The Part I Like Best

About Canada’s progressive drug policy is the way it’s brought the international drug trade to its knees: Nearly two years after Mounties announced they had dismantled the “largest fentanyl superlab in Canadian history,” not a single person has been charged with producing or distributing the drug.

If only they had some leads.

First up, the FBI & DEA identified where the lab was located & who the players were & handed the entire package to the RCMP.

Second, it included the shipping routes (port of Vancouver) the Chinese players who were involved in importing the precursor chemicals, the Chinese players in Canada who sold it to Mexican cartel players living in Canada & operating labs primarily in rural BC.

They gave the RCMP the names of the various Sikh CDN’s who were running the logistics & distribution operations.

They outlined the destinations for the finished products which included the Philippines (distribution hub in Asia), the Netherlands (EU distribution hub), Portland (distribution hub in the western US) & east to a tribal reserve in Saskatchewan (distribution hub for eastern Canada & US). The primary players included Chinese gangsters, Sikh gangsters, motorcycle gangs, & indigenous gangs.

If You Demolish It, They Will Go

Center for Immigration Studies;

Since January 2025 when President Trump took office the government’s monthly household survey, officially called the Current Population Survey (CPS), shows an unprecedented 2.9 million decline in the foreign-born population — naturalized citizens, lawful permanent residents, long-term temporary visitors, and illegal immigrants. We preliminarily estimate that the illegal immigrant population has fallen 2.3 million. While the survey is the most up-to-date and best data available through 2026, the findings come with caveats. […]

The huge recent decline in the foreign-born population indicates that net migration to the United States was negative in the last year and a half for the first time since the 1930s.

Via

How well do large hail and large solar arrays mix?

So I just posted this on Facebook. I wonder what sort of response I’ll get?

So that purple area is right over the Turning Sun solar array under construction southwest of Estevan. This is at 11:50 p.m. on Friday. I feel bad for the farmers, for sure, as that purple is likely hail. The question is, how will the array fare? I’m not nearby this weekend, so if anyone notices any damage, please let me know.
This is what Environment Canada says: “At 11:46 PM CST, a line of severe thunderstorms is located from about Oungre to Estevan then to 25 km south of North Portal. These severe thunderstorms are moving northeast at 35 km/h. Damaging wind gusts, up to quarter size hail and heavy rain are possible.”

A big question I’ve been asking for years is this: Show me one place in Saskatchewan where you can guarantee it will not be hit by toonie sized hail over the next 25 years? I asked SARM’s board this. They all laughed, because they have a hail insurance company for that exact reason. My own place has been hit by toonie to baseball sized hail twice in 18 years. My dad’s farm was wiped out by the white combine around 1987. So how will hundreds of millions of dollars of solar panels hold up when the inevitable happens? This array is supposed to pivot vertically to reduce damage, something fixed arrays can’t do. Maybe that’ll help. This particular area in the image has hit hard several years ago by hail. I hope it’s just rain, for the farmers’ sake. If you know what happens, please comment below or let me know.

Big Chief Librano

Indigenous ways of vanishing.

The Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations says it doesn’t believe any managers meant to steal paintings, jewelry, sculptures or other works that vanished from a $14.4 million Indigenous art collection. It is not known what happened to scores of artworks used to decorate the department’s regional offices: “This went on for decades.”

More: Police were never called, and the department still cannot explain what happened to the paintings, jewelry, sculptures and other taxpayer-funded works…

“Hoo boy”

After the declaration of a mistrial in the horrifying Massachusetts murder case involving Lindsay Clancy, what is there to say, except to note how wildly inconsistent we’ve become in measuring concepts like “capacity” and “responsibility.” We’re a culture that doesn’t forgive, but quickly excuses. I don’t know what it means, nor do I understand how this case became a such a rallying cry for — something? What, exactly? How can “mental defect” have a lobby? What’s happening to people?

Elbows Down!

Surely this is just a massive coincidence, right?

The unemployment rate held steady at 6.4 per cent last month, Statistics Canada said Friday. August’s losses fell short of economists’ expectations for a gain of 15,000 positions.

And just south of us:

The U.S. labor market bounced back in August as employers added a surprising 162,000 jobs, ending a summer of lackluster hiring with a bang.

The unemployment rate remained at a low 4.1%.

 

Friday On Turtle Island

Carnival Carney’s Canada:    The Indians are upset again – No mines for you.    Canada helps Iran.    Elbows Up Hypocrisy.    An apology needed.    Charity starts at home.

The Democratic Party’s America:    Victor Davis Hanson – A good thing and elephant in the Canadian room.    A pedophilia problem.    Drag Queens.

Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC:    The slave trade.

Your morning meme.        Another meme.

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