Saturday, October 17, 2026

Links - 17th October 2026 (Migrants: US)

TheBlaze on X - "Abdul El-Sayed: “We as a country, I believe, owe it to the world to open our doors.”"
i/o on X - "We don't owe the world unrestricted access to our country. We owe it to ourselves to make our country strong, which is something careful selective immigration can help us accomplish. But the last thing we need are more people like El-Sayed who think it is the highest duty of a nation with already-strained resources to become a dumpster for the billions of people who inhabit the failed societies of the world."
We are still told that Democrats don't believe in open borders

Wall Street Apes on X - "More Somalia gang violence in Minnesota. A violent shootout with more than 100 shots fired flying into residential homes and bedroom windows. 3 separate shootings tied to Somali gangs in just one week. Americans need to understand how widespread the Somali gang activity is in Minnesota
- There are 12 documented Somali Gangs
- Over 300 Somali are involved in these gangs
- There have been over 100 shootings by these gangs in the last 2 years
- There have been 14 homicides by these gangs in the last 2 years
Deport them ALL from America"

Ariana Jasmine on X - "Hey so ICE shooting a car with a 5 year old child in it is exactly what the IDF does to Palestinian families"
US immigration officials defend ICE agents who shot man while his child was in the car - "Marcos Charles, a top ICE official, said the agency's officers used their vehicles to try and stop Belgal in his car but that he resisted orders to get out and instead accelerated, smashing into two ICE vehicles. Charles said Belgal then "weaponised his vehicle and proceeded to accelerate going towards other officers", adding: "Our officers, using their training, and believing that their life and the life of their partners in the general public were in danger, used their training and fired weapons."... The DHS said Belgal, 28, was from the Dominican Republic and had "a prior criminal conviction for grand larceny and multiple prior arrests for assault, robbery, possession of drugs and weapons possession". Belgal was arrested by police officers in New York in December 2023 and released "a few days later"... DHS has also alleged Belgal was associated with the Trinitarios, described by the US justice department as a transnational criminal group."
When left wingers admit that the people ICE shoot are trying to kill them, just like Palestinians always try to kill Israelis

Mohamad Safa on X - "If you think fertilized eggs are people but parents who've crossed the oceans with their kids aren't, stop pretending your concerns are religious."
SeanFletcher48 on X - "This is the most preposterous false equivalence I’ve encountered in quite some time. Being labeled as a “person” and a “person who has the right to enter a country” are two entirely different concepts. This is straight out of a fools guide to Marxism… does this cr@p ever work?"
Even for left wing stupidity, this is a new low, but I keep seeing left wingers share it

Stella on X - "Why not create a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants instead of focusing only on deportation? 🤔"
Sean Quigley 🇺🇸 on X - "Why not create a path to ownership for car thieves instead of focusing only on incarceration?"

Meme - Smirkley: "Based Dominicans."
"Haiti: people deported back, 2026
Removals to Haiti this year, by country sending them back
Dominican Republic 194,465
United States 1,397"
The US is clearly the most evil country in the world, sending such huge numbers of Haitians back to their deaths

Meme - Cernovich @Cernovich: "This is why I support mass deportations"
memetic sisyphus @memeticsisyphus: "The levels of ingratitude are staggering."
Mohammad @MargBarAmerica: "i had a lot of medical issues as a growing kid and i still live with them today. but i'd probably wouldn't be alive now if it wasn't for medicaid helping my poor family. i don't know how this country survives the coming years"
Mohammad @MargBarAmerica: "america has always been and always will be the great satan. there has never been a more violent terrorist organization than america"
Clearly, importing more people who hate the country despite benefiting so much from it is how the US survives and honours its legacy of being built by Americans. Marg Bar America means Death to America but when Muslims say that they don't really mean Death to America. But of course, if you say punctuality helps you succeed in life you are a racist white supremacist

Arkansas Democrat would "trade five Americans for just one" illegal alien - "Don't worry, nobody is out to "replace" Americans. That's just an anti-semitic conspiracy theory ... that happens to be the stated policy of Democrats like Hallie Shoffner in Arkansas."
We're still told that it's a myth that left wingers hate their countries and that left wingers hate white people and their countrymen

arctotherium on X - "Incredible Woke More Correct moment - a Somali given the "Outstanding Refugee Award for Entrepreneurship" by Minnesota appears to have committed about $1.5M worth of Medicaid fraud."

Insider Wire on X - "#BREAKING: The Trump admin has deported over 25,000 illegals to 28 countries that aren't their own."
Homeland Security on X - "Because they asked us not to send them to their home countries. No need to say thanks."

Gunther Eagleman™ on X - "AUSTIN’S POLICE CHIEF JUST TORCHED THE LEFT’S ICE SHOOTING NARRATIVE IN REAL TIME. A city councilman ran to the cameras claiming ICE sideswiped a man and shot him five times through the back window. The chief said that is not what he’s hearing. There was a small foot pursuit. It was one gunshot wound. The man’s wife already admitted he tried to drive off while agents were on him, even with an ICE vehicle blocking his car. He is alive and stable. The activists still got their smear out first. This is how they operate. Lie early, print loud, correct never. Wait for the facts. Back the officers. Stop letting city hall write the crime scene before the police do."

Thread by @iAnonPatriot on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "America imported less than 2,000 German scientists after WW2 and they took us to the moon in less than 2 decades. America imported nearly 175,000 Somalis over the last 40 years, and now 89% of them with children in Minnesota are on welfare. The Somalis have given us thousands of fake daycares — as well as their most popular dish, bananas and rice. They’re stealing BILLIONS from US taxpayers through fake daycares and welfare. Fantastic people."

Claire Valdez on X - "215 years ago, Mexicans fought an empire that demanded our land and our labor. And we won. I'll carry that fight with me to Congress as New York's first Mexican American representative. And I'm strengthened not just by Mexico's history but its present. Last month I met comrades in Morena who are standing up to the empires and corporations that have always taken from us – and building a government for the working class. ¡Viva la Independencia, Viva México!"
Sean Fitzgerald (Actual Justice Warrior) on X - "You should run for office in Mexico if you want to represent them"
John Daniel Davidson on X - "This woman presents a conundrum for the civic nationalists. On the one hand, they have to say she’s just as American as anyone else, because after all she’s a citizen, and in their view all citizens are equally American. On the other hand, she clearly rejects all the ideas the civic nationalists say constitute American identity. She rejects the nationalist “creed” they say is the heart of our national identity. But if accepting the creed or the set of ideas that supposedly constitute America is what makes someone an American, this woman obviously isn’t one. Arguably her citizenship should be stripped and she should be deported (to Mexico). But the civic nationalists will never argue that, which is how you know they don’t really believe their own account of the sources of American identity. Their unwillingness to follow their logic to its obvious conclusion suggests they want something else. But what? In short, they want America to be nothing more than an economic zone. Not a nation and a people, but a global ATM and a tax farm. All this nonsense about “creedal nationalism” is cover for that."
Talking about dual loyalty is racist even when that person proclaims it loudly

The New York Times on X - "Breaking News: More than 20 states sued the Trump administration over its policy to restrict immigrants from obtaining green cards if they rely on public benefits."
Importing voters and expanding the state is the point

Greg Price on X - "Mamdani and AOC are spotted laughing with each other as people cry while the names of those who died are read during the 9/11 Memorial in New York City."
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry on X - "They obviously don't think of themselves as Americans or think of the events of 9/11 as connected to them in any way. I was speaking with an American today about something else but they asked me how 9/11 had been seen in France, and it reminded me that in the aftermath, everyone in France felt that we had been under attack, because we all sensed implicitly that they had attacked a very close ally and that they had sought to attack all free Western countries. The slogan "Nous sommes tous américains" was on every lip. Mamdani and AOC may have American passports but they are not even as American as a random French person."

