UPDATED. new VIDEO: Deadly DCA air crash - OTJ training + DEI

Regular readers will know that Walt is not one to jump to conclusions. [**cough** Ed.] However, I do think it's not too soon to start asking questions about yesterday's collision of an American Eagle CRJ700 and a UH600 helicopter belonging to the US Army. Here's the audio of Air Traffic Control directing other aircraft around the scene, with video of the moment of impact. 

 

The American Eagle airliner was carrying 60 pax and a crew of four, all of whom are presumed dead. The precise number of victims was unclear as rescue crews are still hunting for survivors, and recovering the bodies of those who didn't make it.

We do know that the Army chopper was on a training flight -- OTJ training in the middle of one of America's busiest and most complex airspaces. We also know that until President Trump signed his EO a few days ago, the American military was prioritizing the hiring of vizmins, BIPOCs, wimmin, trannies and others who "experience sexuality differently", without regard to their aptitude or qualifications. 

We would like to know who was flying the helicopter at the fatal moment. Whose voice is heard saying they could see the airliner? Was he/she/it a DEI hire? Same question for the air traffic controller who apparently didn't realize that the two aircraft were flying at the same altitude or warn them of the impending collision.

Just asking, you understand.

UPDATE ADDED 2/2/25

Looks like I got the answer I was expecting. Not such an unwarranted suspicion as some have suggested. 

In this video, Michael 'Rocket' Blackstone, a professional pilot with 26 years as an airline pilot, as well as an aerobatic airshow performer and stunt pilot asserts that the likely causes of this horrific accident are now pointing toward the 28-year-old 500-hour pilot, Captain Rebecca Lobach.

Capt. Lobach was apparently at the controls of the PAT-25 H-60 helicopter. She was allegedly taking a competency check ride with Chief Warrant Officer Andrew Eaves, 39, who was evaluating her even though he had only about 1000 hours himself.. 

  

These H-60 pilots failed to "see and avoid" the American Eagle CRJ traffic called out by DCA tower after stating that they had the traffic in sight. Clearly, the H-60 crew did not have the traffic in sight, failed to steer left as directed to pass behind the CRJ, failed to fly at or below the required 200' MSL, maximum altitude on the helicopter route. 

The ATC controller passed the full responsibility of in-flight separation at night to a helicopter crew whom he saw never make any heading changes to avoid the American Airlines aircraft. 

Mr Blackstone argues that this situation was completely avoidable, and many regulatory changes must be implemented immediately to protect the flying public from the dangers of military training missions.

Your Singhs today (Peel Region, ON) - "They're stealing our butter!"

Agent 3's attention was caught by this headline in the Toronto Sun: "SPREAD 'EM: Accused butter bandits toast after Peel cops bust slippery scheme". "Butter bandits"??!! What kind of people would steal butter? But it's Peel Region, where the majority of people are from south Asia, so let's see...

What follows is a lightly edited version of the report on the Peel Regional Police blotter:

Investigators from the 22 Division Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) have arrested and charged six individuals in a theft investigation in Brampton. 

In December 2024, investigators became aware of a significant increase in theft of butter and ghee* from grocery stores within the Region of Peel, with losses of over $60,000 in stolen property in 2023. 

Project Flaherty [??? Did they think the perps were Irish?] was established to target and combat the increase in butter and ghee thefts. As a result, three individuals were charged with Possession of Property Obtained by Crime: Vishavjeet Singh, a 22-year-old man of no-fixed address; Sukmander Singh, a 23-year-old man from Brampton; Dalwal Singh Sidhu, a 28-year-old man from Brampton.

In addition, three individuals were arrested and charged with Theft Under $5000: Navdeep Chaudhary, a 22-year-old man from Brampton; Kamaldeep Singh, a 38-year-old man of no-fixed address; Harkerat Singh, a 25-year-old man of no-fixed address.

The six individuals will appear at the Ontario Court of Justice in Brampton at a later date. CIB continues to investigate these incidents, including which businesses are accepting these stolen products. Similar incidents have been reported across Ontario, including one in Brantford where suspects stole about $1200 [$840 in real money] worth of butter from a grocery store. 

The coppers didn't say anything about what all these Singhs got into Canada and what they're doing here when they're not stealing butter. Walt suspects that they are all students at the infamous Singh School of Truck Driving. Those with no fixed address likely live in their trucks as they cross and recross the World's Longest Undefended Border (TM) with loads of spreadables and "other stuff".

CTV News adds that Scott Tracey, a spokesperson Guelph Police Service, told them in November that there appears to be an online black market for butter. Good police work there, Scott! One "expert"  noted that that butter thefts would continue as long as the cost of living and food prices remained high. No shit, Sherlock!

*Ghee is a type of clarified butter, originating from the Indian subcontinent. It is commonly used for cooking, as a traditional medicine, and for Hindu religious rituals. You're welcome.

Québec to force "newcomers" to adopt "common culture"

What follows is excerpted from a report in the Groan & Wail, Canada's national snoozepaper.

Québec’s immigration minister says newcomers to the province need to embrace the “common culture,” as the government looks to put Québec identity back at the forefront of the political agenda. 

The Québec government will table a new bill Thursday on the integration of immigrants, which will require newcomers to adhere to Québec values like gender equality and secularism. 

"We will be pretty clear. We are a nation, we have a culture, we have democratic values," Immigration Minister Jean-François Roberge told reporters in Québec City as the provincial legislature resumed Tuesday following the holiday break. "And people coming here must accept that." (Walt's emphasis.)

M Roberge said the bill aims to prevent "ghettoization" of immigrant communities by defining a social contract that will emphasize French as the official language of Québec. He said Québec has never accepted the concept of Canadian multiculturalism, first outlined in a 1971 policy to promote cultural diversity and enshrined in law in 1988. 

Canada has not defined a common culture for the country, the minister said, and Québec prefers the idea of interculturalism, focused on integrating immigrants into Québec culture. Newcomers have a "moral duty" to adhere to Québec culture, M Roberge said, adding that there will be obligations laid out in the bill – mechanisms to ensure its principles are upheld, though he offered no details.

Walt doubts that most Québécois would equate "gender equality" and "secularism" with traditional Québec values. Obviously M Roberge has in mind the new, woke, "progressive" values which have been imported from the US of A -- the ones he refers to as "democratic values". There should be a capital D there.

Nevertheless, Walt thinks making "newcomers" -- presumably including the bogus refugees and asylum-seekers which Québec is trying to push into other provinces -- adapt to the values and customs of their unwilling hosts, rather than the other way around, is a good idea. Many people in the rest of Canuckistan will wish their governments had the cojones to follow this course. 

