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Bruce Dowbiggin

MSNBC Worship: Justin’s Playing What They’re Saying

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“I’m still mad at myself for that, for being convinced at one point in time that the Prime Minister was an honest and good person when in truth he would so casually lie to the public and then think he could get away with it.” —Jody Wilson-Reybould

The sum of what Justin Trudeau knows about guns is that they make a frightful noise. But like all Woke folk, the former drama school teacher also knows these “weapons of war” make even bigger noise when used to rally the troops against evil right-wing elements like Pierre Poilievre.

So when the unspeakable tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, occurred Captain Blackface was presented with an enticing opportunity on how to deflect from ridiculous gas prices, soaring inflation, his inane border closures and non-vaccinated bans. Play the gun card. By aiming it at the CPC base.

Sure, Uvalde was a strictly American tragedy. But why not appropriate the murder of 19 U.S. school children to lay some smack upon those saps in the Canadian boonies? Show them how a tyrant really works. “Hey, we’ll get Jagmeet to rubber stamp a gun ban the way her did the national emergency.”

“It will no longer be possible to buy, sell, transfer, or import handguns anywhere in Canada,” Trudeau announced as his cabinet head-bobbed. Thus, Canada declared war on the owners of the 1,831,327 valid firearm licences holders in Canada. New legislation would ban the ownership of “military-style assault weapons” in a mandatory buyback program, and impose restrictions banning the sale, purchase, importation or transfer of handguns. The legislation would also limit magazine capacities and ban toys – such as airsoft guns – that look like guns.

This despite the fact that Trudeau knows the four or five groups in Canada  who control the illegal gun market. Targeting them would remove virtually all the problematic gun incidents in the country. But harassing the gang bangers of Toronto, the Hell’s Angels, the indigenous drug mafia and the Asian gangs of the Lower Mainland of B.C. would touch upon too many Liberal clients. Easier to blame the legal owners who abide by whatever laws the Ottawa geek squad conjures up to disqualify Conservatives.

(U.S. legal scholar Jonathan Turley noted the repercussions of Trudeau’s actions: “Biden saying there’s ‘no rational basis’ to own 9mms and AR-15s sounds like he’s channeling his inner Canadian.” Ouch.)

Lest you think the appropriation game is a one-off, think again. While Canadian voters believe Ottawa politicians take their cues from the public, the reality of the Le Dauphin years is that Canadian policy direction is often conjured up in the fever swamps of MSNBC, CNN or the New York Times, the bibles of CDN Leftist cult thinking. He’s playing what they’re saying.

Example: When the American Left annointed the January 6, 2011 Capitol riot into “the worst assault oi American democracy since the Civil War”, Skippy merely said, “Hold my de-alcoholized beer”. Calling the noisy Ottawa demonstration of truckers protesting the government’s anti-vaxx policies a provocation, Trudeau jailed organizers, suspended civil liberties, seized the truckers’ bank records and credit ratings and described the honking truck horns a “national security emergency”.

With trusty scribes like Andrew Coyne wailing that the Bouncy Castle people had “paralyzed Ottawa” with terroristic actions, Trudeau convened the House of Commons, gelded the NDP and won international censure for his over-the top seizure of the government. Xi Jingping loved it.

Did he care? After winning another term and reaching a non-aggression pact with the NDP, it was full speed ahead on the front benches of the Libs. Best of all for Trudeau, who covets acceptance in the global One World community, his closing down Canada’s democracy hasn’t gone unnoticed. U.S. congressman Thomas Massie (GOP) observed, “The dystopian future Trudeau is manifesting in Canada is coming to America if US citizens don’t get involved.”

But there were more borrowed U.S. story lines to roil the nation. For example, Mr. Dressup noted the affect the 2020 George Floyd riots had in whipping up racial tension and all-around leftist loathing of America. The  dying words of the career criminal,  “I can’t breathe”, became a rallying cry for BLM and the militant left.

The inadvertent death of the career petty criminal beneath the knee of a Waukegan, WI, cop prompted cities burned, stores looted and the innocent killed in the mayhem. The issue also rallied the far-left base of the Democratic Party, allowing Joe Biden to win the presidency.

None of the racial animus was lost on Trudeau’s ”never let a crisis go to waste” crowd. When indigenous leaders in B.C. purportedly found “mass graves” near former residential school properties, the king of the photo op knew what to do.

