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Young woman allegedly shot dead by a known criminal who wasn’t in jail, for some inexplicable reason

It was all over the news (at least on the west coast) on Friday when the latest horrid crime took place — a young woman was shot dead in her Maple Ridge BC (a Vancouver suburb) home, and another young man...

Joel Johannesen - Tuesday July 19, 2022 at 12:47 pm

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Some guys and gals like Dave Portnoy and Kamala Harris are “bro-choice”

Are you like me? Are ya tired of this yet? The Supreme Court's Roe vs Wade and the Dobbs decision is getting overcooked, but let's have...

Joel Johannesen - Thursday June 30, 2022 at 12:12 pm

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State-owned CBC changes WHO’s wording from “pregnant women” to “pregnant people”

The headline in the state-owned CBC article is risible, inasmuch as the only people who get pregnant are women, as all normal people —...

Joel Johannesen - Wednesday June 29, 2022 at 11:31 am

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RCMP — where the P stands for politics?

Good reporting at the Liberals' Globe and Mail division today on the political interference into the RCMP investigation in Halifax. Notice how I always...

Joel Johannesen - Thursday June 23, 2022 at 10:41 am

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Take supposed internal dissatisfaction with Trudeau with a grain of salt

Sure it surprised me that I found liberalvision CTV running an opinion column (Don Martin — The fall of Justin Trudeau has begun) that...

Joel Johannesen - Tuesday June 14, 2022 at 6:16 pm

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Vacay, in case you didn’t notice

When I write new articles, this site's daily visitor numbers spike. Duh, you say. But it's weird how sometimes, this site's daily visitor numbers are huge when I'm on vacation. Not so "duh," right? Are y'all trying to tell me something? If...

Joel Johannesen - Friday August 12, 2022 at 12:10 pm

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UPDATE 1: Young woman allegedly shot dead by a known criminal who wasn’t in jail — was herself under warrant

UPDATE to my July 18 2022 article The Vancouver Sun has (weirdly — read on) updated their story to indicate that the victim, Cashmere Ali,...

Joel Johannesen - Tuesday July 19, 2022 at 12:51 pm

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F-1 team Aston Martin has a bigger problem than idiot virtue-signaling drivers like Sebastian Vettel

I grew up in the Age of Aquarius. That's how old I am. But we now live in the Age of Hypocrisy and Dumbassery. I...

Joel Johannesen - Friday July 15, 2022 at 4:50 pm

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We’re sorry to inconvenience you, but Rogers is down, so please hold your calls to 911

Whoo boy. There will be ramifications from this, no doubt. I just hope they're the right ones. Rogers — the cell phone carrier in this...

Joel Johannesen - Friday July 8, 2022 at 3:49 pm

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Patrick Brown out of CPC race; engages in scorched earth tactics to kill the party he wanted to lead

We will find out more details about why, exactly, the Conservative Party erased him from contention last night, but I sense there is at...

Joel Johannesen - Wednesday July 6, 2022 at 10:21 am

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What in tarnation (or Southpark)?

I'm on vacay, as I explained here, but I had to post this because, well, because what in tarnation? The graphic tweeted out by UBC (apparently now to be known as Woke University) is like something drawn by the creators of Southpark. What's...

Joel Johannesen - Friday August 12, 2022 at 3:48 pm

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Anti-Canadian oil idiot Sebastian Vettel set to retire now. Aww.

His name has come up at PTBC here and here recently. Suffice it to say I'm not a fan of this anti-Canadian idiot. Perhaps Vettel,...

Joel Johannesen - Thursday July 28, 2022 at 10:12 am

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NEW: Two negative quarters is a recession only when Republicans are in power.

This is a lie. Misinformation. Until they change the dictionary, which I have no doubt they will to protect Biden and big-spending Democrats and their...

Joel Johannesen - Wednesday July 27, 2022 at 6:56 am

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Tweets that go together

We could say "one thing leads to another." Or we could say "if this, then that." Or we could say choose Kamala Harris as...

Joel Johannesen - Tuesday July 26, 2022 at 1:22 pm

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“News” story leaves out pertinent details about communist extremists; an independent journalist fills in the blanks for us

Amazing difference between what you read and what is actually happening. Or in this case, what's actually happening, and what you aren't reading about...

Joel Johannesen - Tuesday July 19, 2022 at 4:21 pm

Patrick Brown out of CPC race; engages in scorched earth tactics to kill the party he wanted to lead

Quick Takes Joel Johannesen - Wednesday July 6, 2022 at 10:21 am

We will find out more details about why, exactly, the Conservative Party erased him from contention last night, but I sense there is at...

Some guys and gals like Dave Portnoy and Kamala Harris are “bro-choice”

Joel Johannesen Joel Johannesen - Thursday June 30, 2022 at 12:12 pm

Are you like me? Are ya tired of this yet? The Supreme Court's Roe vs Wade and the Dobbs decision is getting overcooked, but let's have...

State-owned CBC changes WHO’s wording from “pregnant women” to “pregnant people”

Joel Johannesen Joel Johannesen - Wednesday June 29, 2022 at 11:31 am

The headline in the state-owned CBC article is risible, inasmuch as the only people who get pregnant are women, as all normal people —...

The most disgusting thing ever thought of by humans. That’s abortion.

