29 Replies to “May 14, 2026: Reader Tips”

    1. Mayor Chow and Toronto City councillors have always liked doling out money to a bunch of dicks!

    2. Straight out of the playbook from the British mockumentary TV series “2012”.
      If you haven’t seen it, the episode involving this particular type of “sponsorship” is, to my mind, a perfect match to how this all unfolds behind the scenes, including the prerequisite personalities.

  1. Here’s a thought experiment for any of the free the west crowd (that although from my location where I don’t get a say on the matter I do sympathize with the plight of the west).
    I’ve pasted the list of grievances from the Declaration of Independence. Take a read and make note of how many apply to the current arrangement the west has within confederation. Substitute “he” for Ottawa

    As follows;

    “He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

    He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

    He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

    He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

    He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

    He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

    He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

    He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

    He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

    He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

    He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

    He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

    He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

    For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

    For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

    For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

    For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

    For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

    For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

    For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

    For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

    For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

    He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

    He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

    He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

    He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

    He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.”

    1. This took place in France. So Brigitte could face charges for husband battery.

  2. Dublin Ireland – Mannix Flynn: Politicians pushing drug decriminalisation are “clowns”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5dCsgK9OnI

    This is interesting for how citizens across much of the western world are fed up with politicians in general and how politicians support legalizing drugs.

  3. https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/05/12/new-punjabi-language-initiative-peden-hill-elementary-online-debate/

    City News Vancouver carefully explains why an elementary school has started Punjabi language instruction, in order to meet the needs of the Sikh community. The City News headline says there is an online debate, but CityNews did not present the arguments of those critical of the new immigrant language program. Oh btw, Paramjit Singh authored this piece.

  4. “The BoC’s Governing Council felt it could afford ​to be patient and hold interest rates at 2.25% ahead of its April 29 ​announcement, while acknowledging the situation might change quickly.”
    Gradually, then suddenly.
    Brace yourselves!!!

  5. Imagine a Canada where we have all transitioned from fossil fuels to electricity. Forget the fact that it isn’t possible. Alberta will be a distant memory and Quebec will be the King of the economy. There seem to be a lot of French accented Canadians in Parliament telling us how great that world would be.

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