Joel Johannesen
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Writer and Executive Editor for ProudToBeCanadian.ca.
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Summer days off this week (not in Venezuela).
I'm taking another few days off this week of August 19-25, thus the lack of new posts. Unlike some school teachers and teachers' union officials in Chicago, I will not — not — be...
“You can eat every day and eat well without spending money. And then you...
Vancouver has been run by liberals — and much further leftists — forever. BC is currently run by the socialism-espousing NDP (sharing power with the leftist Greens), and before that, by the very socially...
Facing facts is hard, so progressives obfuscate on mass shooters, suicides, drugs, loneliness, lack...
Read this short passage from a Tucker Carlson/Neil Patel column this morning about the recent mass shootings in the US:
"The AMERICAN TRAGEDY Our Leaders Don't Want To Talk About"
...Author James Howard Kunstler, one of...
More infuriating — and dangerous? — than the Jessica Yasiv case, if that’s even...
I got this email from a local (Delta, BC) People's Party candidate, Angelina Ireland, and I'll just paste it below because I couldn't write it up any better, and she deserves credit for caring...
Extreme left group not labeled in media report; allows group to describe themselves
Today's news story about the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives moves the news media needle even further left. Once again they're mainstreaming it. It's dangerous to mainstream a group that overtly advocates for socialism,...
Oh it’s a “child.” Not a “fetus” or “blob of cells” or “disease?”
https://twitter.com/thrstyle/status/1161685848577970178
“Trudeau running on good Trump economy”: said by no news media, ever, anywhere.
Funny. I never heard any reporters or Justin Trudeau credit President Trump with the good economy we've enjoyed lately in Canada. But today as the markets took a hit and bond yields inverted, Jessy...
BREAKING: UNETHICAL. Trudeau Liberals are found GUILTY in Wilson-Raybould saga —ethics commissioner
Globe and Mail reports breaking news that is devastating for the Liberals, and actually for Canada and its reputation as a bastion of law and order and equal justice:
Ethics Commissioner rules Trudeau inappropriately pressed...
A THIRD of NDP caucus are not running again in 2019. A THIRD of...
Canada's news media, I've long maintained, is the only reason the NDP exists in Canada. The liberal-leftist media has propped them up and maintained an illusion of their legitimacy pretty much from day one....
This is 2019: Jobs for women aged 25 to 54 — dropped by 18,000...
Canada shed 24,200 jobs in July. And the unemployment rate moved up 0.2 percentage points to 5.7 per cent.
That's horrible. It's summer! This, and Christmas (or "happy-tree fest of seasonal greetings," as liberals call...
Texas killer’s “manifesto” predicts idiotic political blame game
The Washington Examiner has an excellent analysis of the Texas mass murderer's "manifesto," which apparently nobody in the media has actually read, or if they did, they went into it with the world's biggest...
Leftists should check their idiot at the door
Ben Shapiro hits the mark in his latest column, a short one that says a lot.
In the wake of the Texas mass murder, and the one in Ohio (which, because the suspect is an...
Gillette shaves off BILLIONS in profits after “toxic masculinity” and “transgender” ads idiocy
Gillette infamously provoked an outlash from men who didn't take kindly to their recent ads, in which instead of selling razors (which evidently they didn't!), they gambled on appearing cool to the progressive set,...
Bone Picked, Communists Revealed. Shutty Uppy.
While reading all the happy news about that International communist/socialist group's collapse which I wrote about in a previous post, today, I popped over to another fave of mine, the PeoplesVoice.ca, just to check...