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Tenative schedule (approved by Rob McQueen, and Stefan Verstappen)
1. Sept. - Outdoor BBQ for TPost (date to be determined).
2. Tony Bolla & others speak at Rob's church on a Sat. afternoon in Sept.
3. Nov. - Daniel re alternatives to fiat currency
4. Oct. - We sponsor Stefan to come and speak for 75 min + 45 min Q&A
We showed his video when we were at the church off Adelaide St. This man lives near Ingersol and must be close to my age (82) because he was one of the original hippies of the 60's. His experiences in various self-contained communities is fantastic. His video is a must for anyone forming a community of any size, if you don't want it to flourish and fail.
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SPIRITUAL:
THE END of US:
It’s only when we come to the end of ourselves that we reach the beginning of all that God has for us.
When we deny ourselves and follow Jesus, we can expect to live blessed, purposeful, and effective lives.
Let’s focus on “the end of us” in today’s episode of Real Life.
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Alberta says Carney government has “lost control” of immigration
The Alberta government is warning that the number of immigrants coming in is still unsustainable, protesters disrupt the Edmonton Alberta Next town hall, and more.
Despite Prime Minister Mark Carney’s promise to restore immigration to sensible levels, the Alberta government is warning that the number coming in is still unsustainable, compounded by the estimated half a million illegal immigrants currently in Canada.
Alberta Immigration Minister Joseph Schow blasted Carney and the Liberals on Friday.
Minister of Jobs, Economy, Trade and Immigration Joseph Schow issued the following statement on Ottawa’s loss of control over immigration:
“The federal government has lost control of sustainable immigration in Canada. Despite promises from Prime Minister Mark Carney to restore sustainable levels, Canada is on pace to receive more than one million new temporary and permanent immigrants this year, not including the almost three million temporary residents already in the country.
“Each year, the federal government sets immigration targets while provincial governments are responsible for the majority of supports including health care, housing and education. Unfortunately, the decisions regarding immigration targets are often made without proper consideration of provincial needs or priorities. When it comes to immigration, Albertans simply want transparency, honesty and sustainability, all of which have been lost under this federal government.
“At the same time, it is estimated that there are up to 500,000 illegal immigrants currently spread across Canada, all of whom are benefiting from taxpayer-funded services. As the federal government determines immigration targets for next year, these illegal migrants are not being accounted for. This means that the numbers being reported to Canadians are inaccurate. These illegal migrants must be taken into account, as every province is feeling the pressure of Ottawa’s mismanagement of the immigration system.
“Alberta has led the country in population growth rates, increasing by 4.36 per cent last year, ahead of Ontario at 3.21 per cent and B.C. at 3.02 per cent. Most of that growth has come from international migration, along with the highest levels of interprovincial migration in Canada. Employment, housing, health care and other public services are under pressure due to Canada’s open border policy, and the strain will only get worse if immigration is not brought under control.
“As Prime Minister Carney admitted in April, ‘the system isn’t working.’ He must keep his promise to cap immigration and fix the system. Nowhere is the strain more obvious than in Alberta, where record population growth is being felt in communities provincewide. It is time to regain control of our borders, protect the services Canadians rely on, and restore trust in our immigration system.”
Quick facts
· Alberta’s population growth in 2023-2024 led the country for the second year in a row at a rate of 4.36 per cent.
· Net international migration was the primary contributor to population growth in 2023-24, accounting for 71.2 per cent of the provincial absolute growth.
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In 2023-24, Alberta was among the only provinces to see growth through interprovincial migration.
· 43,750 people moved to Alberta from other provinces in 2023-24.
· The only other provinces to see growth through interprovincial migration in 2023-24 were New Brunswick (2,803) and Nova Scotia (2,252).
· All other provinces saw decreases in interprovincial migration.
· Between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024, Alberta’s population grew by 145,395 people through international migration.
· This is an increase from the prior year’s growth of 119,699 people through international migration.
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Canada
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Canada
Canada’s Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu has ordered more than 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants back to work after they began striking shortly after midnight Aug. 16, following a breakdown of talks between the airline and the union to renegotiate a contract that expired in March.
The minister also ordered binding arbitration to resolve the dispute.
Hajdu made the announcement during a news conference around 12 p.m. EST on Aug. 16, saying arbitration was the “most stable way” forward.
Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Justin Tang
“I have exercised my authorities under Section 107 of the Canadian Labour Code to direct the Canada Industrial Relations Board to order the parties to resume and continue their operations and duties in order to secure industrial peace and protect the interests of Canada, Canadians, and the economy,” she said.
The minister also asked for the terms of the existing collective agreement to be extended until a new one is determined by the arbitrator.
Hajdu said Air Canada indicated it could take five to 10 days for services to return to normal.
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The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), which represents the flight attendants, accused the minister of caving to the demands of Air Canada.
“This sets a terrible precedent. Contrary to the Minister’s remarks, this will not ensure labour peace at Air Canada. This will only ensure that the unresolved issues will continue to worsen by kicking them down the road,” the union said in a statement shortly after Hajdu’s announcement.
Strike
The flight attendants’ strike began shortly after midnight on Aug. 16. Air Canada said the action is impacting about 130,000 travellers daily. Air Canada flights operated by third-party airlines Jazz and PAL remained unaffected.
CUPE issued a 72-hour strike notice on Aug. 13 following stalled talks over wages. The airline, which has proposed its own wage and benefits package, responded with a 72-hour lockout notice and began “winding down” its main operations, which include about 700 daily flights.
The union said picket lines would be held at airports in Montreal, Mississauga, Richmond, and Calgary, as well as possibly at airports in Halifax, Ottawa, and Winnipeg.
The disagreement is over wages and ground pay, which is money paid to flight attendants while the plane is grounded.
Air Canada said it offered what it calls a 38 percent increase in total compensation over four years, including wages, pension, health benefits, and vacation pay.
“It will make Air Canada flight attendants the best compensated in Canada,” the company said, adding its cabin crew already earn up to $17 more per hour than their counterparts at Air Canada’s largest domestic competitor.
But the union said that inflation has outpaced wages over the past decade, saying the offer would “still leave flight attendants living below poverty levels for many years to come.”
Wesley Lesosky, president of CUPE’s Air Canada component, said flight attendants have seen a 9 percent cut to real wages over the past decade, and argued the company’s proposal amounts to only a 17.2 percent wage increase over four years.
Air Canada had earlier asked Ottawa to order binding arbitration, but CUPE said it wanted to continue negotiations between the two parties for a deal.
AIR CANADA STRIKE
Air Canada flight attendants walk through the Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Dorval, Que., on Aug. 15, 2025. The Canadian Press/Christinne Muschi
Binding arbitration is where an independent mediator hears both sides’ positions and issues a legally binding decision.
The union said that Air Canada was not bargaining in good faith and was instead asking the government to intervene.
Hajdu had earlier asked the union to consider the airline’s request for binding arbitration, and had “urged” both sides to “work harder” to reach a deal.
‘So Far Apart’
Hajdu said during the Aug. 16 press conference that the “best deals are arrived at the table,” but that both parties were “so far apart on a number of issues” that they were going to need “some additional help” to reach an agreement.
The minister said the parties had been attempting negotiations overnight but talks broke down.
“The parties committed to staying at the table throughout the night, which they did. There was an offer tabled by the employer, and the talks broke down,” she said.
“It is clear that the parties are not any closer to resolving some of the key issues that remain, and they will need help with an arbitrator.”
The Conservatives criticized the Liberal government for forcing flight attendants back to work.
“No worker – federally-regulated or otherwise – should be forced, especially by the government, to work without being paid. Yet, that is exactly what flight attendants are being ordered to do,” Conservative MP and shadow minister for labour Kyle Seeback said in a statement.
“Instead of continuing to attack flight attendants by forcing them back to work, [Prime Minister Mark] Carney should work with Parliament to pass the Conservatives’ Flight Attendants Fairness Act, ensuring workers are paid for the work they do before, during and after a flight.”
NDP Interim Leader Don Davies also criticized the minister’s decision.
“The Liberal govt is again using s. 107 of the Canada Labour Code to order workers back to work. This is a blatant misuse of that section and is being challenged in court,” Davies said on social media.
“They should recall Parliament and democratically debate back to work legislation if they feel it’s justified.”
The Canadian Press
and Paul Rowan Brian
contributed to this article.