Note from Ed.: I had a hard time finding an appropriate illustration of "Québec values". That tells you all ye know and all ye need to know about this subject.

Fun fact for Chinese New Year

Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, calls marketing "a dark science devoted to making people want t hings they don't need." Markeing ranks second on Mr Adams' list of Top Ten All-Time Evils. Here is the complete list.

1. Leadership - 2. Marketing - 3. Satan - 4. Human Resources - 5. Cannibalism - 6. Decaffeinated coffee - 7. Death squads - 8. Three-hour meetings - 9. Cats - 10. Hitler

What's all this nonsense about making Canada the 51st state?

News travels slowly to this corner of the forest, especially in winter. It has just come to the attention of this dual citizen that President Trump, in a meeting with Blackie McBlackface, Emperor of Canuckistan, that the latter's country would be better off joining the Excited States of America as the 51st state. Why, he said to Junior, you could even be the first governor. Or if not you, then Wayne Gretsky.

Chief Walking Goose allowed as how the frostbacks he rules might not want to join a country where everyone has a gun for self-defence, but not everyone has health insurance coverage provided by the government. But, said the Donald, if you don't join us voluntarily, we have ways of making you see reason (read: the way I see things).

Did he mean another invasion? As President James Madison said way back in 1812, "it would only be a matter of marching." Even President Trump, who ignores history that he doesn't like, knows how that turned out. So he assured M Trudeau and his minions that he wasn't talking about an armed invasion. Goodness, no! A 25% tariff on all Canadian goods and services would do just as well, or even better.

Since he said that, Canadians of all political stripes have had their knickers* in a twist over how to respond to the threatened tariffs. Some argue for a tit-for-tat tariff. [DJT sez: "OK then. Tat!"] Others say maybe joining the US of A isn't such a bad idea. It would cure their government's terminal wokeness once and for all, without an election, let alone an assassination.

What they are forgetting is that Canada and the US of A have been arguing about, threatening, negotiating and renegotiating tariffs since before Canada was even a country. In fact, it was the threat of American tariffs against Canada that forced the assorted provinces to unite as one country (more or less), beginning in 1867. What follows is adapted from Stone Country, by George Bowering, Canada's first poet laureate, Penguin Canada 2003. 

The US war with the Confederate States of America complicated Canadian politics greatly. A lot of Canadians joined the Blue Coats to fight against the slave economy. But the British, still smarting from bad experiences with their former colonies, built warships that wound up in Grey Coat hands. 

These ships made a great nuisance of themselves in the Union shipping lanes, and when the war was all but over, President Lincoln started talking about reprisals, especially the receiving-huge-acreage kind of reprisals. Luckily this sort of talk tapered off after Lincoln's assassination, and the work was left to the feckless Fenians. 

In 1871, the case was closed when Britain agreed that it should pay some monetary compensations. But the big new republic was a place in which business and the military were learning to butter each other's buttocks. If military annexation was not going to look all that good, there were always economic means.

In 1854 the US and British North America had signed a Reciprocity Treaty, which had proven quite handy for the businessmen on both sides, and during their big war, the US had been happy to get fish, food, minerals and wood without paying tariffs on them. But when the war was over, the US Senate began to listen to the complains of businessmen whose business was fish, coal and lumber. 

Listen, said these businessmen, we need protection from these foreign traders. Don't you remember that we just recently fought a couple of wars with them? Don't you realize that if we put up tariffs they will eventually beg for annexation so they can make a living? 

The US withdrew from the Reciprocity Treaty in 1866, whereupon some economic realists proposed the idea of a confederation of the several provinces. Said Sir John Eh Macdonald, who would become the first prime minister, "I'll drink to that!", and so the Dominion of Canada was born. 

This was the kind of thing that made Canadian schoolchildren decide that history was kind of boring. US schoolchildren, of course, never heard abut it. But over the years there have been a lot of apoplectic fits, suicides and desertions caused by the tariffs that keep showing up at the US border.

The lesson for DJT, should he deign to pay attention, is that Canadians will find a way to keep the World's Longest Undefended Border (TM) intact and still do business with the new imperial America. Most of them -- let's say 50% + 1 -- reject the idea of joining the Excited States of America, even if staying out costs them a bit more. As those arch-Canucks, Bob & Doug McKenzie, would put it:

* Note from Ed. to American readers: "Knickers" is what the Brits call ladies' underpants. Canadians call them "panties", like Americans do.

To all our Chinese readers, friends and family

Walt, Poor Len [and Ed.! Ed.]

wish all our Chinese friends and readers

a happy and prosperous Year of the Snake!

GONG XI FA CAI!

KUNG HEI FAT CHOY!

VIDEO: Remembering Christmases past

Those of us who follow the Julian calendar, the Christmas season is just ending. Things ain't what they used to be. A lot of the old customs and traditions have been lost, or (dare say it?) surpressed for reasons of political correctness. Even the word "Christmas" itself has been effectively banned. Note the title at the end of this video.

Agent 5 has been good enough to send along this vintage video, made by Canada's National Film Board, showing how the great Christian holy day was celebrated by the Ukrainian community in the province of Manitoba, 82 years ago.

   

Makes you wish you could turn back the clock, doesn't it? We hope all our Ukrainian readers, friends and family have had a good and holy holiday. And we send everyone our best wishes for health, peace and prosperity in the New Year.

VIDEO: "It's over!" - Dan McTeague (the gas guy) warns Liberals

The good and normal people -- Cipher and Fox -- at Northern Perspective sit down for a candid chat with former Liberal MP Dan McTeague. Mr McTeague has a strong message for his former colleagues who are still deluding themselves that the Liberals have a chance in the next election.

 

Thanks and a tip o' the toque to Agent 6 for sending us the link to this. Mr McTeague is only partially right. For the Canadian Gliberals, it's only over... for now. They'll be back! See "Walt's prophecy of Emperor Trudeau III", WWW 25/1/25.

Liberals boot Indo-Canadian MP from leadership race

The CBC -- Canada's answer to Pravda -- reports today that Nepean MP Chandra Arya, featured in this video on WWW, says he's been informed by the Liberal Party of Canada that he won't be allowed to run in the leadership contest to replace Prime Minister Blackie McBlackface. 

In a statement posted to "X", Mr Arya said "While I await their official communication, I am carefully considering my next steps. This decision raises significant questions about the legitimacy of the leadership race and, by extension, the legitimacy of the next prime minister of Canada." 

Mr Arya does not say, nor does the Gliberal Party, whyfor his entry into the race to the bottom weas denied. Surely it has nothing to dfo with his vow to dump the monarchy if elected, or his statement that he doesn't speak French and doesn't believe it will matter to French-speaking Canadians.

