Light Sentence Predicted

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National Post- Boy charged with murder in quadruple homicide on Saskatchewan First Nation

A 15-year-old boy is facing first-degree murder charges in the shooting deaths of four people on a First Nation in southern Saskatchewan.

Police say the boy and 18-year-old Darrius Racette were arrested Tuesday for the killings of two women and two men at a home on Carry the Kettle Nakoda Nation in early February.

Welcome To Canada

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A Grok assisted summary of the Trudeau government’s Resettlement Assistance Program (RAP) from this thread by @HoCStaffer;

Furniture Allowance: One-time payment, up to $1,550 for a single person without dependents, $2,440 for a single with one dependent, and up to $3,885 for a couple with three dependents (additional $420 per extra dependent). If furniture is provided through a supplier, the cash amount is reduced (e.g., $750 for a single person if supplier provides $800 worth).

Linens Allowance: One-time payment, $80 for a single person, $160 for a family of two, up to $480 for a family of six (additional $80 per extra dependent).

Basic Household Needs Allowance: One-time payment for items like curtains, pots/pans, and lamps; $600 for a single person, $650 for a family of two, up to $850 for a family of six (additional $50 per extra dependent). Notes that costs “should not” exceed maximum rates, but no penalty is specified.

Staple Allowance: One-time payment for food and cleaning supplies; $210 for a single person, $90 for each additional person (no maximum limit).

Clothing Allowance: One-time payment of $375 per adult, $250 per dependent under 18. Additional winter clothing allowance ($175/adult, $125/kid) if arriving between April 16 and October 14; discretionary outside this period or for health/emergency reasons.

Utility Installation Fee: One-time $75 payment to cover utility setup costs.

Monthly Communication Allowance: $30 monthly toward cell phone or internet bills.

Transportation Allowance: Monthly bus pass for those 18+ (up to $75, or $75 flat if no public transport or pass costs less).

School Start-Up Allowance: $150 per child aged 4-17, provided twice if arriving between September 1 and May 31; available for 18-21-year-olds if in high school, and over 21 in “interest” cases.

Shelter and Food/Incidentals Allowances: Not explicitly listed; based on provincial rates (e.g., Ontario’s Ontario Works at $733/month, deemed insufficient for rent).

Housing Supplement: $200 for singles/families, $300 for families of six or more.

Age of Majority Top-Up: $150 monthly for dependents turning 18 if the provincial age of majority is 19, plus transportation allowance.

Dietary and Maternity Allowances:
Dietary: $75/month per family with a doctor’s note for health conditions.
Maternity Food: $75/month with a doctor’s note (can combine with Dietary).
Maternity Clothing: $200 one-time for pregnant individuals.
Baby Allowance: $750 for newborn clothes and furniture.

Assistance Loans: Available, though amounts unspecified; targeted at legitimate immigrants but possible for refugees.

Exceptional and Additional Benefits:
Exceptional Allowance for unique cases.
Coverage for funeral costs if a migrant or dependent dies in Canada or en route.
Access to Canada Child Benefit, GST benefit, and provincial benefits (e.g., subsidized housing), not counted as income.

Other Notes: Singles or extended families sharing units can receive maximum allowances per individual, incentivizing cohabitation.

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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Blacklock’s – Army Drops Standard IQ Test

“We are aiming towards being a representation of all Canadians within our forces,” General Carignan told reporters. “It means we need to recruit enough diversity.”

Update, from Kate: The Canadian military is gearing up to take on those Yanks.

We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars

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Bad news for battery plants.

Nikola (NKLA.O) said on Wednesday it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and would pursue a sale of its assets, the latest electric-vehicle maker to stumble after grappling with tepid demand, rapid cash burn and funding challenges.

The development ends a challenging journey, which included several leadership changes, plummeting share values and short-seller allegations.[…]

Phoenix, Arizona-based Nikola, delivered its first vehicle in December 2021. A series of fire incidents involving its electric trucks in 2023 resulted in a recall of all its vehicles and raised safety concerns.

Nikola ramped up production of its hydrogen-powered trucks in 2024, but still lost hundreds of thousands of dollars on every vehicle sold as fleet operators were reluctant to invest in electric truck adoption amid high borrowing costs.

Gradually, Then Suddenly

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Real Estate Magazine;

Something has shifted in Canada’s housing market. This shouldn’t come as a surprise, given something has certainly shifted at a global geopolitically level. You might even call it a “tarrifying” headwind for Canada’s real estate market.

For years, supply was tight, and homebuyers outnumbered sellers in Canada’s real estate market. But as 2025 begins, the landscape looks strikingly different. New listings are pouring into the market at an extraordinary pace, while sales are faltering under the weight of mounting economic uncertainty.

As is tradition, when facing an unknown future, Canada’s real estate market has decided to hit the “pause button.” It is not uncommon to see the market take a breath when we’re facing a historic election, a pandemic or a changing economy. Today’s trade war is no different.

Power Forward Democrats

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DOGE Finds $2 Billion in Taxpayer Funds Earmarked for Stacey Abrams-Linked Group

The Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration awarded Power Forward Communities the grant in April 2024 as part of the agency’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund program. Power Forward Communities received the green energy grant despite the fact that it was founded months earlier in late 2023 and never managed anywhere near the grant’s dollar figure—it reported just $100 in total revenue during its first three months in operation, according to its latest tax filings. […]

“As we continue to learn more about where some of this money went, it is even more apparent how far-reaching and widely accepted this waste and abuse has been,” the EPA administrator continued. “It’s extremely concerning that an organization that reported just $100 in revenue in 2023 was chosen to receive $2 billion. That’s 20 million times the organization’s reported revenue.”

Power Forward Communities and Abrams did not respond to requests for comment.

Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors

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Roger Simon;

The dispute of the moment centers around the AP’s refusal to adopt the president’s executive order to change the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. I have no dog in that particular hunt. They could call that body of water the Gulf of Swordfish for all I care (reference to the great Marx Brothers film “Horsefeathers” deliberate).

Nevertheless, the Biden Administration made similar executive order changes galore, many of them considerably more fraught, to which the AP evinced not one objection and adhered to like well-trained circus animals.

They also did not object to years of acts of “woke” destruction as disgusting (and terroristic) as “militants”—the term they used— pulling down the statue of Theodore Roosevelt in front of New York’s Museum of Natural History when Roosevelt was the man responsible for our national parks. BLM were “militants” to them as well, not terrorists, as they attempted to burn down Minneapolis for their political purposes (also personal gain). The Associated Press linguistically normalized almost every extremist action of recent years, foreign and domestic.

But current rhetorical decisions of the AP are far worse with consequences that enable evil in its most extreme forms.

Most disturbing is their inability to use the word “terrorism” to apply to, well, real terrorists. They claim they rely exclusively on Merriam-Webster for their definitions but there is reason to be skeptical. MW defines terrorism as “the unlawful use or threat of violence especially against the state or the public as a politically motivated means of attack or coercion.”

Wouldn’t that perfectly define Hamas that breaks into a neighboring country, shoots as many random civilians as possible, blows up their cars, destroys their buildings, abducts their citizens, including children and tiny babies, killing many, torturing or raping others, male and female, or starving them to death, in hidden tunnels for now over 500 days. How much “attack” and “coercion” do you need? And it hasn’t stopped.

But no, Hamas are not terrorists. In AP parlance they are “militants.” But because it is the Associated Press, this appellation spreads, surprisingly often even to conservative media. AP journalism, according to its website, is read by 4 billion people a day globally.

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