-- "Sixteen months after Ontario pulled nearly $80 million worth of American alcohol from Liquor Control Board of Ontario shelves in response to U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods, the province still won't say what it plans to do with it." --
-- "Prime Minister Mark Carney says he will look into an expense program under which former governors general billed the government more than half a million dollars last year. The program, which launched in 1979 and has been shrouded in secrecy, allows each former governor general to bill up to $206,040 per year, on top of their pensions." --The Liberals aren't worried about the peasants...
-- "Former governor general Adrienne Clarkson had billed taxpayers more than $1.1 million since leaving Rideau Hall 13 years earlier." --
-- "Concern is mounting that taxpayers could be left holding the bag if the Obama Presidential Center runs into financial trouble, as the foundation behind it has yet to establish a promised $470 million safety net to guard against a public bailout. Reports that contractors and subcontractors remain locked in payment disputes make the largely unfunded reserve even more problematic." --
-- "Carville labeled universities that accept the reforms as 'collaborators,' then said his fantasy dream is to see them marched down Pennsylvania Avenue while the public spits on them when President Donald Trump leaves office in 2029." --Yeah... absolutely nothing pathological about that.
-- "The 55-year-old — who pleaded guilty last year to evading $1.4 million in back taxes and was convicted on felony gun charges — declined to mention that he had been present for discussions on pardons during Joe Biden’s final months in the White House." --
-- "Palestinian-born ‘Squad’ member Rep. Rashida Tlaib, (D-Mich.), who regularly criticizes wealth and income inequality in the US, has spent over $35,000 on "luxury limousine services" between Oct. 2024 and Sept. 2025, according to her Federal Election Commission filings. "The 'Squad'... all cut out of the same cloth...
-- "Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., repeatedly sidestepped a question about whether she believed illegal immigrants should receive taxpayer-funded healthcare during a CNN town hall on Wednesday night." --
-- "In a strange story down in Prince Edward County, OPP officers are investigating the case of a female Tim Hortons manager offering a five-figure payment to a 17-year-old girl to fake a relationship with her 25-year-old Indian 'brother' to get 'permanent residency' in Canada." --
The dismissed manager has returned to Brampton and is no longer in the county.
It's actually worse than you think...
-- “The manager was harassing my 17-year-old niece to marry her 'brother' who is 25 and offered her $20,000 to marry him,” Matt Monroe posted to Facebook. Monroe said his niece was so 'devastated' by this turn of events that she quit her job." --Moral of the story... 'Import the third world... become the third world.'
-- "The dismembered remains of 32 people have been discovered in an abandoned house in Mexico’s cartel-ravaged region of Guanajuato, Mexico’s deadliest state." --
-- "Ontario Premier Doug Ford has walked back last week’s pledge to issue work permits to asylum seekers. Ford now says he does not want to take over work done by the federal government, but did not explain why he changed his mind." --
-- "Jill Biden’s 'work husband' Anthony Bernal became the second former White House aide to invoke his right against self-incrimination and departed without taking reporter questions. Oversight Chairman James Comer said he only got to ask two questions: 'Was Joe Biden fit to exercise the duties of the president?' and 'Did any unelected official or family member execute the duties of the presidency?'” --
-- "The DOJ and FBI said in a joint memo last week that the two agencies had no further information to share with the public about Epstein's case and death. That led to FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino clashing with Bondi over ‘lack of transparency’ and threatening to resign over the matter." --Why would Trump risk giving Democrats a foothold?
-- "Schumer is no stranger to trying to leverage government funding fights to his advantage. Earlier this year, he withheld support for the House GOP-authored government funding extension before ultimately agreeing to the deal." --Tomorrow's headline... 'Schumer Vows Mother of all Battles.'
-- "Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has written a book that will detail working in a 'broken White House' and her decision to leave the Democratic Party and become an independent." --Well... they say timing is everything...
-- "President Trump directed his administration on Wednesday to investigate whether former President Joe Biden’s aides 'conspired to deceive the public' about his mental decline and used an autopen to sign documents without his knowledge." --It's going about as well as you'd expect...
-- "Reporters who covered the Biden White House are in disbelief that former press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre ditched the Democratic Party to pen a new book in a 'desperate' attempt to revive her career." --And finally...
-- “‘You know, it's like I had a dream, and I opened up the first page of her book about the ‘broken White House’ and the first sentence says, ‘Peter Doocy told me, and I didn't listen to him’.” --
-- "Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation took MILLIONS of dollars from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, and other Middle Eastern countries in exchange for access to the US government. Clinton engaged in a massive influence-peddling scheme while she was the head of the Department of State and used a private server to evade FOIA." --
-- "Former Liberal MP and member of Toronto city council, Adam Vaughan, who was a vocal opponent of Premier Doug Ford’s plans for the redevelopment of Ontario Place has taken on a new role with Therme Canada, the company building a mega-spa on the provincially-owned property." --
As Doonesbury once asked... 'How long does it take to repudiate everything you've every stood for?'
Answer: 'At least 48 hours, the paperwork is incredible.'
-- "We haven't heard a whole lot from Placeholder President Joe Biden in recent weeks, and whatever he was doing must have been exhausting because, with just over three weeks to go before leaving office, it's time for another relaxing vacation. Multiple family members are expected to join." --
-- "Biden, 81, whose increasing irrelevance domestically and on the world stage has earned him the moniker of ‘super lame duck,’ arrived last to the family photo before taking his pre-decided position between the fellow back-row leaders of Thailand and Vietnam." --
-- "Vice President Kamala Harris paid Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions $1 million, just one example of millions the campaign spent on various entertainers during the Vice President’s failed bid for President." --The Dogs of Woke just didn't do it...
-- “Kamala supports taxpayer funded sex changes for prisoners? Hell no, I don’t want my taxpayer dollars going to that!” --
-- "The Bloc Québécois is giving the federal Liberals a deadline of Oct. 29 to pass two pieces of legislation related to old-age security and supply management, or they will bring down the government." --
-- "Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign issued a statement Wednesday evening to walk back a statement she made earlier in which she said she was open to talking about an arms embargo on Israel in exchange for votes in Michigan. It was just the latest example of an anti-Israel shift in her policy." --Meanwhile back at the ranch...
-- "Columbia University Deans Susan Chang-Kim, Matthew Patashnick and Cristen Kromm, who exchanged 'very troubling' texts that ‘disturbingly touched on ancient antisemitic tropes’ are resigning from the elite school, according to a report Thursday. The trio was initially put on leave after it emerged they’d sent disparaging text chains." --
