Your Singhs today (Alberta edition)

Regular readers of this ever-lengthening series will know that we usually try to post photos of the perps of the smuggling, extortion and murders for which Canada's Sikh community has become notorious. But the people who committed this particular crime are still at large, so we'll being with a picture of the victim.

Birinder Singh, aged 22, was shot to death earlier this month on  Highway 2, south of Edmonton AB, near Township Road 490, south of Leduc.

According to the RCMP (who have not yet got their man) three friends were headed to the mountains on the afternoon of 14 March when a pickup truck pulled up beside their Honda Civic.

Witnesses saw the truck pull up beside a car and then speed off. According to the two survivors of the shooting, a person in the truck made a hand gesture toward them, something resembling a peace sign. The meaning would depend on the colour of the person making the gesture.

The witnesses said their friend and Mr Singh, who was driving the car, waved back. How many fingers they used is not known. Moments later, someone in the truck opened fire and a bullet struck Mr Singh in the neck. The friends took control of the steering wheel and pulled the car over to the side of the highway. There Mr Singh died in the vehicle from loss of blood. 

According to the friends, Mr Singh moved three years ago from India to... wait for it... Brampton ON, on an international student visa. He studied business administration at the Singh School of Truck Driving before relocating to Edmonton in October. Since then, the business administration student worked in construction, installing siding. He was on his way to see the Canadian Rockies for the first time when he was killed. 

Sergeant Preston of the Yukonf said investigators located the truck, a Grey 2022 Ford F-150, last week but the suspect remains at large as the Mounties continue their search for a suspect and a motive.

Here's a related news flash. CTV News reports that, to the surprise of no-one, Karen Hogan, Canada's Auditor General, found reforms to the international student program "fell short" on improving integrity, including only investigating a small number of "potentially problematic" cases flagged by post-secondary institutions. 

Her report, released this morning, found that out of 153,324 potentially non-compliant students reported by schools to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) in 2023 and 2024, the government only had the ability to investigate about 2000 a year, or 4057 in total. 

Within those investigations, the AG’s report found that 1654 students did not respond to IRCC's two inquiries. And... spoiler alert... "the department took limited action to confirm non‑compliance beyond contacting the student for more information."

Speaking to the meeja after submitting her report to the Liberal government to be filed and forgotten, reporters on Parliament Hill on Monday, the Auditor General said it's "concerning" to see the IRCC’s lack of action. "I think they’re just not acting on the information they have," Ms Hogan said. "And I would expect them to do that. They have the powers and the tools. They just need to use them."

If the IRCC did what Ms Hogan suggests, Marx Carnage's Liberal government would be in danger of losing as many as 24 seats -- notably in Brampton, Surrey BC and Edmonton -- in the House of Commons. So don't expect any such action until there are reliable reports of sub-zero temperatures in Hades.

VIDEO: Straight from the horse's mouth... or some other orifice

This week Marx Carney, Prime Minister of All Canuckistan [except maybe Alberta! Ed.] and a leading member of the Davos gang, went cap in hand to Communist China to beg for relief from punishing on Canola and other Canadian exports.

By agreeing to lower tariffs on Chinese sparky cars from 100% to 15% -- another nail in the coffin of Ontario's auto industry -- he got the Chinese to agree to start importing Canola (formerly known as rape🞿) again.

Mr Carnage was overjoyed, as is apparent in this video clip, seen across the Great No-longer-white North yesterday evening.

Did you catch that play? Yes, folks, it's another milestone on the road to the New World Order, of which Mr Carnage is one of the apostles. Very unusual, though, for one of George Soros' acolytes to say that part out loud!

🞿 Before political correctness, Canola oil was known as rapeseed oil So much rape was grown around the prairie town of Tisdale SK that it was known, back in the day, as "The Land of Rape and Honey". Really.

Your Singhs today (Alberta truckers edition)

The Epoch Times reported yesterday that the Canadian province of Alberta is stepping up efforts to make trucking safer in the province. How? By shutting down a number of driving schools and commercial trucking companies that it says are operating "below acceptable standards".

Walt was disappointed that the truck driving schools and trucking lines were not named, likely to avoid stoking the fires of anti-Sikh backlash which are sweeping Canuckistan. A highly placed source has identified two of the schools as the Calgary and Edmonton branches of the notorious Singh School of Truck Driving. The trucking company is thought to be Diversity Transport Inc.

The province has ordered five driver training schools to close, suspended operations for 13 commercial trucking companies, sent 39 "disciplinary letters", applied more than $100,000 in fines, issued six action plans to fix issues, and revoked the licences of 12 driving instructors, according to a recent government announcement.

They're also working to boost information sharing with the federal government and cracking down on "chameleon" trucking carriers who change their names or locations to circumvent provincial oversight. 

The statement released on October 3rd went on to say that the province is also reinforcing rules related to the "Driver Inc." practice, in which companies evade payroll taxes and benefits by hiring drivers who operate their own little one-man companies as independent contractors. "These drivers often lack proper training and oversight, and are vulnerable to exploitation."

This past July 2025, a week-long commercial driver status and classification check stop revealed that 20% of the 195 drivers stopped were suspected of being "misclassified", including several temporary foreign workers and "students", like the one convicted in September of threatening and harrassing popular Sikh musician A.P. Dhillon.

The Alberta government, unlike those of Ontario, British Columbia and Canuckistan itself, is responding to growing concern -- "outrage" would be a better word -- about trucking safety and a series of deadly trucking accidents across Canada in recent months, including an October 5th collision in rural Ontario that killed two people. 

