Derek

[Eva Chipiuk, BSc, LLB, LLM @echipiuk]

This is actually a really good point.

Perhaps too many police resources are being spent on things like social media posts instead of core policing responsibilities.

Police budgets should be regularly audited and reviewed to ensure taxpayer dollars are being directed toward frontline policing and public safety, not activities that fall outside their actual mandate.

There also seems to be a recurring problem across public institutions of acting ultra vires, beyond the authority granted to them by law.

Public bodies exist to exercise only the powers the legislature has given them, not to expand their own role. Staying within their legal mandate is not optional; it is fundamental to the rule of law, and we must ensure that the resources entrusted to them are used to carry out that mandate—not to pursue activities beyond it.

[Mortimer @mortimer_1]

Straight up joke of what BC and Canada have become.

Who cares is someone has the qualifications, all they care about is where they are in their “unlearning” journey

What a clown show. This hiring has infiltrated many organizations and has led to their demise

[Kim G C Moody @KimGCMoody]

So the federal government’s 2026 “pre-budget consultations” have over 1,300 submission so far. And apparently we’re not getting an “expert review of the corporate tax system” as promised by the Liberal Party during the 2025 election campaign since @fp_champagne says Canada doesn’t need it.

Huh?

“Instead, the government will once again rely on pre-budget consultations, a charade that is long on submissions, but short on meaningful influence…virtually all those submissions will be ignored.”

This is the topic of my @financialpost article this week. I compare the development of tax policy in Canada to engineers who don’t defy the laws of physics when planning for the construction of a bridge.

“Engineers don’t ask the public for input and then build whatever they’d already decided to build. That’s the difference between consultation and theatre. Our government has spent more than a decade proving it can’t tell them apart.”

I breakdown recent examples of the development of tax policies into three categories:

The first is “ideas that were never going to hold weight” - like the prohibition of deductions on certain short-term rental owners - “It uses the tax system to punish a licensing violation, with consequences wildly disproportionate to the offence since these landlords are supposedly the cause of Canada’s housing problems. A tax-compliant drug dealer can deduct their business expenses, but these landlords cannot. It isn’t just poor policy; it’s upside-down logic.”

The second “..are the measures where the warnings existed and were overridden anyway.” - the 2017 private corporation tax proposals resulting in TOSI, the UHT and the revised bare trust rules are current examples that I discuss.

“The third category is the most telling because gravity wasn’t even allowed to do the correcting. Politics did it first.” - the repeal of the Digital Services Tax at the last minute, the recent reversal of the “Netflix tax” and the abandoned proposal of the increased capital gains inclusion rate all fit within this category. “None of these examples reflect a government that reconsidered the merits; they reflect one that discovered the political cost first.”

I go on to discuss how Canada can develop tax policy better - with GENUINE consultation - not the charade that we have today. It can follow the example of New Zealand and the old UK model (recently amended to provide more “government flexibility” - a cautionary tale that Canada should not follow).

“We don’t simply have bad tax policies; we have a broken process for creating them and both need reform.”

“Gravity doesn’t reward the appearance of listening. It rewards the load-bearing work of doing it. Canada hasn’t reviewed or rebuilt its tax system from first principles since the Royal Commission on Taxation 60 years ago.

I’ll keep thanking the engineers who respect gravity, but I’m still waiting for our government to do the same.”

https://t.co/b4vvfIFn5p

[Derek @DerekMoran11]

@JimMcMurtry01 Keep playing Jim. You will eventually be vindicated.

[Jim McMurtry @JimMcMurtry01]

I lost my livelihood because one student “did not like” that I denied mass murder in Kamloops.

She reported me to a counsellor at Robert Bateman Secondary and I was frogmarched out.

[Ben Rabidoux @BenRabidoux]

Im sure the family appreciates your thoughts and prayers, but this appears to be terrorism related

The previous Liberal government flooded the country with unvetted migrants

What tangible steps will you take to weed out these terrorists and deport all who have overstayed visas?

[Kris Eriksen @KEriksenV2]

Leave OneBC and join the B.C. Conservatives.

The NDP must be removed from power.

[John Rustad @JohnRustad4BC]

The NDP loves to tell forestry workers they’re on their side. They love to blame Trump. Mill closes down, you lose your job, Trump’s fault. Deficit 13.3 billion dollars, Trump’s fault. Then another mill shuts down. Another town loses its main employer. Trump’s fault.

