Sun- Meth candies unknowingly shared by New Zealand food bank
“Sales have been weaker than it expected”
Telegraph- Heat pumps could bring the German economy to its knees
Governments keep making the same mistake, of backing ‘winners’ long before they’ve proven themselves in the market
Today In Canadian Infastructure
We Didn’t Save Five Bucks?
Blacklock’s- Quadrupled Budget For Clark
A new luxury Manhattan penthouse for New York Consul Tom Clark cost taxpayers four times the expense of renovating the apartment used by his predecessors, records show.
“In May 2021 a renovation project estimated at $1.8 million was approved but delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic,” wrote McCardell. Renovation costs were subsequently revised to $2.6 million without explanation. The department instead decided to purchase a new penthouse for $8,840,000.
Vitally critical minerals
Hey, wasn’t the now defunct Vital Metals the place Prime Minister Trudeau made a $5 million funding announcement at in January 2023? And by January, 2024, it was liquidating its assets? Well, now the feds are investing in critical minerals, again.
Prime Minister @JustinTrudeau toured our rare
earth processing facility this morning, the first stop of a three-day tour across Canada to promote the federal government’s initiative for accelerated development of the country’s critical metals. https://t.co/3XqKtK5HSA $VML pic.twitter.com/ZmY4qc5ErX— Vital Metals (@vital_metals) January 17, 2023
This time, the Saskatchewan Research Council is getting the money.
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self Driving Overlords
Trust the technology: Hackers may have stolen every American’s Social Security number
Scratch A Leftist
“Never again” always came with an expiry date.
That Sinking Feeling
Despite the mainstream media’s attempts at getting people to believe that the economy is prosperous, more and more often a bit of news leaks out which indicates that all is not as it seems. The marginal consumer is clearly tapped out. It’s not the high end eateries that are feeling the pinch, but rather the mass market chains with razor thin margins, soaring costs and a consumer base that can’t afford to pay.
Subway has called a hasty meeting with franchisees of its 19,000 North American sandwich shops as they grapple with faltering sales and profits, The Post has learned.
A Subway franchisee with nearly 20 stores told The Post his same-store sales are down 5% to 10% in recent weeks compared to the prior year.
“Our gross sales are not even at 2012 levels, and profit then was five times what it is today.”
The franchisee added that his stores barely break even with the discounts.
Friday On Turtle Island
Queen Kamala’s America: The power of the media. Chinese drones and Kamala’s money man.
Blackie’s Canada: CUPE president posts vile message. Hating Jews in diverse Toronto.
The Planet Is Boiling News: Scaring people into supporting Net Zero. And propagating misinformation.
Your morning meme. Another meme. A cartoon.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including powder room scenes; the thrill of 1970s seaside nudism; a chap with moves; a wrap malfunction; and an unhappy discovery on the lingerie aisle.
August 16, 2024: Reader Tips
This evening, we offer everyone over fifty a special treat. We return to 1970 to enjoy The Partridge Family pilot episode.
Your more recent news tips are welcome here!
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Earl Scheib’s exclusive estimator takes the guesswork out of auto body repair estimates!
Margin Of Fraud
“In late June or early July, a candidate for office of Assessor named December Cox met with me, Supervisor Cavanaugh. Cox came to my home because what he had to say couldn’t be said over the telephone. Cox reported to me he had met an employee from inside the Elections Office who said he was being paid ‘hush money’ and ‘knew it wasn’t right.’” Cox lost his race for county assessor by 42 points to incumbent Douglas Wolf.
Cavanaugh and his wife are accountants who worked with two statisticians examining the drops of ballots that were counted. He found that in six local races — sheriff, county attorney, three supervisor races, and assessor — the number of ballots that came in during the election in batches appeared to be artificially manipulated. Instead of each candidate in those races getting varied numbers of ballots each time, their numbers stayed the same, flatlining — meaning the candidate who won generally got the same percentage of ballots in each successive drop, while the candidate who lost also received the same percentage of ballots in each successive drop, but a lower number.
In contrast, the other races in Pinal County showed varying percentages in each ballot dump for all the candidates.[…]
He explained, “The common observation was that each time the vote totals were updated each race demonstrated the exact same percentage splits between the candidates. This is possible, but to have it occur more than a couple races in a county is rare, to have it occur in six races among 13 candidates is statistically ‘impossible.’ The anomalies only occur in county, not state races, yet the same voters filled out the ballots.”
The Pinal County Supervisor added, “Normal distributions show a differentials between around 4 and 10%, the Abnormal distributions have a very low differential, from 0% to 1.6% in the examples shown. No differential means that voters all over the county would be voting in the exact same percentages, it isn’t possible.” Cavanaugh labeled the anomalies the “‘Flying Purple Rhinoceros’ that doesn’t exist in real life.”
Two members of the Conelrad Group, a think tank based in southern Arizona that investigated election anomalies in Pinal County’s 2022 election and concluded there was “deliberate malfeasance,” spoke to The Sun Times after reviewing Cavanaugh’s report.
Non-objective Law
If the ease with which the Covid lockdowns were instituted told us anything, it was that people could be panicked into throwing away basic freedoms with astonishing ease. It seems that this lesson has not been lost on the British government, which is currently busy prosecuting a plethora of victimless crimes with relative impunity.
A judge has jailed a “keyboard warrior” for posting an online message saying “blow the mosque up with the adults in it” during the riots.
When sentencing Sweeney, Judge Steven Everett, the Recorder of Chester, said: “You should have been looking at the news and media with horror like every right-minded person. Instead, you chose to take part in stirring up hatred.
“You were part of a Facebook account which had 5,100 members. You had a big audience.
“You threatened a mosque, wherever it was. It truly was a terrible threat.
“So-called keyboard warriors like you must learn to take responsibility for your disgusting and inflammatory language.”
Keir Starmer’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and “People will forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right“.
Two podcasts and a column
Brian Zinchuk on Evan Bray: Drilling activity, critical minerals, lithium, helium and roads
This podcast interviews a Regina-based oilman.
Trevor Rose Podcast: Dean Popil, Lex Capital CEO
And for something completely different:
In the spirit of “Get off my lawn!” I’ve realized that we need an entirely new feature, required by law, built into all new electronic devices of importance.
Call it the “dumb mode.”
Things You’re Gonna See At The CBC
The Canadian Press take the jobs their employees can’t do.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. paid out $18.4 million in bonuses this year after hundreds of jobs at the public broadcaster were eliminated.
Documents obtained through access to information laws show CBC/Radio-Canada paid bonuses to 1,194 employees for the 2023-24 fiscal year.
More than $3.3 million of that sum was paid to 45 executives.
That means those executives got an average bonus of over $73,000, which is more than the median family income after taxes in 2022, according to Statistics Canada.
Did Biden Send Officials to Tehran and Reveal Mossad Agents Who Killed Hamas Leader?
Well, Obama is running the joint.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Why would the head of the Department Homeland Security want to destroy the United States? (Full interview here.)
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
In the last four years, the Liberals said that the party has invested more than $46 billion in electric vehicle manufacturing in Canada. Despite the massive and continuous investment, Canadians’ desire for electric vehicles has plummeted, as have sales worldwide.
Not them, of course. Trudeau and Ford aren’t going broke. We’re going broke.