The Blanche Report

Last weekend, one of the coldest in years, more than 25,000 people lost power, some for four or five days. The reason? An aging substation built in the 1970s, long past its prime, clearly failing, and apparently left to limp along until it finally gave out right on cue during extreme cold. This wasn’t a freak event. It wasn’t unforeseeable. It was infrastructure neglect, plain and simple. When systems built half a century ago are treated as 'good enough,' this is the result:

Kudos to Google. If you went on their homepage today you may have noticed a black ribbon on the bottom in the center of the page. It is  in recognition of International Holocaust Remembrance Day... *** When Justin was in power he wanted all Canadian cars electric by 2035. Carney seconded the motion. We are not quite sure in what city those two live, but where we live in Montreal as well as in Toronto, both heavily populated urban centers, putting out this edict is nothing mor

Mark Carney gave a speech today at his party's retreat in quebec city. Here's one sentence of what he said: “In a time of rising populism and ethnic nationalism, Canada can show how diversity can be a strength, not a weakness. In a time of democratic decline, we can show how rights can be protected, and equal freedoms endure." We're not quite sure which Canada he lives in, but the one we live in shows very clearly that rights are absolutely not protected. Nor do equal freedom

The federal government lost its appeal trying to convince Canadians that emergency powers were justified during the trucker takeover of Ottawa because Justin deemed that honking constituted a national security threat. Translation: the Federal Court’s ruling stands. Justin lost. So while he struts around Davos looking like a total fool, which he is, the Canadian courts told him that honking is an insurrection. Unfortunately, as he is still an airhead, whatever they say will l

Right now, the unhappiest person in the province of quebec is the leader of the parti quebecois is Paul St-Pierre Plamondon (aka PSP), hell-bent on holding a referendum when he got elected premier. Alas for him, with Legault resigning, the entire political landscape just shifted. This is akin to the Andreas fault in California shifting under the ground. Up until yesterday, the upcoming October election was a given: the caq would lose almost all their seats, the liberals neede

Let's start with this picture. Above you are looking live cams yesterday at western university campuses after they learned that over 12,000 unarmed Iranian civilians have been massacred by the Islamic Republic. Do you see the rage? Do you see masked students camping out to decry the massacre happening in Iran? Do you see one person running around with an Iranian flag decrying the ayatollah's genocide of their his people? You see nothing of the sort because as long as it's n