Friday, October 30, 2026

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Cranky cabbie Hans Wienhold on people “too busy” to notice Canada is in deep trouble

About thirty years ago, I picked up this young broad. It was a good trip; we had some time to talk, but she did most of the talking.

She started telling me all about the problems she was having with her boyfriend. She was frustrated that he kept bugging her that she didn’t pay enough attention to him.

Then she exclaimed, “He just doesn’t understand. I am just too busy.”

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Thought for the Day: the people who brought you this week’s “Border Plan” are the same people that created the COVID plan

The very same people who managed the January 15th rollout of border vaccine policies for Truckers are the people you are trusting with your physical health and safety in the COVID campaign featuring a product which will not finish clinical trials until July, 2023.

In the event you have questions about your constitutional right to security of the person and bodily autonomy as a Canadian, you may find this set of “Frequently Asked Questions” helpful.

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People doing really incredible and selfless things in BC – be one of those people, writer suggests

Yes, it’s true – even as the flooding disasters in BC continue to unfold, and while there should be plenty of food and toilet paper to go around, some people have been hoarding, and the grocery store shelves are bare.

Sometimes people do really stupid and selfish things when they’re scared – don’t be those people.

Because you know what else people have been doing?!

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November 30 report to Licensing Committee does not contain accurate comment from stakeholders, David Reti writes Councillors

from VFH drivers around the world, all form the basis of the regulatory system THAT ALREADY EXISTED before PTCs were “legalized.” This includes improving public, passenger and driver safety and fairness, which were largely removed to “accommodate” PTCs entering the market.  

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Confessions of a Young Offender: The Great West Mountain Flood of 1967

During the summer of 1966, I started to lose interest in the things I enjoyed doing at the time, like building skyscrapers and other structures with my girder and panel sets and Stalox mini-brick sets, reading about the universe, swimming up at the Westmount pool, and being a general shit-disturber in school.

I wanted something better. Something more exciting.

I wanted adventure.

Then I learned that a group of my old buddies had taken up smoking. That sounded pretty kewl to me at the time, so I ventured up to the spot where they were known to hang out and started bumming cigarettes from them to prove that I, too, could be super-kewl.

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