LOL. Who couldn't have seen this coming? I just hope that Canadian taxpayers' money didn't go into this sinkhole. @fancypants_s https://t.co/YD38vkB1ym
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) July 10, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
How Volkswagen’s Electric Bus Went From American Flagship to Flop
As psychedelic rock blared, Thomas Schäfer hopped onto a Huntington Beach, Calif., stage flanked by surfboards two years ago to announce the rebirth of an automotive icon, the Volkswagen bus.
The German auto giant was bringing back the bus as an electric vehicle, albeit one with a boxy design and two-tone paint job reminiscent of the original. The reboot was more than two decades in the making, and the company said the vehicle would soon be available in the U.S.
“Finally, finally,” said Schäfer, a top VW executive, as the bus they called the ID.Buzz rolled across the stage to wolf whistles from the crowd.
The reception since has been considerably less enthusiastic.
Lorne Gunter: ‘Half history is wrong’: Park Canada plaques deemed problematic
Since 2019, at the height of the Trudeau government’s woke, virtue-signalling remake of Canadian history, it has been official federal policy to portray our national history through the lenses of “colonialism, patriarchy and racism,” especially at Parks Canada sites.
This week, the online news site, Blacklock’s Reporter, exposed two examples of such revisionism. And the surprise is, Parks Canada is likely the good guys in one example.
Muslim Leaders Who Oppose Terrorism: The New Heroes
A group of brave Islamic religious leaders from France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Italy and Britain who are visiting Israel this week are being condemned and ridiculed by many Muslims. The leaders are being accused of “treason” and promoting “normalization” with Israel.
The Muslim leaders did not come to Israel to stand against Muslims or the Palestinians. Rather, they came with a message of peace, coexistence and tolerance. They came to Israel out of a belief that interfaith dialogue between Muslims and non-Muslims is imperative. Interfaith dialogue, which promotes peace and harmony, is important because it allows people to learn about different religions and cultures, and to appreciate the similarities and differences between them.
Call me skeptical.
Canadian wildfire smoke ruining Americans’ summer, says letter from Congress members
Canadian wildfire smoke is travelling south and making it difficult for some Americans to enjoy their summer, according to a letter from six members of Congress to Canada’s ambassador in Washington.
“We write to you today on behalf of our constituents who have had to deal with suffocating Canadian wildfire smoke filling the air to begin the summer,” begins the letter, published Monday and addressed to Ambassador Kirsten Hillman.
How the spy game will work when there’s no place to hide
Aaron Brown was working as a CIA case officer in 2018 when he wrote a post for an agency blog warning about what he called “gait recognition.” He cautioned his fellow officers that computer algorithms would soon be able to identify people not just by their faces, or fingerprints, or DNA — but by the unique ways they walked.
Many of his colleagues, trained in the traditional arts of disguise and concealment, were skeptical. One called it “threat porn.” But Brown’s forecast was chillingly accurate. A study published in May reported that a model called FarSight, using gait, body and face recognition, was 83 percent accurate in verifying an individual at up to 1,000 meters, and was 65 percent accurate even when the face was obscured. “It’s hard to overstate how powerful that is,” Brown said.
How Canada’s shift to the EU may provoke fallout with Trump
Canada’s ambitious strategy to turn to the European Union to wean itself off American dependency for military equipment could be difficult to deliver and result in political fallout, warns former defence and security officials in a new report.
After assessing the political and fiscal risks of the Canada-EU Security and Defence Partnership, signed by Prime Minister Mark Carney in Brussels in June, the authors found that “achieving the partnership’s full potential is highly uncertain” because of obstacles on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
Those obstacles include trade tensions with the United States, division among the European nations and weak links between the federal and provincial governments.
Trump may not care at all seeing it as one more stumble in Canada’s Elbows Up death march.
But if it means participation in un-scrutinized hastily thrown together “deals” that line the pockets of third parties named Brookfield then it’s all good!
