New Governor, Just Like The Old Governor

TorStar;

Bell Canada’s cancellation of a $32-million dollar contract to expand high-speed internet and cell service on Labrador’s north coast comes as the telecommunications giant has confirmed plans to expand southward in the United States.

After receiving millions in government subsidies for the Labrador North Wireless Broadband Project, Canada’s largest communications company says it’s no longer feasible to complete the expansion due to rising costs and competition.

47: Most Favored Nation

@RapidResponse47;

@POTUS on Most Favored Nation prescription drug pricing: “We are going to pay the lowest price there is in the world. Whoever is paying the lowest price, that is the price we’re going to get — so we’re no longer paying ten times more than another country.”

More: On accusations that signing an executive order implementing Most Favored Nation prescription drug pricing is “price control,”

Margin Of Management

Dan Knight: Recounts, Power, and the Liberal March to Majority

This morning, in a quiet hall on the windswept coast of Newfoundland, democracy is going to do what it is supposed to do. Its counting. In a federal election defined by razor-thin margins and electoral fatigue, Canada’s tightest race — Terra Nova – The Peninsulas — is undergoing a judicial recount. Not because of protests or partisanship, but because the law demands it. When the margin is less than 0.1%, the ballots get counted again. That’s the rule. That’s the process. And it’s underway now.

What makes this recount so important isn’t the process — it’s the power behind the result.[…]

Born and raised in Newfoundland, Handrigan built his legal career in Grand Bank, eventually serving as a litigation lawyer before his appointment to the bench. He’s presided over high-profile cases involving criminal law, abuse compensation, and civil injunctions. In 2019, he instructed a jury in the Al Potter murder trial with clinical precision. In 2024, he ordered financial compensation for dozens of abuse victims who had been wrongly denied. On paper, that’s the mark of a judge committed to procedural fairness.

But look just a little deeper and the pattern becomes clearer. These aren’t rebellious rulings or populist pushbacks. They’re system-correcting decisions — the kind the establishment loves because they preserve the illusion of balance. That’s Handrigan’s specialty: smoothing over friction in a system designed by and for institutional power.

When, in 2024, he scheduled a hearing to block the sale of a local church in Portugal Cove South, he didn’t challenge the power structure behind the decision — he merely moderated it. As one legal analyst put it, “Handrigan doesn’t disrupt. He manages.”

And that’s the issue here.

Flashback time.

Eyre’s federal election post-mortem

Bronwyn Eyre: “Elbows Up” for the Provinces Against the Ottawa Hegemons!

Note: Eyre and Pipeline Online editor Brian Zinchuk will be cohosting the Pipeline Online Podcast at 2 p.m. on Monday, May 12. The guest will be E. Craig Lothian, who has run many oil companies in Saskatchewan over the years. Watch live on X, Facebook or LinkedIn. And if you do watch live, you can comment or ask questions in real time.

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Their Inner Loveliness

One might think that gangs of masked misfits following elderly and disabled people to their cars, then obstructing their attempts to leave, while generally menacing them and muttering vivid threats, might constitute a breach of the peace, to say the least. Causing fear and alarm is the obvious intention.

And remember, the targets in the videos above – the unimposing, the elderly, the disabled – are chosen deliberately and with glee. Because that’s who they are, these mighty warriors of the Cluster B Tendency. Malevolence is their aphrodisiac, their euphoria. It’s how they feel important. It’s how they process the buzzing noise inside their own heads.

A peek at the psychology of Antifa’s Transgender Enforcement Wing, for whom menacing the elderly and disabled is the cutting edge of radical piety.

Captive Audience

Opening up the Canadian telecom industry to foreign competitors is well overdue, particularly when the CEOs of our politically favored service providers start to openly take their customers for granted.

The company said the drop was due to customers signing up for base rate plans with lower prices “in response to more intense marketing and promotional price competition targeting both new and existing customers,” along with a decline in overage and roaming revenues.

“We have to change the psychology within the industry as it relates to marketing and sales. We have a wireless industry where we have to have price competition parity and I, for one, don’t understand that,” said Entwistle.

 

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