Understanding the mental states of others, their motives and assumptions, insofar as one can, doesn’t necessarily result in positive feelings towards them, or identification with them, or lead to a default forgiveness and willingness to excuse their behaviour. Simply put, if your “empathy” results in you being endlessly forgiving, endlessly accommodating, over and over again, then you’re almost certainly doing it wrong.
Or not doing it at all.
Sunday On Turtle Island
Woke America: The Somali community. VDH – The experts were wrong. Kamala burdened by what has been.
Lord Carney’s Canada: More Liberal voters. Another Liberal success story. Hockey Night in London.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: If you like war movies you are probably a Nazi. The gates of sanity. Three Brits. A funeral. And at the Bee.
The Sunday Hymn.
August 3, 2025: Reader Tips
Here is the Australian singer, Tina Arena, performing Night Fever.
Your news tips are always welcome!
Up From The Memory Hole
Going Postal
Globe and Mail- Canada Post workers reject latest contract offer
Approximately 70 per cent of postal workers voted against their employer’s final offer, which the Canadian Union of Postal Workers had characterized as a deal that would erode employees’ job security and pension benefits, as well as expand part-time work at the expense of full-time jobs.
Globe and Mail- Canada Post is a case study in Canadian dysfunctionality
Paradoxically, the stakeholders who would be expected to have the keenest interest in ensuring the corporation’s viability are blocking the company’s ability to succeed. CUPW refuses to allow Canada Post to hire a dedicated force of flexible weekend workers. Meanwhile, workers, who get overtime pay for weekend work, earn more – roughly $30 per hour to start – than their counterparts at unionized competitors and vastly more than their counterparts at non-unionized competitors.
A Lot Of Locked Up Potential In The Deranged Dominion
Fraser Institute- Saskatchewan remains Canada’s most attractive jurisdiction for mining investment
Saskatchewan remains Canada’s top-rated jurisdiction for mining investment, ranking 7th globally in the Annual Survey of Mining Companies released
today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.Finland is the top-ranked jurisdiction worldwide for mining investment in this year’s survey, followed by Nevada.
Baby Boomers
TDS Uber Alles
Globe and Mail- Free speech is the right to say horrible things
The City of Charlottetown also cited public safety concerns in revoking its permit. Moncton did the same, saying in a statement, “the concert would be non-compliant with the City’s Code of Conduct in City Facilities” – which ironically enough prohibits discrimination based on religious belief.
Y2Kyoto: Run For Yer Lives!
Roger Pielke Jr :
The figure above shows deaths from weather and climate disasters, from January to June, from 2000 to 2025. You can see that deaths are dominated by years with large events — 2008, Cyclone Nargis (~138,000 deaths, Indian Ocean); 2010, heat wave (~56,000 deaths, Russia); 2022, heat wave (>50,000 deaths, Europe).5 The little red bar on the far right of the bar graph is 2025.
Great Success!
Kevin Klein- Passport power fading — and so is the Canada we once knew
According to the latest data from the Henley Passport Index, Canada’s passport has slipped again — now tied for eighth place with Estonia and the United Arab Emirates. Just a few years ago, we were ranked higher. The pattern is unmistakable. Our global influence is fading, our credibility is eroding, and the world is taking notice.
When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
“There is a definite rats-fleeing-a-sinking-ship vibe around the original protagonists in this story…”
The AI Revolution
Peter St Onge- 300,000 Layoffs in Finance
The Cotton Plantations Of Sudbury
True North Wire – Guilbeault blasted for misrepresenting Canada’s history with slavery.
Saturday On Turtle Island
Woke America: VDH – Democrats are addicted to losing. It’s just like slavery. The secret.
Conman Carney’s Canada: A Liberal policy. Concert cancelled in Abbotsford. O Canada.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Persecution of Christians in India. COP30. When the blind get to see.
Your morning meme. Another meme.
August 2, 2025: Reader Tips
Here an interesting documentary entitled Berlin 1945: Waiting for the End
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Honey, I Finished The Internet
Take us back to the 90s: Leonard v. Pepsico
I Want To Ride My Bicycle
Colby Cosh- Cyclists’ rights — the latest product of judicial hubris
You’ll surely read a lot in the NP’s pages about the Wednesday ruling by Ontario Superior Court Justice Paul Schabas which found that the province’s plans to remove exclusive bike lanes on some key Toronto arteries is contrary to the Charter of Rights. Legal conservatives will argue that this decision, if upheld on appeal, amounts to an arrogation of further new powers by a Canadian judiciary that has already been running amok for 50 years. They will characterize it as a matter of scribbling a “right to bike lanes” into the Charter.
Great Success!
Blacklock’s- 32% More Water Advisories
The number of long-term boiled water advisories on First Nations is up 32 percent from last year, says Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty’s department. Dozens of First Nations still have tap water unfit to drink more than four years after cabinet promised to eliminate all water advisories at a $3.6 billion cost.
One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other
