Telegraph- Gas reserves plunge to ‘concerning’ low with only a week of supply left
Rotatable Apparatus
Crisis In Los Angeles
The Palisades fire has flared up again, and more evacuation orders went out last night. The best live online coverage available is at Fox11.
A blue state reckoning: … no water in a fire hydrant is a great equalizer.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
For those wondering how long the Santa Ynez Reservoir has been empty the answer is June 2009.
Gavin Newsom & Karen Bass: When Arrogance Meets Incompetence
The amount of destruction from the 2025 SoCal Fires is unfathomable. The complete incompetence of California’s “leaders” is even worse.
Related: Straight white male nepotism has been replaced by lesbian nepotism.
It’s Probably Nothing
A reader in the trucking industry, via email;
my phone is ringing because everyone wants to get their loads to the US by Jan 17th before Trump tariffs. Our parliament is prorogued for another 2 and a half months. This is a crisis. We won’t be shipping anything south after the 17th and our industries can’t wait for Trudeau.
Saturday On Turtle Island
Dementia Joe’s America: Victor Davis Hanson – A DEI disaster. Leftist big city leaders. Misinformation.
Blackie’s Canada: Forget about new mines in Ontario. (Warning: CBC)
Today In Islam: A Muslim preacher. IDF closes down hospital. Allahu Akbar in Belgium. Allahu Akbar in Australia.
Odds And Ends: Another religion that persecutes Christians. This is truly insane. The weight of time.
And at the Bee.
Ease Up On The Botox, Christy
Was Christie Clark a Conservative before? It depends, and it's not good.
CBC's Catherine Cullen interviewed Clark and asked about her voting for Jean Charest in the last CPC leadership race and then things got messy.
This is an own goal by Clark.
#cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/WslrKRTt8Q— Brian Lilley (@brianlilley) January 10, 2025
See also.
January 11, 2025: Reader Tips
Ever wonder why east coast American cities are located where they are? There’s a reason, and it’s called The East Coast Fall Line.
Your best recent tips are appreciated!
If Women Ran The World
@Oilfield_Rando – Los Angeles has more lesbians attacking each other than a field hockey tournament
🚨 #BREAKING: LA Mayor Karen Bass fires Fire Chief Kristin Crowley after Crowley said today leadership "failed" amid the fires – Daily Mail
Crowley told a reporter "yes" when asked, "did they [city leadership] fail you?"pic.twitter.com/GXzS27truy
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 11, 2025
(Other reports state she hasn’t been fired.)
Honey, I Finished The Internet
End your day off with a little Thunderstruck.
The Cement Pond
Not The Tampons!
New York Times- Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era
That same day at Meta’s offices in Silicon Valley, Texas and New York, facilities managers were instructed to remove tampons from men’s bathrooms, which the company had provided for nonbinary and transgender employees who use the men’s room and who may have required sanitary pads, two employees said.
Jeffrey Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself
🎶 It’s a small world, after all.
They were attending the Wilderness festival in Oxon, which is held on the grounds of Cornbury Park, which was then home to Lady Tania Rotherwick, who is Carney’s sister-in-law (since divorced from hereditary Tory peer Robin Cayzer, 3rd Baron Rotherwick).
WHAT OF IT?
Rainbow California
Don’t Build ‘Em Like They Used To
Ottawa Citizen- Driver injured in crash of SUV and horse-drawn wagon
Renfrew County paramedics transported the SUV driver to hospital with minor injuries. There were no injuries reported for the people in the wagon or the horses.
Another Conspiracy Theory Proves to have been True
It was just over one month ago when the Romanian Constitutional Court suddenly canceled their presidential election. There were many rumours about outside interference.
Fast forward, and carefully watch this unhinged rant by EU apparatchik, Thierry Breton. Be sure to pay close attention to the subtitled captions in the last few seconds.
Breton was the same person who threatened Elon Musk about talking publicly with Donald Trump during the U.S. Presidential campaign. Now he’s admitting to the EU blocking the democratic will of the Romanian people?!
Vaccines Uber Alles
The Devil Will Be In The Details
And what the provinces decide to do with this.
Ottawa Citizen- Federal changes could result in a sea change in delivery of primary care
On Friday, federal Health Minister Mark Holland released a long-awaited Canada Health Act interpretation letter and announced a new Canada Health Act Services Policy. The policy, he said, confirms that if a service is considered medically necessary it should be covered by a patient’s provincial or territorial health care plan “whether the service is provided by a physician or a physician-equivalent.”
That means nurse practitioners, midwives and pharmacists could be paid directly through OHIP and other provincial and territorial health care plans, something that, until now, has been reserved for physicians.
Manufacturing Blind Faith
Blacklock’s- Paid $369K To Silence Critics
Media Smarts of Ottawa, the federal contractor, was paid $369,975 for the project titled Critical Thinking In The Digital Age: Countering Coronavirus Misinformation. It encouraged media and the public to avoid questioning government advisories.
The contractor ran a Check First, Share After campaign encouraging media and the public to closely follow government announcements. Even non-government “experts” who criticized federal advisories were suspect, it said: “Trust information from official government sites.”