But when a federal task force, with a BC co-chair and a First Nations member, says the biggest problems are homegrown provincial policies on fibre access and regulation, what does Forests Minister Ravi Parmar do? He changes the subject to Trump tariffs. Again.

This report is devastating because it’s not partisan. It’s the truth the NDP doesn’t want to hear. Their choices on access, tenure, and red tape are driving capital flight and killing competitiveness.

It’s not Trump’s fault. It’s your fault, Ravi!

The numbers don’t lie. 15,000 jobs gone since 2022. Dozens of closures. Rural BC is paying the price for NDP ideology.

[Jim McMurtry @JimMcMurtry01]

Where did National Chief Cindy Woodhouse get 36 golden eagle feathers since commercial trafficking is illegal?

An eagle has 12 tail-feathers, so 3 birds were needed, and a roomful of chiefs would need dozens of eagles.

We need a Tail-feather & Reconciliation Commission (TRC).

[Jared Dillian @dailydirtnap]

Here is what I am thinking:

Stocks are going to get out of control relatively quickly.

Bonds are a buy, as they were in October 1987.

Do you think we will be pricing in rate hikes if stocks are down 10%? 20%?

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

🚨 “I WISH I COULD KILL 300,000,000 AMERICANS” — FBI Just Took Down Three U.S. Citizens Funding ISIS RPG and Drone Attacks on Our Troops. This Is What Happens When the DOJ Actually Does Its Job.

💥FBI BUSTS ISIS TERROR CELL ON AMERICAN SOIL — THREE U.S. CITIZENS PLOTTED RPG AND DRONE ATTACKS ON OUR TROOPS ☠️

Three radicalized American citizens — not foreign infiltrators, but homegrown traitors radicalized right here on U.S. soil — were arrested in simultaneous FBI raids across Kansas and California early Friday morning. Their mission? Fund ISIS. Buy RPGs. Send drones to kill American servicemembers. And they came terrifyingly close.

🔥 THE PLOT, UNPACKED

The three jihadist wannabes — Bisaam Ghafoor (21, Leawood, KS), Elias Shamsaldeen (21, Porterville, CA), and Bereen Dzayee (25, Lakeside, CA) — spent over a year on Discord and encrypted messaging apps coordinating a multi-pronged material support operation for ISIS. Here’s what the DOJ complaint lays out:

- They pledged bay’ah (allegiance) to ISIS leadership — not in private whispers, but publicly on social media. Shamsaldeen did it openly in October 2025.

- They sent over $2,000 to someone they fully believed was an active ISIS operative — with Ghafoor personally handing a wax-sealed envelope containing $250 cash to an FBI undercover agent at a Kansas City mosque in May 2026, then sending another $200.

- Shamsaldeen drove 90 miles to a crypto ATM at a gas station, attempting to launder his donations beyond traceability. He successfully sent $1,590 through a financial app to an FBI undercover account, believing it was buying drones to rain hell on American troops.

- Ghafoor’s name was literally written in Arabic on an RPG projectile — a weapon he was told would be used to kill U.S. servicemembers overseas. His response? He celebrated it, calling it “sick” — in the enthusiastic, not disturbed, sense of the word.

🩸 THE CHILLING WORDS

These aren’t allegations of abstract sympathies. The FBI has the receipts. Direct quotes from the complaint:

Ghafoor: “I have always wanted to kill a female soldier by beheading.”

Ghafoor: “I wish I could kill 300,000,000 Americans.”

That’s not hyperbole. That’s not a kid trolling on Discord. That’s a 21-year-old American citizen fantasizing about decapitating a female U.S. service member and exterminating the entire population of the United States.

Shamsaldeen: Expressed a desire to stab and injure a U.S. servicemember he encountered at a business. He also told the group that his own mother encouraged her children to grow up and kill Americans.

Dzayee: Suggested U.S. Special Forces — specifically Green Berets — should be the drone targets. He also coordinated the money transfers, telling the group to call it “charity” and adding: “In my head it’s charity.”

And here’s the kicker — Dzayee himself acknowledged the gravity. He and Ghafoor called what they were doing “treason” and admitted it was “bigger” than their existing fraud scheme. They knew exactly what they were. They said it out loud. And they kept going anyway.

