We’re gonna need a bigger blog: influencers getting bitten while chasing the perfect shark shot
Missing The Big Picture
Here’s an idea: tell water and sewer utilities to levy sufficient charges to cover the cost of capital improvements and replacement of infrastructure. Then the federal and provincial governments can put their money into real infrastructure projects such as twinning the trans-Canada highway in northern Ontario and BC. We ought to be ashamed of the fact that Mexico has more sensible highway systems than we do.
Ontario and Ottawa are announcing up to $1 billion to help municipalities in the province build infrastructure for more homes.
The money will go to municipalities that do not collect development charges for things like roads, bridges and water systems.
Trump Whispering
Thank you for your email. I am currently out of the office with no access to email. I will reply to your message as soon as possible after my return.
Best regards,
Elbows 🇨🇦
Update, at Northern Perspective: Liberals Considering MASSIVE Concessions as CBC, CTV Says Carney Is Cornered
A White House Official confirms for me POTUS spoke to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney last night. The two leaders talked about the retaliation tariffs POTUS is planning on adding on Canada. The Official tells me there was no resolution that would prompt the President to hold…
— Edward Lawrence (@EdwardLawrence) August 18, 2026
Margin Of Fraud
🚨 BREAKING: Jaw-dropping undercover footage reveals Minnesota will allow MEMBERS OF HAMAS — foreigners without ID — to VOTE as long as someone “vouches” for them
They straight up ask her — could Hamas vote? She says YES, if he’s VOUCHED for 🤯
This is utter insanity.…
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 18, 2026
Doctors And Engineers
“Are we watching the same guy?”
💥 International trade lawyer Mark Warner @MAAWLAW with truth bombs on the USMCA negotiations.
1⃣ The 🇺🇸 doesn't believe 🇨🇦 has any leverage.
2⃣ Tariffs raising costs for 🇺🇸 makes no impact on the negotiations. There's no effective manner to retaliate.
3⃣ 🇨🇦 has one hand tied… pic.twitter.com/bBLO8fL4EI— RMC86 (@RMC19861987) August 18, 2026
“I am a Canadian, a free Canadian”
A federal blacklist containing personal information about Freedom Convoy supporters was circulated far beyond banks and credit unions, with newly released records showing regulators distributed it to thousands of financial firms.
Records indicate Ontario regulators alone circulated the list to between 1,000 and 2,000 brokerages and other firms without restrictions on further distribution.
Blacklock’s Reporter says it remains unclear how many individuals or organizations retained copies.
The blacklist was compiled as the federal government invoked emergency powers in 2022 and applied provisions of the Proceeds of Crime and Terrorist Financing Act against people linked to the Freedom Convoy.
No public accounting has documented what consequences individuals named on the list faced after receiving institutions obtained their information.
Blacklocks is doing good work.
Nites Ov De Rod
Foreign nationals unlawfully issued a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) in states run by open border officials killed more than 30 Americans in 17 fatal crashes last year alone, a disturbing new investigation reveals. Among the victims of the senseless highway carnage is a 5-year-old girl in California, who was critically injured and left with lifelong disabilities after an illegal immigrant crashed an 18-wheeler into her family’s vehicle.
The Golden State leads the pack of offenders, issuing over 128,000 non-domiciled CDLs between 2022 and 2025 and allowing applicants to be tested in Arabic, Chinese, Punjabi, Russian and Spanish with pass rates as low as 22% for Arabic speakers and 26% for Punjabi speakers compared with 63% for English.
And In Heaving Bosom News
On written apologies for being competent and white; on the Greens in power; and a busty scholar announces a new position:
Ms Benoit’s insights, aired via Instagram, include a revelation that SpongeBob Squarepants is also asexual. Which may hint at the dizzying levels of scholarship to be anticipated. And I have to say, Visiting Research Fellows aren’t generally so keen to show off their bras in their social media avatars, or to foreground their breasts in every single photo.
All this and more.
Tuesday On Turtle Island
Conman Carney’s Canada: The peoples tribunal. Carney’s CBC. Blackie’s blacklist.
The Democrat Party’s America: Wolves in white coats. Abolish ICE? The toxicity of Rashida Tlaib. Pfizer.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: The cruel mercy of truth. New Mecca.
August 18, 2026: Reader Tips
From 1949, here is He Walked By Night. With an RT rating of 82%/65%, it’s well worth a watch.
Your best news tips are always appreciated!
“Instagram Boyfriend” Joke Writing Contest
A contest you say?! Yes, but one with no official prizes. Just the pride in showing off your funny bone.
