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Europe has developed a pretty interesting definition of “protecting democracy.”
🇷🇴 Romania annulled a presidential election after Călin Georgescu finished first, then barred him from the rerun.
🇭🇺 Hungary’s new government rewrote the constitution with retroactive limits that block Viktor Orbán from becoming PM again and later approved rules barring long-serving MPs from the next parliamentary election.
🇩🇪 Germany’s domestic intelligence service classified the AfD as extremist, opening the door to much heavier surveillance of the country’s biggest opposition party.
🇫🇷 France upheld Marine Le Pen’s conviction, kept restrictions on her political future and ordered her to wear an electronic ankle tag.
🇪🇸 In Spain, more than a dozen people tied to Pedro Sánchez’s political and personal circle have been investigated or prosecuted in separate corruption cases, while Sánchez himself has not been charged.
🇬🇧 Britain postponed local elections during a sweeping reorganization of local government, triggering a petition accusing the government of voter suppression.
🇵🇱 And now Poland has police surrounding its Constitutional Tribunal while the government and opposition accuse each other of trying to seize control of the court.
The real red line in Europe may not be democracy... It may be leaving the club.
Writer: Sol
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Who can make this make sense?
Carney: Trump putting tariffs on Canadian industries like steel and aluminum is NOT ACCEPTABLE.
Also Carney: I welcome EU’s carbon tax on our steel, aluminum and iron industries.
Canadians, can you see it now? Carney didn’t become PM to get a deal with Trump, make Canada an energy superpower or even build affordable homes.
Carney became PM to further his net zero/green energy agenda (and grow his personal net worth via Brookfield’s extensive stake in green energy).
“The future of trade does take carbon into account, Carbon is trade”
Carney and Ursula over the next several days will introduce their plan to soak businesses, industries and their citizens out of even more money & it will all be under the guise of “fighting the climate”
CBAM will make life less affordable, but Carney will claim it’s making businesses “more competitive”
These are not good people.
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For those confused as to what’s happening in Poland right now…
Imagine if Democrats won Congress, declared the Supreme Court didn't count anymore, ignored its rulings for 3 years, and then, a year before the next election, picked 8 new justices of their own, including a man their leader called his "right-hand man," and when the Republican president refused to swear them in, they swore themselves in and mailed him the paperwork, and when the Chief Justice said that wasn't legal and wouldn't seat them, they waited for a Friday night when the president was on a plane to Africa and had federal security officers who answer to a Democratic cabinet member walk 7 of them into the court through a back gate connected to the Democratic leader's own offices, where one of them announced she had "suspended" the Chief Justice, a move that even a law professor who openly can't stand him said had no legal basis, and then riot police blocked the Chief Justice from entering his own court, the court's website was taken over, the Attorney General moved that same night to strip his immunity so he could be prosecuted, the president had to turn his plane around mid-flight to come home, and the same people who spent years lecturing everyone about respecting the courts went online to say this was the rule of law, that it was painful, and that there was "no other way," which is roughly where Poland is tonight.
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The worst AI model in the world, a Silicon Valley startup co-founded by Radical Ventures (Dominic Barton), just embezzled $1.6 billion from the Canada Pension Plan to pay off unrealized capital investment from Brookfield, Saudi Arabian and European venture capital.
The day the AI Bubble burst on Wall Street with one of the worst crashes in its history.
This company is not "Sovereign AI."
It was founded and controlled by Chinese nationals, funded with foreign capital.
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The BC Teachers' Federation put out a statement saying members are "scared" after British Columbians voted in a Conservative government.
Meanwhile, a BC grade 6/7 teacher who gave sticky notes to a 12-year-old student and asked if the student had a crush on him got a two-day suspension. Two days.
Maybe the union should focus on protecting classrooms instead of fighting election results.
Full show: youtube.com/watch?v=GXyCk47D…
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Dave Foley was ordered to pay his ex-wife $17,700 a month in child support. That was five times what he actually earned.
If he set foot in Canada, he would be arrested at the border.
When he asked the judge how he’d feed his daughter from his second marriage, he says the court’s answer was simple: “They can rot in hell.”