TRUMP:
Trump’s Cabinet Member [John Bolton] Backstabs Him – Implicated in MAJOR Crime:
A former member of President Donald Trump’s cabinet has reportedly been tied to the alleged Russian collusion hoax and efforts to conceal it, according to journalist Paul Sperry of RealClear Investigations.
In a post on X, Sperry claimed that John Bolton, Trump’s former National Security Advisor, received a classified memo that summarized a report exposing how ex-CIA Director John Brennan allegedly “cooked up” false intelligence connecting Trump’s 2016 campaign to the Russian government. “But Bolton stuck it in an NSC safe and never briefed Trump, believing the Brennan intel,” Sperry wrote, citing unnamed sources familiar with the situation.
Bolton, a prominent neoconservative figure who has become an outspoken critic of Trump since departing the White House, recently responded harshly to revelations presented by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Gabbard declassified a memo suggesting that Brennan authorized a report asserting Russian interference had decisively influenced the 2016 election in favor of Trump. That intelligence summary, considered a key document within the CIA, claimed the Kremlin was working to help Trump win.
However, the newly released memo appears to challenge that narrative. It indicates that several CIA officers signed letters asserting that Russian interference did not have a meaningful effect on the election outcome. Furthermore, the memo suggests that Russia actually preferred a Clinton victory, allegedly because the Kremlin believed it possessed compromising material on her that could be exploited after she took office.
These revelations appear to conflict with the 2020 congressional testimonies of Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey, prompting the FBI to launch a wide-ranging investigation into both men.
Bolton publicly criticized Gabbard earlier this week over her disclosures. “She’s strung together a series of things that aren’t necessarily related, she’s exaggerated what actual congressional reports have said, she’s imagined evidence that doesn’t exist,” Bolton said during an appearance on NewsNation’s “On Balance.”
“So, if anybody really gets into it, it collapses pretty quickly, but as a campaign to save her job, I think it actually worked out pretty successfully for her,” he added.
Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump responded to the revelations by accusing his predecessor and top intelligence officials of committing treason. “Based on what I read, and I read pretty much what you read, it would be President Obama. He started it,” Trump told reporters. “And \[then-vice president Joe] Biden was there with him and Comey was there and \[former DNI director James] Clapper, the whole group was there. Brennan, they were all there in a room, right here, this was the room.”
Trump went on to say, “If you look at those papers, they have him stone-cold and it was President Obama. It wasn’t lots of people all over the place, it was them, too. But the leader of the gang was President Obama, Barack Hussein Obama, have you heard of him?”
“He’s guilty, it’s not a question,” Trump continued. “This was treason, this was every word you can think of.”
The Republic Brief
Top Democrat(s) Now Facing Decades in Prison on Horrifying Charges:
Another high-ranking Democrat is once again caught in the web of corruption that seems to plague the party. According to a Friday report, Los Angeles prosecutors have hit Democratic City Councilman Curren Price with even more felony charges—further proving what conservatives have long argued: Democrats enrich themselves while selling out the people they claim to serve.
This week, the Los Angeles District Attorney filed two additional charges against Price, accusing him of brazenly embezzling public funds and manipulating government contracts for his own financial benefit. This comes on top of the five counts of embezzlement filed against him in 2023, to which he pleaded not guilty.
Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman didn’t mince words about the Democrat’s behavior:
“Embezzling public funds and awarding contracts for your own financial gain is the antithesis of public service. Our communities expect and deserve better from their public officials.”
Hochman added:
“I thank our investigative team and prosecutors in the Public Integrity Division for diligently pursuing every lead and holding elected officials accountable. Self-dealing and pay-to-play politics will not be tolerated in Los Angeles County.”
The charges read like a textbook case of Democrat corruption. The DA’s office revealed that Price’s wife raked in more than $800,000 from government agencies while he voted to funnel those same agencies millions in taxpayer money.
Between 2019 and 2021, Del Richardson & Associates, a company owned solely by Price’s wife, was paid over $150,000 by developers whose projects Price later supported. Price also stands accused of pocketing roughly $33,800 in city funds between 2013 and 2017 to pay medical benefits for Richardson, fraudulently claiming she was his wife while still married to another woman.
The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles paid Richardson’s company nearly $610,000 while Price approved a $35 million federal grant and backed a $252 million state grant for the agency. His staff even flagged the conflict of interest beforehand, but Price ignored it.
