The Toronto Star is reporting that "Craig (Truck) McIlquham, 55, was shot to death around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday after eating at the family-style buffet restaurant at 1881 Fairview Street, about a five minute-drive from the Queen Elizabeth Way. Police described the murder as targeted. McIlquham, who was president of the Niagara chapter of the Hells Angels, spent much of his time recently in the Caribbean."
The London Free Press is reporting that "McIlquham, known as Truck, was one of two alleged full-patch members of the Hells Angels swept up in 2019 as part of Operation Hobart, a two-year probe of an alleged illegal gambling ring police contend was run by Hells Angels bikers and a Toronto crime family. Investigators alleged McIlquham and Robert Barletta, the founder of the London Hells Angels chapter, were the ringleaders of the sophisticated operation that controlled at least 14 sports-betting websites and took in more than $160 million in revenue over six years."
"Alleged Hells Angels member Robert Barletta, 53, was renting that home that was raided on June 6 by members of the National Organized Crime Squad as part of an investigation into drug trafficking allegedly led by members of the Montreal Hells Angels, according to La Presse."
My first reaction to Pierre Poilievre's losing his seat was that he should stay on as leader since Andrew Sheer stepped down too soon. However, after thinking about it, I'm not sure that's a good idea and I'll tell you why. Another MP has to give up their seat and there has to be another by-election which of course costs taxpayers more money. This is not unusual as Kennedy Stewart gave up his seat for Jagmeet Singh.
Yet in this situation we need to ask two questions. Why did the Conservatives lose a 30 point lead in 4 months and why did Pierre Poilievre lose his riding? We already answered the first question and I gave my first impression as to why his lost his riding which has been confirmed by an interesting post.
I subscribe to a Conservative lawyer on Linkedin who supported the convoy and Pierre Poilievre. She reposted a comment by PSAC as she thought it was arrogant and entitled.
I think it confirms that the government workers in Ottawa didn't want to lose their job. That's why Poilievre lost his. How does it feel? Not so good. Since Poilievre has never had a job other than politics, perhaps it's a good time to try something else to see how it feels out in the real world.
The other reason was the negative attack adds. That works in the US but it doesn't work in Canada. I mentioned how the conservatives who idolize Trump need to dial it back or else the party's progress will be damned. You can't have a progressive inclusive party that is based on migrant hate. Nor can you have a successful party that wages war with government workers.
I can kind of see why people flipped back to Liberal. All that crazy extremism scared them for good reason. Yet we still have two monumental problems in front of us that are even worse than the Trump Tariffs. One is uncontrolled spending. The other is net Zero. A $62 billion single year deficit is completely unacceptable. Banning gas vehicles is also completely unacceptable. If the conservatives don't dial it back, we will not be able to rectify those two important positions.
Net Zero is a farce because human beings emit CO2 and plants need CO2 to survive. If we have zero CO2 emissions, then all plant life dies and all human life with it. Addressing the Net Zero farce and their quest to ban all gasoline vehicles is far more important than any migrant hate or government workers hate. Once again, if we can't let go of that banana we will be trapped and we will becomes slaves.
Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre both like to argue and be the centre of attention. We don't need another four years of attack ads. We need someone like Abraham Lincoln who stands with anyone as long as they stand right but parts with them when they go wrong. The election is over. We need to move forward on common ground.
We don't need to criticize every step Carney takes. If he pushes Net Zero or massive spending them by all means speak against that. But if there is common ground then say it. I think Pierre Poilievre has taken us as far as he can. I think Leslyn Lewis has a different style that speaks to Canadians.
She knows what the important issues are. She understands the dangers of the WEF and the Net Zero fraud as well as mass deficits. Yet she's not so insecure that she can't agree with the other side on other issues that matter.
I've been hearing pieces of information about the horrific murder at a Filipino street festival in Vancouver where a mental ill lunatic drove an SUV through a crown of people killing many and injuring many more.
Today the police held a press conference and it was an update of the status of the victims. That's relevant but I'm more concerned with the offender. The one who viciously murdered all those innocent people. What the hell happened?
