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Ottawa’s year-end books show a $39.3 billion deficit, but the release never says so

The Liberal government’s audited books for the year that ended March 31 show a $39.3 billion deficit, yet the Treasury Board release announcing the Public Accounts of Canada never uses the word. Revenues came to $526.4 billion and spending to $565.7 billion.

The detailed tables behind the release show what else it left out: $12.7 billion in debts written off or forgiven, a refugee health bill past $1 billion, and a $105.1 million pandemic-era loss at the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) that is still on the books.

Treasury Board President Shafqat Ali tabled the Public Accounts in the House of Commons on November 6, one day after Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne’s budget. The release lists revenue sources and spending categories in detail, with growth rates for each, and leaves readers to do the math. Annex 1 of Champagne’s budget shows the same deficit, listed as a budgetary balance of minus $39.3 billion for 2025-26.

The final number is far smaller than Finance Canada’s preliminary count. The March Fiscal Monitor, published before the books were closed, reported “a budgetary deficit of $55.3 billion for the April 2025 to March 2026 period” on revenues of $500.0 billion.

Audited revenue is $26.4 billion higher than that tally, and the release does not explain the gap beyond noting higher customs import duties and personal income tax of $247.7 billion, or 47.1 per cent of all revenue, up from 45.9 per cent the year before.

Interest on the debt cost $53.5 billion, or 9.5 per cent of all spending. That is more than the $51.8 billion Ottawa collected in GST (goods and services tax) in the same year.

Canadian Taxpayers Federation president Franco Terrazzano called debt interest the budget’s biggest waste in an interview with Ezra Levant, saying it costs Canadians more than $1 billion every week.

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South Korea Election Officials Suspected of FORGING Vote Tally Sheets and COVERING UP Discrepancies — Special Prosecutor RAIDS Election Commission Offices

What was dismissed as a simple clerical mistake in June has now escalated into a criminal investigation involving allegations of falsified election records and an attempted cover-up inside South Korea’s National Election Commission (NEC).

South Korea’s election system is facing another explosive controversy after a special prosecutor announced Tuesday, November 10, that investigators had uncovered evidence suggesting an election commission employee concealed and forged official vote tally sheets during the June 3 local elections.

The allegations involve the election for superintendent of education in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea’s most populous province.

According to Yonhap News Agency, the special counsel team led by independent prosecutor Lee Tae-han suspects an employee of the Gwangju City Election Commission in Gyeonggi Province manipulated election records, resulting in discrepancies between the reported vote totals and the actual count.

Even more troubling, investigators are examining whether officials within the local election commission attempted to conceal the suspected wrongdoing.

On Tuesday, investigators executed court-authorized search-and-seizure operations at the Gyeonggi Provincial Election Commission and the Gwangju City Election Commission.

The searches were conducted as part of an investigation into suspected violations of South Korea’s Public Official Election Act.

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Lawyer preps class action over Veterans Affairs MAID offers as more veterans come forward

Two days before Remembrance Day, Ezra Levant opened Monday’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show with Rudyard Kipling’s poem Tommy, about a country that cheers its soldiers in wartime and forgets them in peacetime.

“But simply ignoring or underfunding veterans is one thing,” Ezra said. “But how about actively proposing to veterans that they should kill themselves or be killed by doctors.”

His guest was Catherine Christensen of Valour Law, who is working toward a class action on behalf of Canadian veterans who say Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) steered them toward medical assistance in dying (MAID).

Christensen said the practice is “a lot more prominent than Veterans Affairs would be willing to admit.” Younger veterans are being offered MAID over the phone, she said, “in an unexpected way, so they’re not able to record it.” But in the last few months, she said, older veterans have started receiving letters from Veterans Affairs suggesting it.

She said more veterans have contacted her since the Daily Mail covered her clients’ stories, including a senior veteran who told someone at a service that he was appalled to have received a letter offering him MAID. She said a copy of one such letter is on its way to her.

One of her clients is Corben McGown, who says a VAC caseworker raised MAID as his first option for treatment when he was a 22-year-old veteran with PTSD. He is now 26 and suing the federal government in Federal Court.

Christensen said Veterans Affairs’ defence was that the call never happened, so her team set out to prove it did. She told Ezra that McGown is physically healthy. “This is a big problem with Veterans Affairs and it needs to stop,” she said.

