Canada keeps making the Alberta Independence peoples' arguments for them. 1) Carney is constructing a majority he did not earn by luring weak MPs to cross the floor, 2) the CBC has a black list of conservatives not to put on air, 1/ 3) Carney wants Canadians to believe that Telesat can string together satellites which will be better than the already operating Starlink network, 4) the Liberals are passing a suite of bills to curb free speech in Canada. 2/

@Travisdhanraj's testimony with respect to the CBC before a Commons Committee is important in itself and it confirms what a lot of us had always suspected about the built in bias of the mothercorp. 1/ Deliberately excluding Conservative voices is pretty obvious, slanting stories to reflect the priorities of the PMO is more subtle but there to see. And, bluntly, it is hardly surprising. 2/

We're having one last gust of winter, cold front moving through with the temp dropping close to zero and actual snow falling or in the forecast. Just as I get the Vespa on the road. 1/ Living on the Coast means that weather is never a sure thing, a bit of cold air creeps out of the North or the Interior and meets Pacific moisture: boom, snow. It's always a surprise but never beyond the range of possibility. 2/

Former BC Conservative Leader John Rustad, now that he is no longer running for the leadership, admitted that there have been no bodies found at the Kamloops Residential School. So far he has not apologized to Dallas Brodie. 1/ The school graves story has a special status in Canadian politics: it is foundational and if you want to remain a mainstream Canadian politician it forms part of the catechism of core tenets which cannot be questioned. 2/

I like Friday afternoons. Work done for the week. Nice bottle of wine for dinner, boys going off to play magic. Tomorrow we're picking up a total steal of a double wall oven. Given that the current wall oven dates to the early 80s this is an upgrade. 1/ There is much pearl clutching about the Iran war and, no doubt, it is disruptive particularly if you are a European or Asian energy consumer. But the war itself seems to be going well. The Iranian drones and missiles need to be dealt with. 2/

It will be interesting to see what the anti-American Boomer left in Canada does in the face of the Iranian diaspora's overwhelming support for Trump's attack on the Iranian regime. 1/

https://x.com/Patri0tCx_/status/2027798398045188291

It will be especially hard for the elbozos because the Prime Minister of all the Canada's has publically supported the bad orange man's Iranian incursion. 2/

https://x.com/KarlDHarrison/status/2027806579031216416

CTV reports on a study of "conspiracy theory" propagation in the Canadian social media eco system by Ottawa funded Media Ecosystem Observatory. You can read it here: 1/ static1.squarespace.com/static/6450265… You will not be surprised to learn that the "conspiracies" studied range from health treats to climate hoax to gender indoctrination and the nature of the conspiracy theory is doubting or denying the "institutional" line on the topic. 2/

If you want to see Ebozo heads really explode wait for @PierrePoilievre to go to a) Washington, b) Mar a Lago 1/

https://x.com/JinglaiHe/status/2026849679477026985

Relic media keeps saying @PierrePoilievre needs to talk about Trump, my suggestion is that he talk to the bad orange man in person. It is pretty clear Carney is getting nowhere and the trade situation is getting serious. 2/

Chris Alexander is something of a feral idiot but he is an excellent weather vane for Ontario, Party of Toronto, thinking. He's a Liberal but he could just as easily be a Queenspark Tory. 1/

https://x.com/calxandr/status/2026213007651475859

Much the same external funding/inspo narrative was nailed onto the Trucker's convoy without any actual evidence. @calxandr has never seen an organic, grassroots movement succeed and so must find occult MAGA/Russia roots. 2/

As ever, Peter Menzies nails it. Polling puts distance between the political class and voters. 1/

https://x.com/Pagmenzies/status/2026420184286695583

In many ways, polling is a relic of a bygone age. When people answered their landline "dumb" phones with no caller-id. In that world you could construct a "random" sample and have at least a hope of reaching enough people for your results to be valid. 2/

The Party Quebecois is on track to win the next provincial election in Quebec. It is committed to Quebec sovereignty and has been since the 1960's. 1/

https://x.com/elie_mcn/status/2026144797355122794

The Ottawa Liberals will use the re-emergence of the PQ as yet another reason that Carney needs a majority mandate. Between Alberta, Quebec and Trump Ottawa is under siege. Elbowz up. 2/

