How the Epstein files burned a source for the NYT aaand…..
@michaelmalice: something truly bizarre is happening … AP released a piece on the Epstein emails that dropped, but the writer does everything in their power to exonerate Trump from the implications
This is why CDN eggs are so expensive – pic.twitter.com/Bm7NkBH2iV
— The Reclamare (@TheReclamare) November 2, 2025
Dan Knight- A Justice System That Hates Punishment Can’t Protect the Innocent
This week, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled—by a 5-4 vote—that handing a child pornographer a one-year prison sentence is cruel and unusual punishment. Yes, really. According to the highest court in the land, asking a man who hoarded videos of children—actual children—being raped… to serve twelve months behind bars… is too much to ask. It’s excessive. It’s unfair.
Dan Knight- OP-ED: Fleeing Facts, Canada Now Protects Americans from Trump and Science
You used to need to flee war, famine, or tyranny to qualify for refugee status. Now, you just need to feel uncomfortable in a red state. Apparently, Mississippi is now equivalent to Mogadishu if you don’t like being called “he.”
Globe and Mail- Judge halts deportation of non-binary American in landmark ruling after Trump’s gender edicts
Angel Jenkel, a 24-year-old multimedia artist from Minnesota who is engaged to a Canadian, can now remain in Canada while their case is judicially reviewed, in a judgment that their lawyers hailed as precedent-setting.
Mx. Jenkel told The Globe and Mail that the current climate in the U.S. is “scary,” and that being non-binary, they are afraid of persecution if they return.
I don’t know the truth about Epstein but I will say this. Anyone who thinks “transparency” is easy does not understand the system. Every legal matter in this country is a thicket of barriers to disclosure: confidentially agreements, attorney/client privilege, non-disclosure and non-disparagement agreements, and classified information in cases like this the disclosure of which involves criminal penalties.
The result is an unfathomably large underworld of legal machinations about which the public knows nothing. And never will. This is true in every sector, to say nothing of the classified sector. Transparency is a slogan, something easy to expect and demand, but the reality is impenetrably complicated and fraught with grave consequences all around.
Every bit of litigation means burying facts deep within this substructure of public life, everything mediated by lawyers and judges and settlements with infinitely complicated terms that are valid in perpetuity. The long case of Epstein must face a thicket more complicated than any in human history.
oh then there are gag orders for any existing litigation!This is why whenever Bondi speaks about this, she chooses her words extremely carefully and looks rattled and nervous. Of course she is hiding information, not because she is guilty but because she is coached by dozens of lawyers. This is probably why Trump is sick of it.
I have no doubt that Carney is running a much tighter ship than Justin ever did. But I can’t help but contrast how the mainstream media seems blissfully content about this, considering that Stephen Harper, who also ran a similarly tight ship, was routinely denounced as having a dictatorial approach precisely because of it.
He is fiercely punctual, runs a tight ship during meetings and is decisive — all marked differences from his predecessor.
“Decision-making is not a problem,” said one senior government official, describing Carney as “task focused” and for whom results matter.
“He does not suffer fools,” the official added, a common refrain among all sources.
Carney, 60, also cares deeply about professionalism in his office. Staff are expected to dress in formal business attire and documents are to be written using British spelling, for example.
CTV- Frustrations rise over human waste on Vancouver streets, prompting return of ‘poop fairy’ program
In 2021, the City of Vancouver introduced its Feces Removal Response Program to address the fouling minefields, with patrols and collections carried out on weekdays across Chinatown, Downtown, Strathcona, Gastown, and Hastings Crossing.
A spokesperson from the city says the program had seen 1,870 removals in the first two months of this year alone. In 2024, 327 calls regarding human waste were made, an average of six calls per week.
Western Standard- About 1,000 chickens could be killed as Alberta farmer battles egg ‘cartel’
Henk Van Essen, a 61-year-old egg farmer near Lethbridge, says he faces a court-ordered cull of 1,000 laying hens after his arrest on Wednesday for allegedly selling eggs outside the quota system regulated by the Egg Farmers of Alberta (EFA).
While the Liberals are ranting about “Orange Man” bad to win the election, serious issues are ignored.
True North Wire – Court overturns jail sentence of indigenous man. And of course other groups are getting special treatment.
Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge will not seek re-election, Radio-Canada has learned.
But first, she needs to shovel money out the door.
But before she goes, St-Onge plans to fulfil a key part of her mandate letter as Heritage Minister.