The Washington Post on X - "Scores of immigrants from El Salvador who have been shielded from deportation for decades because of ongoing violence and natural disasters in their homeland could now face removal from the United States after their benefits expire today."
Common Sense Extremists on X - "They were given TEMPORARY status to escape natural disaster and violence. The natural disaster in question is long over and El Salvador now has a lower murder rate than America. No reason to not send them home."

Tim Anderson on X - "Arlington’s Commonwealth’s Attorney testified that her office has a DUI policy specifically for DACA recipients. In a small number of cases, prosecutors have considered changing a DUI to a different first-degree misdemeanor so the defendant can renew DACA status. (We don’t have first-degree misdemeanors - they are called Class 1 misdemeanors - surprised an elected prosecutor doesn’t know that). She says the defendant is still held accountable and the original DUI charge remains visible. But DACA status is a factor in the plea resolution, one that an American citizen charged with the same offense cannot invoke. Should immigration status affect which crime appears on a defendant’s record?
Source: Dehghani-Tafti deposition, p. 89, lines 6–22."

Trump Girl 🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲 on X - "Don't blame law enforcement for enforcing immigration laws. Blame Democrats for misleading millions into believing they could break those laws without consequences."

Threads - "More than 70,000 people are currently in more than 200 concentration camps in the United States. What? You say: We don't have concentration camps in the US. Ah, but we do. Historians define concentration camps as sites of mass civilian detention without trial, based on group identity. Our "detention" centers ARE concentration camps. We need to shut them down."
Illegal immigrant is an identity. This is why left wingers want criminals all out on bail so they can commit more crimes. They consider accused criminal an identity too
These must be the only concentration camps in history where those in them can leave anytime

Meme - "DEMOCRATS TODAY ARE SAYING NO ONE, EVEN THE PRESIDENT, IS ABOVE THE LAW. SO OUR QUESTION IS, HOW COME ILLEGAL ALIENS ARE?"

Insider Wire on X - "#BREAKING: The DOJ successfully revokes the U.S. citizenship of an Indian rapist."
Common Sense Extremists on X - "People who spent all of 2014-2020 crying nonstop about rape culture in the US will be very upset about this"

Can undocumented immigrants receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits in the U.S.? - "Some states have used state-only funds to provide food assistance to unauthorized immigrants... Those states include California, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota and Washington, but not North Dakota."
Weird. Left wingers keep insisting that illegal immigrants don't get government healthcare or food stamps

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib on X - "Mohan Bhagwat and his hateful Hindu nationalist ideology are not welcome in our communities. His paramilitary organization the RSS is responsible for violent attacks and pogroms against Muslims, Sikhs, Dalits, Christians, and more. We must reject all forms of hate and supremacy."
Common Sense Extremists on X - "Remember when we were a less multicultural country and we didn’t have to listen to Muslim and Indian politicians fighting each other in our own country?"

Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist on X - "BREAKING: Randi Weingarten announces her new website directing people to shop at stores other than Target. Why? Because Target "remained silent" on ICE. Not because they promoted ICE. But because they didn't actively oppose ICE. The crazy teachers unions must be dismantled."
Left wingers believe that if you're not for them, you're against them

The Impacts of Unauthorized Immigration on U.S. Labor and Housing Markets: New Evidence from Administrative Microdata - "From early 2021 to early 2024, the U.S. experienced an unprecedented boom in unauthorized immigration, followed by a rapid slowdown beginning in mid-2024. We provide the first systematic empirical assessment of the labor- and housing-market effects of this episode. Using newly available administrative microdata on individual immigrants, we construct measures of net unauthorized immigration at the national and local levels and exploit plausibly exogenous variation across local markets. We find that unauthorized immigrant worker flows (UIWF) increased local employment approximately one-for-one, without significant declines in local wages. These inflows also raised local house prices and rents without expanding housing supply, consistent with a housing demand shock in the face of short-run inelastic supply. Lastly, we find that UIWF reduced labor income per capita, consistent with downward wage composition of the local workforce, and strongly reduced government transfers. These findings should help inform policy debates surrounding how unauthorized immigrant labor supply impacts local labor and housing markets as well as public finances."
Left wingers are still pretending that illegal immigration doesn't boost house prices

Christianity Today | Facebook - "“Jesus did not turn a blind eye to injustice,” wrote Raymond Chang last year. “We too must take up our cross and follow him, even when it leads us to the lives of the most vulnerable. If the church remains silent now, we risk repeating the mistakes of the past. But if we act with courage and conviction, we can help write a different future, one that honors Christ by standing with those whom he calls beloved. This is the moment for the church to rise—not with fear, but with faith. Not with silence, but with solidarity. We can support ministries that provide legal aid, language access, and holistic care to immigrant families. We can amplify and listen to the voices of immigrant leaders and stand in solidarity with them as fellow image bearers and believers. We can create space for lament in our churches, pray for those affected, and open our doors as places of refuge and advocacy. And we can repent: of our silence, our indifference, and our complacency in the face of suffering. If we believe the gospel is good news, then it must be good news for the immigrant, the asylum seeker, the undocumented child. It must be good news for those who are afraid. Let us remember our identity as the church: witnesses to a kingdom marked by compassion, righteousness, and reconciliation. And let it be said that when the vulnerable cried out, the body of Christ did not look away. Instead, we stood up. We spoke up. We followed Jesus to the margins, and there we found him.” From the CT archive: https://chrst.today/49fde5z"
Comments: "Once again, it is perfectly good to do a little Christian nationalism, so long as it’s a liberal flavor."
"There’s one huge difference. They were legal citizens. THEY were denied due process. Those who are here illegally because they cut in line do not have the right to due process. That is for CITIZENS. Also—according to scripture, heaven has walls and gates. Hell has open borders."

