Such A Nice Boy

National Post- Serial rapist Halifax police warned people about two years ago gets out on statutory release

The 29-year-old is getting out of prison under the law that requires federal offenders who have served two-thirds of a fixed-length sentence be released to serve the remainder of their sentence in the community, under supervision.

“The board notes that the most recent psychological assessment indicates that your risk for sexual recidivism is moderate to high,” said his recent parole decision.

Great Success!

Blacklock’s- Just 4% Use ArriveCan: Data

The $59.5 million ArriveCan program remains the subject of numerous audits and an RCMP investigation of fraudulent billing. Federal managers to date have not explained why the program was launched in the first place.

Managers also claimed ArriveCan saved lives. The Public Health Agency in a 2023 report to the Commons government operations committee acknowledged it had no evidence to support the lifesaving claim. “The Agency cannot quantify the exact number of lives indirectly saved through ArriveCan,” it wrote.

I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

Call it writer’s block or procrastination, but it now seems that the AI chatbots designed to ape human wordsmiths are picking up this very writerly flaw.

That was the experience of filmmaker Nenad Cicin-Sain, who tried to recruit ChatGPT to come up with a screenplay for his upcoming project — they key word being “tried,” because the OpenAI chatbot repeatedly made up excuses for why it couldn’t deliver on time. It even tried to change up the deadlines.

Christmas Eve On Turtle Island

Today In Islam:  Christmas in Bangladesh.  Moderate migrants in France.  Islamist propaganda.

Odds And Ends:  Carbon dioxide is good for the planet.  An alternative Christmas album.

Blackie’s Canada:  No males in female prisons.  Another apology?

Dementia Joe’s America:  How elites betrayed working people.  Congress must begin competency hearings.

A Christmas carol.  Another carol.  Some Christmas music.        Christmas with Mozart.

Have a great Christmas Eve!

Crash Scene

Chris Williamson engages in a wide-ranging interview with podcaster Dave Smith regarding the sea change that has taken place with respect to the declining power of the legacy media. In a nutshell, the drain cocks are open and they haven’t a clue what to do about it.

“After Elon Musk came in and bought Twitter, and kind of like, you know, this isn’t going to be a controlled environment, you’ve seen that a lot of these people,…they rely on the fact that their opposition is going to be censored or kicked off and they can’t actually compete in the marketplace of ideas…and so if those people want to remove themselves from the conversation, fine, but that’s not going to change the dynamic…One of the pollsters who got this election all wrong, was like ‘I’m leaving and going to Bluesky’…it’s like what? To go and get things wrong by yourself? Okay….”

Burning Down The House

Joe Biden just commuted the sentences of 37 animals sitting on de*th row. Now they will spend their lives in federal prison–instead of being put to de*th.

The mainstream media won’t detail what landed them on de*th row in the first place. I’ve read through the court filings for all 37 animals. Here are the details regarding the vile crimes they committed…

@hughhewitt – Who thinks Joe Biden actually made these decisions?

Weyburn Wind, Part 4: acreages, wildlife, referendum

Enbridge’s Weyburn wind project open house, Part 4: Acreages, wildlife, referendum

Here’s Part 4 of the Weyburn Wind saga, focusing on acreages, wildlife and referendum

You might be wondering why I’ve gone so deep into this open house. Here’s the thing – this has been the first opportunity I’ve had to really get into the development of one of these projects, and see and hear the arguments from both sides. Alberta just put its 50th online. Saskatchewan has nine. This would be the 10th. So it’s a chance to really get into the weeds.

The numerous stories I’ve written about wind power to date have almost been exclusively about their reliability or lack thereof, and their impact on a macro scale on grids, power pricing and the like. This development side is a totally different aspect.

This Is CNN

At least, for now.

CNN reportedly wrapped up 2024 with the lowest audience numbers in its history. This is despite election years usually drawing more audience to news outlets in general.

From December 26, 2023, through December 15, 2024, CNN averaged just 93,000 viewers in the key 25-54 demographic and 488,000 total viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research as reported by the Washington Examiner. This trailed Fox News, which dominated with 1.46 million total viewers.

The poor performance follows disappointing election night coverage, where CNN drew 5.1 million viewers—a massive 44 percent drop from its 2020 election coverage. In comparison, Fox News attracted 13.6 million viewers during the same event.

Walkaway: At MSNBC, things are so bad that Joy Reid and Stephanie Ruhle are facing pay cuts

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