26 Replies to “January 8, 2026: Reader Tips”

  1. For folks in the Calgary AB area, on 26 January … a Monday evening, we’ll be having a friendly get-together if you’re interested in hearing a bit more of the destiny of Alberta…
    If you’re from out of town and think parking will be a problem, there is a C-train stop within a block of the entrance to the BMO / Bank of Montreal Centre
    Attendance at these events in the small towns has been outstanding. I expect these in the larger cities will be as well.

    “Calgary. It’s happening.”
    “An INDOOR Alberta Independence Rally at the BMO Centre.
    January 26th at 7PM
    Speaker lineup will be announced soon.
    Come sign the petition and be part of the momentum to build Alberta’s free and Independent future.”

    https://x.com/RiseOfAlberta/status/2009021338535510115

    1. Thanks, Marc. I’ve scheduled a post with the information you shared to run 24 hours before this event.

    2. For the deep south, I believe there will be a meeting at the Heritage hotel in Taber, February 6.

  2. Congrats to Didsbury, may the movement grow and flourish.

    Getting back to the topic, I didn’t watch the whole thing since I’m pretty sure the idea of concentration camps was instituted in America, a place called Andersonville.

    1. In America as in North America and not the United States. Andersonville was a prisoner of war camp run by the Confederate States of America.

      I have a great great grandfather who was a prisoner of war held in Connecticut during much of the Civil War. Family tales told to me as a child say he was treated well by the U.S., but who had to walk from Connecticut to North Carolina after the war.

    2. Andersonville had its Union equivalent in Camp Douglas on the shores of Lake Michigan, Chicago. The only difference waa those running Camp Douglas were not hanged at war’s end

    3. Canada’s first war was the 2nd Boer War.
      Boer men were defeating the British/Canadian armies on a constant basis, so they rounded up the Boer women and children and put them in concentration camps.
      These concentration camps murdered over 154,000 women and children, mostly by privation.
      (numbers released by the British government)
      The British government listed most of the camp numbers of dead as “undisclosed” so we will never know how many women and children were murdered.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War_concentration_camps#UK_public_opinion_and_political_opposition

  3. Freeland to officially resign on Friday. Cue the articles on Carney losing an MP.
    Among other roles she will be acting as an economic development advisor to Ukraine where her legacy as finance minister in the most corrupt and incompetent government in our history will fit right in with the Ukraine government. That is alone is an unfriendly act. Can’t find anything good to say beyond – she is gone.
    https://nationalnewswatch.com/2026/01/07/chrystia-freeland-resigning-as-toronto-mp-on-friday

  4. That’s a nice crowd of folks there marc.
    I’m wondering if people have reservations about signing the petition out of fear of retribution? If so, that should be addressed.
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    This story made me chuckle.
    https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/3170769/rightangled-running-track-draws-flak-in-songkhla
    (The picture cracks me up.)
    And then (further reading) showed this headline:
    https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/3170509/fire-destroys-22-speedboats-in-phuket

    1. I doubt the gov’t of Canada would want to put themselves in the same group who did this, though they may allow it for “security reasons” and then deny it… and note that Tascon did this so people could see if their name and cedula / national security number had been improperly added to the list, so they could apply to have it removed or give notice to the Venezuelan electoral overseers. The reality was, people would be forever unemployable. and “of course they did this” …

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tascón_List

    2. RE TJS post – Included in the 2nd article was an item re road accident deaths over New Year holiday – here is one of the comments,
      “keskesaksa Thailand Posted : 0 | 5 Jan 2026 at 15.24
      “If they caused an accident but lived, the police should just shoot them on the spot as a service to society.” – Yikes (!!)

  5. You may like this website.
    Pentagon Pizza Index.
    This is new to me.
    Apparently a lot more pizza’s are ordered when stuff is happening. Like January 2nd because Maduro’s capture started that evening and so people stay late and order pizza.
    Move the cursor (a pizza slice) over to the martini glass to check out the Gay Bar Report – obviously there are less patron’s there when stuff is going on, lol.
    Lots more stuff.
    Gotta love the internet.

    https://www.pizzint.watch/

  6. For the Juxtaposition Department:

    1. The Globe and Mail has established the Globe and Mail Foundation, a foundation supposedly to promote “excellence in journalism”:
    https://www.globeandmailfoundation.com/

    2. The Globe and Mail, over the past number of months:

    a. has refused to publish an article on its main page reporting on the mass revolution in Iran;
    b. has not mentioned the name “Keir Starmer” in any article or opinion piece since mid September, 2025 , even with scandals and violent demonstrations threatening to bring down the Labour government;
    c. it still employs Andrew Coyne as an opinion columnist, who increasingly uses namecalling and faulty logic to frame arguments.

  7. George Floyd 2.0
    Chicago’s CBS radio affiliate reports that an ICE agent shot a woman in Minneapolis yesterday. In the report, it sounds as if the agent just opened fire on an innocent bystander. No mention is made about the woman blocking ICE vehicles or attempting to hit an agent with her car. Bari Weiss has a very long way to go to reach unbiased reporting at CBS News.
    MN Governor Walz has declared war on the federal government. MN 2026 is like South Carolina 1861. Walz and company need to refresh their memories of what happened to South Carolina when General William T. Sherman and the Union Army headed north from Savannah, GA to join General Grant in Virginia. South Carolina was destroyed – it made the March Through Georgia look like a block party. South Carolina paid dearly for Fort Sumpter.

    1. ” In the report, it sounds as if the agent just opened fire on an innocent bystander. No mention is made about the woman blocking ICE vehicles or attempting to hit an agent with her car.”

      Here is our own CBC’s take on it:

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      Good had just dropped off her six-year-old son at school on Wednesday and was driving home with her current partner when they encountered a group of ICE agents on a snowy street in Minneapolis,

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      …so, NOT driving the lead vehicle in an action to obstruct ICE agents during the lawful performance of their duties, then? Hmmm…

  8. Day 12 of New Iranian Revolution
    Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi is to speak to the Iranian people at 8pm local time tonight.
    Surviving leaders of the IRGC and the Presudent of the Iranian assembly are seeking refugee, asylum visas for themselves and their families from French President Macron

    1. And France will not learn from its mistake of giving Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini asylum. Khomeini directed the Islamic 1979 Iranian revolution from Paris. After ousting the Shah, he sent his assassins back to Paris to murder the Shah’s family members who were subsequently granted asylum.

  9. Under ” Don’t need no sparky vehicles”

    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/article-general-motors-to-take-us6-billion-writedown-on-ev-pullback/

    Paywalled, but here’s the start:

    “General Motors to take US$6-billion writedown on EV pullback

    General Motors ( GM-N +3.93%increase
    ) said on Thursday it would take a US$6 billion charge to unwind some electric-vehicle investments, the latest car company to pull back from EVs in response to the Trump administration’s policies and fading demand.

    Shares are down about 2% in post-market trading.

    The charge stems from reducing its planned EV production and the fallout on the supply chain, GM ‍said in ​a regulatory filing, and comes weeks after rival Ford Motor announced a similar but much bigger charge.

    Most of GM’s writedown – a $4.2 billion cash charge – is related to contract cancellations and settlements with suppliers, who had planned for much higher production volumes before the market turned.”

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