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[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

If you want to leave Canada, you have to pay an exit tax.

It’s especially problematic when you have a corporation with a high valuation.

That’s the difference between “net worth” & liquid assets.

Exit tax doesn’t apply to cash, RRSP, RESP, or real estate.

But if you have a business or stocks that have accumulated a lot in value, they are deemed to be disposed, even though you haven’t sold them, and you pay the tax on that.

Cause once you’re in family, you can never leave. 🤌

Not without paying the price.

Kidding.

Sorta.

It’s sad to see Gad Saad be surprised with a brutal exit tax bill, when he was effectively forced to leave because of anti-semitism, uncontrolled immigration & what I think is a disgusting taxation system.

[FLEXjs @FLEXjss]

Life in Canada...
A 6 pack of sausages, some deli meat, and a brick of cream cheese: $35.
Receipt says I "saved" almost $13.
So full price was almost $48?????
Is this real life?
@MarkJCarney said to judge him on grocery prices.
OK. I'm judging: life without parole motherfucker!

[Vincent Gircys @VGircys]

When it comes to police leadership in Canada's major police services, I often hear it's either incompetence, ignorance or criminal complicity. This level of incompetence could never negotiate a corporate ladder to the top and this level of ignorance isn't acceptable in the profession. That leaves the most realistic assessment backed by overwhelming evidence. Plenty of outstanding political crime without a single investigation at any level was once reserved for communist countries. Today it's the Canadian norm backed by state sponsored media making sure nobody asks the wrong questions or asks what happened to the Rule of Law.

[Vesper @vesperdigital]

The Great Scam

After what @GadSaad posted yesterday, something I had no idea existed... an "Exit Tax" I did some digging.
This is what I found.

Canada's departure tax is one of the biggest scam taxes on the books. Apparently when you leave the country, the government treats you as if you sold every investment you own, even if you sold nothing.

You get hit with a tax bill on money you never touched, never withdrew, never spent. They literally invented a fake sale to justify taking your money.

Here's what makes it even worse. The stocks they're taxing? Those are foreign companies. Apple, Samsung, whatever you hold, those grew because of what those businesses did in their own countries, their own markets, with their own workers.

Canada had absolutely nothing to do with it. Zero. But they still want a cut just because you happened to live here while you owned them. They did nothing and still want to be paid like they did.

And before 1996 this didn't even exist the way it does now. Chrétien's government expanded it that year and buried it in section 128.1(4)(b) of the Income Tax Act like they hoped nobody would notice. Italy doesn't do this. Portugal doesn't. Belgium, Switzerland, the UK, none of them pull this shit.

You paid income tax every year. You paid sales tax. Property tax. You held up your end of the deal the whole damn time. And when you decide to go live somewhere else, they hit you with a bill for money that was never real to begin with.

Canada under any Liberal is a Scam!

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

What I struggle with most is the suspension of the inevitable.

For the first forty years of my life, if you told me millions of men had crossed the English Channel and raped 250,000 girls, I would have said war is inevitable.

An alternative wouldn’t even be conceivable to me.

The sky is blue. The sun is hot. Ice is cold. Water is wet. Night follows day. The rape of 250,000 English girls precedes war.

And by war I mean death. The kind of death that came to most Japanese soldiers who took part in the Rape of Nanking.

Maybe it wouldn’t end with a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, but it would burn hotter than the war that raged in Belfast when I was a kid.

And I don’t understand how the inevitable got suspended.

Many say cultural programming. But screenwriters still use rape to move a plot from tranquility to war.

This isn’t a post about morality or politics. I want to know the mechanism.

Whether or not you think war is the best response to the rape of five baseball stadiums full of girls, it would be the most likely outcome.

So how did that change?

How did we go, in the span of ten years, from the inevitability of war to the inevitability of the government doing nothing?

[Jason Lavigne @JasonLavigneAB]

You misspelled totalitarianism.

Amen.

[Lee Humphrey @tleehumphrey]

Harper tried & was pillared for his efforts but at the end of day we can succumb to guilt or we can ask why the Auditor General is not allowed to follow the billions of taxpayer dollars all the way?

Everyday indigenous people are getting screwed by not getting the services that are being funded & non indigenous taxpayers are getting screwed as money they think is being spent to help gets wasted & stolen by a few indigenous leaders who get rich.

This should be a no brainer!

[Dei Civitas @DeiCivitas]

Canada is now experiencing this breakdown on a massive scale. In recent years, Canada has admitted over 400,000 permanent residents annually while also maintaining more than 2.6 million temporary residents.