More likely, the reason is that Mr Arya is just a bit too Indian (turbans, not feathers) even for the Liberals. In 2023, he sponsored a petition calling on the Liberals to reconsider plans to introduce a foreign agent registry in response to serious allegations of foreign interference in Canadian politics. The registry legislation has since passed, but it's not yet up and running. 

Mr Arya's ties to India have raised eyebrows amid worsening diplomatic relations. Last summer, he travelled to India and met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A statement from Global Affairs Canada at the time said Arya "travelled to India on his own initiative and was not representing the Government of Canada."

Mr Arya's premature ejection leaves one other Indo-Canadian MP in the race, viz. Ruby "Slippers" Dhalla, mentioned in "Mark Carney explains why he wants to lead the Liberal Party of Canada", WWW 24/1/25. She is, of course, the dark horse. [Couldn't resist it, eh. Ed.] Adjust your betting accordingly.

Walt's prophecy of Emperor Trudeau III

1. In the year 1968 a plague was ravaging the land the Indians called Ka-na-ta, their word for "cold and dismal". The God-fearing, hardworking and docile people, whose totem was the industrious beaver, had been infected by the Hippie Virus, emanating from the Land of the Free, and had given themselves over to lassitude and hedonism. They wore strange clothing, ingested strange substances, and behaved in manners unacceptable to the great god Mammon.

2. By the grace of Business, whose great temples remain still on the Street which is called Bay, Ka-na-ta was ruled by the Natural Governing Party, which was called Liberal. Its great chief, at the time, was a feeble elder who was called "Mike", because his real name was "Lester", which the political rainmakers thought sounded less than manly.

3. So behold, a writ was issued by the chief rainmaker, summoning all Liberals to the village of Oddawa, that a new leader might be chosen. Let him be "cool", they said, that he might appeal to the sufferers from the Hippie Virus, and epitomize the counter-culture which they had embraced.

4. The leading contender for the leadership of the NGP, anointed by the Bankers and captains of Business, was a man named Winters, which sounded cool enough as it echoed down the canyons of Bay Street. But the scribes of the Red Star pronounced him "yesterday's man". A new generation was needed, they said, and his star was rising in the East.

5. And lo, there came from the province of Québec, whose tetrarch was John the Wise, three Wise Men (called "doves" in their own language), named Jean, Gérard and Pierre. The youngest of these, but also the wisest (so it was said) was Pierre, who was called Trudeau, which, in his language, meant "waterhole", or something like that.

6. Pierre met with the assembled Liberal chefs in April of 1968, and prate unto them, "It's spring!" So old man Winters slunk away, and Pierre took Mike's place on the throne of power, at the age of 48. There he sat there for over eleven years.

7. But before long, the people of Ka-na-ta began to speculate that Pierre, being unmarried and heirless as he approached his 50th birthday, might be a "homo", which, in those days, was their word for "gay".

8. Thus Pierre took unto himself a wife, a flower-child named Margaret, who, on Christmas Day of 1971, bore a son, of whom Pierre claimed to be the father. They called him "Justin", meaning "He who is the issue of Pierre, certainly not of Fidel or Mick Jagger".

9. Another seven years passed by. The people of Ka-na-ta grew tired of Pierre and, in the summer of 1979, put in his place a man known as Joe Who. Whereupon Pierre declared that the Liberal Party was no longer worthy of him, and retired. 

10. The following winter, when the people seemed likely to plunge their daggers into Joe Who's front, as well as his back, Pierre took a walk in the snow, and had a change of mind, if not of heart. He spake to the people thus, "If you miss me already as much as you ought, I am prepared to come back." 

11. And so he did, ruling for another four years, after which the people rose up and said to him, "We have been burdened with taxes and liberal ideology, and did we mention taxes, long enough. Go, already!" And so he did.

12. The Natural Governing Party wandered in and out of the wilderness for the next three decades, give or take, under four successive but not overly successful leaders, ending with the prodigal son known as Iggy (although his name was Michael), who led the race to the bottom in the spring of 2011. 

13. Then the Business people looked down from the towers of Bay Street and saw that their Liberals were at risk of losing Natural Governing status; wherefore they bestirred themselves to search diligently amongst the bullrushes to find a new Michael, or better, a new Moses, who could lead the party back into power.

14. Lo and behold, the Red Star shone upon Justin, now 39 years of age and therefore sufficiently dry behind the eyes to take command, for did he not verily represent yet another new generation.

15. So it came to pass that Justin Pierre James Trudeau was crowned leader of the Liberal Party of Canada in 2013, and Prime Minister of Ka-na-ta, in 2015. He immediately set out to complete his father's work, to transform Ka-na-ta, once also known as the Great White North, into Canuckistan, now known as Something Else Entirely.

16. It took the Canuckistanis only three years to realize that they had made a Great Mistake in following yet another charismatic leader, and should not drink more of his KoolAid. But until 2022, in the eighth year of the reign of Trudeau II, they were mesmerized by Trudeau's sparkling eyes, nice hair, and other Red Star qualities. 

17. Only now have the people awakened from their slumber and determined to rid themselves of their latter-day Neo. Alas for them, they have not yet had the opportunity so to do. 

18. But the day is coming. Knowing that, the powers behind the Red Throne are searching for a new puppet, but not searching too hard for they know the next leader will be nought but a sacrificial lamb.

19. The minions of Mammon are clever. They know that it may take a decade or longer before they can pull the wool back over the eyes of the hapless Canucks. Thus their real quest is for someone who can take up the cause in the year 2035.

20. Step forward, then, Xavier James Trudeau, son of Justin and grandson of Pierre-Elliott, born on the 18th day of October, 2007. This fall, Xavier will be old enough to vote, and old enough to be elected. By 2035 he will be 28, the youngest-ever Emperor of All Canuckistan -- EmperorTrudeau III. So let it be written, say the Mammonites, so let it be done. Selah!

Mark Carney explains why he wants to lead the Liberal Party of Canada

The lists have closed. There are seven -- count `em 7 -- deluded Liberal dwarfs who want to lead their party to certain electoral defeat, and have somehow scratched up the 50,000 Northern Peso entry fee. To stay in the race, they will have to come up with another C$50,000 -- $35,000 in real money -- by next week and another C$250,000 after that.

The three leading Prime Minister wannabes are (in order of likely finish -- you read it here first!): Mark Carney (pictured below), Chrystia Freeland (Trudeau's bumgirl), and, in show position, Karina Gould, former government house leader who was forced to read Ms Freeland's latest economic mis-statement after the latter declined to do so.

