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Chinese Tycoon Jailed For 18 Years. Yeah. Seems right. After all, he was “picking quarrels and provoking troubles” with the Communist Party elites, according to the jack-booted Chinese Communist "justice" authorities. I imagine...
Nobody is watching state-owned CBC. Still. Since forever. It is a waste of money....
I've shown you the latest ratings charts, based on actual TV ratings, for about twenty years here at PTBC. It always looks roughly the same insofar as its obvious lack of viewership of the...
UPDATED: O’Toole: Maybe climate change spending announcements are best done by news release than...
Originally published July 8, 2021, 12:20 PM
Apparently, the Conservatives' Erin O'Toole was jealous of the attention Global News is giving to their Justin Trudeau and to their alternate, Jagmeet Singh. Who could blame him?
Here's...
UPDATED: Fully vaccinated Trudeau wears mask and elbow-bumps like a true idiot performer
If Justin Trudeau approached me with his mask on (especially when just five seconds ago he wasn't wearing one), and extended his elbow toward me instead of his hand to shake, I'd...
...be more likely...
Who’s proud of America? Those who *aren’t* in school. Ding ding. There’s a clue.
A poll in America on the occasion of Independence Day — the fourth of July — revealed that Americans are, in fact, proud of their country, despite what the media would have you believe (what with all the "systemic racism" and whatnots). I might rephrase that a bit: despite how the media would have it if only they could more fully convince Americans that America is bad.
Trudeau, eject your Senator Woo from our Canadian Senate
The Canadian Senate — your Canadian Senate — has the power to throw out a senator from the appointed chamber, as long as a majority of Senators approve of the expulsion. And a majority...
McKenna the second Lib cabinet minister to get out of Dodge
Catherine McKenna is quitting — which, the news media points out in something of a re-write of history, makes her "the second" Liberal cabinet minister to announce their quitsies. The National Post writes, "McKenna...
You do realize Canada includes people on the west coast, right?
Here's an advisory to the Torontonians at Conservative Party HQ: 9:30 am EDT is 6:30 am PDT. In other words, you're telling people on the west coast, screw you. So thanks, but no thanks....
Gross misinformation from Postmedia’s Vancouver Sun
By purposely — and let's be accurate here, I think the better word is purposefully — not fully detailing the backgrounds of the two individuals featured in their glowing "news" story, the Vancouver Sun...
SPONSORSHIP II?: a new Liberal Party corruption scandal exposed by Fife & Chase
The Liberals' Globe and Mail division will be a nasty place to work at again today. The dynamic duo, Robert Fife, Ottawa Bureau Cheif, and Steven Chase, Senior Parliamentary Reporter — who often make...
We canceled Penticton, because Penticton canceled Canada
We finally, after sweating it out for a good long time online, managed to book a bed & breakfast in Penticton in July. Everybody's rushing to book stuff now that America's Operation Warp Speed...
Science my butt
The Liberals' Globe and Mail division dutifully wrote up today's exciting news of the all-powerful Canadian government's easing of U.S. travel restrictions — rules which, they leave out of their story-writing, have been imprisoning...
Changing your name is what it’s all about, when it’s “Liberal”
British Columbia, for those of you who don't know, has two main political parties: the left-wing labor-union-and-wokeness-obsessed NDP, and the not-quite-as-left-wing BC Liberals —no relation to the federal Liberals, the BC Liberals sometimes say,...
Today’s Top Story in Total BS News — Thursday June 10 2021
"Today in Total BS News" makes me laugh a little. I could start every article, every day, that way. But this one jumps off the page for its dishonesty and its obvious effort to...
Given the chance to learn from history and think ahead, liberal MPs chose death.
Parliament voted to allow sex-selection abortions in Canada yesterday, voting down a proposed law which would have enabled Canada to join the league of civilized nations, and become a more, well, science-based, logical, and...