David Eby called a snap election because apparently winning a fair fight looked a little too risky. Now the polls have swung against him, and British Columbians seem to have noticed exactly what this was: political self-interest dressed up as public service. Funny thing about voters... they don't particularly enjoy being played. Happy Friday, David.

To those who signed up on Sept. 16th to help with the petition, I had to resubmit. You will find an email asking you to sign again.

🎙 Live from my flood-prone basement.... Remember: #MarkCarney is meeting up with the communist president of Vietnam today. Aside from the fact we already have free trade deals with Vietnam, and in light of the declared purpose that this meeting is to discuss security, net zero crap and so called diversification strategies, I just can't wait to see what fresh hell deal Carney tries to con Canadians with today. #cdnpoli

🚨 Carney, April 29: “Second-fastest growth in the G7.” 🚨 Carney, June 3: “Second-strongest economy in the G7.” 🚨 Champagne, June 9: “The strongest economy in the G7.” 🚨 Canadians: Why does our GDP per person keep getting compared to Mississippi? As @FP_Champagne would say, there is good news! Ottawa has solved this problem beautifully. Just stop measuring how Canadians are actually doing. Then the economy looks terrific. 🤦🏼‍♀️ #cdnpoli #MarkCarney #Liberals #Economy #ThinkForYourself

My grandfather’s generation didn’t need a columnist to tell them Canada mattered. Neither did the families who watched sons, brothers and husbands leave home in uniform and wondered whether they’d ever walk back through the door. In 1939, Canada had roughly 11 million people. More than one million served in the Second World War and more than 45,000 never came home. Put that around a kitchen table: roughly one person in every eleven Canadians put on a uniform. And now Lawrence Martin informs us that, at the ripe old age of 159, Canada is finally a power on the world stage. His argument is that this is a transformational moment in which Canada is emerging from the shadow of larger powers. Finally? Dieppe. Juno. The liberation of the Netherlands. Canada declared war in its own right in 1939, fought across Europe, helped keep the Atlantic supply lines open, trained more than 130,000 Allied aircrew and finished the war with one of the world’s largest navies. But apparently now we’ve arrived. And that little word is what bothers me. Because it reflects something I’ve watched increasingly in Liberal-era political storytelling: Canada’s history, institutions and accomplishments are treated like supporting actors waiting for the current government to wander onto the stage and discover them. Canada wasn’t invented at Davos. It wasn’t discovered in Strasbourg. And it did not spend 159 years sitting politely in the international coatroom waiting for #MarkCarney to fetch it. There’s the callback: one in eleven. Those Canadians didn’t sacrifice what they did so that, eighty years later, we could confuse a prime minister getting international attention with a country finally becoming important. Maybe the problem was never that Canada lacked a place on the world stage. Maybe some people just started watching when their guy got the microphone. #cdnpoli #Canada #CanadianHistory #ThinkForYourself

🚨 Mark Carney is meeting Vietnam’s leader today, so naturally I had one question: How long before Brookfield turns up? Turns out I was late. They’re already there. Well, butter my ass and slap an industrial carbon tax on it. I’m starting to think researching this government should come with a bingo card. Read this before today’s announcements start landing. #cdnpoli #MarkCarney #Brookfield #Vietnam #ThinkForYourself 🔗 melanieinsaskatchewan.substa… 🔗buymeacoffee.com/melanieinsa…

