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Gary Lamphier@lamphieryegOct 23
Green grifters lined their pockets at our expense. Been going on for literally decades now.
ICYMI - Sustainable Development Technology Canada was created to subsidize environmental projects. It was disbanded in 2024 with resignation of all directors after audit found 186 conflicts of interest. @PrivyCouncilCA report cited gross mismanagement that cost taxpayers $150M.
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Annette Verschuren, a @liberal_party donor appointed chair of Sustainable Development Technology, abruptly resigned while under investigation. @EthicsCanada concluded she breached federal law by voting to award her own firm a $217,661 green technology grant. @BetOnMePodcast @cbuniversity
ICYMI - Sustainable Development Technology Canada was created to subsidize environmental projects. It was disbanded in 2024 with resignation of all directors after audit found 186 conflicts of interest. @PrivyCouncilCA report cited gross mismanagement that cost taxpayers $150M.
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2022 NOBEL PRIZE QUANTUM PHYSICIST JOHN CLAUSER: CLIMATE SET BY EARTH'S SELF REGULATING CLOUD COVER, NOT CO2! 'Contra the IPCC and other major institutions, he argues that climate is primarily set by what he refers to as the “cloud cover thermostat,” a self-regulating process whereby more clouds start to enshroud the Earth when the temperature is too high, and vice-versa. Although he accepts observations showing that atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing, he believes that gas’s effect on heat transfer is swamped by a great natural cloud cycle. “It [the carbon dioxide] may or may not be made by human beings,” Mr. Clauser said. “It doesn’t really matter where it comes from.” The physicist believes that objective science on climate has been sacrificed to politics. The preeminence of politics is all the worse, he said, because so much money has already gone to climate. “We’re talking about trillions of dollars,” he said, adding that powerful people don’t want to hear that they’ve made “trillion-dollar mistakes.”
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Gary Lamphier@lamphieryegSep 22
The Liberal money laundering operation in action, peeps.
👀 The federal government is offering all 129 First Nations along the Trans Mountain pipeline route a combined 15-per-cent equity stake and a $2.5-million lump-sum payment for each group that agrees to invest. theglobeandmail.com/politics…
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Every glib, arrogant, virtue-signalling celebrity who’s broadcast the lie that kids will kill themselves if not allowed to transition deserves to have this read aloud to them non-stop through a megaphone for a year.
A landmark Finnish study has found a sharp rise in psychiatric illness among adolescents following sex-alteration procedures. The peer-reviewed study, published in Acta Paediatrica, tracked every young person under 23 who contacted Finland's gender clinics between 1996 and 2019. A total 2,083 individuals were studied, with 16,643 matched controls. They were followed for up to 25 years. Finland's health registers are mandatory, which means no one opts out — this is the complete national picture. The numbers: psychiatric morbidity rose from 9.8% to 60.7% in adolescents who underwent feminising reassignment, and from 21.6% to 54.5% in masculinising reassignment. Even after adjusting for prior psychiatric history, gender-referred adolescents faced five times the risk of male population controls, and three times the risk of female controls. "Psychiatric needs do not subside after medical gender reassignment," the authors concluded. Referrals after 2010 arrived sicker. 47.9% had already needed psychiatric treatment before their first clinic visit, against 15.3% among controls. The authors' read: for some adolescents, gender distress may be secondary to other mental health challenges. The evidence keeps mounting. The silencing continues anyway. How many more adolescents will be told this is "care"?
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Apparently, Human Rights Commissions in each province across #Canada have been weaponized to harass and punish regular citizens who do not adhere to some radical “progressive” ideologies. That means there’s a loophole that allows this abuse of citizens to happen. It all revolves around one ☝🏼 word: “gender.” Take the province of #Alberta, as a case in point. Prudish Conservatives decided that it was awkward to use the word “sex” because, you know, this scandalous word is both a noun and a verb. And when used as a noun in public records, it is untoward to bring to mind the verb form. 🙈 So, in the early 1990s the Conservatives in Alberta decided to insert the word #gender as a replacement for the noun form of the word #sex. True to form, #GenderIdeology comes along in the early 2000s and simply changes the meaning of the word #gender, making it a fluid thing. Suddenly, every outlet of governance — courts, schools, municipalities, legislatures and human rights commissions — all decide that #GenderIdentity rights supersede #SexBasedRights. Because the word “gender” is there and never #BiologicalSex . Ergo #TransRights become more important than #WomensRights . And there you have it: ONE WORD ☝🏼 replacing another word, then being redefined once in place, evaporates #SexBasedRights as laid out in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. ONE WORD ‼️ SIMPLE SOLUTION: 👉🏼 Put the word #sex back into these provincial Human Rights Acts 🇨🇦 ASAP! Citizens seriously need to engage with a new #PutSexBack campaign #PSB. Gratefully, @WomenandGirlsAB have already begun to advocate and engage along these lines. PLEASE support this group!! 🙏🏼 #SexBasedRights ARE #HumanRights ! #PSB #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
🚨 Why is an Alberta mother facing a human rights hearing for opposing a rainbow crosswalk?