My sexual assault is being used to justify ICE. : r/offmychest - "I, 17f, was raped by a coworker this April. He was older, 23, but when he asked me to hang out after work I didn’t think much of it. I had hung out with coworkers before, besides, I had a bit of a crush on him. However, I definitely did not want to have sex with him. I consider myself somewhat lucky, I walked from the situation with merely a small scar and some bruising. It took me a few days to tell my manager that something had happened, not quite giving the full story. After about a week I finally couldn’t take seeing him at work anymore and I told my best friend who helped me call my manager, who later helped me talk to the police. Filing the report was one of—if not the—hardest things I’ve ever had to do. It is a tedious and painful process. I started to doubt myself and wonder if maybe it was my fault. Then I waited. For two and a half months the police searched for him and I checked over my shoulder. I was afraid of the dark and being alone, but worse I was obsessive about the case. I checked arrest logs daily to see if maybe they just hadn’t called me yet. Eventually, I eased up a bit. The people around me reassured me that he had most likely fled the state, if not the country. For the first time in nearly 3 months, there were days where I didn’t think about him. Then he was arrested. I was put on bail alert, given a protective order, and told how the court process worked. Things began to move very quickly, and I was doing my best to keep up. The ADA told me that it may be in my best interest to come back to the case after some time had passed, that she did not think I would survive taking the stand. I didn’t entirely disagree. Eventually, due to many circumstances, the case was dismissed. I was told that I had the option to proceed again at a later time, but at the moment he was being released. I was hit with a wave of emotions, the main of which being fear. I still had a protective order, but it didn’t feel like security enough. A few days passed and I got a call from my advocate. She let me know that he had been released directly from county jail to immigration custody. A wave of different emotions. Confusing ones. I knew he wasn’t a citizen, but I hadn’t processed what that meant. I don’t think everyone has a right to be in the United States. I think anyone can but not everyone does. I think immigration policy is important and we shouldn’t just let everyone in. HOWEVER, immigration and ICE under our current administration is out of control. I cannot support the actions or methods that are being used. It’s been about two weeks since that phone call, almost four months since the incident, and I just saw his name and face on ICE & DHS’s websites, treating his detainment as a “win” saying “The heroic men and women of ICE will NEVER stop arresting sickos like this.” People are posting about my case on twitter and Nextdoor, and thank god because I’m a minor and the nature of the crime all my info is private, but still holy shit. I’m just really upset and frustrated. I don’t want what happened to me to be used to push and justify the current system. I feel like it’s really wrong to use the rape of a child as a political talking point."
I bet she chooses the bear and demonises white men

Meme - Common Sense Extremists @crushmarxismnow: "90% of homicides in NYC are committed by nonwhites. If Spider man was real you all would HATE him and call him a nazi fascist for beating up mostly black and Hispanic criminals all day."
Spider-Man Vibe @Spid...: "I don't usually get involved in political stuff, but some things need to be said. Spider-Man and Stan Lee would never support ICE. Not now. Not ever. Fuck ICE." *ICE Spider-man promo*

Meme - Kendra Jade Rossi: "Not only FK iCE BUT ALSO FK all of the people that are unbothered by the senseless murders by our government."
"Not once throughout history were the masked men gunning down innocent people in the street the good guys."
John R. Chango Sr.: "Innocent people dont attack, harrass, impede or obstruct law enforcement..."
Weird. Left wingers tell us that if you oppose antifa, you're a fascist.

Breaking911 on X - "Hasan Poker in resurfaced Clip: “We want more immigrants to come into your countries and then they’re gonna f*ck your sisters and then your daughters… We’re here to destroy the white race, b*tch.”"
Brandon Gill on X - "Every Democrat wants this by the way. Hasan is just the only one who will say it out loud. Hatred of white people is the glue that holds the Democrat Party together."
Keywords: Hasan Piker

Christian Heiens 🏛 on X - "“America isn’t a people, it’s an idea.”
“Well, can we at least deport the people who openly reject the idea?”
“No, that would be against the ideas!”
This is the game we’ve been playing for over 60 years now. Civic nationalism inevitably destroys itself because it’s utterly incapable of making literally any value judgements between those who openly reject the civics and those who adhere to it. Why bother adhering or even learning the civics in the first place if there’s absolutely zero price to pay for betraying them?"

Paul Graham on X - "Asked whether there was a reason he couldn’t return to Honduras, Angel told the judge, “My mom and almost my entire family are here. It’s too dangerous to go back.” But that wasn’t enough for the judge, who told the boy he did not qualify for asylum. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” The judge asked. “I don’t know,” Angel replied before bursting into tears. He stared ahead stoically and continued to cry, eventually saying: “I have no one. I have nothing.”"
"Future generations won't believe we let this happen."
What sort of parents wouldn't go to be in the same place as their young child?

Jonatan Pallesen on X - "The U.S. has let in something like 6% of the entire population of Honduras, just over a few years. But that's still not enough? Of course many of them will have family in the U.S. by now. Unless you want the U.S. to let in the majority of the population of Honduras, you will have to draw the line somewhere, which will include some harsh cases. But maybe letting in most of the entire population of Honduras is what you want?"
Coal on X - "Those who opened the floodgates are responsible. The clean up crew is now just managing the fallout to enforce laws and ensure peace and societal cohesion. These stories are incredibly sad, and children especially don't deserve it; often they are too young to understand what is going on. But the hate and malice that you hold in your heart against your own people for enforcing laws should be directed towards those who broke it and let them in. The original conspirators of the US border crisises must face justice, even though I highly doubt they will. This is not hard to understand, and an upstanding man with children like yourself should most of all know this. I suppose you never have to think about it given the sheltered life you have insulated yourself and your family into..."
damn you people are stupid on X - "It’s such a crime against humanity when people must exist in a country that’s not the US. You and this silly line of reasoning are jokes dude. "

🇺🇸Proud Dad 911🇺🇸 on X - "I agree. Let’s deport the entire family."
Paul Graham on X - "Your profile says "Love Jesus Christ". Do you think he'd agree with you?"
Patrick McGuinness on X - "You act like the Pharisee who challenged Jesus, trying to trap Him by pitting God's Law against Roman law. Jesus Christ said "Give to Caesar what is Caesars" when challenged. OBEY THE LAW. Jesus Christ would throw your phony challenge back at you and ask who YOU took in."
Patrick on X - "Why don't you sponsor the family and fund their lives with all the money you have? You can afford to. Why don't you?"
Red Stator on X - "Yes. Read the Epistle to the Romans."
Raptor22 on X - "Actually yes he would. He’d also condemn you for not housing immigrants in your own house. It’d probably go something like “Let those who wish to take in those from a strange land be the first to house them. Do not let Pharisees heap guilt when they themselves host no one.”"
Mh on X - "*sent from my billionaire enclave surround by white people instead of the cheap labor I want you to live with , go to school with, and share a hospital with"
Foolsandfolly on X - "“You love Jesus so therefore you must accept infinity migrants into the country”."