@PierrePoilievre is taking a little run at "fake refugees" and "non-citizens and foreign nationals who do crime". Bravo and all. Bit late but a welcome start. 1/

https://x.com/PierrePoilievre/status/2025914217182761206

Meanwhile, over the weekend, the Globe and Mail discovered that Canada's GDP per capita is lower than Alabama's. Yikes! How can this be? (Fortunately, without evidence, the elbows up crowd firmly maintained Canadians have a better "quality of life".) 2/

The storm blew through and now we have brilliant sunshine and no wind. Angus will have a longer than usual walk. I've started in on Charles Foran's Mordecai. It's difficult to really comprehend that Richler died a quarter of a century ago. 1/ It left a gap in Canadian journalism and Canadian fiction which no one has come close to filling. Largely because Richler had a very low tolerance for bullshit and the subsidized Canadian media and publishing world has become a bullshit mountain. 2/

Trump's tariffs defeated at the SCOTUS. I don't like seeing Trump lose but, frankly, if he has to lose, losing the tariffs is probably all for the good. And they may have already done the job Trump wanted. 1/ The Trump tariffs were not ends in themselves, they were a means to the end of rebalancing America's trade relationships with the rest of the world. And, to the extent that the Administration has negotiated "deals" they have served that purpose. 2/

A memo seems to have gone out to Party of Toronto Conservatives. I wrote about Tasha Kheiridden last week and now Jamie Watt is writing in the Star: @PierrePoilievre has to come out against Trump or lose the next election. 1/archive.ph/SSsxf Denounce the Devil and all his works or stand accused of being in league with him. And for Kheiridden and Watt the question is not substantive, it is all about catering to an electorate in the terminal stages of Trump Derangement Syndrome. 2/

The new Angus Reid "poll" suggesting that only a small minority of Albertans support independence is exactly what I would expect from Reid. And exactly what I expect from what I am calling Confederationists. 1/ Viewed from my Island redoubt, the Alberta Independence movement is growing organically. Over 6000 canvassers, recruiting district captains, aiming for a million signatures. All with minimal funding and very little positive media coverage. 2/

Go read: on Bill C-9 currently being rushed through the HoC. The Libs are very eager to control speech and a vague, but authoritarian, bit of law could do the job. 1/

https://x.com/YakkStack/status/2020888240115650614

The fact is that gov't cannot actually control speech, what it can do is impose consequences for speech it doesn't like. Say the "wrong" thing, lose your internet access. 2/

It looks to me as if the Alberta petition for an Independence Referendum will get more than enough signatures. In the process the "yes" side will have built a solid ground level organization. Then the fight begins. 1/ It is a pretty good bet that the "no" side will be all about fear. You'll lose your pensions, your health care, your currency...Only Canada can save you. Project Fear can work especially if legacy media pumps the tires. 2/

The Prime Minister of all the Canadas has decided that Canada will go all in for EVs. He's planning on using a combination of buyer incentives and emission restrictions to push Canadians to go electric. 1/ The plan is pitched at two groups, the dwindling number of climate change alarmists and the dwindling number of Canadians engaged in the automotive industry. It will also appeal to voters who like gov't to be involved directly with the economy. 2/

The Party of Toronto is very sad this morning. @PierrePoilievre won the votes of 87.7% of the delegates to the CPC convention. Pierre gave an excellent speech. He is the leader. Jason Kenny, Doug Ford the rest of the wets were firmly rejected. 1/ Say what you want about Pierre, and I say a lot, he is not a "red" tory. Last election he was suckered into me-tooing the Team Canada line, this coming election he has the opportunity to set out on his own. 2/

My American friends are, gradually, getting to the bottom of the 2020 Presidential election steal. The Dems never thought that Trump himself would ever be back in office and no other Republican would allow the 2020 result to be examined. 1/ The details of the fraud are now emerging. A bit in Georgia, a little in Arizona, gradually a pattern of full scale cheating in key electoral states is being established. Does it matter? Biden is no longer in office. 2/