Category: The Libranos

A Carney Con?

Sun- Elbows up, food prices up — until feds quietly backed down

…the Carney government’s lack of transparency is concerning. On April 10, during the election campaign, Carney briefly paused his campaign to convene a cabinet committee meeting on tariffs. At the time, the move raised eyebrows. Now, it’s clear he was preparing to walk back Ottawa’s retaliatory measures. Yet the public was not informed, at least not openly. No formal announcement was made during the campaign. Voters were left in the dark — arguably to avoid alienating the Elbows Up base.

New Governor, Same As The Old Governor

Danielle Smith’s reaction here.

Update: @DimitrisSoudas

This was, without question, the worst day of the Carney government to date.

The Foreign Minister blamed the democratic State of Israel — not the terrorist group Hamas. The Justice Minister announced he’s working from home and will be taking meetings on Zoom, as though the justice system were a tech startup. The Heritage Minister — who has nothing to do with pipelines — publicly contradicted the Prime Minister on energy policy. What’s next? Will he put a Canadian flag on a barrel of oil and call it culture?

And then there’s the Housing Minister, who made it clear that making homes more affordable just isn’t a priority for him.

New Governor, Just Like The Old Governor

TorStar;

Bell Canada’s cancellation of a $32-million dollar contract to expand high-speed internet and cell service on Labrador’s north coast comes as the telecommunications giant has confirmed plans to expand southward in the United States.

After receiving millions in government subsidies for the Labrador North Wireless Broadband Project, Canada’s largest communications company says it’s no longer feasible to complete the expansion due to rising costs and competition.

Margin Of Management

Dan Knight: Recounts, Power, and the Liberal March to Majority

This morning, in a quiet hall on the windswept coast of Newfoundland, democracy is going to do what it is supposed to do. Its counting. In a federal election defined by razor-thin margins and electoral fatigue, Canada’s tightest race — Terra Nova – The Peninsulas — is undergoing a judicial recount. Not because of protests or partisanship, but because the law demands it. When the margin is less than 0.1%, the ballots get counted again. That’s the rule. That’s the process. And it’s underway now.

What makes this recount so important isn’t the process — it’s the power behind the result.[…]

Born and raised in Newfoundland, Handrigan built his legal career in Grand Bank, eventually serving as a litigation lawyer before his appointment to the bench. He’s presided over high-profile cases involving criminal law, abuse compensation, and civil injunctions. In 2019, he instructed a jury in the Al Potter murder trial with clinical precision. In 2024, he ordered financial compensation for dozens of abuse victims who had been wrongly denied. On paper, that’s the mark of a judge committed to procedural fairness.

But look just a little deeper and the pattern becomes clearer. These aren’t rebellious rulings or populist pushbacks. They’re system-correcting decisions — the kind the establishment loves because they preserve the illusion of balance. That’s Handrigan’s specialty: smoothing over friction in a system designed by and for institutional power.

When, in 2024, he scheduled a hearing to block the sale of a local church in Portugal Cove South, he didn’t challenge the power structure behind the decision — he merely moderated it. As one legal analyst put it, “Handrigan doesn’t disrupt. He manages.”

And that’s the issue here.

Flashback time.

The Part I Like Best

About marijuana legalization is how it caused petty street dealers to turn their lives around and become productive members of society.

Around the time Canadian police uncovered a massive Chinese drug cash bank in Richmond, B.C.— exposing the so-called Vancouver Model of transnational money laundering — investigators made another stunning discovery that has never before been publicly disclosed.

According to sources with direct knowledge, operatives tied to Beijing’s foreign influence arm, the United Front Work Department, were orchestrating a parallel cannabis trafficking and money laundering operation — leveraging Canada’s legalization of marijuana to export the lucrative commodity to the United States and Japan. The scheme used short-term rental platforms to operate illicit cannabis brokerage houses in Vancouver, aggregating product from vast acreages across Western Canada and shipping it to destinations including Tokyo and New York City. Proceeds were collected in United Front-linked drug cash brokerages in those cities and laundered back through Canadian banks.

Read it all.

Great Success!

Can’t wait for the new Liberal public housing scheme to multiply these victories all across the country.

Blacklock’s-  Bottled Water To Brush Teeth

Asked, “Do you ever use bottled water for anything in your household?” 57 percent said they relied on it to make coffee, 53 percent to prepare meals and 38 percent for “brushing teeth.” Cabinet from 2016 budgeted $3.6 billion to eliminate all First Nation boiled water advisories within five years. The deadline was not met.

Mr. Carney Goes to Washington

Dan Knight- Carney in Washington: A Test of Leadership, Failed

At the center of the meeting? Tariffs. Brutal, unapologetic tariffs. Twenty-five percent on cars, steel, and aluminum. Ten percent on oil. These weren’t symbolic gestures. These were real hits—economic body blows designed to protect American industry and workers. And Carney? He came begging for relief.

He leaned hard on the talking points: Canada is America’s largest customer, the two economies are integrated, half of Canadian-built cars are American in content. Trump didn’t flinch. When asked if he’d lift the tariffs, his response was classic Trump: “No… Just the way it is.” That’s it. No spin. No apology.

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