What a brilliant appointment. Not.

Carney has just made another "brilliant" appointment:  Janice Charette as chief negotiator for CUSMA.  

Charette was the clerk of the Privy Council Office who recommended Trudeau invoke the Emergencies Act during the truckers' convoy -- an invocation just ruled unlawful by the courts.  As I said, what more brilliant person to send to deal with Trump!  Doesn't even know the law.  

I predict he'll take one look at her and walk out of the room, if he walks in at all.  Like it or not, looks count to Trump

Any hope here?  And that hair!  Please.

He's also leaving Dominic Leblanc in there as another sterling "negotiator" -- the same guy who hasn't been able to get a single thing done in a year.

It's just one dumb move after another with this gang.

 

I forgot my flip flops

We decided to spend Valentine's Day weekend at the venerable Palliser Hotel in downtown Calgary.  Naturally, we booked the Gold Floor -- which is very expensive.  

I, of course, brought my best outfits, but I forgot my ripped jeans and flipflops.  Can you believe that so many people with money frequent the lounge there in the WORST outfits I have ever seen!  Here are a few beauties:

How do you get that big so young?!

  

At last count, this guy went to the trough 10 times!

Sweats down to the pubic bone with flipflops.  Charming!

Nothing like ripped jeans in the Gold Lounge!

Me trying to look decent. 

Farewell to another Valentine's Day.

What are they eating up there?

 Mark Carney is creaming Mary Simon in the race for who can gobble more goodies on flights.  In 2022, Simon wasted what turned out to be a mere $93,000 on such delights as beef wellington when she took a trip to the Middle East and dragged along her Crocodile Dundee wanna-be husband (Note to Whit: lose the ridiculous hat) and 29 of her closest friends.  Carney, however, topped that excess by a country mile.  He spent $300,000 in the air alone!

Never mind that the governor general is the King's representative in Canada.  Never mind that the Commonwealth has nothing to do with the Middle East.  What the h-ll!  Simon went anyway and gorged on gourmet delights in the air alone.  (Frankly, she doesn't need to eat so much, judging by her ample girth, but I digress.)

Not to be outdone, Carney has relegated her to the bush league.  Last year, his lordship spent (rounded off) $300,000 on inflight catering and another $472,000 gourmandizing when he got where he was going.

He dropped $39,000 in Paris, $48,000 in Washington, $36,000 in London, $133,000 in Rome, $141,000 in The Hague, and $73,000 in Brussels for a grand total of:

$472,293.20!!! 

Wow, that's staggering when you consider that Canada's food banks are struggling to keep up with demand.  Frankly, it's obscene.  As I have said, Carney governs like a CEO, not a PM, with nary a thought to the poor serfs beneath him.

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A word about the 'fairer" sex.  Women are at in again running to women-only conferences.  "You never went in for that stuff, did you," one DM I reported to said.  I took it as an enormous compliment because I didn't hang around doing "women's issue/feminist/liberated" things.  I hung around the power, which in my day, usually meant men.

The latest 'Globe and Mail' woke conference.  Some women have been at this for 60 years.  I got over it decades ago.

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When I heard a female had been the shooter in Tumbler Ridge, I was shocked.  Women don't do this.  Of course, it wasn't a women, it was a male in a dress, but the CBC couldn't bring itself to say it.  How does this help?  Rhetorical.
And, by the way, what was Carney's wife doing laying flowers?  No one elected her, so please stay at home in New York.

What a piece of work

Years ago, when B was newly-married to his ex, she took a solo trip to Winnipeg.  While she was away, B suffered a near-fatal ulcer bleed on the aorta and was rushed to hospital.  It was so bad, he was actually given the Last Rites.  

"Please let me know if he dies," she said off-handedly when called by a mutual friend.  Click buzz.  That was it!  Didn't return home.  Didn't call B.  Couldn't have cared less.

This has come to mind because my stepson recently fell down a flight of stairs and broke his neck.  The son lives in Ottawa and the mother lives in Ottawa, but when informed of another near-fatality in her family said, "I'll keep him in my thoughts, thank you."