The government disputes McGown’s account. A 2023 VAC investigation confirmed four cases in which one employee inappropriately raised MAID with veterans, and said it found no further validated incidents.

Asked whether the push is ideological or about money, Christensen said she believes it is about cost. “As gross as it sounds this close to Remembrance Day, the truth of it is that dead veterans are cheaper than live ones, especially young veterans,” she said. “It’s a budget thing, in my opinion.”

Christensen, a former registered nurse, also questioned how informed consent is possible when a veteran with a severe brain injury can be lined up for MAID within a couple of days.

The biggest challenges in the class action, she said, will be defining the classes and getting documents out of the Canadian Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs. She pointed to the case of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, whose emails were hard to find because officials used a code name. “I’ve never seen defendants fight discovery harder than the Canadian Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs,” she said.

She said veterans have been afraid to come forward because they fear losing their benefits, and that she is in talks with members of the opposition. Veterans can learn more at the Valour Legal Action Centre, a nonprofit.

“Veterans are very vulnerable and they deserve better treatment than this,” she said.

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CBC executive ran encrypted chat with prank-show producers as scandal broke

A CBC executive managed the fallout from the Northland Tales prank-show scandal in an encrypted group chat with the show’s producers. Messages in the chat discussed leaving information off production call sheets after learning CBC had received an access to information request. That’s according to access to information records obtained by Rebel News.

The chat, titled “Nlt,” was created on May 12, the day Lindsay Shepherd and Frances Widdowson went public about being deceived by the CBC-APTN production. It includes Yasmine Abbasakoor, CBC’s executive in charge of development for unscripted programming, and members of the production whose names are redacted. A notice at the top says the chat was end-to-end encrypted.

“Hi All- the media requests keep rolling in. The latest from The Toronto Sun,” Abbasakoor wrote that evening. She asked how the producers planned to respond.

“We have had requests, at the moment we are just sitting on it,” a production member replied. “Do you have any requests for how we respond?”

The production side later promised to send a list of the media requests “over this channel of course,” and sent a “secured link” that night.

Earlier that afternoon, CBC communications staff had settled on their own response. In an email to CBC executives, CBC PR director Katherine Wolfgang said CBC would “respond with the comment that we have already discussed” and was waiting to brief APTN’s communications team.

On May 13, a chat participant wrote that “hearing that the CBC has been atipped” had them thinking about something. The rest of that message is blacked out. The next morning, a message said call sheets “will have all our info,” followed by: “For the next two eps we will leave this info off.” The sender’s name on that message is redacted, and the records don’t show whether that was done.

On May 15, after CBC paused the production, Abbasakoor told the producers to “stop editing and get us all the dailies.” A production member sent passwords for episode dailies and outlines requested by Jennifer Dettman, CBC’s executive director of unscripted content, and CBC executive Sally Catto. “We are being extra protective,” the producer wrote.

On May 25, Abbasakoor asked the producers for the video they originally pitched at the Banff World Media Festival. “I know it’s not on YouTube anymore,” she wrote. “I’ll call you later and tell you why. All good reasons.” The records don’t say what those reasons were.

A separate chat exported from Dettman’s phone shows she used a default disappearing-message timer. New messages in her chats “will disappear from this chat 7 days after they’re sent, except when kept,” the notice reads. It is dated April 21, three weeks before the show became public. The records do not show which of her messages, if any, were deleted.

The access to information request that produced these records was filed on May 26 and asked for texts, WhatsApp, Signal and Slack messages about the show. CBC answered on October 8, after taking an extension.

Thirty-nine pages were withheld in full under section 23 of the Access to Information Act, which covers solicitor-client privilege. CBC also excluded other material under section 68.1, which shields its “journalistic, creative or programming activities.”

The release also includes 41 complaints sent to the CBC about the show.

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CBC asked prank-show producers for their ‘duty of care’ document. It was ‘lost in the drive shuffle’

A week after the National Police Federation accused the CBC-APTN prank series Northland Tales of deceiving RCMP veterans, a senior CBC executive went looking for the production’s duty-of-care document. She was told it had been lost when files were moved between drives. That’s according to access to information records obtained by Rebel News.

On May 26, Jennifer Dettman, CBC English Services’ executive director of unscripted content, emailed about a “Duty of care info request.” A person whose name is blacked out replied, “RIGHT – will find it now.”

