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They Want You Dead, But Will Settle For Broke Right Now

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Blacklock’s- Hikes Heating, Cooling Costs

Canadians face more than a quarter billion a year in higher costs for heating and cooling after Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson’s department yesterday adopted California efficiency standards for essential home appliances. Costs will be “passed on to consumers.”

New regulations under the Energy Efficiency Act apply “more stringent” California standards to fixtures and appliances like air conditioners, faucets, gas furnaces, heat pumps, light fixtures, pool pumps, showerheads and water heaters. Enforcement will be phased in by increments beginning this October to 2029.

Red Ink Spa Day

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Another province opening the red ink sluice gates. Voters can sniff out a pandemic style spending spree thanks to the ongoing tariff spat. Any government that refused to deliver one, be they federal or provincial, would be trounced at the polls.

Newfoundland and Labrador has tabled a 2025-26 provincial budget that responds to uncertainty from the United States with record spending and record borrowing, while delaying its return to a balanced budget by another year.

The province anticipates a $372-million deficit this coming year to address affordability issues and tariff concerns — a figure that could rise further if the province utilizes an additional $200 million in contingency funds set aside to address Trump-related turmoil.

Drowning In Debt

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Predictably, another pandemic style spending spree is already underway, this time premised on the idea that it is the role of the state to insulate everyone from losses incurred as a result of tax hikes in another nation. One thing that is clear in this election is that all levels of government, provincial and federal, will be going all-in on opening the spending floodgates. Any party that dared to argue otherwise would be pilloried by the electorate.

Ontario businesses will see select provincial taxes deferred for six months, which Premier Doug Ford says will give them about $9 billion worth of relief amid global economic turmoil in the face of U.S. tariffs.

Happy Propaganda

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Every once in a while we hear about some happiness report which usually concludes that Nordic nations are generally happier than everybody else. The same analysis often smuggles in a plug for a generous welfare state as an explanation. Not surprisingly, it seems that the conclusions are based on some very flimsy evidence.

But upon closer examination, it turns out that the World Happiness Report is not based on any major research effort; far from measuring how happy people are with some sophisticated mix of indicators, it simply compiles answers to a single question asked to comparatively small samples of people in each country:

“Please imagine a ladder with steps numbered from zero at the bottom to 10 at the top. The top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you and the bottom of the ladder represents the worst possible life for you. On which step of the ladder would you say you feel you personally stand at this time?”

Socialized Credit

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If anyone believes that you are “sticking it to the man” by withdrawing all the funds from your bank account in “cash”, think again. Our fiat currency system has got you coming and going. It’s not a bug; it was designed that way.

In fiat, your only real choice is this: if you wish to access credit at all, you must participate in a system where the coercive extension of credit creates an exponentially rising debt doom loop that all must shoulder the burden of.

The final collapse of fiat will occur when the burden of debt exceeds the ability of any debtor, no matter how large their balance sheet, to service it. When lost capital can no longer be replaced with fresh capital from a more creditworthy institution, one can arrive at a situation where bank notes are literally backed by nothing. A bank note backed by nothing can purchase nothing. It will not matter how many are released into the economy at that point. They will be worthless. It will be the Zimbabwe solution in spades.

That’ll Show ’em!

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When you react to self-imposed sanctions by instituting self-imposed sanctions, what did anyone think was going to happen? Patronizing Mary Brown’s Chicken in order to stick it to those American chains just got more expensive. If anything, this lunacy just points out how brittle the Canadian economy really is.

The fryers, which cost up to $27,000 each are made of steel and shipped from the U.S. Because Canada’s counter-tariffs include cooking appliances made of steel, Cluck Clucks believes it will now pay 25 per cent more for each new purchase.

He adds that Canada doesn’t manufacture deep fryers, so he can’t solve the problem by switching to a domestic supplier.

Narrative Collapse

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Wasn’t everyone in these countries supposed to be dead by now?

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the researchers found a noticeable spike in excess deaths in Sweden during the initial waves of the pandemic during the spring and winter of 2020, when Covid-19 was able to spread more freely than in neighbouring nations. But while excess mortality fell in the three other countries in 2020, it rose compared to Sweden in 2021 and 2022. “The four countries have a comparable number of excess deaths when you account for the fact that population sizes differ,” says Forthun. What lockdowns did affect, in part, was the timing of when spikes in excess deaths occurred.