In 1997, Foley was starring on NBC’s NewsRadio and making about $1 million a year. That year, he separated from his first wife, Tabatha Southey.
An Ontario judge set his payments at $17,700 a month, or $212,400 a year after taxes, based on his sitcom salary.
Two years later, NBC canceled the show. His income dropped by nearly 80%.
He went back to court to lower the payments. The judge said no. The court ruled he had made $1 million once, so he should keep paying like he still did.
His ex-wife lived in a $2.5 million house on a park in Toronto. Foley rented a small loft in downtown LA.
By 2011, he owed more than $500,000 in back payments. Ontario threatened to pull his passport and issued a warrant for his arrest if he came home.
In the video below, Foley explains the math: “I’m paying about five times my income every month in child support, based on a show that hasn’t been on for 12 years.”
He couldn’t work in Canada again until he landed a new sitcom in 2014 and had his paychecks garnished at the source.
The case for the court: a parent shouldn’t get to slash support just because their career slows down.
The case for Dave: locking a canceled actor into 1990s sitcom money under threat of prison is extortion.
Should child support be tied to what you earn today, or the best year you ever had?
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David Eby was the last remaining anti-oil Premier in Canada.
Now every Premier across Canada supports the oil and gas industry and supports building pipelines.
The Trudeau-Guilbeault climate agenda was finally put down on Saturday night.
Get the shovels in the ground.
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💥EXPLOSIVE ATIP: Immigration Canada knew Indian agents were running MASSIVE FRAUD in the trucking industry and the student visa program as early as 2017 — and stamped the evidence "DO NOT DISCLOSE."
According to records released under the Access to Information Act, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) maintained an internal procedures manual for its New Delhi visa office documenting systemic fraud across the student visa and temporary foreign worker streams. The manual instructs officers to treat fraud as anticipated rather than exceptional
The most damning thing about this scandal is not the fraud — it's that the government predicted it, kept it running, and then stamped the file "DO NOT DISCLOSE."
Canada didn't lose control of its immigration system—they monetized it.
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Mainstream media never reports on Mark Carney’s 103 potential conflicts of interest OR his ties to China.
But we will.
Legendary Sam Cooper is BACK to talk about US/Canada negotiations, CSIS reports, Mark Carney’s ties to China and so much more.
@scoopercooper
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++ Canada, It's a Trap! ++
Ursula #vonderLeyen wants to lure Canada into an associate EU membership.
Will Mark Carney do right and tell von der Leyen to bugger off? If he won't, then the Canadian people will have to fix it, and maybe a new freedom convoy would then be in order.
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They keep telling you Canada is at "war" with America. Investigative journalist Sam Cooper (author of Willful Blindness, founder of The Bureau) says that's exactly backwards — and he has the documents to prove it.
In this episode, Sam breaks down Mark Carney's 100+ undisclosed conflicts of interest, the TD Bank fentanyl money-laundering scandal, China's bond purchases quietly flowing through Canadian banks, the BC Ferries deal with a Chinese shipbuilder near sensitive coastal waters, and why CSIS says Beijing is actively targeting Canadian First Nations leaders.
If you've been told "elbows up" against America, this conversation will change how you see the real hybrid war being fought on Canadian soil.
@scoopercooper
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🔻 A NURSE FROM WALTER REED MILITARY HOSPITAL JUST LEAKED HER TESTIMONY. SHE WORKED IN THE MEDBED WING FOR 7 YEARS. SHE IS NOW IN HIDING.
She contacted us through an encrypted channel 48 hours ago. Her identity has been verified by three independent sources. She worked at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center from 2017 to 2024 — in a section that does not appear on any public floor plan.
She calls it "Sub-Level 3."
Her words. Unedited:
"I was recruited in 2017. They told me it was a 'regenerative medicine research wing.' I signed 14 non-disclosure agreements. I was told that if I ever spoke publicly, I would face 30 years in federal prison under the Espionage Act."
"The first day I walked into Sub-Level 3, I saw something that made me cry. A 23-year-old Marine — both legs amputated above the knee from an IED in Afghanistan — was lying in what they called 'The Chamber.' It looked like a glass coffin filled with blue light."
