First responder living paycheque to paycheque

A bitter coworker told me this story the other day. He's recently been through a divorce and has likely faced the rental market for the first time in many years. He originally owned his own home at an early age because he was frugal. 

So he tells me this story of a first responder that was in the news. We don't know what kind of first responder. We're  assuming paramedic. He had a career that he had to train for. 

He was married with kids and owned his own townhouse in Toronto. Then he went through a messy divorce. Legal fees sucked up all the equity in their home. Now he needs to find a place to rent with rooms for his kids and pay child support. He went from owning his own home to renting and living pay cheque to pay cheque. He has a career and is living in poverty. 

I get it. When I went through my divorce it was financially tough but now it's much worse. The cost of housing makes it extremely difficult to pay child support and maintain a residence where the kids can spend the night. I mentioned a coworker who went through that and committed suicide. He simply couldn't do the math. How can I pay child support and pay rent at the same time? There's nothing left over for anything. 

My coworker said yeah and nobody is allowed to talk about that. Things could be worse but times are tough. There's no disputing that fact. Are we going to kick the cat and blame someone else or are we going to get to work and do something about it?

Deporting all the immigrants and everyone who disagrees with us is not going to solve the problem. We need to take responsibility for what we do and not blame others for the choices we make. Paying immigrants not to work is a big part of the problem. No economy can sustain that. Brutalizing hard working immigrants who work long hours for little pay isn't going to solve the problem either. That's just going to increase inflation by making the things we buy more expensive. 

We need to realize that although financial stress is real, money doesn't buy happiness. $200,00.00 for a new Rolex is gluttony. Why would you spend that much money on something so worthless even if you had it? To brag? To show off? That's really shallow and pointless. 

Meanwhile back in the real world, 50% of Canadians are living pay cheque to pay cheque. It's obviously easier to pay rent if you have a room mate or a mortgage if you have a partner but if that relationship breaks down, boom, everything is gone. 

It reiterates how ridiculous these yuppie rappers look who are trying to create drama over a new watch or pair of sneakers. That is a pathetic life. They have no substance. They have no morals. They have no soul. They are empty and meaningless.

When I was young owning a home on a single income was within reach. Then it took two incomes and you had to rent out the basement. Now it's just insane. Things are getting tougher financially. That's real. 

One of the main problems in Metro Vancouver is the lack of rental buildings. Everybody was obsessed with making a quick buck with all that free money. They'd buy a place and rent it out to pay the mortgage as an investment. 

They stopped building complexes for rental. The government doesn't have to building housing for everyone. Local city Halls have to approve more complexes that are for rent. Rental income is slower to profit from than the quick flip but will be a big help in the housing market for those who struggle. 

Trump's flip on the Epstein files is his terminal cancer

Overture of the Nova Scotia Mass Murders

Ottawa life is reporting that "Paul Palango’s Anatomy of a Cover-Up: The Truth about the RCMP and the Nova Scotia Massacres is a gripping and deeply unsettling exposé that continues to dominate Canadian bestseller lists—including the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail—for good reason."

"Drawing on thousands of pages of commission documents, interviews, and forensic evidence, Palango builds a compelling case that the RCMP’s handling of the tragedy was not just flawed but potentially compromised. He explores the possibility that Wortman may have had ties to law enforcement or was acting as a police agent—an explosive theory that the commission largely sidestepped. The book doesn’t just ask hard questions—it demands accountability."

Paul Palango's new book definitely opens Pandora's box but his conclusions are completely different from my conclusions. He cites a whole list of abnormalities and falsified evidence then basically says nothing to see here folks. The RCMP suck and need to be disbanded. That's all there is but is it really?

When investigating a crime we need to examine means and motive. We consider alternate theories. If we refuse to admit 9/11 was an inside job and we refuse to examine orchestrated events, then we pretty much miss the whole point of a real investigation. Is it simply a whitewash? I didn't think so but if we refuse to examine the obvious it starts to look that way.   

The mainstream media is worthless. Trying to win them over is pointless. There are a lot of people in Nova Scotia that question the official narrative. It doesn't make sense. All the abnormalities and falsified evidence point to something else. 

One X account about the Nova Scotia Mass murders talks about the missing yellow stripe on Gabe Wortman's RCMP uniform. In the surveillance video there is no yellow stripe on Gabe Wortman's pants but on an altered screen shot there is. Why would someone alter that?

