Category: Shiny Pony

Dispatches from the Maple Gulag Truck Stop

Shameless Plug for Gord Magill’s new book ‘End of the Road’.  Buy a copy and upset Mark Carney’s New World Order.

And of course the we need to hear from Tamara and Big Red on the only Canadian news source with any integrity.

Diversity Is Our Strength

Sam Cooper- Inside Canada’s Diaspora Extortion Pipeline—How Organized Crime Fraud in Student Visas, International Schools, and Mass Migration Became a Recruiting Stream for Shooting Squads

Canada’s spiraling extortion crisis targeting Indo-Canadian communities is being driven by international organized crime that has exploited a whole industry of designated learning institutes and immigration consultant shops through massive fraud, coercing vulnerable student migrants into serving in extortion squads that are terrorizing families and businesses, with brazen shootings now occurring on a near daily basis in Surrey, B.C., the epicenter of a national security threat now spreading through communities in Toronto, Edmonton, and Winnipeg, The Bureau’s investigations have revealed.

Honk, Honk!

Don’t think they won’t do it again.

Canadian Lawyer- FCA upholds 2024 ruling that Liberal government unreasonably invoked Emergencies Act to clear convoy

National Post- Government loses appeal on use of Emergencies Act during Freedom Convoy

Globe and Mail- Trudeau’s use of Emergencies Act to clear convoy protests unjustified, appeal court rules

Added by Kate;

Gating Your Capital

I like Jeff Snider’s podcasts and in this one he spends the first half talking about Canadian real estate investment funds that are starting to restrict payouts. Given that Canadian real estate values are crashing, if they don’t halt outflows the funds could quickly become insolvent. The Bloomberg article he quotes is behind a paywall, but he conveniently scrolls through it so you can read the whole thing.

“Stung by a deep downturn in the country’s housing market, many of the funds have restricted cash distributions, client withdrawals, or both in a process the industry calls gating. Often the companies don’t say when access will resume, and about 30 billion Canadian, about 21.7 billion US equivalent. Almost 40% of the 80 billion Canadian invested in such funds is now locked up.”

Racial Injustice

Odd that the writers of the story never thought to get any input from Omogbolahan Jegede’s victims.

A former university football player who sexually assaulted two women has been sentenced to just two years in prison because he is black and was feeling intense pressure around the time of the attacks, the judge said. Omogbolahan Jegede, 25, had choked one of the women almost into unconsciousness.

“It should be noted that but, for the contents of the Impact of Race and Culture Assessment (IRCA), the pre-sentence report and all the mitigating factors surrounding Omogbolahan (Teddy) Jegede, this sentence would have been much higher,” Justice Frank Hoskins said in his Nova Scotia Supreme Court decision on Wednesday.

“This is more than a cyclical downturn.”

Dan Knight- Bank of Canada Cuts Rates to 2.25%, Warns of Structural Economic Damage

The central bank’s message was buried beneath bureaucratic doublespeak, carefully manicured forecasts, and bilingual spin. Strip that all away, and here’s what’s really going on: the Canadian economy has been gutted by a combination of political mismanagement, trade dependence, and a collapsing growth model based on mass immigration. The central bank knows it.

New Governor, Same As The Old Governor

This is a really good explainer.

Threadrolled here.

Dispatches from the Maple Gulag

Tyrants have always found the Magna Carta to be reckless…

Pierre Poilievre is by no means the first person to raise concerns about RCMP covering up of Trudeau/Liberal scandals.  And it’s not like there is a lack of evidence to take to trial.

But hey, we did get an apology….

Related:  Isee everyone got the talking points…

Math Is Not Our Thing

Dan Knight- “They Never Asked What It Would Cost”: Budget Watchdog Testifies Liberal Government Never Calculated Impact of Immigration Surge

In a stunning moment of honesty before Parliament, Canada’s own budget watchdog just confirmed what every sane person already suspected: the federal government under Justin Trudeau and now Mark Carney has never even bothered to ask what this out-of-control immigration surge is actually costing the country.

The Libranos: Chew On This

Western Standard;

Taxpayers have been billed almost $500 million just to run the Trudeau government’s Canada Dental Care Plan, with most of the money going to administration instead of patients.

Cabinet admitted in a Commons filing that as of March 31, 2025, the program’s overhead costs totaled $472.9 million, including payments to third-party administrators.

Blacklock’s Reporter said the disclosure came only after Conservative MP Dan Mazier (Riding Mountain, Man.) pressed for answers on what the program has actually cost since its inception.

The Part I Like Best

About pot legalization is the way they had all the enforcement ducks in a row when they rolled it out and onto our streets.

Devices used to track marijuana-impaired drivers are so unpredictable several police forces are waiting for “improved technology,” says a Department of Public Safety report. The disclosure follows warnings by legislators that identifying cannabis users behind the wheel would be difficult: “Given that drug testing has not sufficiently evolved, in your own words, why is your government legalizing?”

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