The struggle for control of the Arctic is accelerating – and riskier than ever
Tensions are growing at the top of the world.
US President Donald Trump wants Greenland, Russia is modernising its Arctic military bases, Chinese icebreakers are opening new routes and spies are being unmasked.
But as the battle for one of the world’s coldest places heats up, an increasingly fragile security balance may be breaking down, leading to an escalating arms race.
Canada is barely an afterthought in this discussion.
SHOCKA! Taxpayers don’t want to pay for FIFA World Cup
Ontario taxpayers don’t think hosting the FIFA World Cup in 2026 is worth the cost.
That’s according to new polling from Leger, commissioned by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
With a price tag of $380 million to host just six international soccer games, who can blame Ontario taxpayers for having cold feet?
The Olympics, the World Cup, hell if you’re going to fleece taxpayers for personal enrichment why not just build a “High Speed Rail Line” no one asked for.
Saboteurs Busted for Spiking Tires of LA ICE Vehicles. But Wait, What About Those Bags?
Four saboteurs arrested by Border Patrol for spiking their tires while on an immigration operation on Tuesday have been identified. And, you could say, they left their seeming benefactor, a government-subsidized NGO, holding the bag.
Conservatives call for investigation into CBC after journalist resigns over ‘performative diversity, tokenism’
The Conservative party is calling for a parliamentary committee to investigate the CBC after journalist Travis Dhanraj resigned over the public broadcaster’s alleged “performative diversity, tokenism, a system designed to elevate certain voices and diminish others.”
Dhanraj was the host of Canada Tonight: With Travis Dhanraj on CBC. But he resigned on Monday, involuntarily, he says, because the CBC “has made it impossible for me to continue my work with integrity.”
Is Pedro Pascal The New Rachel Zegler?
Pedro Pascal Uses ‘Fantastic Four’ Premiere to Lecture About ‘Protecting’ Trans People in a ‘World They Never Asked to Be Brought Into‘
Actor Pedro Pascal is once again pushing transgenderism. This time at the London premiere of Marvel’s latest blockbuster, The Fantastic Four: First Steps.
Pascal’s brother, Lucas, came out as transgender in 2021 and now demands to be called Lux Pascal. Since his brother came out, the star who seems to have become ubiquitous in Hollywood these days has become a loud and insistent supporter of the transgender movement. And he seems to take every opportunity to push transgenderism into every situation and conversation.
GOLDSTEIN: Trump forcing us to admit our own economic failures
Canadians should be asking themselves why it took an American president launching a trade war against us for our federal and provincial governments to finally start addressing our economic problems they should have fixed decades ago.
Canada is a Banana Republic which is why I was never upset at Trump’s annexation jibes.
Elbows Up? More like “Heads in Ass”.
We have been taken for a ride by our “elites” who have conspired to turn Canada into a 3RD World Dumpster for their personal profit.
They should be jailed.
Hamas fails to overturn status as banned terrorist group in UK
The Home Office has dismissed an application by Hamas to be removed from the list of banned terrorist organisations.
The Islamist Palestinian group, which led the October 7 attacks that killed about 1,200 Israelis, launched a legal challenge in April claiming the designation breached the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
The proscription makes it a criminal offence to have any association with or show support for the group in the UK.
They should have tried a sympathetic nation like Canada first in order to gain momentum.
Toss a few votes at Carney and it’s all fixed.
Mark Carney should suspend federal loan to BC Ferries for purchase of Chinese ships
Say this for the outrage of BC Ferries preparing to spend an estimated $1 billion to buy four ferries from China, a country doing great injury to Prairie farmers and to fishers in Atlantic Canada and B.C. by imposing tariffs on roughly $4 billion of imported Canadian canola, seafood and pork.
It gives the Carney government a bargaining chip to help negotiate an end to our trade dispute with China by suspending the ferry deal at least for now.
Canada provoked the trade war last year when it put tariffs on imported Chinese electric vehicles, steel and aluminum.