Colin Braney

Just an old fashioned patriotic Canadian. love my freedom, and I love my country. 🇨🇦

[Zachary Tisdale 🇨🇦 @ztisdale]

"We want to control the climate for the whole planet but we can't even manage Canada's forests 'cuz they're really big." - Liberals

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

We are being told that the wildfires in Ontario are being driven / fueled by climate change. Specifically, more extreme heat and increased drought. So, unlike the journalists and most meteorologists regurgitating these talking points, I looked at the actual data since 1910.

The average number of heatwave days (HWDs) in Canada (which are defined as ≥3 consecutive days with Tmax ≥90th percentile against the 1991–2020 mean per station) was 8.58% lower during the 60-year period 1965–2025 compared to 1911–1960, but the linear trend is not statistically significant at the 95% confidence level. The last eight years have exhibited an unusually high number of HWDs, but it's far too early to tell if that's a sign of things to come or simply an artifact of natural variability. I used 113 long-term (≥80 years of daily data) GHCNd stations to complete this analysis. The only way one can get a meaningful increase in HWDs is to cherry-pick the x-axis starting date and ignoring pre-1960 data.

Looking at droughts, I examined the self-calibrating Palmer Drought Severity Index (scPDSI) from CRU (data is available through 2024). I then calibrated that to the Drought Monitor over the same period that I analyzed HWDs. There isn't much of a trend there; in fact there is a significant decrease in the worst of the drought categories despite the spike in 2023–24.

Very few people these days in this line of work build datasets from scratch. But I do it because if someone makes a claim, it's very easy to test said claims against observational data. In most cases, alarmist narratives crumble with scrutiny. While alarmists get the basics right about the physics of Global Warming Theory in an “all else being equal” hypothetical, the real-world is a far more complex and details are hairy.

[RMC86 @RMC19861987]

🔥Some interesting stats on the forest fires across 🇨🇦.
🧑‍🚒My family is from NW Ontario where dealing with the fires & air quality has been a way of life for centuries. My grandfather told me stories of being press ganged into fighting blazes. There are species of pine trees whose seeds are only released when they burn. Perspective is important.
🔥 Fires per year have decreased over the last 50 years. Trusting that gov'ts can change the climate & that will fix fires is laughable (because they are so good at fixing other problems). Climate change isn't causing it anyways.
🌨️As a species, we adapt. My grandfather didn't have the HVAC system I do. Everyone in the GTA, calm down. It'll pass.

[The Buck You Will @TheBuckYouWill]

🤣🤣🤣TALK TO THE RETARD!!🤣🤣🤣

The CRA suspected that a fishing boat owner wasn’t paying proper wages to his deckhand, so they sent an agent to investigate.

The CRA agent boarded the boat and said: “I need a list of your employees and how much you pay each of them.”

The boat owner replied: “Well, there’s Clarence, my deckhand. He’s been with me for 3 years. I pay him $1,000 a week, plus free room & board."

The boat owner continued: “Then there’s the retarded guy. He works about eighteen hours a day & does roughly ninety percent of the work around here. He earns about $30 a week, pays for his own room & board, and every Saturday night I buy him a bottle of Bacardi & a dozen Budweisers so he can cope with life. He even gets to sleep with my wife once in a while.”

The CRA agent frowned and said: “That’s the guy I’d like to talk to… the mentally challenged one.”

The boat owner nodded and replied: “That would be me. What would you like to know?”

🤣🤣🤣

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Suppose that there was a religion that dictated that anyone born with coloured eyes had to be killed. Would the US allow it to flourish because "freedom of religion"? Now suppose that an existing religion preaches astoundingly worse things than the latter fictitious religion. Why does it get the "freedom of religion" protection?

[Retard Finder @IfindRetards]

Stop calling politicians public servants. They aren't serving us, they serve themselves.

Just call them retards.

