Vancouver Sun- Vancouver firefighters bending under pressure of city’s overdose crisis
National Post- Ontario is now the ‘wild west’ of ‘safer supply’ drugs
Show Me The Convoy, I’ll Show You The Crime
Strict criminal trial deadlines imposed by the Supreme Court of Canada are derailing about 10,000 cases a year, a list that includes several alleged murders and hundreds of alleged sexual assaults, according to the latest Statistics Canada data.
The dire situation has led the federal government and the three biggest provinces to call on the Supreme Court to provide some leeway on the time limits, called Jordan deadlines, in a drug-trafficking case to be heard at the top court in Ottawa on Thursday.
The federal government is also planning to table legislative changes by mid-December to help address the problem of so many serious cases being tossed because of delays.
For decades, such delays have plagued Canada’s justice system. In a landmark decision in a 2016 case called Jordan, the Supreme Court tried to do something about them, citing a pervasive culture of complacency around the issue.
The top court created make-or-break deadlines. Unless there are exceptional circumstances, criminal trials must be completed in provincial courts within 18 months from the day a person is charged, and within 30 months in superior courts.
Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by malice; How many serious crimes in Ontario went un-prosecuted because of the resources that were expended on Tamara Lich and Chris Barber? There’s a precedent, here. Roughly $7M of court resources was spent, about 20 years ago now, prosecuting Wheat Board dissidents, while violent crime prosecutions withered on the vine.
Just Another Ten Chances
Readers will note the sly conceit that what matters, all that matters, is the sum being stolen this time, not the whole at knifepoint or gunpoint business – as if this lively means of cash extraction were some trivial detail, beneath acknowledgment. A thing with no informational content, no clues as to the character of the perpetrator, their fitness for a civilised world.
Those pointing to the smallness of the sum as if it were a significant mitigating factor don’t seem troubled by the implication that someone who will violate others, and threaten them with death, for a mere $20 is someone who will use very small incentives to behave in monstrous ways. Likewise, the implication that robbing people with only $20 to surrender is a matter of no import.
On three-strikes laws and the contortions of progressive critics.
The Part I Like Best
About harm reduction is the way it draws junkies into programs and turns out brand new medical support staff;
“Shelter programs should plan for the intentional integration of people who use drugs into their staff team.” Paid duties can include helping friends shoot up.
Drug dealers are drawn to the vicinity of injection sites because that’s where they find their client base. If a shelter has active drug users employed on site, this suggests that even staff will be liaising with dealers.
Document here: GUIDANCE DOCUMENT FOR HARM REDUCTION IN SHELTER PROGRAMS
Is the Destruction of Britain a Preview for Canadians?
In case you’re not aware, a disastrous budget in Britain was recently announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves. Many reports suggest that it props up the welfare class by heavily taxing the working class.
Carl Benjamin and Dan Tubb discuss what has happened and what it might cause to happen at the next federal election.
How Yummy, Senor Maduro
Venezuelan socialist Governor Freddy Bernal releases a video "celebrating" with his family the early Christmas decreed by Nicolás Maduro
They are eating plastic food pic.twitter.com/3VAe2bXMBU
— Ian Miles Cheong (@ianmiles) November 28, 2025
Dispatches from the Maple Gulag Truck Stop
On my list of things I wish were real, a growing economy in Canada is just above flying cars. But it’s just not in the cards…
Forecasters had predicted gross domestic product (GDP) would expand by a more modest 0.5 per cent. The momentum was driven by Canada’s strengthening trade balance, with a decrease in imports and an increase in exports during the quarter, Statistics Canada said on Friday. It was also driven by increased capital spending by governments, as business investment remained flat.
The trucking industry is always the first into and the first out of a recession and not even Mark Carney’s deficits can change that.
Quoi?
Blacklock’s- Feds Like $25K French Fines
Federally regulated transport employers must conduct business in French as well as English under threat of $25,000 fines, Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault said yesterday. Penalties will be initially enforced on three corporations and major airports nationwide.
“People traveling in Canada should be able to receive services in French and English anywhere, anytime,” Guilbeault said in a statement. “These draft regulations reinforce the genuine equality between these two languages.”
Union Mentality
The last time I checked, the NFU was down to a handful of members and were being led by “farmers” so far outside the mainstream that they hardly qualified as such. I don’t know what’s worse: that these clowns are demanding a form of UBI for farmers, or that a mainstream media outlet reports on it so uncritically.
Farmers want Ottawa to set up a 10-year pilot project that would ensure they receive an annual income of at least $50,000, a rate that would rise by inflation every year.
David Thompson, executive director of the union, says a guaranteed income would help stabilize farmers’ incomes, which are often unstable.
Now they’re channeling Zoran Mamdani and this nonsense gets breathlessly regurgitated by the same bunch of toadies.
One resolution calls for the union to lobby the federal government to introduce legislation that would put a cap on the profits of major grocery chains that control the lion’s share of the market.
Another resolution calls on union to create a national coalition pressing the federal government to purchase food directly from farmers to be sold at cost in a “network of national/provincial/municipal public grocery stores.”