The local chief Irene Andreas insisted that the tribe knew everyone buried in the Cowessess First Nation cemetery,. “All your elders have knowledge of every grave… So please, people, do not make up stories about residential school children being put in unmarked graves. No such thing ever happened.”

Nonplussed, Team Trudeau staged a revoting photo of him kneeling in the graveyard clutching a stuffed teddy bear beneath his arm. While paid media magpies saluted his “humanity” the action whitewashed a campaign of burning, statue toppling, angry newspaper misinformation and more across the country. His divisive stunt made its mark with the people he craves and drove a stake into reconciliation attempts with the indigenous peoples.

And let’s not forget the Ukraine Express. When the American left-wing media created the Zelensky cult of personality, Skippy ditched his green memes, fired up the government jet and flew to Ukraine with his most loyal cabinet flunkies for some photo ops. All he missed was a selfie with another fatuous hack, VP Selena Gomez… er, Kamala Harris.

Then there was Trudeau getting his Covid marching orders from the titans of DC journalism who daily grilled Donald Trump— and then adopted his vaccines under Biden. Or the misinformation boards urged by the American Media Party to silence critics of the Biden regime. Now outstripped by Trudeau’s multiple Bills C26, C38 etc.

Now, Teddy Bear Trudeau has his eyes on a Vaccine Task Force. Ah, the Venezuela-nizig of Canada continues. Music to this PM’s ears. Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice, shame on us.

Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster (http://www.notthepublicbroadcaster.com). The best-selling author was nominated for the BBN Business Book award of 2020 for Personal Account with Tony Comper. A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada’s top television sports broadcaster, he’s also a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. His new book with his son Evan Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History is now available on http://brucedowbigginbooks.ca/book-personalaccount.aspx

BRUCE DOWBIGGIN Award-winning Author and Broadcaster Bruce Dowbiggin's career is unmatched in Canada for its diversity and breadth of experience . He is currently the editor and publisher of Not The Public Broadcaster website and is also a contributor to SiriusXM Canada Talks. His new book Cap In Hand was released in the fall of 2018. Bruce's career has included successful stints in television, radio and print. A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada's top television sports broadcaster for his work with CBC-TV, Mr. Dowbiggin is also the best-selling author of "Money Players" (finalist for the 2004 National Business Book Award) and two new books-- Ice Storm: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Vancouver Canucks Team Ever for Greystone Press and Grant Fuhr: Portrait of a Champion for Random House. His ground-breaking investigations into the life and times of Alan Eagleson led to his selection as the winner of the Gemini for Canada's top sportscaster in 1993 and again in 1996. This work earned him the reputation as one of Canada's top investigative journalists in any field. He was a featured columnist for the Calgary Herald (1998-2009) and the Globe & Mail (2009-2013) where his incisive style and wit on sports media and business won him many readers.

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The Last Of Us: Canada’s Chaos Election

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Show me good loser and I’ll show you a loser— Leo Durocher

There’s an expression that goes, you’re not allowed to die until all the people in your life have disappointed you. That trenchant observation is particularly relevant to those who woke up on April 29 to discover that their neighbours and friends in Canada have opted to give the federal Liberals (under new leader Mark Carney) another four years to continue Canada’s descent into irrelevance.

These are the same Liberals sans Carney who were polling in the low 20s six months earlier. Their cabinet members were quitting in droves. In the finest Wag The Dog tradition, a sure victory for Canada’s Conservatives was then transformed into a humiliating defeat that saw the Tories leader Pierre Poilievre lose the seat he’d represented for 20 years. The debate in the chattering classes now is how much was Poilievre’s fault?

In a minor vindication the Liberals were seemingly denied a majority by three seats (169-144) . How they balance that equation to advance their pet projects on trade, climate, gender, free speech, native rights and Donald Trump was unknowable Which is why the Grits have turned to dumpster diving MPs like Elizabeth May and keffiyeh-clad NDP to achieve a workable majority..

Suffice to say that neophyte Carney, without any support system within the Liberals, is being highly influenced by the Justin Trudeau faculty lounge left behind after the disgraced three-term PM slunk off into the night.