The remaining four are (in no particular order): Chandra Arya (featured in WWW video, 9/1/25); Jaime Battiste, a certified and certifiable Indian First Nations person; Frank Baylis, an anglophone Quebecker who actually knows how to run a business; and Ruby "Slippers" Dhalla, who represents the Ontario riding of Bramladesh. Walt's advice: Bet the exactor with Carney + any of these four. 

 

Why Mark Carney has thrown his top hat in the ring after denying any interest for many moons is a mystery. Where his entry fee comes from, along with a massive advertising budget (the Liberal Party imposes no limits on such) is, of course, no mystery at all. Walt's man in Ottawa says he was put up to it by George Soros and Klaus Schwab, since he is a former governor of two national banks (Canada and the UK), an approved enviro-wienie, and a true believer in the New World Order.

Your Singhs today (Canada's Most Unwanted)

This item was posted on Instagram almost six months ago. 

🚨 Maninder Singh Dhaliwal 🚨 

Wanted Canada wide is affiliated with the “BROTHERS KEEPERS” #BKGang organized crime group out of the Lower Mainland. RVMP [sic] refers to this group as the "DHALIWAL CRIME GROUP".

Edmonton Police Service Acting Inspector Dave Paton claimed that Gang Leader Dhaliwal has been orchestrating his extortion network from overseas and his whereabouts are unknown.

Today, the Canadian Broadcorping Castration reports that the elusive Sikh, accused of orchestrating a string of arsons connected to extortion cases targeting South Asian home builders in Edmonton AB, has been arrested overseas. 

The Edmonton Police Service said in a news release that Maninder Singh Dhaliwal was apprehended in the United Arab Emirates on separate charges in late 2024. An application has been filed to have him extradited to Alberta.

The cops investigated 40 related incidents, with the last one — an arson — occurring on 26 July 2024. According to the news release, "This investigation has been a massive effort on the part of EPS investigators, with never-before-seen complexities involving international co-ordination. We are very pleased to see it conclude with the request for the extradition of Dhaliwal." 

A Canada-wide warrant for Mr Dhaliwal was issued last July in connection with a rash of extortion incidents that destroyed new or under-construction homes and left the city's South Asian community on edge. It's the latest in an ongoing investigation known as Project Gaslight, a probe into incidents targeting business owners in Edmonton, alleged to have been carried out by a group of local individuals under direction from India. 

Police allege that Dhaliwal, 34, is responsible for orchestrating the crimes from abroad — recruiting people in Edmonton and paying them to deliver threats and light properties on fire when demands for money transfers went unmet. They were investigating 40 crimes related to the spree, including arsons, drive-by shootings and firearms incidents. 

So far, the investigation to date has already resulted in a string of arrests. Last summer, Mr Dhaliwal and six other Sikhs -- four young men, a 17-year-old boy and a 20-year-old woman -- believed to have been involved in the scheme, were arrested and charged. A total of 54 charges were laid against them including extortion, arson, intentionally discharging a firearm, break and enter, assault with a weapon, and charges linked to committing a crime for a criminal organization.

The Canadian justice system being supremely politically correct, Mr Dhaliwal was released on bail, but failed to show up for his first court date. Quelle surprise! It was then that police suspected he might have left the country. Now -- if the lack of an extradition treaty with the UAE doesn't get in the way -- he will be back in the Great No-longer-white North, to be further dealt with by the law as the Trudeau Liberals experience it.

Further reading: 

"Your Singhs today (news from Brampton ON)", WWW  13/1/25.

"[Sikh] who personally won all wars declines to run again as LPC candidate", Blazing Cat Fur, 22/1/25.

VIDEO: "Trump doesn't represent us!", whine two weird wimmin

Our friends at Blazing Cat Fur sent us the link to this gem, which originally appeared on "X". Apparently President Trump's declaration that there are only two genders -- male and female -- has hit these ladies women queers wimmin whatever pretty hard. Let's all join them in a good whine.

OK, you can stop laughing, and start again as you view this very appropriate meme.

Is it possible that we are seeing the beginning of the end of wokeism? Hope so!!!

Walt is feeling GOOD about America!

"Islamophobia is irrational!" - Yeah... sure...

On Sunday, Walt had a visitor to our cabin in the pines, one of those unthinking liberal types who calls himself a Christian but repeats the tired old mantras: "We all worship the same God." "Everyone's equal in God's sight." and "All religions are the same." As he could see the red rising up the back of my neck, he topped this off with, "Do you really believe the Muslims are trying to invade our country and kill us all?!"

"Well yeah!" says I. "Look around you!" The visitor told me I was being irrational, and the subject was changed to something anodine. 

Today, I will send him the link to a statement made this morning by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, in which he said that the murder of the three little girls pictured above at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class last year must lead to "fundamental change" in how the British state protects citizens, as well as a reckoning with threats from violent individuals whose behaviour and motives "challenge the traditional definition of terrorism."

Without giving us the new definition of terrorism, or ever once using the words "Islamic" or "Muslim", Sir Keir said the authorities need to answer "tough questions" about how why the violence-obsessed killer was not stopped before he stabbed the three girls to death in Southport last July. 

Mr Stammer announced that a public inquiry would investigate failings in the case of Axel Rudakubana, who injured another eight children, their instructor and a passer-by. For those who don't (or, like our visitor, choose not to) remember, our reports of the Manchester massacre maybe found here: "'Allahu akbar!' in Southport, England" and here: "Entering Week 2 of British race riots". On Monday, the first day of his trial, the Islamic terrorist -- for such he is -- unexpectedly changed his pleas to guilty. He is due to be sentenced on Thursday.

This week, half a year since the horrific event, we finally learn the truth about Axel Rudakubana, the truth that the politically correct British government, the police, and the lickspittle media have covered up right from the getgo.

The killer was referred to the government’s "Prevent" scheme three times before his attack in Southport. He was first referred to the anti-extremism programme om 2019, when he was a 13-year-old schoolboy. He was referred by teachers concerned by his obsession with school massacres. 

He was reportedly referred to Prevent twice in 2021 following his expulsion from the Range High School after staff were worried about his interest in the 2017 terror attacks, which included incidents in central London and the Manchester Arena bombing.

The referrals were not escalated, as "someone" decided that Rudakubana "did not hold a terrorist ideology" – the same reasoning used by police to justify the failure to charge him with terrorism offences. 

The bullshit meter on social went off the peg at the peak end as tensions mounted across the Disunited Kingdom. We'll show in blue examples of the politically correct bullshit fed to us by the British government and its minions.

Merseyside Police took the unusual step of issuing a statement that stressed the teenager being questioned was born in Cardiff. But confirmation that the killer was a British national did little to ease growing belief that the massacre was an Islamic State-inspired terrorist attack. 