Trump admin. works to recover over $1B in Medicaid money; says given to illegal immigrants - "A preliminary audit by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services found that, mostly during 2024-2025, multiple states were using the money improperly. California, the biggest culprit, spends over $1.3 billion in federal Medicaid dollars on healthcare for illegal immigrants"
One left wing cope is that if states fund benefits to illegal immigrants it doesn't count as welfare because it's not the federal government, but that cope doesn't even work here

Defiant L’s on X - "New Hampshire Senate candidate Karishma Manzur on The Laken Riley Act https://x.com/OliLondonTV/st atus/2093210009673056503/video/1 “It was a racist, xenophobic act that was forced into law by the MAGA Republicans and Donald Trump.” Laken Riley was a 22 year old nursing student from Georgia who was brutally murdered by an illegal alien from Venezuela with multiple arrests prior to the murder but was never kept in jail. The Laken Riley Act requires illegal aliens to be arrested and detained after committing a crime"
Nobody is above the law - unless it pushes the left wing agenda

ABC Conflates Legal and Illegal Immigration, Tags Protesters 'Anti-Immigrant' - "Correspondent David Wright filed a report in which he portrayed opponents of illegal immigration in Murrieta, California, as "anti-immigrant," with the ABC correspondent blurring together the issues of legal and illegal immigration. The report provocatively included a soundbite of an unidentified activist complaining that the people of Murrieta look "xenophobic" and "racist": "People probably believe that this is a xenophobic, racist group of folks down here." Wright, who never used any form of the word 'illegal" throughout his report, referred to protesters as "anti-immigrant" as he began the piece... Ironically, at the same moment that he uttered the words "anti-immigrant protesters," a clip was shown of a pair of demonstrators who were clearly singling out illegal immigration as they each held up a sign which read, "Immigrate Legally!" Then came a clip of another protester, this time holding a sign which read, "Stop illegal immigration," with the protester also chanting the same words. After several clips of those protesting illegal immigration were shown, then came the soundbite accusing them of xenophobia before Wright then recounted the arrival of another group of protesters who came to defend illegal immigration as part of a "backlash." The ABC correspondent ended up shifting to President Barack Obama presiding over the annual July 4 naturalization ceremony at the White House and used a soundbite of the President speaking generically about "welcoming immigrants" as a foil to suggest that the protesters in Murrieta, California, are opposed to immigration generally"
Even in 2014, left-wingers couldn't tell the difference between legal and illegal immigrants. But then, left wingers can't tell the difference between men and women either

Friday, October 16, 2026

Shane Gillis won’t silence me

Shane Gillis won’t silence me | The Spectator

I was mid-hip thrust when I found out Shane Gillis had called me a whore. Technically I found out four hours later, when I reviewed the footage of Saturday Night Live. My tripod was on the bench, my ring light was clamped to the squat rack and my boyfriend Tanner was holding the back-up phone for the side angle. Tanner films all my content. He is not allowed to look at me.

The “joke” was about how women dress at the gym. I know it was about me, because everything is. So I did what any survivor would do. I went to my car and filmed myself crying. It took 11 takes, because the lighting in a Range Rover is unforgiving, and grief is no excuse for a bad shot. In the final cut, you can see a single tear land on my sports bra right over the logo, which clicks through to an affiliate link. My caption: “I’m literally shaking.”

Then I put on the shortest shorts I own, went back inside, and filmed my ass from three angles with the caption, “Does this outfit work for you, Shane Gillis?” I wanted to send him a message that my body is not for men. To make sure Shane got the message, I tagged him. Then I tagged every man I follow. Some people say my response proved his point. These people are rapists.

One creator said it best: “She’s not dressed like a whore. You think like a rapist.” I agreed so much that I shot a reel of myself repeating that phrase to camera as I did walking lunges. Healing isn’t linear, but my glutes better be.

Women are not responsible for where men’s eyes go. That’s why I designed a garment that covers everything but the eyes, so men have nothing left to look at. It’s flowy. It’s modest. And it’s mine. It’s called the Unseen Set, it comes in oat, sage and bone, and it drops Friday for $189. Use code SHANE for 15 percent off.

To be clear: this story is bigger than me. That’s why I’ve been so brave about making it about me.

When the Lindsay Clancy trial started, I knew I had to speak. I’m not a mother. I’m a dog mom. But I posted a ten-minute video about postpartum psychosis anyway, captioned “Same, Lindsay,” because when Bellamy was a puppy, he chewed through my exercise bands and I have never recovered. Then I filmed myself throwing ice cubes at the bathtub to get the rage out. It was that or kill my dog.

And then the Cornell story broke. I posted, “I am Jane Doe” in seven separate videos. I’ve never been to Cornell. And I’ve never been sexually assaulted. But I have been in a gang bang. Solidarity means centering yourself in other people’s trauma, in front of a camera, with good lighting.

In the videos I wore my “I Am Jane Doe” sports bra. Five percent of the proceeds went to a women’s charity. Ninety-five percent went to fighting the patriarchy, which is my yearly “Women Against Men” scream retreat in Cancun. We scream naked on the grounds of the former Girls Gone Wild locations to show the progress we have made.

The only woman I can’t support is Sydney Sweeney. She took her top off for a prediction market app and covered herself with two footballs, setting women back a hundred years. It’s sickening. She got paid. I would never take my top off for money. I take my top off for awareness.

It may be fall, my favorite season. But we don’t have time for pumpkin spice lattes anymore. We women don’t have time for “wine o’clock” when it’s fascism o’clock everywhere. My old Stanley cup said: “But First, Coffee.” The new one just says: “WHORE.”

Then I realized: Shane doesn’t get to call me a whore. I will not live under his fascist regime. Shane can’t shame me into covering my body. So I’m thrilled to announce I’ve launched an OnlyFans. Shane Gillis said women dress like whores at the gym. Now, I am one. $14.99 a month. Link in bio.

Thursday, October 15, 2026

Links - 15th October 2026 (Canadian Politics [including Eby in BC])

Meme - *Huge ball rolling down hill. 10 years of NDP. Property Rights. Crime. Healthcare. Infrastructure. Jobs*
Eby running: "It's Trump's fault!"
*Running men identically dressed in suits with yellow ties*
*"Vote NDP again!" sign*

Meme - "BC NDP premier David Eby is a far-left lunatic who has brought nothing to his province aside from debt, drugs, tent cities, corruption and poverty. SHARE IF YOU'RE EXCITED FOR BRITISH COLUMBIANS TO FIRE HIM"