Later that afternoon, the same correspondent wrote: “I think that the document itself got lost in the drive shuffle – it is this one on the clipboard in this picture! I will find it – the migration of the drives has caused me to lose a few links.”

Nine minutes later, Dettman answered: “That is it, thank you.”

The photo isn’t in the release, and the records don’t say what the duty-of-care document contained, who wrote it or when. Most of the thread is blacked out under exemptions for personal information, third-party business information and CBC programming.

The request came one week after National Police Federation president Brian Sauve wrote to Canadian Identity and Culture Minister Marc Miller on May 19. Sauve said RCMP veterans and serving members were invited to Vancouver for what they believed was a production honouring their service. He said they arrived in uniform, had their phones taken and were then ambushed on camera.

Sauve asked that the footage never air, warning that broadcasting it “would compound that harm and constitute an ongoing breach of duty of care.” CBC president Marie-Philippe Bouchard forwarded the letter to her senior staff the same evening.

CBC paused production in mid-May. A draft CBC reply to Conservative MP Aaron Gunn in the release says the corporation was pausing the show “while we assess the existing footage.”

On May 25, Gunn raised the RCMP veterans in Question Period and asked whether it was acceptable for the public broadcaster to use taxpayer money to deceive Canadians. Liberal MP David Myles answered that CBC is independent, that production had been paused and that the show had never aired.

CBC public affairs head Chuck Thompson later told someone who had written to Bouchard that CBC was “conducting a comprehensive review of this production.” The records do not say whether that review looked at the duty-of-care document, or what it found.

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VAERS and VSAFE: The “Worst Case Scenario” Twice

Files that were removed from the internet are in the evidence pack.

The scale of the violation is hard to imagine, I know. After the dazed feeling wears off, let’s get busy. I also want to thank Dr. Clayton Baker, who was the first to bring my attention to the role of Tom Shimabukuro in covering up vaccine safety signals for over ten years. Incredibly, he is still at the CDC, serving as the deputy director of the Influenza Division in their National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD).

The following research brief benefited from various digital research assistants, and I have not edited the language yet. But the information cannot wait.

Read and share with friends and family. It’s not over yet.

The United States began vaccinating against Covid-19 on 14 December 2020. Two CDC programs were designed and paid to catch any harm that clinical trials had missed. VAERS takes reports from doctors, patients and manufacturers. V-safe sends vaccinated people text messages asking how they feel. Here we follow the paper trail of those two systems from the Christmas 2020 rollout into 2022. The bottom line:

The government’s “worst case” for amount of Covid vaccine injury reports assumed 1,000 reports a day. For fourteen months it was double that. For some of those months, it was triple.

The document that matters most is a monthly report from the contractor that runs VAERS for the CDC, General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT). It covers December 2020 and went to the CDC’s contracting officer’s representative on 16 January 2021, with CDC program staff and an FDA reviewer copied. Its first page carries a chart.

A red line marks 1,000 reports a day, which the government’s own planning called the “worst case.” The reports crossed that line on 21 December, the winter solstice, in the first week of the rollout. They dipped under it for three days around Christmas. From 26 December they stayed over it. The contractor told the CDC. that it was “unable to meet processing and other timeframes (data processing, telephone inquiries, clinical inquiries, etc.)” (GDIT report, PDF p. 8). All this while they were telling everyone everything was ok.

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Carney Liberals block motion to study Canadian church arsons

A motion by a Conservative MP to study arson attacks and crimes against Christian churches and other religious places was shot down by Liberal MPs, who claimed that it is not warranted.

On October 29, during debate in a House of Commons Heritage Committee meeting, Conservative MP Andrew Lawton made a motion to “undertake a study of no fewer than eight meetings on vandalism, arson, shootings and other criminal attacks against places of worship in Canada.”

Lawton’s motion noted that since 2015, “police-reported hate crimes targeting religion have more than doubled, from 469 to 1,115 a year.”

He called on the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture to “appear on a panel of his own, without other witnesses, for no less than two hours, and invite the Minister of Public Safety, the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Statistics Canada, police services and their hate crime units, and representatives of Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh and other faith communities, including congregations whose places of worship have been attacked, as well as any other witnesses the committee deems relevant,” to discuss the matter.

