We start off my favourite month of the year with a video that I found very interesting: American vs. British accents
If you have any thoughts about accents, we’d love to hear them. Also, any regular news tips are always welcome!
We start off my favourite month of the year with a video that I found very interesting: American vs. British accents
If you have any thoughts about accents, we’d love to hear them. Also, any regular news tips are always welcome!
Timing is everything: He waited until the day Mark Carney is desperate to pick up a seat in Quebec and he leaves the Liberals -1 when Parliament resumes until more byelections are scheduled.
Carney announced Monday that Dominic Barton, the former Canadian ambassador to China and a well-known name in corporate Canada, will chair the board of directors for Invest in Canada.
Much of Barton’s career was spent at McKinsey and Co., a global consultancy firm. Barton is also the chair of mining giant Rio Tinto and LeapFrog Investments.
@scoopercooper – Hopefully the Conservatives that probed Barton’s links to PRC state owned enterprises consider the implications on this appointment. Doesn’t dispel the notion I’ve been following on where the influence lies in Carneyland. Barton’s colleague over in UK is already investigated in PRC influence allegations.
"It was under his watch at McKinsey that so many of the problems… festered." — @PekingMike (@nytimes) on former Canadian ambassador to China, Dominic Barton. At 8/11pm with @ae_clarke (@CarletonSPPA), @jaimanchin (@StrategyCorp) & @spaikin | Producer: @harrisonlowman #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/XFmRLrO9cK
— The Rundown (@therundowntvo) December 1, 2022
Remember the old adage, “Be careful what you wish for”? Well, a constant refrain of more than a few Canadians is to stick it to America and instead look to the EU for their future salvation. Has this plan been well thought out by, what I’ll loosely call, the usual suspects?
Maybe they should pause for a few minutes and listen to this recent speech by Frau Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission. Or just read this summary.
Do Canadians really want their life savings managed by this woman and her apparatchiks?!
🚨 https://t.co/wzHRd2jy7a STRIKES AGAIN: TRUMPBLOGS, FORMERLY KNOWN AS NOBLOGS 🚨
🏴 THE ANARCHIST INTERNATIONAL ON NOBLOGS, MAPPED — EVERY BLOG, EVERY CELL, EVERY CITY. 🌍The militant far-left has spent years hiding in plain sight on https://t.co/AAqRF883j5 — the anonymous… pic.twitter.com/CzaroZbyTt
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) August 31, 2026
Browse the map yourself and see the Canadian connections.
Recently sat down with @SNewmanPodcast to discuss trade and why Canada continues to fall short against the U.S.
"Mexico became the U.S.'s number one trading partner, surpassing Canada, by playing the game without emotion. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Carney is widely popular across… pic.twitter.com/mTwHkP9B7V
— The Food Professor (@FoodProfessor) August 31, 2026
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy shut down 270 commercial driver’s licensing (CDL) schools Monday for offenses including graduating illegal immigrant truck drivers who can’t speak English or offering subpar training facilities.
“If you’re here illegally and you can’t speak the language and you’re not well-trained, you don’t deserve to be in a big rig, driving American roads, endangering American citizens,” Duffy said at a press conference in Detroit alongside Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and federal prosecutors.
Duffy announced that his department was removing 110 CDL schools from the federal Training Provider Registry, forcing them to “immediately cease all operations.” The schools had been found to have trained 5,000 enrollees later found to be unable to speak English.
More: At one single driving school in CALIFORNIA
❌ Claimed the classroom was the backend of a semi-trailer
❌ Instructor was out of the country
❌ Instructors didn’t possess CDLs
❌ Trainees were driving commercial vehicles unmonitored
Thus far in the conflict with Iran, oil price spikes have been moderated thanks to the ongoing release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. A potential problem is that those reserves cannot be drained anywhere close to zero. If that’s the case, then we may have already hit the bottom of the barrel.
The level will drop to about 243 million if Trump releases a final batch of 39 million barrels from a March agreement with the International Energy Agency.
Siddharth Misra, a professor of petroleum engineering at Texas A&M University, said that while the absolute physical floor for the SPR is 70 million barrels, the practical minimum level for safe operations is close to 250 million barrels.
We officially got caught relabeling (to Made in Canada) & selling inferior Chinese steel into the US using NAFTA/USMCA. The Obama admin caught us years earlier but were more polite than the Trump admin.
Now we been caught doing the same thing with Chinese lumber?
Can’t… https://t.co/obBjdESeNu
— Lee Humphrey (@tleehumphrey) August 31, 2026
@shortmagsmle: So out of 500,000+ immigrants, 300,000+ had a documented criminal history? And this is supposed to make me be *against* deportations?
