KayVee

I’ve been watching something creep into Canadian political discourse and it’s starting to feel urgent enough to name. The conspiracy brain that we used to associate with American right-wing media has crossed the border, and it’s made itself completely at home. Trudeau was a WEF puppet implementing a globalist agenda. The trucker convoy was being surveilled by a secret government network. The carbon tax was never about the environment, it was about control. Fifteen-minute cities are a UN plot to trap you in your neighbourhood. Bill Gates is poisoning the food supply. And Mark Carney, who has barely been in office five minutes, is apparently already the architect of a decades-long scheme to hand Canadian sovereignty to unelected global elites. This is the daily content diet of a growing slice of the Canadian right. And it’s not just anonymous accounts. It’s coming from politicians. It’s coming from media figures with large platforms. It’s being repeated at kitchen tables in Alberta and Saskatchewan like it’s common sense. What makes it particularly frustrating in a Canadian context is that there are real things to be angry about. Housing is genuinely broken. The cost of living has genuinely hammered working people. Western alienation is a real and legitimate political grievance with decades of history behind it. You don’t have to invent a globalist cabal to explain why a lot of Canadians feel like the system isn’t working for them. But the conspiracy framework doesn’t want real problems. Real problems have complicated causes and require hard tradeoffs and might implicate your own side. A shadowy global elite pulling strings is so much cleaner. So much more satisfying. The people selling this stuff in Canada aren’t martyrs or truth-tellers. They’re building audiences. They’re raising money. They’re running for office on the back of your outrage. And every time a real policy debate gets swallowed by another theory about Davos or the WHO or 5G towers, the people with actual power over your life get to operate with a little less scrutiny. Canada deserves a serious right-wing opposition. One that argues about tax policy and resource development and federal overreach with evidence and good faith. What we’re getting instead is an import from the American culture war, poorly translated and applied to a country it barely fits. We can do better than this. We used to.

Some nursing homes struggle to attract visitors. One in the Netherlands chose to invite roommates instead. In the Dutch city of Deventer, a retirement home called Humanitas introduced an idea that would eventually gain attention around the world. Rather than accepting loneliness as a normal part of aging, they approached it as something that could actually be solved. For over ten years, Humanitas has allowed university students to live inside the nursing home rent free. In return, the students spend about thirty hours each month connecting with residents. Sometimes that means sharing meals, having conversations, helping with technology, joining activities, or simply keeping someone company during a quiet afternoon. They are not nurses or employees. They are simply part of the community. At first, the idea sounded like a smart response to expensive student housing. But the real impact appeared in the lives of the residents. Reports from outlets such as PBS NewsHour and AARP described seniors becoming more social, more active, and less isolated once younger people became part of everyday life. What makes the story even more meaningful is that many students chose to spend far more time there than the agreement required. Some even stayed connected after graduating. Over time, casual interactions turned into genuine friendships. Humanitas didn’t really create something new. It brought back something many societies once had naturally: different generations living side by side instead of separately. Maybe the issue was never aging itself. Maybe it was the distance we created between generations. Sometimes the most powerful ideas are simply old human connections rediscovered.

Why is everyone ignoring evidence from outbreaks of this specific strain that are *very* clear that it doesn’t require prolonged close contact?

Jivani is a piece of shit