About harm reduction programs, is the way they build success upon success.
Alberta just shut its supervised drug consumption site down. Vancouver, the city that pioneered this model in Canada, is pulling back from it too. And right now, in 2026, Wab Kinew’s NDP government is moving ahead with a new one in Manitoba. When the two jurisdictions that ran this experiment the longest are both walking away from it, Winnipeg doubling down should worry every homeowner, renter, and parent in this city.
Shared with no small measure of irony.
A Canada Day celebration in NE Calgary turned out to be a nightmare for a Canadian woman and her daughters. No one listened or helped her! So disgusting and painful to watch! 🤬
📍 Prairie Winds Park, Calgary AB pic.twitter.com/dSjwCjx0d1
— sammy 2.0 (@Sammy_canada2) July 3, 2026
🔊LISTEN:
Prime Minister Mark Carney announcing pipeline proposal & Premier Danielle Smith asked how much it will cost taxpayers
💰Note: Alberta government's own document says pipeline will cost taxpayers up to $44 billion
With private company footing just 10% of the bill
— Kris Sims (@kris_sims) July 3, 2026
Always interesting to see how Canada’s "unmarked graves" social panic (2021-2026) looks to people outside our borders https://t.co/z5xjSndoHT
— Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) June 1, 2026
FBI has just RAIDED and ARRESTED the man who I caught on video threatening the lives of an ICE agent and his family outside ICE Newark
Nicholas Scelfo is facing FEDERAL FELONIES
THIS IS HOW IT’S DONE! 🔥
There’s more.
It’s his nature.
Here's something I also noticed from Carney's in flight catering bill to Rome. WHY is the Canadian DND using an American Bank – Citibank, for payments? pic.twitter.com/bHndfCnFMx
— CricketLivesMatter (@CricketsMatter) May 30, 2026
No Jews, No News
People say the left and the right can’t agree on anything these days. But there is this one thing: pic.twitter.com/G1ZTTb3ppk
— Bill Maher (@billmaher) May 16, 2026
Keir Starmer has told close friends he intends to stand down as Prime Minister and set out an orderly timetable for his departure.
A member of the Cabinet told me late yesterday afternoon: ‘Keir understands the political reality.
‘He realises the current chaos is unsustainable. He simply wants to be able to do it in a dignified way and in a manner of his own choosing. He will set out a timetable.’
According to another Cabinet source, it is still unclear precisely when that announcement will be made. Some senior Starmer allies have been urging him to hold off making any statement until the first polls and canvassing data is returned from the Makerfield by-election.
The UK just deployed a political weapon it's only used once before in modern history.
And nobody is talking about what it just backfired into.
🚨 🚨 🚨 KEIR STARMER BANNED FOREIGN JOURNALISTS FROM ENGLAND TO STOP A RALLY → IT PRODUCED THE LARGEST ANTI-GOVERNMENT MARCH IN YEARS… pic.twitter.com/foaKixfE4T
— 🇺🇸 Thomas A. Whitaker (@WhitakerTA_) May 16, 2026
Related: “Roughly 40% of Canadians whose underlying ability/human capital would place them in the top 1% of Canada’s income distribution if they had stayed — now reside outside Canada.”
A massive trucking scandal is (again) unfolding in Illinois and you can be sure the Chicago/IL media will go out of its way to ignore it.[…]
The FMCSA (under DOT) in continuing an ongoing audit of IL SOS office related to the issuance of at least 10,000 non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses over the past few years.
These are truck driver’s licenses awarded to non residents–foreigners–including some here illegally.
In 2024 and 2025, the state saw a huge jump in the number of non-domiciled CDL issued by IL SOS. In fact, an industry watchdog group obtained records via FOIA that showed roughly 40% of ALL CDLs issued by IL SOS in 2025 went to foreigners.
FMCSA determined at least 20% of all non-domiciled CDLs issued by IL SOS were done so illegally. Applicants did not furnish federally required paperwork including unexpired passports and IL SOS issued CDLs for a longer period of time than the applicants’ work authorization permitted.
Literally, nobody voted for this.
Canada has had 14 prime ministers in its history who stood at the head of minority governments. Every one of them thought about weaseling their way to a majority. But the other 13 were blocked by a polity that wasn't yet as corrupt, ignorant and fearful as the Canadians of 2026.
— Tristin Hopper (@TristinHopper) April 14, 2026
They’re shopping for MPs like they’re filling a baseball team roster.