Well... had to make a new school bus rule today 😂 It does not appear in the driver handbook anywhere - I know this because I checked! Wasn't covered in training either. And Im reasonably confident nobody at the bus company ever thought this one needed to be put in writing... yet here we are. NO DEAD WILDLIFE, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, ON THE SCHOOL BUS. (especially first thing in the morning) I drive farm kids. Apparently this needed saying. Two years ago when I first started driving bus, a pair of young brothers treated me to a dead snake on day one. I survived, they grew, and I foolishly assumed we'd all moved on. We had not. This morning Im bouncing down a gravel grid road, rising sun square in my eyes, when this little hand sneaks around the back of my seat holding a Ziploc sandwich bag. This is normal. Kids hand me garbage because the garbage can is up front, so without really looking I reach over and take it. It was not garbage. Well... technically I suppose it was, just not the kind I was expecting at 7:50 am. There was a snake head in the bag. Just the head and about an inch of snake. And THIS is what gets me...Those boys were proud of it. They werent trying to gross me out. It wasnt a prank. There was no evil little giggling from behind the seat. They genuinely thought I would want to see it. 😂 They found a severed snake head and apparently thought, you know who'll appreciate this? Melanie!!! Well, Melanie did not and neither did Melanie's nauseated stomach, so I did the only thing I could. .. I vomited out my window. So somewhere on a Saskatchewan grid road this morning, two young farm boys learned something about their bus driver... and after raising girls, I learned there are apparently entire sections of childhood I was never briefed on. And I can't get mad at them, I absolutely adore those kids! They're funny as can be and they don't laugh at me when I ask them to explain farm equipment to me likeIm five. Anyway, effective immediately: 🐍No dead snakes. 🐍No snake heads. 🐍No partial snakes. 🙅🏼‍♀️ No deceased wildlife, in whole or in part. And because these two have taught me never to leave a loophole... nothing dead in Ziploc bags either. I cant believe I have to have this rule. 😂

If I hear ONE MORE #Liberal MP tell Canadians "we have your back," I'm going to scream! I don't WANT you to have my back! I want to live in a country where your policies don't keep leaving Canadians needing to be rescued! And lending us more of our own damn money to survive the damage isn't "having our backs." It's sending us the bill. @MarkJCarney, YOU walked away from the U.S. negotiations. Enough. Get your jet-setting, hypocritical lying ass back to the table and do your job! #cdnpoli #CarneyCantStopLying

I dont want Ottawa deciding how much lawful speech Canadians should be allowed to see online. Protect kids from exploitation and violence... absolutely. But spare me the sanctimonious "safety" routine while you drag the same appetite for controlling online speech back to Parliament. If the Liberals honestly believe Canadians are too stupid, dangerous or irresponsible to speak freely without government hovering over the internet, then have the guts to say it. Stop wrapping another federal regulator in children and pretending nobody can see what youre doing. Protecting children is necessary. Using them as political cover to build government machinery over lawful speech is contemptible. #cdnpoli #CarneyCantStopLying

