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— Johnny B. Good (@Cat5SMASHICANE) February 15, 2026
Author: Blazingcatfur
Carney practises the illusion of EV mandate repeal
Replacing a ban on gas cars with strict new emissions standards sounds more sensible but will kill the auto industry just as effectively
Prime Minister Mark Carney, recognizing the need to act decisively to support our auto sector, has scrapped Canada’s electric vehicle (EV) mandate. Or has he? Unfortunately, close inspection shows that he merely rephrased the policy but the effect remains the same. Following the pattern of indecision and obfuscation set by his “Memorandum of Understanding” with Alberta, in which Carney sounded like he was greenlighting a new pipeline without actually doing so, the new auto policy repeals the mandate in name only.
I am really hoping that Trump does a Maduro on our WEF snake.
Meanwhile down south … The New York Times is sad!
With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules
The E.P.A.’s killing of the “endangerment finding” caps a year of deregulation that is likely to make cars thirstier for gas and less competitive globally, experts say.
The Decline of Trust in the News
As Gerald Baker wrote recently in the Wall Street Journal, the biggest threat to modern journalism is the journalists. He pointed out that bias and incompetent reporting are the major causes of media distrust these days. But while those factors are highly important, they aren’t the entirety of the news business’ failure.
Canada Gives U.S. Arms Makers the Cold Shoulder on Military Spending
The Canadian government, faced with increasing hostility from the Trump administration, plans to divert billions of dollars in military spending it long gave to U.S. defense companies and direct it instead to domestic manufacturers.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s wholesale expansion of Canadian military spending was prompted by pressure from President Trump, but with relations between the longstanding allies deteriorating, American companies will no longer reap the benefit.
The Palestinian ‘Constitution’ to Destroy Israel
As part of an attempt to persuade the United States and the rest of the international community that the Palestinians are seeking to create a democratic state “based on the rule of law and human dignity,” the Palestinian Authority leadership last week published a draft of the Palestinians’ temporary “constitution.”
The 162-article draft “constitution,” however, shows that, if and when the Palestinians have a state of their own, it would actually not be different from the two mini-states they have had for the past two decades: the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank.
PM Carney taps former head of public service to spearhead CUSMA negotiations
Prime Minister Mark Carney has chosen former clerk of the Privy Council Janice Charette to head Canada’s trade negotiations as it prepares for a review of the North American trade pact this year.
Charette’s title is chief trade negotiator to the United States, according to a Monday news release from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). She’ll be a senior adviser to Carney and Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc.
What belt does she have? https://t.co/MEdSicdKbQ
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) February 16, 2026
Vanity Fair: ‘Epstein’s Ghost’ Haunts Trump’s Every Move, Despite a Lack of Evidence
A ghost story falls in the category of fantasy. And former ABC reporter Tara Palmeri’s Halloween-in-February hot take in Vanity Fair on Thursday, “Epstein’s Ghost Is Calling All the Shots in Trump’s White House,” certainly falls within the realm of fantasy. She updates Banquo’s ghost to the 21st century and engages in the fantasy that Epstein’s ghost is somehow haunting Trump’s every move.
LILLEY: Liberals dead-set on attacking Jamil Jivani over effort to help with Trump
Liberals in this country are going out of their way to undermine a man who only wanted to help the country in trade talks with Trump.
First, they said Conservative MP Jamil Jivani wasn’t qualified to go to Washington. Then he was, according to Liberals, a Nazi sympathizer for going to Washington. And then he was too ugly to help.
The Quiet Architect of Trump’s Global Trade War
Jamieson Greer, a low-key lawyer from a working-class background, is rewriting the rules of the global economy at the president’s behest.
On Jan. 26, 2025, Jamieson Greer was teaching Sunday school to a group of 9-year-olds when one of his phones started blowing up with calls from the White House. Six days into the new administration, President Trump was already deploying his favorite weapon: the threat of crippling tariffs to bend countries to his will.
This time, the president was threatening Colombia, after it refused to accept U.S. military planes of deported immigrants. Mr. Greer would not join the Trump administration for some time yet, but he was already a key adviser on trade, flying to Mar-a-Lago in the weeks before to help plan Mr. Trump’s agenda.
“Why do you have two phones?” a student asked him.
“I have a kind of crazy job,” Mr. Greer replied.
The ‘cheating’ scandals, F-bombs and secret filming claims that rocked curling
Curling is often called chess or bowls on ice; a genteel, slow-paced and respectable sport of strategy and precision that stands in sharp contrast to the more extreme edges of the Winter Olympics.
Until Friday that is, when the sport was rocked not just with a cheating scandal, but a stream of F-bombs, accusations of secret filming, claim and counterclaim as well as a whole heap of bad feeling.
There’s No Meltdown Like a Hillary Meltdown. This Is Her ‘Best Of’ Album.
Over the weekend, we got a nostalgic glimpse of what could have been had Hillary Clinton defeated President Donald Trump back in 2016. My colleagues Stephen Kruiser and David Manney both captured a uniquely “Hillary moment” that happened over the weekend. Here’s how David described Clinton’s panel discussion appearance at the Munich Security Conference…
Most people view U.S. as a possible threat to Canadian sovereignty: Nanos survey
Nearly two thirds of Canadian survey respondents say they are concerned about the U.S. being a potential threat to Canada’s sovereignty, according to new data from Nanos Research.
According to the survey, 64 per cent of respondents say they feel concerned, while 19 per cent say they are not concerned, and 17 per cent say they are neutral, about the U.S. being a threat to Canadian sovereignty.
The ‘millennial slayer’ whose firm made millions from Trump’s border crackdown
Palmer Luckey was 13 when he read Donald Trump’s The Art of The Deal.
Twenty years later, the 33-year-old — complete with trademark flip-flops, Hawaiian shirts and shorts — is one of the biggest beneficiaries of the president’s border crackdown, having made millions from lucrative contracts with US Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
Robert Duvall, All-Purpose Actor With Few Peers, Dies at 95
Robert Duvall, the steely-eyed actor whose performances in the first two Godfather films, Apocalypse Now, The Great Santini, Lonesome Dove and The Apostle made him one of the finest actors of any generation, has died. He was 95.
ISIS Ho’s from Oz and their spawn sent back to Syrian detention camp after initial release
Australian women and children held for years without charge were forced to return to a detention camp in northeast Syria on Monday after being released by Kurdish authorities for their expected repatriation to Australia.
The 34 women and children in the group are the wives, widows and children of dead or jailed Islamic State fighters and were being held at al-Roj camp, which is controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
They were initially handed over to relatives who had helped arrange for their repatriation and were on their way to Damascus to leave the country when they were asked to stop on the way and turn back to the camp.