High speed rail project called ‘sexy’ but $90 billion price tag raises red flags

The head of the Crown corporation behind Ottawa’s proposed high speed rail corridor admits the project is “sexy” — but concedes Canadians have reason to be wary of a venture that could cost as much as $90 billion.

Blacklock’s Reporter says appearing before the Senate national finance committee, Martin Imbleau, CEO of Alto — the renamed VIA High Frequency Rail corporation — acknowledged public skepticism over whether the federal government can deliver the massive infrastructure build on time and on budget.

Disaster is written all over this pipe dream.

(Incognito)

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Adam Zivo: Harm-reduction advocates gaslighting Canadians about ‘safe supply’

If gaslighting were an Olympic sport, harm-reduction activists would be buried in gold medals.

For many years, they claimed that there are no real downsides to “safer supply” — an experimental initiative that gives addicts free recreational drugs to dissuade use of riskier street substances. When media reports emerged that these drugs were regularly being diverted to the black market, harm reductionists stridently dismissed them as right-wing disinformation.

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U.S. Defeats Authoritarian Communists On The Ice, Again

The United States didn’t just win a hockey game this weekend; it had another miracle on ice. Forty-six years ago, exactly, the U.S. men’s hockey team beat the Soviet Union and went on to win the Olympic gold medal. This victory symbolized American resolve amid a prolonged Cold War and a decades-long ideological battle against communism. Nine years later, the Berlin Wall fell, and soon afterward, the Soviet Union collapsed.

While Canada is no Soviet Union, the United States under President Trump is once again demonstrating what freedom looks like. For decades, the Western elite, which includes Canada, has been on what F.A. Hayek referred to as the “Road to Serfdom.” According to Hayek, the more control the government has over the economy, the less liberty there will be. Like our Founding Fathers, Hayek believed that the government itself posed the greatest threat to individual liberty.

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The Greens’ shameless embrace of Islamic sectarianism

Appealing almost solely to Muslim voters might seem like a strange way for a major party to go about winning a by-election in Manchester. Producing adverts in Urdu, the native language of Pakistan, might be considered even odder. Yet, to prove that nothing is too strange for British politics in 2026, that is exactly what the Green Party has done in a recent campaign video.

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Indigenous Ontario killer swaps life sentence for one at ‘the very low end of the range’

An Indigenous Ontario man has swapped a life sentence for 12 years in prison for killing a disabled drug dealer.

Kenneth Morrison was convicted of first-degree murder for his role in the July 7, 2018, home invasion in Kitchener, Ont., that left Shaun Yorke, 46, dead with a bullet in his chest. Morrison and an accomplice were both sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years. But Morrison successfully appealed his case to Ontario’s top court, which set aside his murder conviction, substituted a conviction for manslaughter, and sentenced him again.

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The BBC Doesn’t Want to Hear About Anti-White Discrimination

Should the Equality Act 2010 be scrapped? Last week, Reform UK set the cat among the pigeons in the Leftie Blob by pledging to do just that. Suella Braverman, Reform’s new Shadow Education and Skills Secretary, said Britain is being “ripped apart by diversity, equality and inclusion” and promised to “build a country defined by meritocracy not tokenism”. Readers will not be surprised to hear that I heartily agree, and I set out some reasons why in the Spectator:

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Identity, Action, and the Truth About the Massacre in Tumbler Ridge

The devastating fruit of Canada’s capitulation to hyper-left-wing ideology.

On Feb. 10, 2026, Jesse Van Rootselaar, an 18-year-old transgender male, attacked the community of Tumbler Ridge and its Middle School, whereupon he brutally murdered 8 people and wounded 27 others, before he subsequently divorced himself from all existence in the “deadliest school shooting since 14 women were killed in the Ecole Polytechnique massacre in Montreal.”

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Two brothers ‘systemically groomed’ vulnerable girl, 12, for sex when they were young adults, court hears

Two brothers ‘systematically groomed’ a vulnerable 12-year-old girl for sex, a court has been told.

Kamar and Kamran Ilyas had sex with the girl in the mid-2000s when Kamar, now 39, was between 17 and 21, and Kamran, now 38, was aged about 18 to 20, prosecutors told Sheffield Crown Court on Monday.

The brothers allegedly had sex with the child after she drank alcohol and smoked cannabis. They deny the charges.

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KAPLAN: Is the Danielle Smith government following the Quebec playbook on immigration?

It appears that the Smith government is taking a “leaf out” of the Quebec playbook with its policy proposal to reduce government benefits to non-permanent residents (NPRs), including asylum claimants, in Alberta. But the difference is that the Government of Quebec is being upfront about the financial support being provided to its asylum claimants, rather than hiding behind a distraction through a referendum.

(Incognito)

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Cowardice Masquerading as Virtue: Cleveland 1971 and Europe 2026

I have lived in Budapest for most of the last five years and traveled extensively throughout Western Europe in that time. Over and over again in my travels, I face Europeans demanding that I justify the policies of that ‘monster,’ Viktor Orbán. To be fair, they are under no obligation to support Orbán and his Fidesz party, but it would be nice if these critics had any idea what they were talking about. They usually don’t—especially when it comes to migration.

Long ago, I concluded that these Europeans, including British bien-pensants, have to scapegoat Orbán to escape blame for the messes they have made in their own countries via mass migration. I always invite them to Budapest to see for themselves what it is like to live in a safe, well-ordered city—one that achieves that not by heavy policing, but because it is not home to a population that is internally lawless and that hates the culture that has taken them in.

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This State Agency Rejected Her Because She’s White – Now She’s Suing

A Rhode Island English teacher who has been a vocal critic on “equity” curricula is now suing state health officials, alleging they used diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices to exclude her from the public health commission that advises the governor and state legislature.

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Hockey Loss Should Awaken Canada To Its Long-Running Anti-American Decline

In a healthy nation, Canada’s loss to the United States in the 2026 Olympic gold medal game would be only a disappointment. In Canada today, it feels like a verdict.

When a people that has systematically emptied politics, culture, and education of any serious aspiration to excellence discovers that even its last unquestioned superiority, hockey, no longer belongs to it, the sting is not merely athletic; it is spiritual. The game revealed what we have been at pains to avoid: Reality has returned, and it has no patience for our stubborn ideology.


Of course the US has its share of loons.

h/t Clink9

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