Roman Baber on X - "More CO2 was released from these forest fires than reduced by all of the Liberal green scams combined. Northern Ontario is burning but @MarkJCarney will lend $125M for climate change initiatives in Brazil!"
Mario Zelaya on X - "Not parody Carney cut HALF OF THE STAFF at the federal wildfire coordination centre, DURING ONE OF THE WORST WILDFIRE SEASONS IN CANADIAN HISTORY. We’re cooked."
Time to blame Doug Ford and/or Stephen Harper. Or even Brian Mulroney
Chris Martz | Facebook - "We are being told that the wildfires in Ontario are being driven / fueled by climate change. Specifically, more extreme heat and increased drought. So, unlike the journalists and most meteorologists regurgitating these talking points, I looked at the actual data since 1910. The average number of heatwave days (HWDs) in Canada (which are defined as ≥3 consecutive days with Tmax ≥90th percentile against the 1991–2020 mean per station) was 8.58% lower during the 60-year period 1965–2025 compared to 1911–1960, but the linear trend is not statistically significant at the 95% confidence level. The last eight years have exhibited an unusually high number of HWDs, but it's far too early to tell if that's a sign of things to come or simply an artifact of natural variability. I used 113 long-term (≥80 years of daily data) GHCNd stations to complete this analysis. The only way one can get a meaningful increase in HWDs is to cherry-pick the x-axis starting date and ignoring pre-1960 data. Looking at droughts, I examined the self-calibrating Palmer Drought Severity Index (scPDSI) from CRU (data is available through 2024). I then calibrated that to the Drought Monitor over the same period that I analyzed HWDs. There isn't much of a trend there; in fact there is a significant decrease in the worst of the drought categories despite the spike in 2023–24. Very few people these days in this line of work build datasets from scratch. But I do it because if someone makes a claim, it's very easy to test said claims against observational data. In most cases, alarmist narratives crumble with scrutiny. While alarmists get the basics right about the physics of Global Warming Theory in an “all else being equal” hypothetical, the real-world is a far more complex and details are hairy."
Meme - Chris Martz: "Here's a map you probably haven't seen. The Canadian provincial and territorial "all-time" high temperature records. Eight of the thirteen provinces / territories recorded their high temperature records before 1940. All but three were set over 35 years ago."
"Canada "All-Time" Provincial & Territorial High Temperature Records"
Dante Rossi on X - "Trudeau promised in 2021 that $450 million would deliver new water bombers to provinces before the next fire season. Under Mark Carney’s Liberals, five years later, zero have been built or delivered federally. Canadians facing record wildfires deserve real equipment, not endless delays, excuses, and broken promises."
Steve Milloy on X - "Green Hell: For decades, greens have fought against building roads in wilderness areas. Not only does that make is forest management impossible, but wildfires can't be put out because no one can get there."
TurboWolf๐๐บ on X - "Even if there are roads, our stupid government disallows machinery to travel on them in a firefighting effort because of the government's "no machines allowed in wilderness areas!" rule.๐ My cousin is a heavy equipment operator & has experienced this first-hand."
Tim Sheehy on X - "As a former waterbomber pilot who used to lead an aerial firefighting fleet, I can tell you “send help” is an extremely dishonest framing by the Canadian government. The Canadian government routinely blocks U.S. firefighting companies from attacking fires in Canada, while aggressively sending their government-subsidized aircraft to the U.S. to earn commercial rates from the U.S. taxpayer. It’s big business for them and they run it like a Chinese protectionist racket."
Zen✨WECK on X - "Spraying glyphosate over Ontario’s boreal forest to kill fire-resistant deciduous trees (aspen, birch, fireweed) and create flammable conifer monocultures was always risky.