In briefing material submitted this month to the federal Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities [sic], the Truck Training Schools Association of Ontario (TTSAO) wrote that the Driver Inc. model is a particular safety concern. "he Driver Inc model has fostered collusion between carriers and unscrupulous schools, resulting in compressed programs, document falsification, and the exploitation of trainees," they wrote, adding that this includes undertrained drivers, foreign workers pressured into unsafe work to keep their work visa, and truck fleets that are in poor repair and dangerous on the roads. 

This article has been adapted from a report in Epoch Times, 9/10/25. The photo montage by "Dirty Old Trucker" appeared on Blazing Cat Fur.

"Canada's Trump" squeaks back into House of Commons

Battle River - Crowfoot is a riding (electoral district) in the southeast part of the Canadian province of Alberta, so ["half-vast"? Ed.] that it takes an entire day to drive through it. But that's what the Honourable Pierre Poilievre, erstwhile leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, has been doing (along with over 200 other candidates) for the last six weeks, to win a seat in Caanuckistan's House of Commons, having lost his Ottawa seat in the last general election.

After losing his seat in an upset, M Poilievre parachuted into one of Canada’s safest conservative districts -- despite not living there -- to win the by-election called when the Conservative who won the riding (with nearly 80% of the vote) graciously stepped aside to give  his place to his leader. Greater love hath no man. Here's Lucky Pierre on the campaign trail, explaining the horrible mistake Canuck voters made in last April's general election. 

Conservatives were watching closely to see if their leader could ease the worries of voters in the rural heartland [Hey, I've seen that series! Ed.] about how he'll handle the trade war fallout, connect with their economic struggles and bring Canadians together. Said the Mayor of Wainwright AB, "If he isn’t elected, we’d better get down on our knees and start praying, because the end of the world is coming."

It took until the wee hours of this morning, but Walt is pleased to report that M Poilievre led the polls right from the get-go, and beat 212 other candidates [This is not a joke. But it is another story. Ed.] garnering over 80% of the vote. Walt sez: Good for him! And good luck to him!

VIDEO: Dr Jordan Peterson argues the case for a Trump Canada

It's been a while since we featured a video by the good doctor. Agent 6 alerted us to this one, posted on February 5th, in which Dr Peterson reads from his recent article in the National Post, wherein he outlines the case for Trump’s Canada. [Eh? Ed.] He analyses what the Donald is seemingly offering, why provinces like Alberta might just take the deal, and how the Great No-longer-white North can still align itself for a "new era of triumph".

 

What isn't clear to me, though, is what President Trump really wants. Surely it's more than decent beer -- DJT doesn't drink -- or a 51st star on Old Glory. For an alternative theory, check out the video in "Why does DJT have Canada in the cross-hairs?", WWW 3/2/25.

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.

New poll shows more Canadians than Americans opposed to DEI hiring

The Association for Canadian Studies just released the results of a survey done for them by Leger Marketing. Surprise finding: A majority of Canadians say that employers should not take cultural or ethnic backgrounds into consideration when hiring.

According to the poll, 57% of Canadians disagree with the notion that equity should be a part of hiring. Jack Jedwab, President of the ACS, said, "The survey results point to some pushback on the issue of minority hiring in Canada and the United States." 

36% of Americans support affirmative action, while only 28% of the residents of Canuckistan support it. Leger didn't ask people why they were for or against equity hiring, but a visit to any Canadian government office... or any McD's in Toronto or Vancouver... will give you the answer.

Although diversity hiring is unpopular across all age groups, it's most unpopular, at 62%, among Canadians between the ages of 45 and 54. Even among supposedly liberal young Canucks (18 to 24 year-olds), 50% oppose hiring based on race and ethnicity. Men and women equally oppose such policies, with 57% against. 

The new poll disclosed some regional difference. In Québec, where the provincial government has attempted to prohibit the wearing of religious dress and symbols in some workplaces, the objection to equity hiring is most strongly held: 63% of Québécois disagree with it. 

In Alberta, 58% of respondents said background shouldn't be a consideration in hiring. The province's governing United Conservative Party now has policies that explicitly endorse the elimination of DEI hiring within the public service and Crown corporations.

In British Columbia, where 57% hold that view, while 55% of Ontarians polled agreed, as did 53% of residents of the prairie provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba. There was no outright majority only in the Maritimes, where 50% opposed diversity hiring.

The latest opinion survey comes as DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion), has come under increased scrutiny in the business and political world. Last month, Walmart scrapped its diversity program, as did John Deere and Harley-Davidson.  

At the other end of the earth, the government of New Zealand is rethinking its promotion of DEI in its armed forces. Here's why.

Walt kids you now. That's a true story. Seems the lady (?) in command of the ship didn't have all that much experience at sea, and had the ship on autopilot. You won't find the part about the commander being a lesbian in the lickspittle media, but you can check out this thread on Reddit.

Back in the Excited States of America, America First Legal, a non-profit led by former members of the Trump administration, filed complaints with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, alleging that American, United and Southwest Airlines engage in "overtly discriminatory practices" in their diversity hiring and retention programmes.

The group pointed to the airline's focus on "expanding [its] Cadet Academy to ensure prospective pilots, particularly people of color and women, have access to the support needed to enter the profession." They also called out airline statements that it met "companywide diversity goals for any underrepresented positions," including "Black representation and retention."

America First Legal argues that such practices violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because they are "based on the race or color of the individuals involved." Earlier this year, they made similar arguments in complaints to the EEOC against Southwest and United, which it accused of using unlawful quota systems to further DEI goals. What do you think? Do you feel safe flying the inclusive skies of United?