Because Mr Rudakubana was not heard shouting "Allahu akbar!" (or anything) at the scene, and his family were devout Christians. there was nothing obvious that pointed to him being a Muslim convert or having any other ideology. During a press conference in Southport the evening of the attack, Serena Kennedy, the chief constable of Merseyside Police, said that while it was not being treated as terror-related, colleagues from counter-terror policing had offered to assist with the investigation.

Yet in the hours after the attack, police had searched the perp's home and found an al-Qaeda training manual along with what would soon be confirmed as ricin, the deadly toxin. The information was withheld from the public.  On the evening of July 31st, Mr Rudakubana was charged with three counts of murder, 10 counts of attempted murder and possession of "a bladed article" (like a knife? a machete? what?) in a public place. 

As with all suspects under the age of 18, he was not formally identified by the Peelers, leading to further claims that the full details were being covered up. Ya think?! Crucially, the teenager was not charged with terrorism offences relating to the al-Qaeda manual and ricin at that stage, waiting for another three months. 

While this may have been an operational decision to allow detectives more time to gather evidence of a motive, it also avoided stoking the growing disorder that was sweeping Britain. While visiting the scene the morning after the attack, Sir Keir was asked whether the killer had been on a terrorism watchlist. One heckler shouted, "How many more children are going to die on our streets?"

In a statement to the House of Commons a short time later, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper warned people against exploiting the attack to peddle misinformation and stir up community tension. But she didn't rule out a terrorist motive, telling MPs, "The investigation will, of course, pursue any contact the suspect may or may not have had with different agencies before the incident took place."

A spokesthingy for the Prime Minister added, "People should listen to the police, they should not do anything that is going to make the police’s job harder to manage the situation, to conduct their investigations. It is unhelpful [sic] to speculate on things like the motive and the circumstances around this."

Why do we call these statements bullshit? Because evidence found at Mr Rudakubana’s home immediately after murderous attack suggested that terrorism was indeed behind the atrocity. 

An al-Qaeda training manual found in Rudakubana’s bedroom provided a step-by-step guide to carrying out a terrorist attack. Bearing the title Military Studies in the Jihad Against the Tyrants: The Al-Qaeda Training Manual, the 180-page document was recovered by police hours after the teenager walked into the Taylor Swift holiday club in Southport and began stabbing children. 

The manual included a whole section on how to assassinate people with a knife and provided details of where on the body to stab someone to guarantee death. As well as providing terrorist instruction, the document -- which is available for purchase or download online -- offers religious justifications for waging jihad, complete with regular quotations from the Koran. 

It talks about the "overthrow of the godless regimes and their replacement with an Islamic regime". De Jerold Post, a former CIA operative turned academic and counter-terror specialist who edited the document in 2004, wrote in the preface: "The eighteen chapters of the Manual of Terror take the reader through a tour of al-Qaeda membership criteria, basic tradecraft, means and methods of communication, member safety, security, espionage, assassination and capture."

He added: "The tradecraft instructions are interwoven with Koranic justification designed to inspire the reader. There are detailed instructions on everything from ciphers to how to resist interrogation. But it is also a manual of terror with no less than four of the seventeen lessons or chapters devoted to techniques for assassination. But it is not merely a list of instructions, for it is also written to inspire the undercover operator as he carries on his dangerous work."

Apparently the discovery of this handbook for Islamic terrorists was not enough to convince the Bobbies that simply possessing the widely-available academic pamphlet proved that this was a terrorist incident. After all, Mr Rudakubana didn't confess or offer a single word of explanation since his arrest. Until Monday, when the Islamic terrorist pled guilty... with no explanation.

Are we crazy, then, to fear that fanatical followers of the Religion of Peace [TM] have invaded our countries, intending to replace our culture, religion and system of government with theirs? QED.

To the 47th President of the United States of America - VIDEO

from Walt, Poor Len [and Ed.! Ed.]

Here is complete coverage of the inauguration, including President Trump's stirring speech. 

Even if President Trump does just half the things he has spoken of, his presidency will indeed be the beginning of a New Golden Age of America.

Walt will return

Thanks to those who have asked "Where's Walto?" To be Frank ["Walt", shurely! Ed.] [That's an old joke, and don't call me Shirley. Walt] Walt has been suffering from the mid-January blahs. The Canadian Gliberals' leadership race is boring already, and doesn't matter anyway. And with President Trump to be crowned tomorrow and the Dimocrats forming a circular firing squad, there's nothing left to mock... at least not for the moment. We'll try to do better next week.

Two more Canuck Liberals run away from party leadership

The field of masochists vying to win the booby prize of leader of the Liberal Party of Canada got smaller today as two more prominent Grits balked at getting into the starting gate. Philippe Champagne, the Minister of Industry in Junior's cabinet, Christy Clark, the former premier of British Columbia both bowed out.

Their departures cast a spotlight on candidates' French language skills, and their ability to organize support in Québec, a province that's critical to the Gliberals' electoral fortunes. 

M Champagne -- a likeable and not hopelessly incompetent gars de chez nous -- said during an armchair talk in Toronto that he plans to focus on ensuring the government [Is dis a government? Ed.] is ready to protect Canadian industry from the trade threats posed by President-Elect Trump. "It was probably the most difficult decision of my life," said Ti-Phil, "but I think it was the right one at the right time. There are many ways to fight for Canada."

Ms Clark said in a statement to her supporters that Blackie McBlackface had called too short a leadership race to allow her to mount a successful campaign and that she did not develop her French skills well enough to be a strong candidate. 

"I have made the difficult decision to step back," she said. "While we have come a long way, in a short time, there is simply not enough time to mount a successful campaign and for me to effectively connect with francophone Canadians in their language. I have worked hard at improving my French but it’s not where it needs to be today."

Yesterday's revelation that that Ms Clark had actually held a Conservative Party membership card for a couple of years didn't help either.

That leaves two -- count `em, 2 -- possible candidates with any name recognition, neither of whom is fluent in la langue de Molière... ou de Chétien. The first is the lovely and talented Chrystia Freeland, the Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister until, just before Christmas, she quit before Blackie could fire her.  "These people are impossible!", she said. "I'm going home to my children!"*

The other is Mark Carney, an Oxbridge type who still carries around the silver spoon which was in his mouth at birth. 

Mr Carney has been -- and "has been" is an appropriate phrase -- Governor of the Bank of Canada and Governor of the Bank of England. A wag [Dogbert? Ed.] has suggested that he probably thinks the vacant position is that of head of the Federal Reserve. Why else would he choose to announce his possible candidacy on The Daily Show?

