Joel Johannesen
Writer and Executive Editor for ProudToBeCanadian.ca.
PTBC was founded by Mr. Johannesen in 2000.
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EU and UN hacks threaten Musk’s Twitter because “censorship.” But the EU’s Norway threatens...
Here are two things that do not go together in a sane world. First of all, the "journalists" who were temporarily suspended from Twitter yesterday (most were really nothing more than political activists as...
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 don't get their talking points from anybody other than their...
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. Even just last month, the Trudeaupians were busy churning out...
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 targetting Canada in (or at least in) 2019.
The first report...
Headlines in news: Musk Got Booed In Woke San Fran. (Also see page C58...
It took a few sentences to figure out why nearly all of the entirely left-wing Canadian "news" media cabal is ignoring this story — I mean especially since they're so big on constantly shrieking...
The usually loquacious Maxime Bernier has no answer for me on his anti-gun-control bromides
I get at least three or four emails per week from Maxime Bernier asking for my money and support (each time addressing me as "Joel" and signing off as "Max" as if he's my...
Politics is a drag for some politicians
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 to watch 12-second video):
Meanwhile, logic can be a drag for...
UPDATED: Liberal Big Gov gives RCMP contract to… Communist-Chinese-linked firm. I’m not even joking.
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" is being exceedingly polite, and better words could be found...
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 above. And now let's let go! Or something.
HOW TO BE...
News Roundup-ette for Friday, Dec 2, 2022. It’s a Very Revealing Edition!
Oh good!, I thought. As a huge fan of Formula 1 racing, I thought the company was finally revealing a spine. They were finally on board the Let's Stop Kowtowing To and Appeasing The...
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 Chinese Communist election interference in Canadian elections in 2019 (and...
News Roundup-ette for Tuesday Nov 29, 2022. Misinformation edition!
How's that climate change emergency crisis narrative going? Not nearly as well since Musk started freeing Twitter, such that making claims that the Big Government and The Establishment don't like won't get you canceled...
Hot Tip: Our tanks are Leopard tanks. But some think of them as Laurentian...
Wish I could say I wrote it.
It's in the Vancouver Sun and National Post and I assume all the Postmedia papers online.
It's the last paragraph that got me. The last line. Obviously, I won't...
Trudeau Liberals block information needed to assess their dubious decisions threatening freedom, democracy, and...
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. And that's as the Trudeau Liberals would have it.
Or at...
Obi-Wan Kenobi did not come from Saskatchewan.
People from outside of England say Worcestershire sauce like it's vital to enunciate every syllable, make a pained face like they've just had a tooth excised, and when they're done, they look around as...
