This should free up some much needed budget space for administrator bonus top ups.
604Now- Mass Doctor Resignations Spark Alarm Over B.C.’s Collapsing Health Care System
Global- Health care systems ‘dismantling’ in B.C.’s Interior amid physician resignations
h/t Cameron
We report. You decide.
National Post- 30 years of bad climate policy comes home to roost
I asked my new best friend ChatGPT to drum up some examples of government “investments” in climate change projects that went disastrously wrong. I think I almost crashed the thing.
On crime, conflictedness, and weird excuses:
Regarding the consequent conflictedness and anxiety, all that progressive wrongness, these three posts include suitably vivid illustrations of the phenomenon.
Among which, a claim that more theatre for schoolchildren would somehow deter the kinds of creatures who repeatedly sucker-punch elderly ladies for being the wrong race, and a chap who insists that women should allow themselves to be mugged lest their mugger, out on probation, come to harm.
Oh, and the belief, expressed by a Guardian columnist, that when you find your home being burgled in the middle of the night, the real victims, the people deserving of sympathy and indulgence, are the ones breaking into your home while brandishing carving knives and then driving off with your valuables in your car.
Our betters, you know. They say so themselves.
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and “you can smell the anger across the UK tonight”.
Day in, Day out we're importing these people into our country. An Afghan asylum seeker stabs and innocent dog walker. Our country has change beyond recognition over the last 30 years and not for the better! pic.twitter.com/rmTyujYtlT
— Lee Webb (@Bodyfirst_PT) October 28, 2025
Matt Goodwin: East London offers a glimpse into Britain’s terrifying future
CBC- Toronto’s food bank use keeps hitting new records, faster than ever before: report
“It took 38 years to get to one million visits, two years to get to two million, a year to get to three,” he said. “And now we’re another year and here we are at 4.1 million visits.”
That figure comes straight from this year’s Who’s Hungry report, and represents an increase of 636,962 more visits than 2024. It’s also a 340 per cent increase since 2019.
A weird clique of freaked out activists, sour schoolmarms and intellectually confused people are dragging Germany into the abyss, while our elected politicians stand around and make tepid suggestions. Our leading industrial city just voted for its own complete deindustrialisation in fifteen years. One in five municipal utilities in Germany hopes to decommission its entire natural gas network by 2045. We are headed straight for disaster.
Team work makes the dream work. Good job everyone.
Basically, Canada needs US markets a lot more than they need our markets, or anyone else’s for that matter.
Beaudry contrasted Canada’s dependence on global trade — roughly 40 per cent of the economy — with the U.S.’s much lower reliance at about 15 per cent. That difference, he said, helps explain why Washington can afford to use tariffs as a political and fiscal tool without triggering the same level of economic disruption seen elsewhere.
Good Morning All –
In the wake of the disaster in California earlier this week, I’m going to Re-Up some previous writings on the issue of various immigrant groups into the North American trucking market.
A thread of threads + Intel
— Gord ‘Anti-Social Media Defluencer’ Magill (@GordMagill) October 25, 2025
But wait, there’s more.
Gord Magill has a book coming out…
If Kamala Harris were proposing that the federal government take ownership stakes in private companies, I can hazard a guess that Republicans would loudly oppose it. What’s going on with a party that has traditionally opposed government ownership of the means of production?
The Trump administration is in talks with the likes of Rigetti Computing (RGTI), IonQ (IONQ) and D-Wave Quantum (QBTS) to take equity stakes in them in exchange for federal funding, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Voters want lots of free stuff, so maybe those things will just pay for themselves, right? Unfortunately, I don’t know of a political party with currently elected members which would make a serious dent in any of that spending.
For the 2025-2026 fiscal year, Desjardins is projecting a $70-billion deficit, although the report acknowledges some estimates from other sources have been as high as $100 billion.
“There is a lot to unpack in the run-up to what will be a truly unprecedented federal budget,” said the report. “Deficits could rise to levels not seen in decades outside of a recession or pandemic, and the debt-to-GDP ratio is likely to be headed in the wrong direction.”
Tyrants have always found the Magna Carta to be reckless…
Pierre Poilievre charges ahead recklessly https://t.co/W0YU4tofuW pic.twitter.com/NXfghcJyDe
— Robert Fife (@RobertFife) October 21, 2025
Pierre Poilievre is by no means the first person to raise concerns about RCMP covering up of Trudeau/Liberal scandals. And it’s not like there is a lack of evidence to take to trial.
But hey, we did get an apology….
Related: Isee everyone got the talking points…
When your on-campus Indigenous Healer is armed, indigenously, with a totally indigenous tuning fork:
Those touched by Ms Schenandoah’s uncanny powers will learn that the forest is “a relative, not a resource,” and that birds “sing in the morning because they’re happy.” Quality stuff.
Armed with such arcane skills, Ms Schenandoah – whose job description is curiously vague – will provide “a safe space where Indigenous students can cope with stress and trauma.”
Yes, the trauma of attending one of the more expensive and statusful colleges in America, with its annual fees of $70,000, its 920 acres of rolling lawns, its 20 tennis courts, and a capacious ice-skating pavilion.
While monetary commodities like gold and silver continue to set new daily records in terms of their dollar price, it’s interesting to note that the dollar prices of non-monetary commodities like oil and copper continue to slide. That’s probably because economies tipping into recession don’t need as much oil and industrial metals as growing ones.
Gold prices rose by over 2% on Monday, buoyed by expectations of further U.S. interest rate cuts and sustained safe-haven demand, as investors awaited upcoming U.S.-China trade talks and inflation data out of the U.S. this week.
But zero percent interest rates ought to fix all those problems, right?
Meanwhile, traders are pricing in a 99% chance that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates next week, with another cut in December. Gold, a non-yielding asset, tends to do well in low-interest rate environments.
At this point, I doubt that any measures are going to amount to anything other than flogging a dead horse.
Ottawa said the corporation is losing about $10 million per day, despite providing a $1-billion injection earlier this year to keep it operational. Since 2018, Canada Post has accumulated more than $5 billion in losses including more than $1 billion last year alone.
But Canada Post’s business model is meant to support communities across the country — especially those in remote locations who are hardest for private firms to reach — rather than chase profits, said Ann Armstrong, a professor at the University of Toronto’s Institute for Management and Innovation.
“There is something sacrosanct about a postal service,” she said.
“It seems to me the model is perfectly viable and needs to be preserved, if perhaps costs and so on need to be adjusted.”
National Post- ICBC’s Indigenous hotline and driving tests do a disservice to reconciliation
Based on its “Reconciliation Action Plan,” ICBC now has a driver’s license phone line just for Indigenous people. The obvious question — why? — goes unanswered. “This new phone line is staffed by a team of supportive and knowledgeable ICBC employees who recognize the historical and contemporary barriers Indigenous people face when trying to obtain a B.C. driver’s licence,” reads the Crown corporation’s website.
True North Wire – GTA school taught third graders how to “get into drag”
That way you’re fighting Transphobia and Islamophobia all at the same time. It’s a win-win.
Blacklock’s- Demanded Fed Prayer Rooms
Cabinet advisor Amira Elghawaby lobbied government managers to install Muslim prayer rooms in federal buildings though only two percent of employees self-identify as Muslim, records show. Failure to accommodate Muslim prayers in business hours was “Islamophobia in the workplace,” she wrote in notes disclosed through Access To Information.