Every time a politician tells you that his policy will “come at a cost“, you just know he doesn’t have your best interests in mind.
Carney discussed Canada’s plan to respond to the U.S. trade war by striking new trade deals with other countries.
“We have everything we need to pivot and prosper,” he said.
“That pivot will come at a cost. There’s always a cost to action. But it doesn’t come close to the cost of standing still.”
In which we linger in the mood room of Reddit anarchists.
And then there’s this guru of the alternative:
“I spent several years trying to live in rejection of capitalism; I squatted, I hustled, I did commercial burglaries and retail thefts, dumpster dove, lived on the kindness of others, but money usually reared it’s ugly head one way or another.”
It’s all kindness, kindness, burglary.
Oh, there’s more.
The gents at Podcast of the Lotus Eaters chime in.
Canada still doesn’t have a coast to coast four lane highway, but it seems the bigger priority is to subsidize water systems for ratepayers in the oil patch. And then there’s the requisite mention of community centers, as if it were literally impossible for such entities to be financially self-sufficient. The mind boggles….
On Tuesday, the federal government confirmed a contribution of up to $29 million to the North Calgary Water Servicing project, funded through the Direct Delivery stream of the new Build Communities Strong Fund…
…$17.2 billion for provinces and territories, $6 billion for direct federal delivery on regionally significant projects and $27.8 billion flowing to local governments for roads, transit, water systems and community centres.
About Canada’s progressive drug policy is the way it’s brought the international drug trade to its knees: Nearly two years after Mounties announced they had dismantled the “largest fentanyl superlab in Canadian history,” not a single person has been charged with producing or distributing the drug.
If only they had some leads.
First up, the FBI & DEA identified where the lab was located & who the players were & handed the entire package to the RCMP.
Second, it included the shipping routes (port of Vancouver) the Chinese players who were involved in importing the precursor chemicals, the Chinese players in Canada who sold it to Mexican cartel players living in Canada & operating labs primarily in rural BC.
They gave the RCMP the names of the various Sikh CDN’s who were running the logistics & distribution operations.
They outlined the destinations for the finished products which included the Philippines (distribution hub in Asia), the Netherlands (EU distribution hub), Portland (distribution hub in the western US) & east to a tribal reserve in Saskatchewan (distribution hub for eastern Canada & US). The primary players included Chinese gangsters, Sikh gangsters, motorcycle gangs, & indigenous gangs.
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and for more information on voting and elections…
Voting in "Modern Britain".
Dragging society backwards. pic.twitter.com/adzdHlGk9W
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) September 3, 2026
On maths purged of “whiteness”; on the alleged thrill of not owning stuff; and on the crime-fighting powers of the “non-binary” barista:
“Now that I think about it, like, I’m more qualified than a cop to come deal with half the situations that we would call them for,” says our coffee-serving, police-defunding “they/them, 22.”
“I’m a Starbucks barista at a drive-through,” says they. “I’ve de-escalated situations with people with guns… I’ve cooled shit down faster and better than a cop could.”
Readers are welcome to share clips of lively scenes to test this rather boastful hypothesis. It would, I think, have the makings of a compelling reality TV show. With preening, mouthy woke-lings encountering the realities they’ve so carefully ignored.
The subsequent tears and meltdowns could constitute a drinking game.
The new guy doesn’t sound a whole lot different than Starmer. Good luck with your voting choices, Britain. You’ll soon be back to the dreary 70’s at this rate.
He said that greater public control over water, energy and transportation can drive economic growth and ease households’ financial burden, though it’s unclear to what extent he plans to reverse decades of privatization of key pillars of the economy.
Mamdani’s free day care plan in chaos as cash-strapped centers warn they may not open
Remember the old adage, “Be careful what you wish for”? Well, a constant refrain of more than a few Canadians is to stick it to America and instead look to the EU for their future salvation. Has this plan been well thought out by, what I’ll loosely call, the usual suspects?
Maybe they should pause for a few minutes and listen to this recent speech by Frau Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission. Or just read this summary.
Do Canadians really want their life savings managed by this woman and her apparatchiks?!
What law are they breaking, @HamiltonPolice? https://t.co/VwDY6DX1yb
— Tristin Hopper (@TristinHopper) August 27, 2026
Lady Churchill told Olive that when Sir Winston heard the Canadian election results “he was so excited he danced.” And when Olive remarked that everyone seemed interested in the outcome, Churchill shook his jowls: “Interested? …Why shouldn’t they be? It is the most important event since the end of the war.”
The above is in reference to John Diefenbaker winning the June 1957 election in Canada, defeating the Liberal government of Louis St Laurent. That said, Churchill was vehemently opposed to tariffs his entire life.
Today’s #ClassicCartoon pic.twitter.com/frAwTMvTWi
— Theo Moudakis (@TheoMoudakis) August 26, 2026
Were the latest CRTC mandates, and justifiable American opposition to them, the excuse for claiming a supposed threat to Quebecois culture and ending the trade talks? None of that would surprise me. In any case, it’s an incredibly stupid hill to die on and it sickens me that Canadians seem happy to go along with that.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has said the U.S. put pressure on Canada to adjust its position on rules around discoverability of content online, and that U.S. demands would have affected Canada’s ability to protect its culture, including the French language.
Given what I know about the Canadian political classes, I didn’t expect any of them to call out Blubber Dougie on his renewed advocacy of economic suicide for Canada. But who put duct tape over the mouths of our captains of industry? Any miner that shut off legally contracted mineral exports to the US would be successfully sued in a matter of hours and go bankrupt within days.
“He underestimates Canada. We’re all in,” Ford said. “Up here, we’re at a fever pitch, everyone’s in for an economic war. They know they’re going to have to sacrifice.”
Ford said “everything is on the table” if the dispute worsens, including cutting off electricity and critical minerals from Ontario. He also called for Canada to consider using oil and potash as leverage.
“I’ll cut them off,” Ford said of critical minerals. “You won’t get a grain of sand out of Ontario.”
Who needs an auto industry anyway? Its not like they want you to drive: trade talks collapse, left elbows hardest hit.
Here’s a suggestion for the government of Japan: maybe, just maybe, dial back the borrowing and spending spree and the bond markets might not be so jittery.
Japan is running low on options to fight a bond rout that could push debt financing costs above government estimates, leaving Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s ambitious spending agenda hostage to forces she can’t control.
The global bond selloff has found its epicentre in Japan with the benchmark 10-year yield on the brink of hitting 3% for the first time since the mid-1990s, as investors grow increasingly nervous about the country’s towering debt pile and inflation risks stemming from the Middle East war.