Including a brief guide to vocal fry; a man who collects food wrappers, circa 1981; and the diamond knuckle dusters you’ve always wanted.
All this and more.
June 26, 2026: Reader Tips
From 1959, here’s the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Your best tips of late are welcome here!
I Amuse Myself
In Saskatchewan, we get the news from the garbage guys, and garbage from the news guys. https://t.co/Se2u1XQV0S
— Katewerk (@katewerk) June 25, 2026
Mischief Is Important
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
“Who does it serve?”
Jonathan Pageau is a national treasure.
Keir Starmer’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and while swapping out the desk fan for a permanent cooling system might seem like an appealing solution following this summer’s record-breaking heatwave…
… installing one without proper authorisation can carry serious repercussions. Breaching planning regulations – even unintentionally – can leave homeowners having to submit a retrospective application.
Should this be turned down, the council can issue an enforcement notice demanding the air conditioning unit be taken down. Defying this notice is illegal and, if disregarded, could lead to prosecution.
Fitting a permanent air con unit without planning permission can also have considerable implications should the homeowner decide to put the property on the market. To finalise the sale, sellers must be able to demonstrate they obtained the required approvals. Without this, homeowners will need to either lodge a retrospective application or remove the alteration entirely.
More: “Air-con engineers told The Telegraph that they had been called out to remove perfectly operational units worth thousands of pounds across London.”
15 Wing Moose Jaw
It appears we’ve been conquered.
Courtesy of reader GG: two gay pride flags outside quarters on base in Moose Jaw. Five poles are not in use. No time for Canada or Saskatchewan but they have these two.
Transgender Is A Stalking Horse For The Normalization Of Pedophilia
Newfoundland parents just got the memo: Once your kid turns 12, the government says you’re no longer automatically entitled to know what’s in their medical records.
A June 19 letter from NL Health Services quietly ended automatic parental access to children’s health information. From age 12 to 15, parents now need the child’s permission to see the records. At 16, the teenager takes full control.
Sarah James Furlong, a concerned parent, took to social media in a bid to raise awareness of the apparent government assault on parental rights. Furlong is calling on parents to contact the Minister of Health, Lela Evans, to reverse the decision.
“I respect children’s rights and understand the importance of privacy,” Furlong said in a Facebook post. “However, I believe parents have a fundamental responsibility to protect, support, and advocate for their children—and that responsibility doesn’t end when a child turns 12.”
The move fits a pattern. Newfoundland and Labrador already lets students in Grade 7 and up change their names and pronouns at school without parental consent. Now the same province is extending that logic into medical records.
You bet it fits a pattern.
Thursday On Turtle Island
Carnival Carney’s Canada: The Canadian dollar. Crazed leftist. Islamic Caliphate of Regina.
The Democratic Party’s America: Victor Davis Hanson – The broader context. A jihad caucus.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Britain is turning into Somalia. Roger Watson – SS Great Britain. Solar panels overheat. Paul Joseph Watson – It keeps happening. Muslim sex.
Your morning meme. And at the Bee.
June 25, 2026: Reader Tips
In 1986, the FBI had a major shootout with a pair of bank robbers. Here’s the first of four podcast episodes about it. The remaining 3 can be found here.
Your best news tips of late are much appreciated!
Honey, I Finished The Internet
62M views, so it’s got to be good.
Earthquake In Venezuela
And it looks to be rough. (magnitude 7.1 and 7.5)
Updated to share a couple of videos. There are of course, scores of these across social media.
Fishermen in the sea off the coast of La Guaira record the moments after the earthquake with dust covering large parts of the coast as a result of building collapses#Venezuela pic.twitter.com/D8KNwLkLDf
— CNW (@ConflictsW) June 25, 2026
A Venezuelan records himself running [down[ the stairs of his building while the two earthquakes that struck Venezuela were occurring; you can see how the stairs are cracked.
Good Lord, have they not been through enough? USGS fears up to 100K deaths
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
Smartest guys in the Metaverse: “The leaderboard showed the top 250 token users…”
Farkas Around And Find Out
How it started: Calgary city councillors have voted not to change the rules capping late-night sound levels during the Calgary Stampede, despite encouragement from the provincial government.
WE DID IT! This morning, Council voted for reasonable rules for off-site Stampede tents.
Stampede succeeds because Calgarians welcome millions of people into our city. That goodwill matters. It belongs to all of us. We want visitors, artists, workers, and businesses to have a… pic.twitter.com/q8fM9uCg2M
— Jeromy (Pathfinder) Farkas (@JeromyYYC) June 23, 2026
Officials with Country Thunder Alberta announced the cancellation of the 2026 music festival on Wednesday, which was set to be held this weekend.
In a news release, officials cited “city-created safety and operational barriers” as the reason behind the decision.
