90 Replies to ““you didn’t pay attention to what’s happening to men. “”

  1. I lived next door to a senior reporter and editor with our local daily, not all that many years ago. He didn’t get his driver’s license until he was in his 40’s, and already had two kids.

    1. Sweetwater was excellent! And if I wasn’t so old I would have read it in one day..

    2. In parliament at this very minute the Conservatives are in a Fight of No- Confidence against the Liberal party!!!! But they are faced with the lack of integrity NDP, The the world is burning Greens, and the Bloc that say they want to separate (and god willing should)!!!
      This S—-Show is now Canada!
      Free The West!

      1. hello West:
        PLEASE LEAVE and when you do l will bring my 6 figures ‘nest egg’ with me and put it into your financial system and CLEAR THE HELL AWAY from a stoooopid nation keeps picking the likes of the TURDeau as their favorite string puppet.

  2. I think that the problem is that the government has long believed it is the noble institution off fight fight the dragons be it environment or social justice or whatever but in so doing it lost sight of what is good for the people. The people are not about to be bribed with a few baubles such as health care they can’t access or pharmacare that is pushing drugs many people no longer trust or dental care that will soon degenerate into another inaccessible money pit as the people’s teeth rot and fall out. In the mean time no one can afford food or housing or putting their kids in hockey or any other activities as jobs are lost and inflation runs rampant. When the government decides that it’s roll is for the good of the people and that good lies in the people’s freedom…….

      1. Hi deplorable, as a retired federal civil servant let me tell you that civil servants pay for the dental plan (in Ontario they pay provincial tax on the premiums thanks to Commie Bob Rae) and the dental plan isn’t all that great. My dentist’s office manager has told me that there are much better dental plans. But hey, federal civil servants can now get $75,000 for trans-gender care!!!

        2. Al – spouse retired from private corporation and we also have to pay for our medical/dental coverage. Didn’t choose the gold-plated version but were able to opt in to a decent plan.
          Let’s put it this way: the premiums we pay more than cover that 3% deductible on what was once Schedule 1, so we just have to round up receipts from other health care providers to have a claim. A hint to all: most health care providers will, upon request, produce a printout showing what you actually paid for services. If you then submitted a claim to the insurer, then you have to look at that information as well. The pharmacies are particularly great, as they replace a million little pieces of paper with a page or two sorting it all out.

        3. When you get work done, tell your dentist to use female caps and implants and such, because you’re trans-sexing, but you’re starting in your mouth instead of . . . other places . . . and so they should bill all the repair work as “gender support services” and then gov will pick up the tab.

  3. Matt Gurney doesn’t realize that he is irrelevant. He thinks he is irreverent/satirical.

    Nobody will read his complete column. You can tell he is paid by the word.

    1. I read the whole thing; I check in at The Line most days. What Matt & Jen have to say is sometimes right on point; others they’re wildly off track. Matt has correctly been calling out the failing ability of the federal government to do anything right for some time, what he terms “state capacity”. But, as you say, he was just about frothing from the mouth about the Convoy, almost irate at the Ottawa PD for not stomping it out faster & harder.

      Jen as a westerner sometimes gets her “to hell with those stupid feds trying to tell us what to do” on, and at others she falls back into go-along, get-along mush. She had a good article recently about the Online Harms Act, and one about just how far gone Justin is, but then she says in that same Justin article that this is the first time she’s felt “visceral concern” about our potato head PM. Not too swift on the uptake there.

      To each their own.

      1. Agreed, IM. Gurney and Gerson are virtually two of the only escapees from the legacy media. they are still highly worth reading. What I think neither of them fully appreciates yet is that the forthcoming election will be the Carbon Tax Election.

        1. … cgh

          I fully agree with you about the next election will be the Carbon Tax Election as this is a “safe” topic to skewer the Trudeau Liberals and subtly challenge the Global Warming premise.

          There are so many other issues … immigration , out of control spending , WOKE , but Poilievre must first get elected without stepping on a landmine.

          1. Right you are Brian, don’t count your chickens before they hatch. PP has to win and win big. The election is more than a year away, and in politics a year is a lifetime. My fear is that he’s peaking too soon.

            And let’s not forget how utterly immoral and underhanded JT is. He and his supporters will pull out all the stops, do whatever it takes to win, including massive fraud (it worked so well in the US).

