Get woke, go broke! e.g. Canada Post Corp.

Canada Post Corporation is a Crown Corporation (aka state-owned enterprise) which runs the postal service of Canuckistan on behalf of the poor frostback taxpayer. Any profit it makes goes to the Liberal government of Marx Carnage, to reduce the alleged country's ballooning deficit. 

Unfortuntely, the CPC hasn't made a profit in living memory. The size of its loss for the last fiscal year is such that it now pleads poverty in answer to union demands for more money, over which they have been threatening to strike for months.

One of the lesser-known profit centres on which the CPC relies is the sale of postage stamps for collectors. Under the Liberals, the cost of a single stamp has risen to C$1.44 ($1.05 in real money)... plus sales tax! (Hint to USPS: you're missing a bet there.) The cost of the service -- delivering a letter, for instance -- is such that Canada Post loses money on every piece of lettermail. Or so they say.

However, when the postage stamp is kept by a philatelist (look it up) in his little album, the only cost to CPC is that of printing and distributing the tiny scrap of paper, so the profit is considerable. What a pity that no-one buys stamps any more. When was the last time, dear Canadian reader, that you actually received a piece of mail with a stamp on it?

But (Walt hears you ask) don't the collectors buy them, even if the general public doesn't? Quick answer: NO. Canada Post churns out over a dozen "special" (collectors say "commemorative" or "pictorial") stamps every year, but liberal ideology prevails at CPC to the point where very few people want the miniaturized political posters which their stamps have become. 

Here is Exhibit 1, the January-July 2025 Canadian Stamp Catalogue, through which you can order all wonderful new bits of  liberal propaganda shown on the cover.

The only stamps most Canadians ever see are the four little ones in the third row, which pay for things like oversize envelopes, and mail to the USA and overseas. They show landscapes, very typically Canadian since there are no people there.

So we come to the special stamps. The one in the top left corner is a liberal guilt stamp, reminding Canucks of how bad they were to intern innocent Japanese during World War II. Yes, it was wrong. Guilt has been admitted and reparations paid. That should be the end of the story, but noooo.

Below that is a stamp honouring Blue Rodeo, which I understand is an entertainment group of some sort, or maybe an act at the Calgary Stampede. Who knows.

The three stamps in a vertical column portray "Indigenous Leaders" -- two women, one man, no "two-spirited" indigines -- unknown to 99% of Canadians.

But hey, the Indians First Nations got three stamps, but the "black community" got only one, the big one showing Marie Joseph Angélique  a woman person of colour wearing a do-rag. No-one heard of her either, but she's a francophone, so that's OK then.

Under that are two stamps picturing peonies. Part of a long-running series and toally inoffensive.

In the upper right corner are special stamps which cost an extra dime per each. That's how you can contribute to the Canada Posts Community Foundation, which makes donations to worthy causes, such as buying picture books for libraries so they can be read to children during Drag Queen Story Hour. You understand the design now, eh.

Under that stamp comes a commemorative celebrating (for some reason) the life and legacy of Lyin' Brian Mulroney, the most reviled prime minister in Canadian history until Just In Trudeau came down the pike. The issuance of this stamp proves that Canada Post is not just another tentacle of the Liberal octopus, because Mr Baloney was, at least nominally, a Conservative... a Progressive Conservative.

Below and to the left of the late unlamented is the stamp issued for Eid, the Muslim holy day. What can one say except that at least Canada Post doesn't do kwanzaa.

Lastly we come to the pièce de résistance (or piece of resistance, if you will), a block of four designs publicizing "Places of Pride". Eh? What's up with that? Hint: these stamps were issued on May 30th. So? Enlarge the photo and take a good look. Get it now? They're promoting and celebrating Pride Month! Kinda makes you proud to be a Canadian, eh. Errr, maybe not.

So there you have it, dear Canadian friends. Run right out to your nearest post office -- if it's still open -- and plunk down your beaverbucks for whichever gay bits of paper tickle your fancy.

Further reading: "Canada Post is a vital Canadian institution—why doesn’t the government act that way?" Secondary headline: "The federal government, and Canada Post management, seem content to manage the decline rather than saving the postal service". By Jon Milton, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 5/6/25.