Adam Pankratz: David Eby's new big idea — food shortages | National Post - "David Eby has looked at his election campaign struggling to find its feet and decided that while socialism is good, even more socialism would be better. And so, last week, British Columbia’s stumbling premier announced a cap on corporate grocery profits on milk, eggs, butter, cheese, chicken and turkey. How this will actually address the affordability crisis that has flourished under Eby’s watch is unclear. What is, however, clear is that under Eby no private business will be permitted to move or operate without government restrictions, involvement or extra taxes. At his news conference Eby did not spell out exactly what capping profits entailed, but one must assume it means price controls... Welcome to Soviet British Columbia. Price controls have widely been shown by economists to have significant negative effects on an economy as well as the people they are purported to benefit. The reason is straightforward: by artificially capping prices, transactions which would otherwise occur at the higher, market price are not realized. Without a clear price signal (and thus profit incentive) the market will not produce the correct amount of the price-controlled product. As a result, the market will be undersupplied for the products it would otherwise purchase. True demand, in other words, will not be met. This has consequences, and they are not good. What Eby’s grocery store folly would mean in practice for British Columbians is that grocery stores will shift away from selling the correct, market demanded amount of milk, eggs, butter, cheese, chicken and turkey, and focus on selling other products at likely higher prices to make up for their profit shortfall in the price-controlled areas. The result is terrible for consumers and families. Those who can quickly get the products they want before the stores run out may have lower prices, but families who aren’t as fast won’t get anything because the product doesn’t exist in sufficient quantities to meet market demand. Lower prices resulting in empty shelves isn’t a solution to anything. David Eby’s economics are both further ludicrous and insulting. Ludicrous because Canadian grocery store profits are extremely low already. In 2025, Loblaws, for example, noted that margins in the sector average three to four per cent. This is not indicative of an industry which is gouging consumers, but rather one which operates extremely efficiently in a competitive, price sensitive market. The insult comes from Eby choosing to aim his fire at Save-On-Foods, locally owned by B.C. billionaire Jimmy Pattison. Pattison is rich, yes, but also extremely philanthropic. He has donated over $200 million to hospitals and health care facilities, including a $75 million dollar donation to Vancouver’s St Paul’s hospital in 2017. That donation is a Canadian record. Eby doesn’t care because Pattison is rich and therefore by definition evil. This default move to restrict the open market and despise the successful is a hallmark of what David Eby’s NDP is all about. To address the Vancouver housing crisis, Eby has proposed taxing newly built, unsold condo units. He has claimed developers are “hoarding” the apartments. As with the grocery stores, he says that he is “standing up to developers.” In reality this is just more economic lunacy. Developers aren’t “hoarding” condos. They can’t sell them because the economic conditions of the province Eby and the NDP have presided over for nine years is so bad there are no buyers. Just as capping grocery profits doesn’t solve the affordability crisis and can create artificial market shortages, all taxing new developments achieves is to create a disincentive for developers to continue building, knowing that any empty units could be subject to Eby’s unsold condo tax. The result is fewer new units coming on the market and an even worse housing crisis in the future. David Eby’s anti-Trump campaign message for his unnecessary election has fallen flat with British Columbians. In response he is flailing around in a desperate attempt to find something that might stick. So far, all Eby has found to offer British Columbians is more taxes and Soviet-inspired price controls. None of these policies address the real problems British Columbians are facing and only shine a spotlight on how Eby’s government is completely out of ideas."
If BC voters haven't had enough of disastrous left wing policies, they deserve what's coming to them

Eby takes aim at Jim Pattison, one of B.C.'s few captains of industry | National Post - "Being a wildly successful, humble philanthropist isn’t as easy as it used to be. While society used to laud those who created jobs and wealth, today such activities are viewed with suspicion and even liable to land you in the cross-hairs of jealous politicians with an axe to grind. And so it was that, on Friday, B.C. NDP Leader David Eby stood in front of a Save-On-Foods supermarket in Kelowna to take cheap, gratuitous shots at the province’s homegrown billionaire, Jim Pattison. While taking such under-the-table shots is par for the course for Eby, it’s hard to think of someone less deserving of such treatment than Pattison. An observant person driving around the Lower Mainland will notice the names of B.C.’s great philanthropists on public buildings. That same person would also notice that one name is seen more often and in larger print than any other: Jim Pattison. He’s respected throughout the province not only for his incredible business success but because of how he has poured money into charitable gifts, notably in health care. For the new St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, Pattison donated $75 million. That’s a Canadian record for a private citizen. St. Paul’s is not, however, the only beneficiary of Pattison’s philanthropy. In 1999, the Vancouver General Hospital received $20 million. Lions Gate Hospital got $5 million in 2008. Surrey Memorial Hospital received $5 million in 2011. Burnaby Hospital recently got $5 million. And in 2022, New Westminster’s Royal Columbian Hospital received $30 million to fund its redevelopment. That’s literally tens of millions of dollars given away to help British Columbians and their health-care needs. The scale of his charity ought to prevent venal politicians from slagging Pattison for the “crime” of being a billionaire, but those are not his only contributions to B.C. He also creates huge numbers of jobs. The Jim Pattison Group employs 57,000 people worldwide and has $20 billion in annual revenues. Around 45,000 of those employees are in British Columbia, which makes Pattison Group the province’s largest private employer. In an election campaign in which Eby has encouraged all and sundry to “Buy B.C.” and “Build B.C.,” it’s hard to think of anyone who has done more of that than Pattison. Moreover, from 2001 to 2022, the president and CEO of the Jim Pattison Group was former NDP premier Glen Clark. Indeed, most B.C. politicians have managed to recognize that, whether or not they agreed with everything Pattison did, he is certainly a net good for the province, as both a creator of jobs and wealth, and as a generous philanthropist. In today’s pathetically polarized world, however, characters like Eby can’t see past their own ideological noses to recognize someone who has made the province better. The fact that Eby chose the Pattison-owned Save-On-Foods rather than, say, Walmart, as the back drop for his cap on food prices announcement is as insulting as it is revelatory of a party that hates anything that might smell of private enterprise doing well. There’s no denying that Pattison has personally benefited from his business acumen and track record of success. Why this is a problem in the eyes of people like Eby is the real mystery. Pressed on his unwarranted attack on Pattison, Eby dug in his heels, saying he would not apologize for standing up for families by lowering grocery prices. It’s unbecoming and juvenile. Dumping on billionaires is fashionable in some circles, and there are instances where opprobrium for their behaviour is well warranted. Jim Pattison isn’t one of those cases and any responsible politician would recognize that fact and celebrate that he’s one of our own."
Left wingers won't be happy till the rich are no longer rich