🎯 THE STING: HOW THE FBI GOT THEM

The investigation began in March 2025 with a single anonymous tip about pro-ISIS social media posts. Within months, the FBI had:

- Infiltrated their Discord and messaging groups
- Deployed undercover agents and confidential human sources
- Tracked Shamsaldeen’s 90-mile crypto ATM pilgrimage via surveillance
- Captured Ghafoor on tape, handing cash to an agent inside a mosque
- Documented every pledge of allegiance, every violent fantasy, every dollar sent

FBI Director Kash Patel didn’t mince words:

“These subjects allegedly swore allegiance to ISIS, plotted multiple attacks, and even targeted U.S. servicemembers — but this FBI stopped them cold.”

Acting AG Todd Blanche put the broader mission in perspective:

“This administration has put terrorists, cartels, and gangs on notice. Today’s arrest makes clear our commitment to taking down terrorist networks — anywhere.”

And the most haunting line from Blanche, which should sear itself into every American’s consciousness:

“Young men in their 20s completely indoctrinated by terrorism and by terrorists and actually spending money to actually follow through on these attacks. It’s a good reminder to Americans that this fight is not over.”

🇺🇸 THE DEEPER TRUTH NOBODY WANTS TO SAY

Here’s what the sanitized headlines won’t tell you: all three are U.S. citizens. Born or naturalized right here. One of them — Dzayee — appears in photos wearing a U.S. Navy sailor’s uniform, confirmed by neighbors and a former classmate. These aren’t foreign agents sneaking across the border. These are products of the American system, radicalized internally through their teachers and online echo chambers while the previous administration’s DOJ and intelligence agencies were busy hunting grandmothers at school board meetings and labeling concerned parents “domestic terrorists.”

The Biden-era FBI spent years telling us the greatest terror threat was white supremacy in the heartland. Meanwhile, actual jihadist cells were forming on Discord, pledging allegiance to ISIS leadership, and wiring money for RPGs and drones — right under their noses.

This bust happened because the Trump DOJ and Kash Patel’s FBI actually prioritized counterterrorism rather than treating it as an inconvenient distraction from political prosecutions.

⚖️ WHAT HAPPENS NOW

All three face charges of conspiring to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization — a charge that carries up to 20 years in federal prison. The case is being prosecuted in the District of Kansas by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Scott Rask and Michelle MacFarlane, alongside the National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section.

They’re innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. But the complaint is devastating. The paper trail is massive. And the confessions are on tape.

📢 THE TAKEAWAY

The war didn’t end when we pulled out of Afghanistan. It didn’t end when Baghdadi ate a suicide vest in a Syrian tunnel.

The ideology metastasized. It’s on Discord. It’s in mosques in Kansas City. It’s in the mind of a 21-year-old in Leawood who dreams of beheading female soldiers.

But here’s the difference between then and now: this administration is actually hunting them. Not lecturing us about Islamophobia. Not deflecting to “stochastic terrorism” from political opponents. Actually doing counterterrorism.

This is what law and order looks like. 🇺🇸

#ISISBusted #LawAndOrder #FBI #ToddBlanche #KashPatel #NationalSecurity #MaterialSupport #HomegrownTerror #AmericaFirst #TrumpDOJ #Counterterrorism #GreenBerets #ProtectOurTroops #WakeUpAmerica #DiscordJihad #Treason #JusticeServed #StopISIS

[Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 @ezralevant]

Today 50,000 Jews and allies will Walk With Israel through Toronto.

Will Mark Carney boycott it again?

Will Doug Ford?

Will Olivia Chow?

Pretty sure we know the answers.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Tens of thousands march in Toronto, Canada, in a solidarity march for Israel. 🇨🇦❤️🇮🇱

[Eva Chipiuk, BSc, LLB, LLM @echipiuk]

Please focus on matters within your mandate, including roads, sewers, utilities, public safety, and snow removal.

Basic services that taxpayers expect are deteriorating while costs continue to rise, yet here you are.

They do not need municipal politicians using taxpayer-funded salaries and resources to campaign against democratic participation or insert themselves into matters they were never elected to control.

Let citizens have a say in their own future. That is what living in a free and democratic society means!

Thank you.

Ps. This video itself is poorly done (akin to the poor municipal services) and the performative theatre is difficult to watch.

Please do better. Public office is a serious responsibility, not a game, and citizens deserve to be treated with more respect than this.

