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...Overall, it was not an acrimonious day, but one where the civility and friendliness was perhaps slightly more cutting than it appeared on the surface. Carney was gracious enough in welcoming Poilievre back to the Chamber, and Poilievre repaid it by saying that Carney is just like Trudeau. It was a day where the message tracks were laid out well in advance, and each side knew it. The Conservatives have been telegraphing for months that they will be trying to pin food price inflation on Carney, because he (stupidly) said that his effectiveness would be measured by the cost of groceries, and so they hammered that question over and over and over today, so that they could get clips of it. And how did the Liberals respond? Not by talking about the causes of food price inflation (mostly climate change), but rather by saying that housing was the biggest cost item in a household and they were bringing down those costs (and patting themselves on the back for it. They could have driven the point home with the Conservatives that climate change is the primary driver of those prices, and that’s why there is an economic cost to climate change, but they didn’t do that (maybe because that would force them to actually come up with a real climate plan after Carney has been dismantling what is in place). Suffice to say, it was weak as a response, and they just walked into the plainly obvious trap that was laid for them, so good luck with that.
Otherwise, it was just a bunch more slogans and tag-lines (“He’s just another Liberal prime minister,” “broken promises,” etc) because everything was about getting clips. As usual. Only one Liberal minister actually bothered to call bullshit on the question he was asked, which was Sean Fraser on the bail laws....
Conservatives demand that the government should have brought down food prices. How, exactly? Price controls? #ZapYoureFrozen #QP
— Dale Smith (@journodale.bsky.social) September 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Lantsman railing that Canadians are getting “fleeced” at the grocery store as if the problem wasn’t climate change affecting food-producing regions. #QP
— Dale Smith (@journodale.bsky.social) September 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Polling Canada Federal Model Update: π΄ LPC: 187 (+18) π΅ CPC: 125 (-19) ⚜️ BQ: 21 (-1) π NDP: 9 (+2) π’ GPC: 1 (-) (Seat Changes With 2025 Federal Election) - September 13, 2025 - Full model article here: open.substack.com/pub/canadian...
— Polling Canada (@canadianpolling.bsky.social) September 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Headline “anti-immigrant protest chased out of Christie pits” ππΌ BRAVO TORONTO! No space for hate here π¨π¦ ❤️ ❤️ππ¨π¦TEAM CANADA FOREVERπ¨π¦π❤️ ❤️ππ¨π¦VIVE LE CANADA π¨π¦π❤️
— ππ¨π¦Team Canada Foreverπ¨π¦π (@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social) September 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Massive anti hate crowd in the pits. Small Canada first group is on the run.
— Shawn Micallef (@shawnmicallef.bsky.social) September 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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The five projects being referred to the new Major Projects Office include LNG Canada Phase 2, which would expand the liquefied natural gas export facility at Kitimat, B.C. Also on the list are modular reactors at Ontario’s existing Darlington Nuclear Generating Station; an expansion by the Port of Montreal in Contrecoeur, Que.; Saskatchewan’s Foran McIlvenna Bay copper mine project; and the Red Chris Copper and Gold Mine expansion in B.C.
"Taken together, these projects can deliver transformational benefits to Canadians, driving growth and jobs and incomes for decades," says PM Mark Carney re: list of first 5 major projects, which he claims will generate more than $60 billion for Canada's economy. #cdnpoli
— CPAC TV (@cpac.ca) September 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Charlie Kirk will be MAGA's Horst Wessel
— Cathie from Canada π¨π¦ ✍π»π·π³️π πΊπ¦ (@CathieCanada) September 11, 2025
The hubris of Charlie Kirk is that he spent a significant portion of his career justifying the cruelty of these shootings as if he was somehow immune from them or could merely place the blame on other groups of people he deemed undesirable or uniquely violent
— gregor samsung π’₯ (@slimjosa) September 10, 2025
This affects us all pic.twitter.com/vncZECZFOx
Bullets don't care if you are a Republican or Democrat. Reality is over 400,000,000 guns and too much hate. Political violence is happening to both parties. We need leaders to step up. Truly sorry for Charlie Kirk and his family. He was wrong. It is not worth it.
— Fred Guttenberg (@fredguttenberg.bsky.social) September 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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No More 'Good Guys'?
When we look at the world today, it is undeniable that the most powerful countries are led by evil men. Russia's Putin, Amerika's Trump and China's Xi JinPing readily come to mind, as does Benjamin Netanyahu leading the nuclear State of Israel. And I think it would be to declare the obvious that none of the aforementioned care about their people, except as means to certain ends.
While we expect authoritarian rulers to see their people as fodder, I have never really had a sense until now of a specific war being waged against the people of the U.S. by its government. To be sure, almost all American governments have cruelly abused their poor, their disenfranchised, their minorities. And of course that demographic has always provided the bulk of fodder in all of Amerika's post-WW11 military misadventures. However, one could almost have believed the abuse was rooted in the American disdain for the downtrodden (see the American Dream) as well as its historically racist nature.
However, to me it now appears that a wider battle is being waged by Amerika against its general population, a kind of social eugenics, in which a wide swath of a credulous population will be gradually eliminated, While it might seem a conspiratorial thought, there is evidence to support my odd thesis.
Consider, for example the changes at the National Institutes of Health, led by the unhinged Bobby Kennedy Jr. Unqualified ethically, morally, intellectually or temperamentally, Kennedy, with the tacit permission of Trump, is doing his damndest to undermine the health of Americans....
...Who benefits if there is a substantial die-off of Americans? It is the real movers and shakers of society, the powerful elite, who neither respect nor need "the masses" and really don't care for the 'burden' of taxation to take care of them. With large numbers ultimately eliminated, that burden will be much reduced.
