Gord Magill is posting live from the court room on the Lich/Barber sentencing.
Packed house here at Ontario Court of Justice in Ottawa, waiting for Justice Heather Perkins-McVey to enter the courtroom.
I’ll be making a thread here, see how it goes, maybe Gonzo.
If you are the praying sort, they would be appreciated for Tamara and Chris, and Canada.
— Gord ‘Anti-Social Media Defluencer’ Magill (@GordMagill) October 7, 2025
I can only assume Andrew is talking about the Liberal’s refusal to accept a court ruling….
Lot of this kind of thinking going around — in this country. https://t.co/prf68JWKs8
— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 7, 2025
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It was 55 years ago this month that Pierre Elliot Trudeau invoked martial law in Canada to deal with the kidnapping of Pierre Laporte. Laporte was later murdered by the terrorist group the FLQ. Several members of the FLQ got only 2 years for their part in the kiddnapping and murder, some got more, while others were flown to Cuba. They would have gotten much more prison time had they been charged with mischief instead of kidnapping and murder…
In response to the decision to close an Ontario liquor bottling plant, Ontario consumers may soon be unable to buy liquor made in Gimli, Manitoba. So much for inter-provincial free trade.
“A message to all the bigwigs at Diageo: I swear to God, those bottles of Crown Royal are coming off the LCBO shelves. When the last person walks out through that door, we’re going to make sure LCBO takes off their brands because we need to stick together,” Ford said during a union rally in Brampton on Saturday.
Diageo also noted that the company will continue to have a presence in Canada, including their Canadian headquarters and warehouse operations in the Greater Toronto Area.
Our family farm used to have mail delivery to the top of our lane but that was discontinued sometime in the early 1960s. After that, we picked up our mail in a small town. In 1970, that post office closed and we used a community mailbox which is still in service to this day. Miraculously, the sky didn’t fall.
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers went on strike Thursday after the government announced door-to-door mail delivery would end for nearly all households within the next decade.
Canada Post said the strike will mean mail and parcels will not be processed or delivered for the duration of the strike and no new items will be accepted.
Dan Knight- Statscan: Old, Poorer, Smaller
StatsCan’s own data shows the visa bubble popping, fertility collapsing, and GDP per person shrinking—Canada’s decline is policy-made.
The Food Professor sat down to talk to some University of Montreal grad students the other day. The feedback he got confirms the suspicions of many that most universities have never altered their mission to graduate as many Marxists as possible.
Spoke with a group of graduate students and faculty today. The consensus in the room was clear: they believe food companies shouldn’t be allowed to make a profit, and meat consumption should be banned or at least heavily discouraged.
Thread reader here.
National Post- Here’s all the times the Liberals said they would build an oil pipeline
A curated list of ‘major projects’ released on Thursday by the Carney government conspicuously doesn’t contain one
National Post- Mark Carney’s Major Projects Office is a fraud
It doesn’t get out of the way, instead it introduces a host of new regulations to saddle infrastructure projects with
National Post- The $40+ per hour TFW jobs that employers say they can’t find Canadians to fill
$60,000+ per year. No qualifications needed. And businesses claim they need a foreign worker
Move along please.
Kevin Klein- Families terrorized as politicians look the other way
We now live in a country where a 12-year-old out on bail can pick up a firearm, invade a home, and shoot a man. We live in a country where a father who confronts criminals in his own house ends up in a coffin. Meanwhile, politicians in Ottawa debate carbon taxes and new regulations, while violent offenders cycle in and out of the system without consequence.
Sun- Manitobans waiting for health care face costly choice
…last year in Manitoba, the median wait between referral from a family doctor to a specialist and receiving treatment was 37.9 weeks. This is substantially longer than the 10.5-week wait Manitobans experienced in 1993 when national wait time estimates were first measured.
What’s the alternative?
Unlike Canada, the majority of Swiss hospitals are private and they handled half of all hospitalizations in 2023. Patients in Switzerland are able to receive treatment in a hospital they choose, public or private. Similarly, Australian private hospitals handle the majority of non-emergency care and can serve as an alternative for Australians seeking more timely care.
Francisco- God forbid we even think of being like the unholy Swiss.
National Post- Liberal ‘austerity’? Don’t make us laugh
On Wednesday, Carney told reporters that the upcoming fall budget will be “an austerity and investment budget at the same time,” noting that, “We need to rein in spending, we need to find efficiencies … that create the room for these big investments.” The following day, his finance minister, François-Philippe Champagne, said, “We’re going to spend less so we can invest more.”
Globe and Mail- Canada’s trade diversification push goes into reverse
For all the talk in Canada about the need for trade diversification, exports to non-U.S. markets declined for the second month in a row in July, a stark reminder that the push to reduce the country’s exposure to its largest, yet unreliable, trading partner will be a long process.
Montreal Gazette- Montreal transit constables should be better armed, workplace safety board says
“Because we have no firearms, people feel justified in assaulting and attacking us”
Not only are they demanding payment for any future infrastructure projects, but nearly a billion dollars up front just to figure out what those payments might be. They’re like a contractor who charges you to develop an estimate or a realtor who demands a commission prior to a sale.
In her opening remarks, National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak pointed to provincial bills that also seek to fast-track major projects. She praised chiefs in B.C., Quebec and Alberta for standing up for their rights and territories by pushing back against provincial governments.
The assembly recently put forth a pre-budget submission to the federal government recommending $800 million over the next two years to support a First Nations review of national interest projects.
Canada’s economic decline is getting noticed south of the border. Too bad many Canadians don’t appear to care.
In this episode of The Opposition with Dan Knight;
…we walk you through the grotesque reality of Liberal “justice.” A repeat offender armed with a crossbow breaks into a family’s home in Lindsay, Ontario and the homeowner, Jeremy McDonald, ends up charged with aggravated assault for defending himself. That’s not a mistake. That’s the system. Criminals walk free. Victims get hauled into court.
Related: Man sues grocery store after he tried to steal car, was ‘punched, kicked and hit’ by staffers
Andrew Coyne has completely lost it…
By now it should be clear that the subjection of the United States to the dictatorship of Donald Trump is no longer a theoretical possibility or even a distant probability. It is an imminent reality.
It is not here, quite – critics of the President remain at large, the courts are still attempting to enforce the rule of law, the results of the 2026 and 2028 elections have not yet been determined – but the pieces are being put in place at astonishing speed.
To call what is happening a “slide” into authoritarianism, as if it were something anarchic and uncontrolled, would not be apt. It is more like a cementing. Having slipped back into power by the narrowest of margins, Mr. Trump and his acolytes have been steadily expanding from that beachhead, each new power serving as the means to acquire still more.
Often these powers have been acquired illegally, in brazen defiance of the Constitution. But so long as no one holds them to account for it, and so long as the administration refuses to be held to account, they become ratified by convention, or practice, or sheer nerve, the de facto rapidly congealing into the de jure.
…or maybe Andrew is bitter because Conservatives fired his father…
The headline needs a correction: taxpayers bought a share in the terminal, not First Nations.
The three equal partners say the deepsea terminal’s primary purpose is transporting critical minerals such as copper concentrate to market from sources including Newmont’s Brucejack and Red Chris mines in Nisga’a and Tahltan territories.
The price of the terminal isn’t included in the statement, but it says the province provided a $5-million grant to the Tahltan and Nisga’a nations to support the purchase.
It is never going to end.
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