Interesting developments in Venezuela.
CBS’s O’Keefe was generally negative/skeptical of this action. To provide balance, here’s a different point of view.
Here’s a British take on what has happened – though many of the comments want the Americans to capture and remove Keir Starmer!
Update: NDP leadership candidate, Avi Lewis (husband of Naomi Klein), isn’t at all happy about Maduro being removed. Be sure to read the community notes on his post.
True North Wire – Marxist migrant groups call for revolution in Carney’s Canada.
Who knew that Canada’s problems are the result of not paying people enough not to work?
At the heart of the issue, he said, is Canada’s eroded social safety net, particularly employment insurance (EI), which, along with other social programs, isn’t keeping up with today’s economy.
EI benefits have mostly stayed the same in value and replace roughly 55 per cent of a person’s wages. The benefits are higher than in the United States, but they lag far behind European countries such as Denmark, where they replace 90 per cent of a person’s wages, the Netherlands (70 per cent) and Sweden (80 per cent).
“The press only seems to show interest when immigrants have parallel experiences that the people who built Canada have been experiencing in the system for literally decades. One of the many reasons our system is collapsing is the influx of sickly, elderly foreigners and medical tourists who I am told sometimes will take a taxi straight from the airport to the hospital.”
The Food Professor has some predictions for Canadian agricultural policy in 2026. Here’s hoping that we’ll see moves to either liberalize or end our supply mismanagement system.
Even if the United States has little genuine interest in exporting more dairy to Canada – and even if Canadian consumers show limited appetite for it – President Trump now understands, far better than during his first term, that supply management is a potent political wedge.
The system protects roughly 9,400 dairy farmers who exert disproportionate influence over agricultural policy, while compensation payments continue to flow without any meaningful reduction in production or market share. For a growing number of Canadians, this arrangement increasingly resembles a closed loop rather than a public good.
This was written earlier today by an English guy I know. He is a man of the Left, has TDS, but realizes something has gone dreadfully wrong in Britain.
David Clinton- What Do Loyalty Rewards Programs Cost Us?
Every time you participate in such a program, the data associated with that activity will be collected and aggregated along with everything else known about you. It’s more than likely that points-based data is being combined with everything connected to your mobile phone account, email addresses, credit cards, provincial health card, and – possibly – your Social Insurance number. The depth and accuracy of your digital profile improves daily.
If you think things are bad in Canada, just wait to hear the details of what’s going on in [once] Great Britain. Enjoy the accents and be aware that “plank” has a very different meaning in Britain than it does in North America.
An ever growing number of Canadians are unable to tell the difference between someone who is actually competent and a run of the mill conman.
Western Standard- The death of merit and how Canada lost its compass.
The decline of merit is the story of modern Canada. It began as a slow corrosion under Justin Trudeau, whose rise was fuelled by name recognition and emotional politics rather than achievement. It deepened under Chrystia Freeland, who turned fiscal management into performance art. And it has continued under Mark Carney, whose credentials might suggest competence but whose actions have proven the opposite. These are not isolated examples; they are milestones on a national journey away from merit and toward mediocrity.
However, comparable countries such as Australia and Canada were dependant on small numbers of overseas professionals (31.4 and 24.6 per cent respectively), and in Europe, Germany used jus 15 per cent of foreign-trained doctors and France used just 11 per cent. In Italy the number was even starker with just one in every 100 doctors was not trained at home.