The backlash against DEI policies isn’t just external. In a 2021 Gartner survey, 42% of employees said they resented their employers' DEI efforts. And in a November 2022 online survey by ResumeBuilder.com and Pollfish, 52% of hiring managers who work for a company with a DEI initiative said they believed their company practices "reverse discrimination" in hiring. Nearly half said they'd been told to prioritize diversity over qualifications. Now we see how that worked out for the Royal New Zealand Navy.

Further reading:"10 ways to improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at your workplace", WWW 21/10/23.

Freedom Convoy: Will Trudeau be held to account?

You remember, eh, the Freedom Convoy, the peaceful -- not mostly peaceful, but totally peaceful, except for the actions of Trudeau's storm troopers -- protest which tied up Canuckistan's capital city in February, giving Prime Minister Blackie McBlackface what he thought was a good excuse to invoke the never-before-used Emergencies Act to crack down on Canadians' civil liberties.

If you've forgotten, or just weren't paying much attention at the time, check out these WWW reports. "True Facts about Canada's Freedom Convoy" (includes video with John-Henry Westen), 9/2/22

"Matt Taibbi on 'Justin Trudeau's Ceauşescu Moment'", 11/2/22

"'The Catastrophe of Canada': Jordan Peterson & Rex Murphy" (video) 21/2/22

"Kelly McParland: The world thinks Justin Trudeau blew it", 23/2/22.

The Emergencies Act includes a provision that requires a public inquiry, after the Act is used, to determine whether its use was justified. Sort of like: verdict first, trial later. Anyhoo, the inquiry finally got underway in Ennui-on-the-Rideau this week. It is to be known as the "Rouleau Commission" because the presiding judge, appointed by Mr Sock, is Paul Rouleau, a justice of the Ontario Court of Appeal for Ontario. 

Mr Justice Rouleau is a graduate of University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, and has previously served on the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Supreme Court of Yukon, the Nunavut Court of Justice, and the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories in 2017. 

Before getting these nice jobs, Mr Rouleau worked for the Liberal Party of Canada. In 1983, he was part of John Turner's campaign to take over the Liberal leadership (and thus become prime minister) when Emperor Trudeau I announced his retirement. Later, he had a hand in helping pick Mr Turner's cabinet, and is described as either his executive assistant or appointments secretary in various media reports from that era. Can you say "whitewash", boys and girls? I knew you could.

Now that he's a judge, Mr Rouleau is supposed to be apolitical, non-partisan, and open-minded. He accepted without hesitation the terms of reference for the mission: not merely to look into the government's actions and whether they were justified, but to investigate the behaviour and financing of the protesters. (Junior claimed that they were directed and financed by foreign extremists.) In his opening statement, Mr Justice Rouleau said, "Uncovering the truth is an important goal."

What is the truth? Depends on whether you're on the side of the self-righteous, liberal police state... or of freedom. The Freedom Convoy was appropriately named, standing up for freedom from oppression by the nanny state. The invocation of the Emergencies Act severely restricted the rights to freedom of expression, assembly and association.

In opening statements on Thursday, civil liberties groups, including the Canadian Constitution Foundation and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, noted the sweeping rights implications of the act.  The Emergency Economic Measures Order, made in pursuance of the act, chilled freedom of expression, by mandating banks to freeze bank accounts of those connected to the protests, without any warrant or notice to the account-holders.

Counsel for the Liberal government argued its view that Canada faced an "unprecedented and critical" situation in the face of ongoing protests and blockades, including threats of "ideologically motivated violence" and impact on Canada’s trade, international relationships, and reputation. Even as opening statements were being read, the Emperor [Prime Minister, shurely! Ed.], rather than saying that since the matter was before the court, or that he would be testifying later, was making his argument publicly in every "media availability".

"We knew from the very beginning," he told the CBC and the rest of the lickspittle media, "that invoking the Emergencies Act is a big step that had never been done before. But given these unprecedented illegal protests, we needed to take action. We took it in a way that was measured, that was responsible that was time limited."

Lawyers for the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, begged to differ, expressing disapproval of the federal government's failure to consult them before invoking the act. Yes, they were called, according to counsel for Saskatchewan, but "the call was not so much about consulting as it was about telling." Saskatchewan also opposed the financial measures, which required banks and other institutions to take significant steps with little guidance from the government.

Several provinces requested that the act's application be geographically limited, which it was not. Counsel for Alberta noted that the province was able to deal with the Coutts AB border blockades under existing laws, and that none of the powers under the Emergencies Act were necessary, or indeed invoked, in that province.

Counsel for the various police forces involved, and residents of Ottawa who say they were affected by the protest, backed up Mr Socks. The residents' lawyer called the protests "highly disruptive, even traumatizing", what with continual honk-honking throughout the night, loose jerry cans lying the streets, and "general disorder."

On Friday, the commission began hearing evidence from witnesses, starting with the Parade of the Snowflakes -- Ottawa residents whining about the supposed disruption of their lives. At the head of tyhe parade was a "legally blind" lady who entered the hall wearing sunglasses (and a mask, of course) and tapping her white cane. She said her condition had been worsened by the protest because she was afraid to go out, even to shop, for fear of being lost in the crowd.

A Chinese-Canadian lady said the noise of the air- and truck horns was so loud that she and her husband had to sleep in their car, in the basement of their condo. Even worse, she says she was bullied when she went into the street, and was told that she wasn't smiling under her mask!