"I watched his legs grow back in 4 days."
"Not prosthetics. Not grafts. His actual biological legs. Bone, muscle, nerve, skin — everything. By day 4, he was standing. By day 7, he was running. I watched a man who had no legs RUN down a hallway."
"I asked my supervisor how this was possible. She said: 'The body already knows how to do this. We just remind it.'"
"In 7 years, I witnessed:"
▪️ 847 amputees — full limb regeneration (average time: 4-6 days)
▪️ 312 traumatic brain injury patients — complete cognitive restoration
▪️ 94 soldiers with total spinal cord severance — walking within 14 days
▪️ 1,200+ cancer cases — 100% remission rate. Not one failure. NOT ONE.
"The hardest part was going home. I would leave Sub-Level 3 where we were regrowing human limbs in 4 days — and drive past a VA hospital where veterans were being told their wheelchair was permanent."
"I would see children on the news dying of leukemia. And I KNEW. I knew we had the cure 40 feet underground. I knew their parents were being told 'there's nothing more we can do' while I watched Stage 4 patients walk out cancer-free every single week."
"I couldn't sleep. For 7 years, I couldn't sleep."
WHY SHE LEFT:
"In March 2024, they brought in a 4-star general's wife. Stage 4 ovarian cancer. She was in The Chamber for 35 minutes. Complete remission. She went home the same day."
"The next week, they brought in a Senator's daughter. Lupus. Gone in one session."
"That same month, I watched the news report that 600,000 Americans died of cancer in 2023."
"600,000 people died. And I was watching generals' wives get cured in 35 minutes."
"I quit the next day. I couldn't carry it anymore."
WHY SHE'S TALKING NOW:
"The executive order changed everything. If they're declassifying it, then my NDA is void. If the technology is going public, then my silence is no longer protecting national security — it's protecting murderers."
"I have 7 years of memories. I have dates. I have patient numbers. I have names of doctors, supervisors, and commanding officers. I have the layout of Sub-Level 3 drawn from memory."
"I am ready to testify. Under oath. Before Congress. Before the world."
"847 soldiers got their legs back. 600,000 civilians died. That's not national security. That's genocide."
HER FINAL MESSAGE:
"To every parent who lost a child to cancer: I'm sorry. We had the cure. I watched it work every single day. I'm sorry I didn't speak sooner."
"To every veteran in a wheelchair: Your legs can grow back. I've seen it 847 times. They told you it was impossible. They lied."
"To the people who kept me silent: I'm not afraid of prison anymore. I'm afraid of what happens if I stay quiet for one more day."
She watched 847 soldiers regrow their limbs. She watched 600,000 civilians die. She chose to speak. Now it's your turn to choose — share this or stay silent.
The nurse is talking. The evidence is coming. The dam is breaking.
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Why do govt employees pay taxes on their wages? What’s the point? Is it to make them feel like they’re contributing? It just seems like unnecessary paperwork. A 1/4 of the working population pretends to contribute taxes and it’s goofy af.
Stop fearmongering Canadians about AI taking jobs when Canada doesn’t even have a homegrown, consumer-level LLM. The real risk? Canadians could be shut out of the American AI tools reshaping the future of work, leaving us worrying about jobs we may not even have access to the technology to transform.
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The Canadian government's mass immigration policies of the last 10 years were highly regressive. Having seemingly learned nothing, they are dead set on turning back on the taps rather than letting the country heal.
On cue, the media has begun parroting the government's narrative and gaslighting anyone who disagrees. This suggests that they remain blissfully unaware that the Bank of Canada has written extensively about how (mass) immigration has negatively affected housing, rents, inflation, labour supply, wages, and productivity. So I've compiled an inexhaustive list to help these folks.
🏘️- Monetary Policy Report, October 2023
🔗bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/u…
▶️"The strength in rent and other housing costs is partly due to strong housing demand, which is supported by rapid population growth, and a structural lack of housing supply"
🏘️- Staff Analytical Note, December 2023
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▶️"The rise in immigration is nonetheless contributing to pressures in inflation components linked to house prices, given that it is adding more to housing demand than to housing supply in the context of structural imbalances in the Canadian housing market."
