Jeff

Engineer, husband, dad. Tired of being taxed to death as we all drown in debt, we ALL need to care. CFL fan...GO RIDERS!! Massive fan of the band Rush!

[Jeff @JWSaxinger]

Driving from Saskatoon to Calgary yesterday, drove through some Asperatis Undulatus clouds around Oyen. I wished we would have taken a video so you could see them rolling and undulating. My wife took photos while I white-knuckled through the headwind.

[Matt Strauss @strauss_matt]

Canadians have fought to protect their privacy before and they're doing it again.

In 2003, public pressure stopped a proposal that would have allowed law enforcement to read Canadians' mail without a warrant.

Now, as Parliament studies Bill C-22, one question stands out:

Why would the Public Safety Committee try to stop the Privacy Commissioner from testifying?

Privacy rights aren't Liberal or Conservative. They're Canadian.

Canadians deserve to hear the evidence and make up their own minds!

[Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker @Martyupnorth]

To Canada's leaders who keep calling for "national unity" (i.e. Pierre Poilievre)

Unity isn't something you demand. It's something you earn.

If you're serious about keeping Canada together, put your money where your mouth is. Address the concerns that millions of Albertans have been raising for decades:

• End equalization wealth redistribution
• Give Alberta fair representation in the House of Commons
• Reform the Senate and make it elected
• Respect provincial jurisdiction over health care, resources, and taxation
• Give provinces greater control over immigration

A stronger Canada is built on fairness, respect, and autonomy... not on expecting one region to simply accept the status quo.

[Dean Skoreyko @bcbluecon]

'This is where the poors shop, dear.'

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

Although the BC NDP's best chance to avoid calamity would be to ditch David Eby, I'd remind you this is the BC NDP. If he resigns, it's entirely possible a non-binary harbour seal in a keffiyeh takes his place.

[KybrdWrrr @KybrdWrrr]

“A UBI would provide all Canadians with additional income above what they currently make.”

The PBO model works differently.

Under the GBI model, an individual can receive up to $21,903, but the benefit is reduced by 50¢ for every $1 of net income and reaches $0 at $43,806.

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[DR POOL @DRPOOLQ17]

🚨SENATOR JOHN KENNEDY: "It strikes me as breathtakingly ironic that that the people who are screaming so loudly about President Trump's decision to audit federal spending, are the very same people who wanted to hire 80,000 new IRS agents with guns to audit the American people."

[Martin Pelletier @MPelletierCIO]

This really pisses me off. Majority of Canadians think everything is great. The level of selfishness and lack of compassion is beyond belief. Wake up, and shame on you.

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

Adam van Koeverden - “we have to stick to the facts here Mister Speaker, Canada’s economy is growing”

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
George Orwell, 1984

[Jeff @JWSaxinger]

@britboy77 Favorite band since I was 10 years old Bernie. Anika Nilles does sound very good, she does sound like she’ll do justice and honor Neil Peart’s legacy.

[Andy Lee @RealAndyLeeShow]

“It seems Carney has violated the Conflict of Interest Act by participating in budget Bill C-15 decisions (which has a tax credit in it that specifically benefits a Brookfield-owned company), and by giving preferential treatment by meeting personally with Brookfield’s COO…”

https://t.co/FHFtHwNIs1

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

Of course.

Canada is drowning in affordability problems, productivity is flatlining, business investment is weak, housing is broken, food banks are overwhelmed, and ordinary people are getting crushed by taxes, debt, and regulation.

So naturally, Carney is off to Europe to “deepen ties.”

Canadians do not need more photo ops in Ireland and France. They need a federal government that can deepen ties with reality.

Fix the economy. Build homes. Cut waste. Approve projects. Get our energy to market. Stop treating international networking as a substitute for governing.

This is the Liberal playbook in one headline: when the domestic record is a mess, go abroad and look important.

[DC_Draino @DC_Draino]

Don’t worry guys.

It’s totally normal for the no-name candidate deep in 3rd place to give a tear-filled concession speech on election night and then miraculously receive almost every Democrat vote in the 2 weeks after the election to defeat the most charismatic Republican candidate in decades.

Just another “safe and secure” election in LA.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Any civilized country in which half the population believes voting is a sham would do everything in its power to restore public trust in elections.

[Disgraced Propagandist @DisgracedProp]

Somebody else needs to help me do this with charts and graphs but I’ll try with words first.

- In a normal election, you have 2 candidates, R & L. People cast votes. Proportionally, the votes of each candidate rise and fall in little chunks but take an overall steady line due to the force of averages. One of the lines eventually tops out, and that candidate wins on election night.