You might quite legitimately ask, "But what if substantial numbers of MAGATS perish? Who will vote for Trump or his successor if not the credulous? To that I can only say such a question is predicated on the belief that meaningful elections will continue in Amerika. That is an assumption I am not, at this point, prepared to grant you.
Who benefits if there is a substantial die-off of Americans? It is the real movers and shakers of society, the powerful elite, who neither respect nor need "the masses" and really don't care for the 'burden' of taxation to take care of them. With large numbers ultimately eliminated, that burden will be much reduced. You might quite legitimately ask, "But what if substantial numbers of MAGATS perish? Who will vote for Trump or his successor if not the credulous? To that I can only say such a question is predicated on the belief that meaningful elections will continue in Amerika. That is an assumption I am not, at this point, prepared to grant you.
Trump can’t hide from this and the Epstein files.
— migas7.bsky.social (@migas7.bsky.social) September 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Being a child sex predator was such a part of Epstein’s life and personality that everyone he had even a casual friendship with felt compelled to mention it in a birthday card. Like writing “heh steal any burgers lately?” in a birthday card to The Hamburglar.
— Kristen (@kris10.bsky.social) September 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
On helping Canadians affected by tariffs:PM Carney is rolling out a sweeping Buy Canadian policy, arguing the U.S. can no longer be trusted as a reliable trading partner. “What’s going on is not a transition, it’s a rupture,” said Carney.
— Politico (@politico.com) September 5, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Carney cancels invite for Project 2025 mastermind, wants fascist takeover of Canada to be more of a surprise
— The Beaverton (@thebeaverton.com) September 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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SMITH’S BOOK BAN BACKFIRES AS UCP UNRAVELS
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and her United Conservative Party government have been forced to backtrack on their controversial order to remove “sexually explicit” books from school libraries after overwhelming public opposition, including criticism from Canadian literary icon Margaret Atwood, whose The Handmaid’s Tale appeared on one of the removal lists.
The UCP’s education minister originally framed the directive as a way to keep pornographic material out of schools. But the actual order was far broader, prompting Edmonton Public Schools to list more than 200 titles as unacceptable in order to remain compliant. The list included Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, both internationally celebrated works studied in classrooms for decades. [To see the list, click here]
The government’s attempt to sell the policy as child protection quickly collapsed once it became clear that the scope of the ban extended far beyond what was publicly claimed. Critics say the move was less about protecting children and more about appeasing ideological lobby groups that had pressed the government to impose restrictions.
Pushback against the order snowballed over the weekend, with Atwood publicly criticizing the government twice on Twitter/X. Educators, parents, and community leaders also condemned the measure as censorship that undermines public education.
By Tuesday, the government announced the directive would be paused. While Smith has tried to cast blame on school boards for “mismanaging” the rollout, the reversal underscores the growing perception that her government is increasingly out of touch with the everyday concerns of Albertans.
....With teachers on the brink of striking and Albertans facing rising costs of living, many are asking why the province’s leadership is preoccupied with censorship and culture wars instead of solving the problems that matter most.
When we told you you to ban all the books, we like totally didn't mean to _ban all the books_, sheesh #AbPoli #AbLeg
— Victor L. McConought (@vic4alberta.bsky.social) September 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
There is no flood of newcomers anymore, Mr. PoilievreI find all of these numbers to be mind-numbing detail, but there doesn't seem to be any other way to deal with the Poilievre Three-Word Slogan approach to politics. Basically, all of these articles should just start with "Poilievre. Is. Wrong. Again."
...Now net immigration is pretty much zero.
...The statement issued by Mr. Poilievre last week blasted the government for supposedly blowing through the 2025 targets for new arrivals of temporary workers only halfway through the year. It was repeated by the National Citizens Coalition lobby group and picked up by some pundits who chimed in. But they misinterpreted the statistics
Mr. Poilievre’s statement said that 105,000 new temporary foreign workers had come in the first half of 2025, when the government had set a target of 82,000 new arrivals. But the 105,000 figure included work-permit renewals. Immigration and Refugees and Citizenship Canada reported there were 33,722 new arrivals.
Similarly, the Conservatives charged that the 302,000 work permits issued from January to June under the separate International Mobility Program exceed the target of 285,000. But again, many of the permits were renewals, and in this case, postgraduate work permits. According to IRCC, there were 85,512 new arrivals to Canada under IMP.
Postgraduate work permits and extensions are important if you want to understand what’s going on in Canada’s immigration system right now.
The big surge of temporary residents earlier in the decade came when Mr. Trudeau’s Liberals failed to realize colleges were recruiting vast numbers of international students. Many came with a guarantee that when they graduated they would get a three-year work permit. So international students who arrived in 2023 might be eligible for work permits through 2028 or 2030.
Now Ottawa has embarked on a process of reducing the numbers of temporary residents. One part is reducing new arrivals. The IRCC reports there were 214,000 fewer new arrivals of temporary workers and international students in the first half of 2025 than in the same period the year before.
But another part is an effort to turn temporary residents into permanent residents. Many of the 395,000 people to get permanent resident status in 2025 were already here.
In total, the immigration plan calls for slightly more people to leave in 2025 than arrive. Already, population growth in the first quarter of 2025, according to Statistics Canada, was 0.0 per cent.
The Liberals certainly deserve mountains of blame for the failures of 2021 to 2024, but Mr. Poilievre has no business pretending the number of immigrants is still going up.
... there is no flood of newcomers. Rapid population growth has stopped. There are other things to fix.
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The most surprising thing about his congestive heart failure is the presence of an actual heart.
— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) August 25, 2025
i don't think it's happening yet, but no one in the press corpse having seen trump for two days and him not even playing golf this weekend is... a little exciting
— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) August 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