🏘️ - Speech by Toni Gravelle, December 2023
🔗bankofcanada.ca/2023/12/econ…
▶️"When a country’s population is growing quickly, the supply of housing also needs to increase to avoid a worsening in affordability. Shortly after immigration began ramping up in 2015, Canada’s vacancy rate—a measure of how many apartments and houses there are available to rent or buy—started to fall."
🏘️ - Monetary Policy Report, January 2024
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▶️"A larger increase in newcomers than in the past is adding pressure to the structural supply constraint in housing. This has helped to push the overall housing vacancy rate to record lows, which has underpinned house prices and led to higher rents (Chart 3-A)."
🏘️ - Staff Analytical Note, April 2024
🔗 bankofcanada.ca/2024/04/staf…
▶️"Meanwhile, the composition of immigrants coming to Canada has changed considerably since 2015. Historically, growth of the immigrant population in Canada came mostly from permanent residents....While the wages of the earlier immigrants are closer to those of Canadian-born workers and have been increasing over time, those of non-permanent residents are much lower and have fallen over this period. Because real hourly wages are typically correlated with labour productivity, this piece of evidence is consistent with non-permanent residents working in less productive occupations."
🏘️ - Monetary Policy Report, July 2024
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▶️"The increase in housing demand from newcomers is being felt across all types of housing, but the largest initial impact tends to be in rental markets. This is because most newcomers start out as renters."
👨🌾 - Staff Analytical Note, May 2025
🔗bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/u…
▶️"if newcomers’ conditional wages reflect their labour productivity, the productive capacity of the Canadian economy grew less than it would have if recent newcomers had the same socio-economic characteristics as in the past."
▶️"However, this gain has been particularly acute for certain industries such as accommodation and food services, business, building and other support services, and retail trade. Labour productivity in these industries—which are comprised of a sizable share of lower-skilled occupations—is lower than the average in the business sector."
👨🌾 - Staff Analytical Note, May 2025
🔗bankofcanada.ca/2025/06/staf…
▶️"Youth—individuals 15–24 years of age—represent a significant portion of the overall increase in unemployment since the start of 2023. This is a larger share than during other periods of rising unemployment (Chart 5). This is partly due to the high number of immigrants, who are generally younger than the rest of the population."
👨🌾 - Speech by Nicolas Vincent, May 2026
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▶️“The labour market is particularly challenging for young people”: The 2022–24 influx of young newcomers “intensified competition in Canada for lower-skill and entry-level jobs”. Youth unemployment has risen above 14%, and he expects it may normalize now that immigration has been cut.
🏘️ - Staff Article, September 2026
🔗bankofcanada.ca/2026/09/spar…
▶️"Strong population growth drove asking rents higher in recent years"
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Consider this Democracy Files 3.5.
Note in the video that they are pretty confident that a "breakthrough" will happen that gets rid of Trump sometime between now and January 3rd, and Mike Smith allegedly acknowledges RAD's role in writing the government that comes after.
Another drop coming later this morning.
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I’ve increasingly come to worry about the rise of “judicial nihilism” (for lack of a better term) in Canada.
We have a justice system that spends enormous energy considering the personal circumstances of offenders, their rights, identities, mental health, and prospects for rehabilitation. Yet it seems unconcerned with the victims whose lives have been destroyed, or the public that must live with the consequences when dangerous individuals repeatedly reoffend.
I think we need to take judicial reform more seriously, rather than dismissing concerns about overreach and malfeasance as conservative fearmongering.
The more I look at recent cases (many highlighted by @sarkonakj) the more concerned I become that our institutions are losing sight of some basic moral values in justice.
I’ve been thinking about the
principles that should guide us to a more liberal, rules-based approach to criminal justice (I’ll admit that this is hardly new thinking, but I can’t remember the last time I’ve seen them laid out):
1. Justice should begin with victims, whose suffering should never become secondary to the circumstances of offenders.
2. Protecting the public from dangerous individuals must be a central responsibility of sentencing, and we should lean towards caution.