Another Karen, a well-fed businesswoman, said she was afraid... very afraid. Why? "Because when I heard that the Ottawa police chief [Peter "Moves" Sloly] said he was afraid, I felt I should be afraid too." Seriously. 

Mr Sloly, a diversity hire, was a "victim" of the protest, losing his job a couple of weeks in, for failing to get tough with the freedom fighters. [Your bias is showing. Ed.] The new acting chief called in the Toronto Police "Service" mounted unit, who got the job done without trampling on more than one little old lady.

The Rouleau Commission is expected to hear fro as many of 65 potential witnesses, including Prime Minister McBlackface, as time will allow. Given that 20 different organizations have standing and will be allowed to cross-examine witnesses, the hearings could take more than a little while. 

However, the Commission's final report must, by law, be laid before Parliament by 20 February 2023. That wouldn't be a problem, though, for Mr Justice Rouleau if, as Walt suspects, his exoneration of Chief Walking Goose (Mr Trudeau's honorary Indian name) and all his minions has already been written by... ohhh... let's say Gerald Butts.

Populist conservative woman to lead Alberta further to the right

Earlier this week, I told you we don't normally discuss regional/local politics. Monday's Québec election had significance beyond the borders of la Belle Province, so we made an exception. We do so again for last night's election of Danielle Smith as the new leader of Alberta's so-called United Conservative Party, and thus the new premier of Canada's most America-like province.

Alberta is Canada's version of Texas, complete with flatlands, hoodoos, rodeos, cowboys and Indians. [Plus 1000s of Ukrainians! Ed.] Like Texas, Alberta's wealth comes in petro-dollars. People proudly drive gaz-guzzling pickups and SUVs. And they dislike the eastern elites and the federal government, especially when the two are combined in a nether orifice named Trudeau.

From 1935 to 2015, Alberta was governed by conservative parties, sometimes named Social Credit, sometimes Conservative. About 15 years ago, the Conservatives started fighting amongst themselves -- as conservatives do all too often -- about who was the more conservative, and a number of splinter parties were born, including the Wildrose Party (the wildrose is Alberta's provincial flower), whom Danielle Smith ran in 2009. She rejoined the Conservative Party in 2014.

A year later, against a divided -- right and righter -- opposition the "social democratic" (read: pinko) NDP took power, under Rachel Nutley, Alberta's first female premier. In response, a confirmed bachelor named Jason Kenney, who had been a minister in Steve Harpoon's Conservative federal government, succeeded in uniting the right in a new(ish) United Conservative Party, which defeated the NDP in the 2019 election.

Alas for Mr Kenney, the UCP didn't stay united very long. Mr Kenney was seen by many for what he was -- a member of that same eastern elite. When he went along with the Trudeau government's vaccine mandates and other measures to curtail individual freedom, and failed to stand up to the Liberals' attacks on the oil and gas industry, Albertans decided they'd had enough. 

Mr Kenney resigned the leadership of the UCP this past May after receiving only 51.4% in a leadership review vote, thus setting the stage for yesterday's election. 

Danielle Smith won a fiercely-fought contest on the strength of her promise to enact an Alberta Sovereignty Act, which would allow the Alberta government to not enforce federal laws. 

Mr Kenney called the idea "nuts". The proposed act is likely unconstitutional, but it's the kind of thing that Albertans, whose grievances are valid and run deep, want their leaders to do.

It would be the legislative equivalent of the now-ubiquitous "Fuck Trudeau!" flags seen across the real Canada, outside the immigrant cities of Vancouver, Montréal and (above all) Toronto.

One can argue that Mr Socks' Liberals are not to blame for the initial crash of the oil economy, which started before they took office. However, they have worked, and are still working almost single-mindedly to undermine any recovery.

They started with the cancellation of the Northern Gateway pipeline, then introduced several anti-energy policies, including Bill C-69, which makes approving resource projects more cumbersome, a tanker ban off British Columbia;s northern coast and the hated carbon tax. 

The result has been a significant decline in the fortunes of average Albertans. Any successful Alberta politician understands what has happened in Wildrose Country, and why. The Liberals and socialists are whistling past the graveyard when they mock the more hard-edged elements of Danielle Smith's message. A slightly more moderate version of her campaign will almost certainly resonate with large numbers of  voters in the next Alberta election, due on or before 29 May 2023. The Conservative Party of Canada, under its new leader, Pierre Poilievre, will be taking notes.

Please excuse Walt's absence...

Ed. here. The NHL Canadian Division playoff series between the Montréal Canadiens and the Toronto Maple Leafs gets under way in Toronto in about an hour. Walt and our National Sports Editor, Poor Len Canayen, are holed up somewhere -- neither Toronto or Montréal -- to watch the proceedings on TVA, so they won't have to listen to the insufferably woke Ron MacLean on CBC. 

They are therefore incommunicado. Besides that, I can't reach them on the phone. So, to fill this space, I present an amusing anecdote from Court Jesters, a book of funny and (mostly) true stories about Canadian lawyers and judges, by Peter V. MacDonald QC, a barrister and solicitor from Hanover ON, not 1000 miles away from Fort Mudge. Here's one of the tales he collected.

Mr Justice James Mitchell, of the Supreme Court of Alberta, delivered a line that's considered to be a western classic in a bestiality case involving a man and a pig.

Three neighbours testified against the accused farmer, but since all three denied reporting the incident and there were no other witnesses, defence counsel submitted that their evidence was not trustworthy.

"My Lord," the lawyer said, "if they were the only persons who allegedly saw anything, and they deny reporting anything to the authorities, who did report this alleged incident? How did the authorities even know about it?"

