says he is encouraged by Ottawa's eagerness to help speed along the development of a major new export pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast.
"I'm glad to see they recognize the need for that pipeline, the demand for that pipeline and the reality of that pipeline getting to tidewater would be so good for B.C., for Alberta and truly good for Canada," said Jean, who spoke with Canada's Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Tim Hodgson about the issue on Friday morning.
Currently, none of the major pipeline companies have announced such a project or publicly expressed a desire to develop a big new oil pipeline in Western Canada.
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Last week, Mr. Jimenez made an appearance at the Made in Canada: Ferries and Rail Summit in Hamilton, Ont. He reiterated that the ferry corporation received no bids from a Canadian shipyard for the four-vessel contract, and pointed out that, beyond the industry’s current obligations to the national shipbuilding strategy – which consists primarily of building coast guard and navy vessels – there simply isn’t the capacity to do much more.The folks screaming at the skies over this issue argue that the four BC Ferries vessels could easily have been built in Canada tomorrow. I mean, with “elbows up” and all that, shouldn’t this have been a priority? The answer: only if we could do the work at a competitive cost and within a reasonable time frame, and that capability does not exist in this country. According to Mr. Jimenez, it would take 10 to 15 years – and perhaps even longer.Canadian shipbuilding unions in Canada have complained that if cost is the number-one criteria for a bid to succeed, then it will always be impossible to compete with countries like China that pay far lower wages in manufacturing. Conveniently ignored is the fact that BC Ferries has, over the last many years, been getting its ships built in Europe, including in high-income countries such as Germany. Their yards are so huge, they have magnitudes of scale that smaller operations can’t match. They get deals with suppliers because of the volume of product they are ordering, which drives down costs.
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North Korea's Kim Jong-Un, too, controls food:
The federal government considered using “binding legislation” and monetary penalties to make grocery giants stabilize prices, a sign the government was at one point willing to take sweeping action to address public anger over soaring grocery costs and rising corporate profits.
A 2024 document obtained by the IJF through its Open By Default database reveals public servants in Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada proposed legislation forcing grocers to adopt a “code of conduct” meant to reduce food inflation.
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A confidential Department of Foreign Affairs party to self-congratulate employees for bravery in their 2021 flight from Kabul was approved by then-Minister Mélanie Joly, records show. Internal documents described the Afghanistan Evacuation Recognition Ceremony as a “good news” story to boost morale: “Embarrassing.”
No country for anyone:
Carney condemns the killing of terrorists? The actual masterminds of Oct 7? Seriously!? Is the Muslim brotherhood controlling Carney’s social media? https://t.co/utGYqwav0y
— Alex Pierson (@AlexpiersonAMP) September 9, 2025
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Outspoken British journalist Douglas Murray has a blunt take on Israel’s strikes in Qatar, targeting Hamas’s leadership. “The scandal is not that Israel acted, but that it had to.” In an interview in Montreal with National Post, Murray, the bestselling author of On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization, offered a sharp and unapologetic view on Israel’s decision to target Hamas leaders in Doha.
“Why are there terrorist leaders in Qatar?” he asked bluntly. “For years, Hamas commanders have lived openly in Doha — billionaires at the largesse of western taxpayers — ordering attacks on Israel while enjoying immunity. And the world has not only looked away, but protected them. That’s the mobster’s trick: you carry out violence on one hand, then present yourself as a peacemaker on the other. Qatar has played that double game for years, and the world has let them get away with it.”
I believe people should read the books of both Douglas Murray and Mark Carney.
One author writes acerbically of the West's fall from reason and the other talks about ruining Canada from the ground up.
Also:
In the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, a group of Jewish students at Western University infiltrated two private group chats, belonging to Palestinian students and their allies in the London, Ont., community.
The students’ discoveries shine a light on what some opponents of Israel are saying to one another when they think no one’s watching. What they found in the chat histories is unsettling: a stream of Hitler memes, pro-Hamas videos and antisemitic cartoons. More alarming is the advice group chat members give each other on escaping detection. There are even tips on bringing knives to peaceful protests. ...
That chat history suggests the Palestinian students and their local supporters were unwavering in backing the Oct. 7 attacks despite the unfolding devastation in Gaza. “Calling us savages for fighting back after 75 years is insanity,” wrote one student, in response to a video of Israel Defence Force soldier Naama Levy being abducted. Her sweatpants in the infamous video are bloodied, suggesting sexual assault.
Members responded to a photo of the kidnapped Bibas family on the side of a milk carton, saying: “This is a lie.” Another wrote: “They’re probably being treated better than how they were treated in their own homes.”
Over time, sympathy for Hamas grew more explicit: “They don’t know that h4mas is literally OUR military. and they just defend but somehow they are the problem??” a student wrote Oct. 17. Two weeks later, in response to an editorial cartoon depicting a Hamas soldier with blood on his hands and a water faucet turned off by Israel, a student wrote: “The resistance is making decent progress tbh (to be honest).”
At various times during the conflict, members expressed their admiration for the leaders of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis — all designated terror entities by Canadian authorities.
A picture of Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin was posted Oct. 16, subtitled with a quote from an interview in which he proclaimed, “Israel will be no more.” Two weeks later, another member shared a message delivered by Hamas spokesman Abu Obaida, with one boasting “he’s such a G,” meaning gangster. Another said: “I love the way he talks.”
