Did you know that Canada Has a Massive “Dead Zone”?
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They All Knew
Open Questions: Do you think that all Democrats are compromised with blackmail against them? Or are all American politicians compromised? Do you think some/most/all Canadian politicians are similarly compromised?
Gradually, Then Suddenly
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.”
Going Bust
For over a decade, Canadian real estate markets and their lenders have acted like the housing price ratchet could only go one way: up. Now they’re finding out that the price ratchet can go the other way too.
The result was a sudden stampede of buyers who triggered an unprecedented run-up that put the average sale price of a traditional, ranch-style, Brantford bungalow close to $900,000 at the market peak in 2022 compared to a mere $300,000 or so in 2016.
Flash forward, and the average home in Brantford in February sold for $625,135, according to the Canadian Real Estate Association, a 30 per cent drop from 2022 that has saddled homeowners there with an unexpected housing crisis that Canadians…are all too familiar with today.
Cleveland Clinic Medical Director Apologizes
🚨SHOCKING CONFESSION: Former Cleveland Clinic Medical Director Dr. Daniel Neides breaks down in tears, apologizing to ALL his vaccinated patients.
"I didn’t provide informed consent…ABSOLUTELY DEPLORABLE on my part and I apologize to my patients." pic.twitter.com/DjqVyQ5p9F
— Valerie Anne Smith (@ValerieAnne1970) April 12, 2026
h/t ‘Lupus solus’
No Country for Young Men
Alexander Brown has written a critically important editorial about Canada’s devolution:
The solution, of course, should be an obvious one: get our house in order; rebuild an immigration standard; send home those on expired and expiring ‘temporary’ status in areas we do not need; borrow from your betters when it comes to layered, nuanced healthcare delivery; reinforce laws, and civilisation itself.
Instead, Pichette went further, doubling down on decline, and arguing for triple the amount of mass immigration, as if millions of potential fast-food workers entering through the TFWP, IMP, or foreign-student stream can replace our problems of top-tier brain drain, and an anemic economy that runs on far too many zombified, unproductive businesses allowed to limp along through subsidisation.
Wednesday On Turtle Island
The Democratic Party’s America: Victor Davis Hanson – A longer view. Adios to the Abuelo. The decaying American soul. Left fights a monument.
Conman Carney’s Canada: No regret. We need more French speakers. Net Zero.
Stories You Won’t Find at Carney’s Lapdog Media: Has Hungary fallen? Don’t upset the Muslims.
April 15, 2026: Reader Tips
Were you aware that there are 8 Families Who Quietly Own Canada?
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Irish Outrage
Wouldn’t it be nice if Canadian Conservatives had even half as much passion as this Irish politician?
Is Pope Leo Actually Catholic?
Or more akin to a Chicago Democrat?
So the Pope met with David Axelrod last week. David Axelrod. Obama's campaign architect. A man who is not Catholic, has never met a pope before, and whose entire career has been engineering political narratives for the American left.
And then, by pure coincidence, the Pope… pic.twitter.com/K1BPqU1I1K
— Jesús Enrique Rosas – The Body Language Guy (@Knesix) April 14, 2026
Related: Follow the Money!
Alarming The Warming
Now that Carney has a majority, expect his government to start taking these fools seriously again.
“It feels to me like this (climate) has been somewhat deprioritized. And that’s why we’re going to, as an industry, keep it at the top of the table,” Rowan Saunders, the CEO of the country’s fourth-largest property and casualty insurer Definity, said in an interview.
“We’re at a point now in Canada where we can have what used to be a year’s worth of severe weather losses happening in a single day. And we don’t have the level of public investment commensurate to that reality right now,” said David Leibl, vice president of sustainability and corporate affairs at Winnipeg-based insurer Wawanesa. “We need to close that gap.”
Nites Ov De Rod
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.
Tuesday On Turtle Island
The Democratic Party’s America: Trump’s golden age. More deep state machinations against Trump. Sleazy Swalwell. America’s Jamaica Inn.
Conman Carney’s Canada: Madam Justice. Blackie goes partying. Canada votes for a fascist one party state.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Staying positive. Sharia Germany. Ramadan Chuck.
But What If I Catch Their Whiteness?
On efforts to “decolonise” folk singing; on claims of being oppressed by a rapidly shrinking minority; and on rap, the ‘N’ word, and dumb academia:
Having covered quite a few of these “decolonisation” efforts, which generally rely on a fig-leaf of widening access and removing barriers, it’s remarkable just how rarely any meaningful obstacle to access is actually mentioned. Typically, the humdrum is depicted as gruelling and somehow agonising, and motes are inflated to the size of boulders.
We were told, for instance, that racial minorities are being “deterred” from visiting the British countryside “due to deep-rooted, complex barriers.” Barriers such as the fact that rock-climbing instructors are usually white. And apparently this unremarkable state of affairs, in a white-majority country, is something that needs fixing.
Though it occurs to me that if a person with brown skin were being deterred from trying rock climbing by the fact that the instructor is likely to be white, then it seems somewhat unlikely that said person is interested in rock climbing to any significant extent. And a person deterred by such things may also want to reflect on their own racial assumptions. But we’re not supposed to mention those, at least not in an unflattering light.
April 14, 2026: Reader Tips
Here’s an interesting 1952 Portrait of Iran / Persia.
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Nobody Voted For This
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.
Sparky Car Confusion
Does the government want Canadians to buy more EVs or not? The way to encourage people to adopt a particular technology is to allow them to source it as cheaply as possible. But the ultimate goal in this case seems to be nearly the opposite: Canadians are supposed to buy EVs at whatever price Canadian automakers and their unions demand, and in similar quantities to a much lower price point. Good luck with that.
Federal Industry Minister Mélanie Joly has also voiced opposition to the plan to ship cars in kits to Ontario, but the federal government has revealed little about how its plan for China to ship 49,000 electric vehicles to Canada at a 6.1 per cent duty rate will work, including who will choose which models are sent.
New Governor, Same As The Old Governor
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.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
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.
Thank You For Your Attention To This Matter
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.”
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