Culture Critic- Like us, Ancient Rome had a birth rate crisis.
In 300 AD, Rome was a city of ~1 million people. 200 years later, hardly enough people lived there to fill the Colosseum. And their story feels alarmingly familiar…
Culture Critic- Like us, Ancient Rome had a birth rate crisis.
In 300 AD, Rome was a city of ~1 million people. 200 years later, hardly enough people lived there to fill the Colosseum. And their story feels alarmingly familiar…
CTV- High-risk offender released, expected to live in Winnipeg
“Although he has completed some sexual offender treatment in the past, he remains a high risk to re-offend. All men, women, and children are at risk.”
Charlette has a lengthy criminal history. He was convicted in 1991 of manslaughter involving a two-year-old child, for which he served a six-year prison sentence. He has also been convicted of aggravated assault, assault causing bodily harm, uttering threats, carrying a concealed weapon and multiple court order breaches.
Longtime SDA regular commenter, Denise, sent in this song, performed by her husband, James Frazer:
In celebration of the long overdue resignation of arguably Canada’s worst prime minister, here’s a replay of Little Potato, that toe-tapping sing-along chronicling his tyrannical tendencies written in the dark days when the Emergencies Act was used to deny Canadian citizens the right to peaceful protest.
Why Little Potato? As the not-astute Chrystia Freeland gushed in 2016, “We are quite proud. The prime minister has been given a fond nickname in China, he is called tudoe, which I believe means potato.” Pierre Poilievre was subsequently ruled out of order by the House Speaker for observing, “When leaders in China dismissed this prime minister as quote ‘little potato’, he thought they meant it as a compliment.” The term was barred in our Parliament.
About the Peter Kent reference in the song: before he was prime minister, Little Potato called Conservative MP Peter Kent a “piece of sh*t” in the House of Commons. It’s been a long 10 years.
This time, with a properly functioning cut/paste.
Greenland coming in hot… well, actually, really really cold!!!! pic.twitter.com/IhLKVOfYVM
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) January 7, 2025
He doesn’t deserve it. Gad Saad dissects his terrible legacy.
Maybe he should start with his own party. Looking for dirt on the Conservative Party. (Paywall)
There’s more bannin’ to do and time is running out;
The Biden administration finalized climate regulations to ban most natural gas-powered instantaneous water heaters — a move that critics say will drive up costs for consumers.
The Department of Energy—which formally published the rules the day after Christmas — didn’t issue a press release announcing the action, a departure from past appliance regulations. The published rules say the regulations are expected to help the climate by curbing carbon dioxide emissions.
Overall, under the regulations, roughly 40 percent of the new tankless water heaters available in the United States today will be taken off the market by 2029. Experts and industry officials say that will force consumers to purchase either more expensive or less efficient water heater models.
One industry analysis estimates that consumers will pay $450 more on average when purchasing new water heaters thanks to the regulations. And that will impact low-income and senior households, which are most reliant on the models targeted by the Department of Energy.
Based on the Liberal Party membership rules — and if the leadership race is razor-thin close — the next Prime Minister of Canada could be chosen by a 14-year-old living in Beijing, Boston, Moscow, Mumbai, Tehran or Tripoli.
As is this: Folks, expect a flurry of activity, moving forward.
Related: The purgatory prime minister has put Canada in a precarious position, but at least no more of his bad ideas can be churned out of Parliament
Newsweek writer Gord Magill weighs in on the promised resignation of Justin Trudeau: A Cowardly Narcissist and Would Be Authoritarian Afraid of His Own People Steps Off the World Stage
The times, they are a-changing.
BREAKING: Mark Zuckerberg announces sweeping changes to Facebook and Instagram to move toward Free Speech including:
-Ending Third-Party Fact Checking and Replacing it with Community Notes like
-Removing Reduction of Political Content
-Lifting Topic Restrictions pic.twitter.com/9Y2DVQSrpk— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 7, 2025
And more: Meta Platforms Appoints UFC’s Dana White as a New Director
Huge differences pic.twitter.com/mwnXykl4ED
— One Bad Dude (@OneBadDude_) January 7, 2025
An SDA regular sent in this photo from Monday of two bucks walking across his property. His hopes are that this is an omen that The [Real] Men Are Back in Canada.

Background: Lil’ Justin has resigned. Parliament is prorogued. A Lieberal leadership campaign will soon commence.
So, my fellow Canadians, what do you predict will happen next?
Here’s my prediction: Mark Carney will run for leader of the Lieberals and win. Given the stupidity of way too many of our fellow Canadians, he’ll either win the next election or keep the Conservatives from achieving a majority.
What say you?!
Blackie’s Canada: Why you can’t buy a house. Last of the lockdown tyrants. Fought for country. Rosemary Barton.
Dementia Joe’s America: Four years of sneering. A billion dollar race card. The criminal fraud.
Odds And Ends: The truth finally revealed. Don’t walk on snow.
Your morning meme. Another meme. And at the Bee.
In terms of ideology, “diversity” seems to be the belief that the less we have in common, and feel we have in common, the happier we will be. An unobvious proposition, to say the least. Yet the word is mouthed as if it were a self-evident good, a “strength,” a moral imperative, a thing of which one could never have enough.
This should be a MUST WATCH for all Canadians: Unlike the Canadian media sycophants, who haven’t dared say a cross word against Trudeau, Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn mock Justin Trudeau incessantly for over 30 minutes and extend it to all other phony liberals across the Great White North.
Fun fact: Kirn was once married to Maggie McGuane, the daughter of Margot Kidder. As Kirn explains, Ms. McGuane once lived with Pierre & Justin Trudeau in the prime minister’s residence, while her mom dated the elder Trudeau.
Tonight, we take a train journey on the Schynige Platte in Switzerland.
Feel free to take us on an intellectual journey through your great tips!
h/t Cameron