Timeline: Glyphosate commercialized 1974, Canadian ag use 1976, forestry adoption ramped up late 1970s–1980s with widespread aerial spraying. Ontario continues spraying tens of thousands of hectares yearly; Quebec banned it on Crown land in 2001. Wildfires have always been part of the boreal, but data shows increasing trends in area burned and large fire sizes since the 1980s onward, accelerating with climate-driven fire weather. Northern Ontario’s current blazes (100+ active, evacuations) are sending smoke over cottage country. These conifer monocultures look orderly but are an ecological disaster waiting to happen. Conifers are vulnerable to pests, less hospitable to wildlife, and more flammable. Glyphosate kills moisture-retaining native plants, leaving drier landscapes that are practically begging for a spark. Studies near Thunder Bay show moose populations dropping from lost food sources. Traces contaminate berries and medicinal plants used by First Nations. Spraying to “protect” timber yields turns forests into tinderboxes. IARC classified glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic to humans.” Aerosol drift from aerial apps raises inhalation and downwind exposure risks. Fires are natural + climate-amplified, but management choices (monocultures over diverse, resilient mosaics) matter. Time to rethink before more smoky summers. What say you, Ontario?"
Damn climate change!
Rabbi Poupko on X - "This is the Canadair CL-415 Waterbomber. It costs about $80–85 million per aircraft. Ontario has only 9 of these aircraft. In the past year, Canada sent over $500 million dollars to Palestinian causes. What would happen if Canada spent that money on more firefighting airplanes like this? How many more airplanes like this could it buy with a half a billion dollars? Photo: MORH/ T. Brandt
Meme - "The climate FRAUD:
1. In the worst years, Canadian wildfires emit ~700 Mt of CO2, equal to man-made emissions.
2. Canada collects billions annually in carbon and climate- related charges - near $10B.
3. A $5-10B/year investment in forest management could greatly reduce catastrophic wildfires."
wealthmoose on X - "26 billion dollars for Ukraine ๐บ๐ฆ Word salad for Northern Ontario ๐"
John Lee Pettimore on X - "Canada is the only G7 country (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, United States) without a dedicated national wildfire response agency or equivalent centralized federal body for wildfire management and response."
Damn climate change and Doug Ford!
Ciprian Ivanof on X - "Controlled burns for forest management have become a partisan issue. I don't understand why. The Right supports controlled burns to reduce maximum fire risk. The Left opposes it or puts so many barriers to it that predictable small fires become devastating in short order. Can someone tell me why there is this weird partisan divide in forest management?"
Besides their inability to think ahead and consider counterfactuals, as well as their love of what sounds/looks good rather than what works, left wingers need to manufacture crises to blame climate change
Society Unveiled on X - "Let me get this straight. If a gymgoer feels intimidated by a bladed weapon, it's an irrational fear. But under Bill C-9, if somebody feels intimidated by my political beliefs, I can go to prison for 10 years? Canada is beyond broken."
Tablesalt ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ on X - "‼️BREAKING Only 5 days after C-9 became law, the Police have pulled over the Rebel News' billboard truck to investigate a "hate crime". No enforcement action was taken, as of yet. The truck was displaying ads calling for fairness in Women's sports."
Meme - Ontario Proud: "Many people are blaming the wildfires in Ontario on Doug Ford supposedly cutting funding for forest firefighting. The truth is that the budget is MORE THAN DOUBLE what it was when Kathleen Wynne was in office. The truth matters."
"Ontario base funding for forest firefighting, by year:
2018-2019 - $70 million
2020-2022 - $100 million
2023-2025 - $135 million
2026 - $150 million
SOURCE: Ontario Budget"
Left wingers just blame Doug Ford for all of Ontario's problems, and in general left wingers always blame "underfunding". Facts don't matter.
