The speed of change has been mesmerising. Indeed, lacking any real sense of overarching identity, the need to impose a sense of community has become paramount. Whether locally or indeed, as we see, nationally, never have we heard the word community so bandied about. But it’s all pretend, really. Community was never talked about before, simply because it didn’t have to be.
Crap™
The Audit- Why Modern Household Appliances Are So Awful
And how government regulations are making them worse
Can Anyone Say Recession?
The trucking industry has been in freefall for close to 2 years now. Declining freight volumes show the economy is in recession, but that doesn’t fit the left’s narrative, so it isn’t reported by MSM. Alternative media the rescue once again.
This video is short and gives a clear picture of what is happening in the North American economy.
Dispatches from the Maple Gulag Truck Stop
This will be the first in a multi-part series on what has happened with the Coutts trial, and the many, many questions which flow from it. As we all know, the mainstream media are not going to ask these questions, nor tell you the truth about what went on, because that is not their job, and the Canadian government is going to do everything they can to pretend like the last four years didn’t happen, and absolve themselves of any responsibility.
WIth what’s going on in the UK, and the looming possibility of Bill C-63 passing in Canada, getting to the bottom of the conspiracy against the Coutts men is of grave import to rights Canadians hold dear, such as the right to freedom of expression, and to protest. – Gord Magill
The Doctor Will Kill You Now
Published this month in the Journal of the Blindlingly Obvious;
Canada’s assisted dying regime could provide a cover for medical staff with “serially homicidal personalities,” according to a controversial paper critics say provides no evidence patients could be preyed upon by criminal medical murderers.
“Canada’s MAID (medical assistance in dying) system is criticized as the most permissive or least safeguarded in the world, raising the question of whether it could protect patients who fit the clinical profile of adult victims of HSK (health-care serial killers) from a killer working as a MAID provider,” Christopher Lyon, a Canadian social scientist who teaches at the University of York in the United Kingdom, wrote in a newly published paper.
Making Room For The Online Shit Posters
Telegraph- Starmer’s prison overcrowding plan could mean some rioters will be released early
It was announced that scores of criminals serving determinate sentences would be able to leave after serving 40 per cent of their custodial sentence in prison rather than the current 50 per cent. Some exemptions were announced including those jailed for sex offences, domestic abuse offences as well as violent offenders serving four or more years.
Nanny Knows Best
Blacklocks- Want More Curbs On Alcohol
Health Minister Mark Holland’s department has quietly researched “suggestions for regulatory measures” on alcohol like restricting glamourous depictions of drinking in the movies, says a federal report. It follows a proposal to mandate cancer warnings on liquor, beer and wine.
Et Tu Harley?
Fox- Harley-Davidson faces ‘woke’ accusations from Sturgis bikers: ‘Breaks my heart’
The situation has drawn comparisons to the Bud Light “unforced error” of 2023 in the wake of the beer brand’s decision to partner with Dylan Mulvaney, a social media influencer and trans activist.
The Liberal Playbook
Michael Shellenberger- They Create Anarchy To Impose Tyranny
Keir Starmer’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and a man who said he wants to cut the throats of right wingers has been exposed as Labour Party politician Ricky Jones.
Lockdowns Forever
UnHerd- Covid-style controls against disorder are not the answer
John Woodcock, ex-Labour MP and Government advisor on political violence, argued this weekend that reinstating Covid-like restrictions would be the right response to the violent disorder taking place around the country following the dreadful events in Southport last week. At the same time, Keir Starmer has signalled moves that include more Government control of online information and the expansion of state surveillance through facial recognition.
A Sober, Balanced Look at Immigration in Canada
A young Canadian journalist examines what has been happening in Toronto. One thing is for sure: Justin Trudeau and his ilk are solely responsible for this unplanned mess, be it for native born Canadians or new immigrants. No planning, no preparation, no strategy. Let’s hope there’s a special place in hell for these scoundrels.
Caption This
With apologies for the poor photo, I spotted this pickup truck on Hwy 401, heading east to Kingston. But I got to thinking about the same vehicle traveling south to America. If such was the case, what would be a good caption for such a scene?
The Magic School Bus
Grab a beverage.