[Ron Butler @ronmortgageguy]

Hey They Were 14,000 Canadian MEN Mr. Prime Minister

It may sound like I am just whining & moaning about a small, unimportant choice of words

But Fuck It, every single one was a Man

We should use the right words instead of carefully crafting every sentence not to offend

[Kim G C Moody @KimGCMoody]

This is a branding exercise - nothing more. Taking the sound GST credit’s plumbing, topping it up and rebranding it for political purposes is great marketing for the financially illiterate (which admittedly is a powerful voter base). When politicians cannot defend a tax policy on its merits, they do the next best thing: they create a marketing name. The label is designed not to inform but to disarm - to make the financially illiterate feel reassured and the financially literate feel hesitant to object. It is one of the more cynical features of modern fiscal governance, and it is accelerating. More about this in my upcoming Financial Post article to be released this week…..

[Kim G C Moody @KimGCMoody]

In my latest @financialpost article, I discuss Canada’s step towards automatic tax filing.

From the article:

“You might expect a tax professional like myself to defend the annual ritual of filing tax returns, but I don’t because it has become a necessary evil that serves almost no one well, especially with the shortage of accountants and increased complexity. Most would rather visit the dentist than complete their tax return.

Adam Smith, the Scottish economist who espoused the four tenets (fairness, certainty, convenience and efficiency) of a good taxation system in his 1776 landmark book, The Wealth of Nations, would recognize that Canada has significant problems with all four maxims. But convenience — that tax should be levied in the manner most convenient to the contributor — is the one our system most spectacularly fails.

There is little policy justification for forcing taxpayers with simple affairs to spend time and money on compliance by purchasing software or paying a tax preparer...

Yet the cash benefits Canada delivers through the tax system… only flow to those who file, which means non-filing is self-inflicted hardship for the people least able to bear it. Sparing them the maze is a genuine good.

That’s one of the reasons why I’ve long been an advocate for automatic tax filing. Other countries, like the United Kingdom, have spared most taxpayers from filing for decades...

So I was pleased when the federal government announced in its November budget that it was finally taking a real step towards automatic tax filing. But, of course, the devil would be in the details, which arrived in Bill C-31 last month...

To be eligible, an individual must be living (deceased returns do not qualify), be a resident of Canada for the entire year, have no tax payable…, draw all income from sources already reported to the CRA on information slips and have skipped filing in at least one of the three prior years. They get a notice and 90 days to review or opt out. Silence means the CRA files for them.

But there are flaws with the legislation. For example, the 90-day window to respond is far too short for a population that has historically been disengaged from filing. It should be longer — say, 180 days.

…proposed subsection 150(1.6) deems any error the taxpayer fails to flag within the 90-day window to be “a misrepresentation made by the individual.” A disengaged, low-income non-filer who ignores a CRA letter…can be deemed to have misrepresented a return they never prepared, potentially opening the year to reassessment indefinitely.

The openness runs one way: that same taxpayer, who may have been shortchanged on an automatically filed return, gets no equivalent window to recover…capped at 10 years and granted at the minister’s discretion. The Crown’s clock never expires; the taxpayer’s does.

Then there is residency. The provision requires Canadian tax residence “throughout the year,” but residency is a fact the CRA cannot read off a slip...

The room to expand automatic filing in Canada is structurally tiny. The reason is complexity, which undermines Smith’s certainty maxim.

…The only solution to this complexity problem is to undergo comprehensive tax reform that has long been advocated for by many parties…

Which brings us to Smith’s other neglected maxim: economy.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer has put the administrative cost of an automatic filing system at roughly $60 million a year…a striking figure for returns that don't raise revenue and exist only to move benefits and bring non-filing taxpayers back into the system.

The new legislation is a decent start. I’d rate it a C-. To give it an A, the above problems will need to be dealt with and comprehensive tax reform completed with less complexity should be one of its key results. Until then, we are automating the symptom.

Smith would approve of the convenience for the narrow few who qualify. For everyone else, it’s still the dentist’s chair.”
https://t.co/DNMxGJGwkA

[Jim McMurtry @JimMcMurtry01]

Ottawa chief Pontiac has towns, a lake and a car named after him—though he boiled and ate British captives.

Ottawa politician John A. Macdonald had his name removed from schools and businesses—though he guided the creation of Canada.

[Ben Rabidoux @BenRabidoux]

Remember, the sanctions follow the business, not the owners. They are free to start a brand new business with a clean slate

This needs to change. Common sense reform around TFW enforcement

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

When this war is over, and Ukraine is victorious and whole again, and every innocent victim, every fallen defender, every destroyed city and town is documented, let no one say they did not know. These Russian crimes against humanity are happening in full view in real time.