This morning's report on the radio was talking about other violent murders involving people with mental health issues who were deemed not criminally responsible - NCR. They mentioned the horrible decision in BC to close Riverview. That was Gordon Campbell.
CTV is reporting that "Kai-ji Adam Lo, the man facing multiple murder charges in the attack at Vancouver’s Lapu Lapu festival, was under the care of a mental health team and on leave from hospital when he allegedly drove an SUV into the crowd."
This is just so wrong. Dimsum Daily is reporting that Lo's mental health began to deteriorate after his brother was murdered last year.
Vancouver is Awesome is reporting that "Dwight William Kematch is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Alexander Lo, brother of Kai-Ji Adam Lo, now facing multiple murder charges following Saturday's deadly Filipino festival attack."
"In 2024, Kai-Ji Adam Lo launched a GoFundMe for his late brother's funeral costs. 'It pains me deeply to put these words down, but my brother has been taken from us in a senseless act of violence, something we never saw coming,' the GoFundMe page reads." That doesn't sound NCR to me.
As CBC pointed out, last December Pierre Poilievre had a 30 point lead. So what happened? Wait 'till I tell ye. The CBC broadcast said sure the Trump effect was part of it, then listed some other lame unrelated reasons. The Trump effect was all of it and before I explain why I'll share a story and use it as an analogy to chart the road ahead.
Once upon a time I had another big court case. It went to mediation and I thought it was going to be easy because I knew the mediator. It was not. It was a down and dirty struggle every step of the way. The other party's lawyer submitted their mediation brief. It was anything but, brief.
That's when I lost my sh*t. Their lawyer had repeated all the ridiculous lies in their initial application which I had already exposed. That means he repeated them knowing they were lies. At that point I completely lost any respect I had for their lawyer.
The mediator at the time was a partner in the biggest law firm on the planet. We were supposed to meet at his fancy office Downtown Vancouver overlooking Stanley park, the Lion's gate bridge and the ocean. When I read that opposition brief I was very angry. I said I'm not sitting down with that lying POS. This isn't going to be settled in one meeting. We're going to have to fight it out clause by clause through email.
In fact before we got to that point, I was so upset I wrote back and said I'm out. Mediation is over. Let's go to trial. Not only did he repeat the same lies he made in the initial insane application, every word of his agreement was a trick and a trap. He was not bargaining in good faith. The mediator sprung into action to keep me at the table.
He said I'll make sure it's OK for you. Yea?! I said. Well that agreement is not OK for me. Every clause is a trick and a trap with insane ramifications. He knew it and so did I. That's why I refused to sign it. So the mediator calls up the other lawyer who he knew and said OK if you guys want to settle, you're going to have to dial it back a bit. Remember that line. That's the allegory for the road ahead.
Then before he goes through the contract with me over the phone he said I know Scott. He's good at what he does. I'm confident he'll be able to convince a judge of this, this and that. I pause as I try to calm down enough to speak. I said you're right. He probably could BUT IT's NOT TRUE.
That's why I was so upset. The other lawyer was willing to use his legal expertise to convince a judge of something that was not true. So we went through the contract clause by clause. I think you should push back here but I think you should give in here. Over and over. Each time I was like grrr, grrr.
I had a demand that was really important to me. I kept hanging onto it and refused to let it go. Then I could see where we were at. We had basically agreed on every single clause except for my special demand. Then I realized if I gave that demand up, we'd have an agreement so I did and the agreement became binding. From this analogy, I have two points. Sometimes we have to dial it back and sometimes we have to make sacrifices. We have to give something up to get something in return.
Now Back to the Election, What went wrong?
Four months ago Pierre Poilievre had a 30 point lead. So what happened? Something did and I can tell you what it was. Donald Trump got carried away. He went too far right.
He wanted to centralize all the parliamentary power into one person. Then he started spewing off crazy ideas without having a vote on them. That legitimately scared a lot of people in Canada. Donald Trump single handedly stopped the blue wave in Canada dead in it's tracks. That's what happened.
