Canada
November 21, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
With Donald Trump the stateside victor, Steve contends that that it’s Canada’s turn to smack down the “eminently smackable” Justin Trudeau. While the 2025 (possibly sooner) election awaits, a few thoughts about previous prime minister Pierre Trudeau are in order. Consider the take of David Frum in Canada’s National Post back in 2011. Canada’s achievement overcoming Trudeau’s disastrous legacy should not inure Canadians to how disastrous that legacy was. Three
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October 9, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Canada’s next federal elections is scheduled to take place no later than October 20, 2025. Canada’s Conservative Party is led by Pierre Poilievre. We like what we have seen of him. Who can forget Poilievre’s depantsing of a standard-issue left-wing reporter while he (i.e., Poilievre) stood calmly munching an apple? John posted the video here. This past April he spoke at a pro-Israel rally in Toronto (video here). Yesterday Poilievre
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August 15, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Check out this map, which shows the population of Canada divided into four equal parts. Basically, no one lives in the vast majority of the country: Canada has long defined itself as not-the-United-States. But looking at the population distribution, it looks more like an appendage of the U.S. Only politically, even worse.
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June 8, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Justin Trudeau is polling worse than Joe Biden and Steve thinks it might be due to a drop in real per capita GNP. Maybe Justin could revive his blackface act, which the ladies found amusing back in 2001. That should have killed off Justin’s political career, but he was saved by the family connection. According to Canadian David Frum, who composed George W. Bush’s “Axis of Evil” speech, Pierre Trudeau
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April 17, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
On April 17, 2016, my mother Victoria Billingsley passed away at the age of 94. Today (April 17, 2024) she received a letter from Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare about “the recent cyber incident affecting local hospitals in the Southwest Ontario region,” including approximately 46,000 patients of Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare. As the letter explains: We can confirm that, unfortunately, you were included in this group and some of the personal health information
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April 8, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The site formerly known as Twitter covers a lot of news that you won’t easily find anywhere else, if at all. When it comes to the Hamas-Israel conflict, most of it is of the heartbreaking or infuriating variety. The tweet below, for example, falls into both categories — “Hamas Negotiators have reportedly told International Meditators in Cairo that it has No Ability to Release the 40 Hostages in the Humanitarian
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October 31, 2023 — Lloyd Billingsley
“The only way we can solve the climate crisis is to continue our long-standing cooperation with China,” proclaimed Gavin Newsom during his trip to China. For the California governor, collaboration with one of the world’s leading polluters, a one-party Stalinist police state, is the “only way” to solve a “crisis” that is an existential problem. Gov. Newsom allegedly raised human-rights issues but failed to call for China to release David
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October 18, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Pierre Poilievre is the leader of Canada’s Conservative Party. In this viral clip, he is interviewed by a hack left-wing journalist while munching an apple (Poilievre, not the journalist). It makes for an enjoyable couple of minutes. I especially like Poilievre’s response to the “some people say” ploy that is so beloved by liberal journalists: Pierre Poilievre casually smacks down a left wing journalist while munching on an apple. pic.twitter.com/FeAcjCncvw
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October 18, 2023 — Lloyd Billingsley
Last month, the Canadian Parliament hailed the Ukrainian Yaroslav Hunka, a veteran of the Nazis’ Waffen-SS Galicia Division, as a “Canadian hero.” It soon emerged that the late Peter Savaryn, chancellor of the University of Alberta, had fought in the same unit as Hunka. This should not have been a surprise. As “60 Minutes” explained in 1997, after World War II Canada welcomed thousands of Nazis into Canada, including war
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October 9, 2023 — Lloyd Billingsley
Waldheimer’s Disease made the late United Nations boss forget he was a Nazi. The Waldheimer’s Variant spreads willful ignorance of National Socialism, and it can compel Canadian parliamentarians to hail Yaroslav Hunka, a veteran of the Nazis’ Waffen-SS Galicia Division, as a “Canadian hero.” Fortunately, there is a vaccine for this malaise: historical truth. As the great Malcolm Muggeridge explained, German National Socialism and Russian Communism were Teutonic and Slavonic
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October 4, 2023 — Lloyd Billingsley
The Canadian Parliament’s praise for Yaroslav Hunka, who served with the Waffen-SS Galicia Division, has created quite a stir. As it turns out, the maternal grandfather of deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland edited a pro-Nazi newspaper. Freeland, Trudeau, Speaker Anthony Rota and others doubtless knew about Hunka’s past all along. After all, Nazis living in Canada is not a new story. Back in 1997, CBS’ “Sixty Minutes” exposed “Canada’s Dark
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September 29, 2023 — Lloyd Billingsley
Volodymyr Zelensky is a man on the move, and on September 22 the Ukrainian president addressed the Canadian Parliament. Also appearing was Yaroslav Hunka, 98, hailed by Speaker Anthony Rota as “a Ukrainian hero, a Canadian hero, and we thank him for all his service.” The members cheered, but there was a problem. Yaroslav Hunka served under Nazi command with the Waffen-SS Galicia Division, a voluntary unit also known as
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August 31, 2023 — John Hinderaker
In the Telegraph, Michael Taube writes: “Justin Trudeau’s smug incompetence is making Canada a laughing stock.” First the broad observation, then the specific action that prompted it: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been a mediocre, ineffective leader since coming to power in 2015. Every time you believe he’s reached the lowest depths of political incompetence, he finds a new way to sink even further into the muck. His latest
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March 25, 2023 — Scott Johnson
President Biden addressed the Canadian House of Commons in Ottawa yesterday. The White House has posted the transcript here. In his remarks Biden retailed the same impoverishing ignorance and stupid shibboleths that he has sold in the United States many times over. He doesn’t know shibboleths from Shinola. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: You know, the incredible diversity that defines each of our nations is our strength.
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February 5, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Canada was once a land of fishermen, lumberjacks, oil drillers and Mounties. What the Hell happened? In the Telegraph, Zoe Strimpel writes: “Canada is testing sinister wokeness to destruction.” The madness of Trudeau’s Canada has reached a fresh, painful high. New rules have come into effect that allow adults in British Columbia – the capital of which is addict-packed, overdose-ravaged Vancouver – to possess 2.5g of ecstasy, cocaine or heroin,
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December 3, 2022 — Scott Johnson
Matt Taibbi and Douglas Murray debated Malcolm Gladwell and Michelle Goldberg on the proposition “Be it resolved, don’t trust mainstream media.” Taibbi and Murray took the affirmative, i.e., the mainstream media are not to be trusted. The event took place this past Wednesday under the auspices of the Munk Debates in Toronto, Canada. Before undertaking his dive into the Twitter Files, Taibbi wrote it up here at his Substack site
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April 17, 2022 — Scott Johnson
I take it that certain tax benefits accrue to entities deemed a Qualified Canadian Journalism Organization under Canadian law. Are you now or have you ever been a QCJO? National Post columnist Rex Murphy reports that Ezra Levant’s Rebel News has been weighed in the balance and found wanting, according to the recent decision of the Independent Advisory Board on the Eligibility for Journalism Tax Measures. After mulling it over
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