Letting BC charge pipeline toll sets bad provincial precedent: critics | National Post - "The federal government’s decision to allow British Columbia to collect royalties from a proposed new pipeline to the West Coast sets a dangerous precedent for internal Canadian trade by allowing one province to charge a toll for the transportation of goods from another province, analysts warn. Allowing B.C. to charge a pipeline operator for passing through its province, they say, could establish a new framework where provinces could also start charging each other for other types of commercial traffic, perhaps including even transport trucks or rail cars that travel through another province on their way to other markets. “It’s such a bad precedent,” said Jack Mintz, an economist and the President’s Fellow of the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary. “It has no logic to it, outside of being extortion.” Ottawa last week announced the Canada-British Columbia Cooperative Prosperity Agreement that states that the province will “share meaningfully” in the economic benefits if a newly proposed pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast is built. In addition to the province receiving federal support for a number of infrastructure projects and compensation for assessed environmental risks associated with the pipeline, it also stands to get an undetermined annual royalty payment from the pipeline. In exchange, British Columbia Premier David Eby said his NDP government would not oppose the pipeline. Under his predecessor, John Horgan, the NDP government had tried to fight the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline almost a decade ago. But interprovincial pipelines are a federal responsibility, and Horgan was ultimately unable to override the federal government’s constitutional authority, even though B.C. did win financial compensation from the Trans Mountain Expansion in 2017 before it was purchased by the federal government. The difference between that deal nine years ago and the agreement announced earlier this month is that the previous deal called for B.C. to receive “an environmental and social licence fee” from what was then a private company for a period of 20 years; it did not offer royalty payments for Alberta energy simply travelling through B.C., said Ian Lee, a professor at Carleton University in Ottawa who specializes in trade. Lee and other trade watchers said this new deal could become a greater barrier for interprovincial commerce than the existing provincial barriers that are usually designed to shelter local or provincial business from competition. In this case, Lee added, the goods are effectively being taxed for just travelling through B.C., and not even being sold there. “This is interprovincial trade barriers on steroids.” Critics say the fact that the new deal will compensate B.C. is a big problem because it may tempt other provinces to try to profit from the transportation of goods across their jurisdictions. That temptation will grow in the coming years, Lee said, as provincial finances worsen. The Canada-B.C. deal also sets a precedent for provinces and even smaller jurisdictions to engage in more parochial behaviour at a time when the country is under threat from the United States and separatists in Alberta and Quebec, said Heather Exner-Pirot, director of natural resources, energy and the environment at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute think tank. Other provinces are going to see this Canada-B.C. deal and insist on their own “pound of flesh” any time the federal government wants to advance a project that is in the national interest, or perhaps for commercial traffic, she said. “We are on a slippery slope,” she said. “This B.C. deal slipped us a bit more.” The deal also comes at a time when the federal government has called to reduce or even eliminate interprovincial trade barriers, with mixed co-operation from the provinces. Economists say those barriers, which raise prices on a wide range of goods and services and make it more difficult for businesses to grow, cost the Canadian economy dearly, perhaps as much as five per cent of its annual gross domestic product. Mintz called the proposed payments to B.C. a tariff and “a step backward” for the Canadian economy... The B.C. government was against the idea of a new pipeline, but Carney was evidently able to use federal incentives to negotiate a compromise. In exchange for not opposing the deal, B.C. gets a promise to keep the tanker ban and billions of dollars in federal investments for a range of projects, including a new eight-lane tunnel, an expanded electrical transmission line, an expanded mine, LNG projects, and a port expansion. The deal also includes federal money for whale protection and child care... It’s possible that other provinces could follow suit and start demanding compensation for other goods travelling through their jurisdictions, Kennedy said, but that a pipeline and a truck filled with agricultural goods or auto parts, for example, do not leave the same footprint. “It’s a political issue, not a legal issue,” he said. Brian Lee Crowley, Macdonald-Laurier Institute managing director, said landing a pipeline deal is positive overall, but that it was a mistake for Ottawa to negotiate a royalty for B.C. “This is a loss for Canadian federalism,” he said. “You don’t need B.C.’s permission — it’s federal jurisdiction.” Crowley said he doubts if British Columbians will be pleased if this new framework leads to lumber or other products from their province being tariffed as they’re transported east through Alberta and onto other Canadian markets."