"Maybe," Mr Justice Cairns suggested, "the pig squealed."

MUSIC VIDEO: Susanna Heystek fiddlin' around: Foxtrot Rag

There's still snow on the ground around Walt's cabin in the pines, but I heard a cardinal when I made my way out to the little house this morning. Makes the ole heart beat just a bit faster. Here's something cheerful for a grey end-of-winter day: fine fiddle music from a young Susanna Heystek.

   

Susanna and her family are Boers, and proud of it. They left the "New South Africa" some years ago for what they thought was the Great White North. How disappointed they must have been if they arrived at, say, Toronto. But they followed Horrors Greeley's advice and made their way west to Alberta -- Canada's version of Texas -- where they are doing well. 

The Heysteks are the kind of immigrants Canada needs... but not the kind the Liberal government of Blackie McBlackface wants. In recent years the major source country for legal immigrants to Canada has been... wait for it... India. 

That's why the so-called Greater Toronto Area and parts of British Columbia's Lower Mainland have become Liberal strongholds. But just to be sure, Mr Socks has directed his minions to find another 400,000 of them this year to swell the ranks even further. If you're a white Sef African or European, his plans for Canada don't include you!

Biden promises to undo all the good done by President Trump, NOW!

Weather forecast for January 21st: Massive shitstorms expected in Washington DC and US-Canadian prairies. Expected to last 100 days. Don't go out without your souwester, hip waders and inflatable dinghy.

Yes folks, massive disruptions are in store for the first 100 days of the Biden administration, as promised during the fake election campaign by Sleepy Joe hisself. Just yesterday -- Sundays are convenient for releasing bad news while Christians are sleeping -- the President-elect's handlers gave us a laundry list of all the things Joe will do by executive order to Make America Not-so-great Again.

For instance, the "bathroom laws" will be reinstated, to make sure that no queers, trannies or other perverts will be barred from "female restrooms" just because the sight of their naughty bits might make some real women (and little girls!) uncomfortable. Nosiree, not in Biden's America! 

But wait (as Vince Offer used to say), there's more! Yes, Biden (and those pulling his strings) are intent on restoring the legacy of the Prez -- kind of like polishing a turd -- and destroying all that Trump hath wrought. 

And to those detractors who deny that the Donald ever did anything notable, Walt says, read the list of his accomplishments published on Saturday on the Gateway Pundit website. (Thanks to Agent 35 for sending us the link.)

  

About a third of the way down that lengthy list, you'll read: "Approved the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines." Construction of these lines would allow more oil to be brought, cheaply and safely, from Canada to refineries in Texas. 

1000s of jobs would be created and protected in both Canada and the US of A, and America would be helped along the road to energy security, with increased ability to source oil and gas from its friendly neighbour, rather than the Arabs.

You'd think Biden could see the sense of that, but noooo. If Trump did it, it must be bad! Yesterday Canadian Press reported that it had seen transition documents outlining the first actions to be taken by Mr Biden, once he is sworn in. One of them be to slam the door yet again on Canuckistan's politically fraught Keystone XL pipeline expansion. He will do this, the documents say, by "EO" [Executive Order] to be signed on Inauguration Day, or the day after at very latest.

The documents suggest that despite its best efforts, Canada has failed to convince the incoming administration of the virtues of importing fossil-fuel energy from a friendly ally and trading partner with similar climate change goals. 

Some question the sincerity of Canadian Prime Minister Blackie McBlackface, who calls himself almost as great a friend of the environment as Greta Thunberg, while at the same time committing his alleged government (and Canadian taxpayers) to the building of the Trans-Mountain Pipeline, which will take oil from landlocked Alberta to the Pacific tidewater, thence to willing buyers in China. 

Mr Socks can breathe a sigh of relief, then, that Sleepy Joe's Executive Kibosh will relieve him of the political necessity of fighting for both TMP and KXL. No wonder he's smiling!

Ever since May, when Biden first promised to kill KXL, Canadian officials have been advocating for a cross-border discussion on climate and energy that would make room for both building the project and reducing emissions at the same time. "Keystone XL fits within Canada’s climate plan," said the Canuck ambassador to the US [not Chrystia Freeland, surely?! Ed.], adding that it promises good union jobs in both countries "at a time when our economic recovery is a top priority."

While the Liberals in Ottawa dither, the Conservative government of Alberta is lawyering up for a fight.  Premier Jason Kenney renewed his call on the incoming administration "to show respect for Canada as the United States' most important trading partner and strategic ally." He said cancelling the project would kill jobs in both countries, weaken cross-border ties and "undermine US national security" by making the country more dependent than ever on oil imports from OPEC countries.

But hey, cancelling KXL is what the enviro-weenies and anti-oil, anti-business Lefties in the Democratic Party demanded of Sleepy Joe, so he can hardly break his promise now. Right? Who cares about the best interests of the USA (let alone Canada)? Let the will of Soros and the globalists be done!

A very Canadian crime story

Things are tough all across Canada. The country is in winter's icy grip. The natives are restless, demanding that Canadian "colonialists" respect their land rights, and blocking railway tracks to force the cancellation of a natural gas pipeline project in northern BC. The usual gang of antifa and loonie leftists have apprpriated the aboriginal protests for their anti-oil, anti-business, anti-white protests. The lily-livered arch-panderer Just In (for a visit) Trudeau does nothing.

Things are even worse in the western province of Alberta, where a major player in the oil patch, Teck Resources, has abandoned its Frontier tar sands mine plan. Teck's CEO says it's because "global capital markets are changing rapidly and investors and customers are increasingly looking for jurisdictions to have a framework in place that reconciles resource development and climate change, in order to produce the cleanest possible products. This does not yet exist here today."

