How did the Kamala Harris campaign blow $1 billion?

Where did it all go? Yes, the money. That billion dollars.

It is the question being asked this week as the final figures from Kamala Harris’s failed presidential bid come in and the financial post mortem begins; strategists and consultants picking over the Democrats’ cash-corpse, discussing exactly how it was spent and how they would have spent it differently.

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New immigrants less happy than longer-term Canadians, poll finds

A new poll from Angus Reid finds a majority of Canadians still consider themselves to be happy, but that number has been decreasing in recent years. What’s more, non-white and new Canadians seem to be faring the worst in the growing trend of unhappiness.

The survey questioned more than 1,600 adult Canadians last summer, resulting in a margin of error of plus or minus two per cent, 19 times of out 20. It found that 61 per cent of Canadians identified themselves as “very happy” or “pretty happy” in their lives, with the over-55s leading the pack at 68 per cent.

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German Greens Advocate “Women Only” Train Carriages

Antje Kapek, the transport policy speaker for the Green Party in Berlin, has called for the introduction of train carriages for exclusive use by female passengers. This follows a shocking upsurge in serious sex crimes on trains and buses, with Berlin alone experiencing the equivalent of more than one such assault every day. Frankfurt is heading in a similar direction.

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Cory Morgan: Canada Should Follow US Plan to Slash Government Bureaucracy

Bureaucracies and civil services have long been sacred cows in North America. Politicians pay lip service to finding inefficiencies and reducing the size of the government, but rarely make cuts for fear of a political backlash.

That may all be about to change as President-elect Donald Trump has appointed Elon Musk to head the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), together with former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. Trump isn’t showing any indication the department will be a token creation, as he referred to it as “The Manhattan Project of our time.” He plans to act swiftly with government reforms and the actions taken will impact public policy in Canada.

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Defence ministry caught in misuse of funds over favouritism in contracting

 

An investigation has confirmed allegations of improper contracting practices within Defence Minister Bill Blair’s department, revealing “misuse of public funds” through unauthorized agreements with favoured suppliers.

Blacklock’s Reporter says this finding comes after a 2022 audit flagged instances of inside dealing and preferential treatment in military contracts.

Not a day goes by …

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The Withering Dream of a Cheap American Electric Car

The dream of a $25,000 electric vehicle for U.S. drivers is in trouble.

Elon Musk has abandoned it. President-elect Donald Trump is unlikely to help. And the current economics of the U.S. auto industry don’t support it.

The key problem: America doesn’t really sell cheap new cars anymore.

Why would any automaker offer an EV—with all of that costly technology—at a price point that’s half of what the average new vehicle goes for these days?

“I think having a regular $25,000 model is pointless,” Musk said a few weeks ago. “It would be silly.”

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Democrats, reeling from election losses, cast blame on each other

Two weeks removed from a set of losses that sent Democratic leaders into a tailspin, the years-long ideological battle between the progressive left and centrists has once again come to a head as both sides fight to shift blame and take the reins of the future direction of the party.

With the party grappling with how to prepare for midterm elections in two years, uncertainty about who will take over the Democratic National Committee, and expected internal debates over how to handle complete Republican control in the White House and on Capitol Hill, Democrats don’t have much time to find consensus on their path forward.

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The Left Genuinely Feels Beaten

In yesterday’s post on MSNBC viewership numbers cratering and in yesterday’s FPM+ Town Hall (as well as a future article profiling resistance leaders), I speculated that the energy at least at the moment wasn’t there.

“A key variable may be that there is a lack of energy or desire on the part of the leftist base to do it all again,” I wrote.

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The horror of turning children into thoughtcriminals

I wasn’t surprised to read The Times’s story about schoolchildren being investigated for possible ‘hate crimes’. These included a nine-year-old who’d called a classmate a ‘retard’ and two girls at a secondary school who’d told another pupil she smelt ‘like fish’. The police, having decided that these episodes did not meet the threshold for criminal prosecution, dutifully recorded them as ‘non-crime hate incidents’ (NCHIs).

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RFK Jr will disrupt the US medical establishment

Last night, Donald Trump signalled a seismic shift in American science and public health. Fulfilling his campaign promise, he endorsed Robert F. Kennedy Jr as secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the largest federal department with a $1.7 trillion annual budget and over 80,000 employees. Kennedy’s statement in response vows to “bring together the greatest minds in science, medicine, industry, and government to put an end to the chronic disease epidemic”, as well as to “clean up corruption” and return the health agencies to “gold-standard, evidence-based science”.

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Islamo-Nazis: I’m Applying for a Foreign Passport

I have started the process of applying for an Argentinian passport. If you live in Europe and have any familial connection to a far-flung land, you should consider this, too. Not to leave a sinking ship. I intend to stay and fight (by which I mean try to convince minds). But as an insurance policy. I’ve sat through history classes—as have many of you—wondering why on earth the Jews didn’t leave sooner.

Never again.

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