It’s not all beer and skittles. No sooner had the Liberal pixie dust settled than Carney was hit with Bloc leader Yves-Francois  Blanchet announced unequivocally that energy pipelines were still a no-go in electrified Quebec. Alberta premier Danielle Smith lowered the requirement for a separation referendum from 600 K signatures to around 170 K— a very doable mark in pissed-off Alberta.

Saskatchewan premier Scott Moe outlined his demands on Carney if his province is not to join Alberta. And former British PM Tony Blair, who’d worked with Carney in the UK, announced that Carney’s pet project Net Zero was a loser for nations. Finally RBC revealed it was moving beyond diversity toward “inclusion” by removing “unconscious bias” among its upper ranks.

Such is the backwash from April 28. If you listened to the state-supported media on election night you might think that Trump had picked on poor, innocent friend next door Canada. His outrageous 51st state jest did send the Canadian political apparatus into panic. A Liberal party that proclaimed Canada a postmodern state with no real traditions (lowerering flags to half mast for six months to promote their Rez School genocide hustle) suddenly adopted the flag-waving ultra-patriotic visage of expatriate comedian Mike Myers.

Instead the commentariat was spitballing about how to make the House of Commons function more smoothly or if Carney should depart for Europe immediately or in a month to meet his true constituents in the EU commentariat. China? Wassat’? Urban crime? I can’t hear you. Canada as fentanyl capital of the West? Not interested.

Astonishingly, many people who should know better bought it. It was Boomers waking from a long nap to impose their cozy values one final time on the nation they’d created via Trudeau. Comfy ridings like Oakville, Burlington, North Vancouver, Ottawa Centre and Charlottetown mailed it in for another four years. Academic hotbeds like Western (London), Laurier (Kitchener),  Waterloo, UNB (Fredericton),  U Calgary (Confederation) Alberta (Strathcona) and UBC (Vancouver) also kept the radical dream alive.

Meanwhile shrieks of “Panic!” over Trump decimated the Bloc (22 seats) and the NDP (7 seats) with their support transferred to a banker-led party that had been poison to them only six months earlier. You could not have written a more supportive script for a party who had neglected the essentials in traditional Canada while pursuing radical policies to please the globalists of the West.

Speaking of time capsules, you’d have been hard-pressed to find a more retro scene than the one produced by the legacy TV networks. With their emphasis on the horse-race story the tone, the panels, the hosts could have easily been teleported from 1990s. While many were interested in the micro of government finance, most listeners were expecting maybe a word or two on the collapsed state exposed by Trump’s aggressive negotiating.

As we’ve mentioned often before, Canada’s allies are appalled by the takeover of the country by malign actors, drugs traffickers, money launderers, real-estate manipulators and Chinese subterfuge. Trump’s generic reference to the border was a catch-all for the corruption swallowing the election process and the finance of the country.

That avoidance was echoed by pollsters who spent the night talking about how the final figures reflected their findings. Except for those that didn’t— Conservatives vote tally over 41 percent and Liberals well under 200 seats. What was avoided was the cumulative effect of highly inflated Liberal polling during the campaign, the “why-bother?” narrative they sold to voters appalled by the Liberals manipulation of the process to switch leaders and hold a micro-campaign of 36 days.

While Donald Trump has announced he’ll work with Carney on tariffs, it’s still highly likely that this was the final Canadian election fought by the old rules where the have-nots (Atlantic Canada) the haves-but-outraged (Quebec) and the indolent (Ontario) control the math for making government. The money pump (Alberta, Saskatchewan) will seek to attract eastern BC and southern Manitoba to their crew. In the worst case Carney may be the nation’s final PM of ten provinces plus territories.

Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster  A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada’s top television sports broadcaster. His new book Deal With It: The Trades That Stunned The NHL And Changed Hockey is now available on Amazon. Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History, his previous book with his son Evan, was voted the seventh-best professional hockey book of all time by bookauthority.org. You can see all his books at brucedowbigginbooks.ca.

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Mistrial Declared in Junior Hockey Assault Trial. What Now?

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With all the Elbows Up election idiocy you can be forgiven for missing the news this past week that the trial of five former members of the 2018 men’s gold-medal winning Team Canada hockey team was declared a mistrial just a day into the proceedings. The five have all plead not guilty.