The cancellation of the project means the loss of 7000 jobs in a province already butt-hurt from the years-long downturn in the oil industry. For many Albertans, unemployment benefits have long since run out, and other jobs just aren't available. In places like Fort MacMurray, if you're not working in the oil patch, you're not working. Period.

Airdrie AB is in the southern part of the province, not totally dependent on the oil economy, but things are still tough there, and people take desperate measures, including stealing from donation boxes at coffee shops. The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen are hoping to identify a man who allegedly used a rubber chicken to help him steal from a box at Tim Hortons earlier this month.

Inspector Knacker told the meeja that the man placed a rubber chicken over a donation box sitting on the front counter and used the prop to conceal the box as he left the business. The incident, which happened at the Tim Hortons in Airdrie on February 11th, was captured on camera. Today, the cops released a picture of the suspect, who they described as wearing a blue sweater or jacket, a balaclava and "holding a rubber chicken." Period.

VIDEO: Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson talks about abortion

Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson, who has been featured on WWW before, is the People's Party of Canada candidate for Member of Parliament for the Alberta riding of Red Deer-Lacombe. In this short (5:31) video she offers some thoughts on abortion. Canada is the only country in the Western world that has no laws whatsoever restricting abortion at any stage of pregnancy. Ms Tyler Thompson thinks that the wisdom of allowing the indiscriminate killing of unborn babies, at any time and for any reason, should at least be open to debate.



The People's Party of Canada is the only Canadian political party allowing for open debate. All others will block and oppose any discussion of this topic, as well as any and all measures for the protection of the unborn. Click here to visit Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson's website, to learn more about her and the PPC platform.

BONUS VIDEO: Click here to watch Max Bernier interviewed in November 2018 by Vassy Kapelos on CBC-TV's Power and Politics. "Mad Max" (he doesn't mind the nickname) calls policies aimed at gender parity a "kind of discrimination". He also discusses climate change and his efforts to build his fledgling party.

VIDEO: South Africa's loss is Canada's gain - Susanna Heystek

Among the South African farmers who saw the handwriting on the wall back in the 1990s (see my earlier post, today) was the family of Susanna Heystek (great name for farmers!), who joined the "white flees" leaving for the Old Dominions, in this case Canada, where the challenges to farming are of a different nature (read: colour) than they are in Suid Afrika.

The Heysteks settled in Alberta (Canada's answer to Texas!), and Susanna began playing the violin at age five in her hometown of Rocky Mountain House. She went on to study violin in Red Deer and joined the Red Deer Youth and Community Orchestra, of which she was concert master. After graduating high school, she went on to study at the Victoria Conservatory of Music and joined the Artemis Trio. The trio competed at the provincial level in British Columbia and won first place in the Senior Chamber category. Last year, Susanna had the honour of being accepted into the National Art Centre Orchestra's apprenticeship program.

Susanna has developed into a fine classical violinist, and also plays the viola, but hasn't forgotten her country roots. Here she plays "Bowing the Strings", written by Canadian fiddler/composer, Ned Landry. This was recorded in Airdrie AB on 9 May 2015. Intercut are some nice pictures of the wildlife of the homeland of her Afrikaner ancestors, plus picture proof that this talented young lady can still handle the ropin' and ridin'.



Further reading and viewing: Click here to visit Susanna Heystek's website, where you'll find her bio, plus links to other music videos and lots of other good stuff. On the landing page is the link to my favourite of all the classical pieces Susanna has recorded, "The Last Rose of Summer".

Alberta socialists play anti-white card, lose bigly to United Conservatives

The western Canadian province of Alberta is a lot like Texas, only covered by snow six months of the year. People wear Stetson hats and cowboy boots, even in city boardrooms. They talk about three things: oil, beef and when are the Oilers going to win something. And they drive pickup trucks, just like the blue one that Jason Kenney drove into Government House (metaphorically speaking) in yesterday's provincial election.

Jason Kenney? Who he? Haven't we heard that name before? Yes! Click on the tag at the end of this story and you'll find several posts from the years when he was a cabinet minister and key player in the federal government of Steve Harpoon. He wisely jumped ship well before the election of 2015 and went home to Alberta to lead the provincial Conservative Party.

In the ensuing election, conservative Albertans made the classic mistake (Republicans take note!) of dividing their votes between the official Conservative Party and the even more rightist Wildrose Party. Result? A win for the socialist New Democratic Party, who promptly embraced the save-the-environment-and-to-hell-with-oil polices of Just-in Trudeau's Liberal federal government. Result? A new carbon tax, but no new pipelines, and four years of stagnation in the oil patch. And yesterday was the day of reckoning.

The 2019 campaign was, from the outset, a two-way fight between the pinko Kneedippers and Mr Kenney's United Conservative Party. Note the new party name. Having learned the hard way not to divide your forces, conservative Albertans supported the 2017 merger of the Conservative Party and the populist/rightist Wildrose Party and put all their blue eggs in Mr Kenney's basket. Result? A hyuge win for the UCP. As I write, with a couple of ridings still in doubt, the UCP is elected or leading in 63 seats, the socialists in 24. "Hope is on the horizon," Mr Kenney told a crowd of cheering and whistling supporters in Calgary, adding that "Alberta is open for business!"

Yesterday's vote was often framed, especially by Canada's lamestream media (Hello, CBC!) as a choice between economic priorities and social values. Since the deteriorating economy was a huge millstone around the neck of the NDP, the (now outgoing) premier, Rachel Notley, and her media sycophants (Hey, she's the last female premier!) tried to sell Albertans on her ethics, pointing to several festering scandals that dogged the UCP on the campaign trail and promising spending on health care, child care and education if her party was re-elected.

