Flap Them Elbows

Stephen Taylor;

On May 21, the CRTC issued Broadcasting Regulatory Policy 2026-96, ordering Netflix, Amazon, Disney+, Apple TV+, Spotify, and every other major streaming platform operating in Canada to hand over 15% of their Canadian revenues. The money will be distributed to Canadian content funds, news organizations, French-language production, and Indigenous media through a complex allocation framework that the CRTC alone will administer. […]

Within twenty-four hours, the Motion Picture Association — representing Netflix, Disney, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Universal, Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios, and Warner Bros. Discovery — issued its strongest condemnation of a Canadian regulatory decision in the organization’s history[…]

The U.S. Ambassador to Canada followed. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce followed. A Congressional bill threatening Section 301 retaliation was already in play. The CUSMA joint review deadline is July 1. And Canadian Identity and Culture Minister Marc Miller — whose government created the Online Streaming Act — responded by distancing himself from his own regulator, saying he was “reviewing” the decision and “carefully assessing its impacts.”

The CRTC picked this fight six weeks before the most consequential trade negotiation in a generation. It tripled a levy that is already being challenged in Federal Court. It did so to protect an industry that has never been more profitable. And the Canadian government is now pretending it had nothing to do with it.

Off the Cuff, Brilliant Thoughts from a Patriotic Brit

I see strong parallels in Canada with Britain. Wouldn’t it nice to have more people in Canada talk like this.

Personal note: I know two brothers in Vancouver, 61 & 54 years old respectively, both professionally employed. I’m certain that if I were to share this video with them that they would absolutely reject it, stating that this British fellow is a Far Right Bigot and not Middle-of-the-Road enough. Thus, they would continue to vote for parties & policies that perpetuate Canada’s endless decline … even thought, between the two of them they have 3 teenage sons! In other words, they will actually vote for policies that dramatically hurt the future of their own children!!! That’s how successful the brainwashing in Canuckistan has been!

Is Our Diversities Learing?

Related: … largest illicit drug seizure in Manitoba history

“In that April 21 column, I tried to imagine how Canadian media outlets would square this circle.”

Jonathan Kay;

A month ago, I offered some predictions about how Canadian journalists would cover the five-year anniversary of the country’s infamous “unmarked graves” social panic, which began on May 27, 2021. On one hand, this kind of important landmark would be difficult for news outlets to ignore. (After all, this was considered the Canadian “Story of the Year” at the time.) On the other hand, any intellectually honest retrospective that these outlets produced would require at least some passing explanation as to why the entire Canadian media establishment had fallen hook, line, and sinker for a story that turned out to be fake—something that most journalists have so far proven unwilling to do.

On Wednesday, it will have been exactly five years since the Kamloops First Nation in British Columbia claimed it has found 215 unmarked graves of Indigenous children on the grounds of the community’s former residential school. In the weeks that followed, gullible reporters transformed the narrative into a kind of horror-movie script, complete with mass murdering priests and midnight burials.

It all turned out to be complete nonsense. In five years, not a single actual grave has been found.

Saturday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America:    Victor Davis Hanson – The New York Times.

China Carney’s Canada:    A bubble wrapped world.    Misleading CBC article.    First Settlers funding.    Investing in communism.    Indian schools a holocaust.

Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC:    Small boat migrants.    White racism.    Spare me another Pride Month.    Paul Joseph Watson – We cannot tolerate this.    Muslim values.    Free Bibles not allowed.

And at the Bee.

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