God, I thank you that I am not like other people—joggers with dogs, churchgoers, people who want to plant a garden—or even like this business person. I wash my hands twice an hour and stay home to work, and all I get is delivered to my door.

Mornings are my favorite with Maya. She’s wide awake, bright-eyed, and so wonderfully responsive. I’m still in awe of how much she’s improved over the past few months especially just this week alone. I love you so much, my sweet baby girl. ❤️

TIL: The guy who invented kerosene, and thus the modern oil industry, was a Nova Scotian forced out of Canada by special interests and red tape.

As Glenn says, It isn't anti-semitism. It is anti Zionism. Sure. Look at the bright side. The Democrats have found their latest star candidate.

A journalist losing their peace of mind.

Polite reminder that @SeanFraserMP and @MarkJCarney are running interference for the director of Samidoun, the front organization for Iranian-backed terror group PFLP. Charlotte Kates just received an award from the Islamic Republic for her "work". Fraser and Carney are doing this in the same week that a TPS officer was murdered by an IRGC gun-for-hire in Toronto. When you support and coddle Islamist terror organizations, you eventually reap terror.

The mediocrity of Canadians cannot be contained.

We are going to watch the destruction of the food distribution and retail. The provinces are already working at that, imposing absurd regulatory burdens. A store in Manitoba was ordered to have a 3rd class engineer at the store daily to monitor their equipment. This requirement was recently imposed via CSA. BTW, this is not in response to a problem. So the 5 grocery chains are monopolies, but manage to be so incompetent they can't extract monopoly rents. Watch, they will be ordered to spin off their distribution systems. This won't decrease costs, or prices. Costs will continue to go higher year after year, every initiative these fools implement will make it worse. And by the way, food processing used to happen in Canada, but the carbon tax killed the last remaining ones that the high cost regulatory environment hadn't. The Canadian Holodomor.

I joked to a friend who is getting older, that one advantage of age is at one point you can hide your own easter eggs. Is Carney there? He had described a different "world order" in every speech.

An interesting experience this week, makes me laugh. I work in grocery stores, fix their refrigeration. The managers have a history with refrigeration mechanics, often not positive. We replaced a piece of equipment. Got it installed, worked through the startup and settings. I like to check everything before I leave, put it through a defrost, watch it cycle, but we ran out of time. They were about to kick us out. I was reasonably confident, it was cooling, so we packed up and left. Next morning, there was an issue (btw, there is a universal law that states the number of problems with a job will be directly proportional to the distance). Went on site, went through all the components, cycled through the operating phases, and found the issue; I had miswired something. So went to talk the the managers. I said you should write on a calendar the date, because I made a mistake. They both started laughing. One said I have never heard a refrigeration mechanic say that. Is it fixed? Yes, I said, I tested it all, should be fine. Nothing of the scale and import of what @jockowillink described, but a similar result. Deal with the issue, admit responsibility, and it has a remarkable effect.

The Canadian Holodomor continues apace. Provinces seem to have a bee in their bonnet and are deciding to overregulate the refrigeration that stores use. The contractors are billing the stores for the additional costs, tens of thousands of dollars for nothing. This on top of the regulatory enforced cost increases in the components and supplies to keep these systems running. What is going to happen are the small contractors are going to leave the industry, and large contractors who can afford all the regulatory costs will simply drive the prices up. You will pay these costs when you buy groceries. The problem they are solving? They desperately need revenue and will kill one industry after another as they bleed them dry.

If you are curious why Canada is mediocre, it's smart people leave and the economy is flat, here is exhibit 1. If you solve electric cars, solve the high cost of getting things to orbit, and many other things, Canadians will hate you. And Canadian media will list the reasons why. Best to do all this elsewhere. There is a long long list of people who have done that, and it should be a point of shame for this country.

Are lobotomies a mandatory procedure to get into higher levels of policy and governance in Canada?