This video suggests that Justin Trudeau and Prince Harry have devolved into the role most suited for each of them: Instagram Boyfriend. Here’s an AI slop video showing the two of them with another despicable character, Eileen Gu.
This all got me thinking: there must be a good joke here about these two nitwits and their newfound roles in life. Without sufficient caffeine in my brain while writing this, I came up with nothing. So I asked Grok to help. Here are 3 jokes it came up with about Lil’ Juthin and Dethroned Harry being Instagram Boyfriends:
- Justin Trudeau isn’t just Canada’s former PM — he’s also Sophie’s full-time Instagram boyfriend. His real job description? “Must maintain perfect hair while crouching in bushes for the ideal golden-hour shot.”
- Prince Harry left the royal family so he could focus on his true calling: being Meghan’s Instagram boyfriend. The monarchy offered him a title; she offered him the chance to hold the phone at exactly 45 degrees.
- Trudeau and Harry should start a support group for Instagram boyfriends. Meetings would begin with a solemn pledge: “I solemnly swear to take 47 photos of the same latte until one of them gets more than 10,000 likes.”
I am royally confident that you, dear SDA readers, can come up with something better!
Frankly, My Dear
The Death of Academic Fraud Jason Arday Won’t Shut Us Up
Of course, the entirely predictable response of the institutional left to his cowardly and apparent self-deletion has been to insist, loudly and with quivering outrage, that his death is our fault. You see, we normal people pointed out that he lied about his background, his achievements, his credentials, and his work. The fact that we did what a functioning institution should’ve done itself outraged his boosters, so these moral illiterates now invert the moral calculus to keep the exposure of academic fraud from happening again. Arday lied pathologically and endlessly, enabled by a ridiculously solicitous academia, then likely killed himself when his lies were exposed. Obviously, the villains are the people who did not lie and did not choose to end his life.
And you’ll never guess their key accusation in a million years.
Red Tory Playbook
What’s the point of such half-measures? Do the Tories think that voters would reject the idea of permanent tax relief? Why does the idea of strongly differentiating themselves from the Liberals seem to fill them with dread? In fact, why not openly call for the elimination of the industrial carbon tax and lower gas prices by taking that route?
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says the federal government should give Canadians at least another 10 months of relief at the pumps.
Ve Haf Veys
Fang Bang
If I ever wrote a spy novel about a Chinese agent who sleeps her way into California’s top political circles, I’d totally name her ‘Fang Fang’.
The Swalwell affair just got awkwarder.
The FBI developed evidence that a Chinese woman with direct ties to that country’s intelligence service had potentially compromised a Democratic congressman from California with sex, foreign interns and illicit donations while she was being recruited to become a bureau informant a decade ago, according to bombshell memos that expose another threat to America’s political system from Beijing.
The files chronicling the relationship between Rep. Eric Swalwell and the Chinese national Fang Fang – also known by her English name Christine Fang – were declassified by President Donald Trump and released Monday by the White House Government Transparency Task Force as part of a broader effort to unmask foreign threats to U.S. political and election systems.
They show the FBI opened a predicated investigation, which is a formal law enforcement inquiry backed by a factual basis or allegation that indicates a crime or national security threat already exists.
Unlike unpredicated “assessments,” a predicated investigation allows agents to use advanced and intrusive methods like electronic surveillance or informants.
The files provide significant new details about the long-rumored relationship between Fang and Swalwell […]
The FBI assessment, which later became a full-fledged investigation, centered on allegations that Swalwell awarded internships at his offices in exchange for campaign contributions. The FBI identified Fang “Christine” Fang, a Chinese national, as the alleged facilitator of this exchange and alleged she employed conduits to route illegal donations.
Update: Sam Cooper has a summary up
Monday On Turtle Island
Carnival Carney’s Canada: A poem. Dundurn man. Muslim values? Govt, funds this.
The Democrat Party’s America: Islamic State of Dearborn. A school near you. California.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: People smugglers. Don’t upset the Muslims.
When They Won’t Keep On Saying Just How Special You Are
On “non-binary” motherhood and other complications of the modern narcissist:
“Everything came to a head after I became a mother,” says she. Well, pretensions of themness, the craving to seem special – perhaps more special than one is – would, I suppose become harder to sustain. Given the arrival of someone more important, someone whose needs tend to come first.
You see, she’s a mother, but not a woman. And how dare you not know that.
August 17, 2026: Reader Tips
Here is the Battle Hymn of the Republic performed by The Petersens.
Bonus: Lest we forget, Bridget Phetasy recalls that Covid Was the Excuse These Lunatics Were Waiting For.
Got some interesting tips about ongoing political battles? You know what to do!