That was it!  Her own son lies in a coma near death and all she can muster up is a perfunctory ho-hum.  Click buzz.

What kind of a mother does that?!  I can't even fathom!  They are estranged, for obvious reasons, given the kind of mother she is(n't).  But still, would a mother not react and immediately visit a son who is close to death in intensive care a 15-minute drive away -- even if only to put on an act?

Yep, folks.  That's the kind of ex and mother I have been dealing with for 46 labourious and relentless years.  This is the same person who claimed she was so devoted to her children she had to have full custody, which forced us to spend tens of thousands on lawyers and psychologists to get joint custody!  What happened to the "devoted mother act?"  

Thankfully, we no longer have to, except in times of emergency when we are contacted by authorities in case we have to pull the plug.  Horrors!  (Thankfully, he is recovering.)  

I consider her a demonic, malignant narcissist; her deeds confirm it.

Underneath the dyed-blonde hair and beatific smile lurks this.

       

He's such a sh-tty writer

I've never understood the reverence and indulgence the hunourless Andrew Coyne is afforded in 'The Globe and Mail' and on 'At Issue'?  The guy is a really sh-tty writer.  Here are a few of today's superfluous examples in italics:

• "The procurement process, what is more, is so bureaucratic....."
• "Notionally, it is in Canada too."
• "I was struck, again, by how often we were -- quantifiably, in many cases -- the outlier.....the most disproportionate and (therefore) regionally divisive electoral system, and so on."
• "Arguably, a political community is formed, in part, by......"
• "Canada, almost uniquely, does not...."
• "As I've said in other contexts:......
• "We have framed the national-security debate, in short, too narrowly."
• "On all these fronts and more, Canada has....."

He writes as if he were defending some sort of complicated scientific thesis, instead of simply penning a garden-variety opinion piece. Talk about turgidity!  The guy has mastered it!

Watching him on 'At Issue', I am always stuck by the juxtaposition of the ludicrously giggling Barton and the dour, morose Coyne.  I know, I know, why read or watch the guy?

The Prince of turgidity.

Can't help myself because I love to edit the h-ll out of him.  If only the late Jean Portugal, the most brutal and brilliant editor who ever had the misfortune of red-penning me, had had a go at him.....sigh.

A Constitutional examination of the ICE issue

 

Re-printed from the 'Catholic League Newsletter', by Bill Donohue.  It deserves a look from the TDS cohort.  I am neither a supporter, nor a denigrator, of Trump.  As a former journalist, I simply try to cast an objective look at events:

February 5, 2026



The church invasion that took place at Cities Church on January 18 in St. Paul, Minnesota was a flagrant violation of constitutional law, federal law and common decency. It is the kind of behavior associated with totalitarian regimes, not democratic polities. Yet the outcry from all quarters—government, religious, civic, educational, the media—has been miniscule. To say this is a bad omen is a gross understatement.

The purported cause for action was to register disapproval of David Easterwood, one of the pastors of this Southern Baptist church; he heads the local office of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Those who want to voice their opinion about any member of the clergy associated with any religion have a First Amendment right to do so outside the house of worship. No one has a right to disrupt church services and harass its congregants. To do so violates the “free exercise of religion” provision in the First Amendment, the congressionally passed Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) of 1994 and the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871.

The U.S. Constitution

The FACE Act makes it illegal to injure, intimidate or interfere with those seeking to exercise their religious liberty right at a place of worship. The Klan Act makes it illegal to terrorize people or to deprive them of their constitutional rights through intimidation or force.

Nine of the 20-40 church invaders are being charged with entering the church “in a coordinated takeover-style attack,” and for engaging in “acts of oppression, intimidation, threats, interference, and physical obstruction.” The indictment, filed in the Federal District Court of Minnesota, alleges that “the pastor and the congregation were forced to terminate the Church’s worship services,” and had to flee out of fear for their safety.

One of the defendants, William Scott Kelly, a.k.a “DaWokeFarmer,” disrupted the church service by screaming, “This ain’t God’s house. This is the house of the devil.” He got in the face of a mother and her two young children, chiding her for not supporting the church invasion. He said to child congregants, “Do you know your parents are Nazis? They’re going to burn in hell.”

