Regardless of the outcome at the appeals court, this needs to go to the SCC. It was their idiotic half assed decision to say it’s a constitutional requirement to consult with FN’s but then didn’t bother to define what ‘consult’ means or when that consultation must take place. You can’t reasonably demand Gov has a legal requirement to do something but not clearly tell them what or when!

What a shocking decision said no one paying attention! 😎

PS Feel free to stop at a Mountain Equipment Co-Op in Alberta on route to your new digs in Manitoba to grab some really warm cloths, some mukluks & a big assed Parka 😎

Ukraine & Zelensky got caught red handed. In fact I’ve been very reliable told it was Ukraines capture of illegally obtained Starlink terminals being used by Russia that provided them with the idea & ability to hack Starlink terminals to exceed speed restrictions, bypass data usage limits (the faster a terminal goes the more data it uses) & mask the location of the terminals, all of which would have alerted Starlink engineers to the misuse but & here’s the kicker, when Ukraine demanded that Starlink engineers come up with a way to defeat the Russian hack of their illegally obtained Starlink terminals (something Starlink’s engineers did this summer), those very same engineers began using what they learned to double check their entire network of users & by mid-September, they were warning Musk that the Ukrainians were doing the same thing (but better & with their legally obtained Starlink terminals) that the Russians had been doing. I’m told Musk went to Trump who got Kushner & Witkoff involved. They let Zelensky know, that what his military was doing was wrong & wouldn’t be tolerated. In fact, the day before Musk ordered his engineers to overcome the Ukrainian hack & restore speed limits, proper data usage & GPS location reporting, Witkoff made a final plea with the Ukrainian negotiators who were meeting with their US counterparts in Florida. When the AFU launched a mass drone attack against Russian positions the next day, Starlink engineers were ordered by Musk to restore the original operating parameters. Zelensky decided to lie (by omission) & use the failed attack against Russian positions, alongside his inability to defend his country against Russian retaliation attacks on Trump & Musk. Zelensky purposefully conflated the use of Starlink & his access to defensive intelligence his military receives via the US gov operated Starshield system. 3 days later as the facts were still putting their pants on, he spoke to EU leaders & demanded €78 billion euros to fight on, coincidence, I think not. The EU was not receiving his request for more funding well but in the wake of his public campaign to make it appear that the US wasn’t just abandoning him & his people, they were now actively preventing him from defending his country, his request could hardly be denied by the anti-Trump EU. As per usual, Ukraine is easily winning the propaganda war while Zelensky’s strategic & operational choices continue to ensure that Ukraine can never win the ground war & his people will continue to suffer.

The only bigger hypocrites than journalists & political pundits are politicians themselves. They are head & shoulders collectively the biggest losers that walk amongst us.

I guess the question we need to ask now is; is @LDoerkson Christy Clark, Kim Campbell, Brian Mulroney, Stephen Harper, Scott Moe, Doug Ford, Danielle Smith or Ralph Klein conservative? It’s great to see any Conservative leader running BC, but the type of conservative matters too!

I have to admit, I didn’t believe this could really happen. In my mind, 9 years of destructive policies just wasn’t enough to derail a lefty gov. I mean seriously 11 years of destructive federal Liberal economic policies has left Carney more popular than ever. Ford called an early election with a majority & got another majority & when has blaming Trump ever failed to work? I was convinced that in the end, despite the overall dissatisfaction with Eby’s gov, between the Conservatives leadership circle jerk this summer & the anti Trump sentiment, Eby could marshal his base in the GVA & Vancouver Island to still obtain a slim majority or a large minority with enough Green Party support to keep the socialist train chugging along. I’m thrilled that political acumen failed me badly & hope it does again in Toronto tomorrow where I believe Chow will win reelection.

I’m not sure what the point of this was, but the grenade handling & laissez-faire attitude towards safety was amazing to see.

When it comes to Israel & most other things, you can always count on the @CBCNews to put the approved narrative first & the facts near the bottom & certainly not in the headline! 8 IDF soldiers simply manning a checkpoint were ambushed. 2 were murdered & 3 others wounded by 2 terrorist gunmen before being the terrorists we’re eliminated. The ongoing operation in Hebron is a RESPONSE to that attack. The pre-Oct 7th era of a proportional response is over. This is the era of you kill Israelis (soldiers or civilians) & the consequences are severe, choose wisely!

I’ve worn the same poppy for several years with a black pin in the centre but every year spend $20-30 dollars donating to the poppy fund without taking a new poppy. This year will be super easy as most poppy selling volunteers will have a tap function so you don’t have to worry about carrying cash or change.

It appears that the majority of BC voters have had enough of the incompetent socialists that have run their beautiful province into the ground. Let’s hope Toronto’s voters show the same good sense on Monday!

Another authoritarian who PM @MarkJCarney has wrapped his arms around.

Might well be time to preempt the across the region attacks being planned by Iran just prior to the midterm election.

Medics are a special breed of soldier, those who can cut in an infantry rifle company are a very special breed. Cpl. Keane sounds like a hell of a good soldier & medic! Godspeed & may he recover fully.

Marty has a lot of smart takes on a variety of topics. I don’t think this is one of them. I know nothing about the how civil servant contracts work, how they qualify for pension or what their politics are after they leave gov but as a veteran, I know my oath came with the forfeiture of my Charter Right of Freedom of Expression while I served, I know that I paid all the same withholding taxes as my civilian friends & paid a % of my military pension, which at the age of 65, gets clawed back by an amount nearly equal to the CPP I also paid into. My medical pensions were earned the hard way…broken this & broken that. I’m not sure why Marty would find it unusual that when many of us can safely criticize the gov, we chose to do so? In fact, I’ve often said veterans are the only voice still serving soldiers have & its our duty (& privilege) to criticize the gov, especially as it relates to their treatment of our military & our veterans. We were indeed conditioned (read legally required) to follow legal orders that emanated from the gov but don’t confuse that with agreement with every order. At some point in every soldiers career you get to that line in the sand moment, it’s different for everyone & many factors come into play. I would hope you’d rethink your extra criticism of soldiers & federal police officers. They take on duties & roles that most CDN’s won’t, they sacrifice much & when free of their inability to criticize the gov should be thanked for their willingness to speak up, not criticized.

I think we need a new word because hypocrite just doesn’t seem to cover it anymore 😎

One of the @liberal_party gov’s chief propagandists at the @CBCNews gets corrected & owned by Premier @ABDanielleSmith What a hack!

It doesn’t get any more bland or milktoast than this drivel. Both of these members of the CAF were in uniform when they were specifically targeted & murdered by terrorists who were radicalized & motivated by ISIS’s Islamist ideology. I guess being sensitive to the @liberal_party gov’s ever growing base is more important than properly honouring soldiers who sacrificed their lives on CDN soil. #Pitiful

Israel is still at war with Hamas, PIJ, Fatah, Hezbollah, the Houthi & Iran. They very much need a wartime leader. PM @netanyahu has proven time & time again he is the right man for the times the country finds itself in.