604 Now- Vancouver’s New Parking Meters Will Accept Tips
The move is part of a broader strategy to recover revenue lost from the removal of the carbon tax. Officials say the tipping feature allows residents to support city services in a more “direct and meaningful” way.
The Food Professor: Another ANONYMOUS LETTER from a dairy farmer in Ontario highlighting the growing mess created by supply management. And it’s only going to get worse.
If I was running the industry that serves as perennial whipping boy for Liberals, I’d screw over their manufactured “price drop at the pumps” campaign stunt, too.
The average retail price of gasoline in Canada increased ¢14 in the last month, which is not coincidentally the amount of carbon tax that is being removed today. pic.twitter.com/JvNFPMapYD
— Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker (@Martyupnorth_2) April 1, 2025
LC Bennett, in the comments: What a disgrace our courts have become. Last week they said that governments do not have a duty of care for people injured or dead because of the “safe and effective” covid shots that they relentlessly pressured people to take. This week they are saying that it was okay for employers to force you to get the covid shots or be fired. In essence, governments and employers can use the force of coercion to demand a medical procedure but bear no responsibility for any catastrophic injuries from the medical procedure. Appalling legal precedent.
Poilievre’s key energy policy: a National Energy Corridor for pipe, power and rail. Here’s his speech, verbatim.
The reality is, we largely have a such a corridor already from Moose Jaw to a third of the way through Ontario. It’s Quebec and New Brunswick that are the issue.
And just a couple hours after Poilievre spoke, we recorded this with Andrew Scheer:
Pipeline Online Podcast, Ep. 6: Andrew Scheer on a National Energy Corridor and a whole lot more, including tariffs, Clean Electricity Regulations and coal-fired power.
Spiked – Sorry Cynthia, we’re not bowing to nonbinary lunacy anymore. (except in Carney’s Canada)
Ramadan in Uganda. Ramadan in Nigeria. Paul Joseph Watson – Something is wrong. And Afghan refugees.
Woke America: VDH – The real oligarchs. They were hiding all of this.
Conman Carney’s Canada: A Yale professor. Hamas in Carney’s Toronto. Carney the feminist. The tree scam.
Odds And Ends: Manufacturing consent. Pheasant awareness training. Climate change and wildfires.
Your morning meme. Another meme. A cartoon.
Carney finally caved. Chiang is “standing aside”.
In 1972, Italian singer Adriano Celentano released a song entitled Prisencolinensinainciusol, featuring nonsensical lyrics designed to mimic the sound of English.
Bonus: Andrew Klavan shares a few thoughts about April Fools Pranks.
Your funniest tips to start the month are very much appreciated!
This is the question.
Dave Barry- Yoga Trauma
What happened was — prepare to be horrified — a woman took a sip of water during a yoga class. Yes. According to the Times story, which is not a brief story, and which I am not making up, this resulted in a “firestorm.”
The people who quarterbacked the NATO side of the Ukraine war are so pleased with themselves, they can’t keep from boasting about things that will make the average American want to pitchfork the lot of them.
When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the White House nearly a month ago, the New York Times packed its pages with stories denouncing Donald Trump and J.D. Vance for abandoning Ukraine, and the impolitic “dressing down” of a friendly foreign leader. The Times like most Western news outlets for years suggested that anything short of a full-throated expression of support for war was a betrayal of the “democratic world order” that would lead to instant battlefield deaths.
Now that the war appears lost, and newspapers abroad (conspicuously, not here) are full of news about an apparent bombing of Vladimir Putin’s motorcade, and the future of NATO hangs by a thread, the Times has run a 13,000-word “Secret History” that shows the same U.S. officials who denounced Trump and American voters for saying it out loud long ago concluded that they, too, should probably “walk away.”
This is a must read. Buy a subscription if you must. There’s too much here to quote, but I’ll include this bit from nearer the end.
There are a hundred details in this “Secret History” that serve as stark warnings to anyone who thinks protection from Armageddon is secure in the hands of career military and intelligence officials. Not only did we allow ourselves to be “blackmailed” into escalating a conflict with a nuclear power, the management of the “partnership” broke down because of a Heathers-style spat between the key brass twits, Ukrainian general Valery Zaluhniy and Mark Milley.
When Milley second-guessed Zaluhniy, the latter would respond with teen-like silence, or by ghosting Milley’s next call. Underscoring: the country to which we were giving hundreds of billions in aid didn’t feel a need to pick up the phone.
I think this livestream is open audience.
Hear my prayer: Only 4 Permits have been issued 75 days after the Los Angeles, California wildfires burned 6,000+ homes in Pacific Palisades
So a certain person wants the federal government to openly speculate in the real estate market. What could possibly go wrong?
A Carney government also would create a new entity, Build Canada Homes, to act as a developer on housing projects and provide more than $25 billion in financing to innovative builders of prefabricated homes.
National Post- Former Liberal minister worked government contacts to ply COVID contracts without registering as lobbyist
Newly released federal emails obtained by National Post through access-to-information requests show that Copps requested at least two meetings in connection with multiple medical-equipment supply companies during the pandemic. She did not record these meetings in the lobbying registry.
One of the firms was a rapid-test company that would go on to secure billions of dollars in government business.
Paul Sutton- POLICE ARREST PARENTS FOR COMPLAINING ABOUT A SCHOOL
Six officers sent to make the arrests, then parents held in the cells for eight hours. This in a force which cannot deal with routine shoplifting, so forget burglaries. I don’t want to sound pessimistic but these five points have to be made:
Spectator- Why are police targeting parents who complained in a school WhatsApp group?
Western Standard- Trudeau spent $11,000,000,000 on overseas gender programs during tenure
The figure is a conservative estimate, as it primarily includes gender-targeted aid and doesn’t account for the full value of gender-integrated projects, which could add billions more if fully calculated.
MikesMoneyTalks- Credibility is a challenge given internal memo reveals the Liberals knew that their often mentioned/promised 3.89 million houses by 2030 was bogus. This is the latest in a long list of housing platforms – 2017, 2022, 2024, 2025