“When violence becomes part of a political conversation”
Tanker wars
Jim Warren: Expect more headlines announcing attacks on sanctions-dodging oil tankers in 2026: that could a good thing for Canadian producers
No, I did not write this next one – it’s from the Canadian Press.
No faith in fossil fuels? Why some religious leaders are speaking out on climate change
Nova Scotia ready for private companies to start exploring for onshore natural gas
Bad Advice
Who knew that Canada’s problems are the result of not paying people enough not to work?
At the heart of the issue, he said, is Canada’s eroded social safety net, particularly employment insurance (EI), which, along with other social programs, isn’t keeping up with today’s economy.
EI benefits have mostly stayed the same in value and replace roughly 55 per cent of a person’s wages. The benefits are higher than in the United States, but they lag far behind European countries such as Denmark, where they replace 90 per cent of a person’s wages, the Netherlands (70 per cent) and Sweden (80 per cent).
Dave Barry’s Year In Review
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
Major preprint just out!
We compare how humans and LLMs form judgments across seven epistemological stages.
We highlight seven fault lines, points at which humans and LLMs fundamentally diverge […]
Britain’s “Canadian Nazi” Moment
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose. Here is British PM Keir Starmer:
- on Dec. 26, 2025: I’m delighted that Alaa Abd El-Fattah is back in the UK
- on Dec. 29, 2025
The resignation of the entire Labour government doesn’t come close to what should happen to these buffoons.
New Year’s Eve On Turtle Island
The Democratic Party’s America: Victor Davis Hanson – Not in my own words. California Screamin. Kwanzaa.
Conman Carney’s Canada: Property rights. Five shocking cases. Truth and Reconciliation.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Long live Somaliland. The Hare and the Duster. Unsung heroes. A Kenyan sex chatbot. Five Christian converts.
Happy New Year’s Eve! – December 31, 2025: Reader Tips
We conclude this interesting year with a very interesting song from 1973 called Also sprach Zarathustra, performed by Deodato.
We always appreciate your great news tips. Also feel free to share with us what your New Year’s Eve plans are!
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Snow fences explained.
Enemies Inside the Gates
EXPOSED 🚨 Democrat paid protester Nate Knopf is getting paid $80,000-$100,000 per year to protest
Paid protester and protest organizer job positions also discovered. Protesters can earn over $100,000 per year, get health benefits and even paid days off
David Khait exposes Nate… pic.twitter.com/TCsIchUjNk
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) December 29, 2025
Inconvenient Data
Record low temperatures will inevitably be dismissed as an example of changing weather, while any instance of warming temps will continue to be regarded as evidence of changing climate and thus deserving of an ongoing declaration of emergency. I expect we’ll be building ever more carbon sequestration projects, if only to be on the “safe” side.
On Dec. 23, a weather monitoring station in Braeburn, Yukon, recorded a temperature reading of -55.7 degrees Celsius, the lowest December temperature charted in Canada since 1975. For context, this isn’t too far off the average temperature on the surface of Mars, a planet whose lack of atmosphere renders it notably cold and uninhabitable.
Great Success!
Jerusalem Post- Taxpayer-funded Swedish schools tied to Islamist extremist welfare fraud
Over a billion Swedish kronor, or more than $100 million, in taxpayer-backed funds intended to support preschools and schools in Sweden have been siphoned off through an Islamist-affiliated network engaged in welfare fraud, an investigation by the Swedish newspaper Expressen revealed last Wednesday.
Large sums were sent to Waberi’s Islamist party in Somalia, while others were spent on private purchases, including Thai sex clubs, political party membership fees, and trips to luxury hotels in southeast Asia and Kenya, the report added.
Safe and Effective®
>=A major new study from Stanford Medicine, published in Science Translational Medicine, offers a fundamentally new explanation for rare cases of mRNA vaccine–associated myocarditis. Rather than simply showing that cardiac injury occurs, the researchers identify a specific immune signaling mechanism that can trigger heart cells to damage themselves from within.
Crucially, the authors describe this mechanism as a potential class effect of mRNA technology, raising important design considerations not only for current COVID vaccines, but also for future mRNA vaccines and cancer therapies.
Great Success!
Global- Toronto hate crime suspect denied refugee status in 2018
One of the Toronto men recently charged with alleged hate and extremism-motivated crimes targeting women and Jews was denied refugee status more than seven years ago, according to court records. Government records obtained by Global News show that Osman Azizov is an Azerbaijani citizen who, accompanied by his parents, crossed into Canada between official border points near Lacolle, Que., in 2017.
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
Earlier this year, Microsoft officially yanked the cord on Windows 10, ending support for an operating system that had been superseded by Windows 11 four years earlier.
But the tech giant’s controversial attempts to shoehorn AI into every aspect of the software appear to have turned off a staggering number of users from upgrading. While it’s to be expected at this point that not everybody will have jumped at the opportunity to update their machine’s operating system, the sheer scale of that refusal is staggering.
As Forbes reports, a whopping 1 billion PCs are still running Windows 10 — despite half of them technically being eligible for an upgrade.[…]
It’s an already familiar battle, with AI emerging as a major turn-off for consumers across several other industries as well.
Last month, Windows president Pavan Davuluri announced that the operating system would become an “agentic OS,” baking AI features directly into the software.
Core users, however, were appalled by the notion.
You’re going to live in a pod, eat bugs, wait for MAID and you’ll like it: After Outcry, Firefox Promises “Kill Switch” That Turns Off All AI Features
Tommy Douglas, Not Dead Enough
“The press only seems to show interest when immigrants have parallel experiences that the people who built Canada have been experiencing in the system for literally decades. One of the many reasons our system is collapsing is the influx of sickly, elderly foreigners and medical tourists who I am told sometimes will take a taxi straight from the airport to the hospital.”
Is Our Diversities Learing?
DataRepublican is still working on processing nearly 7.5 million unique health provider names through AI for ethnicity categorization and also on the right way to present them to the public. The initial plan is to provide a list of 5K-10K Somalian high priority names.
Expect…
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) December 29, 2025
@Beaverd: – I realized while making this that there is no real cohesive database for government funding data or corruption tracking. I think the Minnesota fraud is the tip of the iceberg. So, in my free time i’m planning to add fraud data for: PPP, healthcare, COVID relief fraud, SNAP, subsidies, etc. to Somaliscan.com
The “R” Word Has Lost All of its Power
For many decades, calling an American a “racist” was a sure-fire way to get them to cower. This tactic no longer has any power.
Tuesday On Turtle Island
The Democratic Party’s America: The Pence mirage. Hunter Biden. Death Star in Chicago.
China’s Canada: Quietly expanded state power. Education in Doug Ford’s Ontario. More woke needed.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Left wing women betray British girls. YouTuber Marcel Garcia. Islamophobia. The problematic concept of halal.
December 30, 2025: Reader Tips
Here’s a live version of Richard Marx performing Right Here Waiting.
Bonus: This German woman’s video of visiting Florida (and America) for the first time, reminds me of a whole lot of Canadians I’ve met. The one difference is that she’s polite. I know way too many Canadians who don’t hesitate whatsoever to tell Americans how they should live their lives and structure their society.
Hoping we don’t have to wait long to get some great news tips from you all!