Damn Trump holding Canada back and being responsible for a decade of stagnant GDP per capita!
Rupa Subramanya on X - "LOL. After a year and a half of Team Canada, we're still talking about removing internal trade barriers. It turns out the hardest trade agreement to negotiate is the one between Canadians. "
Jason Kenney on X - "I was opposed to the convoy blockades, so read this piece with an open mind. What a mistake. Total slop. Repeats the completely debunked claim that convoy activists attempted arson in an Ottawa high rise apartment building. With huge government subsidies, foundation money, and charitable status, why can’t @thewalrus afford a fact checker? The whole piece reflects the cartoonish smugness of the left, basically stating (without even attempting to make a coherent argument) that the right is monolithically in the service of elite corporate interests, and the left is the heroic champion of working people. The truth is that the more extreme elements of the convoy movement resembled a kind of right wing anarchism, i.e. a profound distrust of and hostility to institutions and elites, including corporate elites, with a desire to tear it all down. The notion that the Convoy movement was somehow in the service of big corporate interests is obviously risible. Ironically, this sophomoric leftism is being published by a magazine that is funded by @TD_Canada , inter alia, a perfect example of corporate wokism as described in Sohrab Amari’s Tyranny, Inc."
Toronto Star on X - "‘You better show some respect’ — Canadian rocker Bryan Adams takes aim at Donald Trump in new single ‘51st State’"
Ezra Levant on X - "Bryan Adams has lived in London for 30 years. Maybe he and Mike Myers can start a club: Canadians Who Left Canada for Tax Reasons, but Who Still Have a Lot to Say to the Rest of Us."
Doug Ford, Scott Moe vow to reduce provincial trade barriers (2018)
Doug Ford on X - "Today, Canada’s premiers met in Charlottetown to discuss how we can stand up to tariffs, support our workers and unlock our country’s incredible potential. Team Canada is united as we work to protect Canadians."
Damn Trump!
John Thomson on X - "Can Canada survive 912 more days until Trump is gone? Yes, of course. But I want to know this: When Trump is gone, and 95% of our problems with productivity, economic growth, debt, housing, immigration, taxes, foreign investment, crime, infrastructure projects and, foreign influence, remain unchanged…. Will Canada survive that?"
They'll just run the usual left wing playbook. All of Canada's problems until the end of time will be blamed on Trump
Paul Lemoine on X - "Trump has threatened our independence and wants to destroy our economy. You don’t consider that to be our biggest problem?"
John Thomson on X - "This mindset is our biggest problem. If you look at the state of the country and remove Trump from the equation, it doesn’t reconcile how bad things are here. Trump isn’t letting child molesters and rapists go free into our society or giving out soft sentences so criminals can avoid deportation. Trump isn’t blocking our natural resources from reaching international markets. Trump didn’t create our housing, debt or immigration issues. Trump didn’t let our military wither on the vine. Trump didn’t allow our government and institutions to be infiltrated and co-opted by hostile PRC and other foreign operatives. Trump didn’t allow for Hamas and ISIS adjacent terrorist organizations to run amok in our streets and terrorize Jewish Canadians and largely undermine the basic tenets of our society and the rule of law. None of that was Trump. All of that was our government and our courts. Trump is a distraction, and should be treated largely as such. He’s an easy excuse for having to take accountability for our own failings. Anyone who says otherwise has terminal denialism that like a malignancy will eventually prove fatal to this country."
Scott Robertson on X - "Lewis: "What is the major threat to Canada's security today? It is the US. I don't think there's a way to prevent US military incursion in Canada. So don't use our fear of the US to just create a whole new military industrial complex ... I'm for rebooting the whole conversation."
Jonathan Kay on X - "okay so the message is that the US is coming for us but we can't defend ourselves so instead we do a "reboot" thing. thank you for watching bubblehead television"
Left wing logic is to just surrender to your enemies. They think that about Russia, China and Islamists too, when they're not uniting with them to destroy the West