Deputy Minister @NationalDefence in staff email says she will not resign or apologize after being censured for cronyism. Christiane Fox breached an Act of Parliament in the name of diversity to hire Black friend who’d previously worked at a Good Life gym.
I believe you call this Californicated.
Eric Swalwell suspended his bid for California governor amid sexual assault and misconduct allegations that threw his campaign into a tailspin, upending the race to lead the nation’s most populous state.
“I am suspending my campaign for Governor,” Swalwell wrote on X on Sunday. “To my family, staff, friends, and supporters, I am deeply sorry for mistakes in judgment I’ve made in my past.” […]
The Democratic congressman’s exit completed a stunningly swift collapse for a candidate who had shown signs in recent weeks of pulling ahead of a crowded Democratic field, with prominent interest groups and elected officials beginning to coalesce behind him.
But an ex-staffer’s allegation that Swalwell had sexually assaulted her, detailed in a San Francisco Chronicle report and followed by more misconduct allegations in a CNN report, led those allies to abandon Swalwell en masse as high-level staffers departed his campaign.
So Noted: Ouch.
The U.S. has begun enforcing a naval blockade on Iran, targeting all vessels entering and exiting its ports across the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.
The move is expected to inflict about $435M in total daily losses across Iran’s exports, roughly $13B per month, even as its oil revenues rose 37% during the war to about $139M per day.
The IRGC had been operating a paid “protection corridor,” charging up to $2M per vessel in crypto, but the blockade could halt exports, disrupt imports, trigger food shortages, and accelerate the collapse of the rial.
Plus: vessels entering the Strait of Hormuz without authorization are subject to interception, diversion, and capture by the U.S. military. […] “The blockade will not impede neutral transit passage through the Strait of Hormuz to or from non-Iranian destinations.”
More: The thing about that Persian Gulf stranglehold is that, like the Sword of Damcles, it’s only effective until it’s played.”
I’m on the road this week and mostly out of the news cycle, so drop related links in the comments.
WHAT 🤯 at the Liberal Convention, Patrick Pichette, tech exec, says that CANADIAN tech talent should be FORCED TO STAY in Canada or PAY hundreds of thousands to leave Canada 🤯🤯
In summary, if you can, LEAVE Canada asap pic.twitter.com/Pg0op8UHwe
— Melissa 🇨🇦 (@MelissaLMRogers) April 11, 2026
Patrick Pichette served on Twitter’s board of directors during a time period when many political dissidents – myself included – were banned. At the same time, he sat on the board of directors at the Trudeau Foundation.
Elon Musk fired him.
While China was busy shipping missile chemicals to Iran and collecting yuan tolls at Hormuz, someone was inside its most sensitive supercomputer stealing everything.
CNN reports that a hacker group calling itself FlamingChina breached the China National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin and exfiltrated up to 10 petabytes of classified defence data. The samples posted on dark web forums include bomb and missile designs, animated explosion simulations, structural integrity tests, renderings of the J-20 stealth fighter, sixth-generation aircraft concepts, nuclear submarine schematics, hypersonic weapons systems, and target analyses for American assets including HIMARS launchers and carrier strike groups.
Ten petabytes. For context, the entire printed collection of the US Library of Congress is approximately 10 terabytes. This breach is one thousand times that volume. It is being sold for cryptocurrency on Breach Forums. Cybersecurity experts who reviewed the previews told CNN the data appears genuine, matching known output patterns from the NSCC Tianjin facility, which serves over 6,000 clients including defence agencies and aviation firms across China.
I wouldn’t want to be in her shoes tonight.
🚨🚨 FBI and our partners have arrested a former SOCOM employee, who supported our top-level military warfighters, for allegedly transmitting classified information to a member of the media.
Outstanding work by @FBICharlotte and the FBI Counterintelligence & Espionage Division…
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) April 8, 2026
Who’s in charge of secondary ed in this province? Indeed, who’s in charge at all?
18 tweet rant – because it’s important:
China imports ~4% of their crude from Venezuela.
I suspect most have zero clue what China owns in Canada, and I’m astonished and angered by the naivety of my fellow countrymen.
I’m not putting my elbows up – we deserve what we’ll be getting.
Why?
Because we’ve been wilfully ignorant and complacency has consequences.
Threadreader version here. h/t Prairie Putz
h/t JM