Sun- Why are the Texas Rangers the only MLB team without a Pride Night?

Montreal Quebec- Official bilingualism in Canada a ‘myth’: poll

If you have the time, this is a good Timcast episode, with Matt Gaetz spitting facts. (live now)

What Really Happened: Lockdown Until Vaccination

Four years later, many people are investigating how our lives were completely upended by a pandemic response. Over my time on the case, I’ve heard countless theories. It was Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Finance, the Green New Deal, the CCP, Depopulation, Get Trump, Mail-In Ballots, and so on.

There is evidence to back them all.

The problem with having so many pieces of evidence and so many theories is that people can too easily get thrown off track, going on wild goose chases. It’s too much to follow through consistently, and this allows the perpetrators to hide their deeds.

For such situations, we can take recourse to Occam’s razor: the best explanation is the simplest one that explains the maximum number of facts. This is what I offer here.

h/t Peter T

I present the ‘quality of life index’. We were ranked #5 in the world in 2013. (h/t Marc)

Jordan Peterson- The Truth About Auschwitz Prison Guards

Jordan Peterson- Lies Ruin Your Life

The  Best Damn Roofer joins his old high school buddy and SDA regular Gord Magill on The Voice of GO(r)D.

Or allegations thereof:

At which point, readers may object that being born in a relatively congenial part of the world is not a “privilege,” or by implication a basis for guilt, a thing for which to atone. Any more than being born somewhere less congenial is a sin, a thing for which to atone.

“I think they know they ‘got lucky’ but don’t really care,” chides one of the subsequent commenters. “Everything is luck and random chance,” insists another. Note the implication that the comfort and agreeableness of a society is merely a matter of chance, of luck. As if the preceding cultivation of values and behaviour played no part whatsoever.

As if culture and civilisation didn’t matter.

Watch this with the sound off, and then recall that James Carville eats mice.

But noooo…

Toronto Star- Ontario prisons seeing more drone drops, with criminals often flying them right to inmates’ windows, guards’ union says

The drone situation has brought out a number of private companies like D-Fend Solutions who said they offer solutions to the illegal traffic.

Shooting the drones out of the air might sound simple, but it could have dangerous consequences, the company said.

Reports of heavy damage and a tsunami warning on X, some of it fake of course. This isn’t;

BREAKING: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, $TSM, evacuated factory areas after a major earthquake rocked its home island, endangering production at the world’s largest maker of advanced chips, per Bloomberg

Japan: Naha Airport Okinawa Earthquake – Everyone evacuated to the 3rd floor due to a #tsunami warning.”

Many people have asked why the New Democratic Party (NDP) continue to support Justin Trudeau’s far left policies and tactics? The reason they do so is because for Canada’s Bolsheviks, Trudeau hasn’t gone far enough.

From their beginning in 1932 as the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) – now the NDP after a merger with the Canadian Labour Congress in 1961 – has always wanted to turn Canada into a socialist country. The Regina Manifesto was their earliest blueprint for Canada.

The CCF/NDP have always denied their far left intentions, even though they have committed them to paper on numerous occasions. So it is to be expected that they will deny them today. But once they gain power, they waste no time nationalizing the means of production. The NDP in Saskatchewan nationalized the mining, oil & gas, and forestry industries and made move to nationalize agriculture as well, something they swore they would never do.

Looking at the federal politics today, its is obvious that Jagmeet Singh and the NDP are not just supporting Justin Trudeau’s censorship bills and false promises, they are leading the way.

Holy Hell;

Part of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed early Tuesday morning after a 948-foot container ship, the Dali, crashed into it, sending cars and people into the water in what authorities are calling a “developing mass casualty event.”

Live from the scene.

Bloomberg News;

Since 2021, lithium prices have surged 10-fold, only to crash back to earth, wiping out billions of dollars in miners’ shares and forcing supply cuts. The ripple effects of this ride are only just beginning.

The reversal of fortunes for the electric-vehicle battery metal has been nothing short of stunning. Its rapid ascent to a record in late 2022 sparked a rush by mining and refining companies to expand output, while automakers scrambled to lock in supply deals.

A little over a year later, it’s a different landscape. Major producers are issuing profit warnings, and in Australia — the No. 1 source of unprocessed lithium — miners are retrenching. Even Greenbushes, the country’s largest project, announced cutbacks this week.

The turnaround is bad news for the nation’s economy, where the hope was that energy-transition metals would breathe new life into a mining sector dominated by iron ore and coal. It’s already prompted discussions of government support, with one industry group calling for tax credits and royalty reform.

Lower lithium prices are, in theory, good for automakers as well as EV buyers. But in practice, the slump may deter investors as they wait to see whether the market has bottomed.

Globe and Mail- Canada’s chief technology officer accused of manipulating, destroying files at CBSA

Canada’s chief technology officer, Minh Doan, a central figure in the hearings related to the ArriveCan app and contracting misconduct allegations, faces accusations of taking unusual steps that led to the destruction of e-mails at the Canada Border Services Agency, a claim he strongly denies.

According to an internal complaint filed by a CBSA IT employee and obtained by The Globe and Mail, Mr. Doan is accused of moving data files around in a way that led to the permanent destruction of e-mails and other documents that may have been relevant to an access to information request about the agency’s interactions with GCStrategies. The private two-person IT staffing company has received more than $59-million in federal contract work since 2017.