That’s the kind of fish you talk about for the next 20 years.
Even better, he let the legend swim away. pic.twitter.com/QI7YtUIKie
— ™ (@1776Diva) March 17, 2026
Author: Blazingcatfur
New survey finds nearly half of Canadians are living paycheque to paycheque
Many Canadians are continuing to struggle to pay their bills each month, feeling the financial squeeze with housing costs, price of groceries, and now the rising gas prices due to the war in Iran.
According to a new survey conducted by Vividata, one out of three people is unable to pay off their credit card bills each month and almost half say they’re living paycheque to paycheque.
WTF?
Despite his immense popularity, 'Knighty Knight Bugs' (1959) is the only Bugs Bunny cartoon to win an Oscar. pic.twitter.com/qWTBpxaySF
— old toons (@oldtoons_) March 16, 2026
Electricity demand, natural gas production and renewable power expected to soar by 2050
Electricity demand is set to boom in Canada by 2050, according to new modelling from the national energy regulator released on Tuesday.
The projections also foresee robust growth in natural gas production and expansion of renewable power in the country.
The latest modelling from the Canada Energy Regulator (CER) focuses on an expected spike in power demand from coast to coast as consumption grows 44 per cent from 2023 to 2050.
The electricity abundance and affordability that Canada has enjoyed for decades are ending. Generation is down, exports are now imports, and investment is flat. Canada’s impending electricity shortage is not just an affordability
crisis; it is an economic and security one as… pic.twitter.com/MNvJK79dJ2— Heather Exner-Pirot (@ExnerPirot) March 16, 2026
h/t Mauser
Allah! Allah! Allah! Oi! Oi! Oi! Islamo-brainwashing reaches the Scouts
THE spectre of the Batley Grammar School teacher-in-hiding debacle has once again raised its ugly head, with further guidance imposed on schools by Labour councils which deem that children’s illustrations in art lessons ‘might be idolatrous’ under Islamic law. Laura Trott, the Shadow Education Secretary, is right to demand that such guidance is withdrawn.
Since when was Islamic law imposed on this country? And how is it that the teacher involved in the catastrophe over images drawn of the Prophet Muhammad is still in hiding, in fear of his life four years after the event? Why are those involved in the threats and fearmongering not dealt with under British law? What happened to real equality?
Canada Bars a Senior Chinese Police Officer Over Crimes Against Humanity — as Carney Deepens Ties With the Same Security Apparatus
OTTAWA — A senior officer of China’s Public Security Bureau who spent more than three decades supervising interrogations and detentions in Hebei Province has been barred from Canadian permanent residency — along with his wife and child — after a federal immigration officer found reasonable grounds to believe he was complicit in the systematic torture of criminal suspects.
Open Borders and the Modern State’s God Complex
It is impossible to understand our approach to matters of immigration and asylum except through the lens of political theology. We are in the grip of a politicised and secularised obsession with redemption. The asylum-seeker comes to our shores and, wherever he is from, whatever his background, and whatever he has done or might in future do, we stand ready to wash him clean and welcome him in as chosen of God. That the people who are most in thrall to this vision are almost invariably atheists is precisely the point: “All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularised theological concepts.” It is through the death of God, the killing indeed of God, that the state – and hence, man – is made the vehicle of redemption.
CHARLEBOIS: Canada’s food inflation slowing — but the squeeze isn’t over
Among the G7 countries, Canada still posts the highest food inflation rate
Canada’s food inflation rate eased to 5.4% in February 2026, down from 7.3% previously. At first glance, this looks like progress. But the reality behind the numbers suggests Canadians shouldn’t celebrate just yet.
Food inflation remains 3.6 percentage points above overall inflation, which means groceries are still becoming more expensive faster than most other goods in the economy. While the pace of increase has slowed, the pressure on household budgets has not disappeared.
Paul Ehrlich is Dead and Nobody is Eating Him
Different people believe in different things. Some believe that we go to paradise after we die. Others that we disappear into cosmic dust. But environmentalist prophet Paul Ehrlich believed mankind would be reduced to cannibalism unless we stopped having children. Right away.
And Ehrlich never gave up hope of seeing cannibalism in his lifetime.
The Real Threat to North American Unity
Over the past year Canadians and Americans have begun to regard one another as adversaries. Trade disputes and political rhetoric have sharpened cross-border hostility, and polls suggest that trust between our peoples is eroding.
For a Canadian who looks back on a lifetime of fellowship with American relatives, friends, and colleagues, the present strife weighs heavily on the heart. All the more so because the actual disconnect is not between Canadians and Americans—it is ideological. For decades, we have been trapped in a conflict of left vs right, progressive vs conservative, globalist vs nationalist—and the discord runs through both nations alike.
Furious US troops erupt at CNN’s $20m steak and lobster claims as grim photos expose reality
Furious US troops have hit back at CNN’s claim that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth blew $20 million of taxpayer dollars on steak and lobster dinners.
Service members sent the Daily Mail exclusive photos of their dinner plates — petite lobster tails and grey ribeye served cafeteria-style on trays — in the months before military action in Iran.
The backlash comes after a heated on-air clash where CNN commentator Paul Begala suggested Hegseth was hoarding the luxury supplies for himself rather than feeding the troops working grueling late-night shifts.
Scott Jennings Rebuts CNN Claim About Pete Hegseth’s Dinner Spending
After a CNN reporter suggested Pete Hegseth splurged on ribeye and lobster, commentator Scott Jennings pushed back, presenting details he says contradict the claim. #WashingtonEye pic.twitter.com/OkkfR4Bp8x
— Washington Eye (@washington_EY) March 12, 2026
OLDCORN: Canadian Anti-Hate Network founder on Ottawa’s ‘online safety panel’ is the wrong call
Ottawa has reconvened its Expert Advisory Group on Online Safety, and one name is a cause for concern, Bernie Farber. The announcement from Canadian Heritage says Farber, founding chair emeritus of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN), will again help guide federal policy on “online harms.”
The same release also says the panel’s 2022 advice helped shape Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act, which later died in January 2025. That alone should have set off alarm bells in Ottawa.
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Senior U.S. Official Quits, Blames Iran War on Israeli Pressure
A senior U.S. counterterrorism official resigned on Tuesday, March 17th to protest the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran and said the Islamic Republic posed no imminent threat to the United States.
“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” Joseph Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said in his resignation letter to President Donald Trump.
There are many false claims in this letter but let me address one specifically: that "Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation."
This is the same false claim that Democrats and some in the liberal media have been repeating over and over.
As President Trump has clearly and… https://t.co/AC8M5L8lye
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) March 17, 2026
John Ivison: Europe lets Carney lead on poking the Trump bear
President Donald Trump’s late-night musing about Venezuela potentially becoming the 51st state was likely well received in the Prime Minister’s Office.
It suggests that Mark Carney’s speech in Davos — widely viewed as standing up to the bully president — has persuaded Trump to move on and find an easier target than Canada or Greenland.
That may be temporary, of course, given the president’s mercurial nature.