When that didn't work, she dove into the gutter, trying to portray UCP candidates as racist, Islamophobic, anti-LGBTQ, and the latest pejorative "white nationalist". Result? Didn't work! Mr Kenney continued to back one candidate (an evangelical pastor) who compared homosexuality to pedophilia in a 2013 sermon. Mr Kenney also refused to kick out candidates who questioned the "science" behind climate change. Apparently Albertans, unlike the wimpy denizens of Toronto and Ottawa, aren't overburdened by white guilt, and are sick of being hearing lectures on environmentalism and "inclusivity" from the likes of Ms Notley and her turban-wearing federal counterpart Jugmeat Singh.

Lessons for conservatives on both sides of the world's longest (and sadly) undefended border: Support each other, and stand united! And don't be afraid to show your true colours. Even in Canada, there are hundreds of thousands of voters who have not yet taken leave of their senses, and can still tell the difference between the lefties' promised utopia and the strong and free society in which decent, hard-working people can live a good life, free from the rule of Big Brother!

VIDEO: Rex Murphy is still alive, still speaking the truth

It's been ages since we were able to post anything by Rex Murphy. After being for decades one of the leading pundits on the airwaves of the Canadian Broadcorping Castration, he got booted off Cross-country Checkup a couple of years ago, and was not invited back to The National following its reset this past summer. Now I can only find his amusing musings in print, in the occasional column in the National Post.

Fortunately, Mr Murphy has not yet been totally "deplatformed", as the lefties say. From time to time he gets invited to speak in public. Recently he was a featured speaker at the Manning Centre Red Deer conference. [Red Deer is a place in Alberta, Canada. Ed.] He had much to say about the climate change myth, the crisis in the oil patch and other topics which have made him a target for Climate Barbie and other liberal eco-weenies.

Here's the video, Rex Murphy's complete speech (running time 54 minutes), with an introduction by Jason Kenney, leader of Alberta's United Conservative Party [sic], busily trying to distance himself from his work as Immigration Minister in the government of Steve Harpoon. Forget about him; enjoy Rex.



Key quotes:
"The cardinal resource of our entire civilization is energy!"
"If you can't take care of your own back yard, don't go fixing the global climate."

"Yellow vest" protests spread to Belgium, Netherlands... even Canada!

As is well known, the dream of every Frenchman [and Frenchwoman! Ed.] is to pay no taxes. Thus the plan of the government of Emmanuel Macron to raise the tax on fuel sparked a wave of protests which started a month ago and continued today in Paris and other French cities. The protesters have adopted dayglo yellow safety jackets as their uniform. Today some 125,000 "gilets jaunes" (= yellow vests) took to the streets to rally against the fuel tax, the high cost of living, and... wait for it... Emperor [President, shurely! Ed.] Macron himself. Here's a video clip.



In Paris today, 1000s of police used armored vehicles, tear gas and water cannons to "contain" demonstrators numbering over 10,000, by the estimate of the Ministry of the Interior. Some protesters set fire to cars and smashed windows. Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said 1385 people had been arrested across the country. 17 law enforcement officers and just over 100 protesters suffered injuries.

Is this really just about having to pay a few cents more in taxes on gasoline? Mais non! The protests took place despite the government announcement on Wednesday that the fuel tax hike would be "suspended until furter notice". (Governments never admit they made a mistake, eh.) The demonstrators who turned out today broadened their list of grievances to include high living costs and economic reforms proposed by M Macron, which are seen to benefit business rather than workers.

And then there's the little matter of immigration, and how much more Islamization France can take before ceasing to be France. The big picture is that the majority of French citizens are sick, sore and tired of being governed by liberal elitist one-worlders. Speaking after today's protests had ended, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said the time had come for a dialogue "to knit our national unity back together." He added that the Emperor [President! I won't tell you again! Ed.] would address the protests and their grievances "next week."

Readers in other countries may be thinking, "Hey, we have problems with our government too! When are we gonna get up on our hind feet? If the cheese-eating surrender monkeys can do it, we can too!" And so it has come to pass. The yellow vest movement has now spread across the globe. There were protests today in Belgium, France and... wait for it... even peaceful and polite Canada!

In the western Canadian province of Alberta, which holds oil in even higher regard than do Texans, there is huge resentment over the plans of the federal government (Junior Trudeau, Prop.) and the socialist provincial government to impose a carbon tax, in the interests of saving the world from climate change of course. There's also the anti-immigrant sentiment which Albertans share with their fellow citizens from coast to coast to coast.

Yellow vest protesters braved the sub-zero weather in Edmonton and Calgary today to let their governments know what they think about these insane liberal policies. (Not that their governments give a shit, of course.) The protests were free from physical violence, but the demonstrators spoke pretty plainly (for Canadians).

In Calgary, Allison Prentice told the CBC, "We are Canadian, we're not anywhere close to that kind of radical. I'm proud to be here and represent people who care about Canadians first." Others chanted "No Trudeau. No Trudeau!" outside of city hall. Some yelled "String him up!" Others yelled "traitor." Through a megaphone, one speaker said, "They hate our country and they hate our way of life," without specifying who "they" are. He didn't have to. Canadians know who their enemies are. Do you?

"Naked Nisku" kidnappers under influence of "trippy tea"?