“After exhaustive efforts to find a workable path forward, the organization has determined that conditions created by the City of Calgary, including active construction surrounding the festival site and new restrictive sound limitations, make it impossible to stage the event for 2026,” they said.
Go Woke, Go Broke
As the Edmonton Elks prepare for their home opener Saturday…
…team president Chris Morris says the fallout from the club’s 2021 name change remains one of the biggest obstacles in rebuilding support among fans.
Morris, who spent 14 seasons on Edmonton’s offensive line and won three Grey Cups with the club, said the franchise continues to deal with fallout from its 2021 name change.
“It was a disaster in so many ways,” Morris said of the transition from the Eskimos to the Elks.
The club changed its name after years of criticism from Inuit leaders and organizations who said the former name was offensive and outdated. The move came amid broader pressure on sports teams to abandon names viewed as racist or stereotypical. […]
“The people who had been local fans and the people who had grown to care and love and have a lot of respect for that tradition were obviously very offended,” he said.
Morris said the name change, along with the COVID-19 pandemic and the team’s struggles on the field, contributed to season-ticket sales falling from more than 20,000 to about 7,000.
I was driving to Edmonton a couple of years ago, and picked up an Alberta sports radio station broadcast recapping the career of Gizmo Williams — describing him throughout as playing for the “Elks”.
Only 43lbs Of Fentanyl
The container arrived carrying twenty industrial rolls of paper, and concealed inside ten of them was 520.6 kilograms of opium — the raw material of the Big Circle Boys’ heroin trade that drove Vancouver’s overdose deaths for decades, before fentanyl exploded in the Downtown Eastside around 2012.
Canada Border Services Agency officers made the find at the Tsawwassen Container Examination Facility, five kilometers from the Deltaport terminal, after intelligence from the agency’s National Targeting Centre and U.S. Customs and Border Protection flagged the shipment in January.
The disclosure came late, as it had before: officers intercepted the container in January but the agency announced it only this week — the same months-long lag that preceded its October disclosure of a May 2025 seizure of 4,300 liters of Chinese precursor chemicals bound for Calgary. The number carries political weight on its own. A single container held more opium than the 329 kilograms of opioids border officers seized across all of British Columbia in 2025.
Related: Just don’t be found in possession of a bouncy castle and you’re free to go.
Is Anti-Asian Violence Rampant in Vancouver?
Earlier this month, I was back “home” in Vancouver and spotted this pair of posters at Granville Island:
Here’s the web page referenced on the left. The link on the right leads to a 404 Error.
One can only wonder why the “Stop Asian Hate” link no longer works. Might it have something to do with the fact that when unprovoked attacks on people of Asian descent were investigated in America, it turns out they’re almost always carried out by young black males?!? Asking for a friend.
“Vigilamus pro te”
A CAF juxtapose of sorts.
Brian Lilley: This wasn’t respectful to the troops, don’t think it followed protocol. Problem is, Carney doesn’t know this.
I’ve been on parade and been reviewed by high level dignitaries.
This wasn’t respectful to the troops, don’t think it followed protocol.
Problem is, Carney doesn’t know this.
There are people in Ottawa who know this. Why isn’t he listening to them? pic.twitter.com/8CaIHAL3v3— Brian Lilley (@brianlilley) June 24, 2026
The officer commanding one of the Canadian Army’s leading regular force battalions and the unit’s top non-commissioned officer have been removed from their position. Lt.-Col. Jason Hudson and Chief Warrant Officer Kim Doerr, of the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, based in Edmonton, were apparently forced to step aside over the weekend, several military sources said Tuesday.
The Department of National Defence, in a written statement, confirmed to CBC News that action had taken place, but refused to explain why.
Reddit reveals: “Beers on a bus”
Today In The Vote Rich Rapey-Beheader Community
If you like your call to prayer, you can keep your call to prayer.
💥 Minister Lena Diab meets with provincial counterparts to further undermine Canada’s democracy by pushing mass immigration into rural Canada — after destroying our cities.
“We are in a nation-building era, and immigration will be central to that work.”
They’re not even… pic.twitter.com/lWJCioYyMn
— Wiretap Media (@WiretapMediaCa) June 24, 2026
Related: Is this her best ratio or what!
” 7 Democrat incumbents lost tonight in New York… “
The camel is in the tent.
They were expected to have a great night, and they did. The candidates endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani all won. The socialists swept the race. While the national Democrats are Trump-deranged and focused on stopping the MAGA agenda, they have a serial killer hiding within their walls—and it’s wearing a Che Guevara shirt, with a copy of Das Kapital in its back pocket. And while this political killer is no fan of Trump, they want to take out the establishment Democrats first. This party got a reality check tonight: they might have to spend heavily to keep these people out, because the candidates that are winning these primaries are whack job city.
Related.
New – Cash on hand – May 31
🔴 RNC: $125 Million
🔵 DNC: -$3 million— Political Polls (@PpollingNumbers) June 21, 2026