3. Punishment must be a meaningful deterrent and reflect the gravity of crimes. Some crimes warrant permanent imprisonment (if not capital punishment). Some crimes are so heinous that the mere prospect of rehabilitation should not be considered.
4. Repeat offenders should face dramatically greater consequences, including long-term incarceration or asylum to protect society. Nobody with dozens of separate criminal convictions should be roaming freely.
5. Mental illness should determine treatment and facility type, not reduce punishment. The bar for criminal non-responsibility should also be much higher than it is today.
6. Sentencing must apply to those convicted equally, based on actions and responsibility, not race, religion, cultural identity, immigration status etc. The rule of law should be non-discriminatory, the right time to address the “root causes” of crime and pursue social justice is before crime is committed.
7. Parliament needs to figure out how to reclaim its authority, with courts exercising much greater restraint in constitutional interpretations.
8. Judicial “independence” must be balanced with meaningful accountability for serious failures and overreach. The judiciary is not supreme to legislature.
I worry that too many political leaders have become uncomfortable defending the very concepts of order, punishment and personal responsibility, as though doing so is somehow incompatible with liberal moral values.
They aren’t.
A liberal democracy has two fundamental obligations. To protect people from the arbitrary exercise of government power, and to protect them from the violence and predation of others.
We cannot fulfill one by neglecting the other. They are together the necessary preconditions for liberty.
When the public sees rulings that seem fundamentally disconnected from shared expectations of right and wrong, it erodes trust in the system.
Order and public safety are necessary conditions for freedom.
The freedom to walk down the street, take public transit, operate a business or simply live peacefully in your own home means little if the government cannot protect you from disorder, violence and criminality. It’s often those with the fewest resources who suffer most when that protection fails.
If we want Canadians to have faith in the rule of law, they need to believe that it applies equally, that serious wrongdoing carries serious consequences, that dangerous people will not repeatedly be allowed to victimize others, and that the system will not be careless with the lives and suffering of victims.
“Arnold and Joanne De Jong were in their seventies when three men they had once hired to clean their gutters came back to their Abbotsford home in the middle of the night in May 2022 and murdered them. Arnold was suffocated, his head wrapped in duct tape. Joanne was beaten, and her throat was cut. The killers left with the couple’s cheques, credit cards, and a power washer. The trial judge found they planned to murder the De Jongs because they knew they would be recognized in the course of their robbery.
On Monday, the De Jongs’ daughters came to court expecting to watch those men receive justice in sentencing. Instead, they heard the judge declare that the law denying multiple murderers any chance at early parole violates the Charter’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The cruelty, apparently, lies in making men who suffocated an old man with duct tape and bludgeoned his wife wait 25 years before asking to go free. Sentencing has been pushed to 2027.
Canadians settled this question a long time ago, and we settled it twice. A Liberal government in 1997 and a Conservative government in 2011, elected by different voters with different priorities, each concluded that people who kill more than once should be offered no early exit. That is what a free people does with its moral convictions: it argues about them, elects representatives who share them, and writes them into law. One judge has now informed Canadians that the answer they reached together, through two elected Parliaments, isn’t allowed.”
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I don’t think there is any issue I’ve become more conservative on more than the sickness in our judicial system, even as I’ve become more left than I used to on economics/role of government.
It feels like several times a week there is another story that represents a deep miscarriage of justice, ill consideration for victims, or neglects society’s need for and equally applied rule of law or real punishment as a deterrence to crime. I fear there is not enough recourse to judges who reinterpret the constitution to ideological ends better left to the actual legislature.
This story honestly makes me sick and it saddens me that there are no practical accountability options for the judiciary in a case like this.
@stevestaley
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You know why nobody is shitting on Latinos in Canada as immigrants they hate? Because the Latino community is here to work, assimilate and become productive members of this great land. It’s evident that they don’t wish to impose none of their shit onto their fellow Canadians. You can see this in the election because there’s not a single Hispanic running in the election. There’s one commie NDP candidate but she’s a Spaniard.
Pick your immigrants wisely @MarkJCarney and stop bringing people here who want to impose their bullshit from their shithole countries here.