News Roundup Joel Johannesen - Friday June 24, 2022 at 1:51 pm

Progressive: My body my choice! Me: What about the body of the baby? Progressive: Racist! Progressive: Males should have no say in the question! Me: What if the...

Such a Gem. State-owned CBC teaches us about (all kinds of) sex. Thank God.

CBC Joel Johannesen - Thursday June 23, 2022 at 12:45 pm

Tired of Rosemary Barton? Can't find any porn on the internet? Need still more "storytelling" about sex and gayness and gender and all yer...

RCMP — where the P stands for politics?

Joel Johannesen Joel Johannesen - Thursday June 23, 2022 at 10:41 am

Good reporting at the Liberals' Globe and Mail division today on the political interference into the RCMP investigation in Halifax. Notice how I always...

Award Day at PTBC

Quick Takes Joel Johannesen - Tuesday June 21, 2022 at 11:51 am

Feeling nostalgic for the good old days? Like the days before the Trudeau Liberals? Raymond J de Souza wins the columnist du jour award today....

Clueless F-1 driver slides all over his greasy hypocrisy. What an F-ing idiot.

Quick Takes Joel Johannesen - Friday June 17, 2022 at 4:00 pm

The Germans make great cars, but some of their people are utterly stupid, hypocritical, dishonest, and entirely ignorant, jerks. Take F-1's Sebastian Vettel (by...

Apology NOT accepted.

News Roundup Joel Johannesen - Wednesday June 15, 2022 at 4:58 pm

Risk: From the liberals' Globe and Mail division Reward: From the progressives' state-owned CBC wing The Liberals' very own Toronto Star went all-in on it today.

Liberals spend HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS on private jet fuel and hors d’oeuvres to scamper about the world for nothing

Quick Takes Joel Johannesen - Wednesday June 15, 2022 at 4:41 pm

Editor's note: UPDATED BELOW! Who the hell do these people think they are? And what happened to that whole "climate change" ruse? According to reporting by...

Take this advice and shove it up your airport luggage chute

Quick Takes Joel Johannesen - Wednesday June 15, 2022 at 12:57 pm

It's a tale of two political talking heads, both of whom you can safely ignore if you're a Conservative leadership contender. One is from...

Take supposed internal dissatisfaction with Trudeau with a grain of salt

Joel Johannesen Joel Johannesen - Tuesday June 14, 2022 at 6:16 pm

Sure it surprised me that I found liberalvision CTV running an opinion column (Don Martin — The fall of Justin Trudeau has begun) that...

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Can’t beat ’em in the ratings? State-owned CBC News runs story pretending Fox News is a national security threat to Canada.

Joel Johannesen Joel Johannesen - Tuesday May 24, 2022 at 2:02 pm

The "news" story on Justin Trudeau's state-owned CBC begins: Canada's intelligence community will have to grapple with the growing influence of anti-democratic forces in the...

Chinese Communist Party–linked woman’s “company” buys another huge mall in Canada

Joel Johannesen Joel Johannesen - Thursday May 19, 2022 at 1:29 pm

Nobody in Canada will hear about this except in BC, because people in the rest of Canada don't hear about anything except what's going...

TIME OUT

Joel Johannesen Joel Johannesen - Monday May 2, 2022 at 10:30 am

I'm trying to take this week off (thru May 8). But the weather is cold and rainy and in a word it sucks, so...

News flash: reporter informs us about right-wing people being on social media. Thanks for the warning, reporter!

Joel Johannesen Joel Johannesen - Thursday April 14, 2022 at 12:04 pm

This is really just an update to my post from yesterday, so you should read that first. It's short. And free! UPDATE April 14, 2022 I...

Are you sure it was real news? Maybe it was actually a political ploy. Hard to tell in Canada.

Joel Johannesen Joel Johannesen - Monday April 11, 2022 at 12:33 pm

I don't look at Facebook because I hate it more than liver, but I bet the sort of surreptitious political propaganda campaigns National Review...

Oh but muh fascist trucker arsonist story!

Joel Johannesen Joel Johannesen - Friday April 8, 2022 at 11:19 am

How much have you read about the alleged scams around BLM funds being spent on party houses — luxury mansions — in California and...

F-35 purchase was terrible under the Conservatives; now it’s totally cool under the Liberals. Huh.

Joel Johannesen Joel Johannesen - Thursday April 7, 2022 at 11:59 am

Peter MacKay is on about the F-35 purchase today in the National Post. He's one to talk, as he was instrumental in helping advance...

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Recently released court documents reveal that the Trudeau government’s travel vaccine mandate was driven by politics and not science.Days before it kicked in,senior officials were scrambling to find a rationale. My latest for @bariweiss and it’s a big one. https://www.commonsense.news/p/court-documents-reveal-canadas-travel

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Rep. Mary Miller @repmarymiller ·

28 Jul

Today, America is officially in the Biden Recession and suffering from Bidenflation & the Biden Energy Crisis. The Biden Border Crisis is so bad, even the Dem mayors of DC & NYC are calling it out. This is how the fake news DC "press" covered it.

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27 Jul

The White House now says it’s only a recession if you see a salamander wearing a top hat.

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28 Jul

Anti-Canadian oil idiot Sebastian Vettel set to retire now. Aww. https://proudtobecanadian.ca/anti-canadian-oil-idiot-sebastian-vettel-set-to-retire-now-aww/