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m.youtube.com/watch?v=_monIG… What was Justin Trudeau like before he became prime minister—and what happened when Wendy Yuan tried to win a Liberal nomination under his leadership? In this episode of Wendy Yuan Unfiltered, Wendy shares personal stories from her dealings with Trudeau, including how he campaigned for her in 2008 and 2011. She then recounts her controversial experience seeking the Liberal nomination in Steveston–Richmond East ahead of the 2015 election. Her campaign signed up more than 2,000 members with the support of grassroots and Liberal insiders in B.C. But in an unexpected turn of events, the party brass prevented her from running. Wendy reflects on Trudeau’s personality, leadership, and economic record, while also discussing campaign fundraising, political gatekeeping, internal political rivalry, discrimination, Canadian identity, and what she believes political parties can do to improve . Enjoy this candid conversation about politics, loyalty, fairness—and what it means to be Canadian. ABOUT THE PODCAST The Wendy Yuan Unfiltered Podcast, hosted by veteran journalist Charlie Smith, explores Wendy Yuan’s remarkable journey from arriving in Canada with just $50 to becoming a respected entrepreneur, political leader, and community advocate. Each episode dives into conversations about business, politics, immigration, and the power of giving back. Through unfiltered stories and insights, Wendy shares how determination and heart helped shape her life and her community. FOLLOW THE PODCAST Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.c... Listen on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple... Follow Wendy on LinkedIn:   / wendyyuan   Follow Wendy on X (Twitter): Follow Wendy on Instagram:   / wendy_yuan_richmond_   Follow Wendy on Facebook:   / ca.wendyyuan   xitter.cf/Wendy_Yuan
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The federal government provided $230,000 for The Great Land Grab, a travelling exhibit that portrays Vancouver Island’s historic E&N Railway land grant as an ongoing conflict between Indigenous land rights and private property. As PLUS' @WarrenMirko writes in @TheHubCanada: “The exhibit says the government is responsible for ‘the big giveaway’ while relying on federal funding to deliver the message, proof that in Canada we sometimes pay for the rope used to hang ourselves." By funding and promoting this narrative, the federal government is helping legitimize a challenge to the underlying private property system itself.
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In case you missed this. What could DRIPA and the Eby government's Indigenous agreements mean for B.C.'s economy and taxpayers? This article raises serious questions about property rights, future government revenues, provincial debt, and the potential cost of borrowing. These are questions every British Columbian should be asking. Worth reading and sharing. B.C. government’s land deals with First Nations threaten its ability to borrow money fraserinstitute.org/commenta…
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I am pleased to see CBC looking into this issue, which is obvious to anyone who knows anything about radar technology. The three competing AEW&C aircraft options are substantially different in terms of radar performance, whether in terms of operating frequency band/wavelength or antenna aperture. The Saab Global Eye operates in the S-band, which is essentially a compromise band for long-range detection/early warning purposes. The E-7 operates in the lower-frequency L-band, which is often favoured for early warning purposes. The Aeris X is a multi-band design, with L-band arrays complemented by two S-band arrays. Why doesn't the Aeris X only use L-band? Because frequency/wavelength are related to antenna dimensions, and a business jet only offers so much real estate to work with. But at least the Aeris X offers 360° coverage (as does the E-7) by virtue of incorporating four radar antennas of two different designs and frequency bands onto the airframe, unlike the Global Eye, which does not offer 360° coverage. Yes, Saab may be able to incorporate forward and aft radar antennas (at Canada's expense), but in what frequency band? The simplest approach will be to incorporate a small X-band antenna from a fighter aircraft design, which is optimized for fire control, not long-range detection/early warning. Otherwise, Saab will basically have to convert the underlying Bombardier business jet into much the same configuration as the Aeris X, and develop suitable forward and aft radars as well. Note that I am barely scratching the surface here because frequency/wavelength, which are inversely related, are not everything. At the end of the day, someone in DND has to actually care about transmit power, antenna gain, and the envisaged operational parameters. Detecting low-flying objects over water is not the same as detecting high-flying objects