A Challenging Collapse

I seem to recall that the housing bust of 2008 lasted a lot longer than a couple of months. The company I used to work for once offered farm machinery financing at 3 to 4 percent interest. Now it’s over 7 percent. That’s got to be causing someone to say “I’ll wait”.

“The housing market was not in a robust place to start off with. And then with mortgage rates moving up the way they have, I think we’re going to see a challenging couple months ahead,” Hale told Yahoo Finance.

Mortgage rates rose sharply in September, starting the month well below 7% and ending around 7.5%.

 

Is Our Diversities Learing?

CTV Regina;

Officers arrived at the intersection of Ninth Avenue and Pinkie Road, finding the vehicles that appeared to be involved in a head-on collision.

Four people in total were there, with a driver and passenger in each vehicle. They all remained at the scene and were later transported to hospital for what seemed to be serious, but non-life-threatening injuries.

In a Thursday news release, police say both vehicles involved sustained “significant” damage.

Police say SGI notified them several months later, noting the collision may have been intentionally staged.

That prompted an investigation involving the SGI Special Investigators Unit, members from RPS’s Investigative Collision Analysis Reconstruction Team, and Forensic Identification Unit and Technological Crime Unit.

The investigation determined the collision had been deliberately staged.

As a result, 23-year-old Sukhveer Kaur, 24-year-old Akashdeep Singh and 26-year-old Gagandeep Singh have all been charged with fraud over $5,000.

We Are All Tim Hortons Now

Forget the US, at this point even a Russian invasion sounds pretty good.

As almost 300 mostly unidentified Canadians attend a trade mission in Mumbai, the High Commissioner of India to Canada predicts that this country will need 15 million immigrants to meet the workforce needs of a growing economy in the next 10 years.

“This is a new Canada and we are anticipating that things will happen fast. And Prime Minister (Mark) Carney, given his background as the governor of two banks, Bank of Canada, Bank of England, as well as Brookfield, his experience with investment with the economy, there is a lot of trust that he will be able to deliver on a lot of the things,” Dinesh Patnaik said in an interview on CPAC.

New country, incoming: PM Carney says in an interview with New York Times that his government will resume growing the population through mass immigration because that is “the nature of Canada”.

Wednesday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America:    Victor Davis Hanson – What might have saved Gaza.    The Democrats’ Red takeover.    A Trojan horse.

Carnival Carney’s Canada:    Woke comes to my doorstep.    Carney’s strategic partner.    Keep your land line.

Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC:    Paul Joseph Watson – Are you kidding me?    Moderate Muslims in Africa.    Mohammed the warner.

Your morning cartoon.

Racial Marxists

I found this review video very interesting. One big point I diagree on though is the intelligence of Leftists. In a cult, there are two distinct kinds of people: The cult leaders (evil, devious, but smart) and the followers (really dumb and susceptible to brainwashing). Having spoken to too many Leftists throughout my life, their belief systems do not hold up to scrutiny. Usually with just a few simple questions, I can destroy their entire set of beliefs. However, much like being in a cult, they’re incapable of facing their hypocrisy and choose to go down the blue pill route.

I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

A Saudi employee of OpenAI …

[…] was arrested after an investigation found they had secretly planted a recording device in one of its San Francisco offices, the tech company and federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

“We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices” and “referred the matter to the FBI,” OpenAI told AFP in a statement.

OpenAI’s security team found the device late last month, and the employee, a Saudi national, was arrested on October 9, the US Justice Department said.

Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old engineer, had worked for OpenAI since July 2025 and allegedly wrapped a USB device in toilet paper and inserted it into a television located in an “executive conference room,” according to a Justice Department statement.

Alfozan was allegedly caught on camera “near” the conference room multiple times but was not authorized to participate in meetings located there.

Tommy Douglas, Not Dead Enough

h/t Patti Jo

Now Is The Time at SDA When We Juxtapose!

1988 – 1990: Toronto City Councillor, Jack Layton, and his wife, Olivia Chow, who was a Toronto School Board Trustee, lived in subsidized housing. Layton went on to become the leader of the federal NDP and Chow went on to become the Mayor of Toronto.

October 2026: The NDP Premier of B.C., David Eby, with a combined family income of $600,000, took advantage of the $10/day subsidized daycare, thus preventing a truly needy family from doing the same. This program is heavily subsidized by the provincial government.

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