The Stupid Party

Do tell.

I was going to write that there is something wrong with the way Conservatives choose their candidates these days. There is. We shouldn’t expect people to be political science grads, but when you’re schmoozing at a party chat-fest, and you find yourself explaining why free speech matters…

But, it’s worse than that. Having checked old Facebook and Instagram posts, the party seems to think the job is done.

It isn’t. Nobody in the party’s Albert Street office seems to have thought it necessary to put a box on the form indicating the candidate’s conservative credentials had been examined and found satisfactory. No wonder these duds reveal themselves as traitors when their selfish ambitions aren’t realized.

Faint Hope

So Canadians rewarded Carney with a majority government so that he can try to backfill a hole previously created by his own party?  Note that this is merely a discussion forum as opposed to the implementation of any actual business plans. The mind boggles.

A recent report from RBC says that last year was Canada’s first to attract more than $100 billion in foreign direct investment since 2015.

More than $1 trillion in foreign investment exited the Canadian economy between 2015 and 2024, what the report calls the “largest capital exodus in Canadian history.”

LNG, NDP electrical plan and Spaceballs

Brian Zinchuk: LNG, the NDP’s electrical plan and Spaceballs

End of series on NDP’s electrical plan:

Digging deep on the NDP’s “Grid & Growth” plan for Saskatchewan’ electrical grid, Part 3: Wind, Solar, Storage, Transmission & Interties

Digging deep on the NDP’s “Grid & Growth” plan for Saskatchewan’ electrical grid, Part 4: Governance, Labour, Carbon Taxes & Rates

SaskPower minister responds to NDP Grid and Growth Plan

Also:

SaskPower and Bruce Power sign memorandum of understanding to inform Saskatchewan large reactor technology assessment

Frontier Centre for Public Policy: Lee Harding: Canada is losing billions by holding back its oil and gas industry

Friday On Turtle Island

Carnival Carney’s Canada:    Freeland lectures America.    Education in Ford’s Ontario.    Cameras.    Pork.

The Democratic Party’s America:    Victor Davis Hanson – Iran crumbles.    The New York Times.    Bruce Springsteen.

Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC:    Paul Joseph Watson – Tired of them and big trouble.    Britain -1984.    Islam in Malmo.    Move on from Covid.

Your morning meme.        A cartoon.

Did Viktor Orbán Just Play the EU?

Interesting theory:

In a display of political chess so brilliant it borders on the comical, Viktor Orbán sniffed out long ago that the European Union, George Soros, Obama, and the whole globalist club were gunning for him. With no worthwhile left-wing opposition left in Hungary (none of them cracked the laughable 5% electoral threshold), the Hungarian prime minister decided to solve the problem his own way: he took his top ally and right-hand man, Péter Magyar, and sent him out front as a deluxe “opponent.”

The plan was as simple as it was genius: Magyar, who until 2024 was a key piece of the Orbán government, dramatically jumped ship, played the dissident, eagerly accepted funds from the very Eurocrats who despise Orbán, and positioned himself as the great hope for “change.” The European left and their patrons fell into the trap like flies into honey. “At last!” they shouted in Brussels, as they cracked open the checkbook. No one understood a thing, of course, because hardly anyone speaks Hungarian and the headlines in Western media were too flattering to question.

Related: Newly elected Hungarian PM Péter Magyar visits the state broadcaster and shares some truth bombs.

Thursday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America:    Savanah Hernandez.    Moderate Muslims in NYC.    The next Obama.

China Carney’s Canada:    A Yukon garage.    Panel shames college.    Elbows Up Canadians want to join the EU.

Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s Media Lapdogs:    Go for Jihad.    Gay migrant scam.    Get a dinghy    Naming storms.    Celebrating genocide.

Your morning meme.        Another meme.        A cartoon.

Going Bust

For over a decade, Canadian real estate markets and their lenders have acted like the housing price ratchet could only go one way: up. Now they’re finding out that the price ratchet can go the other way too.

The result was a sudden stampede of buyers who triggered an unprecedented run-up that put the average sale price of a traditional, ranch-style, Brantford bungalow close to $900,000 at the market peak in 2022 compared to a mere $300,000 or so in 2016.

Flash forward, and the average home in Brantford in February sold for $625,135, according to the Canadian Real Estate Association, a 30 per cent drop from 2022 that has saddled homeowners there with an unexpected housing crisis that Canadians…are all too familiar with today.

 

No Country for Young Men

Alexander Brown has written a critically important editorial about Canada’s devolution:

The solution, of course, should be an obvious one: get our house in order; rebuild an immigration standard; send home those on expired and expiring ‘temporary’ status in areas we do not need; borrow from your betters when it comes to layered, nuanced healthcare delivery; reinforce laws, and civilisation itself.

Instead, Pichette went further, doubling down on decline, and arguing for triple the amount of mass immigration, as if millions of potential fast-food workers entering through the TFWP, IMP, or foreign-student stream can replace our problems of top-tier brain drain, and an anemic economy that runs on far too many zombified, unproductive businesses allowed to limp along through subsidisation.

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