Obaida was killed Aug. 30 in an Israeli air strike.
Members grew frustrated that locals in the London, Ont., community did not see the Hamas invasion as a liberating chapter in the story of the Palestinian people.
The “yahood (Jews) own everything,” a student wrote Oct. 15. “That’s how they control everyone. Money.” Later in the month, members discussed which local restaurants support Gaza, prompting users to suggest mostly Middle Eastern places: “London is filled with these yahoodi’s. We have to make a list of where we can and can’t eat,” one suggested.
Some members of the chat continued to express concern about being detected. “If someone sees this gc (group chat) and reports it, we all getting expelled.”
The words “Jews” and “Zionists” are frequently used interchangeably, which, one student warns, must not be repeated publicly.
And - but you voted for the carpet-bagger:
Half of Canadians believe Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s chances of beating Prime Minister Mark Carney are poor at best even as Carney’s approval ratings show the first signs of slipping, according to a new Leger poll.
“Mr. Poilievre still has work to do… to broaden his appeal to the greater electorate,” Leger executive vice-president Andrew Enns said in an interview.
Really, Pierre's only work should be being neither the village idiot nor Carney.
But that's not good enough for Canadians who are clearly happy with high taxes, high inflation, high unemployment, high crime, no investment, no trust, loss of face on the global stage, censorship, cultural decrepitude ... every bad thing, Canadians love.
Change my mind.
Young people who can’t find work aren’t looking “hard enough,” Premier Doug Ford said Tuesday, less than a week after Statistics Canada reported Ontario shed 26,000 jobs in August — the most of any province.The remarks during a breakfast speech to the Toronto Region Board of Trade earned the premier rebukes from opposition party leaders, who accused him of being out of touch with a tough job market as U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs take a toll on the economy.“It drives me nuts when I see young, healthy people and they’ll call me saying, ‘I can’t find a job,’” Ford told the crowd. “I assure you, if you look hard enough, it … may be in fast food or something else, but you’ll find a job.”While Ontario’s unemployment rate dropped to 7.7 per cent in August from 7.9 per cent in July, it was because fewer people were looking for work, Statistics Canada said.The jobless level makes Ontario one of five provinces with unemployment above the national average of 7.1 per cent, a level that is the highest nationwide since May 2016, not including the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.The youth unemployment rate nationally, for ages 15 to 24, is 14.5 per cent. That’s down 0.1 per cent from July, when it hit the highest level non-pandemic level since September 2010.
The vicious, unprovoked stabbing of Iryna Zarutska actually occurred on August 22, 2025, but the rail car surveillance footage became available only a couple of days ago, igniting righteous fury across the nation – except among Democrat leaders and media elites, who predictably ignored the controversy entirely. I say “predictably” because the barbarian who stabbed the distracted Zarutska three times in the neck with a folding knife, and then left her to die as he walked away, is a 34-year-old black male, DeCarlos Brown Jr., who had a whopping rap sheet of 14 prior arrests.
Fourteen. How many times must a black male be arrested before progressive judges, prosecutors, police chiefs, and mayors are willing to deem him a threat to society? This toxic empathy for criminal elements has become a concern of the most serious order in America today. In this instance – and there are many others – the protection by progressive authorities of a member of their designated victimhood groups ended in one of the most brutal, senseless crimes on video, and everyone who has Iryna Zarutska’s blood on their hands for facilitating Brown’s destructive trail must be held accountable.
What the Left-wing media refuse to address is that the video footage shows Brown subsequently bragging in racial terms about his victim: “I got that white girl.” The Left can’t address this ugly reality because it demolishes multiple Democrat Narratives – that white supremacy is the nation’s greatest domestic threat, violent crime isn’t a serious issue in America, only whites commit hate crimes, the jails should be emptied and police defunded, etc.
And so they can only safely address it in terms of the Right’s response to the crime. Hence the Left-wing media, once they could no longer avoid reporting on the murder, fell back on the tried-and-true diversionary tactic of accusing Republicans of “pouncing,” in which they dismiss an inconvenient truth by blaming conservatives for making a big deal out of nothing. Axios, for example, grudgingly posted about the shocking crime with this headline: “Stabbing video fuels MAGA’s crime message.” Even CNN’s Van Jones, who on rare occasions has the independence of mind to critique his own party, claimed on a CNN panel that there was no evidence that Zarutska was attacked because she was white. “For Charlie Kirk to say, we know he did it because she’s white, when there’s no evidence of that. It’s just pure race mongering, hate mongering. It’s wrong.” Needless to say, for CNN propagandists to accuse anyone of race-mongering is the height of hypocrisy.
Poland shot down suspected Russian drones in its airspace on Wednesday with the backing of aircraft from its NATO allies, the first time a member of the Western military alliance is known to have fired shots during Russia's war in Ukraine.Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk told parliament it was "the closest we have been to open conflict since World War Two", though he also said he had "no reason to believe we're on the brink of war".
Is this Putin testing the proverbial waters or is Putin on the cusp of expansion?
All I am saying is that whenever France has mass demonstrations, heads roll:
Protesters across France obstructed highways, burned barricades and clashed sporadically with police on Wednesday in a show of anger against President Emmanuel Macron, the political elite and planned spending cuts.Authorities deployed more than 80,000 security personnel across the country, removing barriers and containing unrest as tensions flared in several places.
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