Trump Zombies take offense to that fact and rush for other scapegoats. It's the fake news' fault. No it's not. That clown was posing with Christia Freeland bragging about how he and her are BFFs. Everyone who voted for him new he didn't represent change. They were simply afraid of the crazy extremism they saw coming out of Trump 2.0. They weren't afraid of Trump 1.0. Trump 2.0 was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Trade wars, wanting to take over Canada and invade Greenland. Wanting to kick out all the Palestinians out of Gaza and build casinos and a golden stature of himself on the graves of dead Palestinian children. That was insane.
Then the blind denial of the Trump Zombies who refused to see any flaw in some of his completely outrageous quests. That scared people. The ICE prisons, arresting tourists, sending people to a horrific prison for MS 13 in El Salvador without a trial. That scared people.
Hunting down immigrants working to support their families. That was extreme. A lot of Canadians didn't want that. In fact the blind hate for migrants was a game changer.
There are a lot of immigrants in Canada. You can't build a progressive platform based on immigrant hate. Immigrants aren't going to vote for it and we have more immigrants every year so if you defiantly hold on to that platform your party will be damned. It won't grow. It's progression will be stopped and our chance at combating the far left's insanity will be dead in the water. It's like the monkey trap.
Someone puts a glass jar in a tree with a banana in it. The monkey can get his hand in the jar but when he grabs the banana his hand won't fit through the opening. Since the monkey refuses to let go of the banana he becomes trapped. Obviously it's an allegory like the boiling frog syndrome but it has merit.
If the far right can't let go of their migrant hate, the fight against the far left will die and we will all become slaves. That means if we want to stop grooming of children and insane spending leading to uncontrolled deficits we're going too have to let go of the banana. We're going to have to dial it back a bit if we want to settle or in this case form parliament.
Here are the numbers. A $62 billion deficit for a single year is completely unacceptable. Everyone knows that. If we lose the migrant hate we can deal with that and save the country. Here's the solution. If migrants want to work let them.
The problem is paying migrants not to work. That is the problem. If we are willing to make that distinction we can address it. If we can't make that distinction, those clowns will spend the country into bankruptcy so they can justify their New World Order of Universal slavery.
The results are in. Jagmeet Singh and Pierre Poilievre have both lost their seats in the 2025 election. Jagmeet's loss isn't surprising. He drove that party into the ground. I saw the protest outside his Riding office when he hopped into bed with Justin Trudeau. The signs said Jack Layton and Tommy Douglas are rolling over in their grave.
In 2015 Thomas Mulcair was the only candidate that supported a balanced budget. That's why I voted for him. The Conservatives didn't. That's because Harper wasn't a Conservative. He was a tax and spend Globalist who spoke at the World Economic Forum.
Thomas Mulcair claimed “Several provinces are now at the 50 per cent rate. Beyond that, you’re not talking taxation; you’re talking confiscation. And that is never going to be part of my policies, going after more individual taxes. Period. Full stop.” He said the NDP would spend money on different things, and the NDP would make cuts, but they would be better cuts.
How's that for shattering stereotypes? Jagmeet destroyed that legacy by promoting his WEF bullsh*t and by jumping into bed with Justin Trudeau to get a pension. So good riddance. Ruby Dhalla would have been a much better choice.
Pierre Poilievre losing his seat is startling but he is a strong leader and deserves to stay on as he did make gains in Quebec and elsewhere. Andrew Sheer stepped down after he lost but he received 34.4% of the overall vote while Justin Trudeau only received 33.1% of the overall vote. I think Andrew Sheer should have stayed on as leader.
I listened to CBC on the way home for about 30 seconds as that was all I could stomach and they pointed out that four months ago in last December Pierre Poilievre had a 30 point lead. So what happened? They said sure the Trump effect was part of it then added a bunch of BS. The Trump effect was all of it and I'll explain why in my next post.
As for why Pierre Poilievre lost his seat, I personally think it was the Trump Effect but also the Dodge effect. Elon Musk is firing all the government workers and replacing them with 20 year olds. That is insane. There are a lot of government workers in Ottawa that didn't want to lose their job.
