32 Replies to “August 13, 2026: Reader Tips”

    2. Alberta Premiere Rachael Notley outlawed all new rural dugout construction (water for cattle)
      stating, “it’s not your water to retain, it belongs in the oceans”.

      Farmers/ranchers/contractors under the NDP learned to ask forgiveness not permission.

    1. See also Muslim Brotherhood/Obama. Next to 9/11, the other indication the West had a SERIOUS PROBLEM.

  3. https://www.cp24.com/news/world/2026/08/12/germany-to-scrap-accompanied-drinking-for-14-and-15-year-olds/

    Germany will be passing a law banning alcohol-drink consumption by 14-15 year olds accompanied by their parents. More government intervention one supposes. But I remember when I joined a home-construction crew at the age of 14, in the summer of 1963. By 15 I had my growth spurt, and when our crew repaired to a local tavern to quaff a few rounds, I sort of blended in with the others and joined in. This was during the age when legal drinking started at 21 years of age, and when light beer was years away.

    I remember when I reached 21 years, in 1970, I was poor, and had to go to the “men only” side of taverns (the other side was “ladies with gentlemen escorts”). But in the men-only side a glass of draft beer cost only 25 cents. I would nurse one glass through a baseball game on a Friday night.

    (Warning: the above link is a CTV nanny state article).

    1. This will only encourage young teens to get hammered on their own, which I’m sure we all remember, didn’t always work out. I can remember many, um, “episodes”.

  5. In 1968, I was 16 and had my first summer job, as relief Ward Aide at the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton. I hated working the 3:00 to 11:00 pm shifts on Friday and Saturday nights. My hormones were jumping and I was into young men of my age. But on these nights, so many would be brought in after drinking and driving. If they only had a broken arm or leg, they were lucky. I knew of 4 who became paraplegics and 2 who became quadraplegics (sp?). One quad wanted me to smother him with a pillow. I quickly went to get my supervisor, as he was definitely suicidal.
    I always wore a seat belt and refused to drive with drunk drivers.

    1. “I always wore a seat belt and refused to drive with drunk drivers.”

      Experience is always the best teacher, isn’t it?

      I hated wearing seat belts when they became law here in BC, until my best friend had a mishap where his car rolled off the side of a freeway overpass and landed on the road below, crushed and upside-down. He was unharmed because of the seat belt.

      1. Anybody wants to wear a seat belt, hair on ya. Just don’t force me. Address the cause, not the effect (shitty drivers).

    2. yep. same year l had a job @ my brother’s body shop on the highway,
      it was the drop box for the highway wrecks until the insurance stuff was sorted out.
      ?
      Ed, what’s with the bulges in the windshield?
      “that’s where their head hit”
      EEEEEEEEEEEPPPPP l vowed and kept the vow to always wear a seat belt.
      l also always wear a helmet on my bike.

      1. Worry not; this doesn’t make me fret at all. Canadians should, maybe. Just the petition alone isn’t going to make my country very happy — it’s on par with Doug Ford’s Reagan ad. Thanks for the ammo?

    3. Left wingers are so incredibly infantile. Just more of the pathetic “elbows up” farce.

    4. “U.S Ambassador Pete Hoekstra has repeatedly made public statements undermining the Canada-U.S. diplomatic relations, including characterizing the 2025 Canadian federal election as “anti-American”;”

      Yeah, that’s as far as I bothered to read…the very first line. Carney deliberately used anti-American sentiment to get himself elected and everyone knows it.

    5. The emoticons are still throwing their tantrum.
      So far every word Pete Hoesktra has said, is the unvarnished truth,naturally the emotionally retarded chicken dancers want him dead.
      Speaking truth to retards is “hate speech” here in Can Ahh Duh.

  12. I see from today’s National Post that the lawyers in that spectacularly bungled Stronach court case in Ontario are now at each others’ throats, and that one of them is named “Shale Wegman”. I though he was the most reputable lawyer in the Town of Bedrock?

  13. Great White Hopeless.
    On the heels of California’s 2035 ban on the sales of ICE vehicles, Newsom gets ignored in Michigan. Car Country don’t want him.

    1. uhuh. *and did the 68 y.o. vote for newsome?* that’s what l wanna know.
      because enough of them did . . . . . .

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