 

The Ship Is Sinking

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A 60% jump in debt is probably an underestimate, but every province is likely in the same boat. With voters currently in the mood for a pandemic style spending spree and with few mainstream politicians willing to say no, any election is now a matter of choosing which party will get us to bankruptcy the fastest.

British Columbia, Canada’s third most populous province, expects debts to surge by nearly 60% over the next three years…

The fiscal plan sees provincial debt rising to C$209 billion by March 2028 — about 57% higher than today and nearly double the level of a year ago. Ministers argue that the spending is to play catch up on core services like health — more than a third of expenses — neglected after a previous center-right government focused on balancing the books.

“recall how many of the slam-dunk COVID-related assumptions of 2020 turned out to be completely wrong”

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David Clinton- How the Government-Communications Industry Threatens Free Speech

Well they’re obviously not the same thing. But it’s fair to suggest that whenever citizen expression is suppressed, government speech is amplified. Which does make it that much more important for us to understand exactly what government is currently saying and how they’re saying it.

Suicide Nation

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Not surprisingly, the Canadian Labour Congress is proposing national bankruptcy as a way to deal with Trump. That should only take about a week to play out.

Cutting off U.S. access to critical Canadian resources—including electricity, lumber, critical minerals, oil, and gas—until the tariffs are lifted.

Naturally, it includes a plea for another pandemic style spending spree:

The federal government has taken a first step by considering income supports for affected workers—an approach that helped stabilize our economy during the pandemic.

We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Batteries!

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Leftists like to rant about the alleged “negative externalities” of the free market, but never seem to be concerned when central planning results in the same thing.

EV batteries are larger and heavier than those in regular cars and are made up of several hundred individual lithium-ion cells, all of which need dismantling. They contain hazardous materials, and have an inconvenient tendency to explode if disassembled incorrectly.

“Currently, globally, it’s very hard to get detailed figures for what percentage of lithium-ion batteries are recycled, but the value everyone quotes is about 5%,” says Dr Anderson. “In some parts of the world it’s considerably less.”

 

Mischievous Prosecution

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Three years and millions of dollars later, it is now clear that the process was the actual punishment.

’Freedom Convoy’ organizer Pat King was sentenced to three months of house arrest in an Ottawa court this morning.

It comes on top of nine months he spent in custody both before and during his trial.

King’s lawyer had this to say about the eager beavers on the prosecution side:

The 10-year sentence sought by the Crown would have made King “a political prisoner”, she said. “They would be sentencing Mr. King for the sum total of everything that was done by every individual in the Freedom Convoy.”

Heading For The Exits

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When even the CBC admits it, things must be even worse that anyone could imagine.

… business investment dropped off in 2015 when oil prices plunged and have remained stubbornly low ever since.

Economists warn that has weakened the Canadian economy and gives Canada less cushion to weather a trade war.

“GDP per capita has declined for eight of the past nine quarters, and business investment has been stagnant. Both cyclically and structurally, Canada’s economy is not well positioned to absorb a shock of this scale,” wrote Royal Bank’s chief economist Frances Donald and deputy chief economist Nathan Janzen.

Juvenile Nation

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Why are so many Canadians acting like twelve year olds in a high school art class? Are most Canadians just this incapable of critical thought?

…the bagels are made by taking white and red dough, and intertwining them in a colourful, wood-oven-baked treat that she says is a fitting metaphor for Montreal, Quebec and Canada.

Canadian pilot Michael Jones made news headlines after he flew… for two hours near the U.S. border, taking a meticulous path to draw a Maple Leaf in the southwestern Ontario sky.

Kicking Horse Coffee is offering cafes a “Proudly serving Canadianos” window display as a symbol of their participation in the patriotic movement.

I’ll bet that’s got Trump quaking in his boots.

Related, from Kate: Is this the end of Trump?

No Jack Daniels For You!

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Predictably, Doug Ford has decided that the best way to deal with Trump’s decision to make Canadian products more expensive than they need to be for Americans is to deny Ontarians access to American liquor products completely. It’s none of the government’s business where you buy your liquor, but hey, in an “emergency” no measure is off the table.

American alcohol will disappear from liquor store shelves in Ontario and B.C. as the provinces add their own ammunition to a federal plan aimed at getting the U.S. to back down from tariffs.

Michelle Wasylyshen, president and CEO of Ontario Craft Wineries, said she saw Ford’s move as a particularly helpful way to ensure Canada’s retaliatory measures pack a punch.

The legally sanctioned obliteration of competitors might be viewed as helpful to a particular business, but it’s not so helpful to consumers who face vastly fewer choices.

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