In 2025 alone, more than 2.1 million temporary resident permits expired, with another 1.8 million set to expire in 2026. Large numbers of those whose permits have expired have simply remained in the country rather than leaving. At the same time, there has been little serious effort to integrate newcomers, whether permanent or temporary, into a shared set of Canadian principles. The result is the creation of many competing and mutually exclusive value systems within the same borders.

[Tommy2 @t0xmmy2]

Something good is happening at this World Cup.

The Scots turned up. The English turned up. The Norwegians turned up. They sang their songs, got stuck in, and the Americans loved them for it. Glasgow and Boston are getting twinned off the back of it.

For 30 years we’ve been told to view the US as some sort of Great Satan — all imperialism and orange-man clichés. Not everyone buys it of course, but enough do.

And then Europeans actually go, and find a place that feels familiar. Makes sense to them. A bit richer, a bit further ahead, but recognisably ours. Settled by Europeans, still deeply European in its bones.

There’s a gathering-of-the-clans feeling to it. Old neighbours discovering they still like the same songs, the same drink, the same daft humour, and genuinely enjoying each other’s company.

None of it’s a surprise, really. It’s just been buried under so much politics that we forgot we were allowed to enjoy it.

Good to be reminded.

[Pissed-Off Canadian @DayleenVann]

Microphone access? So now my government will be listening on calls that can be lawyer client privilege..emails too? Where’s the Supreme Court on this?

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

I would have more trust in Carney if I legitimately thought he was just a cynical weathervane interested only in power. But his constant efforts to control speech and mute opposition speak to far darker motives.

[JudyMB @JudyMaxB]

The reason the @liberal_party keeps pushing for these “ethnic heritage months” is because they are systematically trying to destroy Canadian culture and Canadian identity just like Keir Starmer is doing in the UK.

It is a WEF game plan to institute a New World Order by imposing migrant invasions and trying to say diversity is a strength

They do not want strength from citizens

They want weak obedient peasants

Diversity is NOT strength

Diversity is weakness that leads to a destruction of sovereignty.

Sign the Petition sponsored by @jamiljivani

[Bubbleslake @bubbleslake]

Crime Stoppers cyber breach just exposed how even "anonymous" tip systems can fail potentially doxxing tipsters on the dark web and putting lives at risk.
Now imagine that on steroids: Bill C-22 would force telecoms and tech companies to hold all our call, text, and internet metadata for up to a YEAR.

One breach. Millions of Canadians' communication patterns, contacts, locations, and habits exposed. No more expectation of privacy in everyday life.
This isn't about catching criminals; it's turning every citizen into a data point in a giant, hackable database.
Now, we see the RCMP networks and tip platforms hit. Why create even bigger targets while pushing more surveillance and online regulation bills?
@mgeist
@FrankCaputoKTN

[Joseph Mallozzi 🏴‍☠️ @BaronDestructo]

Stargate Trivia: The Top 10 Running Gags in Stargate: SG-1
#SaveStargate

10. Blue Jello

The blue jello predates my involvement with the show. By the time Paul and I joined SG-1 in its fourth season, the gelatin was already de rigueur in most every mess scene, eventually, finding its way to Atlantis as well. So what’s the deal? Search me. I seem to remember someone saying it was simply something the prop department whipped up one day that stood out, both for its neon properties and sheer ridiculousness, quickly becoming a comically beloved visual staple.

9. O’Neill’s obsession with The Simpsons

O’Neill was full of Simpsons references and an admitted fan. Why? Well, because most of the show’s writers were fans as well, although nowhere near as huge a fan as Richard Dean Anderson. How big a fan was he? So big that he attended the table reading of a Simpsons episode and was totally blown away by the experience. Occasionally, he would even bring his daughter by my office to check out the various Simpsons-related dioramas and action figures that bedecked my shelf. Eventually, actor Dan Castellanetta guested on the show (Citizen Joe) and he and Rick hit it off. They had a great time working together and, months later, Dan showed his appreciation by writing a Stargate/RDA-themed Simpsons episode to which Rick lent his voice talents.

8. Pineapples

If you’re watching Stargate and ever happen to catch sight of a pineapple, there’s a good chance the episode you’re viewing was directed by long-time Stargate director Will Waring. The pineapples were his signature visual. More often than not, however, the fruit were so carefully camouflaged, most viewers would be hard-pressed to notice them. Still, there’s plenty of fun to be had in trying. I once asked Will “Why pineapples?” and he told me that on one of his first productions, he was camera operator on a scene involving a high speed chase. For some reason, he put a pineapple in the car’s back window as a gag – and then forgot to remove it for the actual shoot. As a result, for the entire high-octane chase sequence, there’s a pineapple clearly rattling around in the back window of our protagonist’s car. Nobody noticed – until the dailies. The director was livid and was prepared to fire Will – but the producer LOVED the pineapple gag. Will got to keep his job – and the signature pineapple was born.

