North America Treaty Organization
When you give a society self-actualization on someone else’s tab long enough, they forget it was a gift. They start believing it was organically theirs.
Very much related.
Selling Coal To Newcastle
Could’ve had a pipeline, but this is Canada after all.
As Nova Scotians complained about high electricity costs in February, we were burning natural gas from the other side of the world.
The Greek-flagged liquified natural gas tanker Maran Gas Hector arrived in Saint John, N.B., at the end of February after a 25,000-kilometre journey from Australia.
Circling The Drain
Nine years to fully end door to door mail delivery? There’s obviously no sense of urgency despite the mounting losses. And no obvious outrage among taxpayers. That’s Canada for you.
Joël Lightbound, minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement, said last fall that the process to eliminate most door-to-door service would take about nine years, with most of it expected to be completed in the first four.
Canada Post lost $841 million before tax in 2024.
The Aftermath of the NDP Oppression Olympics
This card is probably fake, but there were indeed victim cards at the recent NDP Convention.
Viva Frei shares his thoughts about the convention and the recent history of the NDP.
Bonus: There is “video” of Lyle Culpepper making an “appearance” at the NDP Convention.
If It Wasn’t For Fake Victims, There’d Be No Need for Victim Cards
Someone on X pointed out something I didn’t think of with my post this morning:
One of the funniest things about this is that they gave a bunch of professional victims literal victim cards and they then spend all their time arguing over who got to play their victim card and when. Brilliant. https://t.co/i6pD5Zth7y
— Dr Alan Bleaching. RBLP GradDipHlthS DPhil(x) (@alanbleaching) March 30, 2026
In a nutshell, this is precisely what is wrong with Canada (and all of “blue” America). When a society reaches a point, where the key to getting ahead changes from meritocracy to permanent victimhood, that society is doomed.
I do take pride in the fact that many years ago, I coined the acronym “PVS”, which stands for Permanent Victim Syndrome. Nowadays, I tend to think that PVS & TDS are both real.
Sleight Of Hand
Just think how much Canada could boost defense spending by shifting the budgets for all manner of random departments to National Defense.
Bartlett said one of the reasons Canadian GDP won’t get a boost is that shifting spending from other departments likely helped Canada hit its target. For example, the Coast Guard budget was moved from Fisheries and Oceans to Defence.
Take That, Conventional Family Structure
On the non-random nature of who you are; on the apparently “problematic” Calvin and Hobbes; and on the family unit as reinvented by Guardian contributors:
“For us,” says Eleanor Margolis, “the ideal parenting setup would consist of three or four of us sharing responsibility for a child (the others involved would also be responsible for providing the sperm).”
Providing the sperm. A joyous and maternal turn of phrase.
Also of note, the idea of wanting a baby, but with only a third or a quarter of the responsibility. A kind of low-commitment parenting.
Bodes well.
All this and more.
Who lit the blowtorch to that bridge first?
Was it Lewis with his anti-everything policies, or Beck, with her more pragmatic you-re-a-nut-job-stay-away response?
Beck’s frosty letter to new federal NDP Leader Avi Lewis over energy and resource policies
“The positions that you have taken when it comes to natural resource development are ideological and unrealistic. They would hurt Saskatchewan workers, communities, and industries.” – Carla Beck
Keir Starmer’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and they have to make decisions with what they’ve got…
I kid you not. Defence Secretary John Healey *DOESN'T KNOW* how many frigates and destroyers the UK has at its disposal.
I have never seen anything like it. This interview should IMMEDIATELY end John Healey's political career.
Terrifying.
Absolute car crash. pic.twitter.com/NCYSlxdFba— Lee Harris (@LeeHarris) March 26, 2026
Related: Then why hasn’t my nephew flown his helicopter in 4 months because they can’t get parts for it?
Tax Free Rotisserie Chicken
An unremarkable budget from what has become a have-not, unremarkable province.
Kinew, in a post on social media, says everything from rotisserie chicken to salads would be free of the provincial sales tax of the budget passes.
The government has promised to balance the budget by the 2027-28 fiscal year but has missed its annual targets so far.
Discontinued Lines
On fatherhood, but done the super-progressive way.
When There’s No Checks and Balances
Stick with it. His real world examples get more and more interesting as it goes on.
Related update: Ten British police officers have arrested an elderly man for using what they said was offensive language on social media.
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”
The Part I Like Best
Is the way “harm reduction” got organized crime off the streets and into the government.
The Dirty Little Secret Of Socialism
Nobody needs to live in New York.
🚨BREAKING: New York Governor Kathy Hochul is facing BACKLASH after telling Republicans to “jump on a bus and head down to Florida” not long ago. Now, she’s urging wealthy New Yorkers to come back to New York. pic.twitter.com/GzsoUtxHlq
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) March 19, 2026
Or Canada.
Update: Three credit rating agencies have revised New York City outlook to “negative” from “stable.”
The Progressive Passover
Red Ink Aplenty!
Saskatchewan’s budget deficit will be up to a billion before long at this rate. And that’s for a resource rich province.
Finance Minister Jim Reiter tabled the 2026-27 budget on Wednesday. It projects a $819-million deficit this year with more deficits in the years that follow.
Great Moments In Socialism
The Doctor Will Kill You Now
I’m old enough to remember when it was called “killing” – and so is Danielle Smith;
Doctor-assisted death, often called MAID, Medical Assistance in Dying, will be prohibited for those under 18, persons whose only underlying medical condition is a mental illness and individuals without the capacity to make their own health-care decisions. So-called advance requests, pre-approvals for assisted dying before a person loses the capacity to provide informed consent, will also be prohibited.
MAID will also be prohibited where a natural death is not “reasonably foreseeable.” Those where natural death is determined by a doctor or nurse practitioner to be “reasonably foreseeable” will be eligible for MAID. “Reasonably foreseeable” means when their natural death is likely to happen within 12 months.
A couple more points.
Doctors and nurse practitioners in Alberta WILL NOT be able to refer people to get assessments outside Alberta on whether they are eligible for MAID. Doctors and nurse practitioners who have moral or religious objections to MAID will have the right to refuse to assess a person for an assisted death or provide one.