            I’m getting used to being disappointed, to having my hopes dashed. O’Toole campaigned for the leadership as a conservative, he would have won a majority but as leader, he led the party as Liberal-lite which guaranteed a loss.

            I’m encouraged by PP’s current poling, but nervous. The loony left has taken control of western civilization. they won’t sit back and let him waltz to victory.

          2. You and Dirtman are right. To win an election you need to focus narrowly on one clear program that the public hates about the current government. PP is right about this; the Libs and Dips are currently being reviled by the public over the carbon tax has to how it’s making everything more expensive.

            Better still, the government cannot point to any effect that the carbon tax will have to make the environment better.

            Dirtman, I agree with you in part about “peaking too soon.” But remember, the carbon tax takes a big lurch upward in April. That will bring in more news about homelessness, affordability of everything. Gurney is also right that by linking to the Libs Jughead has cooked the goose of the Dips as well. Because this economic misery will only get worse over the next year, it would take the Second Coming of Christ to save Justatwit and Bagoshit in the next election.

          3. correctamundo dirtman. there is hardly a single blessed thing guaranteed in politics than uncertainty. how many ‘landslides’ have we had? remember the ‘Dewey wins’ headline?
            the more PP brownie point acquires the bigger target he is to the ‘powah at any cost’ lieberals. not surprised in the slightest the LIEberals ‘find’ some childhood companion saw him swing a cat by the tail etc etc.

            timed just before the polling stations open.

          4. … cgh and DirtMan

            The Liberal supporters are not hurting enough yet , but they will … along with the rest of us.

            Trudeau cannot back down on the Carbon Tax increase , because if he does it will open the door to challenging his entire environmental policy. I am certain the Liberals must realise the dead-end they have backed into .. certainly Poilievre seems to understand. Poilievre knows the non-confidence vote will fail but once the 1 April Carbon Tax comes in to affect , he will be able to claim every cost increase in Canada (true or not) can be blamed on Trudeau’s Carbon Tax.

            People operate in the short term with personal costs being very visible. Now that the Carbon Tax costs are being debated , voters may (should) associate them with the Carbon Tax as long as Poilievre keeps it front and center.

            The Carbon Tax is here until Trudeau is gone which puts the Liberals in a real bind.

      2. You have missed the change in Canadian politics.

        Eastern interests are “wannabees”. Since Turdeau got spanked repeatedly on the international stage, the wannabees don’t know where to stick their noses.

  4. It’s ironic how oblivious almost all journalists really are.
    The ‘keen observers of society and culture’ are pretty much blind and locked into their narrow worldview.
    Part of it is because they are government subsidized which allows the shit to rise to the top instead of sinking into well deserved oblivion.

    1. The Ottawa bubble. I lived the experience. The people inside the bubble, and that especially includes the “journalists” in the parliamentary press gallery, have no clue what is actually happening outside the bubble. They are completely out of touch with what Canadians are truly up against, and no, it isn’t “climate change!”

  5. Matt Gurney lost me during the Freedom Convoy. Leaned the wrong way on that particular fence.

  8. To almost all “Journalists” the far right refers to any that are not communists. He almost lost me at that point but I read on. I could only take the gibberish for a couple more paragraphs.
    The CPC is pushing that it will cut all funding to MSM. That is a lie. Until PP states that he will cut ALL funding to CBC he and the CPC will not get my vote. I will continue to vote None Of The Above.

    Go WEXIT

    1. “The CPC is pushing that it will cut all funding to MSM. That is a lie. Until PP states that he will cut ALL funding to CBC he and the CPC will not get my vote. I will continue to vote None Of The Above.”

      Until he renounces his support for the odious ‘supply management’ that Quebec imposes on Canadian diary and poultry products and apologizes for voting to accuse all Canadians of “genocide”, he won’t get mine either.

      I read the entire Gurney column. Poilievre may get a lot of stuff right (like the CAGW scam and the ‘transexual’ exploitation of children) but he needs to be more clear on what exactly he would do about immigration, DEI discrimination and the residential school industry. Based largely on what he *hasn’t* said, I just don’t trust him.

      1. Fred,
        And to you as well, don’t drag in more issues that may give the libtards more amo.

      2. Well, little do you know about politics. Perhaps you do know that, people know to shut up, when their opponents are making huge mistakes. The current government is increasingly focused on issues that are not top-of-mind to voters. Governments at the federal level can never fix the housing mess nor the grocery mess. Even provincial governments can’t either, and lefty municipal/regional produce ridiculous schemes, requiring more hired bureaucrats.

