A nice rant here.
Fake It, So You Can Make It
An ever growing number of Canadians are unable to tell the difference between someone who is actually competent and a run of the mill conman.
Western Standard- The death of merit and how Canada lost its compass.
The decline of merit is the story of modern Canada. It began as a slow corrosion under Justin Trudeau, whose rise was fuelled by name recognition and emotional politics rather than achievement. It deepened under Chrystia Freeland, who turned fiscal management into performance art. And it has continued under Mark Carney, whose credentials might suggest competence but whose actions have proven the opposite. These are not isolated examples; they are milestones on a national journey away from merit and toward mediocrity.
He’s Starting To Smell A Lot Like Trudeau
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has topped the Canadian Taxpayer Federation’s annual Naughty List, which ranks the country’s worst “grifting politicians.”
Ford earned the top spot for ensuring Ontario’s political welfare remained permanent by reinstating taxpayer-funded pensions for provincial politicians. This year also saw Ontario politicians giving themselves a 35 per cent pay raise.
“Ford took a pay raise that would make even Ebenezer Scrooge blush: A $73,000 hike in one year. But Ford isn’t the only one with coal in his stocking,” said Franco Terrazzano, CTF Federal Director…
There Was A Great Disturbance In The Narrative
And we need to get you back on track.
Y2Kyoto: Yukon Cold
Yukon Liberals mandated all homes in Whistle Bend, the largest new subdivision ONLY be allowed to heat with electric, then were forced to buy multiple diesel and gas generators in the fallout yet STILL pushed EV's like retards
now the grid is failing and people are gonna freeze pic.twitter.com/0sNUSdMvji
— Yukon Strong 🇺🇸 (@YukonStrong) December 24, 2025
“Are any genders other than men and women going to be accommodated?”
Just Another Ten Chances
Readers will note the sly conceit that what matters, all that matters, is the sum being stolen this time, not the whole at knifepoint or gunpoint business – as if this lively means of cash extraction were some trivial detail, beneath acknowledgment. A thing with no informational content, no clues as to the character of the perpetrator, their fitness for a civilised world.
Those pointing to the smallness of the sum as if it were a significant mitigating factor don’t seem troubled by the implication that someone who will violate others, and threaten them with death, for a mere $20 is someone who will use very small incentives to behave in monstrous ways. Likewise, the implication that robbing people with only $20 to surrender is a matter of no import.
On three-strikes laws and the contortions of progressive critics.
Kinda…
…but not really.
CTV- Guilbeault resigning from Carney’s cabinet on same day PM signs Alberta pipeline MOU
Guilbeault plans to stay on as an MP in the Liberal caucus, according to the source.
Public Art
The City of Saskatoon spent $8,202 to paint art on doors in a downtown back-alley in 2024, according to documents obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
“It’s absurd the city has kept on wasting taxpayer money on these ridiculous back-alley decorations,” said Gage Haubrich, CTF Prairie Director. “Why does city hall insist on spending money prettying-up this alley? Are the resident rats and alley cats demanding it? If local businesses want artistic back doors, they should buy a pail of paint instead of filling out a grant application.”
The project called “Alley Gallery 2024” was paid for by city taxpayers and the downtown business improvement district. The city also contributed $4,500 for a similar project called “Door Décor” with the Broadway business improvement district in 2025.
The downtown business improvement district is currently asking the city for $15,000 to paint art on doors in a different back-alley, according to the documents.
The city previously wasted nearly $100,000 of taxpayers’ money putting up colour-changing light balls in a back alley in 2023.
The City of Saskatoon is currently forecasting a 7.43 per cent property tax hike for 2026 and a 5.92 per cent hike in 2027.
Taxpayers Federation has the receipts.
“Democracy”
National Post- Opposition MPs conspire to pass Carney’s disastrous budget
What’s the point of having a Parliament at all if it’s going to cave to the PM’s every whim?
If It Wasn’t For Double Standards…
National Posts- The media’s double standard on Pierre Poilievre
Caucus unrest treated as a calamity when it involves the Conservatives, while Liberals get a pass
Climate Colonialism
The Telegraph- Taxpayers helped foot bill for climate project that ‘destroyed’ villages
One man in his 70s was so shocked when officials, accompanied by armed police and soldiers, turned up unannounced and chopped down his crops that he died of a stroke, they add.