However, the committee chair, Liberal MP Lisa Hepfner, ruled the motion “inadmissible as it exceeded the mandate of the committee.”

When the question was asked, “Shall the decision of the Chair be sustained?” all Liberal and other MPs except the Conservatives on the committee voted “yes.”

Lawton then brought forward another motion asking the committee recognize that “historic religious buildings and faith traditions are important parts” of Canadian society and must be protected and reported to the House for further debate.

This motion was voted down as well.

Conservative MPs for some time have urged Liberal MPs to back a bill that, if passed, would make church arsonists pay for the damages they cause, saying that it is needed, as “vandalizing places of worship is unacceptable.”

The Liberals thus far have refused to back the bill.

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Pedophile President: Trump & Epstein Argued Over Who Would Take 13-year-old’s Virginity, New House Report States

A new Democrat-led House Committee on the Judiciary report released this week sheds more light on President Donald Trump’s close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. The Document, entitled “‘We Have Certain Things in Common, Jeffrey’: The Case Against Donald Trump Emerging in the Epstein Files and DOJ’s Desperate Efforts to Cover it Up,” is based on the accounts of eleven women, five of whom alleged Trump raped or sexually assaulted them in the presence of the disgraced financier. Two of those women were 13-year-old children at the time of the alleged events.

The report portrays both Trump and former United States Special Representative for Global Partnerships Paolo Zampolli as being members of Epstein’s trafficking inner circle, and catalogs how Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) “actively obstructed the Epstein investigation into any co-conspirators” and attempted to block the release of the Epstein Files in order to protect the president.

Even so, Trump’s name still appears roughly 38,000 times in the released Epstein Files, with Epstein himself claiming that he introduced Trump’s future wife Melania to him, and that the pair first had sex aboard his infamous “Lolita Express” jet. Melania was, at the time, a model working for Zampolli’s agency.

A Host of Women Come Forward

Beatrice Keul – In 1993, Miss Switzerland Beatrice Keul was in New York City competing in Trump’s American Dream Pageant. It was there that she met both the future president and Jeffrey Epstein. Trump offered to secure her a place at New York University, and for Zampolli to arrange her visa. Epstein, she said, described himself as “Don’s best friend.”

Keul went to a suite in the Plaza Hotel for what she thought was a meeting about NYU. However, upon entering the suite, she said, Trump grabbed her from behind and “brutally” raped her, tearing her dress and caused bleeding and bruising across her body.

“Katie Johnson” – (a pseudonym) alleges in a lawsuit that Trump raped and sexually abused her on multiple occassions in 1994, when she was just 13-years-old. At an Epstein party in New York, she states that she was ordered to strip down to her underwear, massage Epstein, and touch Trump’s penis. Trump and Epstein argued over who would take her virginity, with Epstein getting angry and “violently raping her” when he found out Trump had already done so.

Johnson also alleges that Trump and Epstein threatened to kill her if she went to the authorities, stating “we will make you disappear like [name redacted].”

In a separate complaint, Johnson said that, on another occasion, she pleaded with Trump to wear a condom, to which he struck her in the face and screamed that he “would do whatever he wanted.” After he finished, Johnson claimed that Trump threw money at her and screamed “get a fucking abortion.”

Jane Doe 4 – Another 13-year-old allegedly assaulted by Trump was Jane Doe 4. She told the FBI that, in 1983, she bit Trump while performing oral sex on him, in response to which he hit her in the face. She said that Epstein flew her to New York City on multiple occasions, where she was offered up as “fresh meat” at “intimate gatherings with other, prominent, wealthy men,” where she was “brutally and forcibly battered, assaulted, and raped by these other men.”

Stacey Williams – Williams, a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, dated Epstein in the 1990s. While at Trump’s Christmas party at the Plaza Hotel, she said that Trump groped her in front of Epstein. “His hands were all over me. They were on my breasts, they were on my butt, they were on, you know, my hips, up and down,” she said. Epstein berated her for letting Trump touch her.

Jill Harth – Harth alleges that in 1993, Trump bundled her into his daughter’s bedroom at Mar-a-Lago, kissed and groped her, and prevented her from leaving.

Jane Doe 1 – At just 14-years-old, Epstein brought her to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property, telling him “this is a good one, huh?” to which Trump responded “Yes.” She described in detail the sexual abuse she received from Epstein and others, but did not name Trump as one of those individuals.