        Why would the CPC comment much now on election platform solutions for a 2025 election? The pathetic Liberals are enabled by a flashy, opportunistic NDP leader, with no deep interest in serving Canadians, who is waiting for his cushy pension, while enabling Liberal spending on unaffordable tax-payer- funded programs for the newly-arrived? It would be crazy. And then, we have the Bloq, who vote in favour of all lefty crazy Liberal motions.

        I welcome an election to see Trudeau go down in flames.

    2. willnot
      Why would PP do that? That just brings in another issue that the libtards will try to use against the CPC.

  9. ” … you didn’t pay attention to what’s happening with men …”

    With the likes of Scheer and O’toole at the helm, Gurney in the press, and Joostaihn in office, they must have been concentrating on what was happening to SOME men, and figured it was a coast-to-coast, all-encompassing trend.

  10. I put none of this on Poilievre. We have the worse G*d damned Prime Minister in the history of the nation and he’s a garbage human being to boot.
    ‘biggest majority’? I ain’t counting the chickens yet.

    1. Nor should you (count the chickens). Don’t be led into a sense of complacency. June 2025 is a long ways off, and a lot can happen between now and then… like for example, the Turd can invoke the EA again, and cancel the next, and all future elections. Not saying that will happen, just saying don’t be surprised if it does. (to anyone who quickly dismisses that scenario saying that can never happen, well… just look at what the turd has done up to now.)
      I threw my hands into the air Thursday February 17, 2022 when the truckers doubled-down and resolutely said that they would stay on, because I knew what was coming, when I saw the fences going up around the hill. And sure enough, the very next day…
      Don’t underestimate the enemy’s resolve to do whatever it takes to maintain power and control.

      1. well fc youre right about that. a quick look in history how popular leaders ‘change’ and wind up invoking dictatorial measures.
        uno example. daniel ortega, nicaraugua. oh the cheering, such a relief when somoaza went to his florida refuge for \vacation\
        now look.
        as far at theTURDeu it would NOT surp[rise me in the slightest if he found a way to postpone, postpone, er, cancel the much touted ’25 election.
        given enough time pretty much anything can happen.
        same with the TURDeau, starts out all sweet and pure, loves kids, great personality, born leader lots of stuff checked off

        now we are facing thought crimes and future crimes and harsh prison sentences for STOPPING a MAiD death.

        1. Well you’re probably not far off.
          I’m pretty certain progs today already know they don’t need to expend ammunition, like their idols once did.
          And when the thought of populism sends them into convulsions, you best not turn your back on them.
          Your only “valuable” when fixing their toilet.

      3. Fc- you are correct. Nothing is won yet. He is one mistep away from disaster and if he doesn’t make, one will be made up for him. Shades of Elwin Hermanson’s 20 point lead in saskatchewan should be reflected on. As well I strongly suggest some of his support is tepid at best.

      4. I believe Justin is a sh_t stain on the planet. Try to imagine what I think of those who still support him.

  11. A lot of jurinalists don’t have driver’s licenses? I have not come across that observation before.

    I’m trying to think of a reason for that and all I can come up with is that if you are so dumb that you’re in danger of flunking out of basket weaving or some ‘Studies’ program, you can always major in Jurinalism and get a degree.

    1. It is because they are not men, they are at best occasional sperm generating women. I have an advanced education in finance, accounting and economics and likely could beat them on a test in a variety of academic disciplines. But. I can also frame a house, fix a car (old mechanical ones), and shoot rifle, shotgun and pistol and hit what I am aiming at. If someone bothers someone I care about and doesn’t have the sense to stop when told, I don’t wait for some idiot with a badge, I stop them. This country needs men, and strong women in charge, not the emoting bowls of jello that too many in cities are. That is why Pierre is rising, he at least demonstrates male characteristics.

      1. The long downward slump of manhood was started by Alan Alda and the rise of the “sensitive man”. Women decided they liked the squishy, touchy-feely, imitation of a man … and so that’s what ugly leftist men became … and many who claimed to be conservative.

        And no … the only alternative to the touchy-feely, squishy, man is NOT a misogynist creep.

