Statistics Canada reported the country lost 25,000 jobs in January, with the “decrease” in unemployment driven by Canadians giving up and dropping out of the labour market altogether.
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
Imagine how much grief and wanton waste might have been avoided had the Masters Of The Universe simply listened to little old me.
Stellantis NV shares crashed the most on record in European trading after the automaker disclosed a 22-billion-euro (about $25 billion) charge tied to its failed EV strategy.
Management framed the charge as the cost of misreading the slope of EV adoption, effectively building a product and investment plan around an “energy transition” timeline that outpaced customers’ budgets.
“The reset we have announced today is part of the decisive process we started in 2025, to once again make our customers and their preferences our guiding star,” Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa wrote in a statement.
Filosa said, “The charges announced today largely reflect the cost of over-estimating the pace of the energy transition that distanced us from many car buyers’ real-world needs, means and desires. They also reflect the impact of previous poor operational execution, the effects of which are being progressively addressed by our new Team.”
Our world, still run by stupid people: Carney Stakes Canada’s Auto Future on E.V. 🤡
Boomer Bait
A little something, something for the elbows and arseholes crowd.
Trump Is Threatening Our Sovereignty
Who Wore It Better?
Derek's assignment was damage control for a photo that captured a diminutive, shrivelled Mark Carney. https://t.co/B0sXIIUy97 pic.twitter.com/VNM0sprxOz
— Katewerk (@katewerk) February 5, 2026
One Step Forward, Six Steps Back
It didn’t take long for Carney to get out the EV subsidy shovel again.
Speaking at an auto parts manufacturer in Woodbridge, Ont., Prime Minister Mark Carney said Ottawa is restoring the rebate program with $2.3 billion to help Canadians cover the cost of a new EV, and $1.5 billion for EV infrastructure like charging stations.
Ottawa will offer $5,000 toward the cost of a new EV and $2,500 toward plug-in hybrids. Those rebates will decrease every year until they’re phased out after 2030 — or until the money for the program runs out.
Or rather, until the government goes bankrupt.
“Canada is bigger, stronger, and more prosperous when we’re united”
The sure sign of a prosperous G7 nation… Anti-theft tags on pork chops.
Today In Misleading Headlines
Globe and Mail- Carney scraps Trudeau’s antisemitism and Islamophobia envoys
Prime Minister Mark Carney is scrapping the roles of antisemitism and Islamophobia envoys, appointed by Justin Trudeau, and is creating an Advisory Council on Rights, Equality and Inclusion to combat hate instead.
Francisco- Sounds more like he’s expanding it.
Sane Ideas
At least a few boomers are quietly suggesting that Old Age Security spending be reined in by some means. Stephen Harper tried something similar by raising the age of eligibility to 67, but Trudeau Junior reversed that. Hopefully this gains traction this time around.
OAS is currently Canada’s costliest federal program, eating up roughly one in every six dollars of federal spending. This amounted to a total of $85.5 billion in 2025-26 and is expected to exceed $100 billion annually by the end of the decade. Paul Kershaw, head of Generation Squeeze, said in a media briefing on Tuesday that policymakers can ill afford to ignore ballooning OAS costs at a time of “heightened geopolitical instability and economic uncertainty.”
Doctors And Engineers
Three men arrested after what police alleged was an extortion-related shooting in Surrey over the weekend have been charged, and authorities have released their photos in an attempt to further the investigation.
All three are foreign nationals and have been reported to Canada Border Services Agency, according to the Surrey Police Service—which deferred any inquiries about the trio’s immigration status to federal officials.
Twenty-one-year-old Harjot Singh, 19-year-old Taranveer Singh, and 21-year-old Dayajeet Singh Billing have each been charged with one count of discharging a firearm into a place, a Monday statement from police said.
Gradually, Then Suddenly
🚨 This sounds eerily like what Greece did during its debt crisis: forcing pension funds & banks to bail out national priorities, leading to massive losses for retirees.