PARLIAMENT IS BACK TODAY! And #MarkCarney is already leaving! Mark Carney will grace Question Period with his presence at 2:15 today, but dont get attached. Because "attending Question Period" with Carney doesn't necessarily mean staying for Question Period. His usual approach is the leaders round: take maybe 4 or 5 questions himself, sit down staring intently at notes in front of him, let his ministers take over and, most often, leave before the whole thing is finished. And "answer" is doing some fairly heroic work there! Ask Carney a direct question and you are liable to get the familiar collection of keywords, slogans, statistics and talking points assembled into something that occupied the allotted time without necessarily answering what was asked. You know what I mean, we've all witnessed it in action. Case in point; "Strongest fiscal position in the G7." "Building Canada strong." "Most connected economy in the world." "More resilient. More independent." We have heard them. Repeatedly. And thats where his attendance stops being a parliamentary trivia question and starts having real world consequences. You cant hold a Prime Minister accountable in Parliament if he treats Parliament like an optional appointment. If he's not there, he doesn't have to defend the contradictions, explain the decisions, answer the follow-ups or face the people Canadians elected specifically to challenge his government. And if he does show up, he only takes a handful of questions, answers them with slogans and word salads, hands the rest to his ministers and heads for the door, and that's not much better. Accountability requires access. You cant question an empty chair. At 4:00, he's back on the plane and off to New York for UN meetings. New York... well of course! Brookfield Asset Management moved its head office from Toronto to New York in late 2024, while @MarkJCarney was still its chair, a mere few weeks before he entered the Liberal leadership race. And this wasnt some corporate decision that happened after he had wandered out the door. The board approved the restructuring unanimously while Carney was chair, and his own signature appears on the December shareholder circular documenting the New York head office and recommending the boards proposal. He didnt resign from Brookfield until January 16, the same day he launched his Liberal leadership campaign. And when Carneys investments were finally disclosed before being placed in a blind trust, more than 560 individual companies appeared in his managed investment account, with roughly 91% of those companies reportedly headquartered in the United States. That’s a count of holdings, not 91% of the dollar value of his wealth, because those values werent disclosed. So New York probably doesnt exactly feel like strange territory. At this point, Carney flying to New York feels less like international travel and more like the call of home. Think of it like Mecca for bankers if you will. So, if you are wondering what the fall sitting might look like, there's your preview. Carney was absent from 74% of Question Periods in the last session. So, using the sophisticated forecasting technique known as "watching what the man actually does," Canadians should probably expect more of the same: ✈️ Europe. Lots and lots of Europe! ✈️ Summits. So many summits, so little time. ✈️ International forums, naturally. ✈️ Investment meetings of course. ✈️ Speeches about Canadian sovereignty delivered somewhere other than Canada to non-Canadians. 🏛️ Parliamentary attendance, only when and if Carney's scheduling permits. (And we thought Trudeau was a part time PM! Carney comes along, says hold my Perrier and shows us all what part time really looks like.) Carney has spent an extraordinary amount of time travelling, meeting, announcing plans to meet again, signing MOUs and talking about future agreements. At some point Canadians are entitled to ask a remarkably basic question: WHAT THE HELL IS ACTUALLY COMING OUT OF ALL OF IT THAT IS TANGIBLE FOR CANADIANS? Not another meeting! Not another MOU! Not another announcement about an agreement they hope to negotiate later! Real, actual, measurable results for the Canadians paying for all of this Meanwhile, Carney says this will be a "crucial" session and that his government will introduce some of the most "consequential legislation" in decades. CONSEQUENTIAL FOR WHOM? Because based on the last session, Canadians might reasonably wonder exactly what we are supposed to be looking forward to. - Do we get to look forward to more debate being cut short using ill-gotten majority pressure? - Will we see even more parliamentary procedure being used to ram and force feed legislation through faster without parliamentary engagement or oversight? - Wanna bet more Liberal-majority committees controlling what gets heard, what gets called and what gets buried will become a regular feature, used to keep Canadians deaf, dumb and blind to what's happening... Maple Mushrooms growing in the dark feasting on actual shit perhaps? - Will more committee business disappear in camera, safely away from those pesky prying Canadians who apparently think they are entitled to watch their own government operate since they fund it? - Will more opposition concerns be mocked, dismissed or treated as irritating background noise while the Liberals remind everyone that they have the votes so, too bad so sad? Is that what "consequential" means? Because when a Prime Minister tells the country he’s preparing some of the most consequential legislation in decades, after we have already watched how his government handles scrutiny and dissent, perhaps Canadians should be asking one extremely inconvenient question: WHAT ELSE ARE YOU PLANNING TO DO "FOR US" THAT WE DIDN’T ELECT YOU TO DO, NEVER VOTED ON, AND NEVER GAVE YOU A MANDATE TO DO? Because lately, "for Canadians" seems to be the magic phrase slapped on decisions Canadians were never actually asked about. And funny enough, Brookfield keeps turning up somewhere in the vicinity of an extraordinary number of decisions supposedly being made "for Canadians." Ironic how that keeps happening, eh? Oh, and somewhere in this "consequential" session we are finally getting a budget... in the fall. Federal budgets were traditionally, and overwhelmingly, a spring event. Sure, there were occasional exceptions. But Carney didn't make an exception, he changed the entire schedule. His government moved the federal budget cycle to the fall, with the spring now reserved for an economic and fiscal update. Because apparently the federal budget needed to be on the same fiscal calendar as Brookfield. So Budget 2026 is coming. That should be fun... not! And somewhere amid all this globe-trotting, another batch of federal byelections is coming. There are vacant seats waiting to be filled, including Yorkton–Melville here in Saskatchewan, and another round is expected soon. Carney is rumoured to call them this week. So welcome back, Canada! Parliament resumes today, Carney will drop by and then he's leaving the country... again. And maybe thats the most useful preview of this "consequential" session we are going to get. The government will be in Parliament making decisions Canadians will have to live with. But the Prime Minister? IN PARLIAMENT, ONLY WHEN SCHEDULING PERMITS! Melanie 🔗 melanieinsaskatchewan.substa… 🔗buymeacoffee.com/melanieinsa… #cdnpoli #HereWeGoAgain

