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Up next on your wildfire season bingo card: US border legislators asking Canada to get a grip on the smoke, m’kay?

Industry situating the estimate during a time of crisis to help … nudge the narrative? Be still my foolish heart, right? :) Meanwhile, couple of dudes are saying Canada should buy more DH waterbombers with defence money - came out today, coincidentally ;)...

Waterbomber makers not missing an opportunity. https://dehavilland.com/our-team/canadians-support-a-national-waterbomber-fleet-to-fight-ever-worsening-wildfires-in-canada/ Highlights - more details attached. Spoiler alert: who do you think Canadians want to build these waterbombers? ... ...

Some peripheral atmospheric tea leaves: hard-core conservative Catholic publication suggests VPOTUS not Catholic enough. https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/jd-vance-is-hardly-the-best-witness-to-the-catholic-faith/...

Why don't you ask lumber, steel, aluminum producers - as well as softwood lumber makers - how damage-free they've been since the latest tariff fracas began? Or do you blame all the GDP contraction and higher consumer costs on Canada's government alone? After all, if we're in a recession...

For the record, here's the Secretary's statement on the initiative (about 2 1/2 minutes long) ... ... as well as a one-pager signed by the SecWar on the initiative, attached. This stood out for me from the letter (highlights mine): First I've heard of "Operator Syndrome" - here's a touch more...

And in case folks don't know, that includes some Sun newspapers in major centres - hardly the flag bearers of media woke-ness :) Same with Canadaland - although IIRC they are in on some of the Google news settlement money - not really government money but outside sourcing.

Making the case for the new replacement: proven, practical AND made-in-Canada engine! https://magazine.rcafassociation.ca/the-case-for-the-pc-21-ct-157-siskin-ii/

Shame the inquiry isn't going to make any recommendations according to its terms of reference, though.

Still, we'll see who gets to speak their piece at the hearings coming up 8-11 September.

Update: loadsa stories reportedly flowing in. https://www.rebelnews.com/vaccine_injury_inquiry_gains_hundreds_of_stories_as_canadians_seek_answers_from_ottawa https://www.morefm.ca/news/local-news/hundreds-respond-to-allison-inquiry/...

And, as expected ... https://www.cp24.com/news/canada/2026/07/15/chiefs-warn-theyll-fight-any-assault-on-first-nations-rights-in-major-projects-push/

Some take this shit seriously .... "I wrote my doctoral thesis on soccer and homeland. It has made me a sort of permanent interviewee in the Argentine press on the subject of soccer and nationalism, especially whenever the World Cup rolls around ..."...

From this:

If Peskov doesn’t fall out a window or decide to spend more time with his family, that’s for sure word from above. Let’s see if the USSR 2.0 usual suspect commentariat pick up that ball and run with it.