I Feel So Much Safer
Blacklock’s- Scrap Millions’ Worth Of Cars
The Mounties have written off millions’ worth of vehicles as scrap metal, new records show. Cabinet in an Inquiry Of Ministry tabled in the Commons said it had scrapped 2,469 vehicles to date. Another 2,396 cars, trucks, SUVs and vans were decommissioned and scheduled to be towed to wrecking yards.
Sales of used police vehicles were banned following a 2020 Nova Scotia shooting spree that left 22 dead. Serial killer Gabriel Wortman. “The perpetrator owned four decommissioned police vehicles,” said the Mass Casualty Commission Final Report.
The World Is In The Very Best Of Hands
Oh, shit.
US Capitol Hit by Massive Dark Web Cyber Attack: Reports.
The personal information of more than 3,000 congressional staffers has been leaked across the dark web in a wide-ranging cyberattack on the Capitol.
"Many of these leaks likely occurred because staffers used…
— Tired of being politically correct (@USBornNRaised) September 24, 2024
Let That Sink In
The dumbest Democrat billionaire on earth is out here demanding voter ID after losing a Twitter poll, and you’re black-pilling? https://t.co/TTEOhQ91Zv
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) September 1, 2024
It’s Good To Be King
National Post- Airplane food cost more than $220K on Trudeau’s Indo-Pacific trip
The catering costs had previously been pegged closer to $180K but a response to an order paper question in the House of Commons reveals the final tally was $223,234.
Meals on-board the plane included beef brisket with mashed parsley potatoes with truffle oil, pan fried beef tenderloin with port wine sauce, braised lamb shanks with steamed broccoli and boiled baby potatoes, and baked cheesecake with pistachio brittle.
How It Started, How It’s Going
The New York/Ireland portal seems to be going well…
“the students are fearful that their arrest records and suspensions will ‘follow them into their adult lives.’”
Sorry guys, we didn’t make the new rules. But those are the new rules
No Going Back
More Money Than Brains
Surprising no one: Saudi Arabia’s Decision to Scale Back ‘THE LINE’ Project
More: The Hidden Problems of NEOM
Mercantilist Pensions
Rather than tackle the pressing question as to why pension funds have decreased the their investments in Canada from 28% in 2000 to 3% today, a gaggle of milquetoast business leaders is demanding that Ottawa force those pension funds to invest within Canada despite lower returns. It’s as if these Wesley Mouch types believe that a depressed business climate is an unalterable fact of nature.
Government has the right, responsibility and obligation to regulate how this savings regime operates,” says the letter signed by dozens including BlackBerry Ltd founder Jim Balsillie, Metro Inc. chief executive Eric La Flèche, the CEOs of telecommunications companies Telus Corp., Rogers Communications Inc. and Quebecor Inc., and former Bank of Nova Scotia and Air Canada CEOs Brian Porter and Calin Rovinescu.
“We think the government does have some right to have an influence over the regime” in which these large funds operate, he said. “But we’re not suggesting the government tells these pension funds exactly where to invest.”
It’s Probably Nothing
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Exaggeration First Nation
As anyone who has done basic research into their family tree might know, the presence of unmarked graves in rural 19th century cemeteries is extremely common. Given the high rate of infant mortality at that time, it’s also not surprising that many were children. But careful consideration of the actual evidence doesn’t make for shocking headlines, so some feel it’s best to make sinister inferences and jump to outrageous conclusions instead.
Earlier this month, the Acimowin Opaspiw Society (AOS) — announced they have confirmed that at least 212 children were buried in unmarked graves during the school’s operations.
“It can be safely stated that in our community of 12,000 people, each family has had four to five children who went missing from this institution,” he continued.
The remnants of the Saddle Lake site are so extensive that grave diggers kept uncovering child-sized remains when digging graves for recently deceased band members.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
“What was WEIRD about Antarctica?“
Apparently No One in Canada Knows How To Shoot or Hunt
Times Colonist- Parks Canada says 84 deer killed in $834,000 cull using helicopter
About 84 deer were killed as part of a controversial Sidney Island deer cull that involved marksmen shooting from a helicopter, says Parks Canada.
