You Can Fool Enough Of The People Enough Of The Time

To stay in power a long, long time.

Dan Knight- How the Liberals Campaigned Against Austerity and Then Quietly Embraced It

Just ten weeks after the vote, the Carney government is preparing sweeping cuts, yes, cuts, to federal program spending. Departments are being told to slash 7.5% next year, rising to 10%, then 15% by 2028. So much for no austerity. So much for “protecting services.”

Francisco- Read the whole thing.

CTV- What does PM Carney’s edict to find billions in savings means for government job security?

Great Success!

David Clinton- Cannabis Legalization Is Starting to Look Like a Really Dumb Idea

The new concerns follow the recent release of a couple of groundbreaking Canadian studies: Cannabis Use Disorder Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations and 5-Year Mortality which found evidence relating cannabis use to early death, and Convergence of Cannabis and Psychosis on the Dopamine System which describes a possible biological mechanism linking cannabis use to psychosis.

Cottage Country Bust

Higher interest rates coupled with rising unemployment are throwing the marginal consumer out of the cottage market in a big way.

One three-bedroom cottage sold for $735,000 in April — a 33 per cent loss for the previous owner who purchased it in 2021 for $1.1 million.

“You’ve got to be struggling financially to take a $300,000 loss,” Blenkarn said. “Nobody wants to sell for a loss like that.”

Blenkarn said he is also seeing cottages being leased out and up for sale at the same time, an indicator that the owner is having trouble affording the property in the interim.

 

Thursday On Turtle Island

Lord Carney’s Canada:   Ms. Dudley Do-Right explains extremism in Canada.  Money for Indians. (Warning: CBC)

Woke America:   A snarling Kamala.   VDH – The roots of leftist rage.  Leftists embrace sedition.

Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC:   The cost of Net Zero.   The religion of tolerance.   Another case of mental illness.  Islam is the boss.  Turning a sniffle into a calamity.  France is no longer France.  From the man cave.

When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal

Matt Taibbi;

What a roller-coaster the last week has been.

On the heels of the devastating, embarrassing announcement by Donald Trump’s Justice Department that there would be no new document releases in the Jeffrey Epstein case, there is real — if confusing — progress in an equally explosive investigation. In a story first broken by Fox News, reported further by Margot Cleveland at The Federalist, Miranda Devine at the New York Post, and Paul Sperry at RealClear Investigations, and bolstered now by our own sources at Racket, it’s confirmed: FBI Director Kash Patel has opened criminal investigations into former CIA chief John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey, for offenses related to the Trump-Russia scandal colloquially known as “Russiagate.”

The opening of criminal probes into two of the most powerful enforcement chiefs of the Trump era marks the first steps toward consequences for the elaborate and historically unprecedented intelligence fraud that for years consumed American politics. The Bureau will look at possible perjury and conspiracy offenses for both, focusing initially on how Brennan’s CIA and Comey’s FBI worked to produce the infamous “Intelligence Community Assessment” of January 6th, 2017.

Elbows Up

Forks, down.

Top food price increases in Canada since Jan 2025 (ranked by % change):

→ Strawberries +53%
→ Oranges +37%
→ Squash +31%
→ Beef +30%
→ Carrots +30%
→ Cabbage +29%
→ Roasted or ground coffee +19%
→ White rice +17%
→ Potatoes (4.54 kg) +16%
→ Frozen broccoli +14%
→ Frozen corn +14%
→ Infant formula +12%
→ Frozen peas +12%
→ Almonds +11%
→ Salmon +11%
→ Apple juice +10%
→ Tea +9%
→ Meatless burgers +8%
→ Orange juice +6%

“If every storm or cloud is the storm of the century, none are.”

About the Texas floods.

One of the many lies promoted (suspect the social media version of JournOlist was running hot and heavy) was that no warnings were given because of DOGE cuts, short staffing, etc. All were lies as any cuts don’t take place until the FY, the NWS had extra staff on hand per SOP, and warnings were given in a timely manner. Not once, but no less than three times.

But, there does lie part of the rub. Texas was indeed right to criticize the NWS, as Todd Starnes pointed out on X. Back after Katrina, the NWS was (rightfully) criticized for not updating warnings and giving accurate warnings. The bureaucratic mind being what it is, the decision was made to treat every storm as the storm of the century and warn accordingly such that they could never be criticized again for not issuing strong enough warnings. Besides, that is easier, and easier to justify, that in having people show mature judgment and professionalism and update warnings if and as warranted. No thought, no muss, and it totally screws disaster preparedness planning and actions right in the keester.

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