Embrace Hollywood!

RIP Loretta Swit.

As Jerry Seinfeld said last year, “‘People always need [comedy] … they need it so badly and they don’t get it,’ Seinfeld began. ‘It used to be you’d go home at the end of the day, ‘oh, ‘Cheers’ is on. Oh, ‘M*A*S*H*’ is on. Oh, ‘Mary Tyler Moore’ is on. ‘All in the Family’ is on.’ You just expected there will be some funny stuff on TV you can watch tonight. ‘But guess what? Where is it? Where is it? This is the result of the extreme Left and PC crap and people worrying so much about offending other people.’”

“This one isn’t missing us.”

That would be 7-8 AM CST in Saskatchewan. Grok explainer: Continue reading →

National Bankruptcy For All!

Whether the medical system is American or Canadian, there are all sorts of medical procedures whose costs are not currently borne by the state. As is typical these days, there’s never any mention of ways in which free markets could lower these costs. Instead, the implied solution is that the magical entity known as “others” should simply assume all of the burden. In other words, let’s deal with the problems of a mostly Sovietized system by fully Sovietizing the same system. What could possibly go wrong?

A growing number of retirees, like Morton, are grappling with healthcare debt due to medical bills. Medicare, which provides health insurance coverage to more than 66 million people, covers the lion’s share of the cost of medical care, but not all.

On average, a 65-year-old who left the workforce last year may need $165,000 in savings to cover out-of-pocket healthcare expenses throughout retirement.

 

New Governor, Same As The Old Governor

April 3rd, 2025:

Liberal Leader Mark Carney says it’s not necessary to protect Canada’s supply management system through binding legislation.

The stance puts him at odds with his party’s position less than two years ago, when the vast majority of Liberal MPs voted for a bill that would have protected the supply-managed dairy, egg and poultry markets from future trade concessions.

May 30, 2025: Prime Minister Mark Carney yesterday endorsed a Bloc Québécois dairy bill opposed by free trade farmers as protectionist.

Narrative Spin

The narratives spin so fast with some journalists that you just can’t keep up these days. When faced with the obvious problem that EV sales are cratering at the same time that government subsidies are evaporating, the typical response is to cite opinion polls which claim that car buyers are actually quite positive about EVs.

DesRosiers Automotive Consultants described an “astonishing” collapse in battery electric vehicle sales, adding that “stunning declines were witnessed by a plethora of BEVs, as sales plummeted across the segment.”

However, J.D. Power Canada says only 42 per cent of new vehicle shoppers likely considering an EV say Ottawa’s rebate halt had a “negative effect” on their decision. Twenty-eight per cent say the pause was “more or less neutral” in terms of swaying their intentions. J.D. Power says it collected responses from 3,979 new vehicle shoppers in March and April.

 

Our Chinese-Installed Governor In Ottawa

Globe & Mail;

A federal watchdog agency says an active overseas clandestine spy service operation was abruptly halted by a top adviser to former prime minister Justin Trudeau, a decision it says needlessly put CSIS officers in danger.

In a report released Thursday, the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency, or NSIRA, said it had investigated a 2022 Canadian Security Intelligence Service operation that was suspended before later being authorized to proceed.

NSIRA said the national security and intelligence adviser to the prime minister at the time stopped the “active operation,” a measure that “created unnecessary danger for the CSIS team,” according to its heavily redacted report.

The 43-page report from NSIRA, an independent body that oversees federal intelligence agencies, provides a rare glimpse inside the political oversight of intelligence operations.

Jody Thomas, a former deputy minister of national defence, was national security adviser in 2022.

NSIRA said the decision to halt the operation was not made by then-CSIS director David Vigneault, and there was no written record that then-public safety minister Marco Mendicino had stopped it. Those two would have been the only ones with statutory authority to approve, reject or halt operations. […]

Ms. Thomas told The Globe and Mail on Thursday that NSIRA had not reached out to get her side of what had transpired. She said she was asking questions about the operation on behalf of many parts of government, including the departments of Global Affairs and Public Safety.

She said she didn’t personally halt the operation.

Ok, this is just laugh out loud funny

H/T Andy Lee

Y2Kyoto: The Government Giveth

The government taketh away.

More than $14 billion in green energy projects have been delayed or canceled so far in 2025 as the Trump administration and its allies move to roll back former President Joe Biden’s sprawling climate agenda, according to new analysis released Thursday.

Congressional Republicans are looking to restrict Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) subsidies for green projects while the Trump administration slashes big-budget climate grants, leading companies that once had big ambitions to postpone or cancel their green energy developments outright. Although many investments spurred by the IRA were canceled before 2025, $14 billion worth of projects have been canceled or delayed so far this year, with $4.5 billion nixed or pushed back in April alone, according to an analysis on projects tracked by the nonpartisan group E2 in partnership with the Clean Economy Tracker.

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