Another posts asks who thinks the Democrats would stage a mass shooting and kill innocent people to justify gun control? I do and evidently I'm not the only one but it's not just Democrats. It's fake Republicans as well. 9/11 happened on George Bush's watch. Globalists on the right use false flag attacks to justify taking away civil liberty. 

Gabe Wortman was a paid police informant. We assume that was for a FBI cross border gun smuggling sting. We don't actually think he was paid to execute the mass shooting but the long list of abnormalities means we aren't so sure. 

Paul Polango asks if this was simply a case of domestic violence, why falsify evidence? Yet this wasn't a case of a police agent losing his mind either. It's clearly something far more sinister. Paul Polango points out that Wortman's common law spouse had a lot more disposable income than she reported on her taxes. If she was a police agent, then we can throw out her entire testimony. 

Everyone knows her dramatic claims of spending the night in the woods after her escape was fabricated. Yet if she was a police agent then so were the claims of domestic violence. Wortman was a swinger. They were in an open relationship. He certainly wasn't a jealous, controlling ex. So why lie? 

The fact that Gabe Wortman was a police agent is a big deal. The fact that his neighbor Peter Griffon and his common law spouse Lisa Banfield were police agents is a big deal. The fact that two undercover tactile RCMP officers were caught shooting up a fire hall where civilians were being staged is a big deal. 

They shot through the roll up doors, the weakest point of the building. What if they weren't caught and they hit a civilian inside? Would they also add that to the list of people Gabe Wortman killed like they did for Corey Ellison?

Wortman's ties to the police and to the Hells Angels are a big deal. At this point considering the possibility of the mass murder being an orchestrated event isn't crazy. Refusing to consider that possibility is. We know no one is going to investigate this. 

It's like the Pickton case. It's dead in the water. That doesn't mean we have to believe the BS and be swayed by it. Gun control has an agenda. Reducing violent crime is not part of it. 

The RCMP didn't want to let Lisa Banfield testify at the public Inquiry because they didn't want to encourage conspiracy theories. Yet the fact that Gabe Wortman was a police agent already has. They cited Alex Jones who claimed Sandy Hook never happened. I'm not Alex Jones.

No one is saying the Nova Scotia murders never happened. That's like saying 9/11 never happened. Just because they were orchestrated events doesn't mean they never happened. 

It's shocking to think the Intelligence community would kill innocent people just to push an agenda. Yet when you list the abnormalities it's hard to see any other possibility. Gun control is the only motive. He wasn't a jealous ex. He had no motive to kill those people other than being a police agent. 

It's like the Surrey Pressure cooker fraud case. Without the RCMP, the two marks didn't have the means or motive to commit that crime. CSIS provided the explosives for the Air India bombing. If they hadn't done that the suspects they groomed would not have had the means to commit that crime.

In the Nova Scotia Mass murders, the police agent would not have had the means to commit that crime if the RCMP hadn't given him the illegal guns he used. Gabe Wortman acquired the illegal guns while running a joint FBI op in Maine across the New Brunswick border. The RCMP were a part of it. 

Large Condo Fire in Surrey

Update: The fire is pretty much out but the residents can't return home. Very sad. Looks like the adjacent building might have water damage from sprinklers. 

2nd Update: CBC has an aerial shot of the fire damage

Fire crews are on the scene of a large condo fire in Surrey on 104th Avenue between 100th Avenue and 101 Avenue. It's contained but three ladder trucks in 154th street hammered it with water to contain it. A fourth was set up on 101st Avenue in case it spread. Just like that other business fire on 104th the Surrey Fire department were very aggressive and very effective and continuing the fire before it spread. 

So once again to put out  a large fire you need to hammer it with water. You can't fight forest fires with a shovel and a sprinkling can on a helicopter. You need more water from water bombers. 

In the spirit of preparedness, it raises the concern about fighting fires in Surrey after an earthquake. We all know Metro Vancouver is over due for a large earthquake. 

Metro Vancouver is working on the problem but it's quite possible an earthquake would shut off water to Surrey. The North Shore watershed might not be accessible. 

Which means if a fire breaks out after an earthquake, all the wood framed houses are very high risk for ending up like Maui in preparation for a 15 minute city. 

Building towers out of wood like the one across from Superstore on 104th Avenue is a bad idea. Once a fire starts, if it's not quickly contained, will spread like a forest fire. 

The next morning the fire alarm was going off to discourage people from returning to their homes. One vertical block was destroyed but the rest of the complex was intact. 

