He’s just not that into us.
Rename All The Things
Say it with me now…
Cowichan Valley Citizen- Cowichan health facility’s new name: Quw’utsun Valley Hospital (Quw’utsun Hulitun-ew’t-hw)
California State Senator Scott Wiener is a P.O.S.
Which is why he may very well take over Nancy Pelosi’s near lifetime role as San Fransicko’s congress person.
We Were Promised Flying Cars
We got…
Echo Chamber
Only customers with obsessive compulsive disorder would be bothered by any strike. The rest will just buy their latte at the myriad of coffee shops that can be found down the street from every Starbucks.
Starbucks Workers United said stores in 45 cities would be impacted, including New York, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, San Diego, St. Louis, Dallas, Columbus, Ohio, and Starbucks’ home city of Seattle. There is no date set for the strike to end, and more stores are prepared to join if Starbucks doesn’t reach a contract agreement with the union, organizers said.
Safe and Effective®
Carl Heneghan- The Fear Factory on Full Throttle
But don’t panic: the antivirals, the winter plan and the vaccines will save the day.
Enemy Of The People
Peter Stockland- Journalists betray the truth when they permit politicians to shape-shift using whoppers
The same people who worked to kill LNG exports now claim they are big fans. And no one even blinks
The White Guilt Industrial Complex
National Post- The push to have Canadians hear a ‘slavery’ acknowledgement at public events
After a standard land acknowledgement mentioning the various First Nations whose traditional territories overlap with the City of Toronto, attendees were also asked to acknowledge “those who were brought here involuntarily; particularly those brought to these lands as a result of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and slavery.”
Dispatches from the Maple Gulag Truckstop
Mark Carney is looking for a new Parliamentary Budget Officer who has more “tact and discretion” because Mark Carney is tired of Jason Jacques telling the truth.
But you don’t have to be the Parliamentary Budget Officer to spot discrepancies in Liberal math.
The job numbers for October were made to look good at a glance, but if you read past the first paragraph you will see that the increase in jobs are all temporary part time jobs and the Canada lost 18,500 full time jobs.
The October increase was driven entirely by part-time work (+85,000), while full-time positions actually fell (-18,500). Most of the gains were in Ontario, which added 55,000 jobs, and in industries including retail and wholesale trade, transportation, and information and recreation. BMO chief economist Douglas Porter notes that this provincial strength might have a temporary cause, suggesting Ontario’s gains—particularly in information, culture & recreation and accommodation & food—may have received a bump from the Blue Jays’ playoff run. Construction employment fell by 15,000.
If you look even further you will question the increase in transportation jobs. I’ve been in transportation for 34 years, the market has never been this slow for this long. EVER.
So how do you get an increase of 30,000 jobs in transportation when the industry is collapsing with bankruptcies everywhere? There are so many bankruptcies that the auctions are overrun with equipment for sale.
There were more people working in wholesale and retail trade (+41,000; +1.4%), transportation and warehousing (+30,000; +2.8%), information, culture, and recreation (+25,000; +3.0%), and utilities (+7,600; +4.6%). On the other hand, employment declined in construction (-15,000; -0.9%).
This fall things have slowed down even more due to the tariffs in the US and a lack of economic activity in Canada, so how did transportation and warehousing gain 30,000 jobs when trucking companies are laying off staff?
It can be argued that some of my number are from months ago, but there are no economic indicators showing any postive news that would cause a reversal of the trend.
It’s almost like the Liberals are spreading misinformation…
Maybe Some Other Time…
I assume that if an Arctic hydro dam was a viable proposition, someone else would have already done it. But cost is apparently no object. In order to expedite that, a bitumen pipeline is going to get dropped from the list. What’s notably missing from the list as well is any mention of funding to complete a four lane highway across the country, which would finally put us on par with most semi-industrialized nations.
The Crawford nickel project in northeastern Ontario is also expected to be on the list, as well as Nouveau Monde Graphite Inc.’s mine and battery-materials plant project in Quebec, an Iqaluit hydro project and a major electricity transmission line in northern B.C., according to reports from CBC News and Bloomberg News.
Jeffrey Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself
How the Epstein files burned a source for the NYT aaand…..
@michaelmalice: something truly bizarre is happening … AP released a piece on the Epstein emails that dropped, but the writer does everything in their power to exonerate Trump from the implications
Things You’re Gonna See On The CBC
Mothercorp knows best: The entire “Top Stories” page on CBC’s website today is dedicated to pushing flu fear and flu shots. This is not organic, this is what Government state funded control over a “news organization” looks like.
The Libranos: Entitled To Her Entitlements
Blacklocks: Liberal MP Arielle Kayabaga (London West, Ont.) yesterday would not explain why she billed more than $173,000 for nine days’ worth of “personnel” costs in her brief tenure as Government House Leader. Kayabaga spent the entire period in her riding with Parliament out of session: ‘It was a short-lived position.’
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
About a third of my AI queries these days puke out hallucinatory crapshit output, but what do I know.
Thursday On Turtle Island
Conman Carney’s Canada: The moral ground. A campus ban. Remembrance Day.
The Democratic Party’s America: An updated Eugene Debs. Sleazy Democrats. Mr.Jihad.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Moderate Muslims in Bristol. Boyfriends are uncool. Bataclan.
Your morning meme. Another meme.
November 13, 2025: Reader Tips
From February 23, 1967, here an episode of Dragnet called The Bank Examiner Swindle.
Your most interesting news tips are always appreciated!
Johnny’s Island of Sanity
Ve Ave Vays
They Wouldn’t Do That
Would they?
David Clinton- Bill C-4: Join a Political Party in Canada and Mess Up Your Life?
All of which means that, for the low, low price of a single party membership card, you’ve bought yourself vulnerability to the threat of identity theft, harassment, and exposure of your sensitive (and likely controversial) political views. Employers, landlords, insurers, neighbors, old enemies, new enemies, future enemies? They’d be crazy not to drink deep from this Pierian spring.
Playing Favorites
Peter Menzies- Budget 2025 fails to bail out the legacy media
Carney, as he, his entourage and acolytes are quick to remind Canadians, has a doctorate in economics and has run the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England. In other words, he knows how the world works. And that means he’s more than aware that heavily subsidizing one commercial competitor within an industry will do harm to others, particularly when the industry is one that has been running desperately short of cash.
Blacklock’s- Revenues Crash Despite Aid
Newspaper revenues are down a quarter since 2020 despite millions in taxpayers’ bailouts, new Statistics Canada data show. The latest figures follow comments by the subsidized press’ chief lobbyist, Paul Deegan, that Canadian publishers were unable to change their business model.