over land, for example. Canada is making a massive generational investment toward AEW&C aircraft and so many other capability areas. Yes, the (indirectly) duly elected prime minister has the sole authority to steer the ship of state as it concerns such matters, and can place greater weight on diplomatic, political, economic, and industrial considerations over military and military-technical considerations. But this is, at the end of the day, an investment in military capabilities that will have to be fit for purpose over the 2030-2060 timeframe, if not beyond. What exactly does Ottawa envisage Canadian AWACS aircraft doing? Requirements in the Canadian Arctic are very specific and exacting. What are the envisaged threats? If you follow developments in Chinese and Russian military capabilities as I do, you will likely be apprehensive not so much about the near-term but the medium-term threat environment, which is to say over the circa 2035-2045 timeframe. Will GlobalEye be fit for purpose against the threats that Canadian and allied intelligence analysts envisage? Should Parliament care? Should everyday Canadians care? I regret to say that there are, concerning national defence, far too many instances of Canada conducting itself as a young person who just got their hands on their parent's credit card and is now going on a senseless shopping spree. These are expensive generational investments that future generations of Canadian taxpayers will have to pay for. The stakes are far too high to approach these matters so casually. 1/
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In my latest for @TheHubCanada, I look at how Canada is funding a public campaign that challenges the legitimacy of private land ownership on Vancouver Island, while the Province endorses territorial claims without being proven in court. #bcpoli thehub.ca/2026/09/08/b-c-s-g…
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We are approaching the fifth and last biennial election in the Trump era, and the president has asked voters to make it a referendum on him. Let's take a look at his record. The tiresome and predictable criticism of a pro-Trump bias will come, as it always does when anyone tries to say anything positive about the president, but let me respond with two points. Firstly, one can dislike Trump and still recognize the accomplishments are real and laudable. If personal dislike for the president prevents someone from seeing that, the real bias problem is with them. Secondly, when 92 percent of media coverage on the president is anti-Trump, balance does not come from repeating what is already deafeningly amplified. It comes from stating the parts that are generally ignored. The successes are significant and seldom discussed; let's look at the record that most of the press won't print: • The illegal immigration crisis at the border has been ended • With it, there has been a dramatic reduction in the horrors of human trafficking, the inflow of lethal narcotics, and cash flowing into the pockets of violent drug cartels. • Inflation has been cut sharply from Biden levels. • Crime rates across the country are much lower, with murder rates at a 70-year low. • Capital has poured into the US in job-creating investment, and no advanced country has generated greater economic growth. • The country has been liberated from climate theater without abandoning environmental protection. • Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran have all been stripped of their usefulness as Russo-Chinese allies. • The Iranian regime is being strangled (and its terrorist proxies with it) at almost no cost in American lives and only slight use of American ordnance. Despite the shrill mantra of the more radical isolationists, Trump kept his word: no forever war, no Iraq 2.0. • Along with the Abrahamic Accords, Board of Peace and other diplomatic initiatives, despite current tensions, the scaffolding for future peace in the Middle East is the strongest it has been in decades. • NATO has been reformed from a ragtag of slackers into a self-financing alliance. • Ukraine has been armed to the point that Russia is fighting a war it looks increasingly unable to win, and the Russians have been forced to import gasoline and diesel for the first time in a generation because of its hobbled oil refining capacity. This is one of the most persuasive lists of accomplishments of any two-term president since Theodore Roosevelt in 1906. That a president with this strong a record can still have such a low approval rating is unprecedented and owes to one of his greatest short-comings – the messaging problem. President Trump can draw a crowd and dazzle his supporters like no president since FDR. What he has not yet been able to manage effectively, is use a direct Oval Office address, with a nonpartisan tone, to outline the national interest and ask for the support of the American people for his worthy objectives. Perhaps he is keeping his powder dry. If so, this is the month to use it.
