Polls…

The Star – Surging Conservatives now poised to win more seats than Liberals, poll analysis says

OTTAWA—The Conservatives began the federal election mocked for a spoof video many said called into question how serious they were about forming government. But the Star’s analysis of polling data suggests that at the midpoint of the campaign, it’s become a serious prospect they could.

The analysis from The Signal, Vox Pop Labs’ election forecast for the Star, shows Erin O’Toole’s Conservatives with the support of 36.1 per cent of voters, compared to 30 per cent for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals.

Global – Liberals fall, Conservatives steady as election race remains neck-and-neck: poll

The Liberals’ support is continuing to crumble as the election campaign reaches the halfway point, a new poll suggests, with the party now falling behind the Conservatives for the first time while staying in a statistical tie.

The Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News found 32 per cent of voters would cast a ballot for the Conservatives, a number unchanged from last week. But the Liberals saw their potential vote share go down two points, to 31 per cent.

CBC – Conservatives hold narrow lead over Liberals

The Conservatives have a narrow lead over the Liberals, as their support has increased over the first two weeks of the campaign. However, the Liberals remain slightly favoured to win the most seats due to how the two parties’ support breaks down across the country.

CTV – Nanos shows the Cons at 34 and the scumbag Liberals at 30.


The Star poll is interesting with a reported Ontario surge, but I suspect CBC may be a little more realistic. No question the Conservative proposed universal access to sphincter relaxant has loosened things up. But the biggest story is some people are finally waking up to the fact Trudeau is an idiot and congenital liar.

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Pope Francis mistakenly quotes Putin while ripping West’s involvement in Afghanistan

Pope Francis on Wednesday ripped the West’s 20-year involvement in Afghanistan — and mistakenly quoted Russian President Vladimir Putin in the process.

The 84-year-old pontiff was asked during a radio interview aired in Spain Wednesday about his thoughts on this week’s withdrawal of troops by the US and its allies, ending America’s longest war.

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Liberals allow Ontario MP to run for re-election despite four harassment allegations

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is defending allowing a Liberal candidate to stand for re-election despite facing numerous allegations of unwanted sexual advances and inappropriate comments to women.

Trudeau’s position came a day after saying he had “zero tolerance” for people who engaged in harassment or intimidation.

Ps. Thank the gang for keeping the home fires burning, work has called me away.

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Proof of vaccination will be required at movie theatres, gyms, restaurants in Ontario: sources

Proof of vaccination will be required at many non-essential businesses, including gyms and movie theatres, and will be needed to dine indoors at restaurants under Ontario’s new vaccine certification program starting Sept. 22, government sources confirm to CTV News Toronto.

A vaccine passport will not be required for retail shopping and outdoor dining but those who intend to go to concerts or other large, organized gatherings must be fully vaccinated, the sources say.

The provincial government is working on an app that will combine both identification and a proof-of-vaccination certificate for immunized Ontarians, sources confirm.

An app to track you by, only a temporary measure of course.

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The Joint Chiefs Should Salute – Then Follow

I am sure that Lt Col. Sheller knew that he was literally calling on his superiors to can him. His point is that all of the Joint Chiefs and many below them knew better than to do what the failed, corrupt politicians wanted them to do. THEY SHOULD HAVE RESIGNED rather than carry out the plan.But Milley et al showed themselves to be vile careerist toadies not leaders of integrity. Eisenhower warned us about this in his farewell address. Those compliant generals and admirals will retire to corporate board positions and wallow in wealth every dollar of which is tainted with the blood of fine, idealistic men like Stuart Scheller.

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These reports out of Kabul are too awful to believe

American troops are due to leave Afghanistan on Tuesday, even though uncounted Americans are stuck in the country. And by stuck, it appears that our American government is deliberately denying them access to Kabul airport. This isn’t a wild rumor. Instead, it comes from two eminently reliable reporters (Lara Logan and Emily Miller) and from Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL.

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Playing the Race Card on Larry Elder

Engaging in shameful duplicity regarding crime and policing, the media attempt to portray the California gubernatorial candidate as anti-black.

The possibility that Larry Elder may win California’s recall election against Governor Gavin Newsom is generating acute anxiety in the mainstream media and among the activist Left. Elder’s foes are responding with their favored means of destruction: by playing the race card. Never mind that the nationally syndicated talk show host is black. A series of opinion columns and editorials have accused him of being a white supremacist, or at the very least a shill for other white supremacists. Elect Elder and California will reinstate Jim Crow, state senator Sydney Kamlager, a Democrat from Los Angeles, has warned.

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Tetlock and the Taliban

How a humiliating military loss proves that so much of our so-called “expertise” is fake, and the case against specialization and intellectual diversity

Imagine that the US was competing in a space race with some third world country, say Zambia, for whatever reason. Americans of course would have orders of magnitude more money to throw at the problem, and the most respected aerospace engineers in the world, with degrees from the best universities and publications in the top journals. Zambia would have none of this. What should our reaction be if, after a decade, Zambia had made more progress?

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Will Europe survive another migrant crisis?

The EU is woefully unprepared for an influx of Afghans

It is remarkable that any army could occupy a country for two decades yet leave in such a hurry. The nature of the US exit from Afghanistan will, for obvious reasons, be a memory that lingers: the photos of desperate people queuing at the airport; the international dash to get their citizens out; the bombings targeted at defenceless and terrified people.

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Woke homophobia: It used to be the religious right that hated homosexuals – now it’s the woke mob.

Imagine living in a country where a gay man could be screamed and jeered at in the streets simply for declaring his support for people who are same-sex attracted. A country where a gay man could be publicly harassed and shamed for standing up for the rights of homosexuals. A country where the mob erupts into ecstatic cheers when said gay man is led away by the cops. Well, if you are reading this in the UK, you live in that country. This is happening right here. But here’s the twist: it isn’t the far right or blue-rinse Christian fundamentalists who are treating gay people in this foul, oppressive way – it’s the woke set.

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The Masked Ball of Cowardice

How fear of admitting error in trusting China’s coronavirus propaganda is driving Western societies into a doom spiral

“Lockdowns,” the mass quarantine of both sick and healthy people, have never before been used for disease mitigation in the modern Western world. Previously, the strategy had been systematically ruled out by the pandemic plans of the World Health Organization (WHO) and by health experts of every developed nation.

So how did we get here?

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No Liberty? No Problem: Australians shrug at their government’s draconian pandemic response.

Riot police firing rubber bullets into lockdown protesters. Rescue dogs being shot to prevent volunteers travelling to collect them. Nighttime curfews and one hour of exercise per day. Five-kilometer travel limits. Soldiers patrolling suburbs to enforce lockdowns. Health bureaucrats advising the citizenry not to stop and talk to their neighbors while walking their dog.

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