Neither Ms Freelove nor Squire Carney have said definitely that they're ready, aye, ready to grasp the nettle that is the prime ministership of the Great No-longer-white North. So far, they're just teasing, something in which the lovely Chrystia has form. Both say they will have more to say "later".

* Note from Ed.: I didn't have time to check the date of that quote. Seems to me I read it here some time ago. But never mind. The deadline looms. 

Memo to Jack Smith...

Today, in the last act of a delusional and vindictive man, Jack Smith, the former federal persecutor, published his "findings" ["imaginings", shurely. Ed.] on the so-called "insurrection" of 6 January 2021. 

To the surprise of exactly no-one, he "finds" that if he had been allowed to bring his case against President Trump to trial, he (Smith) would have one. But, counselor...

Nobody. No. Body.

If I were Mr Smith, I'd be looking not just for employment, but for a good defense attorney. It's a long road that has no ashcans.

[What, exactly, does that last sentence mean? Ed.] [Just leave it in. Walt]

Your Singhs today (news from Brampton ON)

Walt is filled with foreboding. 2025 could be a year of momentous change, and I fear everyone may be affected. Yes, even us small fry who live in out-of-the-way places, try to keep our noses clean, and stay out of the crossfire.

I'm thinking in particular of one of our agents who, I fear, will finally have had enough with living in the Greater Toronto Area of Canuckistan. The following story, reprinted in full and unedited from the Peel Regional Police blotter, is for him.

Jan. 13, 2025. Investigators from the 21 Division Criminal Investigation Bureau have arrested numerous suspects in two shooting investigations that occurred at the same residence. 

On Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024, just before 2:00 a.m., a residence in the area of Mountainberry Road and Mountainash Road, Brampton, was shot at by two suspects. There were no physical injuries to any of the occupants of the residence. 

On Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024, investigators executed a search warrant at a Brampton residence, resulting in recovering a loaded firearm and ammunition, along with the arrest and charging of three Brampton men. Manpreet Singh, (27-year-old) and Dilpreet Singh, (23-year-old) have been charged with the following: Discharge Firearm with Intent, Fail to Comply with Release Order. Harshdeep Singh, (23-year-old) has been charged with the following: Discharge Firearm with Intent, Careless Storage of Firearm, Fail to Comply with Release Order. All three males were held pending a bail hearing. 

On Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025, at approximately 9:00 a.m., the same residence in the area of Mountainberry Road and Mountainash Road, Brampton, was again shot at by several other suspects. There were no physical injuries to any of the occupants of the residence. 

On Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025, investigators executed a search warrant at a Brampton residence, resulting in recovering another loaded firearm and ammunition, along with the arrest and charging of four men. Dharmpreet Singh (25-year-old), Manpartap Singh (27-year-old), Atamjit Singh (30-year-old) and Arvinderpal Singh (21-year-old) have all been charged with the following: Unauthorized Possession of Firearm, Knowledge of Unauthorized Possession of Firearm, Possession of a Prohibited Device Knowing its Possession is Unauthorized (X2), Possession of a Loaded Firearm, Occupant of Motor Vehicle Knowing there was Unauthorized Possession of a Weapon, Careless Storage of Firearm, Discharge Firearm in Reckless Manner. 

All four men were held for bail hearings. Investigators are asking anyone with information on these incidents to contact the 21 Division Criminal Investigation Bureau at 905-453-2121 extension 2133.

How many calls do you suppose the Peelers [Only old Brits will get that. Ed.] will get? 

Imagine the scene at the Metro West Detention Centre (read: gaol) when the turnkey comes to call a remand prisoner to go to court. "Singh!" Seven guys stand up. One of them says, "Lalalalala..." Another one says, "Oh my goodness golly. Which one?" 

Note: The Singh pictured above is not one of the Singhs mentioned in the police report.

Meanwhile, Emperor Trudeau II, who has not resigned yet, keeps repeating his mantra that "diversity is our strength." Diversity means different races and ethnicities all mixed together, doesn't it? Where's the diversity in Brampton, Ontario, Canucistan?

Another MUSIC VIDEO: Trudeau resigns, the Trump Effect

Only a few minutes after we posted "Bye-bye, Miss Canadian Pie", we started getting suggestions for other "Glad Trudeau Is Gone" videos. Agent 3 sent along the link to this one, by Quidan Productions, who introduce it thus: "Whether you're a political junkie, a comedy fan, or just here for the music, this satirical song is bound to entertain! It's a lighthearted roast of policies, politics, and personalities with a sprinkle of MAGA magic."

 

Excellent Sinatra-style music, fine animation, and nice credit to President-Elect Trump for his part in hastening the departure of Canada's. Worst. Prime Minister. Ever!

MUSIC VIDEO: Bye-bye, Miss Canadian Pie

The intended resignation of Justin "Little Potato" Trudeau as leader of the Liberal Party and Prime Minister of All Canuckistan has pretty much broken the Internet, or at least the Canadian part of it. Reaction has been 99.99% positive... like this...

There has been a lot of wittier, more original stuff too. Walt particularly likes this Hoser Gang parody of Don McLean's "American Pie". 

Sure and it's an early favourite for the Wally Award for Best Music Video of 2025.

Footnote: Further to our post about the Liberal ladies who want nothing more to do with Blackie McBlackface, we note today's announcement by the Honourable Steve MacKinnon, who has been in charge of the Ministry of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour (previously known as the Ministry of Labour and Seniors) [Eh??? Ed.] for less than a year, that he won't enter the race to replace Junior. He will continue in his positions -- he is also Minister for Seniors -- until the Trudeaumaniacs are booted out of office, likely this spring.

Memo from Ed. to Walt, not for publication: What have I told you about long, compound-complex sentences?! If you can't do better than the first sentence of the Footnote, I'll be forced to plug in Hal and let him/her/it deal with you!

What makes us human?

What happened to Trudeau's female cabinet ministers?

When Canadians, in a fit of national stupidity, elected Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister in 2015, they were not unsurprised when "Junior" announced that, as a "male feminist", he would ensure that 50% of his cabinet were women... or identified as women... or something woke like that.

When Little Potato announced a few days ago that he "intends" to resign as Dear Leader of the Liberal Party, and as Prime Minister of All Canuckistan, the talking heads at the CBC and the rest of Canada's lickspittle media pronounced themselves delighted that three heavyweight femals ministeres would be strong contenders to carry on his woke crusade to destroy the Great No-longer-white North.