Eby's campaign goes from bad to worse with daycare fiasco | National Post - "The B.C. NDP election campaign took another turn towards oblivion over the weekend when it emerged that Leader David Eby’s family took a spot in one of the province’s $10-a-day daycare facilities. Following Eby’s bizarre attacks last week on local philanthropist Jim Pattison for the crime of being successful, this latest episode raises the question of who Eby has more disdain for: billionaires or single mothers trying to access his government’s hard-to-find $10 daycare spaces. Brought in under former NDP premier John Horgan, the $10-a-day daycare program was planned to be universal, but currently only 10 per cent of the province’s daycare spots fall into that category and B.C. cities have the highest daycare fees in the country... we do know that as premier, Eby earns $227,000 a year, and his wife is a doctor. That means a family income likely approaching $500,000, if not more — not exactly the people the limited $10 daycare spots are supposed to benefit. No one should begrudge Eby and his family for their financial success, but voters are more than entitled to raise their eyebrows at a premier who talks of defending the interests of those less fortunate, while filching daycare spots designed for the working mothers and families he loves to crow about on the campaign trail. Once again, Eby’s hypocrisy is on full display. In response to another campaign misstep, Eby has been quick to point out that his family made a donation to the daycare in question as they “felt that we did not need that discount.” Fair enough. But what would Eby say to the person in need who never got access to that spot? This latest faux-pas is one of many during a campaign that, from Day 1, has been poorly planned and executed. Eby sought to take advantage of a B.C. Conservative party in disarray with serious leadership issues. However, his early and unnecessary election call coalesced the Conservatives behind their new leader, Lorne Doerkson, as they jettisoned the people that were causing the issues: namely, former leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay and the more fringe elements of the party. As a result, the initial NDP campaign plan of running against U.S. President Donald Trump and Findlay — Trump’s “regional manager,” as Eby called her — fell flat from the start. It hasn’t recovered. Polls show that British Columbians have been unimpressed by what they see as a totally unnecessary election call. They are also wise to the fact that having been suddenly unable to run against Trump, Eby and the NDP can’t run on their record. A darkly comic example of this occurred about a week ago, as Eby stood at a campaign stop and announced that hospital wait times in B.C. are “totally unacceptable.” Practically any British Columbian will tell you that’s true. But those same British Columbians also know that the NDP has been in government for nine years and are responsible for the mess. With no one but themselves to blame, the NDP are flailing and lost."

David Eby's pledge to make BC the highest taxed jurisdiction on earth | National Post - "B.C. NDP Leader David Eby proposed a new tax policy that would give his province one of the highest marginal tax rates on earth. If implemented, the top marginal tax rate in B.C. would hit 57.5 per cent, meaning that 57.5 cents out of every dollar earned above a certain threshold in B.C. would be collected as tax. It wouldn’t just make B.C. the highest tax jurisdiction in Canada, but it would place British Columbians in a higher tax bracket than even some of the most notoriously high tax corners of Europe. According to the most recent figures from the OECD, top-earning British Columbians would be paying a higher tax on income than their well-paid peers in France (55.4 per cent), Japan (55.9 per cent), Sweden (52.4 per cent) and the U.K. (45 per cent). In fact, they’d likely be paying more of their income in tax than any other jurisdiction save Denmark. Although Denmark’s top rate comes in at 55.9 per cent in OECD data, in practice, the Danish rate can rise as high as 60.5 per cent, according to a June analysis by PricewaterhouseCoopers. B.C.’s top tax rate would also push well ahead of California, the single most high-tax jurisdiction in the United States. According to the U.S.-based Tax Foundation, Californians pay a top income tax rate of 13.3 per cent. Which, when combined with a federal top rate of 37 per cent, comes to 50.3. The new tax rate was pitched by Eby on Sunday as a “millionaire’s tax,” as the new top rate of 24.5 per cent or more only applies to annual incomes of $1 million or more... Nevertheless, Eby would also be raising taxes for non-millionaires. Any income above $190,405 would be taxed at 18.8 per cent instead of 16.8 per cent, and any income above $265,545 would be taxed at 22.5 per cent instead of 20.5 per cent. As such, any British Columbian earning more than $266,000 would already be experiencing a combined rate of income tax (55.5 per cent) higher than almost anywhere else on earth. In a Monday social media post, University of Calgary economist said the new rates “would raise BC to the highest income tax rate since 1981, and make the province (by a decent margin) the highest tax rate jurisdiction in Canada.”... as noted by B.C. journalist Bob Mackin, the threshold for the new taxes also just so happens to kick in right above the annual salaries paid to B.C. cabinet ministers, which top out around $183,000 per year. The B.C. Conservatives, meanwhile, have dubbed the new tax scheme a “doctor’s tax,” as it will kick in right around the annual salaries earned by physicians, which Eby’s government has simultaneously been attempting to attract to B.C."

Canada Proud on X - "#REPORT: Carney Liberal heritage minister Marc Miller held secret meetings with the Labour Party in the UK on a proposal to promote "social cohesion" by cracking down on "digital grifters" and "politicians of grievance.""
Kurt Holman MP on X - "Calling your political opponents “politicians of grievance” while discussing ways to crack down on them is one hell of a way to say the quiet part out loud. Are we still doing democracy?"

Dan Knight on X - "Marc Miller flew to the UK on a junket to study Labour’s “social cohesion” plan. The same plan that literally targets “digital grifters” and “politicians of grievance.” The same minister who told committee that CBC’s job is to promote social cohesion… and then got asked why that language sounds like something out of Beijing. They’re not even hiding it anymore. Define the “shared values.” Label the dissenters. Call it cohesion. You can’t make this up. Via Blacklock’s Reporter: https:// blacklocks.ca/study-social-c"

Mario Zelaya on X - "I don’t care anymore. I’m just gonna say it. This never sat well with me. The Liberal MP resigned, over an accident on the way to Ottawa (classifies as work), A YEAR AGO, that was so bad, that no one knew about it until yesterday. And the accident was so bad that he could still work for almost a full year before resigning? And now I’m finding out from @RealAndyLeeShow that he went to China? But can’t travel to Ottawa? And he’s LIKELY eligible for 70% of his MP pay for the next 20 years (retirement or until he “recovers”) through the long term disability benefit MPs get via their PSMIP? The media doesn’t question it. At all? And yet, when a Conservative MP resigns, immediately MSM finds a way to attack Pierre? Meanwhile Carney has had 2 MINISTERS QUIT, and others leave with ZERO backup prospects or job lined up? HOW IS NO ONE INVESTIGATING OR QUESTIONING THIS?
🚨 INSANE It just keeps getting worse. HE WAS ON A TRADE DELEGATION 2 WEEKS AGO. IN CHINA. How was he able to be hurt so badly, LAST YEAR, that no one knew about it, BUT HE COULD GO TO CHINA ON A DELEGATION? 2 WEEKS AGO!"

Mario Zelaya on X - "BREAKING: new reports indicate that Shaun Chen, the Liberal MP that resigned due to his "inability to travel to Ottawa" may have voted electronically on Canada's Surveillance Bill from China. A newly found video on WeChat, found by Andy Lee, place him in Guangdong, China when the vote took place in late March. Standing Order 45(12) allows MPs to cast votes for bills remotely, but they must be physically be in Canada. In addition, publicly available MP expenses show that Shaun Chen expensed flights from Toronto to Ottawa during the same period the WeChat video places him in China."