        1. Only weak, unattractive, or partly crazy women marry seriously “beta” males. Often, they go first for alphas as rental live-ins, but are unable to manage them or just get pregnant and deserted.

          I was an attractive, strong and practical young woman, and married a well-chosen, almost mature, strong alpha male until “death did us part”. We had an amazing life together, albeit with a few rough spots, overcome. Bonus: he liked cooking and gardening! Add extras for affection and the excitement of his career….

          1. Congrats to you. And you’re funny too! … well-chosen, almost mature … hahahah ha ha … which is a key ingredient to any LTR … including my own 42years and counting. The last thing I did on my car was to replace the valve cover gasket on my late model BMW. But I also collect Barbara Willis pottery, garden, am a Designer, do ALL the cooking in our house (my wife is a dreadful cook) , have done 3 major remodels to our house (mostly solo), including a second story addition …

            IMHO … what does it take to be a MAN spelled M-A-N? Be capable. Be smart. Be loving. And don’t ever be a pussie

    1. and what did you do daddy before the Poilievre win?
      everything l could to make it happen,
      -joined CPC, fully with intent to
      -cast my leadership vote for Poilievre
      -keep up to date on the shaky status quo in ottrawa
      -post retorts in various locations liuke online news stories that for instance, use very flawed, out of date and simply wrong information. l make it a practice to provide links supporting my actions and views and others do likewise. . many do NOT because their ‘opinion’ is their ‘truth’
      and when one demands to know what factual information is the basis of their world view, watch for the insults and ‘question period’ liberal type evasiveness,

  13. Neither Gurney or the ‘Conservative’ he spoke with in the bar sound very conservative. If thry think they are conservative, therein lies a problem.

  14. Gurney is a tool. He was back then and is now. Witless is a hell of a way to go through life.

  15. I think it’s a bit obsolete condescending and demeaning to consider 2024 that entire female electorate is still hook line and sinker in Trudeau camp. Pretty much all middle-age women in our circle of friends can’t stand ShinyPony. Guilbeault Freeland etc either.
    But there’s another group pretty much ignored in all this comment/editorial ‘journalistic’ style literature + all the polls: gov employees/NGOs, young students freshly done with studies and entering work/real life. All these were groomed to vote Liberal. The grooming was either monetary (salaries, grants, ‘projects’) or through Academia propaganda/militantism. That’s why PM&co permanently expand gov and that’s why they pander to pro-Palestine stuff – to make sure there’s gullibles who will still vote for ’em. And just in case, recently they thought to tinker with voting laws. Maybe a good ole fraud will be needed.

    1. what kind of male didnt have a drivers licence at 16. a right of passage more than your first fuzzstache

  17. Mr. Gurney sounds like the kind of guy who couldn’t change a tire if his life depended on it.

    My area of expertise is gun control. Mr. Gurney thinks of it as nothing more than a political football the Liberals run with when the mood strikes them, when he thinks of it at all.

    The Metro Toronto Police literally told the people of Toronto to put their car keys by the front door last week, so the ARMED car thieves would just take them and go when they performed their home invasions. Because that is what’s happening in Toronto right now. People are getting their homes -invaded- by armed car thieves, looking for the keys, when they are home. They kick in the door and take them.

    You tell a man with a wife and kids who lives in a Canadian suburb to put his keys by the front door because he’s NOT ALLOWED to protect his family and possessions from armed criminals, he’s going to have a bone-deep reaction to that. His very DNA is going to start screaming. That’s his only function in life, and here’s pretty boy Shiny Pony telling him to sit down, shut up, and leave the keys out like he’s being told to do. Telling him that he, the man of the house, is too stupid and too racist to be trusted with his own self defense and that of his family.

    It has gotten so bad that even the Normies are starting to pay attention, not just policy nerds like myself. Pierre Poilievre is the ONLY GUY right now who is talking to those Normies.

    Add to that every other issue that impacts men now, from massive unemployment to tent cities to schools teaching DEI and transing their kids, plus inflation AND rising taxes on top of taxes that are already ludicrous.

    And Gurney, for whatever reason, is utterly missing it. I suspect the reason is as Kate says, that he doesn’t even own a friggin’ car and jets around town on Uber like a f-ing teenager from a rich family. At a guess he lives in a high-rise with 24/7 security, and has never even cut his own grass. Spends all his time sitting in bars talking to other guys who don’t own a car or have a lawn mower either.

