He's weaving in & out of the high occupancy lane, repeatedly crossing the double "don't cross" lines, then he drives on the shoulder. This is example # eleventy-billion why I hate driving on the highway now. @fancypants_s https://t.co/oBpOvu7OVE
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) July 9, 2025
H/T Patti Jo
In a long overdue move, four of America’s most accurate pollsters have joined forces to take on the entrenched bias that’s been rotting the heart of public opinion research. The newly formed National Association of Independent Pollsters, comprised of Big Data Poll, InsiderAdvantage, Trafalgar Group, and Rasmussen Reports, has a simple mission: deliver honest, accurate data and expose the manipulations that have plagued the industry for years.
OTTAWA — The Palestinian ambassador to Canada says she feels Ottawa is on the brink of officially recognizing statehood for her people, as she also takes note of tougher language from Canada on Israel’s actions in Gaza.
“Accountability means everything to the Palestinian people. That’s all we are looking for,” said Mona Abuamara, who is at the end of her four-year term as the chief representative of the Palestinian General Delegation to Canada.
During an appearance on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on Monday, failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams alleged President Donald Trump was taking steps to cancel elections in the United States.
Abrams outlined 10 steps to guest host Anthony Anderson in her book, which she was promoting, that would ultimately lead to an “autocracy.”
Who gets ‘platformed’ by CBC News — and why
In the past year or so, there has been a sharp increase in the number of people writing to complain about how CBC News “platforms” certain viewpoints, people and organizations in our journalism.
The complaints come from across the political spectrum. Some are polite and thoughtfully worded. Some less so. They often include sentences like these recent examples:
“I’m writing to express my deep disappointment with your recent decision to platform …”
“I’m truly disgusted that CBC interviewed …”
“Stop giving airtime to … !!!”
“It’s vile, disgusting and totally inappropriate to give this person a platform.”
Meanwhile …
CBC host resigns, saying he could not continue at public broadcaster ‘with integrity’
Travis Dhanraj accused the public broadcaster of ‘performative diversity, tokenism, a system designed to elevate certain voices and diminish others’
There’s a brave, new Barbie in the box.
Mattel announced the release of the first-ever Barbie doll with type 1 diabetes, complete with a continuous glucose monitor and an insulin pump in Barbie’s signature pink.
h/t Patti Jo
As Toronto public school students enjoy a summer full of camps, play and sports, let’s hope the system that they return to in September undergoes significant change.
Public education in Ontario has become a mess. That is why it is welcome news that the provincial government has appointed supervisors to take over a number of school boards across the province, including the Toronto District School Board (TDSB)
Judge seals damning internal @CanBorder report into #ArriveCan irregularities at the request of exec Cameron MacDonald, briefly suspended over the program. MPs have been after the document for 2yrs: 'It is most serious.' https://t.co/mcbHubcKNK #cdnpoli @FedCourt_CAN_en… pic.twitter.com/tsMZEg8V1n
— Blacklock's Reporter (@mindingottawa) July 9, 2025
h/t Mauser
Elon Musk’s company removes posts praising Hitler from Grok chatbot
Elon Musk’s company xAI removed social media posts by its chatbot on Tuesday after complaints from X users and the Anti-Defamation League that it had produced content with antisemitic stereotypes and praise for Adolf Hitler.
The Grok chatbot, which answers questions from users on Musk’s X social media platform, had produced some “inappropriate” responses which had to be deleted, the company said.
The Federal Court says the RCMP must hand over solicitor-client information to the country’s national security review agency — allowing a long-stalled review into whether the Mounties mishandled the case of a Canadian convicted of plotting ISIS-inspired terror attacks in the U.S. to move ahead.
The case centres on a complaint from Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy’s father Osama El Bahnasawy, who alleged the RCMP played a role entrapping his son, now serving a decades-long sentence in a U.S. maximum security prison.
The reason I posted this link is to rekindle memories of a real RCMP entrapment case, they almost got away with an FBI style frame-up.
Keep this in mind as the CAF “Anti-Government” militia case unfolds.
RCMP entrapment of B.C. couple in legislature bomb plot was ‘travesty of justice,’ court rules
B.C.’s Appeal Court has upheld a ruling that gave a couple convicted of planting explosive devices on the grounds of the legislature their freedom in 2016.
In a unanimous decision released Wednesday morning, the Appeal Court sided with a B.C. Supreme Court judge who stayed proceedings in the terrorism trial of John Nuttall and Amanda Korody on the grounds that the police investigation was a “travesty of justice.”
Donald Trump claims he threatened to “bomb the s— out of Moscow” if Russia invaded Ukraine during his first term, according to new leaked audio.
“With Putin I said: ‘If you go into Ukraine, I’m going to bomb the s— out of Moscow. I’m telling you I have no choice’,” Mr Trump told a group of donors before last year’s presidential election.
“And then [Putin] goes, like, ‘I don’t believe you’. But he believed me 100 per cent.”
A friendly breeze blows out of Ottawa these days, but there’s a chance it’s nothing more than wind.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is all about development, energy, pipelines — one big Canadian economy.
He speaks of Alberta’s energy industry with none of the contempt so common in the Justin Trudeau years.
Police carried out raids across North Rhine-Westphalia state in connection with a suspected Islamist terror plot. A man has been detained on suspicion of fraud with the intention of financing an Islamist terror attack.
OTTAWA — Focus groups struck to gauge public sentiment on the federal government’s immigration policy reacted negatively to high immigration quotas.
The public opinion panels, commissioned by the Privy Council Office and facilitated by Toronto pollster The Strategic Council showed most respondents reacted negatively to Canada’s mass immigration policies, according to reports published in Blacklock’s Reporter.
Canada’s demographic is being so drastically altered that soon all polls will support open borders and 3rd world immigration.
This is so depressing. @fancypants_s https://t.co/RqGKi5qeiJ
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) July 9, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
