All ye need to know about Canada in one short story

The Bank of Canada is the entity owned by the people state of Canada which controls the money and the currency of the Great No-longer-white North. It is not to be confused with the Royal Bank of Canada, which is owned, albeit indirectly, by the people of Canada, i.e. its shareholders. It is called "Royal" only because it was created by a royal charter issued in the name of Queen Victoria, whose birthday is still celebrated on the 24th of May.

Queen Victoria was the great-grandmother of Mrs Philip Mountbatten-Windsor, who, under the name of Elizabeth II, was Queen of Canada (and her other realms and territories) for over 70 years until her death nearly four years ago. For the last 40 years of her reign Canada was officially independent, but the Canadians -- like children learning to ride a bike without training wheels -- kept her image on the currency issued by the Bank of Canada until... now.

The currency of Canuckistan is officially called the dollar. Unofficially it's known as the "beaverbuck" or other less salubrious names. The one-dollar coin is known as the "loonie", which seems apt. 

With the fourth anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's death fast approaching, the Bank of Canada felt considerable pressure from diehard monarchists to put a picture of her successor on at least some of the banknotes. That person is none other than Charles Philip Arthur George, first-begotten son of Liz and Phil the Greek, as her consort was affectionately known. 

A real Charlie he is, and now he's King Charles III, and has been so for (as I said) nearly four years. "The Queen is dead; long live the King!". 

Why did it take the Bank of Canada so long to issue new notes bearing the royal likeness? [Looks more like his younger brother Andrew to me. Ed.] Walt's sources in the world's second-coldest capital city say that the new design had been on the drawing board for years prior to Charlie's mums death, but the government of Prime Minister Blackie McBlackface, on whose watch QEII expired, didn't want to make any sudden changes and blow its chances of being re-elected.

Besides, it's not the Canadian way to do anything quickly. It was said of former Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King that he never did anything by halves which could be done by quarters. So King Charles's face appeared (in profile, sadly) on the quarters first. And now... at last... this.

But wait! Although the announcement was made and the new design released today, the new banknotes will not be generally available until next February. A limited quantity will be available in packages of 50, in brown paper envelopes addressed to Rt. Hon. Marx Carney, Ottawa. If you need such, ask your local Liberal MP.

That's all ye know and all ye need to know. You're welcome.

VIDEO: How was your kid's first day back at school?

President Trump has renamed Lake Ontario (he thinks), and now...

Scraped from Patriot Post. And that's the ABF meme on DJT's ridiculous war on America's best friends... ABF for this month, that is.

ABF comment from Walt: Unless you're Jerry Seinfeld or Bill Burr, when people start laughing e3very time you open your mouth, you're finished.

Your Sikhs today: Brampton Mann in fraud schemes worth C$4.3 million

Meet the team of "trusted professionals" at PJ Mann Law Professional Corporation, a law firm based in Brampton ON, the capital of the government-in-exile of Khalistan.

You'll note that none of these "trusted professionals" is wearing a turban. And there's only one PoC, who isn't brown but black. That's odd, considering that PJ Mann LPC was founded (and until recently operated) by Pawanjeet Singh Mann, who Walt suspects may have been a sole practitioner. By that I mean, there was no team, just him... as far as Ed.'s research indicates. 

Who's running the practice -- which spcializes in immigration, visas and real estate -- now is a mystery. You see, Mr Mann is a former lawyer, having been disbarred by the Law Society of Ontario in July of 2025 after an LSO tribunal found him guilty of knowingly participating in a mortgage fraud scheme in 2019. 

Mr Mann is now facing multiple fraud charges after allegedly he orchestrated four separate schemes involving mortgage and cheque fraud that resulted in approximately C$4.3 million (over $3 million in real money) in losses.

Inspector Singh (no relation) of the Peel Region Police said the investigation began after the Fraud Bureau received multiple complaints between June and July alleging Mann was involved in fraudulent activity. Investigators allege Mann orchestrated four separate mortgage and cheque fraud schemes, causing approximately $4.3 million in losses to victims, many of whom were fellow Sikhs who trusted him because he was one of them.

He has been charged with four counts each of fraud over $5000 and possession of property obtained by crime, along with three counts of criminal breach of trust and two counts of uttering forged documents. If convicted he might be stripped of his citizenship (or permanent resident status if he hasn't yet become a citizen of Canuckistan) so as to be deported... but don't bet on it.

MUSIC VIDEO: "Lake America? No, EH!"

Wut, another music video? Yes, but this one is political, and right on point with President Trump's apparent descent into lunacy. This is "Lake Ontario", an official anthem of the Canadian Resistance Army.

 

Thanks and a tip of the conical chapeau to Agent 78 for giving us the link to this one. 

Revenge for "Lake America" - "Av Trump Ave" to be renamed?

The blowback from President Trump's purported renaming of Lake Ontario to "Lake America" increases by the hour. The mojo wire just spat out a report that the city council of Ottawa, the capital of Canuckistan, is searching for a new name for "Av Trump Ave" (it's a bilingual sign, see), a small street in a quiet subdivision in the city's west end.

Wikipedia says the street was "indirectly named" for the Donald. In fact the developers who turned an experimental farm into the Central Park subdivision in the 1990s named the street directly after the infamous real-estate developer for explicitly articulated marketing reasons.

All the streets in Central Park contain themed references to the tony parts of the Big Apple, but alas, there is no original "Trump Avenue" in NYC, so they just made that one up. In the `90s, the Trump name had connotations of glitz, wealth and commercial vision rather than the overweening egotism and self-destructive foolishness with which we associate it today. See our previous post.

Writing in the Notional Pest, Colby Cosh says, "Trump is now the world’s most notorious practitioner of crazed onomastic revision itself! And, as we all know, his amour-propre has the size and flammable nature of a zeppelin: he will actually feel indignant and aggrieved if he gets wind that the impulsively named Trump Avenue has suddenly been re-branded." 

What would he do then? Where will this all end up? Walt is making popcorn...

Winning? Looks to us like Trump has finally jumped the shark

Trump Says Grocery Bills Should Drop 

After He Renames a Few More Things 'America'

That's the Babylon Bee's headline accompanying this photo. Click here to read their article, the gist of which is "The cost of groceries will fall like you won't believe," and everything will be just peachy-keen from here on out. It's satire, of course, but think about this...

If well over half of a politician's constituents, and over 90% of the rest of the world, are laughing at him, is he winning or losing? 

Regular readers of WWW know that Walt was a strong suporter of DJT's bids for election and re-election. We liked the idea of Making America Great Again, and wished President Trump good luck. But even then, we took him cum grano salis. 

Now we can only avert our gaze as he makes a fool of himself and of the US of A on the world's stage. It's embarrassing. And we can't even advise the Donald to quit while he's ahead, because... he's not ahead. He's losing. And it can only get worse.