According to information obtained by Radio-Canada, this week St-Onge will unveil her proposal to modernize CBC/Radio-Canada’s mandate in the Broadcasting Act, which has not been reviewed since 1991.
h/t Mike
JAW-DROPPING
Tom Clark pays $1800/month for his $9M condo Trudeau bought him with your money.
This is below average rent in Canada.
If Trudeau bought a $9M condo, their mortgage would be $42K/month.
Trudeau’s hack gets a $40k monthly housing subsidy.pic.twitter.com/mmiT8RtABy
— Michael Barrett (@MikeBarrettON) December 22, 2024
As the post office inevitably transitions to a horrifically expensive junk mail delivery service, this allegedly climate-change driven “death trap” is starting to look more like a suicide pact. The postal strike has certainly pushed me to go paperless for all my critical invoices and to use Amazon or a courier for parcel delivery from now on. I’m quite certain I’m not the only one.
Enslin, 41, has worked at Canada Post for 16 years and said the extreme weather brought on by climate change — whether it’s inhaling smoke from wildfires or delivering mail during storms — has added significant physical and mental pressure to their jobs.
And that’s one of the reasons postal workers are demanding more support for these challenges in their new contract, he said.
Joe Biden has officially pardoned his son, Hunter.
Joe Biden's blanket pardon of Hunter covers the entire period of the 2014 CIA coup in Ukraine when Hunter was appointed to the board of a Ukrainian gas company
This means he can't be investigated for any criminal activity during this timeframe
Are you paying attention yet?
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) December 2, 2024
MSNBC’s Joe Walsh is “deflated”.
Hmmm… With Hunter Biden pardoned, he can’t claim the Fifth when the Republicans go on the road to a non-Washington GC jurisdiction and start asking him questions about his scumbag criminal father
A system in which taxpayers help rich people hang pictures for their friends.
Douglas Mackey was sentenced to jail for 9 months for posting such a meme, which was the equivalent of the old joke that we should vote early and vote often–a joke told by innumerable politicians and comics. But it was a joke made by a Republican, so it is out of bounds and must be punished.
Jimmy Kimmel just made a similar joke to millions, not hundreds, and the entire establishment will no doubt come to his defense. Nothing will happen, just as nothing happens when celebrities muse about shooting Donald Trump, chopping off his head, stabbing him, bombing the White House, or any other call to violence against “Nazi” Republicans.
Compare and contrast the first 3 paragraphs from releases on the same alleged criminal activity, with the first issued by US Department of Justice, and the 2nd from Canada's RCMP. pic.twitter.com/DO1a5MFZAh
— Paul Vieira (@paulvieira) October 17, 2024
In a historic crackdown on criminality that reached into the upper echelons of Canadian banking operations in the United States, the U.S. Department of Justice has unveiled a case against TD Bank spanning nearly a decade. Officials revealed that the bank allowed approximately $18.3 trillion to flow through its systems unchecked between January 2014 and October 2023, facilitating money laundering activities for Colombian drug traffickers and three major money laundering networks, including a Chinese crime group operating in New Jersey.
These networks collectively laundered over $670 million through TD Bank’s accounts.
During this period, TD Bank failed to monitor 92 percent of its transaction volume, resulting in over 14.6 billion unmonitored transactions, encompassing a range of high-risk activities. The case has delivered a serious blow to TD Bank’s U.S. expansion efforts and raises critical questions about regulatory oversight in Canada, where some experts argue that gaps in enforcement allowed such lapses to persist.
“TD Bank created an environment that allowed financial crime to flourish. By making its services convenient for criminals, it became one,” U.S. Attorney-General Merrick Garland said at a news conference in Washington.
Some experts contend that Canada’s regulatory environment has become a haven for international crime.
On Friday, Marc Cohodes, a U.S. investor known for exposing financial misconduct, told The Bureau: “The amount of financial crime going on in Canada right now is far greater than the mind can comprehend. It involves housing, mortgages, and illicit funds flowing in from European, Chinese, and South American networks into Canada’s financial systems. The way Canada is welcoming third-world criminals and their funds risks turning it into a third-world enterprise.”
Cohodes said he believes Canada’s government has a “dire and urgent need” to address the reputational harm to the nation stemming from the TD case, and other issues, like casino and real estate money laundering in British Columbia, that Cohodes began publicly commenting on in 2015.
