Andy Rooney once said that “numbers are the most certain things we have.” That can absolutely be true, and the one certainty about the numbers of the current Parliament is the baked-in uncertainty given the events of the past week.
Trump threatens BBC with 1 Billion dollar lawsuit over faked documentary
Donald Trump has threatened legal action against the BBC and welcomed the resignations of two of its most senior figures after a campaign against the broadcaster that reached fever pitch over criticism that its flagship documentary programme in 2024 used a misleading edit of a Trump speech.
Lawyers for the US president said that the BBC must retract the Panorama documentary by Friday or face a lawsuit for “no less” than $1bn (£760m), according to US media outlets who cited the letter. The BBC has confirmed it had received a letter and said it will respond in due course.
Mark Carney is flooding the zone. This is what he could be trying to distract us from
MAGA strategist Stephen K. Bannon calls it “flooding the zone.” U.S. President Donald Trump demonstrated it in his first weeks back in office, when he introduced over 100 Executive Orders. Regardless of their legal viability, the sheer volume of policy changes is the point. It is a political strategy to overwhelm institutions, courts and social groups, preventing effective opposition.
In Canada, we are witnessing our own version of “flooding the zone” from new Prime Minister Mark Carney, in coordination with provincial and territorial premiers.
The Star is harsh.
Ukrainian Corruption Watchdog Says ‘Large-Scale Operation’ In Energy Sector Under Way
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) said it is conducting a “large-scale operation” jointly with the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office to expose corruption involving “a high-level criminal organization” in the energy sector.
NABU said in a post on social media on November 10 that the investigation has been ongoing for 15 months with some 1,000 hours of audio recordings gathered. It added that the “activities of a high-level criminal organization have been documented,” with members having built “a large-scale corruption scheme to influence strategic enterprises in the public sector, in particular JSC ‘Energoatom.'”
BREAKING: Black day for Zelensky.
Today, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine conducted 70 searches related to corruption in the energy sector.
Audio recordings were also made public, in which top Ukrainian officials and businessmen close to Zelensky are heard… pic.twitter.com/QEYv2eVcpR
— Oleksandr Dubinskyi (@Dubinsky_pro) November 10, 2025
h/t Mauser
All wars breed corruption. But when your young men flee the country rather than enlist to defend their nation you have to wonder at the reasons why.
Barging into office, yelling from Conservative leadership ‘sealed the deal’ on defection: d’Entremont
Nova Scotia MP Chris d’Entremont says the barging into his office and yelling from Conservative Party leadership “sealed the deal” on his choice to cross the floor of the House of Commons to the Liberals this week.
After d’Entremont’s musings over a possible defection were reported by Politico on Tuesday, the MP says Conservative House leader Andrew Scheer and party whip Chris Warkentin “barged” into his office, pushed open the door — almost knocking down his assistant — and yelled at him about “how much of a snake” he was.
Some dare call it bullshit.
US Senate passes deal aimed at ending longest ever government shutdown
A deal aimed at ending the US government shutdown has passed the Senate, paving the way for the record-breaking impasse to be broken.
After a weekend of negotiations in Washington, a minority of Democrats joined with Republicans and voted in favour of an agreement.
The vote is a procedural first step towards passing a compromise to fund the government since it ran out of money 1 October.
WTF?
UPDATE MP Carney’s office in NEPEAN!
No phone number
No sign
Not on the building directoryIt is a GHOST OFFICE.
WHY did it take 7 months to “circle back” to the former MP’s office, which taxpayers have been paying the entire time?
Or is it just a reflection of… pic.twitter.com/yA75smtKpn
— Barbara Bal MBA (@BarbaraBalCPC) November 9, 2025
It would appear he wishes to minimize contact with the proles.
h/t Mauser
Canadian military will rely on an army of public servants to boost its ranks by 300,000
The Canadian Forces is counting on public servants to volunteer for military service as it tries to ramp up an army of 300,000 as part of a mobilization plan, according to a defence department directive.
Federal and provincial employees would be given a one-week training course in how to handle firearms, drive trucks and fly drones, according to the directive, signed by Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jennie Carignan and defence deputy minister Stefanie Beck on May 30, 2025.
Related …
DND expansion plans are wildly unrealistic
Have the senior leaders of the Canadian military lost all connection to reality?
Their unpublicized plan to increase Canada’s military reserves to 400,000 people, as reported by the Citizen’s David Pugliese , is wildly out of synch with their own organization’s recruitment capabilities, the attraction of serving in the armed forces, and the country’s needs.
WTF?
Little kitten trying to eat mama cat pic.twitter.com/vsXD2kKHJs
— The Pets (@ThePetsX) October 28, 2025
Elon Musk’s AI Grokipedia takes on ‘Wokipedia’
Elon Musk has taken a keen interest in his Wikipedia page over the years. So have the site’s editors: 4,221 of them have made more than 17,000 changes to his page since 2008.
The billionaire tweeted in 2019: “My wiki is a war zone with a zillion edits. At least it’s obviously not curated! Some day, I should probably write what my fictionalised version of reality is.”
WTF?
This 30 second clip sums up Britain today. Nick Timothy is a British MP trying to talk to Muslim supremacists who call him a dog and then instruct a British police-girly to remove him, which she immediately obeys. Do you fully understand where we are now, re Islam?@NJ_Timothy pic.twitter.com/AqVEgaGuHL
— Paul Weston (@PWestoff) November 9, 2025
‘Things are crumbling’: changing caucus landscape, external pressures spell bad news for Poilievre’s leadership review, say Conservatives
With one MP already gone to the Liberals, another one resigning, and more rumoured to be leaving the Conservative fold, the rapidly shifting political landscape ahead of Pierre Poilievre’s upcoming leadership review would weaken his position in a vote he was once expected to win with more than 80 per cent support, say Conservative MPs and former senior Conservatives.
“Things are crumbling,” said a senior Conservative in a not-for-attribution interview with The Hill Times. “It will be very hard for him to hang on. We’ll see.”
I think this is more media hype than substance.
WTF?
Calgary Singh BUSTED With 170 lb of Cocaine at US-Canada Border Freed on $0 Bail Next Day
Surj Singh Salaria, a Calgary-based commercial truck driver, is facing three serious criminal charges for attempting to traffic 170 pounds of cocaine into Canada from the United States… pic.twitter.com/BDgDHRW9jW— Mocha Bezirgan (@BezirganMocha) November 9, 2025
America’s great marijuana CRASH
The dream of legal weed was supposed to mint millionaires.
Instead, it’s creating bankruptcies.
Across the US, cannabis companies are collapsing under impossible taxes, plunging prices and brutal red tape.
Even celebrities once hyped by the ‘green rush’ – from Jay-Z to Whoopi Goldberg – have seen their plans go up in smoke.
WTF?
Christians are under attack. A non-Italian citizen (February 7) breaks into St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City and devastates everything. pic.twitter.com/JdD1vrQG73
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) November 8, 2025