Thank you for the comments, but you can’t fire staffers. You can’t even call them out by name. That will trigger an autoimmune response. When I was a kid, there was corruption in parts of the NYPD. You couldn’t stop it because of the “blue wall of silence.” The blue wall of silence was an informal culture inside some police departments: officers protect fellow officers from accountability, even when they know misconduct or crimes occurred. The logic was simple. “We rely on each other to survive dangerous situations, so loyalty comes first.” Trust among officers is essential for safety. But in some departments, that loyalty curdled into misplaced solidarity that shielded wrongdoing. The mechanism for enforcing it was more nefarious than the crime. Sometimes the dirty cops assaulted or set up the whistleblower. More often, they did nothing. Doing nothing is the most effective punishment there is. How does it work? A whistleblower cop is on patrol in the Bronx and calls for backup. The others just do nothing. Radio’s broken. Off duty. Need backup themselves. Clocked out early for a family emergency. And it worked, because the NYPD is enormous and complicated. It employs over 50,000 people. If it were an army, it would rank among the 10 largest on earth. You can’t hold one person accountable for doing nothing. The whistleblower puts in for a promotion? Don’t process it. Lose the paperwork. People are so focused on ridiculous conspiracies. They build elaborate scenarios to shoehorn disparate facts into a pattern. Take Butler, Pennsylvania. Some people think BlackRock worked with the CIA to train and arm Thomas Crooks. The truth is more sinister. Biden did nothing to improve Trump’s security. Police did nothing when Crooks walked around with a laser rangefinder. They decided not to use drones. They did not put the best agents on the detail. They did not check the rooftops. They did not investigate Crooks’ suspicious activity. And accountability? We STILL don’t know the agent who was in charge of Butler. The secret service has done nothing to release her name. Almost every real conspiracy happens when groups of people all decide not to do their jobs well. To not release names or information. And coordinating it is surprisingly easy. Tell the detail the threat level is low today. Tell everyone they deserve a break. Tell them another agency is handling the hard part. Or flood essential people with bullshit jobs and paperwork until they can’t do the real work. So what does this have to do with the Parliamentarian and Senate staffers? Senators are completely dependent on their staff for everything: travel arrangements, appointments, writing the legislation itself. Staffers run the place. And if staffers feel under attack, they will simply do nothing. They will not process the markup. They will not schedule the confirmation hearing. They will slow-roll, lay red tape, call extra committee hearings, delay the ones already scheduled. They will “enforce the process.” They will leak fake news to divert your attention. There are a million ways for staffers to throw a wrench in the works and call it nothing. And there are dozens of unaccountable scapegoats to pin it on. It’s Thune’s fault. It’s the Parliamentarian’s fault. It’s the White House not respecting the process. It’s the DC Circuit courts. It’s the Democrats. It’s the filibuster. It’s complexity itself. I’m doing it right now by saying “it’s the staffers.” This is why they call it the blob. It’s impossible to pin down the culprit. That’s how and why every Trump priority and appointment is getting delayed. /1

This looks like a Liberal handler decided to make him look like a fool. Oh yes, your top is lovely, and what a great suit. More evidence of the Liberal civil war.

Here's an idea. The government of Canada pulls any subsidy from any media that pushed the indigenous graves story.

Who is Scott Pelley? Why should I care if some pompous looking piece of plastic loses his job?

A few years ago I was working in a small airport control tower. Fixing something. The guy had set up a satellite receiver into the tower equipment and had the raw network feeds. You could watch the remote feeds of network news readers; they would sit there patiently then turn on the charm for 30 seconds, then off. One was memorable. Wherever they were was cold and windy, and the woman had a look of hatred for the world in general and in specific for those who put her there. The man had a carved face which naturally was warm and authoritative, the only humanity was his eyes which showed a barely contained disdain for the woman and her constant complaints. Then a signal, and they both turned into different people. He looked warm and friendly, she looked happy and attractive, a perfect couple. They did their 30 seconds, then right back to what they were previously. I don't know and frankly didn't care what they were saying, but the plastic transformation was quite amusing.

There was something of a tell in the Liberal handling of the zero growth announcement. They kept pointing at Statistics Canada. Frankly, the 'recession' was rounding errors; GDP growth is a measure of economic activity in two periods, minus inflation. There is way to much slop in both measures; economists joke that when a macro economist uses decimal points they are pulling your leg. A higher inflation number means less growth. So this week I bought a consumable that I use regularly; the price went from $190 per lb to $386 then to $500 over the last 6 months. I pass these costs along to my customers. So my billing could show an increase of 250%, increasing the gdp numbers, but they say inflation is floating between 2 and 3%. Ask around. This is happening throughout the economy. I'm seeing price increases that shock me, similar to 2022. To put it mildly, I don't believe the numbers. So you are Statistics Canada. You see these anomalies, this strangeness; you know the numbers don't represent anything except the result of an equation that has been used for a while. You hear the political fuss; your numbers are consequential. The data can tell you anything that you want it to say. The political environment in Ottawa punishes anything contrary to the desired narrative. So you put lots of decimal points in the published data.

The mediocre Bruce Arthur

Millei shows up, the Argentina equilibrium is disturbed, and a line up of wanna be Peronists start crawling out of the woodwork.