Down The Primrose Path

New Governor The Libranos Ukraine 26 Comments

Paved with Canadian debt.

The Ethics Commissioner will undoubtedly be asked to rule on the free lift tickets.

Things You’ll Never See On The CBC

CBC Religion Of Submission Sleeping With The Enemy 11 Comments

The Bureau;

In the escalating controversy over CBC News guidance directing journalists not to describe the al-Qaeda attacks of September 11, 2001, as terrorism, FBI personnel assigned to American diplomatic posts in Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver were instructed to leave their workplaces and go home, according to a U.S. law-enforcement source with knowledge of interagency communications surrounding the incident.

When The Bureau presented the account to the FBI and asked detailed questions about its scope and operational consequences, the agency neither confirmed nor denied it.

“We will let the Director’s post speak for itself and have nothing additional to provide,” the FBI National Press Office responded.

[…]

On August 27, FBI Director Kash Patel issued an explicit public threat to Canadian agencies that did not repudiate CBC’s guidance:

“Any agency in Canada that doesn’t publicly reject this bastardization of history, and an insult to the souls lost during our largest terrorist attack in US history will no longer have friend in this FBI.”

The following day, Hoekstra reposted Patel’s warning and referenced the FBI’s direct intervention against significant terrorist and violent criminal organizations operating within Canada.

“Just this year, FBI has been instrumental in or directly responsible for multiple disruptions of significant terrorist and violent criminal organizations operating within Canada,” Hoekstra’s post said. “Failure to recognize and confront radical and terrorist ideologies significantly endangers our efforts to establish and harmonize a shared national and economic security partnership.”

Taken together, the two posts show that serious concerns were circulating at senior levels of U.S. law enforcement and diplomacy. The FBI maintains its Canadian legal-attaché headquarters at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, with suboffices at the American consulates in Toronto and Vancouver.

More: …adding to the crossborder tension is the Republican party’s decision to block the CBC from its convention

Dispatches from the Maple Gulag Truck Stop

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Every U.S. administration since Clinton has levied tariffs on Canadian goods, and every Canadian prime minister has fought to have them removed, with varying degrees of success.

When the last deal was announced, Donald Trump said Keystone XL Pipeline would be built as a result. THe Keystone XL announcement was a surprise as Mark Carney is vehemently oppsed to oil and gas development, he even wrote a book about it.

Ultimately, Carney pulled out of the deal citing tariffs on F450 trucks. FYI, Ford has manufactured ZERO Ford F450 or larger trucks in Canada in the last 5 years, but they were retooling to do so.

The killing of the Keystone XL Pipeline and the rejection of requests to sell LNG have cost the Canadians close to $1,000,000,000,000 in just a few years, we can’t possible sell enough F450 trucks to make up for what we have already lost.

At this point, every Canadian needs to be ask: what is Mark Carney’s agenda?

Ronald Reagan (1981–1989)

George H.W. Bush (1989–1993)

Bill Clinton (1993–2001)

  • Signed NAFTA into law (taking effect in 1994), drastically reducing trade barriers.

  • Imposed tariffs and countervailing duties on Canadian softwood lumber during ongoing trade disputes.

George W. Bush (2001–2009)

  • Imposed countervailing and anti-dumping duties reaching up to 27% on Canadian softwood lumber.

  • Negotiated the 2006 Softwood Lumber Agreement to temporarily suspend lumber tariffs.

Barack Obama (2009–2017)

Donald Trump (2017–2021 & 2025–present)

  • First Term: Renegotiated NAFTA into the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), approved the Keystone XL presidential permit, and placed Section 232 tariffs on Canadian steel (25%) and aluminum (10%) in 2018 (later lifted).

     

  • Second Term: Invoked national emergency acts and trade law provisions to impose broad tariffs on Canadian imports, including select automotive, alcohol, and dairy products. Rescinded the Keystone XL cancellation order and granted new cross-border pipeline permits.

Joe Biden (2021–2025)

I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords (Bumped)

AI It's Probably Nothing 23 Comments

Bumped for additional context…

This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion. Let me show you how it works:

1.) This guy, with minimal followers and no previous account activity, goes to the Wall Street Journal which publishes an exclusive with quotes from him on his resignation 18 minutes BEFORE this post goes up. Planning was clearly done in advance.

2.) Within hours, it has tens of thousands of reposts and the account has 100k+ followers. The post is punchy, quotable, it almost seems professionally written. The first three accounts to quote tweet it all do so within 15 minutes of the initial posting. Remember, this account had basically zero engagement beforehand, so an organic reach explanation seems unlikely.

According to Grok those accounts are @_NathanCalvin (General Counsel at Encode AI), @peterwildeford (Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network), and @DKokotajlo (Head of the AI Futures Project), all of which are up-and-coming AI-Doomer policy advocacy nonprofits.

And posted by a guy who had worked for Anthropic a mere two months. Dave Rubin summarizes.

Economic Illiteracy

Canada’s Bolsheviks Insufferable Twits nannystate 21 Comments

Deliberately choosing to pay more than you need to for inputs doesn’t make your province richer; the reality is quite the opposite. My guess is that the “buy local” gambit is going to be used not only as an excuse to shut out American suppliers but suppliers in other provinces as well. In any case, there’s no way a few sales to the Quebec government can replace the losses from being unable to sell into a market ten times the size of Canada’s.

The Quebec government has announced a series of measures to promote buying locally in response to the escalating trade war between Canada and the United States.

Premier Christine Fréchette says the measures will inject about $1.5 billion into the Quebec economy in the next four months.

 

 

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