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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Here's what you do next..."

Brian Mulroney, Prime Minister of All Canuckistan from 1984 to 1993, used to say, "Every day when I wake up, I stretch out my hands. If I don't feel a box, it's a good day!" Yesterday was not a good day for Lyin' Brian, who is reported to have died peacefully, surrounded by his family, not one of whom was seen with knife in hand. A stake will be driven through his heart in a ceremony on Parliament Hill this weekend.

During his lifetime, Mr Mulroney became infamous for "rolling the dice" with his country's future. He lost. He also earned his reputation as Canada's most corrupt PM since Sir John Eh Macdonald. Few will forget his testimony at the Oliphant Commission of Inquiry into Certain Allegations Respecting Business and. Financial Dealings Between Karlheinz Schreiber and the Right Honourable. Brian Mulroney [sic] that he had said nothing about having received an envelope containing $1000 bills [since demonetized] because "No-one asked me!"

In recent years, the turd -- the burnished by regular polishings by the Globe and Mail and the Notional Pest -- occupied the position of eminence grise to current Prime Minister Blackie McBlackface. The two are seen here planning discussing the future of Canuckistan and the world at... wait for it... the World Economic Forum. That's all ye know and all ye need to know about Canadian politics.

Memo to Ed.: I am well aware of the adage "De mortuis nil nisi bonum." I just can't do it. No "Ave arque vale" from me.

VIDEO: Believe it or not, Canada has a conservativ(ish) news channel!

In North America, TV news and information programming -- on cable/satellite and over-the-air -- is pretty much the domain of the lamestream media. In the Excited States of America, if you want to listen to the news, you're pretty much in the thrall of the Big Three: NBC, CBS and ABC. On cable you get the additional "choices" of CNN (the Clinton News Network) and MSNBC (even worse). 

All of them, all of them broadcast "news" and opinions ranging across the political spectrum from left(ish) to far left to Rachel Maddow. We can include as well the talk shows populated by sufferers from TDS like The View's Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg.

If you're an American of a conservative mind or political bent, and think the lamestream news outlets are full of shit, and would like an alternative, your only choice is Fox, but you'll have to wait until The Simpsons and Family Guy are over.

If you're one of the 30 million or so Canadians who live within 100 miles of the World's Longest Undefended Border (TM), you might be able to pull in some US stations over the air, and you can watch all of them on cable/satellite. But you won't find any Canadian news there unless someone makes an attempt on Hair Boy's life. [Would the lamestream media notice? Ed.]

If you can't or won't watch American TV, you still have the Canadian Broadcorping Castration (CBC), owned and operated by the Canadian Ministry of Truth. There are two other major networks -- CTV and Global -- which generally toe the Liberal party line. But wait! Suddenly a new news outlet has appeared in the ether, and... can you believe it... they seem to be at least somewhat conservative! Here's the trailer for The News Forum "where all voices matter".  

Yes, they're new and (mostly) not broadcast professionals. Some of them still don't know which camera to look at. There are some, like Tony "Gazebo" Clement, Joe Oliver and their ole boss, Lyin' Brian Mulroney, who will be instantly disliked by Canadians who know their back stories. But then there's Tanya Granic Allen, for whom Agent 3 (who sent us the link to this video) has all the time in the world. Walt agrees and commends The News Forum to you, but not without reservation. See "Warning from Agent 3", below.

Ed. here. On reading V.1 of this post, Agent 3 called to warn us to restrain our enthusiasm for The News Forum. He says: Don't kid yourself (he adds) that you're going to see and hear truly conservative opinions there. The new medium is dominated by former and present Members of the Canadian Parliament who were elected as Conservatives, or, in the case of former Prime Minister Mulroney, Progressive Conservatives. Lyin' Brian actually appears in a promo spot saying that Canuckistan needs more immigrants! 

What you're going to hear on The News Forum is the centre-right (more centre than right) Conservative Party line, as enunciated by new leader Erin O'Tool, and MPs Pierre Poilievre and Dean Allison... but not Derek Sloan, the "Conservative Without Apology" who finished last in the CPC's recent leadership contest. 

And don't expect appearances by Maxime Bernier, Ezra Levant, Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson, Gavin McInnes, Mark Steyn or Mike from Simcoe-Grey County-Clearview Township. As "Mad Max" said a few weeks ago in "Is there any hope for conservatives in Canada?", his People's Party of Canada is the only truly conservative party in the Great Not-so-white North.