Thoughts? pic.twitter.com/1CILl2nxnm
— Barbara Bal MBA (@BarbaraBalCPC) February 3, 2026
Race to the bottom: Glencore said on Tuesday it has suspended nearly $1 billion of planned investments at Horne Smelter, Canada’s largest copper metal-producing operation, after failing to secure regulatory certainty from the provincial government of Quebec.
Latest in the Class Action Lawsuit Against the Freedom Truckers
Is lawyer Paul Champ about to be disbarred?
The Libranos: The Party Of Comfy Fur
Marty Up North: The rumour is now official. MP Bill Blair has been appointed as High Commissioner for Canada in the UK. Carney is getting rid of all his liabilities, and getting ready for a snap election.
I suppose the spot in Beijing was already filled.
Safe and Effective®
Most. Transparent. Government ever.
Blacklock’s- Vax Files Closed For 15 Years
Health Minister Marjorie Michel’s department has sealed internal reports on vaccine and drug injuries for 15 years, records show. The documents run to “several million pages,” it said.
Havana Pulses With The Languid Energy Of Survival
@mindingottawa confirms the CEO of Farm Credit Canada cited Fidel Castro as someone she admires during an “Ask Me Anything” session with employees last fall.
Farm Credit Canada is a Crown corporation operating under Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
CPAC has scrubbed this.
Canadian media members caught on camera admitting they are purposely going easy on Mark Carney to help keep the Liberals in power
CPAC tried scrubbing this segment from the internet
Here are the receipts pic.twitter.com/FfjXfysnJB
— The Pleb 🌍 Reporter (@truckdriverpleb) February 2, 2026
@grok – The two media spokespeople in the video are Reynolds Mastin, President and CEO of the Canadian Media Producers Association, and Kyle Irving, Chair of the CMPA Board. They addressed Prime Minister Mark Carney at the Prime Time conference on January 29, 2026.
Muslim Values are Canadian Values
You sure about that?
New York Times- The Secret Sauce in ‘Heated Rivalry’? Canada.
“A fundamental Canadian value is that people should be able to be whoever they want to be, to love whoever they want to love,” Mr. Carney said to roaring applause.
That Sinking Feeling
My advice to the Conservative Party of Canada: just be patient. Your time in the sun may be coming.
Statistics Canada says the economy stalled in November and early estimates suggest a decline in real gross domestic product for the final quarter of 2025.
November saw manufacturing of durable goods hit its lowest levels since 2011, outside the COVID-19 pandemic.
Update: Even the mainstream financial media is noticing that something is not right.
Canada’s main stock index fell 1,092.61 points or 3.3 per cent on Friday.
Cold Canuck Hands
GUN GRAB COLLAPSES: Cops Tell Ottawa "We're NOT Coming For You!"
The Liberal government's long-promised “gun buyback” program is underway, only to crash headfirst into a rare scenario where a majority of Canadian provinces and police services are committing to ignore or refuse… pic.twitter.com/rj5KQUIjsl
— Dan Dicks (@DanDicksPFT) January 28, 2026
Despicable Actions Must Have Consequences
Today, I received the email shown below from the Juno Beach Centre in France, directing me to this URL.
Here’s what I wrote back to them:
You periodically ask me for donations. I’ve visited your facility before. It’s excellent. It well honours the brave Canadian men who died on June Beach on June 6, 1944 and in the many months afterwards to free Europe of the Nazi scourge.
But in 2022, you besmirched the good names of Tamara Lich, Chris Barber, and the other patriotic folks who protested the ridiculous, seemingly unending Covid mandates imposed by Justin Trudeau and his colleagues. The folks behind the Freedom Trucker Protest have been proven to entirely correct in what they were fighting for, including in several court cases. But you’ve never apologized, sincerely or otherwise.
“Lest we forget” has a special meaning every Remembrance Day. But it has a double meaning for me regarding the Juno Beach Centre. I will never forget, which is why the only donation you’ll ever get from me is disdain. Continue reading