…all is forgiven.
Les Misérables
Armstrong Economics- French Pensioners Earn More than Working Adults
France has one of the highest replacement rate packages of any OECD nation at around 74% of average earnings. The French government spends an astounding 14% of GDP on the unsustainable pension system.
Best Medical System In The World
Montreal Economic Institute- TOO MANY CANADIANS ARE LEAVING EMERGENCY ROOMS UNTREATED
According to the data collected, out of 16,297,628 emergency room visits in 2024, 1,267,736 patients left without having been treated, which is 7.78% of the total, or around one in every 13 visits.
Best Medical System In The World
CBC- 41,000 New Brunswickers left Horizon ERs before being seen last year, report shows
National group says N.B. has 3rd-highest proportion of walkouts among 9 provinces
Are Communists Funny?
True North Wire – Eby’s office silent on 450k contract for radical communist comedian.
The Libranos: Chew On This
Taxpayers have been billed almost $500 million just to run the Trudeau government’s Canada Dental Care Plan, with most of the money going to administration instead of patients.
Cabinet admitted in a Commons filing that as of March 31, 2025, the program’s overhead costs totaled $472.9 million, including payments to third-party administrators.
Blacklock’s Reporter said the disclosure came only after Conservative MP Dan Mazier (Riding Mountain, Man.) pressed for answers on what the program has actually cost since its inception.
Racing To Zero
Why is it that no one in the mainstream financial media ever asks, “Whatever happened to higher for longer?”
The Bank of Canada reduced its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points on Wednesday, a move observers had almost universally expected amid various signs of economic weakness.
The Bank cited the “weakening economy and less upside risk to inflation” in its decision to cut.
“Kill All Charlie Kirks”
Telegraph- Identitarian Leftism is an inherently violent ideology
However, there are far too many ghoulish social media posts of young people laughing and enthusiastically cheering the killing of Charlie Kirk to dismiss it as the acts of a few morons. Leftism – especially in its identitarian, post-colonial form – is an explicitly violent ideology.
The Australian- Charlie Kirk’s murder and its celebration tied up in web of hate
Social media posts sharing delight at Charlie Kirk’s assassination have revealed not just their willingness to endorse evil, but a wider dangerous level of moral confusion, even among our MPs.
Hate Speech?
Pam Bondi is probably going to have to walk this statement back. The First Amendment actually protects hate speech, provided that no threat of physical violence was made against a specific individual. We already have laws against criminal threats, so there’s no need to conflate that with hate speech. You might not like someone’s advocacy of political violence or even assassination, but as long as no identifiable individual was mentioned, you can’t be prosecuted for it. At least not in the United States. And we’re all well aware of what happens in other nations when hate speech becomes a criminal offense all on its own.
“Hate speech that crosses the line into threats of violence is NOT protected by the First Amendment,” Bondi wrote. “It’s a crime. For far too long, we’ve watched the radical left normalize threats, call for assassinations, and cheer on political violence. That era is over.”
Another less than encouraging comment from Bondi, this time over a business that did not want to print some posters for a vigil held to honor Charlie Kirk.
“Businesses cannot discriminate. If you wanna go in and print posters with Charlie’s pictures on them for a vigil, you have to let them do that. We can prosecute you for that,” Bondi said during a Monday appearance on Fox News’ “Hannity.”
Dispatches from the Maple Gulag Truck Stop
In 2 minutes Gord Magill explains every problem with the trucking industry and why 80,000lb+ missiles are being launched into school buses and minivans.
Of course they had to clip me at my rantiest and angriest and dropping too many F bombs, but after spending the last 8 months doing nothing but reading intensely bad news about the industry three generations of my family have dedicated themselves to … I hope you understand. https://t.co/vypbInmByz
— Gord ‘Anti-Social Media Defluencer’ Magill (@GordMagill) September 16, 2025
Not Entirely Similar
A brief history of Cancel Culture:
Readers may wish to ponder whether the sins mentioned above – expressing doubts about rioting, or teaching Chinese pronunciation to students of Chinese – exist on the same level of inaptness as, say, a public-school teacher showing ten-year-olds shockingly graphic video of a man being shot in the neck, and killed, in front of his family, and showing that footage repeatedly, “numerous times,” while hectoring those same ten-year-olds on the merits of so-called “anti-fascism.”
Answers on a postcard, please.
Headed For A Bust?
Inquiring minds want to know: can the Bank of Canada cut interest rates quickly enough to avoid a collapse of the housing market?
Butler says clients who locked in around 1.7 per cent in 2020 and 2021 are now renewing closer to four per cent, pushing payments up 20 to 25 per cent.
Even if the BoC cuts this week, affordability challenges will persist. “You cannot solve something that has taken 20, 30 years to build up in five minutes,” Tal said.
New Governor, Smart As The Old Governor
“Mark Carney was banker genius, he gonna make the country all good with his mega brainy math stuff.”
The newly created Build Canada Homes agency will oversee plans to build 4,000 homes on six federally owned sites, as part of a $13 billion agency budget to speed up affordable home building, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday.
No Viking Funeral For You
Telegraph- Funerals should comply with net zero, says Labour
Labour is plotting to make UK crematoria greener by banning gas cremation ovens and forcing grieving families to choose eco-friendly wicker or bamboo coffins.
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
The Doctor Will Kill You Now
How Canada found creative solutions for the difficult problem of serial killers.
A severely obese woman in her 60s who sought euthanasia due to her “no longer having a will to live” and a widower whose request to have his life ended was mainly driven by emotional distress and grief over his dead spouse are the latest cases to draw concerns that some doctors are taking an overly broad interpretation of the law.
Article contentThe anonymized cases highlighted in the latest report from the Ontario Coroner’s MAID Death Review Committee include people whose conditions were declared “grievous and irremediable” — incurable — and their deaths reasonably foreseeable because they refused all forms of care or had stopped eating and drinking.
There Was An Attempt To Buy Instant Coffee
From Slow To No…
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
Keir Starmer’s Britain
BREAKING: Massive crowds in London for a 'Unite the Kingdom' rally.
Organisers are expecting up to 1 million attendees. pic.twitter.com/RsLuOce9Ix
— World Source News 24/7 (@Worldsource24) September 13, 2025
Livestreams at GB News and Rebel News. (Official rally begins in a couple of hours)
The Simpsons Monorail
Four years? I doubt if the expropriations for the right of way would be done with by then, much less the payoffs for indigenous “consultation”.
On Thursday, LeBlanc said the work over the next four years would determine the final route between Toronto and Quebec City. “Imagine the assessments, imagine the Indigenous consultations along a 1000-kilometre route,” he said.
Alto CEO Martin Imbleau has estimated the total cost of the high-speed rail project at between $60 billion and $90 billion.