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The heatwave in the central and eastern U.S. this week is a nothingburger. The same thing happened in Septembers 1854, 1881, 1925, 1939, 1953, and 2019. On this date in 1854, it was an incredible 107° in Zanesville, OH; 104° in Randolph, PA; and 100° in Louisville (Springdale), KY; Battle Creek, MI; and Ann Arbor, MI. Battle Creek actually observed FOUR consecutive days with highs at or above 100° during the first week of September 1854. Ann Arbor observed two nonconsecutive such days. And neither have reached the century mark during the month of September since. Also during the first week of September 1854, it was 98° Carmel, ME; 100° in Tuscaloosa, AL; 102° in St. Louis, MO; and 104° in Garlandville, MS. Could you imagine the hysteria if that happened today?
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No wonder 10,000 people each month move from Canada to the United States.
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This creep set up a group that looked similar to KidSport - same colours, similar mission: to support kids to do sport and keep them in positive pursuits. He stole and committed fraud through his own organization that he was probably taking a healthy salary from. I’m sure this raises questions about all charities and their practices and procedures. This is really frustrating for those of us that work only for the benefit of the kids in our community.
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Set aside the emotions and focus on U.S. President Donald Trump, and you will see the meta-trend is evident: The U.S. is rapidly disengaging from the last 40 years of global trading, multi-lateral arrangements. Countries are now customers, a coutnry-to-country source of supply and judged on their geopolitical importance and resource potential for the American imperium. Venezuela, whether it works or not, is another signal of this new reality. There are many others and will be more. It doesn't mean Canada isn't going to be deeply linked to the U.S., and many of its interests. But this is a generational policy and trade shift. It won't change, regardless of who occupies the White House. Sobering. Careful trade and clear-eyed state-craft are what Canada will need to get much better at.
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Are Jews simply fair game at the University of Guelph, Sheridan College and Humber Polytechnic? I taught for roughly 15 years with an exemplary record, no disciplinary history, and no history of Muslim students accusing me of discrimination or mistreatment. Then came one disputed screenshot of a LinkedIn exchange. The original exchange no longer exists. I was suspended and ultimately fired. Now compare my accuser, Prof. Wael Ramadan. Ramadan has operated an enormous public political platform—thousands of posts and roughly 85,000 followers. I have preserved material he posted or reposted containing explicitly anti-Jewish rhetoric, including a video/comic describing Jews as “subhuman” and material featuring a Hamas figure calling Jews “devil worshippers.” A Rate My Professors review accused him of antisemitism and warned Jewish students to examine his social-media record. Three human-rights complaints concerning him were filed and dismissed. Yet I can find no evidence that Sheridan ever disciplined him over this material. And Ramadan was not some unrelated professor. He was one of my accusers. So maybe somebody should start asking the people who actually made the decisions. Ask Melanie Spence-Ariemma how she managed to occupy overlapping roles in the process—as complainant, institutional accuser and senior decision-maker. Ask Bill Rosehart, then Provost of the University of Guelph and now President of the University of Waterloo, why he participated in terminating a professor he had never spoken to—not once. Ask why the institutions relied on a report they commissioned while allowing anonymous hearsay. Ask why the disciplinary hearing was cancelled. Ask why the people ending a 15-year teaching career apparently did not think it necessary to speak directly with the professor whose career they were ending. Ask why the appeals process did not provide anything resembling a meaningful hearing. And above all, ask this: Why was a professor with a tiny LinkedIn following, no disciplinary history and no comparable record of hostility toward Muslim students destroyed over one disputed screenshot, while his accuser—with thousands of political posts and an enormous following—continued teaching without apparent discipline? What neutral principle explains that? Universities can issue all the statements about antisemitism they like. Judge institutions by what they do, what they punish—and what they tolerate. @uofg @GuelphHumberUni @HumberPoly @sheridancollege @HonestRepCanada @IsraelinCanada @StandWithUs @HonestReporting #Antisemitism #CampusAntisemitism #JewishStudents #JewishLivesMatter #AcademicFreedom #DoubleStandards #UofG #GuelphHumber #HumberPolytechnic #SheridanCollege
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Government is either the authority over Crown land or it isn't. BC can't even define Indigenous Protected Conservation Areas, but selectively endorses claims to governance authority over public land. Will it bow to the Lower Similkameen Indian Band? cbc.ca/news/indigenous/lsib-…
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Trump avoided an Irania6 assassination attempt with the help Israeli intelligence. How does Canadian Media report on it? Nothing, Nada, zilch. Is it because because Israel is the hero of the story? Trump flew in secrecy amid Iran threat as Air Force One became a decoy share.google/fcYXTH5luH6LlaB…
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When someone, whether it be the Prime Minister or others, say they support supply management, this is what they support
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