Kyle Seeback: It's not Trumpian to hold the Liberals to account | National Post - "In the last few years, some Canadians have assumed that to be a conservative in Canada is to admire Trump or to see his movement as the model for our own. That assumption is wrong. It misunderstands our history, our institutions and the very principles that define Canadian conservatism... Expressing anger is not Trumpism. Demanding accountability is not Trumpism. Speaking directly about the failures of government is not Trumpism"
The US pursues strong economic growth, therefore Canadians who pursue economic growth are Maple MAGA and must be condemned

Official Bilingualism Has Failed Canada - "On April 26, 2025, 11 people were killed when a deranged man plowed his SUV through a crowd at Vancouver’s Lapu-Lapu Day festival. The next morning, Prime Minister Carney spoke movingly of the tragedy, characterizing it not just as an attack on individuals, but the Filipino community itself. Yet his words of grief came not in Tagalog, the language most Filipino-Canadians speak, but English. And French... Most Filipino-Canadians know English, like 87 per cent of Canadians overall. Linguistic minorities in the country, whether their first language is Khmer, Polish or Xitsonga, have long accepted English as a necessary tool of communication in a diverse country—the bridge language that the vast majority of Canadians, regardless of personal background, will use in most public contexts for reasons of efficiency and expediency. It is only French-Canadians, however, who are understood to possess a unique right, endorsed by the constitution and defended by a phalanx of politicians, journalists, activists and intellectuals, to be addressed by the state (and increasingly the private sector) in the language they prefer. Some Canadian, somewhere, might have preferred to hear Carney mourn the Lapu-Lapu Day tragedy in French. So the Prime Minister obliged. Why exactly only one linguistic minority in a country as large and multicultural as Canada enjoys a right to things in their preferred language is difficult to answer using liberal or utilitarian logic. Official bilingualism nevertheless remains venerated by all manner of Canadian elites as a taboo in the truest sense; a sort of folk religion that’s upheld more than defended. Evidence continues to accumulate that state-mandated bilingualism conflicts with Canada’s self-image as a fair and merit-based democracy, and the worst may be yet to come. It’s a faith worth revisiting... “Founding peoples” refers to the idea that Canada was settled and built by individuals from particular ethnocultural groups. But why do only two types of Canadian get to be founding peoples? It certainly doesn’t seem tied to any coherent theory of history. Ontario and Quebec were carved from the former colony of New France and claim to be its legal successors. But even New France was not simply a society of French settlers and the Englishmen who eventually conquered them; Indigenous peoples, enslaved Africans and migrants from other parts of Europe were there as well. When Canada annexed the northwestern half of North America in the 19th century, waves of immigrants made the country even more diverse, with new provinces and territories built and settled by peoples from Eastern Europe, Asia and elsewhere, in addition to migrants from Canada’s east. Canada’s postwar growth into a country of 40 million has been driven by even more varied sources... When Thomas Cromwell retired from the Supreme Court in 2016, Prime Minister Trudeau was reported to have wanted to select a female bilingual judge of colour from the Maritimes to replace him—only to learn no such person existed. More than 50 years after the passage of the Official Languages Act and 40 years after the Charter, official bilingualism has not failed as a policy as much as it’s failed Canada. And the cost has been tremendous—not just the literal cost of things like building Toronto a $126-million French-language university with just 25 students—but the opportunity cost of excluding so many of the country’s best and brightest from consequential careers in public or even private service... in its own way, Quebec’s language policies remain more grounded in the real world than Ottawa’s. The province rationally provides most public services exclusively in French because that’s the language the majority of people in the province speak. Indeed, the central paradox of Canadian bilingualism has always been that the province it was primarily intended to appease doesn’t accept it as a sensible policy within its own borders. "
This is a good way to get Quebec to secede, and a good way to ignore political history by proclaiming it incoherent. Of course, good luck if you say that the treaties with "indigenous" people were signed ages ago and should be ignored today, or that "indigenous" people are a smaller portion of the population than Quebec and so shouldn't have any special rights. The practical implications are better explained, though

Marc Nixon on X - "What happens if Russia invades Canada through the Arctic tomorrow? Does the “Elbows Up” crowd suddenly remember who our most important military ally is? Canada cannot even defend 25% of its population from food insecurity. Anti-American chest-thumping is easy when you assume America will still be there when things get ugly. That’s the wake-up call."

Andrew Scheer on X - "Remember when Mark Carney's energy minister claimed the Liberal government was actively driving an urgent increase in oil exports to protect global energy supply? Three months later, Conservatives FORCED HIM to admit (in writing!) that they actually did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Only Conservatives will axe the tax and clear the red tape that is blocking oil & gas production."

Bronson on X - "Trump thinks he can bully Canada and push us around. He's wrong. The only groups capable of that are: Indiginous tribes greater than 10 people, the CRA, Sikhs, public sector unions, dairy + cheese farmers, Muslims, climate alarmists, public health units, trans and 🏳️‍🌈 people."

Marit Stiles on X - "Private investors don't take over airports out of generosity. They do it to maximize profit for their shareholders. You pay, in fees on every ticket, while thousands of good jobs hit the chopping block. Premier Ford needs to come clean about where he stands: does he want Ontarians to pay more for their travel or does he want to actually strengthen our province for the people?"
Left wingers only share the graphic about federal, provincial and municipal responsibilities when they want to cover for left wing parties (despite them wanting to butt into areas beyond their jurisdiction)
Profit is evil so we need to nationalise the economy then blame capitalism when we starve

Canada’s Booze Boycott Is About to Backfire - "President Donald Trump’s ban on Canadian alcoholic beverages is set to take effect on September 29. It covers a broad range of beer, wine and spirits. For Canadian producers, this is no small matter: in the 2024–25 fiscal year, we exported $1.4 billion in alcoholic beverages to the United States. That is a lot of business to put at risk. Canada started this particular fight in March 2025, when most provinces pulled American alcohol from their shelves. Alberta and Saskatchewan later resumed purchases, but elsewhere the restrictions remained. Canadians overwhelmingly liked the idea. Taking bourbon and California wine off the shelf felt like a way to stand up to Trump. And yes, it hurt some American companies... But did we seriously damage the American alcohol industry? The broader export numbers suggest a different story. Compare the first six months of 2026 with the first six months of 2025. U.S. wine exports to Canada fell by more than 45%, beer by more than 90%, and spirits by about 3%. Yet U.S. beer exports to the world rose 12.7%, and spirits exports rose 25.9%. Wine exports fell 14.4%. Canada mattered, especially to particular producers, but growth elsewhere helped cushion the blow for beer and spirits. Wine is a different story. Its global decline is real, although we should be careful about blaming it all on Canada. Other forces are at work. That brings us to an uncomfortable question: who has more room to absorb an alcohol ban? American producers have a vast domestic market and customers around the world. Canadian brewers, wineries and distillers facing a closed U.S. border have far fewer options. Standing up to Trump may feel good. But if this ban takes effect on September 29, Canadian producers could pay a much higher price than the American industry has paid for our boycott. We should at least be honest about that before declaring victory."
Time to accuse the US of attacking Canada again, because they're not allowed to retaliate or they're even more evil than they are already accused of being. But left wing Canadians think destroying Canada is a price worth paying to spite the US and Trump

