El Kabong (aka Ol’ GPo)

Seasoned Vet, an Engineer’s Engineer, and 60’s cartoon superhero…. come and be my Baba Looey

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

CBC’s Emma Loop just spent airtime walking viewers through the exact contract language her own outlet obtained months ago — the 2023 amendment that gives Stellantis a clear commercial-viability escape hatch if it can show it tried alternatives. She also nodded at the CTV reporting that Ottawa was in more than a dozen meetings, knew the terms, and never blocked the Roshel sale. Roshel’s CEO has said they briefed the government months earlier and got positive feedback

Loop herself conceded: “if this is the contract language and if the rest of the terms, some of which are redacted, sort of line up with this, then they might have had an out here legally. So it might not actually be the betrayal that we think it is at this point.”

And yet the segment still treated Carney’s “unacceptable betrayal” line as the serious baseline instead of the performative BS it is. No follow-up on why the Prime Minister is publicly raging over a process his ministers and officials were already deep inside. No questions about the gap between the private engagement and the public indignation. Just careful “we can’t say for sure” framing and a quick pivot to the next weather story

This is the same CBC that spent years soft-pedaling Liberal industrial policy failures and is now unable to state the obvious when the facts are sitting on their own desk: Carney’s outrage is pure theatre, the contract was written with an exit, and the government knew what was coming

Workers and taxpayers get the performance. CBC gives Carney and Joly a pass @brodiefenlon @markjcarney @melaniejoly

[Handre @Handre]

Economist tier list:

[Loadedlen @loadedlen]

CTV peddling this like it's a surprise. I've got news for you, @CTVNews, Carney's dirty. Joly's dirty. Champagne's dirty. McKinnon's dirty... They're all dirty. And everytime you defend them, or neglect to cover suspicious actions, you get a little dirtier, too.

Brush yourself off, and start doing honest journalism.

[Jim Csek, CPA,CMA @jimcsek]

@CTVNews Shocking - not. What is shocking is there audacity to deadpan lie to the Canadian public over and over again.

It has become a filthy den of arrogant liars. MSM guilty as well for shielding them from accountability

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

When COVID started there were 37 million people in Canada. There are now close to 42 million. That's all of metropolitan Montreal dropped into Canada in just five years with basically no increase in services or infrastructure.

[El Kabong (aka Ol’ GPo) @GPoEngineer]

@Martyupnorth @Krommsan Endless funding to support the highly paid NGO employees who need to perpetuate the homeless problem to keep their jobs. There is no interest in solving the problem that pays for their elite lifestyles.

[El Kabong (aka Ol’ GPo) @GPoEngineer]

@ChrisMartzWX Maybe a good ol Polar Vortex or Alberta Clipper

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

@LeaderJohnThune You didn’t get the job done even with a majority.

Now, you expect us to believe you’ll do anything as the minority?

How can the American people have any sort of confidence in you when you squandered the last 2 years?

[El Kabong (aka Ol’ GPo) @GPoEngineer]

@AmericaFirsst @ElbowRiver28

[The Famous Bear @bearkureature]

Remember when that fire in Maui was so intense that it melted cars and people were jumping in the ocean to escape the heat and the government promised them $700, but nobody got anything and meanwhile they sent $100 billion to Ukraine. Yeah, that was 2023. Democrats did that.

[El Kabong (aka Ol’ GPo) @GPoEngineer]

@PaulinAjax @Tablesalt13 As Liberal paid propagandists are required to do. The media in most western countries is not independent but a tool of the leftists, to attack all that don’t subscribe to their agenda.

[Jason Premo • Acclaim Aerospace @JasonPremoMFG]

@WR4NYGov

[David Knight Legg @KnightLegg]

EU: a profile in policy failure

- EU green alarm policy directives killed European energy security and gave it to Russia. Hurting households and industry. Killing European economies.

Europe’s nations are now per capita poorer than the poorest US state Mississippi.

The EUs broken borders, green alarmism, and deindustrial policies have driven Europe into a ditch.

Aside from a student travel visa deal, we should ignore Ursula.

Canada needs the EU like your car needs an anchor.

Chart courtesy of @BjornLomborg

[Dan McTeague @GasPriceWizard]

Just how stunned are Canadians?

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

So ask yourself the real question.

If it was this simple, why didn't anyone do it?

Because an entire ecosystem lived off the problem. Inflation funded the state that funded the clients that funded the elections. Crime created fear, and fear created demand for programs, consultants, studies, panels, subsidies and "experts" who never had to deliver a result. In Latin America it was the gangs. In the West it's mass immigration with no integration and crime with no consequences. Different symptom, same business model: the problem is never solved because too many people are paid to manage it.

