March24, 2023

Wrong choice, wrong answer: the latest in stuff that’s going weirdly wrong in Canada.

Trudeau Liberals' latest move in the allegations of China Communist Party collusion with Canadian political parties (or what I like to call the Trudeau Liberal Party Chinese Communist Party Election Interference Corruption Scandal-Gate), is to appoint the one guy who might...

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Don’t say ass.

A bit of a hangover from yesterday's article I posted, which included an extra tidbit near the end about the Associated Press (where the...

Business Development Bank — AKA Another Big Government Calamity Developing

I think Pierre Poilievre is missing the bigger point. As a conservative, or any normal human, a crown corporation boss flying her personal chauffeur across...

Hypocrisy flies over his head: John Kerry’s private jet runs on gas but it’s very special gas.

Reprinting this gem (yes, I do dare say so myself... because I'm largely underrated) from nearly a year ago — February 3, 2021. This...

Strange switch: on healthcare, progressives are conservatives; conservatives are progressive

Progressives are acting like conservatives when it comes to healthcare in Canada. Progressives, not conservatives, want to maintain the status quo — the state-funded...

Four charged in car theft ring; but un-pictured and even un-named by state-owned CBC & TorStar.

I just thought it was noticeable and questionable that at least a couple of major "news" media outlets that covered the big Peel Regional Police news conference today on the latest massive car theft ring — a news conference accompanied by...

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No, (this) PTBC does not stand for “Patterns of Total Body Connectivity”

Patterns of Total Body Connectivity, huh? Is that like you put dots all over your body (or someone else's) and then see if you...

Justin Trudeau and Canadian “news” media don’t look up.

For years, "Connecting rural Canada" has been a huge Liberal campaign deal. Until today. Since even before they were first elected they've been promising this....

Daily reading. Or not?

I've mentioned how impressed I am at Sam Cooper of Global News and his outstanding reporting on the Chinese Communist Party's election influence campaign...

Headlines in news: Musk Got Booed In Woke San Fran. (Also see page C58 where Democracy Is Under Threat, Yawn.)

It took a few sentences to figure out why nearly all of the entirely left-wing Canadian "news" media cabal is ignoring this story —...

Children Belong To Their Parents

I had to read the article three times because I thought, being the "news" media, they must have had it right, and I just wasn't seeing it. <pause for laughter> But no, I read it right. And I'll break the suspense. Here's the...

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Paywall down for a rework

Not that I hate money, but while I sort this issue out I'd rather people read my stuff for free than take down the...

A dearth of fare!

Yes, yes, I'm going to write again. I've been busy on Twitter if that helps.  https://twitter.com/JoelJohannesen. (You should FOLLOW me since I lost over...

PTBC now a partial paywalled site to enable Porsche-buying

I'm experimenting with a paywall for this site, enabling me to "wall off" any or all articles at PTBC.  This is designed to generate...

UPDATED: What should I write about at PTBC?

I'm between being overwhelmed by all the ongoing nonsense, and feeling that I'm just adding to the excessive noise if I chime in. Meantime, I'm...

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Strange switch: on healthcare, progressives are conservatives; conservatives are progressive

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“Journalists” broke the rules, were suspended. Good.

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Here are two things that do not go together in a sane world. First of all, the "journalists" who were temporarily suspended from Twitter...

Trust the “news” media you guys. Also: Trust the “news” media, you guys.

There's no collusion within the Canadian "news" media. They aren't living in a bubble together. They are fair and honest. Objective. Never "activist." They...

Justin Trudeau and Canadian “news” media don’t look up.

For years, "Connecting rural Canada" has been a huge Liberal campaign deal. Until today. Since even before they were first elected they've been promising this....

Daily reading. Or not?

I've mentioned how impressed I am at Sam Cooper of Global News and his outstanding reporting on the Chinese Communist Party's election influence campaign...

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It took a few sentences to figure out why nearly all of the entirely left-wing Canadian "news" media cabal is ignoring this story —...

The usually loquacious Maxime Bernier has no answer for me on his anti-gun-control bromides

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UPDATED: Liberal Big Gov gives RCMP contract to… Communist-Chinese-linked firm. I’m not even joking.

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News Roundup for Dec 5, 2022. The How To Be Stupid edition.

Readers who aren't stupid — ie those who read PTBC on a regular basis — will get the rationale behind using the feature graphic...

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Election interference is all around us | 选举干扰无处不在 | Retweet if you agree, ironically.

Global News' Sam Cooper opened the eyes of many Canadians a couple of weeks ago when he reported that Trudeau had been briefed on...

Trudeau Liberals block information needed to assess their dubious decisions threatening freedom, democracy, and Canada

Questions are going to loom large after this Emergencies Act commission is over. That's because the important questions remained largely unanswered during the commission....

New evidence: You thought the Emergencies Act was overreach? Hold my beer. Liberals considered using military with tanks to quash freedom convoy.

Today at the commission investigating the Trudeau Liberals' invocation of the Emergencies Act: We found that Liberal Justice Minister and Attorney General David Lametti...

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On the lighter side of life... Are ya like me? Do you get bothered by tweets, signs, newspaper articles, and online posts — especially those...

Reports: POLITICAL LEADERS directed police to do background checks on innocent Canadians. Why?

Unlike the Freedom Convoy itself, which was mostly a nothing burger from start to finish, the political and media machinations being revealed at the...

Roaches can vote too?

"Democracy dies..." to borrow part of the left's Washington Post division's tendentious slogan (they suddenly invented it when Trump was elected), when the news...

Gone to the Bathroom

Thousands and thousands of people have written and called in .... no that's a lie (or a wish or a dream...). Let me start...

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(In The) RED ALERT —

Canada's federal government debt is now over a TRILLION dollars —and still growing. There's provincial govt debt on top of that. You want "sustainable"? This ain't it.

@JoelJohannesen

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Your reminder that in 2018 Liberals changed election law so that non-resident Canadians can vote -- even if they haven't lived in Canada for decades and even if they never plan to return. Surely we can find a reasonable (yet still constitutional) limit to these off-shore voters. https://twitter.com/LindaFrum/status/1062345067787104256

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Liberal’s rushed election #BillC76, broadens voting rights to non-resident Canadians even if they have no intention of ever living in Canada again. Do you agree with this approach? If not, please RT.

Four charged in car theft ring; but un-pictured and even un-named by state-owned CBC & TorStar.

Why is that?

https://proudtobecanadian.ca/four-charged-in-car-theft-ring-but-un-pictured-and-even-un-named-by-state-owned-cbc-torstar/

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From the not-too-distant past

Gone to the Bathroom

Thousands and thousands of people have written and called in .... no that's a lie (or a wish or a dream...). Let me start...

New Coke —hold my beer. Here’s New Woke.

We watch TV for a couple of hours every evening, and can't stand much more than that — unless we're watching a golf tournament...

Vancouver & BC under left-wing/NDP admins: how it’s going so far

Since we're talking about Vancouver and BC... yoga's "Downard Dog" rang a bell with me when thinking about the state of affairs in Vancouver...