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MUSIC VIDEO: "She taught me how to yodel" (NOT by Frank Ifield)

While we're waiting for President Trump's "energy ceasefire" supposedly agreed to by Ukraine and Russia to take effect, how about a little musical fun to distract us from the unpleasant reality. 

Today we present a version of a novelty song which has been around for six decades: "She Taught Me How To Yodel". The link goes to Frank Ifield's performance of the song on The Ed Sullivan Show 7/5/67.

Frankie was born in the UK but his parents wisely moved to the land of Oz when he was a tot. He grew up in rural Australia [Is there any other kind? Ed.] where he started performing hillbilly music in his teens. He released singles which were successful in Australia and New Zealand. In America,  not so much.

But that's not the version Walt wants to share with you today. We are pleased to repost this performance by a good Ukrainian girl, Софїя Шкїдченко (Sofia Shkidchenko), on Ukraine's Got Talent, in 2018.

This video has had something like 211 million hits since it was posted in 2018, and close to half a million likes. The title onscreen says that Ms Shkidchenko was 11 when it was recorded, but Ed. read elsewhere that she was born in 2005, which would have made her 13. 

We're not sure if  Sofia has been able to remain in Ukraine since the Russian invasion, but we understand she is actively continuing her music career internationally, performing concerts and sharing new vocal and yodeling projects across her YouTube channel and social media platforms. 

She has performed live and taken part in charity events and international competitions, including appearances in Boston and on Poland's Got Talent and Spain's Got Talent. She regularly drops original tracks and covers blending pop, jazz, and traditional yodeling. Of course yodeling is not part of Ukrainian culture or tradition, but hey...

Michael Moore explains why Canadians are giving thanks today

The slobbish crypto-socialist film-maker now working to put the Dimocrats back in power is not wrong about everything. For instance, he correctly predicted the demise of Senile Joe and the huge victory for DJT. And he is not wrong when he lauds things Canadian society does better than than America, like providing adequate (if not outstaneding) basic health care "free" for all. 

It's things like that, Mr Moore will tell you (even if you don't ask him) that make Canucks say "Thanks, but no thanks" to President Trump's repeated urgings -- a mix of threats and promises -- to become the 51st state. By far the majority of ordinary Canadians believe that even though Canada is a nitwit country, life is better off there amidst the winter snows than it is for their American counterparts. 

For that reason, Walt, along with several US senators and state governments, recommends that  President Trump lay off Canada! Union with the land of the free yada yada isn't going to happen, and yapping about it will not help the Republican mid-term election campaign, which, from our corner of the forest, looks like a lost cause.

Thanksgiving wish for our Canadian friends and readers

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day in Canada. Some say it's because Canada invented the harvest celebration. Others say it's because Canadians have less to be thankful for. We think Canadians have more to be thankful for!

Never mind. Walt [and Ed.! Ed.] wish all our Canadian readers and friends

Happy Thanksgiving!

VIDEO: Meanwhile, back at America's southern border

Remigration is the answer!

New anti-woke Parti Québécois government to curb mass immigration

Yesterday, in "It doesn't matter where you live. The threat is real", we mentioned briefly the victory of the nationalist (thus anti-immigration) Parti Québécois in Monday's election in la Bette Province. We present now an abbreviated version of the report by Tristin Hopper in Canada's National Post.

Following Monday's election results in Québec, the province may be in for one of the more "anti-woke" programmes in the country, particularly on the issue of immigration. 

The "sovereignist" (read: nationalist) Parti Québécois will form a minority government, with the revitalized Québec Conservatives holding the balance of power. 

The province’s premier designate, Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, has denounced the open borders policies of Canada's Liberal government, declared multiculturalism a failure and  even led campaigns against "wokeisme" in politics.

One of the more immediate policy implications of the new government is likely to be tighter restrictions on immigration, and an explicit push toward increasing the fertility rate as an alternative to accepting immigrants. 

Among the seven priorities which the PQ pledged to pursue were pledges to cut red tape, reduce gasoline taxes and "retake control of our immigration system." For months, M Plamondon has explicitly cited high immigration as a driver of housing unaffordability, health care backlogs and criminal behaviour among Québec youth.

Rising crime rates in Québec are "linked to demographic changes, we can’t ignore that," he told le Journal de Québec last year.