Balancing the Extremes not flipping from one to the other

I've talked about how the pendulum swings from left to right in politics. As soon as the pendulum swings too far left it loses support and starts to swing the other way until it swings too far right and starts to swing back the other way. 

As I've said before, it's not a choice between Socialism and Fascism. Both are bad. It's about common sense and balancing those two extremes. Finding a plumb line so to speak.

Donlad Trump campaigned on the promise to drain the swamp and tackle corruption in Washington. All the did was remove rivals just like everyone else. Then he went way too far. 

In his first term he campaigned on building a wall to stop illegal immigration. Then Biden did the exact opposite and allowed mass illegal migration of unvetted immigrants without a criminal record check who all wanted free housing and for the government to pay them not to work.   

Paying migrants not to work is insane. That's the problem. Hunting down migrants who are working is also insane. It's a waste of tax dollars. In an illegal commits a violent crime then deport them. Hunting down nonviolent migrants who are working is a waste of tax dollars. You're supposed to be reducing debt not creating more debt.  

Before pot was legalized is was a crime to spoke pot. Putting all the pot smokers in jail was a waste of tax dollars. Just like hunting down migrants who are working is. 

CBC recently did another discourse about gender nonsense. LGBT makes sense. Q plus is extreme. Trump banning men from competing in women's sports is common sense. So is protecting women and children from male stalkers in their bathrooms. That's important. 

SOGI in school is child abuse. Grooming children to change their gender before they'e old enough to vote is child abuse. Q + is infinite. there are no boundaries. Everyone needs healthy boundaries. Just because Donald Trump went too far, that doesn't mean we have to go back to the other extreme. 

Just because Fascism failed, that doesn't mean we have to go back to Communism. It means both ideologies are bad and we need to find a balance between the two where civil liberty is protected by law. We need to protect the Constitution and read the Federalist Papers so we can understand the Constitution in context not water it down with nonsense. 

Duffy lake motorcycle run

This isn't me. This is a group of guys I follow on YouTube that did a motorcycle ride to the Grand Canyon. This ride is to Duffey lake outside of Pemberton. Now that's living the dream.

Central City Fun Park and Go Carts

I went to the outdoors store on the other side of Scott Road Station in Surrey and see the revamped Central City Fun Park right beside the Hive climbing wall. It's full of modern arcade games with a few VR games, as well as two miniature golf courses, a small roller rink and a stealth new Go Cart facility. 

Metrotown used to have Palladium and the Rain forest Cafe. When those left there was no replacement. Well this is it tucked away in an obscure corner of Surrey. Great for kid's birthday parties. Remember those?

The Hive climbing wall next door is for bouldering. Very cool. 

New York City Mayoral race, Socialism, Fascism and Common Sense

Speaking of extremism, take a look at the Democrat candidate for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The guy is an absolute freak. Socialism beats Fascism. How about neither? Both are insane. It's not a choice between one or the other. It's a choice between common sense and extremism. 

Curtis Sliwa is common sense. Eric Adams won the Democrat primary last time after he challenged the election irregularities in court. Then they made up fake corruption charges and picked a far left extremist to take his place. That is not progress. That is DEVOlution. The New York model set the bar for the rest of the world and left wing extremists flushed it down the toilet. 

Low taxes and low crime means businesses prosper. It means everyone prospers. When you raise taxes businesses leave and you have less tax revenue than you did before you raised taxes. That is common sense. Promoting crime, addiction and high taxes so everyone is poor isn't common sense. It's stupid.  

American missing after ICE Raid, Farm worker killed

ABC is reporting that " Concerned family members are desperate for answers after they say a disabled U.S. veteran and citizen was taken during a federal immigration raid at a cannabis farm in Camarillo, California."

"George Retes, 25, works as a security guard at Glass House Farms, where the raid took place Thursday. His sister and wife told our sister station, ABC7 Eyewitness News in Los Angeles, that he was trying to leave the area as tensions escalated between federal agents and protesters." The Trump extremism has literally become a cult. They shout did you see where it says marijuana grow up? Yes I did. Did you see where it said marijuana was legalized in California in 2016? 

Remember COVID? Remember how we never thought such insane government overreach was possible in our time? Well welcome to Trump 2.0. It's even worse. A farm worker died.

Blair White on Epstein cover up. "They couldn't even come up with a decent lie." Brett Cooper: Donald Trump ran on this.