Walt promised to keep you posted on the bizarre case of the five naked kidnappers (the kidnapping is alleged, the nudity is not) arrested in the wilds of northern Alberta, Canada, earlier this week. Here's an update of our initial post, "5 naked people arrested in Alberta car crash", WWW 6/11/17.

What is clear is that five people -- one man and four women, three adults and two youths -- were found naked in a car following a crash on a rural road near Nisku, south of Edmonton AB. Three other people, barefoot but otherwise clothed, were also at the scene, having been picked up by the driver of a pickup truck (of course) who thought they needed help. (Duh!)

What is not clear is whether the pickup truck hit the BMW full of naked people, or the other way around. Even more of a mystery is what caused the five naked people to abduct the other three from their nearby home and take them for a ride. Charges of kidnapping have been laid by the RCMP, but no conviction is possible without proof of mens rea -- "the guilty mind", or criminal intent. So the question arises: What were they thinking??!!

A relative, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the minors (who have been released without charge) thinks he's got it figured out. He reckons that the Naked Nisku gang may have "unknowingly" drunk some hallucinogenic tea over breakfast! "It's absolutely crazy," said the relative. "It’s a scary thought thinking, 'Oh, let's try this tea that we purchased,' and then all sit down thinking they're just going to have a nice morning and end up in that circumstance."

The relative said he wants everyone to know the accused are not bad people. They just had some trippy tea. He said his two daughters, who are 13 and 15, and his ex-wife were having breakfast with two friends -- a man and his wife. The man had recently travelled overseas and brought back some tea from India. The relative did not know the name of the tea, which he said "kicked off the whole crazy spell."

The Mounties' version of the story is that a man, woman and baby were forced against their will from a home in Leduc County into a BMW. Inside the car were five naked people. While the car was being driven, the abducted man, who was in the trunk, managed to escape. The woman and her baby then managed to get away. The trio were picked up by a passerby, but his work truck was rammed from behind by the car. When officers arrived, they pulled out the five naked people. The adults, who were 27, 30 and 35, were arrested, but two teenaged girls were not charged.

The 35-year-old woman, who had already been released from custody, made a first appearance Thursday in Leduc court. She is charged with two counts of kidnapping, mischief damaging property over $5,000 and resisting a peace officer. The 30-year-old woman has been charged with three counts of kidnapping and one count of resisting a peace officer. The 27-year-old man, her husband, faces the same charges.

The relative said he laughed about the case when he heard it on the news, then was shocked to learn that his straight-laced daughters were involved. "I was just like, what the heck?" He visited his youngest girl in hospital, where she had been taken with some of the other suspects for treatment. They don't remember what happened, the man said. "Whatever potency that stuff had obviously is making it so it’s just a big blur," he said, adding blood tests were also taken at the hospital. "“Nothing came back like illicit drugs, so they figure it may have been some type of herbal drug or something."

He said the three people who were forced from their homes are also family friends and aren't holding any grudges. They probably opened their door that morning trying to help, he suggested. He also believes their car rammed the truck because the tea made those inside think the family had been abducted by the truck driver, not the other way around. "They were under the impression that they were saving that guy and the woman and the little girl."

Another plot twist was revealed today by Global News, from whom we got the original story. In spite of charges now being before the court, the abductees want to talk. In "Alberta family abducted by naked kidnappers frightened and baffled", they are quoted as telling Canadian Press they know the accused as neighbours, on top of which they are all members of the same Jehovah's Witnesses church. Curiouser and curiouser!

VIDEO UPDATE: 5 naked people arrested in Alberta car crash

Note from Ed.: I adapted the following story from an article with the same headline on the Global News website. I hope Global won't mind. There was nothing I or Walt could add that would make it any better, except maybe for a picture... Oh c'mon, you didn't really expect a photo, did you?

UPDATE ADDED 8/11/17 - We still don't have photos, but we do have VIDEO (albeit with the naughty bits blurred out...damn!) from a CTV newscast. Here 'tis. Turns out there's more to the story too. See update below the video.

Five people, who were not wearing any clothes, have been arrested following a two-vehicle crash in Nisku, Alberta, on Monday. The RCMP said it happened on Township Road 510 at around 9:45 a.m. Nisku is about a 30-minute drive south of Edmonton.

Sergeant Knacker of the Mounties said four women and one lucky man, all from one of the vehicles and all naked at the time, were taken to hospital and are in police custody. At the time of the crash, the temperature was about -8 C (about 18 F) in Nisku.

The Leduc general investigation section, forensic identification section, criminal collision investigation team and the collision analyst were all working on the file.

The Mounties said the investigation was "convoluted" and still in its infancy. However, they believe the collision was not accidental, and that drugs and alcohol could be factors in the collision.

UPDATE ADDED 8/11/17 - In a statement on Tuesday, the Mounties said three people -- a man, a woman and a newborn baby -- were forced from a home in Leduc County and into a vehicle. The man was stuffed into the vehicle’s trunk but somehow managed to escape. The woman and infant also managed to flee. That's when a truck driver passing through the area spotted the three and picked them up.

Derek Scott of LPH Industrial, speaking in the video, says it was his employee who came to their rescue. After they got into the truck, RCMP said another vehicle purposefully rammed the truck. The force of the collision pushed the truck into a ditch. The horsemen arrested five suspects: a man, two women and two female minors. All five were naked when they were taken in to custody. Kidnapping charges are pending against the three adults, RCMP said. The two youths have since been released.

The thick plottens! What kind of people go on a kidnapping mission naked in below freezing weather? Would Canadians do that? Errr, maybe... but let's not jump to contusions. Walt will bring you the bare facts when all is revealed in court!