The Man Whose Musings Fuel Elon Musk’s Nightmares

Elon Musk’s bedtime routine is giving him nightmares.

To hear him in public is to catalog a running list of his greatest fears: end-of-the-world type stuff, killer AI threats and, in recent years, the scourge of what he calls the Woke Mind Virus.

“I listen to podcasts about the fall of civilizations to go to sleep,” Musk said this past week during an appearance at the Milken Institute conference. “So perhaps that might be part of the problem.”

One provocateur, in particular, has caught his attention of late: Gad Saad, a marketing professor at Concordia University in Montreal, and author of the book “The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense.”


Saad wants a better immigration policy for his Canada, one that requires a hard look at whether Islamist migrants should be included at all. That’s not a bad thing.

I doubt we would be welcomed in his circles however.

He is on the public record seeking a meeting with Poilievre to discuss immigration policy. If it happens I bet it will be behind closed doors and will not change Poilievre’s approach to mass immigration which when compared to Trudeau’s amounts to “Same, Same, Different.” Poilievre needs to run the same identity politics playbook as Trudeau to get elected. Under normal circumstances I believe Poilievre would lose the upcoming election to Junior. However Trudeau has shot himself in the head with the housing and affordability crisis so all Poilievre has to do is keep his finger off the trigger and speak of immigration in only the most harmless of generalities if at all.

Musk as we know is an opportunist currently riding the populist wave. He is a rent seeker extraordinaire albeit an entertaining one. Do not trust him, what you see is this year’s model.

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Former Liberal ministers urge Trudeau to drop rare good idea

Former Liberal ministers urge Trudeau to drop plans to house migrants in federal prisons

Two former Liberal cabinet ministers are urging the Trudeau government to cancel its plans to start using federal prisons to hold immigration detainees, citing a recent inquest recommendation to end the practice of detaining migrants in jails.

Lloyd Axworthy, a former foreign affairs minister, and Allan Rock, who was a justice minister, have joined a chorus of 85 Canadian and international organizations opposing the spring budget’s proposal to use federal prisons to detain “high-risk” migrants after all 10 provinces said they were ending their agreements to hold them in their facilities.

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Decrease number of temporary residents by making them permanent, fucking idiot of a federal immigration minister suggests

MONTREAL — One way Canada plans to shrink the number of temporary residents is to offer them the opportunity to remain permanently, the immigration minister said Friday, but that doesn’t mean everyone who wants to stay will be able to.

Marc Miller met with his provincial and territorial counterparts for the first time since he announced an unprecedented plan to set limits on the number of new temporary residents.

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Brampton had up to 80 private ‘diploma mill’ colleges ‘using international students as an ATM

It seems rare when all three levels of government in Canada agree these days, but one such issue — at least in Brampton — is curbing so-called “diploma mill” colleges.

In January, federal Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Marc Miller announced a two-year cap on new student visas starting this fall. Miller said the decision was, at least in part, aimed at eradicating private post-secondary educational institutions he described as “the diploma equivalent of puppy mills” and “fly-by-night operations and backdoor entries into Canada” with dubious academic standards.

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Trudeau government to dump housing costs for illegal alien invaders and so called refugees on local authorities in 2026

Ottawa Phasing Out Hotel Subsidies for Illegal Immigrants and Refugees by 2026

Ottawa is phasing out hotel subsidies for illegal immigrants and refugees, with local authorities being given the responsibility of finding “permanent, sustainable” housing for foreigners by 2026.

“Funding in 2026 will be conditional on provincial and municipal investments in permanent transitional housing solutions for asylum claimants,” the immigration department wrote the Senate national finance committee, as first covered by Blacklock’s Reporter.

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On the Border Crisis Over Illegal Aliens, ‘I Like Ike’

For several months, the Washington rumor was that President Biden was going to come out with some strong executive orders to stop the southern border immigration catastrophe.

After denying it for three years, Mr. Biden finally came out and acknowledged that he has Presidential authority to do something about the border.

President Trump used that authority to develop programs such as “Remain in Mexico” and Title 42.

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Canada’s foreign student scam ‘mismatched’ job market, data shows

Canada’s foreign student push ‘mismatched’ job market, data shows

Canada’s recruitment of international students has tilted strongly toward filling spots in business programs, while doing little to meet the demand for workers in health care and the skilled trades, according to a CBC News analysis of federal data.

CBC obtained figures from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) showing the fields of education chosen by foreign students who received study permits from Ottawa to attend college or university in each year since 2018.

Experts say the figures demonstrate that neither federal nor provincial governments — nor Canadian colleges and universities themselves — focused international student recruitment squarely on filling the country’s most pressing labour needs.

There is no “Labour Shortage” there is a “Bodies needed to depress wages” crisis in Canada.

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Ireland’s populist insurgency

Dublin’s marchers have to convince a silent majority

The first thing that strikes you about Dublin is how different the political stickers on lamp posts are: while in Belfast the overriding theme is either pro-Palestine or Irish unity, in Dublin’s central O’Connell Street, it is “Defund The NGO Maggots” and “Mass Deportations Now” that strikes the foreign observer as novel. Beneath a gloomy Irish sky, one anti-immigration protestor scraped antifa stickers off a lamp post while a small boy holding his father’s hand stuck an “Ireland is Full” sticker on another. Others affixed tricolours and green harp flags to fishing rods as Gardaí in their day-glo uniforms looked on.

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Germans fear migration more than climate change, study finds

Europe has seen a sharp rise in the share of people who say that reducing immigration should be a top government priority, according to a study published Wednesday. Germany is topping the list.

At the same time, there was less desire to prioritize fighting climate change in the same countries, according to the survey commissioned by the Denmark-based Alliance of Democracies Foundation think tank.

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‘No fairness in this system’: Small landlords seek ways to protect themselves amid Ontario tribunal delays

The tenant in Nazar Ajeely’s one-bedroom unit stopped paying rent, refused to take his calls and gave no explanation.

The tenant also refused to leave the apartment in Windsor, Ont., Ajeely said, giving him no choice but to go to the province’s Landlord and Tenant Board to seek an eviction order.

But the tribunal is mired in delays and the wait for his hearing went on for 11 months. In the meantime, Ajeely’s tenant racked up more than $14,000 in unpaid rent and left the landlord questioning how this could be occurring.

What a mess.

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It’s not racist to air concerns about immigration, says BBC review

The BBC has been told that it is not racist to air concerns about immigration in a review that found journalists are anxious about appearing “hostile” to migrants.

The review, commissioned by the BBC board and authored by Madeleine Sumption, the director of the Migration Observatory at Oxford University, looked at the impartiality and accuracy of the BBC’s coverage of migration.

It found no consistent bias towards Left or Right but identified “risks to impartiality that point in multiple directions”.

Doh.

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‘Irish Lives Matter‘ — Thousands Protest Against Mass Migration in Dublin

One of the largest anti-mass migration protests to date took place in Dublin on Monday as protesters decried the open borders agenda of the neo-liberal Irish government.

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Canada’s Captains Of Industry Are Abusing The Temporary Foreign Workers Scam? I Am Shocked!

Fines mounting for violations in Canada’s temporary foreign worker programs

The federal government penalized nearly 200 companies last year for violating the rules of its temporary foreign worker programs, resulting in record fines for infractions such as wage theft and abuse in the workplace.

Ottawa reached 194 decisions against non-compliant employers in 2023 and handed out $2.7-million in penalties, an average of $13,800 per decision, according to a Globe and Mail analysis of figures published by the government. Some employers have also been suspended from hiring temporary labour from outside the country.

But how else will they depress wages?

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