[Art @ZarkFiles]

Communism through (my) ages:
1) When I was 15, a teacher told me "It isn't as bad as they say, and makes a lot of sense."
2) At about 19, college friends, "Socialism isn't communism."
3) At 20, on meeting my grandfather-in-law, "They are evil. We escaped in 1949."
4) At 30, "China is a wonderful developing Democracy"
5) At 35, I was sent to communist China on business. It was a crowded, smelly, dirty, factory of despair and hopelessness. This I saw with my own eyes.
6) At 36, "China doesn't count. Successful socialism is in northern Europe."
7) I moved to northern Europe when I was 40. It was much nicer than China, but also felt like I was living in the past. I had to wait 6 months for a hernia operation.
8) When I was about 45, the migrant crisis began. The socialist/globalist/pacifist allowed them entry into every country, regardless how many crimes they committed along the way. Just 20 minutes from my house, in Calais, I was shocked to see migrants jumping onto trucks, breaking open the doors, scattering the contents across the highway, then climbing in. They went through the Chunnel and got out in England.
9) At 52, the soft socialism around me had transformed into globalism. I was told I had to call people by their preferred pronouns, though it was a lie, and even if I didn't know what the preferences were. I quit.
10) I returned to the US, and am now 60. "Socialism" is no longer a dirty word here. People openly espouse the virtues of it. Politicians run as socialists and win.

Socialism has taken many forms, from the Bolshevism of Russia, to the CCP in China, the Nazis in Germany, Fascists in Italy, and the many forms of it found in Latin America. It is one of the two most destructive ideologies on earth. It is designed to deprive, despirit, and murder everything that comes in contact with it.

Socialism is a great lie at every level. It helps no one, not even those who benefit the most. This is because the cost is the imposition of one's will on everyone else, and that destroys the soul of the usurper and the life of the oppressed.

Socialism always fails on its own, but only after destroying almost everything in its train. It can also be conquered. Those are the options.

[🇨🇦 Antonio Tweets @AntonioTweets2]

Are there really still retards who support Carney?

[Herb Powell @Humanlty1o1]

Canada has been stolen from us and it couldn't be more obvious.

Justin Trudeau resigns...

Mark Carney is put on the leadership ballot despite not ever holding a seat as an elected MP.

Liberal party allows non-citizens to vote but not citizens with other party affiliations.

Liberal party kicks certain Mps off the ballot.

Only 151,000 ballots cast and Mark Carney is now Prime Minister.

A few months later a general election is held and after more shenanigans, Mark Carney wins a minority government.

Fast forward to 2026...

Mark Carney gets the first majority government in Canadian history that was created through floor crossings and background deals.

All the while the government funded mainstream media and the liberal party talk of Canada, talk about protecting democracy & Canadian sovereignty.

And then debate, committees, etc are all shut down as they jam through bills that do nothing to help Canadians and actually create a technocratic authoritarian state.

But go ahead and tell me he wasn't installed and that this is the will of the electorate - in motion.

He was installed, they stole the majority and now they are changing the rule of law in live time.

Tell me again how this does not circumvent democracy, does not put at risk and attack our sovereignty, and is in no way authoritarian at all?

[🇨🇦 Antonio Tweets @AntonioTweets2]

Yup. This is life in Canada 🇨🇦

[Gina Unfiltered @Gina_T1]

I made this handy guide for anyone confused about how people get labelled ‘far right’ in Canada these days. 😂

[Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker @Martyupnorth]

The Netflix tax didn't work out so good for the Liberals.

Once again, South Park was spot on.

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

For the record.

In Canada, It Matters How the Economy Dies.

The Canadian economy is dead. It just didn’t die with a crash big enough to satisfy the models. No Lehman moment, no Covid‑style cliff, just two negative quarters of GDP, years of falling output per person, negative productivity, and a private sector slowly strangled by rates and regulation while the establishment insists the patient is “resting.”

On the facts, this isn’t ambiguous. Real GDP has contracted for two consecutive quarters on an annualized basis. Labour productivity has been flat or negative since 2021. Real GDP per capita is below its pre‑pandemic level. Ontario has logged its worst non‑pandemic quarterly job losses since the mid‑1970s. The only consistent growth is in government payrolls and compliance, not in private enterprise and investment. If that isn’t recessionary, the word is meaningless.

