Margin Of Fraud

A thread at @townhallcom;

NEW: A House Judiciary report just dropped screenshots of ActBlue’s internal Slack messages.

They show staff knowingly waved through foreign donations—using “verification” methods you won’t believe.ActBlue told Congress its “passport verification” stops foreign donors.

Their own policy says otherwise: it only checks that the number has the right number of characters. No database check. No real verification. Ever.

Full report here

New Governor: Staying On Message

How it started: European Union invites Canada to become first ever ‘associate member’

Financial Times: The Canadian prime minister’s charm offensive has failed to sway governments wary of giving Ottawa preferential trade access, according to five EU diplomats involved in the talks.

Daily Mail: Brussels hit with furious backlash after top Eurocrat Ursula von der Leyen unveils unprecedented plan for Canada to become ‘associate member’ of the bloc without asking EU capitals first,

A pretty fair round up at Northern Perspective (25 min): Carney Given EU Membership After Repeatedly Telling Canadians He Never Wanted it

Update: Juno has a response from Poilievre.

EXCLUSIVE: Poilievre sounds alarm on Carney’s EU alliance by Candice Malcolm

Pierre Poilievre tells Juno News that Canadians deserve answers on Mark Carney’s proposed EU alliance and what it could mean for Canadian sovereignty, trade and immigration

Read on Substack

Shifting Deck Chairs On The Titanic

It’s odd that associate membership with the EU was never once mentioned during the last election, yet today it is being celebrated by the chattering classes as if it were the best thing since sliced bread.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed Canada becoming the first associate member of the European Union.

Not everyone is cheerleading, however. But you have to go to lesser known publications to see any of that.

Smyth used stronger language in an August article in The Western Producer, writing that joining the EU would be an “unmitigated disaster.”

“The EU bans most of the technologies that have enabled Canadian farmers to become the most sustainable producers of crops anywhere on the planet,” Smyth wrote.

 

Nites Ov De Rod

CTV: Trucking company charged under Immigration Services Act in Regina

Jorowar Singh and JD Trucking Ltd. have both been charged with making or signing any false statements, providing false statements or providing any false, misleading, or inaccurate information – violating section 7-6(1) of the ISA.

Singh and JD Trucking Ltd. appeared in Regina Provincial Court on Sept. 2, with proceedings adjourned until Sept. 28.

“While the ISA and FWRISA specifically protect against the unique situations that immigrants and foreign workers may find themselves in, all employees, whether Canadian citizens or permanent and temporary residents, are protected by employment standards and occupational health and safety provisions within The Saskatchewan Employment Act,” the province noted in its news release.

JD Trucking is listed as operating a truck terminal on the North Service Road in Moose Jaw.

Saskatchewan “news radio” has more on the adventures of “Saskatchewan employers”.

In August, a Moose Jaw employer was fined $5,000 and ordered to pay $12,000 in restitution after charging a foreign worker to keep his job.

Dyan Jeny Enterprises pleaded guilty to charging Parth Patel an employment-related fee during his time as a foreign worker at Guac Mexi Grill in Moose Jaw. Patel made three $4,000 payments to the business to avoid jeopardizing his employment status.

Earlier, in July, a Saskatoon man was handed a conditional sentence after admitting he had counselled foreigners to misrepresent their employment details on immigration applications.

A Canada Border Services Agency investigation found that Balvir Singh “falsified pay stubs, offers of employment and other supporting documents related to non-existent employment in Canada.” The agency also learned Singh was charging foreign nationals as much as $40,000 for immigration sponsorship.

In March of this year, an unlicensed immigration consultant was ordered to pay $96,000 to compensate a victim.

The Ministry of Immigration and Career Training said Yan Wang was collecting payments for immigration services. But Wang didn’t “submit any documents on the client’s behalf to the Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program and provided the victim with falsified documentation.”

It Tells Us Who You Are

On fare-dodging and its apologists:

As one might imagine, our proud communist is experiencing some pushback in his replies, generally from people who actually pay for the services they use, thereby helping to ensure said services remain in existence.

Among the many replies, the not inapt notion that if $3 is too trivial a sum to warrant an arrest or any kind of enforcement, it is also a trivial sum over which to risk being arrested.

Oh, there’s more.

Y2Kyoto: Mission Accomplished

Don Surber follows the science.

Congratulations, comrades. You have defeated climate change. We know this because there have been no hurricanes so far in the Atlantic this hurricane season, for the first time in at least 60 years.

Gray News reported, “The Atlantic hurricane season is already one for the record books. It has been 103 days since the hurricane season started, and no hurricanes have formed in the Atlantic Ocean. That is a new record.

“Since the satellite era began in 1966, the latest date that the first hurricane formed in the Atlantic hurricane season was Sept. 11. Hurricane Gustav formed on Sept. 11, 2002, and Humberto formed on Sept. 11, 2013.”

It’s now been 106 days. This means the crisis has passed.

And there is more. No Atlantic hurricanes made landfall in the continental United States during the 2025 season—the first time that had happened since 2015.

Ain’t Gonna Happen

A balanced budget at any level of government in Canada is wishful thinking on steroids these days. John Q. Voter’s capacity for critical thinking was numbed so effectively by the Covid spending spree that any political party would be wiped out at the polls if they implemented anything beyond token spending cuts.

The Parti Québécois is promising to balance the provincial budget by 2028-2029, a year earlier than the current Quebec government’s projections.

The PQ’s plan calls for a $6.6-billion reduction in government spending over five years.

We’re All Gonna Die!

It speaks to the credibility problem of a mainstream media like Reuters when they can regurgitate  an extraordinary claim about AI without once questioning how anyone could reach such a conclusion. It’s not that someone said AI could kill a lot of people, but rather that AI could literally kill all of us. And by what means?

Public ‌alarm about the potential danger posed by AI is growing, after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon said ​last week he had resigned, in part because the “people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.”

Update, from Kate — this thread by Kevin Bass is a “rest of the story” must-read.

I have conducted an audit of Anthropic’s finances.

What I have found is so shocking that I am calling for a Congressional investigation.

Anthropic is not just seeking regulatory capture.

It has built a regulatory capture machine that cannot be turned off.

Structural financial incentives make it impossible for Anthropic — I call it the Anthropic Network — to turn off its own AI doom cycle.

It starts with METR.

Dario Amodei proposes “third-party evaluators” to assess the risk of Anthropic’s models.

He proposes METR for this purpose.

But METR is financially dependent on the Anthropic’s success — specifically, on the explosive growth of more than $7 billion dollars in Anthropic stock.

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