…with a full tank of gas. And don’t forget to leave drinks and snacks in the passenger seat.
Ian Miles Cheong- Canadian police advise home owners to leave their car fobs outside so armed thieves can steal them more easily without confronting home owners.
Update: More here
The Line- The police have given up. They’ve surrendered
And their best advice to you is to do the same, if you know what’s good for you.
Like a garden gnome wearing 4″ heels.
An “outsized pace of spending” means Canada is on course to run a budget shortfall of about $47 billion for the fiscal year that ends March 31, according to estimates released Thursday by Desjardins.
The projection raises more questions about how Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will meet her pledge to keep the country’s budget shortfall at around $40 billion a year from now until 2026.
“I think it’s going to be an exercise in creative accounting,” Randall Bartlett, Desjardins’ senior director of Canadian economics, who wrote the research note, said in an interview. “They either need to cut spending or increase revenues to make this work.”
A chorus of analysts and economists is warning that without tax increases or spending reductions, deficits are likely to rise amid slow economic growth.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he has no regrets over exempting Atlantic Canadians from paying the carbon taxes on home heating oil — and didn’t rule out arresting Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe for not paying his.
When asked directly by The Western Standard if the ‘consequences’ of non-compliance included the possible arrest and imprisonment of government officials, his eyes narrowed and his tone became positively ominous.
Trudeau Demands Life In Prison For Speech Crimes:
To protect children from sexual exploitation, Canada must pass the Online Harms Act, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government. “I am the parent of two young boys,” said Justice Minister Arif Virani. “I will do whatever I can to ensure their digital world is as safe as the neighborhood we live in. Children are vulnerable online. They need to be protected from online sexual exploitation, hate, and cyberbullying.”
But Virani’s bill is totally unnecessary to protect children. Its real goal is to allow judges to sentence adults to prison for life for things they’ve said and for up to a year for crimes they haven’t committed but that the government fears they might commit in the future.
As such, Trudeau and Virani’s Online Harms Act (Bill C-63) is the most shocking of all the totalitarian, illiberal, and anti-Enlightenment pieces of legislation that have been introduced in the Western world in decades.
Blacklocks (paywalled) – MPs yesterday summoned Defence Minister Bill Blair for questioning on how an employee became a millionaire while moonlighting as an Indigenous contractor. Members of the Commons government operations committee gave Blair until month’s end to appear for cross-examination: “It is wrong.”
Related: Video
Kristian Firth of GC Strategies admits in committee to meeting various government officials outside of a work setting – allegations that he previously denied.
Conservative Michael Barrett: That sir, and you can check with your lawyer or with a dictionary, is a lie. It’s perjury.
Brian Zinchuk: If Poilievre wins a massive majority, can we PLEASE build the Energy East Pipeline?
(I’m fairly certain Premier Moe is tired about me asking about this. I was still talking about it two years ago, which was four years after it was supposed to have been completed. But it’s worth a shot.)
UPDATE: It appears Premier Scott Moe agrees:
— Scott Moe (@PremierScottMoe) March 14, 2024
He could be describing Trudeau’s Canada. Anytime ideology and dogma trump merit, logic, and safety, the result is-predictably scary and dangerous. – Victor Davis Hanson
Ramadan Jihad cells in America. Diversity outbreak in France. Moderate Islam in Pakistan. Fake casualty numbers.
Dementia Joe’s America: The new praetorian guard. A medical scandal. The American eco-terrorists. A transgender agenda. Respect for replacement killers.
Blackie’s Canada: Trudeau trashes the premiers about the carbon tax. (CBC). Canada’s sinister experiment. Canadian university professors support Hamas. Today Climate Justin burns jet fuel with his loyal media, to Southwestern Ontario.
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One wonders if, every night, Juthin and Chrystia sit in a healing circle with their Lieberal sycophants and sing Kumbaya. Maybe that will protect the No Longer Great White North. The actions of Lieberals surely won’t:
The Royal Canadian Air Force announced earlier this month that it will retire its fleet of pilot training jets and put the program on hiatus.
So ends a proud tradition of pilot training that during the Second World War saw Canada train more than 130,000 Allied aircrew, earning it the epithet “the aerodrome of democracy” from then U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt.
h/t James MacMaster
This evening we present Benedetta Caretta & Marc André performing Once Upon a Time in the West.
Your tips about the West, the East, the South, or the North are much appreciated!
Here’s a photo I captured of the empty toilet paper shelves on March 13, 2020 at a Whole Foods in San Francisco. In case you’ve forgotten, this was exactly 4 days before the world turned upside down.
@KobeissiLetter: Dollar Tree stock, $DLTR, is down nearly 15% today after announcing 600-store closure and large earnings miss.
Canada’s auditor general recently fired and called in police to investigate two employees who had been privately earning money from government contracts they had not declared.
In a statement to National Post this week, the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) said it is still investigating a third employee that it also discovered had contracts with another arm of the federal government the employee had not disclosed to their employer.
The firings, which occurred between September and December last year, come to light as questions swirl about how a federal public servant’s company was able to obtain a nearly $8-million contract to work on the ArriveCan app.
Related, from Blacklocks: Canada Revenue Agency blocks an unsubsidized Parliament Hill #cdnmedia outlet on its X account. But unlike #Saltwire, we pay our taxes. #cdnpoli
Think of it as the tail end of love bombing. Or as Mark Knofler once said, “Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug”.
UnHerd- The ugly return of homophobia Bigotry is coming from the progressive establishment
Whereas we have always been accustomed to this kind of thing from the far-Right — one recalls Nick Griffin’s remark on Question Time about how he finds the sight of two men kissing “really creepy” — but now the most objectionable anti-gay comments arise in online spheres occupied by gender ideologues, from those who claim to be progressive, Left-wing and “on the right side of history”. The significant difference is that the word “cis” has been added to the homophobe’s lexicon.
Trudeau’s bought and paid for media mouthpieces can spin things however Dear Leader wants, but this is an absolute disgrace:
Last year, Mexico became the United States’ biggest trading partner, surpassing Canada and China for the first time. This humiliating fact is simply the latest statistic that illustrates Canada’s economic decline since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took power in 2015.
… Canada is stuck with an anti-business government and a prime minister who has driven away the resource-based mega-projects that have historically built and sustained this country’s living standards. Besides not growing the economy, Trudeau has impeded growth and driven away investment by increasing taxes to pay for bloated government spending.
h/t Joe
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in a recent sexual assault case that it was “problematic” for a lower court judge to refer to the alleged victim as a “woman,” implying that the more appropriate term should have been “person with a vagina.”
In a decision published Friday, Justice Sheilah Martin wrote that a trial judge’s use of the word “a woman” may “have been unfortunate and engendered confusion.”
Martin does not specify why the word “woman” is confusing, but the next passage in her decision refers to the complainant as a “person with a vagina.” Notably, not one person in the entire case is identified as transgender, and the complainant is referred to throughout as a “she.”
The case was R. v. Kruk, which involved a 2017 charge of sexual assault against then 34-year-old Maple Ridge, B.C., man Charles Kruk
