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.

UPDATED WITH VIDEO: CBC admits Canucks pushing back against their "woke" propaganda, shuts down Facebook commenting

Cazart! The state-owned Canadian Broadcorping Castration (CBC), the font of endless torrents of liberal (and Liberal) propaganda, admitted today that (1) they do pay attention to comments on the social media, (2) they know thousands of readers/listeners disagree with their constant and cloying "wokeness", and (3) their "journalists" ["stenographers", shurely. Ed.] are cracking under the strain. 

In a remarkably self-serving "Editor's Note" published today, Editor Brodie Fenlon complains that some of his poor dears are suffering from stress and anxiety caused by "the vitriol and harassment many of them face on social media platforms and, increasingly, in the field."

He quotes one of his typists, André Picard, who calls "platforms like Twitter...a cesspool of hatred." Then he tells us that Catherine Tait, the president of CBC/Radio-Canada [who probably signs his paycheque. Ed.] "has also written about the increased abuse of journalists on social media, especially women and journalists of colour." 

Could it be that some Canadians don't like being talked down to by Toronto-based hijab-wearing Muslims? Could be! But to Ms Tait, attacks on her diverse and inclusive propagandists are nothing less than a "threat...to free speech and democracy." That's pretty rich coming from the head of a media outlet which deliberately denigrates and "de-platforms" anyone to the right of Sleepy Joe Biden! 

Am I being unfair to the Corp(se)? After all, by suppressing the criticism of folks like us, they're only trying to protect their sensitive, easily-triggered audience. So says Mr Fenlon, who says it's unaaceptable "for our audience members who try to engage with and discuss our journalism to encounter it on platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, where they are almost guaranteed to be confronted by hate, racism and abuse." Horrors!

So what is the CBC going to do to promote social justice, inclusivity, diversity, yada yada yada on the social media? Answer: "beginning on Wednesday and for the next month, we will close comments on all news links and video posts to the Facebook pages belonging to the journalism division of the CBC (News, Current Affairs and Local)."

But why? Try to keep a straight face as you read this.... "As the conversation has degraded on these platforms, we find ourselves limiting what we post there. We know certain stories will draw out obnoxious and hateful comments. The truth is we spend a considerable amount of attention and resources attempting to moderate our Facebook posts. It takes a mental toll on our staff, who must wade into the muck in an effort to keep the conversation healthy for others."

Can you believe it? Facebook sets the standard by silencing Donald Trump, to protect those who still use it from the Donald's hateful thoughts. [He incites riots, you know. LOL. Ed.] So the anti-Trumpers at the CBC (that would be about 99.9% of them) are going to shut down Facebook, to protect readers from pro-Trumpers!

But fear not. In the interests of promoting social discourse, freedom of speech, yada yada, comments on the CBC News website will remain open, subject to "moderation" of course, for any articles that don't involve immigration, refugees, black crime, or the scandals and ineptitude of the Liberal government, which (by the way) funds the CBC to the tune of hunreds of millions of beaverbucks every year.

As I write this, readers were still being allowed to comment on Mr Fenlon's drivel. Here's what two readers had to say:

"Bob Evans" - "This is how dictatorships work. Speech is suppressed and the excuse given is they are 'protecting' people from harmful speech.

"Chantal LeBouthi" - "In 1934, it was illegal to criticize the German government. Even telling a joke about The government was considered treachery. People in Germany could not say or write whatever they wanted. Controlling what news appeared in newspapers, on the radio, and in newsreels. Textbooks are a good example of how propaganda and censorship worked together in the Nazi regime back in the 1930s I feeling we are going back to this and is extremely scary when is coming from so call democratic nations."

"Davide Richard" - "Perhaps if there was even a whiff of even handedness you may not anger taxpayers who pay for the cbc as much. Constantly presenting biased left wing favouring causes and opinionated news has a way of irritating us centrist thinkers."

"Jacques Untel" - "Maybe if the CBC was less 'woke', less intent on pushing the liberal agenda, you wouldn't be taking so much flak. The many Canadians who are fed up with your editorial stance, but can't comment directly on this website because of the heavy 'moderation', take their shot on Facebook."

Hm. Wish I'd said that! Here's my final comment.

UPDATED ADDED 16/6/21: Rebel News got their hands on some of CBC's internal e-mails showing how the "moderators" of the Comments section on their website. (Comments are not allowed if the subject of the story -- e.g. refugees and asylum-seekers -- is likely to attract anti-liberal feedback.) The "moderators" are now proven to have deleted "negative" comments on such subjects as Donald Trump, Wendy Mesley's use of the "N-word" and the January 6th Capitol "riots". Here's the video.