Kim Dobranski on X - "I've looked at this photo 10 times, and I'm still trying to figure out what Pete Hegseth did that was supposedly so horrible that it caused this firestorm. All he did was repost an actual photo that had already been posted online by the Canadian cadet program and added three words, "This is real." He didn't slander anybody. He didn't disparage anyone. He didn't openly mock the individuals in the photo. He simply reposted a photo that was already publicly available. It was a picture that our own Cadet program put on line as a promotional image. An image that is supposed to somehow reflect the excellence of our programs? Yet somehow, we've turned it into a national controversy. I think the reason there's such a firestorm is because Canadians, deep down, know how pathetic we've become, and we absolutely hate it when someone else points it out. We'd rather live in this fantasy where we're still this strong, respected, serious country, as long as nobody outside Canada notices what's actually happening. But the moment someone does notice, we get our panties in a knot. Not necessarily because they're wrong, but because we don't like being criticized. Instead of asking why this photograph struck such a nerve, we're attacking the person who reposted it. Maybe the outrage itself says more than the post ever did. What it comes down to is we have massive insecurity about who we are, and when someone calls it out, instead of reflecting, we lash out. At scale. People who are strong and secure, don't care what other people say and they don't care what other people do. Only weak people that lack self-esteem react so poorly. We are no longer a serious country."
The lady doth protest too much, methinks

Meme - "Canada: 11 Years Apart
Conservative Party of Canada (2015)
1.9 B surplus
Debt-per-capita: $16,559
AAA credit rating
Violent crime: 1,070/100k
#5 Happiest country on earth
GDP growth beating most of the planet
Liberal Party of Canada (2026)
$48.3B deficit
Debt-per-capita: $29,923
Downgraded to AA+
Violent crime: 1,428/100k (up 33%)
#15 Happiest (down 10 points)
Dead-last in OECD growth
SAME COUNTRY. DIFFERENT RESULTS. THE NUMBERS DON'T LIE."

Crisis is coming, and voters may give the federal NDP another look - The Globe and Mail - "The NDP... is at historic lows in popular opinion, reduced to half a dozen seats in the House of Commons and facing the threat of bankruptcy: the sort of party that is ripe for the plucking. The 30,000 or so members the Lewis campaign is credited with signing up are about half the size of the pre-race membership. The party was already down to its hard core, the truest of the true believers. The Lewis influx will reinforce that. This is a radical party, now, unrecognizable to many of its former members. It is hard to see how it could be otherwise. Those pining for the old labour-farmer coalition have to reckon with a Canadian society that looks nothing like what it was in the NDP’s glory days. In 1935, when the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (the NDP’s forerunner) was founded, 30 per cent of Canada’s work force was agricultural, while another 15 per cent was unionized. By 1961, when the NDP came into being, the proportions had been reversed: 11 per cent agricultural, 32 per cent organized labour. Still, nearly half the working population, combined. But today? Farm workers make up about 1 per cent of the work force; unionized workers, still about 30 per cent – but most of those are white-collar, public-sector workers now, not the horny-handed sons of toil of old. Still, the provincial New Democrats seem to have managed the transition. For all of the federal party’s travails, the NDP’s provincial cousins are in robust good health, governing two provinces and forming the official opposition in four others. The efforts by the provincial parties in Alberta and Saskatchewan to distance themselves from the new federal leader, striking both for their speed and brutality, are therefore an ominous sign. But again, how could it be otherwise: for a party in a resource-based province, any association with a party so overtly hostile to resource extraction is a death knell. To add to the party’s difficulties, it remains a non-factor in Quebec, with a leader whose French is serviceable at best. Most of all, it faces the same dilemma that did in its previous leader: how to occupy space in a political landscape dominated by the baleful figure of Donald Trump, at a time when national survival has supplanted more everyday concerns... It has been decades since any government tried the policies the Lewis NDP now advocates. The reasons that led governments to abandon them are forgotten; the very passage of time means they can now be presented as fresh approaches. As for the party Mr. Lewis now leads, it is impossible to discount the importance of feeling good about yourself. The policies of the Lewis NDP may be bad policies; they may be losing policies; but they are authentically their policies, things they actually believe in. You’d be surprised how much that matters to people."
Surely, it will work this time...

André Pratte | National Post - "According to Statistics Canada’s latest projections, in 2050 (a brief 24 years from now), Quebecers will count for less than 20 per cent of Canada’s population (between 18.1 per cent and 19.1 per cent, to be precise). Alberta’s population will be inexorably catching up, with between 13.5 per cent and 16.1 per cent of the total population in 2050... Demographics is not the only reason Quebec’s influence in Canada is and will be diminishing, unless the province’s politics undergo a substantive change. Quebecers have not voted to separate from Canada in a referendum, but they have separated in some of their attitudes... Quebec political leaders invest little time in engaging with their counterparts in Ottawa and in provincial capitals, except when specific files require it. The result is that very few politicians across the country have a deep understanding of Quebec’s part in Canada’s diversity. Additionally, recruiting highly qualified French-speaking Quebecers to work in the federal government is a challenge often lamented in Ottawa. Justin Trudeau appointed a Governor General who does not speak French, a choice that, in earlier decades, would have been criticized not only in Quebec. There is pressure, for instance from the Alberta Premier, to appoint Supreme Court justices who cannot speak one of our country’s two official languages (guess which language it is?). Because of this lack of leadership at the national level, and as a result of French Canada’s relative decline, fewer Canadians value official bilingualism as a plus for our nation. A 2024 Léger poll showed that bilingualism was seen as positive by 70 per cent of Quebecers but only 35 per cent of Canadians outside Quebec. The Prime Minister’s rosy reimagining of Canadian history has no effect on today’s worrisome reality. The demographic trends at play in Quebec will not only diminish its political weight. Population stagnation and aging threaten the province’s economic growth and fiscal situation. According to the economists at Desjardins, “the sustainability of Quebec’s welfare state model could be challenged.” Quebec’s leaders and population will face serious challenges in the coming years; their contribution to the federation will be the least of their concerns."

Randall Denley: The Ford government makes its college-funding scandal worse - "Grants sent to students at seven private career colleges in 2024-25 totalled $385 million, according to reporting by The Canadian Press. That’s the same amount that went to students in the entire public college system... The government blamed an unsustainable increase in demand for student aid when it cut grants from 85 per cent of support to 25 per cent . In 2024–25, student grant spending jumped by $465 million, but the rise was driven largely by the career college problem. The Ford government’s new grant percentage is still in the middle of the pack nationally, but it would be natural for Ontario students to think they are paying the price for a career college problem the government should have fixed."
Left wing logic: you can never cut free money, even if the post-cut numbers still look reasonable in perspective

Wednesday, October 14, 2026