    All of the above assumes he isn’t just LYING, which is being pretty generous these days.

    2. Your right Phantom, but talking with a rather well off church going businessman at the tail end of Covid I’ll never forget what he said.
      “The government is going to do what it’s going to do anyways , swallow it.”
      I’ll pass on his “advice”, but I’ll never forget it.

      1. Covid is something else these morons don’t understand. My water guy was delivering today (water price is up again, surprise) and a car drove by with two people in it wearing Covid masks. Its been 4 years now, but there they were.

        All due respect to your business gentleman, there -is- a limit to what people can swallow. And we are getting up to it.

        With Covid, the -entire- medical establishment revealed that they are a pack of incompetent ‘go-along-to-get-along’ losers. And they are power hungry. And they do not give a single d@mn about Canadians.

        I can assure everyone that nobody was more shocked to discover this than doctors. Doctors and particularly nurses still can’t believe the way their College, their professional associations, their unions, their hospitals and the government threw them under the bus. Over NOTHING, as it turns out. There are a lot of physicians who still can’t believe the ease and the speed with which regulators ditched everything we know about medicine and approved the Mad Science jab.

        It’s one thing to be wrong. It’s another thing to be willfully wrong, and furthermore to brutalize anyone who says so.

        Gurney thinks Covid is over, not an issue anymore, everybody moved on in 2021. Nobody has moved on. Everybody is LIVID at the betrayal and the lying, or they’re still masked and afraid they’ll die. Four years later, terrified old men and women are out driving their crappy little Honda Fit with Covid masks that never worked, fearing death.

        Gurney thinks this is about Poilievre? The CPC could run a yellow dog as party leader, and the dog would still be beating Shiny Pony.

      2. My father is of that generation, they don’t get it. The public purse was looted to give them stuff for votes, the first generation to get that doesn’t have to pay the bill so it sounds good. He also reads the newspaper and trusts media. When they were forming, both government and the media were more trustworthy, to be fair. Even then though the marxists were beginning their march, those under 40 are products of the education/indoctrination they received. Some are strong enough to resist, but not that many. That is why it is upon us to rip the rot out, destroy it, and sow the ground with salt so it can’t grow back. The financial crisis coming will be the catalyst for that, they will be fierce when they see the truth.

  18. Gurney regularly writes columns for the TV Ontario website, which is an Ontario taxpayer-funded clone of the CBC. He has drunk the Green Kool-Aid and dreams of an all-electric future where we all have solar panels, mini wind turbines and extensive battery back-up:

    “Canadian jurisdictions are pursuing fairly aggressive decarbonization plans, and moving as much as possible away from fossil fuels over to clean electricity is a huge part of that. One of the main challenges is overcoming the lack of energy storage, and distributing storage into millions of big batteries in garages and basements is a great way to do that. Micro-storage, joined with micro-generation via roof-top solar arrays or small wind generators, not only offers some economic appeal, but also has huge public-safety and even national-security benefits in terms of distributing vital but vulnerable critical utilities in a million different places.”

    https://www.tvo.org/article/if-ontarios-future-is-going-to-be-electric-it-might-want-to-look-at-nova-scotia

    1. Gurney is also a champion of high-speed rail – the ultimate multi-billion dollar pit of government incompetence and corruption, enthusiastically endorsed by trough-suckers like SNC-Lavalin.

      “High-frequency rail might not be exactly high-speed rail, but it might begin restoring passenger service in Ontario and Quebec to a point where high-speed rail could become more economically viable (or even simply politically tempting).”

      https://www.tvo.org/article/a-challenge-for-politicians-make-decisions-reasonably-quickly-and-then-stick-to-them

      1. has there ever been a LRT ‘lite rapid transit’ that worked as hoped sans huge cost overruns and delays and and and?
        this city attempted one. at the public presentation, using statistical averages, and factual mathematics like avg time taken a to b’, was there ever a simulation done to see, on average, time required old vs newly minted LRT?
        the point being the LTR stops by necessity a further apart, adding to the average time taken for an avg individual from front door to the LRT stop.
        sound of crickets . . . . . . .

        1. It’s not physically possible to introduce highspeed rail in the Windsor to Montreal corridor. The existing track has turns far too tight to accommodate the sort of speeds that highspeed rail requires to function. The cost to alter track curves and the accompanying building demolition would cost trillions of dollars. So it doesn’t matter what the cost overruns and schedule delays will be. The project is simply not possible.