Related: Five of its six Muslim council members have been charged with, or are currently under investigation for, election fraud.
Jim Warren: Trump’s Venezuela oil ‘deal’ might not be all that and a bag of chips.
Trump’s Venezuela deal underlines the urgency of building new export pipelines to reach non-US customers: But that doesn’t mean the universe will unfold like Trump thinks it will.
University of Pennsylvania Professor Michael Mann is the Vice Provost for Climate Science, Policy, and Action and has pushed candidates to commit to major environmental reforms. Notably, he seemed to pivot in an interview with Peter Dominick on a podcast last week, calling for all Democratic candidates to face a litmus test on committing to pack the Supreme Court: promise to pack or get the sack. It is only the latest example of how the hostile takeover of the Court is now the priority for many Democrats in removing a barrier to a radical agenda. […]
Mann has had his own conflicts with the courts. He was sanctioned last year after winning a defamation case against bloggers Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn for attacking his climate control research.
At the time, some of us questioned the award, which awarded just $1 in actual damages but $1 million in punitive damages. In 1996, the U.S. Supreme Court decided a case, BMW of North America v. Gore, striking down a punitive damages award. The case involved the company’s practice of repairing and repainting cars damaged in transit without telling the customers. The jury in the original trial awarded $4,000 in compensatory damages for the car’s lost value due to the lack of a factory paint job and other damage; it then imposed $4 million in punitive damages for the company’s dishonesty.
D.C. Superior Court Judge Alfred S. Irving Jr. reduced the award against Steyn to just $5000 after finding the original award to be “grossly excessive.”
The court later learned that Mann’s defense team had allegedly presented false accounts of his losses after the criticism. Mann’s legal team was accused of presenting a chart that listed a grant that Mann allegedly lost due to the defamatory remarks as $9.7 million when it was later found to be worth $112,000. Irving also found a disparity in the grant income figures given to the jury.
The court found the alleged misrepresentations to be “an affront to the Court’s authority” and sanctioned Mann and his legal team “for bad-faith trial misconduct.” After reversing the jury verdict, the court ordered Mann to pay $1.1 million of his critics’ legal expenses.
Now, Mann is calling for all Democratic candidates to pledge to pack the Supreme Court as a condition for running. So any Democrat who believes in our institutions and resists this mob will be a persona non grata in the party as an “institutionalist” captured by “nostalgia.”
It’s the birth of new cultural pejorative, keep your eye on that.
The Democratic Party’s America: A rough year. Hijab judge. Newsom’s mansion.
Carnival Carney’s Canada: Jews fleeing Canada. Another church arson. Donald Ducks.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: An expanding definition. Encouraging rape. Moderate Muslims in Africa. Paul Joseph Watson – They’re really mad.
We end the month with Steve Winwood performing Gimme Some Lovin’ live!
Bonus: Having lived in the heart of Tech Central (aka Silicon Valley), I became very aware of the rampant use of food delivery services. Never once did I use them, but younger techies seemed to live on them. This cartoon illustrates the madness.
Do give us your very best August news tips yet!
Geology Professor: an update of the Nepal debris flow tragedy with thoughts on water source and evidence of another landslide.
Regina’s underpasses are calling. pic.twitter.com/BkhbFx3qRP
— Just Bins (@JustBins) August 30, 2026
Others were at the beach.
If U.S. President Donald J. Trump was upset about Premier Doug Ford telling him to “kiss” his behind, there’s no telling how he may react to an Ontario judge saying the man charged in shooting up the American consulate in downtown Toronto does not have to sit in jail and is free to wait at home until his trial. […]
Just steps from where the March 10 shooting occurred, Jabbi strolled into the courtroom to face the Crown’s office challenging his July 7 strict conditions bail release. Later in the day, he walked right out those doors free of shackles or handcuffs and on release after a judge dismissed the attempt to keep him incarcerated. The judge also implemented a publication ban that does not allow reporting of the reasons.
Incidentally, he’s also linked to the murder of Toronto Police Const. Marc Pinizzotto in June, so there’s that.
SDA regular ‘Orson’ has brought this to our attention:
The United States’ Agency for International Development’s Inspector General’s office announced Wednesday that it has referred more than 100 current or former employees of a United Nations relief agency to the State Department over their participation in the October 7 terror attacks in Israel.
The referrals include three people they suggested be debarred by the department, including a former United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees school teacher and Hamas operative who allegedly received and held civilian hostages beginning on October 7, 2023.