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The hypocrisy is nauseating.🤢 ▪️#MarkCarney, August 2026: - American economic dependence made us vulnerable! - Nobody gets leverage over Canada! - SOVEREIGNTY DAMMIT! 🙌🏻 ▪️@MarkJCarney, September 2026: - Deeper EU integration! - More alignment! - "Associate membership or bust!" So wait... dependency on #Washington was a shackle, but dependency on Brussels is a feature?🤷🏼‍♀️ 🇨🇦 Same Canada. 🇨🇦 Same sovereignty. 🇪🇺Same potential leverage over us. They just changed the fucking flag. Spare me the propaganda. Publish the terms. Please indicate when we should reset our sovereignty to European settings. I assume "strategic autonomy" is the unlimited plan? #cdnpoli #Canada #EU #MarkCarney #cdnpoli #CanadianPolitics #Hypocrisy #CarneyLied

Can I ask a huge favour..... I am being impersonated by 2 other accounts - one based in France the other based in Nigeria using a VPN to appear from the U.S, as they use a Nigerian app as you can see in the images. Could you please report them for impersonation... @JennRooney1 you're following one of them. These are the accounts: nitter.net/saksatchewan_in nitter.net/saskachewa_in

📢 I am getting really tired of finding out what my own government is doing from somebody else’s podium in some distant foreign land. Canadians were told Mark Carney was going to diversify our trade. He was going to find us new customers and make us less dependent on the United States so future trade disruptions have less impact. Okay… so diversify! Nobody remembers voting to blow up the relationship with the country that buys roughly two thirds of our exports, walk away from a deal because American demands supposedly threatened our “flexibility, independence, and sovereignty,” and then start sidling up to Brussels looking for something called associate membership. That was not in the Liberal election brochure. That was not on the election ballot either! And it was not explained to the people who actually live here. Three days ago, Carney was asked about reports Canada was exploring EU associate membership. No, he said. Canada was not looking to become a member of the European Union. He wanted a “unique alliance.” Then he flew to Europe. There he sat in the European Parliament while Ursula von der Leyen delivered her hour long prepared State of the Union speech and proposed that Canada become the first associate member of the EU, a position that does not even exist yet. Well… that seems to have escalated quickly. Except it didn’t. Jonathan Wilkinson, Canada’s incoming ambassador to the EU, wandered out afterward and ruined the surprise. They had already talked about it. They knew it was going to be on the table. So stop playing word games with Canadians Mark Carney. I do not care whether Carney calls it membership, associate membership, a unique alliance, or European Friendship Deluxe with free continental breakfast. What are you actually negotiating? Do we get a vote on EU rules Canada may be expected to follow? If Brussels changes those rules, can Canada say no? Can Parliament? What Canadian laws and provincial regulations are being discussed? What has Ottawa already promised? And why do we need this at all? We already have CETA. We are already negotiating a digital trade agreement. We are already cooperating with Europe on defence, critical minerals, energy and technology. So what does associate membership add? And more importantly, what does Canada give up to get it? This is where my patience finally runs out!