          Turns too tight for the equipment is exactly why the Ottawa light rail project is such a disaster, and it too cannot be fixed for any amount of money.

          1. Hi speed rail would work best between the cities of the prairie pentagon (Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton). Or focus on the square of the AB/SK cities. You could add Wpg as a spur on one corner later, as a sometime useful appendage.

            Using some existing rail lines, abandoned right-of-ways, and some new, it could be done. But still very expensive.

          2. For a laugh some day, look into how much it would cost to add one (1) rail line from downtown Hamilton to downtown Toronto. Not even high speed, just a regular one.

            Billions. Literally billions of dollars, because of Cout’s Paradise and the Beach Strip.

          3. California High-Speed Rail:
            Phase One construction started in 2015 on 171 mile (275 km) segment in the flat, open Central Valley from Bakersfield to Merced.
            Scheduled to finish in 2030 (15 years!!!!!!).
            Budget, as of 2024, is US$33-billion.

            There will be no high-speed rail in Canada. Ever.

    2. Gurney, unrepentantly, still despises the Freedom Convoy and all it stood for, and laments that, two years later, GOVERNMENTS do not have the ability to crush protests like the Freedom Convoy as soon as they start:

      “If I have any particular concerns today about all this, it would be these: events since the convoy have continually shown us that we remain a country that responds only very slowly and often ineffectively when presented with sudden threats. Canada is not a country built institutionally, jurisdictionally, or even psychologically for crisis. We have been spoiled by a prosperous and peaceful history. This was one of the main lessons I took from the convoy crisis, and, instead of seeing signs of progress, I see more cause for alarm as time passes. If I had to guess, I’d say things are worse today, not better, in terms of nimble and effective institutional responses to sudden events. And I sense no urgency to address this.”

      https://www.tvo.org/article/its-been-two-years-since-the-freedom-convoy-so-whats-changed

      Not surprisingly, Gurney has nothing to say about the violent, anti-Semitic, pro terrorist protests occurring regularly in Canada.

  19. Exactly what squishy so called conservative voters that were persuaded “it was time for a change” and voted for Trudeau the first time, think.
    Sounds like what “the expert” on CTV’s panel of guests tries to squeeze in between the commies.
    I’m assuming a lot of his fans are TDS Rupared lost causes that still read the Globe and Mail.
    Remnant detritus flotsam.
    As that guy from Platoon said, “He’s so wrong he ain’t never been right”
    Gurney missed how popular “The convoy”, (that’s what he called it) was, is, and what it signified. It show’s how fundamentally their (the entrenched-four-leader-cpc-insider seated through multiple meetings in a bar) entire world has been exposed. They’ve also missed the magnitude of the exposure of the MSM profession.
    Since we’re on the topic of “how wrong he got things”, he and the CPC insider missed the sea change of the growing reckoning with understanding (twitter files et al) that we consider them compicit in hiding and still denying things like across the board corruption encapsulated perfectly in the gain of function plan to kill us.
    Half of North Americans hate you, your derelection of duty and your political elite class and are never going to buy your lies again.
    Every time you see Canada’s flag on a car, truck or home, it’s full of people that hate you. We’re holding our nose and hoping PP is playing it smart while fixing to destroy your lying corrupt world a la Argentina’s President chainsaw and Trump.

  20. It’s such a game to so many. Well we’ll see what Pierre can actually do.
    Is he that good or Trudeau and so many others so bad.
    People scrambled once to attain “normal”, got it , and are scrambling again.
    Like a trapped chipmunk in a peanut bag.
    You have to at least admit it’s interesting.

  21. The Ottawa/Toronto chattering class bubble needs to start understanding what’s going on with blue collar and working class families (not just men). The seething resentment has been building for some time and the freedom convoy was the tip of the iceberg.

    If the Trudeau Liberal-NDP government continues to legislate authoritarian policies without the consent of the governed then things could escalate. Specifically, if they unilaterally impose a radically new electoral system to hang on to power then I wouldn’t be surprised to see a 1919 style Winnipeg General Strike type of situation. Voters overwhelmingly want a change of government and if that is blocked by political manipulation then Ottawa will remember the bouncy castles and hot tub protests as the good old days.