The goal is to restore the natural ecosystem on the island, located just off Sidney, after years of grazing by the invasive fallow deer, with an estimated current population of a few hundred animals.
The eradication is part of a nearly $6-million multi-year project to restore the Coast Douglas-fir forest ecosystem on the nine-square kilometre island.
The cost of the first phase, which includes the helicopter and marksmen from the U.S. and New Zealand, is about $834,000, said Parks Canada.
Of Course They Are
Khrushchev Would Be So Proud!
During Krushchev’s reign in the Soviet Union, the state embarked on a massive residential building spree which was so ineptly carried out that Russians referred to the buildings as khrushchebys, which is a play on the Russian word for slum. Fast forward to 2023, and the Trudeau government has unveiled its own version of centrally planned housing development.
It’s not that the federal government is going to give you a house, but they will provide you with an architect at taxpayer expense to create pre-approved blueprints which they are certain you will love.
“The catalogue of pre-approved designs, is going to be tied to existing building codes — the National Building Code, which we will seek to make changes to in the future — but will also be designed to mirror the requirements of provincial building codes that are implemented across the country,” he said.
“We’re going to ensure that the pre-approved designs meet the standards to access CMHC programs so we can reduce the administrative barriers on applicants who are seeking to go through the process.”
The Part I Like Best
…about pot legalization is how it’s showering governments with a bonanza of tax revenues.
When lawmakers legalized marijuana last session, they also set aside tens of millions of tax dollars to subsidize the marijuana industry. The bill that legalized marijuana, HF 100, instructed the DEED commissioner to establish numerous programs that will provide loans or grants to individuals or organizations involved in the marijuana industry. […]
Spending on the marijuana industry does not end there, however. Last month, according to MinnPost, Minnesota agreed to spend tens of millions on a Missouri-based Cannabis company.
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
The CBC, always the last to know.
Electric vehicles have proved far less reliable, on average, than gasoline-powered cars, trucks and SUVs, according to the latest survey by Consumer Reports, which found that EVs from the 2021 through 2023 model years encountered nearly 80 per cent more problems than did vehicles propelled by internal combustion engines.
Consumer Reports said EV owners most frequently reported troubles with battery and charging systems as well as flaws in how the vehicles’ body panels and interior parts fit together. The magazine and website noted that EV manufacturers are still learning to construct completely new power systems, and it suggested that as they do, the overall reliability of electric vehicles should improve.
As the stupid rich people market nears saturation…
The growth of electric vehicle sales has slowed sharply since last year. In June 2022, EV sales were growing about 90 per cent year over year. By June of this year the 12-month growth rate had slowed to about 50 per cent, and automakers have become increasingly fearful that the pace will weaken further.
Going Bwoke
Investments in trendy ‘ESG’ assets collapsed by $5 trillion in just two years…
In its biannual assessment, the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance (GSIA) said on Wednesday that investors had $30.3 trillion in sustainable assets in 2022, down from $35.3 trillion in 2020.
In the US, where Republicans have railed against ESG funds, which push for environmental, social, and governance benefits, such assets plunged from more than $17 trillion to just $8.4 trillion over the same period.
[…]A recent Bloomberg survey showed that investors expect the downturn to continue into 2024, with the negative sentiment extending to Tesla and other electric carmakers.
‘Sustainable bonds make for bad investments when they actually meet the radical left’s definition of sustainable, and when they don’t, Wall Street greenwashes them to justify the higher fees they charge for selling them,’ added Hild.
‘It’s a scam on investors either way.’
Related: Yesterday, America First Legal (AFL), together with co-counsel Boyden Gray PLLC and Lawson Huck Gonzalez PLLC, filed an amended complaint in its lawsuit against Target Corporation and its Board of Directors. The lawsuit is brought on behalf of a group of shareholders for Target’s misleading representations about its Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) mandates that betrayed Target’s customers and shareholders and caused investors to lose billions of dollars.