All from public sources –
– Smartmatic was Federally indicted on Oct 16, 2025
– Dominion was ‘sold’ in Sept under still secret terms
– Their election systems currently in use here have reportedly been newly examined by Federal authorities and are apparently full of illegal CCP sourced components
– @DNIGabbard is being prevented from publishing her completed official report on this matter
– The former secret Dominion/Huawei Data Center in Belgrade – that officially and emphatically did not exist – did exist and was disabled by U.S. gov employees just prior to the 2024 election. It has now been dismantled
– Key engineers who reportedly designed and executed multiple foreign based election frauds in America using Dominion and Smartmatic systems are here now under U.S. gov protection and recording 1st person testimony
The Year Reheated, in which he marvel at the mental contortions of our self-imagined betters:
In July, we revisited our experiment in multiculturalism and indiscriminate immigration, in which uninvited newcomers have to be reminded that torturing animals and loitering by school gates in order to film children are activities not generally approved of by the indigenous. There followed a menu of other cultural subtleties not being grasped by new arrivals – say, queuing, courtesy and not raping schoolchildren – along with efforts by governments to tactfully convey local customs, while suppressing any noticing of what must not be noticed. Apparently, we must explain civilisation to those unfamiliar with the concept, while pretending that no such corrective measures are required or taking place.
Via the pages of British Vogue, Ms Hanna Flint expressed her dismay that new adaptations of works by Emily Brontë and Jane Austen have “cast the protagonists as white once again.” Ms Flint bemoaned the “factory setting of a white perspective” in tales about white people, and the lack of “historical inclusivity” in adaptations of novels set in rural England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Ms Flint informed us that she is “left somewhat cold” by period-appropriate pallor. A train of thought that terminated before arriving at the possibility that others, perhaps some larger number, might be left somewhat cold by modish anachronism and jarring racial contrivance.
We also visited Loughborough University, where senior lecturer Dr Ben Roberts has devised, at taxpayer expense, an unorthodox use for yoghurt – namely, smearing it on windows so as to slightly lower indoor temperatures during that rarest and briefest of phenomena, the British heatwave. Dr Roberts assured those intrigued that, as soon as the yoghurt has dried, “the smell disappears.”
Oh, there’s more.
Global- Edmonton father dies in hospital E.R. waiting to see a doctor
More than eight hours went by before Prashant was called into the treatment area. “After sitting maybe 10 seconds, he looked at me, he got up and put his hand on his chest and just crashed,”
If you build it, they will come and come and come and come… The woman isn’t from Canada, the husband isn’t from Canada, the doctor isn’t from Canada, the nurse isn’t from Canada, these are not Canadians. However this exemplifies a problem that is now Canadian caused by mass immigration. This is what you get , welcome to Canada. Elbows Up.
We’re going to need you to bump them up.
National Post- 76,475 Canadians have died by MAID. Is that too many?
It’s probably not a good idea to “stand firm” when your feet are in quicksand.
As Canada approaches a review of its key free trade deal with the United States next year, Unifor national president Lana Payne says it’s important to stand firm for a good deal. Payne said it’s important to play hardball, and not allow tariffs to be legitimized in any form. Instead, Canada needs to hold out and let the “self-inflicted wounds” of tariffs create pressure instead.
“We’re seeing that now in the United States where their economy is suffering and worsening by the day,” Payne said in a Dec. 19 interview.
Federal prosecutors in Nebraska say at least 20 people with links to the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua have stolen $5.4 million in an ATM hacking conspiracy that sprawled across the United States, including the Chicago area.
The indictment alleges the group carried out dozens of so-called ATM jackpotting attacks, a form of cyber-enabled bank theft in which thieves physically access an ATM, install malware, and force the machine to dispense cash without debiting customer accounts. Prosecutors say the conspiracy operated from at least January 2024 through this month and targeted more than 90 financial institutions nationwide, including here in Chicago.[…]
Members of the group are charged with a mix of federal crimes, including conspiracy to commit bank fraud, conspiracy to commit bank burglary and computer fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists.
Nothing says destruction of capital like pumping carbon dioxide 400 kilometers and then forcing it into the earth.
“Alberta specifically is a really great confluence of all the right factors coming together to give Canada a chance to lead in this ecosystem,” said Cameron Halliday, co-founder of Cambridge, Mass.-based Mantel Capture.
Mantel is not disclosing the cost of the project at this time. It is receiving support from Alberta Innovates, a provincial Crown corporation.