The three were (note tense -- explanation follows) Chrystia Freeland, Mélanie Joly, and Anita Anand. This weekend, two of them announced that they would be joining Dominic LeBlanc on the list of those who would not be contending for the poisoned chalice. The only one left is Ms Freelove, who is yet to make up her mind. Undoubtedly she is having a rethink, as well she might, when you consider what happened to all those other Karens who jumped on Trudeau's pink bandwagon. 

First there was Jody Wilson-Raybould, who is not just a woman but a BIPOC. She was initially elected as a Liberal, and served as justice minister and attorney general from 2015 to 2019, then (very briefly) as veterans affairs minister and associate national defence minister. Her time at the trough ended when she resigned in response to certain ungracious and untruthful statements from Himself concerning the SNC-Lavalin bribery scandal.

Jane Philpott, a medical doctor who had been demoted from the Health portfolio to President of the Treasury Board, resigned in sympathy and was expelled from the Liberal caucus. She quit because "I have lost confidence in how the government has dealt with this matter and in how it has responded to the issues raised."

Then there was  the Honourable Catherine Mary McKenna, aka "Climate Barbie". She was the Minister of Environment and Climate Change [sic] from 2015 to 2019, but couldn't stand the heat (geddit?) and was demoted to Minister of Infrastructure and Communities from 2019 to 2021. 

She has now retired from politics, but emerged from obscurity this week to explain Canadian politics to viewers of BBC News.

One of the two who has decided to throw her hat out of the window rather than into the ring is Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly. She told the meeja on Friday that she wanted to focus on the "threat posed by potential American tariffs. She then hied herself off to Washington for a jolly external affair with the Donald.

Yesterday, Transport Minister Anita Anand, another BIPOC -- another Indian, but not a Canadian one like Ms Wilson-Raybould -- announced that she too will not run in the Liberal Party's ongoing leadership contest to replace Prime Minister McBlackface. Nor will she stick around long enough to face an angry electorate when Canadians go to the polls, probably in the spring.

The amazingly versatile Ms Anand held several cabinet portfolios since she was elected in 2019. First she was Minister of Public Services and Procurement. Then she became the second woman ever to serve as Minister of National Defence. In one of her first acts in that capacity, Ms Anand transferred the investigation and prosecution of sexual misconduct cases within the Canadian Armed Forces into the civilian justice system. That's all ye know and all ye need to know.

That leaves the Liberals with only two declared leader wannabes. Both are male. One is an Indian -- turban, not feathers. The winner will be declared on the 9th of March. Walt thinks the 15th would have been the better date.

Further reading: "Liberal party sign-ups exposing risks of political interference" - Lorne Gunter in the Toronto Sun, 11/1/25. Apparently Ali Khamenei and Xi Jinping have already registered!

Ummm, what does this mean, exactly?

If I live in Paris, or am a tourist thinking of visiting the Eiffel Tower, should I be afraid? Let no-one say we weren't warned!

Credit where credit is due: This was scraped from Blazing Cat Fur. Walt reads BCF every day.

VIDEO: Canada's Liberals let non-citizens vote; here's what happend

Not many of our readers, not even the Canucks, will know about Nepean ON. It's a suburb of Ottawa, the capital of Canuckistan, a bedrooom community of minions who commute into Boredom-on-the-Rideau every day to do the will of Emperor Trudeau II.

For that reason, the riding (Americans read: electoral district) of Nepean is, for the Natural Governing (read: Liberal) Party, one of the safest seats in all Canuckistan. It was represented by a Liberal even in the dark days following the 2011 federal election, when feckless Michael "Iggy" Ignatieff led the Gliberals to their worst showing in history. They won only 34 seats, a distant third behind the Conservatives and socialist NDP, thus losing their position as Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition.

The response of the Laurentian elites was to make it easier -- much easier -- for anyone who might be persuaded to support the Liberal Party to become a member thereof. The rules were changed to allow anyone over 14 to vote in the party's nominating conventions, without regard to citizenship or lack thereof. You didn't have to be able to understand English/français. You didn't even have to pay for a party card. All you had to do was say you supported the party.

Thus it was that Liberal Associations from coast to coast to coast were flooded with new members, the majority of whom, in some cases, weren't Canadian citizens or even permanent residents. Busloads of them were bused in [what else? Ed.] to the white-minority suburbs of Toronto and Vancouver, as well as paler places like Nepean, to vote en bloc for a new and improved (read: woke) leader. 

The elites said, "Let there be sunny ways!", and lo, Justin Trudeau emerged from his father's mansion to lead the faithful back to the promised land... and the pigs -- the new DEI pigs -- back to the government trough.

One of the troughers was Chandrakanth "Chandra" Arya, who rode Blackie's coat-tails into the House of Commons in the 2015 federal election. The Member of Parliament for Nepean has been sitting there ever since, warming the back benches and hoping the current Parliament will last long enough for him to collect his indexed pension.

Mr Arya's prospects dimmed noticeably with the Emperor's announcement that he might resign (WWW 7/1/25), ahead of a massive anti-Trudeau vote which could occur in the spring. For the Gliberals to survive, they need to find a new leader whom the angry voters will not revile quite so much. 

Alas, there is an understandable reluctance on the part of putative candidates to throw their chapeaux into the ring. As reported here yesterday, Dominic LeBlanc, who was Walt's early line favourite to win, was smart enough to pull out before he was nominated. The only others with substantial name recognition -- Mark Carney and Chrystia Freelove -- are increasingly coy about their intentions.

So... step forward Chandra Arya, ready to save Canada (and, incidentally, the Liberals) from the fate of the American Democrats. Oh my goodness!

The mind boggles at the prospect of a "gummint" headed by Mr Chandra, but in a voting system [Is dis a system? Ed.] where poll officials are not allowed even to ask about voters' status in Canada, anything could happen.  

Walt wishes Mr Chandra many good lucks, by Jove! But we will not open a new book on the Liberal leadership contest until such time as there are three credible candidates... not including him.

LeBlanc pulls hat out of the ring - all bets off

Only a day after I predicted longtime Canadian cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc would be the last man (?) standing at the end of the Liberals' search for a new captain  of the Titanic, the troughmeister announced today that he will not -- repeat, not -- be running to replace Prime Minister Blackie McBlackface. 

Mr White, as he is called in Canuckistan's other official language, announced his decision in a statement posted to social media this morning. "While I am extremely grateful for the encouragement and the expressions of support I have received from caucus colleagues and Liberals across the country," he wrote, "I have decided not to be a candidate in the Liberal Party of Canada's upcoming leadership race."

His decision came as something of a surprise to his caucus colleagues. M LeBlanc has been a true political survivor, an MP since 2000 -- nearly a quarter-century -- and contender for the Liberal leadership in 2008, before dropping out to support the charisma-challenged Michael Ignatieff.