  22. Gurney’s article could have easily been 1/4 the final length. Must be getting paid per word.

  23. I hope he’s saved his money, because he’s going to be unemployed soon, and Substack isn’t going to pay the bills.

    1. Gurney gets paid for writing for TV Ontario, which, like the CBC, is taxpayer funded. Even with a so-called conservative premier, TV Ontario spews leftist propaganda non-stop and continues to operate because of a large annual subsidy from Ontario taxpayers. I contacted my conservative MP about ending the funding forTVO, but quickly got the brush-off.

      1. The funding will dry up sooner or later, and journalists like him will be doomed, especially with AI on the horizon.

  25. I can’t imagine Matt Gurney driving. In fact, I can’t imagine Matt Gurney walking around. I can only imagine Matt Gurney being wheeled around on, well, a gurney. With a mat on it. Perhaps I’m excessively literal in my thinking.

  26. Precisely why I don’t listen or read anyone from the Canadian establishment media.
    Yeah, that’s right Larry…excessive free speech. These people are not your friends and never will be. Always pretending to be the smartest person in the room.
    https://archive.is/FD6xp

    1. The two “most prominent and respected Newspapers” in North America” are typing adoring shit about their bumbuddy Mephistopheles’ oxymoron “Excessive free speech”.

      HOLY…/ 14 lines of swear words/!

  27. So now we’re all supposed to be starry eyed and over the moon because PP is being touted as the heir apparent to de-throning the Trudeau monarchy. Well whoop-de-do and then some! The majority of Canadians have been so fundamentally dumbed down over the last quarter to half century (Gurney is a fine example) that at best PP will have a minority government, and when he tries to introduce austerity measures to get the country back to approaching a stable country he’ll be voted out of office. The best thing that can happen across the West is a total meltdown of the present system with the attending destruction, starvation and death of 90% of the population and maybe then we’ll get back to learning how to SELF govern sans the grifting politicians and bureaucrats that have corrupted the system since the Americans stole the idea of a government for the people and by the people. Yes, government of the people, for the people, by the people was stolen, it was not conceived by the founding fathers as portrayed.

  28. Let’s take a look at what I actually said in more detail.
    Nah, let’s NOT!
    Is there a better line connoting v a n i t y.
    And where is this “right wing” of which you speak.
    Please explain to Jamie MacMaster.

  29. Olde “on a gurney” got one thing correct, he got it wrong the last time, and didn’t do much better this time around.

  30. The Dear Leader claims he is not responsible for the housing crisis in Canada. As is normal for him, he is lying. He ordered that the number of immigrants be increased drastically, which is easy for him to do. The Dear Leader, however, cannot order that enough new homes be built to accommodate the flood of immigrants.

    The Globe & Mail struggles to not blame the Dear Leader for the housing crisis. It blames the problem on record population growth, which it notes, but only once, is because of immigration.

    “Housing undersupply is a chronic problem in Canada. But it’s become more acute since 2016, when population growth picked up in response to increased immigration targets, without a commensurate rise in housing starts. This dynamic was magnified over the past year, as the country’s population jumped by more than a million, while housing starts slowed from a 2021 peak.

    As a result, affordability has gotten much worse over the past year. As Toni Gravelle, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada, put it in a recent speech, the widening gap “could explain why rent inflation continues to climb in Canada. It also helps explain, in part, why housing prices have not fallen as much as we had expected.”

    It’s not that homes aren’t being built. Indeed, housing starts have been notably strong over the past three years, running around 20 per cent higher than the average in the years before the COVID-19 pandemic. A record number of homes, more than 350,000, are under construction. But the brisk pace of building is not enough to keep up with the country’s population growth, and there’s little evidence that the gap will close any time soon.”

    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-canada-home-prices-charts/

  31. “Analysts estimate about $251 billion in mortgages will come up for renewal in 2024, with another $352 billion worth in 2025.
    While the Bank of Canada expects that at least 8 in 10 mortgage holders will face a “relatively large” mortgage payment increase by the end of 2025, expected interest rate cuts in the years ahead should help ease that payment shock. ”

    This impending disaster is going to be the biggest stake in the liberal’s chances.

  32. Matt is a Canadian journalist for Con Inc , a Liberal on pretty much all the important issues. Listened to him on Canada talks for a few weeks when i had free Serious XM, he sucks.

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