And yes Macklem threatens rate hikes through all of this insanity.

Yet Canada’s official guardians insist nothing fundamental has broken. The C.D. Howe recession‑dating committee says the downturn is not “pronounced, persistent, and pervasive” enough. The central bank warns against overreacting to “technical” weakness. Bay Street talks about “soft landings” and “resilience.” In some quarters, the answer to this slow‑motion collapse is not relief, but further rate hikes. Ignore the body on the table, we are told, the vital signs aren’t quite bad enough yet to fill out the certificate.

Their rulebook was built for heart attacks, not cancers. It excels at spotting sudden collapses in aggregate GDP and jobs. It barely registers slow organ failure: a few tenths off real GDP per capita each year, productivity edging down, ugly quarters for private‑sector employment and capex offset by public hiring. None of that triggers the old alarms until the damage is permanent.

Meanwhile, Canada has been busy throwing away the advantages that once justified its prosperity. Energy and resource projects are stalled or strangled. Business investment per worker trails peers. A country rich in capital, talent, and geography behaves as if it can live forever off inherited endowments while making it harder to build anything new. That is not “resilience.” It is delusion.
Canada’s economic establishment needs to wake up.

Two negative quarters of GDP, negative productivity, falling GDP per person, historic job losses in the core province, a suffocated private sector and calls for more tightening on top, are not signs of an economy “cooling toward trend.” They are signs of an economy that has already crossed the line from stagnation into decay.

The Canadian economy is dead in the way that matters: as an engine of rising living standards and a place where private capital is rewarded for building the future. It just didn’t die loudly enough for the old definitions. The real question now is not what we call it, but how long our institutions will keep pretending the corpse is “resilient.”

[govt.exe is corrupt @govt_corrupt]

Out of all the taxes we pay, property tax is probably the most egregious.

Paying an annual tax on something they say you own means you don’t actually own it. You’re just a caretaker.

All taxation is theft. Property tax is the worst. See what happens if you refuse to pay.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Bullseye

[Satire Squad HQ @SatireSquadHQ]

🔥 Mark Carney finally gets summoned to Brookfield’s REAL headquarters.

Hell. 😈

Lucifer calls CBC “The Devil’s PR Department” and panics because Canadians are catching onto the MOU scam 😂

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

If you're worried about ticks, put up an owl box.

The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year.

A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease.

Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology, have been explicit about this: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk."

One owl box on its own isn't going to fix a tick year. But a yard with owls, foxes, bobcats, and weasels in it has fewer mice, and a yard with fewer mice has fewer infected ticks.

If you have woods or fields nearby, a properly sized barn owl or screech owl box (different species, different boxes) is one of the most useful single things you can do for tick exposure at the landscape scale. Match the box to the owl that lives near you.

The mouse is the problem, owls are the solution.

[Chris Warkentin @chriswarkentin]

Last week I was asking a journalist (who works for a major Canadian media outlet) about this.

This journalist agreed that Media in Canada had largely quit covering any opposing viewpoints to the government.

This journalist speculated that it happed during Covid. They had become stenographers for the government, believing that they had a moral duty to get the “government’s” information out…..and they never quit.

Maybe that’s true. Maybe it’s as simple as that (as horrifying as that is)….but I suspect it’s even worse. There are vested interests that don’t want the Liberals to ever lose power.

In an free and democratic society the media has a responsibility to question the government and hold them accountable.

Canadians deserve no less.

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

"It’s astonishing that almost no media outlet has reported on the UN’s downgrading of some of the most extreme climate scenarios that helped drive the urgency behind the Paris Climate Accord and carbon taxes around the world.

The UN-backed scientific community is now acknowledging that the planet is likely not warming as fast as some earlier worst-case projections suggested. Canadians deserve to know this, especially as major policies continue to reshape economies, energy systems, and food affordability."