Sovereign Money Pit
What’s not to love about a sovereign wealth fund where others are forced to pony up the seed capital? It also helps to imagine that such a fund could not possibly make anything but the wisest investments.
Chief Joe Miskokomon said the fund would be a “critical step” forward in bolstering the economic capacity of First Nations.
“We’re not saying to take out the banks,” Miskokomon said in an interview.
“What we’re saying is the banks don’t need to have as much as a say as they do.”
Enemies Of The People
Peter Menzies- Tens of thousands are dying on waiting lists following decades of media reluctance to debate healthcare
Better thousands of us die prematurely, apparently, than risk a grownup conversation that could challenge our national mythology and lead us down the path to “European-style” healthcare.
They Took All The Rights, Put ‘Em In A Rights Museum
Every single institution with the words "human rights" in the title has been captured by extremists and terror-sympathizers. There are no exceptions I'm aware of and in hindsight we should have seen this coming. https://t.co/Wvi9WRnEfQ
— Tristin Hopper (@TristinHopper) November 22, 2025
The “Cobra Effect”
The Cobra Effect – When Incentives Go Wrong
The Part I Like Best
About the liberalization of narcotic use is the way it forced international drug cartels to leave their old ways behind to find honest work.
Seven Canadians with alleged ties to former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding, who is considered one of the world’s most dangerous fugitives with a major drug-trafficking network operating across the Americas, have been arrested and will be extradited to the U.S. in connection to former Canadian
Wedding, who competed for Canada in the 2002 Winter Olympics, is already on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. U.S. officials say he is allegedly responsible for dozens of murders abroad.
The 44-year-old has been charged with overseeing the operations of a criminal enterprise – including by engaging in witness intimidation tactics such as murder – and enriching himself with the enterprise’s laundered drug proceeds.
U.S. officials allege Wedding issued ordered the killing of a witness in a 2024 federal narcotics case against Wedding. The witness was shot to death in restaurant in Medellin in January 2025.
More: Gursewak Singh Bal of Mississauga, owner of @thedirtynews & an SFJ member, has now been exposed as a criminal accused of conspiracy to commit murder.
Protection Money
If you pony up enough money to the paleolithic set, maybe your project can go ahead.
Jonathan Wilkinson, a B.C. Liberal MP and a former federal environment minister, said today that “a number of things” would need to happen before the tanker ban could change, including discussions with the B.C. government and coastal First Nations.
Scroll down to see the Financial Post point out the errors in Eby’s arguments.
As the saying goes, you’re entitled to your own opinion but not to your own facts. Premier Eby’s objections to another Alberta pipeline are rooted in fallacies, not fact. The Carney government should recognize that and decide soon whether or not another pipeline to B.C. tidewater is “in the national interest” — which apparently is how you get a permit to build major projects in Canada these days.
Crisis In Health Care
WATCH: Canadian doctors leads a dance and rap performance at the COP30 climate summit to warn about the health impact of rising global emissions.
The Cheque Is In The Mail
I’m suspicious about the impact of these measures for a few reasons: voluntary departures come with severance; government retirement plans often require funding out of general revenue so early retirement just means more losses to cover; many eliminated jobs are potential positions as opposed to actual ones, and the timeline is an entire decade.
He said the company will use “attrition first” to downsize from the roughly 62,000 people it employed at the end of last year.
The company expects to shed 16,000 employees through retirement or voluntary departures by 2030, with an additional 14,000 leaving by 2035.
Merriment Detected, Fretting Ensues
White people strum banjos, have fun. Fretting ensues at University of Sheffield:
Obviously, activities that are chiefly indulged in by white people – in this case, folk singing – must be deemed suspect and found problematic with great urgency, and then probed for hidden wrongness. At taxpayer expense. And all this scholarly rigour ain’t cheap, you know…
Behind this mannered waffle is the weird implication that devotees of folk music are somehow, simply by existing, excluding racial minorities. Shooing them away. Though, as so often, details on this point are neither obvious nor forthcoming.
Still, perhaps we can look forward to an academic interrogation of classic car shows in Nottinghamshire as some heinous bastion of “white-centricity.” Another item on the list of Things That Must Be Decolonised And Morally Corrected.
“Our aim,” say our tearful academics, “is to break down the barriers for people to get involved in folk music. Opening up the genre to different audiences.”
Different audiences. Not the audience that folk music actually has, mind, the one it attracts and which is arrived at via choice and musical inclination. And again, no actual barriers to participation are specified. But the audience is nonetheless all wrong, apparently.
Money For Nothing
That’s 600 billion, with a ‘B’. How much of the melt-up was driven by leverage, and who’s left holding the bag for those loans?
After topping $126,000 in October, Bitcoin has fallen sharply, briefly wiping out its 2025 gains before stabilizing on Monday.
With gold and stocks near all-time highs, Bitcoin is the “tip of the risk-assets iceberg and melting,” said Mike McGlone, senior commodity strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence. “I expect Bitcoin and most cryptos to keep falling.”
Make Chastity Belts Great Again
It’s a way of Life! You’re going to love it!