7. The Big Wrench

Where Will Waring had his pineapples, director Martin Wood had his big wrench. You’ll often spot it in the background, in the hands of longtime Stargate SG-1 Fight Coordinator Dan Shea (Sgt. Siler), as he makes adjustments to equipment or simply walks around with this huge, oversized calling card. Every once in a while, Martin would get into the big wrench background action as well, donning the persona of his onscreen alter-ego, Major Wood.

6. Peter DeLuise’s Hitchcockian touch

Whereas Will had the pineapples and Martin had the big wrench, director Peter DeLuise had…Peter DeLuise. Before he was a director, Peter was an actor, and so it was only natural that he’d take a page out of Hitchcock’s book and make himself his own visual signature. He appeared as a host of background characters and played the part of the young Urgo opposite his father Dom. Even in the most challenging of episodes, Peter found a way to make his trademark appearance. Once, we thought he’d missed his cameo – only to discover he’d found an ingenious way to make a subtle appearance. In one scene, as Teal’c sits in his darkened room, deep in meditation, we pull back to reveal he is surrounded by candles – several of which are assembled to spell out the initial “PD”.

5. Jonas Quinn’s voracious appetite

Actors have their trademark “bits” as well and, for Jonas, it was food. Whether it was buttered toast in Night Walkers or the infamous banana scene in Descent (which, incidentally, ran about three minutes long in the director’s cut), he was always snacking. But he crossed the line in one episode where he showed up in the gate room sipping tea from a mug and had to be reminded – the tea mug was another actor’s trademark “bit” (see below).

4. Magnets

Every once in a while, whenever Carter tried to explain some scientific or technological wonder, Jack would try to tie it back to magnets. What was the deal with O’Neill and magnets? Well, this one was compliments of Creator/Executive Producer Brad Wright who once had someone pitch him some ridiculous scientific theory. When a dubious Brad asked him to clarify the faulty science, the other individual shrugged and offered: “Magnets?”. It eventually became the stock response to every befuddling question of logic.

3. The Wizard of Oz

This was another running joke that predated my involvement in the production but SG-1 was peppered with references throughout its ten-year run, culminating in the Wizard of Oz sight gag in the show’s 200th episode (200). Of course, by that point in the series run, the line-up had changed, offering a slightly altered version of the originals: Carter as Dorothy, Daniel as the cowardly lion, Teal’c as the tin man, and, of course, Jack as the scarecrow.

2. Indeed

If there is one word that perhaps appears in more episodes of Stargate than any other (beside, maybe, “stargate”), it’s “Indeed”, Teal’c’s short and sweet one-word response to most anything he is asked – and sometimes not. Actor Chris Judge even took to inserting the odd “Indeed” on occasions where it hadn’t even been scripted. I knew we’d reached the point of no return when, while watching dailies one day, we watched as someone asked Teal’c: “Have you seen him?” to which Teal’c replied: “Indeed – I have not.”

1. What the hell is in O’Neill’s cup?

Seriously. This one is fairly subtle but after noticing it for the first time, you'll always see it. Whenever Jack has a cup or mug in his hand there will come a point in the scene where he’ll glance down, frown, and then attempt to pluck some mysterious foreign object out of his drink.

[Peter McCaffrey @peteremcc]

Basically every consultation the City of Calgary did between 2017 and 2025 is worthless and should be ignored, because about 70% of Calgarians learnt that the City (and Council) didn’t care what they said and wouldn’t listen to them, so they stopped bothering to participate.

[M-Dub 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 @WIclassic]

Turns out the British police have been essentially saying "I don't think you have, mate" to hundreds of thousands of underage girls for decades.

[Northern Perspective @NorthrnPrspectv]

🚨 TURNED ON CARNEY 🚨

If Mark Carney thought his hand picked Budget Officer would protect him, he picked the wrong person.

Annette Ryan told committee that Carney's fiscal plan has only a 1% chance of actually happening...

Looks like he accidently picked someone honest.

[Bagz @icebagz_]

Euros realizing the US is cool af and Canada is a shit hole in the last week is absolutely hilarious

[Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Tablesalt13]

Just so EVERYONE in Canada fully understands this

Under c-22, cell phone service providers are now required to track the location of your phone

for six months, and store it

in case the government or the police ever want it.

The more you know.

[John Tomkinson @johnwtomkinson]

Hey Canada,

Here is a free public service announcement from Alberta.