Israel's use of sexual violence against Palastinians

Michelle Pfeiffer raises the alarm about Bill Gates Food

Michelle Pfeiffer raising the alarm on this is incredibly brave. Bill Gates given FDA approval to coat “organic” food is a sure sign we are about to be poisoned.
Hi, @RobertKennedyJr —could you maybe put an end to this? https://t.co/Nq8gzoxHFs

— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) July 11, 2025

Another Innocent bystander shot dead in Hamilton

Update: The male suspect is 17-year-old Mackale Lavoie 

CTV is reporting that "Belinda Sarkodie was on her way home after spending time with her friend in downtown Hamilton when she was shot and killed on Friday afternoon, Hamilton police say. 'Based on the information we have so far, it appears Belinda was an innocent bystander simply going about her day,' Det. Sgt. John Obrovac said during a news conference on Saturday afternoon."

"Obrovac said the suspect, who fled the scene on foot, is described as a white male with a medium build and brown hair. Investigators believe the male victim was the intended target." In April another innocent bystander was shot dead in Hamilton. Liberal gun control laws don't work. They were a distraction. 

Trump threatens to strip Rosie O'Donnell's US citizenship

Fox News is reporting that Trump wrote in a post to his social media platform Truth Social " Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship. She is a Threat to Humanity."

Rosie O'Donnell, she was the one kicked off the View for saying 9/11 was an inside job. She talked about it on Joe Rogan. 

Now Trump says he's considering taking away her citizenship for disagreeing with him. That is mentally deranged and reinforces the dangerous president the creation of ICE gestapo brings. First they hunt down illegal immigrants. Then they hunt down people who dissagree with Trump. That wack job isn't even hiding it. You can't get any more deep state than that.

Vancouver Symphony Orchastra at Deer Lake Park

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra had another free outdoor convert tonight. This one was at Deer Lake Park beside Burnaby Lake so we checked it out. I wasn't sure if the venue was near the lake so we didn't bring the kayaks but it was. A few kayakers were listening on the water. 

It was pretty packed and neither of us like crowds so we went on the boardwalk behind the venue beside the lake and those were the best seats in the house. Lots of Water Lilies in that lake. Indigenous to BC. As the sun set you could see it's reflection in one of the towers over looking the lake. 

 

They played a few classical pieces, a couple of opera and several movie scores. Evidently the VSO does a lot of movie scores now. It was nice. In one of the quieter pieces a cool breeze swept in from the lake and the rustling leaves added a nice effect to the music. Tomorrow night they have an opera playing in the park. I hate opera. I like classical and I like the music for operas but the singing drives me crazy. 

ICE claims strawberry pickers were MS-13 - WTF?

How many MS-13 gang members are waking up at 3 a.m. to pick strawberries? O’yeah, zero!

Trump said he’d go after “bad hombres,” but he’s targeting the immigrant farm workers who feed America. Either he lied — or he can’t tell the difference. https://t.co/QupQ1dkuCe

— Rep. Jimmy Gomez (@RepJimmyGomez) July 11, 2025

Drunk picks a fight with former NHLer on the golf course

Former NHL hockey player Nick Tarnasky used reasonable force against a drunken idiot berating him on the golf course in Red Deer Alberta. CTV deranged news tried to spin it and say the Minor hockey league Nick coaches for is investigating. Freaks. The drunk picked the fight and Nick kept warning him. Investigate how useless your fake news is instead.

Surrey Shooting at restaurant owned by South Indian comedian

World Famous comedian Kapil Sharma's newly inaugurated restaurant KAP'S CAFE shot at in Surrey, BC, Canada last night.
Harjit Singh Laddi, a BKI operative, NIA's (INDIA ) most wanted terrorist has claimed this shoot out citing some remarks by Kapil@SurreyPolice pic.twitter.com/p51zlxXbOf

— Ritesh Lakhi CA (@RiteshLakhiCA) July 10, 2025

CTV is reporting that " Police in Surrey, B.C., are investigating after multiple gunshots were fired into a restaurant in the city’s Newton neighbourhood early Thursday morning.The Surrey Police Service says staff were still inside the business when the gunshots rang out in the 8400 block of 120 Street at approximately 1:50 a.m., however no injuries were reported."

"Investigators have confirmed the gunfire targeted a restaurant owned by Indian actor and comedian Kapil Sharma. Kap’s Café recently opened at 8496 120 Street."

At the end of the video did that guy say Yalla? That's not a Punjabi term it's an Arabic term for hurry, let's go. 

