CTV- Exploring links between gut bacteria, depression
Could swallowing a dose of human faeces help cure some mental illnesses? That is what a team of Calgary researchers suspects.
Today In Canadian Infrastructure
Blacklock’s- Military No Help On Housing
At least a quarter of Department of National Defence buildings and other infrastructure dates from the 1970s and requires “significant maintenance,” says an internal audit. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had proposed to recycle federal property for housing.
“Approximately 25 percent of existing infrastructure is greater than 50 years old and requires significant maintenance, repair and recapitalization to ensure it remains serviceable and compliant with health, safety and environment regulations,” said an Audit Of Defence Infrastructure.
It’s Not Our Fault
Blacklocks- Plot Blamed On 2012 Cabinet
The 2012 Conservative cabinet is to blame for a suspected terror plot foiled three weeks ago, Liberal MP Jennifer O’Connell (Pickering-Uxbridge, Ont.) yesterday told the Commons public safety committee. Then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper compromised national security, she said.
Democrat Apparatchik Posing as a Journalist
Something that wasn’t on my 2024 Bingo Card was to witness a “journalist” pleading with Biden’s press secretary to censor free speech. Yet this is exactly what happened earlier this week when WaPo’s Cleve Wootson Jr. asked Karine Jean-Pierre for censorship of the Musk-Trump discussion.
One wonders if he did this voluntarily or was “pressured” to do so? Either way, people are letting him have it here and here.
Related: Here’s why Elon Musk doesn’t treat the media as a special class of people.
If You Think Gas Is Expensive Now
ZeroHedge- One Step Away From The Biggest Oil Shock In History
It’s Iran’s geopolitical trump card.
Feel The Love
David Clinton- Hate Crimes in Canada: by the Numbers
Feeding The Addiction
Global BC- Fraser Health to offer free delivery of harm reduction supplies
BC Conservative Party MLA Eleonore Sturko said it was “concerning” that the harm reduction supplies were being made so easily accessible, while access to treatment remains “difficult.”
“The services should be equal, at least. It should be just as easy to access detox and treatment as it is to order a crack pipe online,” she said.
h/t Cameron
Wednesday On Turtle Island
Queen Kamala’s America: Some myths about Native Americans. Kamala Harris’s brother-in-law. The day Tim Walz unleashed his storm troopers on civilians. We are all lab rats.
Blackie’s Canada: One of Justin’s appointees. Canada’s fastest growing industry.
Woke World: The dynamics of political extremism. On cusp of a civil war.
Your morning meme. Bonus meme. And another meme.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
San Francisco’s glitzy hotels have been plunged into massive debt following a dramatic drop off in tourism to the Golden Gate City.
The Californian city’s two biggest hotels, the Hilton Parc 55 and Hilton San Francisco Union Square, have lost a combined $1billion in value, according to the Kroll Bond Rating Agency.
Their worth is now $553.8 million.
Meanwhile, the delinquency rate among commercial mortgage-backed security loans for the sector jumped to 41.6 percent in June from 5.7 percent the same time last year, according to data from real estate analytics firm Trepp.
It comes as San Francisco’s tourism industry struggles to recover to its pre-pandemic levels, while other parts of the country bounce back.
August 14, 2024: Reader Tips
Sure to offend ardent feminists, here’s a 1955 PSA entitled A Word to the Wives.
If you have any interesting words, in the form of news tips, to share with us, now is the time!
More Pavilions At Folkfest
Anyone feel like going out for a nice bowl of Maftool?
Mischief Makers
Closing arguments are finally being heard in the freedom convoy court case centering on charges of mischief. The trial was supposed to take a couple of weeks but wound up lasting nearly a year. That’s in addition to varying periods of incarceration for the defendants since early 2022. It’s anyone’s guess as to what it cost the prosecution to pursue the case.
Lich and Barber’s lawyers have argued throughout the trial that organizing a protest is not an illegal activity and is protected under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The court has scheduled three days to hear the final arguments in the case, as well as several extra days next week in case they go long.
Oops
Telegraph- Self-checkouts have been a self-inflicted disaster for Britain
As customers grow frustrated and shoplifters fill their boots, bosses of grocery giants are finally asking themselves the question customers are asked at self-checkout kiosks every day. Do you wish to continue? Not really, as it turns out. Having ruthlessly replaced cashier staff with self-checkout terminals to speed up purchases and save on wages, boardrooms now want the humans back.
Today In The Vote Rich Rapey-Beheader Community
So there’s this guy.
He allegedly mutilates someone nailed to a cross in an ISIS video.
Then comes to Canada, gets citizenship and then gets arrested in a terror plot.
Here is Trudeau trying to explain that away.
But here comes Jennifer O’Connell to the rescue!
More on that little C-59 freedom of speech thing
Op-Ed: MLT Aikins: Changes to the Competition Act – Greenwashing & Mergers
Meanwhile, companies keep growing in the oilpatch. I ran into Mike Rose a year ago. He did some work in the Weyburn area a long time ago. Now he’s running Canada’s largest gas producer, which just got bigger.
Tourmaline signs deal to buy Crew Energy, raises quarterly base dividend
You Don’t Hate the Media Nearly Enough
OMG watch this clip.
CNN selectively cuts part of the Elon/Trump conversation about nuclear energy last night to make it seem like they were saying that the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were no big deal.
They are so dishonest! pic.twitter.com/z2ma1zJ6dJ
— MAZE (@mazemoore) August 13, 2024
You can read the full transcript here. It is COMPLETELY UNETHICAL to not quote someone accurately & precisely. You think the folks at CNN did this “just by accident”?!?
Margin Of Fraud
Show them the woman preserving election records, and they’ll show you the crime.
“The FBI raided my home at 6 a.m. this morning, accusing me of committing a crime. And they raided the homes of my friends, mostly older women. I was terrified,” ” Peters said on the Lindell channel, adding the FBI “used a battering ram” to destroy the front door of one of her friends’ homes, according to Colorado Politics.
h/t Roaddog
Quoi?
Blacklock’s- English “Don’t Belong”: Data
“Some described a backlash among English-speaking Quebécers as a result of government measures that were seen as Draconian and felt this is causing some resistance to speaking French when it is seen as something people are being forced to do,” said Bridges.
“Forcing people to learn a language is not a solution,” the report quoted one participant. “If some one forces me to do something I’ll do the exact opposite,” said another.
Shush, Daddy’s Being Fabulous
You’ve got to pretend that it’s all okay… You have to realise that your dad has fallen in love with himself, and there’s no part for you in that where you are not just a prop.
It’s like this person came along and said, “You know how you had a dad? Well, that was all a lie. And all that time, your dad didn’t like being your dad.” And my dad was kind of replaced by this other person. This other person who didn’t love me like my dad loved me, wasn’t interested in me like my dad was.
And his love was conditional.
From the forthcoming film Behind The Looking Glass, about women whose partners, or fathers, have ‘transitioned’.
Musk vs. The Censorship Industrial Complex
Michael Shellenberger- EU Threatens Elon Musk Over Donald Trump Interview, Potentially Interfering In US Elections
Elon Musk- Donald Trump interview (22 million views at the time of posting this)