Much has been made of the presence of Don Lemon. The former journalist and failed CNN pundit (he was fired for sexist behavior and remarks, as well as lousy ratings), claims he was a disinterested observer, and not part of the organized protest. “I’m not a protester, I went there as a journalist.” Inside the church, he said, “We’re not part of the activists, but we’re here just reporting on them.”

The indictment says otherwise. Lemon met at a shopping center with all the other defendants to make plans about invading the church. He did not just stumble on the scene of the crime. Instructions were given by Nekima Valdez Levy-Armstrong and another female on how the operation would be conducted once inside the church.

Lemon told his livestream audience that congregants were “frightened,” “scared,” and “crying,” saying their response was understandable given that their experience was “traumatic and uncomfortable.” Perversely, he admitted that this was the purpose of the invasion. He also tried to intimidate the pastor and obstructed congregants from leaving the church. In short, he was an active participant in the church invasion.

The list of politicians, all Democrats, and civil rights organizations, all left-wing, that have nothing but contempt for the right to worship is astounding. This should be the lead story in every media outlet, yet it is being treated as a side story. 

Notice that none of them even gives a nod to the egregious violation of the “free exercise of religion.” They are framing this as purely a free speech issue when it is first and foremost a matter of religious freedom. But religious liberty has never been of any interest to the Left, and many have actively sought to disable it.

In our correspondence with the Religious Freedom Commission, the Department of Justice and President Trump, we will stress the fact that almost all homicides that have occurred in recent times in houses of worship have been in Christian churches.

In a paper released by two criminologists studying violence against houses of worship in the United States between 2000 and 2024, it was found that “Ninety-seven percent of deadly incidents occurred at Christian churches.” This settles the issue—Christian haters are a major threat that demands immediate attention.

 

Offer your support of the House Resolution by contacting the chief of staff to Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA): chris.crawford@mail.house.gov

London has been destroyed

I watch a lot of TalkTV out of Britain and am learning that thanks to open borders and the millions of illegal boat crossers, London has been destroyed.  The carefully- crafted class system that kept order and allowed the city -- and indeed all the large cities in the U.K. -- to run efficiently and effectively has been replaced by wokery and the lunacy of the European Commission of Human Rights (ECHR).

Becoming part of the EU was a disaster for Britain.  It meant citizens of any member country could easily slide into England, no questions asked.  Naturally, they brought their own cultures with them -- cultures which were decidedly un-British.

The entire well-functioning apple cart has been upset.  Under the EU and the ECHR, anyone and everyone who wanders illegally into Britain is accorded due process.  That's the lunacy.  If you're in a country illegally -- paging Carney and Trudeau! -- you're a criminal.  You must be returned to your country of origin and apply legally from there to get in.

This all started with Tony Blair, or should I say with his wife Cherie, who really ran him -- sort of like Diana Carney, who runs Mark.  Note:  Never underestimate pillow talk.

Cherie Blair, the rabid labourite whose naked envy launched the ruination of Britain.

Cherie is a rabid, leftie labour lawyer, who came from nothing.  She runs something called "The Cherie Blair Foundation for Women", the mission of which is, "To empower women in low and middle income countries to start, sustain and grow successful businesses, and to build fair and inclusive business environments."

I have always been of the opinion that left-leaning, rabid labourites are disgruntled citizens, who wish they were of a higher class.  Sorry, that's just human nature.  I mean, if Starmer were such champion of the downtrodden, why did he accept a Life Peerage?  Because he wanted the honour.  Frankly, he should have declined.

Colonialism has also ruined Britain because citizens of any country colonized by Britain are automatically allowed in.  This has resulted in a burgeoning number of people on benefits, bankrupting the country.  This is what happened when the British invaded and raped so many countries; the unintended consequence was mass migration from poor countries now paying Britain back.  Karma at its finest.

Call me an elitist, but as my late Mother used to say, "It's always easier to marry within your own station, dear."

She was right.