Are We Still A Member Of This Thing?

47 United Nations 40 Comments

One wallet snaps shut and the whole deck collapses?

The United Nations is at risk of “imminent financial collapse” due to member states not paying their fees, the body’s head has warned.

He wrote in a letter to all 193 member states that they had to honour their mandatory payments or overhaul the organisation’s financial rules to avoid collapse.

It comes after the UN’s largest contributor, the US, refused to contribute to its regular and peacekeeping budgets, and withdrew from several agencies it called a “waste of taxpayer dollars”. Several other members are in arrears or are simply refusing to pay.[…]

At its headquarters in Geneva, signs warning of the situation have been put up everywhere. In an almost desperate attempt to save cash, the escalators are regularly turned off and the heating turned down.

CPC Leadership

CBC CPC Leadership Not Quite News 75 Comments

Pierre Poilievre wins leadership review with 87.4% approval, Rosemary Barton hardest hit.

Poilievre waltzed into that redneck rodeo town and the whole room of racist trucker-hat-wearing western deplorables lost their minds cheering like he just invented beer or something. He crushed that leadership review with 87% or whatever the hell it was, the party faithful slobbering all over him, screaming like it’s the second coming. Pathetic.

That was the easy part. But the rest of Canada? Please. These un-Canadian clowns don’t speak for the country—they’re just the loudmouth Maple MAGA fringe who love Donald Trump and think affordability means more oil subsidies. He still hasn’t convinced normal people he’s fit to run anything bigger than a backyard BBQ. Hammered the same tired lines about prices and taxes, sure, but dodged anything real that might scare off his adoring hicks.

They say more details are coming, he’s gonna tour and talk. Yeah, sure he is. If he wants anyone outside that echo chamber to take him seriously as PM material, he better start sounding like he wants pandas from Beijing instead of pandering to those yahoos. God, it makes me sick—he was supposed to crash and burn, and instead these idiots propped him right back up.

OK, so I took liberties.

More Pavilions At Folkfest

Children R Our Future More Pavilions At Folkfest Our Diversities 3 Comments

Blacklocks: 889 foreign students hired by Gov’t of Canada in 2024

• tour guides & gift shop assistants at fed museums
• researchers @CBC
• kitchen staff & stagehands @CanadasNAC
• clerks & IT staff @CanRevAgency
• @NRC_CNRC hired 135 foreign students
• @CMHC_ca hired 30 foreign students

@TBS_Canada: “The Public Service Employment Act gives preference to eligible veterans first, then Canadian citizens and permanent residents for all external advertised appointments provided that merit is met.”

Jobless rates for Canadian students increased after 2023 order allowing 1,040,985 foreign students unlimited access to the workforce.

When a diversity workforce does the hiring, they hire uniformity.

Alex, I’ll take UniParty for $500!

Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Western Separatism 19 Comments

OMG this is ridiculous:

IMO any Western Canadian who thinks that the federal Tories are their solution to a better future is seriously deluding themselves.

Related: There appears to be a “Bad Optics” list.

January 31, 2026: Reader Tips

Reader Tips 32 Comments

An Irish-Canadian gentleman from Montréal shaped my political views from a young age. His name was Pat Burns and he was a prominent voice on the airwaves of Vancouver for many years. Here’s a snapshot of his career: Hotline Radio Talkshow from December 1986.

Bonus: Two of my favourite Canadian vloggers, Kelsi Sheren & Tajana Cekic, have a great conversation.

Got some hot takes on recent news events? You know where to share ’em!

We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Buses

Alternative Subsidy Children R Our Future 18 Comments

Everything old is new again.

On the heels of a statewide mandate requiring all school bus purchases in New York State be electric by 2027, parents in the Lake Shore Central School District are speaking out, claiming some bus drivers are turning the heat down, or off completely, in an attempt to conserve battery life on their electric school buses.

WIVB News 4 has received several calls from concerned parents in the school district, which covers parts of Angola, Brant, and Derby, regarding their child’s bus trips to and from school, claiming they’re coming in freezing when they get home after getting off the bus.

The kids are coming home saying their bus is freezing cold and the parents are giving them hand warmers.

“The heaters on the bus run off the same electricity as the bus itself,” said Scott Ziobro, a former school board candidate and parent who has children who go to school in the district. “They were told that it drains the battery capacity of the bus itself.”

Thor Project

youmightbeinsaskatchewan 27 Comments

Tisdale’s going to need a new slogan.

The deposit is 60 feet down — and 300 feet in depth.

That Sinking Feeling

Gradually Then Suddenly It's Probably Nothing New Governor 18 Comments

My advice to the Conservative Party of Canada: just be patient. Your time in the sun may be coming.

Statistics Canada says the economy stalled in November and early estimates suggest a decline in real gross domestic product for the final quarter of 2025.

November saw manufacturing of durable goods hit its lowest levels since 2011, outside the COVID-19 pandemic.

Update: Even the mainstream financial media is noticing that something is not right.

Canada’s main stock index fell 1,092.61 points or 3.3 per cent on Friday.

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