LA Metro also forked over about $220,000 to Richardson’s firm, and during the same time frame, Price introduced and voted for a motion to hand Metro $30 million. Again, staff flagged the conflict, and again Price pushed ahead. Price allegedly steered over $2 million in COVID-19 relief funds to a nonprofit called Home at Last, an organization that just happened to be a tenant of a project he ran as CEO.
For over a decade, Democrats like Price have run Los Angeles into the ground with corruption, favoritism, and backroom deals while crime and homelessness spiral out of control. Price is hardly the only Democrat facing serious legal peril. Across the country, grand juries in Virginia and Maryland are considering criminal indictments against New York Attorney General Letitia James and California Senator Adam Schiff, two of Trump’s loudest political enemies. Both are accused of falsifying property records to secure sweetheart mortgage deals.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has already appointed Ed Martin as Special Attorney to handle their prosecution, emphasizing just how serious these charges are. Mortgage fraud, bank fraud, and wire fraud each carry prison sentences of up to 30 years. As Martin explained:“Attorney General Bondi and President Trump have given me a very serious mission. I am committed to going where the facts take me. For months DOJ and the FBI have been working on these two cases, it is my job to stick the landing.”
While the media does its best to shield Democrats from scrutiny, the facts keep piling up:
from Hunter Biden’s shady foreign deals, to Schiff’s suspected leaks, to Letitia James’ politically motivated lawfare, and now Curren Price’s brazen embezzlement. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump and his Republican allies continue exposing this corruption and fighting to restore honesty in government. Every new Democrat scandal proves the GOP right:
the real “threat to democracy” is the left’s endless corruption and abuse of power.
The REPUBLIC Brief
GLOBAL:
Alex Jones Hoodwinked?
For once I believe Alex Jones was fooled ....by his guest on this program, Patrick Byrne who impressed Jones with his CIA background and extensive intimate knowledge of voting machine fraud around the world.
Byrne also joined with General Flynn building the ReAwaken America Tour, which is a good reason not to trust him, because we learn in the last five minutes that the purpose of the tour was to 'unite the tribes" finding every little conservative activist group in every little town across America. Yeah. Make a list.
This is the very opposite of what Dr. Malone recommended for today's 5th Generation Warfare (see my previous email advocating anonymous decentralization). Flynn's "Army of God" is 3rd Generation warfare, promoting "Christian nationalism", America with no diversity, only one religion and that doesn't include Judaism. And thus it ran into opposition even among Christians.
Furthermore it included doctors associated with "new earth" Mr. Sasha Stone (founder of Humanitad Foundation) and who is also interlinked with the UN. For a real eye-opener, skip half way to the 14 minute mark on this video and see all the ReAwakenTour speakers who belong to the Academy of Divine Knowledge (New Age). That organization interprets "one religion" as one god honoured in all religions!
Also included in the tour was Scientologist and Lawyer Leigh Dundas who believes patriots are within their rights to kill American "turncoats". Mike Pence was included in 2021, the same Mike Pence who was turncoat VP for Trump, and also spoke to Moonies at their AGA.
Getting back to the Alex Jones interview with ex-CIA agent Patrick Byrne, I don't believe a word of what they say about Venezuela and President Maduro. It's what Byrne doesn't say that counts. He doesn't talk about how the CIA tried to install a nobody, a puppet called Juan Guaido, in a failed coup.
He doesn't describe the support for Maduro by evangelical church leaders who were fed up with the old government of Hugo Chavez in league with corrupt Catholic bishops. They rejoiced at Maduro legally recognizing evangelical churches and non-profits, and also creating a lower house of representatives elected mostly by farmers and Protestants.
Mainstream Media faked reports of support for the coup. I talked to people who were actually there at the time and saw the huge crowds out for Maduro vs. small crowds of protesters. I spent hours researching events. Trump is a sucker if he tries to take down Maduro now (with a $50 million reward for his head) just to get Venezuela's oil (the biggest producer in the world). Putin and China won't let him get away with it!
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— Gold-Backed Currency, Deep State Collapse, Mass Arrests Incoming and the Media Is Covering It All Up!
President Trump activated GESARA protocols during his first term, quietly laying the legal groundwork through Executive Orders, military codes, and sealed indictments. When the Deep State screamed about “insurrections” and “coup attempts” on January 6th, what they were really panicking over was the silent seizure of power by...
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