Given that those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it, the fact that Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne reported a drop in last year’s projected deficit from $78.3 billion to $66.9 billion — a decrease of $11.4 billion — in Tuesday’s spring economic statement should surprise no one.
It’s an old trick used by finance ministers for decades, regardless of political stripe, but perfected by the Jean Chretien Liberal government from 1993 to 2003.
NPR “domestic extremism correspondent” Odette Yousef has a consistent pattern of finding extremism only on the “far right.” When Cole Tomas Allen shot up the White House Correspondents Dinner, that was somehow not left-wing extremism, as NPR’s headlines over Yousef’s reportage/camouflage from Monday’s All Things Considered claimed:
Shooting suspect’s online presence belies claims of ‘radicalism’
Five men have been charged after police recovered a stolen trailer containing cannabis products worth more than $2 million in Mississauga earlier this month.
York Regional Police (YRP) said the trailer was stolen from Niagara Region and was intended for delivery to numerous dispensaries.
Officers were in the area of McLaughlin Road and Highway 401 on April 15 when they discovered the stolen trailer, YRP said.
Once upon a time, there was a societal pact in this country that, when a depraved lunatic committed an atrocity, no one would breathe a word of his motives, speech, or writings. When Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kicked off the school shooting craze at Columbine High School in 1999, we didn’t speak of what they thought they were accomplishing. Their so-called basement tapes were never publicly released, and authorities destroyed them in 2011. “Law enforcement officials have always regarded the tapes as a particularly infectious form of toxic waste, a primer in mass murder that could inspire more violence and must never be released,” reported the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition.
An Ontario Conservative MP says she will not be crossing the floor anytime soon, despite an attempt from the Liberal Party to poach her.
Kitchener Centre MP Kelly DeRidder says she got a phone call from the Liberal Party, trying to convince her that switching sides would give her a better chance at winning the next election.
The latest (dumb) idea floating around to protect actors from AI is something called the Tilly Tax, or a tax that tries to remove the incentive of choosing an AI-generated actor over a human actor.
Over at Forbes, Dr. Lance B. Eliot, an AI scientist, has written a truly superb article that looks at this tax scheme from all angles. Unlike most of the analysis you see about AI vs. Hollywood, Eliot’s write-up is informed, comprehensive, and loaded with the kind of context the entertainment media are afraid to highlight.
Good read … Hollywood’s New Math Favors AI Actors Over Human Actors And Taxing Won’t Stop The Rise Of Synthetic Movie Stars
Ontario saw the largest unemployment rate increase in the country for the second year running, according to its financial watchdog, which also found that new jobs are still being created in the province.
A new report from the Financial Accountability Office of Ontario found job creation slowed in 2025, with 80,900 jobs created last year.
That figure is a drop from the year before and the slowest pace of job creation since 2015, excluding the COVID-19 pandemic.
The BBC understands that the suspect being held after the Golders Green knife attack yesterday is 45-year-old Essa Suleiman from south-east London.
He was born in Somalia, but came to the UK as a child in the early 1990s. He came legally, and is now a British citizen.
The Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley previously said he had a “history of serious violence and mental health issues.”
So just a regular Muslim then.
Despite claims that “Canada’s new government” is being run by prudent fiscal managers, Ottawa still has a spending problem. In many ways, the spring economic update is proving something the Conservatives have been saying for months and most Canadians were not believing.
Mark Carney’s government is a lot like Justin Trudeau’s government and that includes their interventionist economic view and out-of-control spending.
TRUMP TO PUTIN: ‘I WANT TO END YOUR WAR’: In a phone conversation that lasted more than 90 minutes, Russian President Vladimir Putin told President Donald Trump that he’d like to help the U.S. get Iran’s enriched uranium out of the country, but Trump said he replied, “I’d much rather have you be involved with ending the war with Ukraine.”
Despite Russia’s overt support for Iran, and intelligence that suggests Moscow has provided Iran both with drone and targeting information to kill Americans, an aide to Putin said “the conversation ended on a warm note, wishing each other all the best.”
OTTAWA — The regime to investigate wrongdoing and protect whistleblowers within the federal government is on the verge of collapse under a relentless surge of allegations and complaints, Canada’s integrity commissioner says — and this week’s fiscal update did nothing to address the growing problem.
Sitting down inside her sparsely decorated office near Parliament Hill on Wednesday, public sector integrity commissioner Harriet Solloway described how her team of nine investigators and seven lawyers is drowning under a deepening caseload it doesn’t have the resources to get under control.
… Conventional wisdom tells us that immigration is always good for the economy. But countries such as Britain and Germany have recently managed to combine historic levels of immigration with stagnant growth. The Econ 101 crowd may be sticking to a textbook that is badly out of date. But one point is clear: If you are going to slash the number of migrants, you need to make sure your existing population is working as hard as possible.
Canada is as bad as England or Germany. The Liberal party has lied about the economic benefit of mass immigration by focusing on GDP as opposed to GDP per capita which is a truer measure of a nation’s wealth.
The LPC like their Democrat counterparts criminally exploited Canada’s immigration policy to line their pockets and skew voter demographics in their favour.
A former Brampton, Ont., real estate agent who was found guilty of child abduction in Thessalon faces possible deportation once he has served his 18-month sentence.
Manoj Govindbalunikam, 37, was sentenced earlier this month for abducting someone under the age of 14 in an incident on Aug. 15, 2023.
The United States Justice Department has charged the governor of Mexico’s Sinaloa state and nine other officials for their alleged involvement with the Sinaloa Cartel, it announced on Wednesday.
The Justice Department claimed that Ruben Rocha Moya and others conspired with leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel to import massive quantities of narcotics into the US in exchange for political support and bribes.
The nine others include current and former Mexican officials, some of whom have been accused of having participated in the cartel’s campaign of violence.
If you have been wondering what meaning to attach to that irritating phrase the Carney Liberals use to describe themselves, “Canada’s New Government” – which was irritating enough when it was first employed, under Stephen Harper, when it was actually a new government – wonder no longer. As this Spring Economic Update makes abundantly clear, it means nothing whatever. Or next to nothing.
Coyne sounds near sane!
Pic from reader DA
