News Roundup

Yahoo News — Dutch Foreign Minister Sigrid Kaag resigned on Thursday after parliament formally condemned her handling of the Afghanistan evacuation crisis. Too bad Canada...

Lots of tweets this morning about Marco ("Misinformer") Mendicino, the unofficial Minister of Disinformation and Misinformation as I now call him, and as lots...

Amazing difference between what you read and what is actually happening. Or in this case, what's actually happening, and what you aren't reading about...

National Post —  The dirty little huge secret — ar at least ONE of them — about electric cars is starting to reveal itself. The batteries die, the warranty is over, and now what? "The National Post conducted an informal survey of Western Canadian Nissan dealerships to ask the cost of replacing a battery pack on a 2013 Nissan Leaf. Estimates ranged from $8,000 to an eyewatering $30,953.28 plus $1,200 in labour." That's what. ¶ So yeah, electric cars are not ready for prime time. But thanks for subsidizing all that junk that will now end up in our landfills, governments.

Either the Globe and Mail is slow-walking the truth so you don't find out, or they're just lousy at their jobs. Because while the...

"Ottawa's" hypocrisy. Oh dear. Spot the irony. "Ottawa" is code for "Liberals and NDP," and is used by the "news" media whenever there's something going...

Today in Twitter... https://twitter.com/JoelJohannesen/ I tweeted an innocent little reply to a tweet by liberalvision CTV News today, and it got more "likes" than usual....

This is about the American economy and its now far-from "transitory" (nice try) inflation, which has become thoroughly destructive inflation, with the added fun...

Stephen Petty - On the effectiveness of masks - YouTube Fifteen minutes of factual scientific glory. Distribute widely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3dnkbKoj4A Enlarge it to full-screen if you can, and...

I'm on vacay, as I explained here, but I had to post this because, well, because what in tarnation? The graphic tweeted out by UBC...

National Post (and other Postmedia) — Here's a hot take:

Ivison: Trudeau's about to call an election with no purpose — other than to gain more power  

¶ Thanks Captain Obvious. And where were you when BC's NDP premier John Horgan called an election last fall in the middle of his term and in the very midst of the Wuhan Virus (which they insist on calling "COVID-19" for some weird China-dictated reason)? I know. You were in Canada Ontario.

National Post —Move over Donald Trump. In their NP Platformed email available to subscribers, columnist Sabrina Maddeaux calmly explains that Justin Trudeau's recent uncontrolled angry outbursts — one at a citizen who was rude, and one at a reporter who dared challenge him with actual reporter-like questions — provides a clue as to his baser instincts. And if you saw these outbursts, you'd agree, it isn't a good look for him or any normal human. But moreover, it's a terrible look for anyone claiming the title of Prime Minister. But it's this new line of anti-science, pure crass political campaign bullshit that has me riled:

"...At a weekend rally in Oakville, Ont., Trudeau revealed his hand when he claimed that, “If you want this pandemic to end, go out and vote Liberal.” He repeated the message again, even turning it up a notch, in Surrey, B.C., on Monday, saying, “If you want this pandemic to end for good, go out and vote Liberal!”

"This is the ultimate false promise by a politician who’s become infamous for making false promises. No one can guarantee he will be able to end the pandemic. In fact, the expert consensus seems to be that there will be no real end to it: the virus will become endemic and we will be forced to live with it, albeit hopefully more normally. ..."

So it's "follow the science," and "the science says... to vote Liberal”? Many, especially the media, would dismiss "bible belt" politicians who insinuated that "God wants you to vote [whatever way].  This blowhard — and his disciples — should be treated no differently.

His name has come up at PTBC here and here recently. Suffice it to say I'm not a fan of this anti-Canadian idiot. Perhaps Vettel,...

Vancouver Sun The BC NDP occasionally betrays its native instincts, wherein they play out their perceived role as big yummy socialist mommy to the people (or daddy, or whatever these woke trendies call moms and dads these days — I think it's "non-binary parental unit" or something). They sincerely believe the government's role is to look after the plebeians like they are their helpless children, and provide everything from healthcare to housing and basic income and food and liquor and safety and entertainment and pot and car insurance and all the way up to emotional support and comfort... to all the stupid people (which is all the people aside from themselves who are super smart and far more capable and more mature and super-elite, make no mistake). ¶ Some small towns are suffering from an unusually troublesome wildfire season, and the nobs at the NDP tweet this out: “Wildfire season is scary, and that’s OK.”  It got a lot of backlash, and what did the NDP do? Delete it and grovel out an equally sucky apology, as if I had to tell you. ¶ Aside from that sickeningly patronizing, paternalistic (or maternalistic, or non-binary or LQBTQII@%@) and gratingly condescending tone, they of course had to do it with that equally vomit-inducing and ever so trendy and woke-aware pro-gay Twitter logo.

I was going to say that since this "progressive" government wants to pay for literally everything, there ought to be a government program to...