I'm not saying Pierre Poilievre would have done that. I'm saying when people here saw all the crazy things going on in the US they became afraid. Especially when the WEF trolls kept saying a vote forPierre Poilievre is a vote for Donald Trump. That is not true. I think he should stay on as leader. The Liberals want him gone. That's why he should stay.
Instead of firing all the government workers and hiring 20 year olds, if you want to reduce wasted tax dollars we need to examine the biggest concern - SNC Lavalin and their new partner company Acciona. These are corrupt construction companies that under bid and over charge government contracts. Then they give the politicians kickbacks in the form of campaign contributions. That is something we do need to address because it is organized crime on a massive scale.
For example, Site C Dam. Great idea. Hydro electric power is green. Nuclear power is not. The problem with Site C Dam is the fact that they gave the contract to SNC Lavalin. That's why they are billions of tax dollars over budget.
SNC Lavalin keep using shell companies and partner companies to reoffend just like a VSE pump and dump. Who's behind it? The Five Eyes. Just ask Arthur Porter. Oh right, he's dead. He died in a Panama prison waiting trial.
Let the hate pass you by. Martin Luther King once said I've seen too much hate to want to hate and every time I see it I say to my self hate is too great a burden to bear. Indeed it is.
I've seen a lot of hate in this election from both sides. I've seen a lot of extremism in this election from both sides and all I can say is let that hate pass you by. I remember driving with my father once when I was young. An angry motorist was tailgating him and he calmly pulled over and let him pass.
He said to me that's the kind of guy you want in front of you not behind you because that guy is going to cause and accident and you don't want to be in it. Very true. And so I use that same analogy with reference to angry voters. Let that hate pass you by. We need to think logically not emotionally.
The BBC is reporting that "Carney's Liberals are leading in 168 seats but are currently short of the 172 needed for a majority. The Conservatives, led by Pierre Poilievre, are set to remain in opposition as the second-largest party and are leading in 144 seats, with 99% of polls having reported results."
The information came from Elections Canada. The Conservatives gained 23 seats and the Liberals gained 11 seats. That means the NDP lost 17 seats, the Bloc lost 9 seats and the Green lost 2 seats.
Ontario and Quebec have the most population and the most seats. Both were split between Liberal and Conservative. Both elected more liberal seats than conservative.
The Maritimes were split except for Nova Scotia which elected more Liberal seats. Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba all elected a Conservative majority. While BC was split between the Conservatives and Liberals with the Liberals getting more over all seats in BC. So now let's talk about the hate.
I saw a lot of crazy things this election. Videos of hateful Carney supporters fingering independent media, doing a ridiculous bird dance with their elbows up. It looked like a cult. Yet so did the right. A coworkers sent me a video of hecklers on a bullhorn at a Carney rally saying horrible things about his wife and daughter. Crashing a rally is hateful.
I agree Carney sending his child to a drag queen transgender grooming camp is very concerning. Yet mocking his child is pretty offensive. There are a lot of people with mental health issues out there. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
Grooming kids in school is a huge concern. I attribute this loss to Donald Trump. Before Donald Trump's second term Conservatives in Canada were on the rise. Donald Trump single handedly stopped that wave. Tariffs, trade war, Gaza. Donald Trump went too far right.
As I said, the pendulum swings left and right. If you swing too far in either direction it loses momentum and starts swinging back the other way to correct itself.
So what are some of the good things that came out of this election? It's over. They can no longer say Carney is an unelected Prime minister. We're not going to start hunting down immigrants. That's important to a lot of voters.
The good thing is that Justin Trudeau is gone. The bad thing is that Mark Carney is no different. That fact was no secret. Carney posed hugging his BFF Chrystia Freeland. That woman is a complete mental case. That extreme agenda creates a push back and a whole lot of animosity.
Preston Manning claimed a Liberal victory would endorse Western separation. I disagree. BC doesn't want to separate. BC believes in Canada. They support the Union.