- In a mail in election, you have 2 candidates R & L. In this instance, some mail ins (if allowed) may come in after Election Day. But still, due to the force of averages, their lines with have little ups and downs but maintain a steady upward trajectory both during and after the election until one wins.

Now it has become the norm that after the election in mail in states, Dem candidates tend to go from tied or losing to drastically ahead AFTER the election, against the force of averages. How?

There are two legal, non fraudulent explanations:

1) that “Dems vote late by mail.” Dubious, considering that it used to be that Rs were known as absentee voters, but technically possible that for some never explained reason, Ds vote later than Rs by mail and that explains the statistical anomaly of why Dems lines shoot up after Election Day.

2) ballot harvesting. The far more likely explanation. Legal in California, this is when huge amounts of ballots are collected by political activists (unions, NGOs etc) and submitted on behalf of large populations of people in churches, workplaces etc. Both sides do it, but it is technically possible that Dems are much better at it. This is how insiders explain the “red mirage” statistical anomalies in 2020 and that have become so common since. Also explains why the prediction markets clinched Raman as winning while she was still down.

However, there is something different happening in Pratt v Bass election. A third candidate, a second, much less popular and less well known Dem is in the race, Nithya Raman. And this time, the late mail in ballots—mailed on Election Day or just before which is why they are “late mail in”—didn’t go to “the dems” they went specifically to Nithya Raman. Pratt stayed flat. Bass stayed flat. Nithya went way up after the initial count was reported. Unprecedented.

Oddly, the mail in mailed any time before Election Day did not favor nithya at all. Only the late mail ins counted after initial numbers were reported massively favored her. So we’re meant to believe that Nithya voters specifically voted not just by mail by late by mail, while the other Dem and Pratt voters did not. Bass voters stopped voting late mail in entirely, as they had last election against caruso, and Nithya voters started?

Could it be “Dems vote late by mail?” No, because then both Nithya and Bass, both Dems, would have risen at roughly the same rate, only without Pratt. But nithya massively over performed just enough to oust pratt, which would not have been possible had she and bass split the votes.

Could it be ballot harvesting? Also no. You can harvest a church or workplace and predict roughly that your harvested votes will favor Dems, but how could you feasibly predict which Dem out of two? Nithya’s support, always squarely in third place during the polls, is mostly educated white women, definitely not the type to vote late or be harvested. But that’s actually besides the point. How could a vote harvester, who is supposedly delivering filled out and sealed ballots from a constituency the harvester believes will lean left, know which left wing candidate this or that batch favors? And moreover, why would they then send only those batches after the election, while submitting all the other mail in ballots for bass before the election?

Occams Razor points to the much simpler explanation. Whoever is harvesting the votes isn’t just harvesting them, they’re somehow controlling the votes themselves, whether by filling them out or throwing away competing votes they don’t like. This is the definition of voter fraud.

[Jeff @JWSaxinger]

@Landonforward14

[KybrdWrrr @KybrdWrrr]

Calgary generated > $1B in operating surpluses since 2022.

Before taxing Calgarians more, City Hall should be looking at reserves, using recurring surpluses & cutting spending.

Tax hikes should be last resort - not always 1st default.

#yyccc @ABDanielleSmith @DanWilliamsAB

[KybrdWrrr @KybrdWrrr]

Calgary generated > $1B in operating surpluses since 2022.

Before taxing Calgarians more, City Hall should be looking at reserves, using recurring surpluses & cutting spending.

Tax hikes should be last resort - not always 1st default.

#yyccc @ABDanielleSmith @DanWilliamsAB

[KybrdWrrr @KybrdWrrr]

Farkas & Kelly: Calgary faces $145M fiscal gap from provincial downloading - warning it could mean 5–10% property tax increase.

But City Hall finished 2025 with:
📌 $259M operating surplus
📌$3.883B in reserves
📌 ~$1.35B in Fiscal Stability Reserve

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[KybrdWrrr @KybrdWrrr]

When City Hall can bank hundreds of $Ms while demanding more from taxpayers, that’s not a funding crisis. That’s overcharging and creating a slush fund for even more spending.

#yyccc @ABDanielleSmith @DanWilliamsAB

https://t.co/wlAt7g6UHI

[KybrdWrrr @KybrdWrrr]

Calgary generated > $1B in operating surpluses from 2022–2025:

2022: $258.7M
2023: ~$236M
2024: $276.3M
2025: $259M

2025 surplus transferred to the Fiscal Stability Reserve.

Meanwhile, many Calgarians struggle with mortgages, rent, groceries, taxes, utilities and fees.

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