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Bonnie Henry - July 22 2020 "No, there will not be a mandate for kids to wear masks at schools. We know from the evidence around the world that that's not needed... and masks for long periods of time are not recommended by anybody in any situation..." youtu.be/NWFSf-TVsUY?t=…

I feel so disgusted with the generational vibe that told us that having kids wasn’t a priority and that being a mom was kind of a lesser path. Dealing right now with someone close to me who completely missed the life she should have had, which would have made her very happy— as a mom of a bunch of kids. She believed the social justice messages and made other choices. Materialistic superficial choices btw. She’s traveled extensively and has fancy appliances and a nice (huge, empty) house — and a bunch of social justice bona fides. She was misled. This isn’t someone who was always a bit salty and never wanted kids. She wanted them, but it seemed lame and selfish and not as important as her SJW pursuits. (Which amounted to what? Nothing. The whole thing was a vibe.) I have the same life advice.

Anybody else catch the incredible fireball last night over Victoria BC? Incredible. Green and bright.

Ridiculously bright/huge shooting star just now in Victoria BC - or UFO crash, or missile strike. 🤷‍♂️ who can tell these days

I enjoy @AmazingZoltan and he is, more often than not right. But not with this analysis: 1/ x.com/AmazingZoltan/…

@l1n3back3r @mark_shag17498 @niccruzpatane letmegooglethat.com/?q=cybertruck+…

@mark_shag17498 @niccruzpatane Yeah take a picture of the open bed. While I like the reviews of the ride, I’d still have to reconcile the looks.

It is not spoken about enough how comfortable it is to be driven around in a Cybertruck on FSD. It feels like you are floating. There’s so much room up front, it’s very relaxing. No other pickup truck can do this, not even close.

Here’s Ursula, the age verification app is now ready! Meaning age restrictions can be applied to the internet and used by all countries. She excitedly tells us it’s like the Covid vaccine app, as long as you had one you could enter normal life. Oh.

An Open Letter to the Five Members of Parliament Who Crossed the Floor. 🔥💯 “To the Members of Parliament who chose to abandon the voters who elected you, There are moments in public life that define a person—not by what they say, but by what they do. Your decision to cross the floor mid-mandate is one of those moments. And it will follow you. You did not earn your seat under the banner you now carry. You did not campaign on the platform you now support. Canadians placed their trust in you based on clear promises, clear affiliations, and clear values. That trust was not yours to trade, reassign, or surrender once it became politically convenient. Switching jerseys in the middle of the game is not strategy. It is betrayal. And it is not a small one. Every single vote that put you into office came from a Canadian who believed you stood for something specific. They believed their voice mattered. They believed you would carry that voice into Parliament with integrity. Instead, you took that mandate and handed it to a government those same voters did not choose to empower. That is not representation. That is a reversal of consent. You may justify your actions however you like—strategy, stability, national interest—but none of those explanations change the fundamental truth: you were not elected to do this. If your convictions truly changed, the honourable path was obvious—step down, face your constituents again, and ask for their permission. You didn’t. Instead, you chose the path that benefited you while silencing the people who trusted you. And here is the part that cannot be avoided: Every day you look in the mirror, you are looking at the face of that decision. The face tied to every vote that put you where you are—and every voter who was left behind when you walked away from them. You may gain position, influence, even reward. But none of that changes what this is. Because of your actions, a government now holds power it did not win at the ballot box. A majority carries enormous weight—over the economy, over policy, over the everyday lives of Canadians. That power was not freely granted. It was assembled through your defection. And the cost will not be yours to bear. It will be carried by hard- working Canadians—by families already stretched thin, by small businesses trying to survive, by people who now feel their vote can be taken and repurposed without their consent. That is a dangerous precedent. Because when people begin to believe their vote no longer truly matters, the damage goes far beyond one decision, one Parliament, or one government. It cuts at the foundation of trust itself. Canadians deserved better than this. They deserved representatives who either stood by their word—or had the integrity to return to the people and seek a renewed mandate when that word changed. You chose something else. And Canadians will remember, history books will remember……your name. Sincerely an ordinary Canadian , Stephanie La Porta West Vancouver BC”

@david_parker @ZubyMusic Our kids really liked anything by Oliver Jeffers.

What are some of the best books to read a 2 year old? We are ploughing through everything we have at lightening speed. Favourites right now are The Cat in the Hat, Horton Hears a Who, Doctor Seuss ABCs, and It's Not Easy Being a Bunny.

As promised, the climate science obliteration has arrived TODAY. The IPCC's central claims have now been torn apart. The oceans are not “warming” let alone “boiling.” That claim is false. The claimed Earth Energy Imbalance is false. It's no different from zero. Full demolition: Cohler et al. (2026) IPCC's Earth Energy Imbalance Assessment is Based on Physically Invalid Argo-Float-Based Estimates of Global Ocean Heat Content doi.org/10.5281/zenodo… Press Release: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo… Easy-to-Read Summary: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…

This is so alarming. Stats Canada released a report on substance-related acute toxicity deaths in Canada from 2010 to 2023. I used to think that just meant overdoses, but it also includes deaths caused by the consumption of other and unspecified drugs, medicaments, and biological substances. That category (light blue bars) accounted for 58% of deaths in 2023. Both the number and rate of deaths are going up...dramatically.

The government isn't worried about misinformation. It's terrified of the truth spreading.

@Libretto66 @RobSchneider Yes. My niece had breasts removed at 16. Full hysterectomy at 18. BC Canada. Still waiting for our medical systems to stop this madness. Hopefully the AMA will help us in Canada correct course.