[El Kabong (aka Ol’ GPo) @GPoEngineer]

@Guigz75116 @corneliusblutch The UN perpetuates problems so that their lavish elite organizations and lifestyles can be maintained perpetually….. they have no interest in solving the problem.

[Lee Humphrey @tleehumphrey]

The completely economic ignorant Trump gov who just got politically punished is on track to oversee 1 million net new jobs created in 2026 with annual GDP growth forecasted to increase to 3.6-3.8%.

Meanwhile the universally proclaimed economic genius, Carney has presided over 46,000 net job losses this year & a declining annual GDP forecast now predicted to be 0.7-0.9% growth. He has never been more popular!

A tale of two countries!

[Prof. Brian Keating @Briankeating]

I am a professor at the @UofCalifornia. I am appalled by the conduct of one of its Regents, Scott Galloway, appointed in August by Governor Newsom.

@profgalloway is one of only 26 voting Regents entrusted with governing a university system serving hundreds of thousands of students & employing tens of thousands of faculty & staff.

Twice, first on a live Pivot episode featuring Hillary Clinton & on Prof G with Fareed Zakaria, Galloway called Elon Musk a “traitor to the West.”

He invoked Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed for espionage, and declared that Musk should be held to the same standards.

He didn’t explicitly demand Musk’s execution. But invoking the deaths of two convicted spies while calling an American citizen a traitor makes the implication hard to miss.

Musk has not been convicted of treason. Indeed, “treason against the West” isn’t even an actual crime.

Now imagine UCLA alumnus @BenShapiro, appointed a UC Regent, saying the same about George Soros.

Would the Governor defend his right to serve? Would Regent leadership shrug and call it provocative commentary? Or would there be demands for resignation?

But there’s something worse here than another of Scott’s trademark podcast rants.

He sits on the Regents’ Academic & Student Affairs Committee.

The committee’s charter says it oversees student conduct, faculty conduct, academic personnel, & campus climate, among other responsibilities.

This is not some honorary title.

The Board sets university policy, controls institutional budgets, & appoints senior university leadership.

You can unsubscribe from a podcast.

A student who finds Scott’s comments morally repugnant can’t unsub from the Regents.

UC bylaws require Regents to serve the public trust with a “high degree of ethics and candor,” including as private citizens.

Professors owe students intellectual integrity. Regents bear an even greater duty: they govern institutions that teach it.

Yet a Regent serving on the committee responsible for student & faculty conduct invokes executions while labeling a fellow citizen a traitor.

What does that say to our students?

That intellectual restraint is expected of the governed but optional for those who govern?

That standards of conduct depend on whether the target of your rhetoric is politically fashionable to despise, as long as the audience applauds?

This isn’t about defending @ElonMusk. He needs no defense from me.

Nor is it about silencing Scott. As if that were possible. He’s free to express his opinions, however reckless they may be.

But freedom of speech is not freedom from accountability, and holding a university office of public trust is not an entitlement.

There is an enormous moral chasm between exercising your right to speak recklessly and demonstrating the judgment required of one of the 26 people who govern our great public university.

The UC Board of Regents isnt a podcast sponsors can boycott. It’s a public trust.

One final irony. At @NYUStern, Galloway teaches Brand Strategy, including a session on crisis management.

His own prescription for leadership in a crisis is unequivocal: acknowledge the problem, have leadership take responsibility, and “overcorrect.”

He’s praised the departure of corporate leaders as evidence of effective crisis management.

Now Galloway himself sits on the UC Board of Regents.

Will he hold himself to the standards he teaches, or does accountability apply only to other people’s institutions?

Professor lecture thyself!

I believe Scott Galloway should seriously consider whether his continued service on the Board of Regents is consistent with the ethical standards and responsibilities of that office, or whether he should resign.

I welcome the opportunity to discuss these issues with Galloway directly, including what standards we should expect of those entrusted with governing the world’s best university.

Scott, you have an open invitation to join me on @Into_Impossible for an honest conversation.

[Desiree Fixler @desireefixler]

As the WEF elite jet out to Turkey for COP31, let's look at how much climate con-artists cost folks.

S&P 500 up a lot. And Clean Energy down a lot.

ESG is theft.

[Martin Pelletier @MPelletierCIO]

Canada added ZERO private sector jobs from 2019 to 2024 under the LPC government. Between these years Canada recorded roughly 9.2 million admissions, new permits and asylum claims across permanent immigration, temporary foreign-worker, international-student and refugee/asylum channels.

Now this government is continuing to run a large top down driven budget and reopening the immigration again to massive levels.

Sell your Canada bonds.