Category: Drain The Swamp

Tax Me, I’m Canadian

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Kevin Klein- Mr. Prime Minister, here’s a way you can make housing more affordable

Here in Canada, we do the opposite. We tax homeowners on every dollar they earn, then sit back as they hand over thousands in interest payments to the big banks — banks that, in turn, report record profits and pay taxes on that very interest. It’s a perfect circle of government and corporate revenue, and everyday Canadians are stuck in the middle.

The federal government is effectively double-dipping. It taxes you on your income, then taxes the bank on the interest you pay using that income. The winner? Not you.

Going Postal

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Globe and Mail- Canada Post workers reject latest contract offer

Approximately 70 per cent of postal workers voted against their employer’s final offer, which the Canadian Union of Postal Workers had characterized as a deal that would erode employees’ job security and pension benefits, as well as expand part-time work at the expense of full-time jobs.

Globe and Mail- Canada Post is a case study in Canadian dysfunctionality

Paradoxically, the stakeholders who would be expected to have the keenest interest in ensuring the corporation’s viability are blocking the company’s ability to succeed. CUPW refuses to allow Canada Post to hire a dedicated force of flexible weekend workers. Meanwhile, workers, who get overtime pay for weekend work, earn more – roughly $30 per hour to start – than their counterparts at unionized competitors and vastly more than their counterparts at non-unionized competitors.

When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal

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New York Post;

FBI Director Kash Patel discovered “burn bags” filled with thousands of documents dating back to the bureau’s Trump-Russia probe during the 2016 campaign, a source familiar with the findings told The Post Wednesday.

One of the documents, discovered in a purported secret room at the FBI’s DC headquarters, is a classified annex to the 2023 report by then-special counsel John Durham that scrutinized the original probe, code-named “Crossfire Hurricane.”

The 29-page appendix to the Durham report, which has never been publicly released, includes details of the intelligence he reviewed, according to Fox News Digital, which first reported on the discovery.

In official parlance, “burn bags” refer to containers that hold classified documents that are meant to be destroyed after a certain period of time.

It was not immediately clear whether the documents found by Patel had yet to reach their destroy date or were preserved due to an oversight by officials.

Fox News;

Sources exclusively briefed Fox News Digital on some of the contents of the classified annex — including that the U.S. intelligence community had credible foreign sources indicating that the FBI would play a role in spreading the alleged Trump–Russia collusion narrative — before the bureau ever launched its controversial Crossfire Hurricane probe.

A source familiar with the contents of the classified annex told Fox News Digital that while it may not have been exactly clear in the moment what the intelligence collection meant, with the benefit of hindsight, it predicted the FBI’s next move “with alarming specificity.”

Related: “Two days after the election in 2016, I was called up on the NSA phone. The person said I had to be on the intelligence community assessment that was assembling to finalize the Russia narrative. because we were going to prove that Trump was a Russian asset, and we were going to delay or block the inauguration of Donald J. Trump for the first term.”

“Affordable” Housing

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David Clinton- What’s Hiding Inside Canada’s Non-Profit Sector?

According to Statistics Canada, non-profit institutions serving households providing new-construction apartments in 2024 invested a total of $1.041 billion across Canada. That number has been growing steadily from $360 million in 2016. It’s reasonable to assume that around 60 percent of that money comes from government sources. Related data shows us that in 2023, Canadian community non-profits spent $6.3 billion on all “development and housing” projects.

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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Blacklock’s- Feds Hire Digital ID Experts

Federal consultants have been hired at an undisclosed cost to centralize all public requests for federal documents into one digital ID system, says the Department of Social Development. The proposal is so complex it required “expertise we don’t have in-house,” said a department briefing note.

“Building this kind of system is complex and requires certain specialized tools and expertise we don’t have in-house,” said the May 20 note Digital Credentials Issue. “Based on international best practices we are asking industry to help.”

When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal

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It’s a thread.

… top national security officials including FBI Dir James Comey, CIA Dir John Brennan and DNI James Clapper gathered at the Obama White House to discuss Russia. Obama directed the IC to create a new intelligence assessment that detailed Russian election meddling, even though it would contradict multiple intelligence assessments released over the previous several months.

Update: Matt Taibbi weighs in (link corrected).

The material is bolstered throughout by explanations of a whistleblower from then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper’s office. Just this handful of documents holds explosive implications, implicating a much bigger pool of White House officials than previously understood, including Obama himself, in what appears to be a top-down effort to create a false narrative about Russia meddling to help Donald Trump. If there’s an analog in American history, I can’t think of it.

Gold Bars Off The Titanic

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Sun- Stop pretending the government funds anything — we do

We now live in a country where the average person works until early June just to pay their taxes — where small and mid-sized business owners are crushed under a pile of forms, fees, audits, payroll taxes, and levies — where provinces like Manitoba continue to grow their bureaucracies while basic services falter. Our emergency rooms close without notice. Our roads crumble. Our courts are backed up. And yet, governments at all levels act like more spending is the only answer.

When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal

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Matt Taibbi;

What a roller-coaster the last week has been.

On the heels of the devastating, embarrassing announcement by Donald Trump’s Justice Department that there would be no new document releases in the Jeffrey Epstein case, there is real — if confusing — progress in an equally explosive investigation. In a story first broken by Fox News, reported further by Margot Cleveland at The Federalist, Miranda Devine at the New York Post, and Paul Sperry at RealClear Investigations, and bolstered now by our own sources at Racket, it’s confirmed: FBI Director Kash Patel has opened criminal investigations into former CIA chief John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey, for offenses related to the Trump-Russia scandal colloquially known as “Russiagate.”

The opening of criminal probes into two of the most powerful enforcement chiefs of the Trump era marks the first steps toward consequences for the elaborate and historically unprecedented intelligence fraud that for years consumed American politics. The Bureau will look at possible perjury and conspiracy offenses for both, focusing initially on how Brennan’s CIA and Comey’s FBI worked to produce the infamous “Intelligence Community Assessment” of January 6th, 2017.

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