On Friday the judge ordered a new jury be empanelled after a half day of evidence in the trial of the players who are accused of sexually assaulting a woman in a hotel room in 2018 in London, Ont. Superior Court Justice Maria Carroccia has not released the reasons she halted the trial. It comes after outrage over a civil settlement between the victim and Hockey Canada in 2020 forced authorities to pursue the criminal charges.

The graphic nature of the evidence so far promises dramatic testimony should the trial go its full length. Thoughts that one of the quintet might accept a plea deal to roll over on his former teammates— a goal of the police and prosecution— have so far been unrealized. It is expected that the victim will testify.

The low-profile start to the trial in the case is a contrast with the front-page treatment it received after excellent reporting from Katie Strang of The Athletic and Rick Westhead of TSN. At the time the charges were announced in 2024, Michael McLeod and Cal Foote were with the New Jersey Devils, Dillon Dubé was with the Calgary Flames and Carter Hart was with the Philadelphia Flyers. Alex Formenton had been signed by the Ottawa Senators but was playing in Switzerland.

The sensation was amplified by the role of Hockey Canada in the civil case, using funds to pay off the victim. Parliamentary hearings and front-page headlines added to the impact.

As we wrote in January of 2024, the hysteria encouraged the usual radicals to denigrate the national sport. “For the same reason that some think guns kill people, the toffs believe that hockey itself causes outbreaks of macho sexual behaviour. These people cheer for Sweden when it plays Canada because… Canadian hockey is just too down-market for them. Sweaty guys. Cold rinks. Meritocracy. Ick!

“We should clarify here that we mean men’s hockey. Womens’ hockey is not included in the loathing. In fact, metrosexuals from PM Justin Trudeau on down worship the wholesome new PWHL. Skippy recently gave a pep talk to the Ottawa players in their dressing room. Surprise. They lost.

“Players are married to rivals on other teams. Can you get more hip than that?  Women’s hockey is nominally about winning; the real prize is equal pay for work of equal value. And the love of the Trudeau cabinet.

“But men’s hockey, with its crude meritocracy, must be shunned at all costs. Pediatric “experts” blame its emphasis on winning for causing kids to drop out.. So when the sordid tale of a 2018 multiple-sex allegation at a golf tournament arrived it warranted a hearing in the Commons, tut-tutting editorials by the score about the over-sexed nature of teenaged young hockey stars and multiple attempts to convict someone, anyone, for the act.

“That’s why the principals eventually pursued a civil case, where rules of evidence are less stringent. A civil case that Hockey Canada quickly paid off from a suspicious slush fund to end the ordeal for everyone. How’d that work out?

”Feminists and the non-binary set howled about this, but after the storm of outrage the media cycle disappeared from the public view. The 20 or so players on the 2018 Team Canada gold medal winners graduated into the NHL, and the league, which had no power to compel testimony nor a criminal charges to rely on, let them play.

“But pressure on police over the following months finally forced criminal charges. Butter cloak of secrecy prevailed. This was highly unsatisfactory. Who was under suspicion? Who was innocent? Player agents and lawyers kept their charges from self-incrimination at all costs.

“How will it end? Will there be convictions or will deals be done? In this time where social-media truths are fungible and Woke causes are paramount no one should hazard a guess. But one thing that will get an airing is the charge that hockey created this climate of sexual permissiveness. The sport must be condemned when its participants break the law.

You think that hockey caused this? That it doesn’t happen in the world of millionaire basketball or football or baseball players? Guess again. Cleveland Browns QB DeShaun Watson faced 24 sexual assault accusations. One former NBA player had seven children by six different women. Former MLB pitcher Trevor Bauer faced sexual assault charges from an alleged assault at his home.

How about the stories of young women who, like the young women pursuing athletes, went backstage at concerts and shows for a rendezvous with a famous rock star like Steven Tyler or Axl Rose and got more than they bargained for.

Or those who tried to climb the political or corporate ladder by submitting to power figures? Hello, Kamala Harris. This case is about power, stardom, privilege and exploitation. Ugly, yes. Life-wrecking for some. But trying to pigeon-hole hockey as the unique engineer of the tragedy is ignorant and irresponsible. “

Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster  A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada’s top television sports broadcaster. His new book Deal With It: The Trades That Stunned The NHL And Changed Hockey is now available on Amazon. Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History, his previous book with his son Evan, was voted the seventh-best professional hockey book of all time by bookauthority.org. You can see all his books at brucedowbigginbooks.ca.

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