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Joel Johannesen

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...

Joel Johannesen - Thursday March 16, 2023 at 12:01 pm

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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...

Joel Johannesen - Monday February 13, 2023 at 4:46 pm

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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...

Joel Johannesen - Monday January 23, 2023 at 5:26 pm

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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...

Joel Johannesen - Wednesday January 18, 2023 at 1:51 pm

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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...

Joel Johannesen - Wednesday January 18, 2023 at 8:41 am

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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...

Joel Johannesen - Tuesday March 21, 2023 at 3:29 pm

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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...

Joel Johannesen - Friday January 20, 2023 at 4:24 pm

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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....

Joel Johannesen - Thursday December 15, 2022 at 12:26 pm

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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...

Joel Johannesen - Tuesday December 13, 2022 at 3:05 pm

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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 —...

Joel Johannesen - Monday December 12, 2022 at 4:09 pm

News Roundup

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...

Joel Johannesen - Friday March 17, 2023 at 5:36 pm

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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...

Joel Johannesen - Thursday March 16, 2023 at 5:52 pm

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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...

Joel Johannesen - Friday March 3, 2023 at 6:28 pm

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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...

Joel Johannesen - Friday February 17, 2023 at 2:51 pm

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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...

Joel Johannesen - Friday February 10, 2023 at 12:13 pm

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

Joel Johannesen Joel Johannesen - Wednesday January 18, 2023 at 8:41 am

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

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

Joel Johannesen Joel Johannesen - Friday December 16, 2022 at 7:11 pm

If you're a lefty or a journalist (but I repeat myself yadda), you'd readily acknowledge Elon Musk is clearly at risk of harm, even...

EU and UN hacks threaten Musk’s Twitter because “censorship.” But the EU’s Norway threatens to imprison people “for saying things.”

Joel Johannesen Joel Johannesen - Friday December 16, 2022 at 4:25 pm

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.

News Roundup Joel Johannesen - Friday December 16, 2022 at 2:16 pm

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.

Quick Takes Joel Johannesen - Thursday December 15, 2022 at 12:26 pm

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?

Quick Takes Joel Johannesen - Tuesday December 13, 2022 at 3:05 pm

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.)

Quick Takes Joel Johannesen - Monday December 12, 2022 at 4:09 pm

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

Quick Takes Joel Johannesen - Thursday December 8, 2022 at 2:31 pm

I get at least three or four emails per week from Maxime Bernier asking for my money and support (each time addressing me as...

Politics is a drag for some politicians

News Roundup Joel Johannesen - Wednesday December 7, 2022 at 4:57 pm

How it started: How it's going: But politics can also be a drag of a different sort for corporate ding-dongs who play politics and lose (click...

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

Joel Johannesen Joel Johannesen - Thursday December 8, 2022 at 11:33 am

It's a Liberal government foul-up. But let's face it: it's also really just yet another Big Government and Big Bureaucracy foul-up. (And yes, "foul-up"...

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

News Roundup Joel Johannesen - Tuesday December 6, 2022 at 12:02 pm

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

News Roundup-ette for Friday, Dec 2, 2022. It’s a Very Revealing Edition!

News Roundup Joel Johannesen - Friday December 2, 2022 at 3:52 pm

Oh good!, I thought. As a huge fan of Formula 1 racing, I thought the company was finally revealing a spine. They were finally...

Less recent stuff

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

Joel Johannesen Joel Johannesen - Wednesday November 30, 2022 at 3:23 pm

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

Joel Johannesen Joel Johannesen - Friday November 25, 2022 at 12:50 pm

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.

Joel Johannesen Joel Johannesen - Wednesday November 23, 2022 at 4:23 pm

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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Joel Johannesen Joel Johannesen - Thursday November 10, 2022 at 2:35 pm

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?

Joel Johannesen Joel Johannesen - Tuesday November 8, 2022 at 2:05 pm

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?

Joel Johannesen Joel Johannesen - Thursday November 3, 2022 at 1:17 pm

"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

Joel Johannesen Joel Johannesen - Wednesday November 2, 2022 at 2:50 pm

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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Joel Johannesen @joeljohannesen ·

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Motion carries.
Libs voted Nay. Most everyone else voted Yea.

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The BC NDP government seems to have become radicalized and has joined the extremist left woke cult, and wants you to join too. Or at least your babies.

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The BC government is now telling parents their two to three-year-old TODDLERS CAN BE TRANSGENDER!

Gender ideologues are confusing kids from birth to push them into a life of being dependent on artificial hormone injections and life-altering surgery.

This is NOT healthcare!

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Some of The Special Obfuscateurs involved in an apparent Liberal Party coverup:

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"OK we haven't been able to reverse the narrative on this China story so far but maybe if we yell." 🤔

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Linda Frum @lindafrum ·

22 Mar

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

Linda Frum @LindaFrum

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.

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21 Mar

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/