😡 A real leader in a real democracy would put this in front of the country. A referendum with a crystal clear question requiring a simple yes or a no from the people who have to live with the answer. Instead we get word games, photo ops in Strasbourg, and a Prime Minister who treats the House like a demon treats holy water: he will not sit in it unless he has to! Carney walked away from Washington telling Canadians sovereignty was the line in the sand. If that is in fact the case - the real reason sputtered by Carney, then explain something to me like I am sitting at my kitchen table in Saskatchewan trying to pay the power bill… If another country having too much influence over Canadian economic decisions is a threat to our sovereignty, how does another political bloc having influence over Canadian economic decisions protect it? Does sovereignty expire somewhere over the Atlantic? Washington wanting a say in Canadian decisions was apparently so intolerable as to warrant walking away from the negotiating table with America. If Brussels wants a say, we are supposed to call it strategic autonomy. That is quite a parlour trick. One superpower wanting a say is tyranny. A whole bloc wanting a say is statesmanship. Huh, how convenient. And drop the piety for a minute. A lot of the people who built this country left Europe for a reason. They left class systems, imperial ministries, conscription, religious tests, and distant capitals that decided their lives without asking. They crossed an ocean so their kids would not live under somebody else’s “common space.” So why the hell are we walking back into it with a smile and a press release? Europe is not sitting around enjoying unprecedented prosperity while von der Leyen hands Canada the secret recipe. She is getting hammered inside Europe over competitiveness, sky high energy costs, poverty inducing climate policy, uncontrolled migration and the direction she is taking the bloc. EU governments are already questioning parts of this proposed Canadian relationship. Meanwhile Carney and von der Leyen sound like somebody photocopied the same economic manual and handed each of them half: carbon, climate, economic security, strategic autonomy, integration... all the things that make them indistinguishable from each other. One works from Brussels. One works from Ottawa. Maybe this arrangement is wonderful. Then show us. Tell Canadians what you have discussed, what you have promised, what we are expected to follow, and whether we actually get a vote. Do not brief Europe first. Do not announce it from a foreign parliament. Do not hide behind “unique alliance” like that phrase is a substitute for consent. Carney made sovereignty the standard. Not me… him. So I have one request for Mackenzie Gray, Judy Trinh and every other journalist who gets close enough to stick a microphone in front of the Prime Minister. Ask him. Mr. Carney, if Canada could not accept becoming a rule taker for Washington because we are a sovereign country, why should Canadians accept becoming a rule taker for Brussels? And if this is such a gift, why will you not put it to a national referendum instead of stepping around the people and the Parliament that is supposed to speak for them? Please do not let him answer a different question. Canadians have been handled enough. At the core, it’s the same country, same sovereignty, and the same test. Until we know what the hell they are signing us up for: Do not sign a damn thing! ~ Melanie ~ 🔗 melanieinsaskatchewan.substa… 🔗 buymeacoffee.com/melanieinsa…

A 12-year-old girl is dead. Her mother survived with a catastrophic brain injury. The Crown asked for four years in prison. Darris Wilson got house arrest. Judge Gethin Edward considered colonialism, intergenerational trauma and Wilson's disconnection from his Indigenous culture in sentencing him. But Wilson never attended residential school. He wasn't alive during colonization. And if he became disconnected from his culture, at some point we have circled right back to the individual and his choices. Colonialism didn't put alcohol in Wilson's body. Residential schools didn't put the keys in his hand. Intergenerational trauma didn't drive the vehicle. Wilson did. So why do we accept a justice system that reaches generations into the past looking for reasons to understand the man who destroyed a family, while the little girl he killed gets none of that consideration? Where are Sierra Beverly's special circumstances? Where is her reconciliation? She was twelve. Why have we accepted justice for the offender that can feel so much like injustice for the victim? THE ROAD TO HELL HAS A GLADUE REPORT. 🔗 buymeacoffee.com/melanieinsa… 🔗 melanieinsaskatchewan.substa…