That Sinking Feeling

If Carney’s polling numbers hold up, a spring election is a distinct possibility, and a Liberal majority would be the likely outcome. The reason is simple enough: once again, NDP and Bloc voters are stampeding to the Liberals. Inevitably, some will suggest that the Tories reinvent themselves to appeal to the left, but a string of electoral defeats with Red Tories at the helm points to the futility of that gambit. If that’s the best conservatives could do, why have a conservative party at all?

From coast to coast, Léger finds Mark Carney’s Liberals at 47% support among decided voters, up four points since Léger’s previous poll back in December. And this newfound support for the Liberals does not come at the expense of the Conservatives, who sit at 38%, themselves up two points.

Let Them Eat Taser

Yesterday afternoon around 430pm Alberta time, Tony Olienick walked out of Drumheller Institution, and re-united with the only family he has, his mother Tessie, after suffering nearly four years of incarceration as a political prisoner in the mass gulag camp once known as Canada.

The previous evening he was granted ‘bail on appeal’, something he was denied once already last year, and while he has to live with a number of strictly enforced conditions, somewhat similar to those imposed on Chris Barber and his ‘house arrest’, Tony is almost a free man. His conditions will be fully discharged in June of 2026, when he would have been statutorily released at the end of his sentence. ‘Sentence’ doing a lot of work here for a guy whose only crime was being a loudmouth at a protest…

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Today In Canada’s Vote Rich Rapey-Beheader Community

Rima Chaabenne is a Tunisian immigrant

…who arrived in Canada during 2022 where she is now serving as a Occupational Health & Safety Officer within the Department of @NationalDefence in Ottawa

Rima Chaabenne is a supporter of the designated terrorist group Hamas where she has been observed posting videos of murderous terrorists being showered with roses in Gaza while also sending prayers to fallen leadership of Hamas such as Abu Obaida.

Given she is most likely not a Canadian citizen yet, why did Canada’s Department of National Defense fail to do any review of Rima Chaabenne’s social media, let alone why was she allowed into the country?

Rima Chaabenne has responded to this post with a middle finger using the Hamas inverted red triangle.

Wednesday On Turtle Island

The Democrat Party’s America:    Paul Joseph Watson – This is bizarre.    Tampon Tim.    A cult of protest.    Nazi spawn.    The real cancer in America.

Carnival Carney’s Canada:    Property rights.    Canadian elections.    Carney’s cardboard belt.    Free speech.    The Liberal tree scam.

Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC:    Are you a criminal?    Don’t be a rhinoceros.    Monkeypox hysteria.

Your morning meme.      Another meme.    A cartoon.

When Pretending Just Won’t Do

Readers may wish to ponder the implication that a high-trust society can somehow be maintained unilaterally, simply by not caring about the number of people who violate that trust, and who do so repeatedly, whether in ways that are audacious or just wearyingly routine but nonetheless degrading.

As if pretending not to mind the evaporation of civilised, reciprocal standards – and pretending not to be alienated by primitive behaviour – somehow means that said behaviour isn’t there and didn’t happen. And that it won’t happen tomorrow, or the day after. And with ever greater boldness.

As if a high-trust society means letting antisocial fuckers act with impunity.

On high-trust societies and those who struggle with the concept.

WW2 Revisionism?

Yesterday, a Vancouver acquaintance of mine posted something online criticizing Trump’s recent inflammatory rhetoric that Europeans would be talking German and Japanese now if it weren’t for the Americans. Over the top? Of course. But this Vancouver fellow in his 60’s implied that the Allies were doing just fine fighting the Germans before America got into World War 2. To be clear, Canada contributed greatly, well beyond its relatively small size. A whole lot of brave Canadian lost their lives in this noble fight against the Nazis.

So I privately asked this fellow about what he posted, and whether he truly felt that America’s contribution in WW2 wasn’t needed to achieve victory for the Allies. He said he wasn’t sure and that “we’ll never know”. He also gave me his list of those who deeply contributed to the war effort: Britain, the Soviet Union, Canada, France, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Brazil, & Mexico. I was curious, so I asked Grok to do some research for me.

Here’s the AI’s response.  I’ll leave it to you, dear reader, to decide whether the Vancouver fellow, a huge fan of Trudeau and Carney by the way, was accurate with his summation of WW2.

Update: I went back to AI and asked it to speculate on what would have happened had America not directly got involved in WW2.

Keepin’ those lights on

Boundary Dam Power Station

Natural gas and coal kept Saskatchewan’s lights on during frigid weather. As in, nearly every furnace in this province saw its fan running as a result of natural gas and coal, right when we needed it most.

Also: Bronwyn Eyre inaugural recipient of new award for Canadian champions of freedom. She happens to be cohost of the Pipeline Online Podcast and a regular columnist.

Brian Crossman: Artificial Intelligence, the oilpatch, and John Wick’s dog.

And under the file of “I’ll believe it when I see it”: If elected, the Parti Québécois would not necessarily oppose new gas or oil pipelines

Minnesota #SignalGate

The uncovering of the Signal data may provide insight into why Tim Walz and Jacob Frey suddenly appeared to switch into conciliatory mode with Trump:

DIGITAL WARRIORS PUT ANTI-ICE FORCES ON THE RUN

Last night, the X community witnessed an unprecedented takedown of anti-ICE agitators in Minneapolis through real-time digital warfare.

What started as an infiltration operation exploded into a full exposure of networks involving protesters, funders, and potentially high-level politicians.

Source data

Key X feeds to follow: Cam Higby bitchuneedsoap 0HOUR1 DataRepublican #SignalGate

From DataRepublican:

In one of the files revealed by @camhigby, a resources file directs people with money to a website, Stand with Minnesota, which in turns directs donors to a campaign ran by Tending the Soil on Chuffed.

More about Tending the Soil later. What to know: the campaign is hosted by Chuffed and the first donation came from Jonny Soppotiuk, a Canada-based community organizer who is part of Chuffed leadership and specializes in fundraising. He is most likely a central figure in raising money.

So, yeah. Starting to look like foreigners are playing a key role in all of this.

Summary of the Tending the Soil campaign on Chuffed:

  • Number of donors: 12,544
  • Active only since January 9, 2026
  • Raising an average of $33,242 per day
  • Campaign link

Some are investigating the Canadian connection to what’s been happening in Minnesota.  There’s also an Australian connection.

Related: Are the British involved in a Colour Revolution in America? h/t hoagy@karma

Strongest Of The Weakest

As economist Daniel Lacalle points out, the rising dollar price of gold does not mean the US dollar is on the way out. Things are a bit more complicated than that in a fiat currency world with no exit ramps.

The same sources that show soaring gold demand also show that there is no true “dedollarization” in the sense of a fiat‑to‑fiat substitution. This also makes sense. The US dollar is the world’s strongest weak currency because it has a higher level of liquidity, more independent institutions, and better legal and investor security than any alternative. The US dollar is losing its place as a global reserve to gold but not losing its position relative to the euro, yen, pound, or yuan.

IMF COFER figures show that the US dollar’s share of allocated FX reserves remains at 59.6%, and when adjusted for exchange‑rate moves, the IMF itself concludes that the dollar’s share has been broadly stable, with recent declines explained mostly by valuation effects, not active selling. The euro, at 20.3%, is not even close to being a contender.

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