"News outlets in India reported that a Khalistani separatist leader claimed responsibility for the shooting. However, advocacy group Sikhs for Justice dismissed the reports as a disinformation campaign meant to discredit the movement seeking to establish an independent Sikh state, called Khalistan." No kidding. No motive. It's a set up.

If India media claimed it was a Khalistan supporter that means it was a false flag attack by India's intelligence agency and CSIS.

Another clout-chasing dipper—contracted chaos— (@narendramodi )
botched the extortion, fired some shots, and all they got was a day of caution tape and boarded-up windows. That’s it. That’s the revolution? https://t.co/8ybd4PdFrc

— 6ixademiks|6ixak_tv|TheDirtyNewz CEO 🐐 (@thedirtynews) July 12, 2025

Getting out of Dodge

Newsweek is reporting that "Mary Trump issued a warning about President Donald Trump's cuts to the civil service after the U.S. Supreme Court handed him a major win on Tuesday." 

"The Supreme Court handed down an 8-1 decision to stay a pending appeal, allowing the Trump administration to continue directing agencies to develop reduction in force (RIF) plans."

"The ruling will allow the administration to resume layoffs at 19 agencies. Trump has sought to cut the federal bureaucracy upon his return to the White House in January, but those efforts have faced criticisms and legal challenges from workers, unions, nonprofits and local governments who oppose large-scale federal job cuts."

OK let's back it up a bit. Remember Donald Trump's break up with Elon Musk? Trump dumped Elon Musk because he became a liability. People started to hate him. Why did they start to hate him? Because of all the layoffs of government workers.

That's not why people voted for Donald Trump. People voted for Donald Trump to build the economy not raise unemployment rates. This is how a globalist redefines cutting government waste. Reducing government waste means reducing waste not firing all the workers who voted for you. 

The national debt is a colossal concern that is a direct threat to our freedom. Interest on the debt could build a lot of schools and hospitals. After the break up Elon Musk had one good point. That big beautiful bill was anything but. Raising the debt ceiling with no end in sight shows that the Republicans are just as bad with money as the Democrats as Rand Paul pointed out. That is a bigger threat to our sovereignty that Putin or Xi Jinping.

Donald Trump is doing the same thing Stephen Harper did. Reckless cuts in some areas followed by reckless spending in others which resulted in zero debt reduction. 

The amount of money that is skimmed through government contracts is astronomical. In Canada it's SNC Lavalin.  In the US it's Lockheed Martin. Corrupt companies that under bid and over charge government contracts. That is organized crime. Vaccine royalties is another.

The government also spends a lot of money on stupid things. That's what needs to be cut. Not all the workers. For example, how much money was spent on bombs to pulverize Gaza? That's not only immoral but it's also a waste of tax dollars. How much did it cost to bomb Iran? That's the swamp. All this money going to Netanyahu is not putting America first. It's fraud. 

The saying get out of Dodge comes from the wild west where Dodge City in Kansas was a place of lawlessness. Get out of Dodge meant to leave quickly to avoid harm. DOGE was Elon Musk's acronym for firing all the government workers. It stood for Department of Government Efficiency. Firing all the government workers is not draining the swamp. 

A word on Donald Trump's return to the swamp

OK so everyone seems to be in agreement that the Jeffery Epstein cover up was the straw that broke the camels back and it is tied directly to Trumps endorsement of the biggest swamp creature of all time, Benjamin Netanyahu. The man who benefited from the murder of Yitzhak Rabin.

The big take away is the claim that Jeffery Epstein worked for the CIA and Mossad. He did. There was a blackmail list and the Intelligence community ran it. Now before I continued I want to emphasize one thing so we don't all get distracted again. 

Just because Mossad is bad, that doesn't mean all Isralis are bad. Just because the CIA is bad, that doesn't mean all Americans are bad. It simply means that Israel struggles against the same secret combinations trying to take over their government as we do. The greatest enemy we face to our freedom is the enemy within - the Five and a half Eyes.

The first undeniable sign of Donald Trump entering the swamp was Gaza. He wanted to kick all the Palestinians out of Gaza, build a casino and erect a golden statue of himself on the graves of dead Palestinian children. That's when people started saying WTF? Then there was the bombing of Iran. 

People saw through that instantly. Netanyahu wanted a distraction. The Jeffery Epstein lie was simply the straw that broke the camels back. Netanyahu, the Antichrist nominating Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize because he became a Swamp creature an helped him stay in power was obscene. 

Israel is not bad, Netanyahu is and so is Mossad.

Candace Owens: MAGA is compromised