@RobSchneider How is this even a debate? Are there that many minors having the surgery?

ITS OVER! Now SUE ALL THESE A-HOLES!!

@ThomasSowell Definitely staged. Why was he filming?

Do you think he got what he deserved?

Billie Eilish, with her whispered vocals and manufactured melancholy, steps onto the Grammy stage...a cathedral of corporate excess built on the very capitalist machinery she pretends to disdain...and delivers her smug little poison pill: "No one is illegal on stolen land." Let’s dissect this vapid, historically illiterate slogan that she parrots like a trust-fund radical who’s never read a book without pictures. First, the phrase itself is a rhetorical sleight-of-hand designed to shut down debate by invoking guilt. It’s not an argument; it’s emotional blackmail. It collapses 500 years of complex history into a bumper-sticker accusation that erases every distinction between conquest, treaty, purchase, settlement, war, and modern nation-state governance. The land was indeed taken...through violence, betrayal, disease, and legal fictions...from peoples who themselves displaced prior inhabitants in endless cycles of migration and conflict stretching back to the Bering land bridge. Human history is a ledger of conquest; America’s chapter is neither uniquely evil nor uniquely virtuous. But Eilish doesn’t want complexity. She wants the dopamine hit of moral superiority. This is classic virtue signaling fused with narcissistic pseudo-profoundity. She’s twenty-four, homeschooled in a Los Angeles bubble, surrounded by handlers who curate her “rebel” image while she rakes in hundreds of millions from the same system she postures against. The statement isn’t courage; it’s the safest possible radical chic. Say something about open borders to a room full of wealthy coastal elites who live in gated communities and send their kids to private schools far from the consequences of the policies they champion? Motherfucking groundbreaking. And the venomous hypocrisy: she performs on a stage in a city built on land taken from the Tongva, wears clothes manufactured in sweatshops, streams her music on servers powered by strip-mined lithium, and flies private while lecturing the plebs about morality. But sure, Billie, tell the working-class families dealing with fentanyl deaths and strained social services that borders are imaginary because Manifest Destiny. She isn’t uneducated in the formal sense...she’s deliberately, willfully ignorant, choosing slogans over substance because confronting actual history would require acknowledging that no nation on Earth has clean hands, and that modern immigration policy isn’t equivalent to the Trail of Tears. It’s a lazy, poisonous conflation meant to weaponize white guilt while absolving her of any intellectual responsibility. Fuck Billie Eilish and her sanctimonious, half-baked activism. She’s not profound; she’s a spoiled child playing dress-up in revolutionary cosplay, spitting on the graves of people who built this country while cashing checks written by the empire she claims to despise. Grow the fuck up, or shut the fuck up. 💀🖕🏻

Why I've lost trust in most all intellectuals and the institutions that purport to represent them: they have had almost nothing to say (except by way of support) of the entire Covid response. I just cannot take these people seriously now or ever. This goes for many supposedly great minds I once respected. It should be obvious by now that this was and is probably the most important shift in the historical narrative In decades if not hundreds of years. Why the silence about the following? * A entire generation was denied actual eduction * The response showed public would mostly believe any absurdity, even that masks were protective against microbial infection and that standing far apart from people was the key to health * Governments canceled religious holidays with two thousands years of tradition and got away with it * A grass-roots movement would rise up among us to defend and enforce preposterous claims including that hiding under the sofa would cause a respiratory infection to go away * Governments the world over learned that they could perhaps spend without limit, run up debt, and inflate away the obligations * Industry realized there were far more profits in panic and mandates than in normal marketing * The ruling class discerned that they could get away with endless abuse of the people provided it was pushed as public health * The vaccine industry realized that no lie was beyond plausibility even when they were caught and even when their product caused vast injury and death * Media was revealed to be nothing other than a deep-state megaphone * Academia proved itself to be mostly useless Any actual intellectual worth his salt would have been sounding alarms throughout this amazing fiasco. Some have. Very few, mostly associated with new institutions that are displacing the old failed establishment. Legacy thinkers have generally pretended that none of this happened. Remember these days: an entire generation of vaunted intellectuals is hereby discredited, revealed as sycophants, and otherwise exposed as having chosen the comforts of social position and financial stability over truth.

Couldn't resist.

"Being Somali is more than bananas & rice, it's a lot, it's uh.. it's kind of like bananas & rice"

@walterkirn @grok can you make that first sentence make sense?

No charismatic or credible leadership and a martyr who was the aggressor. This revolutionary episode is built on sand. They can will it as hard as they wish but the fundamentals aren't there,

@jaycurrie Merry Christmas, Jay.

We really have to stop buying crystal candlesticks... Merry Christmas!

This is why we have a major productivity and inflation problem in this country. This is buried in Stats Canada's monthly workforce data. It's a plot, that I produced, of the percentage of our total workforce that is "employed" by the government (federal, provincial and municipal). Several things stand out when I look at the data. 1) 21.5% of all workers are in the civil service. That's 1 out of every 5 workers. 2) Another way to look at it, is that there are 4 private sector workers for every 1 public sector worker. That's among the lowest ratios in the western world. 3) The ratio jumped up during COVID. Why? Because private sector workers lost their jobs, while government workers went on with business as usual. There are no negative consequences to working for the government, which is why they should be paid less. 4) Canada has never returned to its pre-COVID trend. In fact, things are getting worse. Many of the private sector jobs lost because of COVID mandates have never returned. 1/