However, I do think Justin Trudeau's WEF quest to ban all gasoline vehicles will indeed be the tipping point that will cause Alberta to leave the federation and separate from Canada. Alberta should have a veto on that sinister policy. That would save Canada just like getting rid of the carbon tax.
The ban on oil pipelines is a huge concern. Natural gas pipelines are good. Banning natural gas has nothing to do with saving the environment. We still need to face that. In this election I saw two extremes. The Liberals wanted too much immigration while the Conservatives wanted too little.
The Liberals wanted too few pipelines while the Conservatives wanted too many. Pierre wanted to build a pipeline to the east coast and export millions of barrels of oil a day. That would have been excessive. We need to take care of domestic production first. In BC sending unrefined oil to the US and buying back refined oil from them is insane. BC needs another refinery.
How do we heal the hate? We don't do that with Doug Ford and Chrystia Freleand. They both promote hate by pushing offensive things. I don't think we can heal the hate for immigrants. We can just out vote them and let their hate pass us by.
Today is the federal election in Canada. Finally. Call the question, count the votes and everyone can shut up. Our federal elections are not electronic so that is a good thing. Our Provincial and municipal elections are electronic tabulation and that is a bad thing.
I saw several neighbors on the way back from voting today. We all smiled and gave a thumbs up without knowing who each other voted for. Vote for who you want. That is your right.
When we talk about the results I'll talk about the toxic nature of the campaign. Until then silence. Get out there and vote.
CBC is reporting that "A man charged in a fatal Edmonton shooting had finished serving time behind bars for accessory to murder just a few weeks before being accused in a murder case. Jerad Wuttunee, 36, was charged earlier this month in the shooting death of 52-year-old Darrell Demchuk. Court records show Wuttunee was among a group of four adults previously charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of two people in January 2021."
"Wuttunee was previously arrested in Vancouver on Jan. 31, 2023 — more than two years after police began investigating a pair of homicides on Edmonton's south side. In that case, 29-year-old Deidre Aldridge and 30-year-old Daniel Grandbois were found dead at a home in the McKernan neighbourhood."
"An agreed statement of facts in the court record says a woman who lived in the home's basement suite reported to police on Jan. 6, 2021, that she'd seen people she didn't know bring a "badly beaten and bloodied" woman downstairs, and on the main floor, she saw a man who was beaten and tied up in a bedroom."
"Police arrived at the house to find the back door open, and the bodies of Aldridge and Grandbois inside. It appeared that they were "being prepared to be removed from the residence," the agreed facts say. Aldridge was hog-tied with an electrical cord and wrapped in a carpet secured with tape, while Grandbois was also wrapped in a carpet with his hands tied behind his back."
"Both victims had numerous injuries, with the cause of death ruled as multiple stab wounds to the head and neck. An autopsy found Aldridge also had blunt force injuries, fractured bones and evidence of neck compression. She'd been stabbed more than 20 times. The case concluded without anyone being found criminally responsible for killing Aldrige or Grandbois."
The Toronto Star is reporting that "A 16-year-old boy is injured after a shooting inside a St. Catharines club past midnight on Sunday, police say. Just before 12:45 a.m., officers patrolling the downtown core responded to the sounds of gunshots coming from St. Paul Street, officials said in a news release."
"At the scene, police found a multitude of people running from Club 88, and the 16-year-old victim from Ajax was found outside the club. He was taken to hospital, and his injuries were deemed non life-threatening, investigators added. Officials believe the shooting took place inside the club near the bathroom, but the circumstances that led up to it 'remain part of the active and ongoing investigation,' police said."
OK is says the shooting took place inside the nightclub and the 16 year old was injured outside the nightclub. Doesn't say he was shot. He could have been trampled. What is a 16 year old kid doing outside a nightclub at 12:45 AM?
The GTA has a lot of juvenile delinquents running around with illegal guns who have no respect for law and order.
CHCH is reporting that the 16 year old was shot. So was he shot inside the nightclub or outside the nightclub. What was a 16 year old doing in a nightclub after midnight and how did they get a gun past security?