The Progressive Anxiety
On crime, conflictedness, and weird excuses:
Regarding the consequent conflictedness and anxiety, all that progressive wrongness, these three posts include suitably vivid illustrations of the phenomenon.
Among which, a claim that more theatre for schoolchildren would somehow deter the kinds of creatures who repeatedly sucker-punch elderly ladies for being the wrong race, and a chap who insists that women should allow themselves to be mugged lest their mugger, out on probation, come to harm.
Oh, and the belief, expressed by a Guardian columnist, that when you find your home being burgled in the middle of the night, the real victims, the people deserving of sympathy and indulgence, are the ones breaking into your home while brandishing carving knives and then driving off with your valuables in your car.
Our betters, you know. They say so themselves.
“Climate Refugees”
Armstrong Economics- Open Borders Protect Migrants from Climate Change
Sorry to the Brits, but your country has been overrun by migrants due to climate change, according to your prime minister. The globalist rhetoric is overlapping to the point of insanity.
The Tolerant Left
Hasan Piker screamed at his dog and applied a shock collar to her because she got up to stretch while he screamed “I FUCKING HATE THIS COUNTRY SO MUCH”
You could not even make this up as satire. He lives in a $3 million mansion in Hollywood. Just the absolute epitome of a… pic.twitter.com/7RkYO58WgX
— Drew Pavlou (@DrewPavlou) October 7, 2025
Related: “Get out of my fucking shot.”
The Brainwashed Masses
How do they get the caramilk inside a Caramilk bar? Excellent interview. It’s 6 minutes.
Fox News- ‘GASLIGHTING CAMPAIGN’: This is the GAME the Left is playing now, Tim Pool says
One In The Chest, One In The Ceiling
In this episode of The Opposition with Dan Knight;
…we walk you through the grotesque reality of Liberal “justice.” A repeat offender armed with a crossbow breaks into a family’s home in Lindsay, Ontario and the homeowner, Jeremy McDonald, ends up charged with aggravated assault for defending himself. That’s not a mistake. That’s the system. Criminals walk free. Victims get hauled into court.
Related: Man sues grocery store after he tried to steal car, was ‘punched, kicked and hit’ by staffers
Infinite Forgiveness
Understanding the mental states of others, their motives and assumptions, insofar as one can, doesn’t necessarily result in positive feelings towards them, or identification with them, or lead to a default forgiveness and willingness to excuse their behaviour. Simply put, if your “empathy” results in you being endlessly forgiving, endlessly accommodating, over and over again, then you’re almost certainly doing it wrong.
Or not doing it at all.
I Want To Ride My Bicycle
Colby Cosh- Cyclists’ rights — the latest product of judicial hubris
You’ll surely read a lot in the NP’s pages about the Wednesday ruling by Ontario Superior Court Justice Paul Schabas which found that the province’s plans to remove exclusive bike lanes on some key Toronto arteries is contrary to the Charter of Rights. Legal conservatives will argue that this decision, if upheld on appeal, amounts to an arrogation of further new powers by a Canadian judiciary that has already been running amok for 50 years. They will characterize it as a matter of scribbling a “right to bike lanes” into the Charter.
I Want A New Country
A just released decision that I’m writing about in the Toronto Sun will make it nearly impossible to hand down adult sentences to young offenders.
Most of the judges ruling on this were appointed by Justin Trudeau, but two of those siding with the majority in the 7-2 ruling were appointed by Stephen Harper including Chief Justice Richard Wagner. The appointment of Wagner to the Supreme Court, later elevated to Chief Justice by Trudeau, may have been Harper’s worst appointment ever.[…]
The language passed by Parliament is pretty clear, if the Crown asks for an adult sentence, the legislation states that the court must be “satisfied” that the two part test to rebut the idea that young offenders have a lower moral culpability has been met. Now, thanks to Wagner and Justice Nicholas Kasirer, who wrote the majority decision, the judge doesn’t just need to be “satisfied” but the Crown must prove their case for an adult sentence “beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Yes, you can get convictions on such a standard but saying you need this standard for an adult sentence will effectively make it impossible to meet.
This was a political decision by mostly, but not all, Trudeau court appointees.
