WHEN SECONDS COUNT, THE COPS ARE ONLY TWENTY MINUTES AWAY...

-- "Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre wants the government to amend the Criminal Code to say that the use of force is presumed to be reasonable to defend your home is someone breaks into it.   He told a press conference in Brampton that if the government doesn’t do this, his party will introduce a private member’s bill aimed at making the change this fall." --

And there's more here. 

And back in Olivia Chow's McStabby Toronto...

-- "A suspect has been arrested after one person was stabbed at Kipling Avenue and The Westway in Etobicoke Friday afternoon." --

OH CANADA... A BOATLOAD OF AI-GENERATED CRINGE...

-- "They want this picture to go hard, but all it does is project an image of a country so utterly ill prepared to defend itself that it’s reduced to sending waterlogged post-menopausal women into battle." --

CARNEY EATS AN ELBOW!!!

-- "Prime Minister Mark Carney is scrapping Canada’s punishing tariffs on billions of dollars worth of American products in hopes of making trade peace with the Trump administration. Carney will be removing 25% tariffs on a vast range of US consumer goods that comply with the North American trade agreement, Bloomberg News reported. The move represents a stunning about-face for Canada." --

107 ACCENTS IN 107 DAYS... 'THE ERRORS TOUR'...

-- "Harris appeared on late-night host Stephen Colbert's show in early August and said she was taking a break from politics, lamenting a broken system. 'Recently, I made the decision that I just — for now, I don’t want to go back in the system. I think it’s broken.’" --

THAT EXTRA 500 MILLION DOLLARS HAD TO GO INTO SOMEBODY'S POCKET...

-- "Since ground was broken, construction has progressed at a snail’s pace while costs have ballooned from an original estimate of $330 million to a foundation projection of $830 million – with no updates since 2021.  It will house the nonprofit Obama Foundation, which is overseeing the center’s development." --

OH CANADA...

-- "Describing this fetish as ‘the essence of Canada’ is actually pretty apt, considering Canadians have voluntarily entered into a BDSM-style relationship with their own government, receiving their punishment and asking for 'more, master'." --

KANGAROO COURT?

-- "Rishi Nathwani, a senior defence lawyer in Australia has apologized to a judge for filing submissions in a murder case that included fake quotes and nonexistent case judgments generated by artificial intelligence. The fake submissions included fabricated quotes from a speech to the state legislature and nonexistent case citations purportedly from the Supreme Court." --

THE GUY WHO COZIED UP TO LOUIS FARRAKHAN...

-- "A New York Times opinion piece that was published on Wednesday explained how Obama world operatives were starting to coalesce around Mamdani and have been in communication with his campaign behind the scenes." --

I remember all that racial healing.

I'M FROM THE GOVERNMENT... I'M HERE TO SAVE YOU...

-- "Twanda Willingham is suing the city of Chicago after being shot with a Glock 21 that had been surrendered months earlier at a Chicago Police Department gun buyback." --

Closer to home... a moment of sanity...

-- "The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear the sentencing appeal of Christopher Husbands who opened fire in Toronto’s Eaton Centre mall in 2012, killing two people and leaving several others injured." --

Wait… Christopher Husbands… that sounds so familiar…

"Husbands was also supervising children at a City of Toronto-run facility from November 2011 to May 2012 while on $4,000 house arrest bail for the sexual assault."

WHATEVER YOU BELIEVE, IT'S AN IMPORTANT DISCUSSION...

-- "Michael Malice explains his political viewpoint of anarchism. Why is he an anarchist? What is anarchy? How similar is Antifa to Michael's view of anarchism? Is violence necessary? Is it a realistic way to run a government? Does Malice believe in the police?" --

More here. 

Nota bene...

"'The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.'" -- Frank Zappa

AND WINSTON CHURCHILL WEPT...

-- "Two decades ago, when I published my boffo demographic bestseller, it required readers to engage in an act of imagination about where the trendline would lead a generation hence. Today no imaginative capacity is needed: the remorseless ugliness of 'diverse' England is there before your eyes, every day, as 'the British people' become something other." --

LIBERAL'S ISLAMOPHOBIA CZAR WAS APPARENTLY UNAVAILABLE FOR COMMENT...

-- "Iain Aspenlieder, 46, the Ottawa man responsible for vandalizing the National Holocaust Monument pleaded guilty on Friday. The City of Ottawa confirmed that Aspenlieder was fired from a job as legal counsel as of June 29." --

PEOPLE ARE WAKING UP TO THE NEW CANADA...

-- "According to TheGunBlog.ca, more Canadian adults now hold a PAL than play hockey. The demographic makeup of licence holders remains largely male — 85% — with 15% being women." --

And then there's the 'undocumented' firearms owners...

-- "Brandon James, 24, of Ajax, is facing a long list of charges after he was seen firing a gun into the air and throwing knives in Oshawa over the weekend." --

THEY'VE GOT THE RECEIPTS... IS OBAMA HEADED FOR PRISON?

-- "'It’s criminal at the highest level,' Trump added, referring to documents released last week by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. ‘It would be President Obama, he started it. And Biden was there with him, and Comey was there, and Clapper — the whole group was there, and Brennan.’" --

It truly boggles the mind...

-- "Putting it simply, a cabal under a president in the last month of his presidency, at a meeting inside the White House, set out to destroy his successor’s presidency just days before the inauguration of that successor who was duly elected by the American people." --

More here.

SCRATCH A DEMOCRAT, AND WELL... YOU KNOW...

-- "Sadly, we're not holding our breath because as we've seen over and over and over again, these damning emails, these bombshells, these leaks, really don't go anywhere and nobody actually pays for their crimes." --

And, yet again... the Bee nails it.

ORWELL WAS RIGHT...

-- "According to an ‘Impact and Innovation Unit’ summary of its first two years on its website, the government spent more than $720 million on 'outcomes-based funding programs' and ran at least 10 behavioural trials aimed at altering public response." --

I'M FROM THE GOVERNMENT... I'M HERE TO SAVE YOU...

-- "This wasn’t a malfunction. It was a missile strike, almost certainly fired accidentally by the U.S. Navy during a live-fire exercise, and then intentionally buried to avoid scandal in an election year. Clinton’s re-election campaign was faltering. The last thing his team needed was a Navy accident killing 230 innocent civilians." --

The money shot...

-- "If they can do this, if they can murder 230 people, rewrite history, and then call you a lunatic for noticing, what else are they capable of?" --

CORRECTIONS CANADA RETHINKING 'NO LOCKS ON DOORS' POLICY...

-- "Correctional Service Canada says a 69-year-old convicted first-degree murderer has escaped from a prison in Quebec’s Laurentians area. Germa is the second convicted killer to escape from Archambault in the last few weeks." --

It's the government... lower your expectations...

-- "No criminal charges have been laid in Pickton’s death, the Board of Investigation report said." --

And there's this.

HOW GOVERNMENT REALLY WORKS...

-- "Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy threatened Wednesday to pull federal grants for California’s High-Speed Rail Authority after it spent nearly $7 billion in taxpayer funds over a decade and a half without laying a single foot of track." --

DEAR USA... TALK ABOUT DODGING A FREAKING BULLET...

-- "Lying, Tongue-Tied Tim Walz Says ICE Agents are a Modern-Day ‘Geskapo’   We assume that Walz meant to say, ‘Gestapo.’ But some posters are saying, ‘Not so fast!’" --