Speaking on background, a Liberal MP told Walt's Agent 3, "Frankly, we didn't think he was smart enough to get out before the shit-hammer falls." Others, including Judy Sgro, Yasir Naqvi, Jennifer O’Connell, and Ken McDonald, expressed some disappointment at M LeBlanc’s decision not to put his name forward, with some adding they hope he'll reconsider. Their reason? See photo above.

Anyhoo... he's out and all bets are off. A new book will be opened once it is confirmed that there will be more than one entry. Readers who want their money bacl should contact Bernie at the barbershop, who will arrange for someone to drop it off.

VIDEO for Canadians: Nature abhors a vacuum

Canadians, the inhabitants of the Great No-longer-white North shown in Liberal Red on the map above, are getting tariffied by President-elect Trump's threat to annex what's left of their country, now that Emperor Trudeau II has finished wrecking it. (See yesterday's post, below.)

Tariffied, yes, but also puzzled? Why is he saying these things? Why now? Because, dear frostback readers, the time is ripe. After almost a decade of your woke, gliberal, anti-Caucasian leaders -- the ones you dopes elected! -- telling you that you're nothing but a bunch of privileged, white-supremacist, racist colonialists, you have no pride left... no will to defend yourselves against the resurgent pan-American nationalism of your neighbours to the south!

If you don't want to join the Disunited States of America -- Why would you? -- it's time to stop letting the Liberals (big- and small-L) and their lickspittle media stop putting you down! Stand up on your hind feet, and shout, loudly and proudly, "I... am... Canadian!"

 

You don't have to drink Molson's beer. There are lots that are better, and all are better than the swill Americans call beer. But a couple of cold ones will put you in the right (as well as Right) frame of mind.

CORRECTION: Trudeau did NOT resign

Although you couldn't see it for fog, the sun rose this morning, as usual, over Cape Spear NL, the most easterly point in the People's Republic of Canuckistan -- Justin Trudeau, prop. 

Yes, Virginia, yesterday's smarmy and self-serving speech notwithstanding, Blackie McBlackface is still Prime Minister of the Great No-longer-white North. If a document -- e.g. an immigrant visa for an Islamic terrorist or a cheque to the President of Rumbabwe -- requires his signature, he'll still be there at Rideau Cottage.

"But," you may ask, "didn't Elon Musk say 'Trump won, Trudeau resigned!'?" Indeed he did, but he was only half-right. 

Desperate to get rid of Little Potato, hopeful Canucks didn't listen carefully to his words of farewell. What he actually said was, "I intend to resign as party leader [and] as prime minister, after the party selects its next leader through a robust, nationwide, competitive process."

Geddit? Not "I am resigning today" but "I intend to resign...after..." Future tense throughout. The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau is still Prime Minister of All Canuckistan, and there's not a damn thing any of you frostbacks can do about it.

To ensure that corruption business will be carried on as usual until such time as he actually resigns, Junior took the precaution of asking the compliant Governor-General (whom he appointed), to prorogue (read: suspend) Parliament until March 24th, at which time a new session will begin. Until then, there will be no annoying questions asked or challenges made to the supremacy of M Trudeau, his Liberal Party, and the liberal elites who run what is left of Canada.

The Big Question to be answered is: who will replace the Greatest Narcissistic Procrastinator in Canadian history. Walt will now give you the morning line and predict the likely result of the race nobody wants to win. Early entries are:

Mark Carney, former Governor of the Bank of Canada and, more recently, the Bank of England. Born with a silver sppon in his mouth, educated at private schools, member of the Toronto liberal elite. Has the backing of Big Business and (especially) the Big Banks, since he's "one of us". Like former Liberal Leader Michael "Iggy" Ignatieff, but without the charm. Vulnerable to the sasme attack ad: "He didn't come back for you!"

Chrystia Freeland, rebarbatvie former journalist whose farewell party at the Groan and Wail was held in a phone booth. Most recently Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister (an office not recognized in Canada's constitution) until she quit last year when told she was about to be demoted. Another resident of Toronto's toney Rosedale enclave. Has Ukrainian heritage but the Ukrainians never vote Liberal. Speaking style reminiscent of an Anglican missionary declaiming the Articles of Faith to a congregation of fuzzie-wuzzies. Will have the backing of the Sikh bloc as the most easily manipulable. Oh, she's a woman too, the darling of the feminists, both female and male.

Dominic LeBlanc, the latest to hold the dreaded Finance portfolio, because no-one else would take it after Ms Freeland quit. Son of a Governor-General, friend of the Trudeau family since childhood. "I've known Justin since he was a baby!" Bilingual (unlike the other two) and from New Brunswick/Nouveau Brunswick so won't upset the Québécois or the Toronto elites. Congenial (read: bibulous) and "a safe pair of hands", meaning he can be trusted to do nothing and depart gracefully following the spring election disaster.

And the winner will be... Dominic LeBlanc. Since the Gliberals face certain defeat in the election which will be called within days of the opening of the new session of Parliament, none of the other candidates will be trying too hard. They will be focusing on what happens after M LeBlanc resigns. He, however, will be happy to retire with the title of Prime Minister -- he's been everything else! -- and the pension and other perqs that go with it. 

You read it here first. Walt's lifetime pct: .987.

Further reading: "Justin Trudeau goes out blaming and betraying Canadians one more time" - Tasha KHeiriddin, in the National Post, 6/1/25. Lede: "In classic narcissistic fashion, Trudeau on Monday blamed his party — and everyone else — for his problems"

Good news from Austria: The Right coalesces to take power

Christian Stocker, the new leader of the conservative Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), said today his party is prepared to negotiate with the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) to agree on a pathway to forming a coalition government.

As reported on WWW, the FPÖ won the most seats in Austria's parliamentary election last September. The ÖVP subsequently tried to keep them out of power by cobbling together a coalition of centrist parties with the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ), and the liberal NEOS. They failed.

Chancellor Karl Nehammer, leader of the ÖVP, maintained his opposition to governing with the FPÖ, and was duly ousted by more practical members of his own party, who preferred collaboration with the rightists to a continuing stalemate. The only alternative was a new election, which could only have been held around the end of December. Moreover, polling indicated that the FPÖ would win another election even more convincingly.

Austrian President Alexander van der Bellen said this afternoon that he had the impression that, with Herr Nehammer out of the picture, the voices within the ÖVP rejecting collaboration with the FPÖ had become significantly quieter. He will therefore start talks tomorrow with FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl  about forming a new government. 

Walt's comment: This is a real Kickl in the ass to the lefties and Euro-wienies. Happy New Year too the people of Austria!