Taber, Alberta this morning. pic.twitter.com/UqfAWYDehy
— Karen K 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 (@Shareme23) March 18, 2026
Correction, location was in the US: I thought it odd that Taber would hold two truck vs locomotive bouts in a week.
Thank You For Your Attention To This Matter
Let's unpack this..
What if the White House has no intention of reopening the Strait of Hormuz?
What if this war is really about ships & tariffs?
I had a long discussion with senior DOE official yesterday on background. I can’t share any details but it’s clear everyone’s… https://t.co/DCP0uw7C4E
— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) March 18, 2026
Exploding Our Debt
I would suggest a headline change to “Carney buys votes in Quebec and Ontario“. That aside, wouldn’t it be cheaper to just buy 155 mm artillery shells from places that already make such a commonly available munition? It’s also worth asking if this is a case of governments getting ready to fight the last war.
Ottawa will pump more than $1 billion in public funds into new facilities in Ingersoll, Ont., and Repentigny, Que., for heavy munitions used in artillery.
Related, from Kate: 10 massive Canadian federal projects (2010-2025) that delivered almost ZERO benefits or were never built
Tommy Douglas, Not Dead Enough
Health Canada caught funding “booty bumping” kits with your tax dollars.
Nearly $3 million tax dollars went to a Toronto organization in the name of “harm reduction”.
One of the funded services was kits to help people insert hard drugs through their rear end.
This Is CNN
CNN had repeatedly insisted that senior international correspondent Fred Pleitgen and the network maintained “full editorial control” about what they reported when the former was in inside Iran. But, in an interview with the U.K.-based newspaper The Guardian, which was less of an interview and more just answering prompts, Pleitgen asserted that he and his cameraman didn’t have a “minder” lurking over them. Yet, when he described who guided him around and what he was allowed to see, it very much sounded like a minder.
Wednesday On Turtle Island
Conman Carney’s Canada: A human rights crisis. Land acknowledgements.
The Democrat Party’s America: Muslim holidays in California. Victor Davis Hanson – Ungracious immigrants.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Wind turbines. Paul Joseph Watson – This is terrifying and is this real? Brainwashing. London has fallen.
Poison Is Queen
March 18, 2026: Reader Tips
Here are 25 secrets about Hawaii Five-O.
What great tips do you have to share? Don’t keep them secret!
Margin Of Fraud
Breaking: Senate Advances the Save Act
After many weeks of delay, debate, and unnecessary controversy, the U.S. Senate, as of Tuesday, has finally advanced vital election integrity legislation.
The Save America Act would require proof of citizenship and an ID to register to vote or to vote in federal elections, which ought not to be controversial at all but which made RINOs like John Thune and Thomas Massie dither with anxiety and which absolutely enraged Democrats. Donald Trump had sworn not to sign any more legislation until the Senate actually passes the Save Act, since the legislation is key in this midterm election year, so the next obvious step is for Republican senators to pass it.
Community Notes Hit Hard
Hate Has A Home Here
From The UK to Canada
RCMP Whistleblower
Forgive me if this was previously posted on SDA, but I only discovered it today: RCMP Whistleblower is interviewed
Making History
This is not the kind of history that any level of government should be making. But I guess it’s okay, as long as we call the spending “investment”.
The New Brunswick government says its investments in health care have helped push the budget into a record deficit. Introduced on Tuesday, the budget’s $1.4-billion deficit is the largest in the province’s history, according to Finance Department staff.
Speaking of investments…
The federal government is putting $200 million toward a Canadian-owned launch pad so it can send satellites into orbit without the assistance of other nations or other foreign third parties.
Dispatches from the Maple Gulag Truck Stop
Ok, I am jealous…
Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all who celebrate. pic.twitter.com/WRyFHYiXmB
— Gord ‘Anti-Social Media Defluencer’ Magill (@GordMagill) March 17, 2026
Don’t forget to order your copy of Gord’s book The End of the Road
Keir Starmer’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and to their great regret, the “inspirational historical figures who have helped shape national thought” were distressingly white.
Among the criteria for selecting the banknotes’ theme is the effort to avoid “divisive” imagery: “The theme should not involve imagery that would reasonably be offensive to, or exclude, any groups.” Another criterion is “consisten[cy] with our legal obligations,” namely “considering the impact on individuals who share the protected characteristics set out in the Equality Act 2010.”
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
Meta is planning sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as Meta seeks to offset costly artificial intelligence infrastructure bets and prepare for greater efficiency brought about by AI-assisted workers.
Related: China’s biggest cybersecurity company apparently just shipped an AI assistant with its own SSL private key sitting inside the installer.
The Part I Like Best
About “Safe Supply” is the way it redirects the drug trafficking revenue of organized crime into the pockets of government health officials.
Former senior health officials in BC left their government positions and launched an opioid vending machine company and a company to manufacture injectable heroin.
A researcher who advised the BC government on addiction for 20+ years revealed at health committee that both officials used their government positions to push safe supply and decriminalization before building companies around those same policies.
Mark Tyndall launched MySafe Society while still serving as a senior government official.
The company installed vending machines that dispensed opioids to drug users.
The federal government gave them over $3.5 million in taxpayer dollars to do it.
Perry Kendall founded Fair Price Pharma while serving as executive director of the government-funded BC Centre on Substance Use.
The company’s goal was to produce a domestic supply of injectable heroin.
Video testimony at the link.
Put A Mullah In It And Him Gay
President Trump was stunned to learn last week that US intelligence indicates new Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei may be gay — and that his father, the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, feared his suitability to rule the Islamic Republic for that reason, The Post can reveal.
Trump couldn’t contain his surprise and laughed aloud when he was briefed on the intel, according to sources.
Others in the room also found it “hilarious” and joined the president’s reaction, while one senior intelligence official “has not stopped laughing about it for days,” said one person familiar with the briefing.
Related: Another one bites the dust
Coal three ways – four, actually
Three in-depth pieces on coal-fired power today:
NDP say coal refurbishment will double electricity rates by 2050, prefer natural gas and renewables instead
NDP analysis of coal refurbishment and its impact on rates, in depth
SaskPower Minister responds to NDP study on refurbishing coal and its impact on rates
In cased you missed this major related story on Monday:
BREAKING: Data centre hinges on dispatchable baseload power, including coal refurbishment
I would like to point out that the Leader Post, CTV and CBC failed to mention, or perhaps even realize, that it will be coal powering that new data centre in Regina. Where did they think that power is going to come from? I know! Solar, at night!