Specifically, the Parti Québécois has pledged to limit permanent immigration to 35,000 per year. For context, the last year Quebec accepted fewer than 35,000 permanent immigrants per year was in 2000, when they brought in 32,502. Last year, 60,132 permanent immigrants settled in the province, with 59,440 arriving the year before.

The party's official immigration platform calls the issue an "urgent situation" that has been imposed on Québécois "without our consent", and includes a clause about using "automation" and "robotics" to reduce dependence on foreign workers. 

When Prime Minister Mark Carney hinted in a New York Times interview last month that his government was planning a "controlled increase" to immigration, M Plamondon responded with a statement accusing Ottawa of attempting to subvert "Québec democracy." "A PQ government would oppose from day one any immigration increase imposed by the federal government," he said. 

Québec, just like the rest of Canada, was hit by an unprecedented surge in "temporary migration" approved by Justin Trudeau's Liberal government in the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. As recently as 2015, the number of non-permanent residents entering the province was about 3600 per year. In 2023, the peak of the post-COVID migration surge, that number swelled to 125,092! 

Québec has also been particularly hard hit by a wave of asylum-seekers who began entering Canada at elevated rates beginning in 2017. Until it was closed in 2023, the Roxham Road illegal border crossing into southern Québec was the primary conduit for such migrants.

According to then-Premier François Legault, in 2023 alone, an estimated 60,000 asylum-seekers registered in Québec, resulting in overflowing homeless shelters. An estimated 190,000 asylum-seekers are still in Quebec, representing more than a third of the Canadian total of 500,000. Conservative Party Leader Éric Duhaime made the issue a recurring theme of his campaign, stating that at least one third of asylum seekers had come to "profit off our social benefits", which he pledged to reduce.

He also proposed sweeping incentives to drive up the Québec birthrate, which, even if it's above the Canadian average, is at a historic low of 1.36 children per woman. The Parti Quebecois similarly rolled out a campaign promise to "slow the falling birth rate." In a statement, M Plamondon said, "Every Québécer who wants children should be able to start a family."

For both the PQ and the Conservatives, the real issue isn't the raw numbers of immigration, but the risk of cultural dilution. In an April press conference, the PQ leader accused the federal government of succumbing to the Trudeau-Carney "doctrine of postnationalism" that caused it to embrace "open borders."

Last week, as the PQ cruised toward victory, the Québec conservative columnist Mathieu Bock-Côté said that it augured a Québec "really turning the page on multiculturalism and unchecked immigration." Representatives of most mainstream Québec political parties are on record as saying that multiculturalism is a failure. The province's most recent immigration minister, Jean-François Roberge said last year, "We think ghettoization does not serve social cohesion."

Québec was also largely immune to an early 2020s phenomenon of Canadian institutions issuing reports and statements declaring themselves guilty of "systemic racism", mandating land acknowledgements and implementing identity-based quotas in official hiring. In 2024, Québec's National Assembly unanimously passed a motion endorsing merit-based hiring over DEI-style hiring based on identity quotas.

Walt sez: Québécois aren't racists. They're realists! When is the rest of North America going to wake up?!

It doesn't matter where you live. The threat is real...

If you watched "Will mass migration be the death of the West?" and thought, "It's not my problem. Maybe it's too late for Britain and France, but there aren't many Islamists in my community. Why should I worry?", Walt says: Look around you! They may not be there in numbers yet, but they're coming, and almost none of our political and religious leaders is trying to stop them.

There's one way that you can do your part to stem the flood. Elections are coming soon not just in the US of A but in other countries, states and municipalities. Use the power of the ballot! Throw your support behind politicians you can trust [??? Ed.] to work for totally closed borders and the remigration of the criminals and terrorists who are already amongst us.

You think it can't be done? Just two days ago, the pure laine Canadiens of the province of Québec turfed out the centre-left CAQ, which had held power for eight years, and elected what promises to be the most anti-woke government in Canada!

Parti Québécois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, now the Premier designate, has denounced the open borders policies of the federal Liberals, declared multiculturalism a failure, denounced wokeism and promised Canada's strictest controls on immigration. 

See? If enough people get over their fear of being vilified as "racist", "Nazi scum" etc to vote according to what they know in their hearts is right, we can win!