The Libranos: Russia! Russia! Russia!

It’s hard to believe we’re scraping the bottom of the OECD barrel with the intellectual gigantism at work for us in Ottawa.

With Friends Like Avi

Does Nenshi need enemies?

Falling On Deaf Ears

It’s not just the federal government that isn’t that interested in Balsillie’s advice. Most provincial governments couldn’t care less either.

Balsillie said those who thrive in today’s economy own and control intangible assets such as data, AI and IP, and the U.S. has “turbocharged their capture,” but Canada’s economic game plan has stayed stuck in the decades-old “tangible production economy era,” while the new assets of the new economy require different strategies.

Margin Of Fraud

Mark Tapscott;

in the nearly four decades between Reagan’s junkyard dogs and the period covered by the 2024 GAO report, Washington officials really didn’t know how many federal tax dollars were actually lost every year. Even with the new estimate, officials conceded that gaps in available data across the government produced “challenges in producing fraud estimates, such as limited available fraud-related data and use of varying terms and definitions of fraud for recording data. These data gaps and variability result in information that cannot be readily compared or consolidated to determine the extent of fraud across the federal government.”

It’s now 2026, and they still don’t know for sure, but one thing has become all but certain: Far more of the federal government’s $7 trillion in annual spending than previously estimated is lost every year to professional criminal fraudsters, undeserving and even dead benefit recipients, over-priced procurement contracts, unjustified reimbursements, and numerous other ways.

That realization is driven by the results of the unprecedented efforts starting in January 2025 of President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, House Committee on Oversight and Government Affairs Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, and others on Capitol Hill to go after waste, fraud, and abuse on a scale never before attempted and with weapons too long ignored.

Veteran federal spending analyst Cato Institute Director of Budget and Entitlement Policy Romina Boccia summarizes the state of play.

A system that enables the theft of billions would never be used for the theft of elections.

More: Stephen Miller says he believes that the fraud and waste being uncovered by the Anti-Fraud Taskforce is so widespread, that dealing with it could balance the budget

Update: Russ Vought at OMB has just overhauled $1 TRILLION in federal grants by adding: Strict E-Verify requirements, English-language rules, and political appointee oversight to ensure taxpayer dollars go to American citizens first.

Smoke Signals

Sam Cooper;

When Winnipeg police laid out the largest drug seizure in Manitoba history last week — more than 525 kilograms of cocaine, methamphetamine and fentanyl, 14 firearms, and $825,000 in cash — the bricks of narcotics and the row of guns drew the cameras. A quieter item in the evidence locker did not: 1.35 million contraband cigarettes.

To a former senior Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) organized crime investigator who has spent decades tracing the illicit tobacco trade, that detail was perhaps the most revealing thing in the multi-agency probe. Illegal cigarettes, he told The Bureau, are the connective tissue of the networks that flood hard drugs from China and Mexico into Canadian communities. If tobacco produced on Indigenous lands fueling fentanyl production does not register with citizens, he says, the one billion in tax dollars lost every year in Ontario alone should at least raise eyebrows.

Thursday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America:    Victor Davis Hanson – A million reasons.    Commies on the coast.    Implementing communism.

Carnival Carney’s Canada:    A day in the life.    Carney’s Muslim values?    Sharia creep.    Renaming everything.

Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC:    Roger Watson – From the man cave.    Cure for fascism.    Paul Joseph Watson – They think it’s funny.    Interfaith dialogue.    Moderate Muslims.

Your morning meme.      Another meme.

“that doesn’t sound like something I would say.”

Placed on leave.

Good Riddance To Bad Rubbish

These days I’ll take any sign of improvement within the Federal government as a victory. The by-election, being in Montreal, will be a slam dunk for the Libs nonetheless.

Earlier in the day, Carney said he wishes Guilbeault “all the best” in whatever he chooses to do with his career next.

Carney said he understands that “things change.”

The Doctor Will Kill You Now

A double double with a side of blue needle;

A London, Ont., doctor who assessed a patient with inflammatory bowel disease and a history of mental health issues for MAID outside a Tim Hortons location and later personally drove the man to the place his life was ended has agreed to a minimum six months’ supervision.

In another case, Dr. James MacLean failed to administer one of three drugs used in assisted deaths — one that paralyzes the body’s muscles, including the muscles involved in breathing. The patient resumed spontaneously breathing again after initially being pronounced dead, and after MacLean had already left the home.

My goodness, he agreed to a supervision. That’ll teach him.

Our Chinese-Installed Governor In Ottawa

@RealAndyLeeShow

Important to note regarding Mark Carney’s renewal of a law enforcement agreement with China’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS):

A document from August of 2023 states that the RCMP did not want to renew the agreement with the MPS after it expired.

“While the RCMP continues to seek ways to mitigate and navigate the current reality of the Canada-China bilateral relationship, in order to progress on law enforcement issues of mutual concern, it does not envision renewing its expired Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) in the immediate future.”

Revenge Of The Normals

Don Surber: For RINOs this year, May was the cruelest month as MAGA voters primaried those who defied their orders.

And more.

Oddly enough: Sex therapist who vowed to put ‘American Zionists’ into ‘castration’ centers loses Texas Democratic primary

There’s not a single conservative politician in Canada who will find a lesson in all of this.

Wednesday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America:    George Floyd Day.    VDH – Selective outrage.    Trump’s biggest win.    Mamdani moment.    Your morning meme.

Conman Carney’s Canada:    Our dictator warns Alberta.    Cockamamie corporation.    Property rights.

Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC:    Conversion to the death cult.    The demonisation of men.    Jihad in the UK.    Gender dysphoria.

And at the Bee.

Canada’s Journalists Are Hard Up For a Hero

The entirety of this post was shared by an SDA regular who wishes to remain anonymous, but I cannot take credit for his excellent research and writing:

Two days ago Canadian dailies were headlining this story, as if this fellow was some kind of true grit hero.

But you can’t expect a subsidized media to spoil the narrative with the truth.

It’s easy to be an elbows-upper when taxpayers foot your bills.

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