C2C Journal- Transforming Children: Critical Theory Takes Over Canadian Schools
h/t Cameron
Never Let A Serious Crisis Go To Waste
Off-Guardian- UK Riots: The agenda becomes clear…
Whatever the truth of this latest incident, and whatever long term aims it might be used to further, this “strategy of tension” has an immediate political agenda already becoming clear – and it’s as predictable as ever.
Attacking free speech is the ever-present, eternal agenda that comes before everything else and it’s been a real pile-on the last few days.
You cannot begin to fathom how irritating it is to the ruling class that ordinary people are allowed to just say whatever they want whenever they want – including having the audacity to fact check the media in real time, with no repercussions at all.
“Decline Is A Process, Not A Moment”
The critic- Boiling the British frog
On July 11th, the new Labour government announced that 5,000 prisoners would be released early, in order to ease prison overcrowding. On July 15th, reports emerged that London’s once-great Metropolitan Police had failed to solve a single burglary, phone theft, or car theft in 166 London neighbourhoods over the past three years. On July 17th, a Jordanian refugee who attacked a female police officer in Bournemouth was spared community service on the grounds that he could not speak English — and on July 18th, two asylum seekers from Egypt who stole a watch worth £25,000 in London’s West End were spared jail.
That same day saw two separate cases of rioting. In the Harehills area of Leeds, police were attacked and a double-decker bus was set on fire by local residents after four Romani children were taken into care by social services. In East London’s plurality-Bangladeshi borough of Tower Hamlets, rioting broke out in response to political unrest in Bangladesh.
Let me stress this again — all of these incidents took place within the space of a single week.
Konstantin Kisin- Riots in Britain: Nothing Left to Add
In all of these pieces, I explained that government policy across the Western world over the last two decades had brought the pot to boiling point. And predicted that instead of turning off the gas and listening to people’s concerns, the reaction from the media and politicians would be to screw the lid on tighter and make things worse. Which they have now done.
Central Planners, Planning
It’s not just Winnipeg.
Sun- Winnipeg must let the people decide on Plan20-50
Winnipeg city planners spoke glowingly in favour of the 30-year plan, which was the first red flag.
The WMR wants to mandate cramming almost 400 people per acre in Winnipeg, while heavily restricting gas-fueled vehicles and imposing land-density rules that may threaten the rights of property owners.
What’s that mean? Kiss your car goodbye. The bureaucrats will also tell you how big your yard can be, how many multi-family homes must be in every new housing development, and outside of the city, if you can dig a well.
And there are other rural concerns with the WMR scheme.
Water Carriers
I doubt that you could get a more sycophantic opinion piece than this, but Vanity Fair should at least have the decency to stop pretending that they’re engaging in journalism.
Hollywood went into panic mode over Joe Biden’s candidacy after the presidential debate. Most of that anxiety has now morphed into “unabashed excitement and energy unlike anything I’ve ever seen,” according to Jordan C. Brown, a Hollywood political strategist who served on the Biden campaign’s Entertainment Advisory Council and worked on events for Harris during her Senate and presidential runs. “I think people didn’t realize how worried and hopeless they were until she had this opportunity, and the party united behind her. I’ve just never seen anything like it.”
Even DreamWorks cofounder Jeffrey Katzenberg, a major force in Hollywood political fundraising who stood by Biden in recent weeks, has jumped onboard the USS Kamala. He is now a cochair of Harris’s campaign. “Again and again, she has been underestimated. Again and again, she has triumphed,” Katzenberg wrote of the vice president in a New York Times op-ed. “I couldn’t be more confident that this November will be no different.”
The Bollocks Is Bolted On
In which we visit the world of politically radical tableware.
My Debt Engine Is Running Rough
In an economy as utterly dependent on housing as Canada’s this is the kind of news that grabs headlines. Even if the recent interest rate hikes are over and rate cuts continue, servicing the debt burden piled up during the lengthy near-zero era makes a quick recovery impossible.
The number of housing starts in the first half of 2024 has lagged behind the previous year, while June saw a 44-per cent drop year-on-year. At the same time, new home sales — which can predict future home construction — are also falling.
Data from the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) shows that, between January and June, 36,371 new homes were started in areas of Ontario with more than 10,000 residents. Those figures were a 14-per cent decrease from the previous year.
Last month, the CMHC reported particularly dire figures. In June 2023, 10,114 new homes were started in Ontario, while this year that plummeted to 5,681.