Joel Johannesen
Writer and Executive Editor for ProudToBeCanadian.ca.
PTBC was founded by Mr. Johannesen in 2000.
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Back — and getting ready to fight
Traveling abroad always gives us a perspective that it is hard to achieve when we're right in the thick of it at home. Even my old trick of "going outside" hasn't given me the...
Where are we?
Is summer over? Do we have to start talking politics again? Hell no!
The dearth of articles at PTBC lately is only half because it's summer and the fact that I've never really gotten past...
Think housing costs have gone crazy? Pfft. Taxes are up even more over the...
Here's a spiel from a study done by the Fraser Institute. Here's the link to the whole study.
It's not happy reading, but what do you think this is? "Sunny ways" days? (Here's a bucket...
“We believe in PEI,” the finance minister said. Like it’s a choice.
What a bonkers video.
The Pierre Poilievre team put it out this morning — yes it's highly edited but these are her own words. No deep fake "AI" is involved in this though you'd think...
How far are you willing to go, “boiling” climate people?
I hear them — we all hear them — all day long, every day — especially the really hot days! — reeling about the climate, um, "boiling" ("boiling" is, seriously, the latest marketing buzzword).
In...
There is no “far-left.” There are no “historic” right-wing women. Please understand.
There are any number of clues as to their bias, and editorial patterns we can see in the "news" media today. One of the most blatant is whenever there is a violent crime. If...
“‘Honk honk’ means ‘Heil Hitler'” — one of Trudeau’s new cabinet geniuses
Hailing back Harkening back to Feb 22, 2022, if you'll excuse my use of a word beginning with "H," we find a contemporaneous article of mine that included this gem, which you'd think might...
Canada Day should be Canada Month or Canada Season (said no progressive, ever).
Had enough of the Holy Month Of Pride? Or as one wily tweeter called it, alluding to the trans and sexual and nudity and overt child grooming nonsense happening in Canada and elsewhere during...
“Safe supply” is itself an addictive drug, and a political ideology
The progressives' insistence on "safe supply" has little to do with science, facts, ethics, or morals. Certainly not "saving lives." It is raw political ideology at play here for the most part.
They are playing...
The progressives in Ottawa and at liberalvision CTV “News” aim to exhaust us with...
When even the government-appointed "special Interlocutor" (LOL) is as mendacious as this, we have no hope of ever having an honest conversation.
And sadly, I suffer no illusion that they even intend to have an...
Marco Misinformer
Lots of tweets this morning about Marco ("Misinformer") Mendicino, the unofficial Minister of Disinformation and Misinformation as I now call him, and as lots of progressive-weary people (and people who value honesty and integrity,...
Global News pushes woke progressive ideology, then turns off commenting so you can’t object
OPINION PIECE COMING! As if you didn't know. But when you read something at, say, Global News, you're led to believe it's, you know, specifically not an opinion.
To my way of thinking this tweet...
Jagmeet Singh and the NDP hate the “ultra-rich.” Or at least they “hate” them.
Just as the trans and gender ideology set are obsessed with sex and ensuring your children are too — in public schools and on Parliament Hill and everywhere they have control which, increasingly, is...
Eat *what* now?
When you dare to make statements defending science, these days, or even normal, sound principles that we've observed for centuries or more — especially if they're about protecting kids from the trans cult, or...
Wildfires being used by progressives to grow government even more
The level of freakout in Ottawa over the wildfire-smoke-filled skies is... absolutely not astonishing. But the amount of government-growth-inclined progressives to "not let a good crisis go to waste," is... also not astonishing.
Yesterday I...