Maria Farmer – Epstein’s former assistant alleges that, while at the financier’s New York City office, Donald Trump marched into the office in an imposing “predatory” manner. Epstein then appeared and told Trump that Farmer was “not for you,” escorting him to another room where Farmer believes another girl was waiting. She also stated that Trump said he “thought she was 16” although she was actually 25 at the time.

“Kate” – Kate (another pseudonym) states that Epstein’s partner Ghislaine Maxwell introduced her to Trump, “with the clear understanding that she was available for sex.” This sex, she said, did not happen. However, in 1997, the British tabloid, The Sunday Mirror, ran a story reporting how “America’s best known billionaire Donald Trump has fallen under the spell of a 20-year-old English girl” (Kate). It also noted that Maxwell had “introduced several of her attractive friends” to Trump. The Sunday Mirror was owned by Ghislaine’s father, Robert Maxwell, until his death in 1991.

Obfuscating Reality

Many of these allegations were already publicly available. But the fact that they are appearing in an official government publication is highly significant, especially as the report concludes that “there is more than enough evidence” against Trump and that he “must be investigated and prosecuted.”

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Lawyer Mark Javitch Scores Courtroom Win to Free the Zapruder Film — National Archives Responds by Locking Up the Best Copies

On October 1, 2026, the Archivist of the United States quietly signed an agreement with a private Dallas Museum that keeps the clearest, highest-resolution versions of the Zapruder film locked away from the American people.

The Zapruder film is the single most important piece of photographic evidence in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The taxpayers bought it. The government made high-quality copies of it specifically so the public could study it. And the government is still keeping those copies out of reach.

The timing of this agreement is no accident.

Just eight weeks earlier, on August 5, 2026, a federal judge in Dallas handed attorney Mark Javitch a major victory, ruling that a court can order the National Archives to put the Zapruder film online for the public and that the copyright itself was subject to challenge and a determination of fair use.

The government lost in court. So it went around the court.

Mark Javitch: The Lawyer Who Took On the Archives and the Museum

Mark L. Javitch is a federal litigator based in San Mateo, California. He represents the Forum on Open Access to Government Records, a publisher fighting to pry the Zapruder film loose from government and private control.

Javitch has spent years battling the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas and the National Archives in Freedom of Information Act and JFK Records Act cases, including an appeal now pending before the Ninth Circuit. He is the author of SCAM: The Zapruder Copyright — How the Sixth Floor Museum Continues the Coverup (2025). The Forum maintains ZapruderFilm.com, the largest free public collection of National Archives documents on the history of the Zapruder film.

“The one attempt to enforce the Zapruder copyright lost in court in 1967. Inexplicably, 60 years later, the government lets the Museum decide who gets access based on the copyright that could never be enforced.” Javitch said. Javitch suspects the Zapruder film held by the Archives may have been altered — a theory his book lays out in detail, and one the Museum denies. Javitch believes that the Museum rejected the Forum’s request for permission to use the copyright because the Forum’s publications raise the question whether the film was altered, a theory the Museum considers off limits.

Javitch hopes that full public access to the best copies will shed light on the question once and for all. If the film is authentic, the highest-resolution versions will show it. If it is not, the American people deserve to know. Either way, the answer lies in the very versions the government is now locking away. The government promised to make high-quality versions available to the public. It performed the high-resolution scans in 2002, but never made them widely available.

The fight started with a simple request.

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Oregon: Officials Dodge Press, Private Lawfare Targets Guns, and Toxicology Results Drag On

Three law firms are representing the parents of Rhoam Summer, killed in the Silver Rail Elementary School shooting in Bend, Oregon. They are Dwyer Williams & Cherkoss, Simon Greenstone & Panatier, and Worthington & Caron. The announced investigation includes school security, prior warnings, firearm access, and the weapon’s marketing. Psychiatric treatment, prescription records, and potential state involvement are not specifically identified in any of the news stories or the law firms’ scope of the planned investigation.

This raises major alarms about the agenda already taking shape. An investigation into “systemic failures” should explicitly include the behavioral health system. No institution should get a pass before the evidence is examined. This should not delay another public press conference. None has been held in the past three days.

AbleChild’s public accountability request comes from years of pursuing mass killers’ mental health “treatment” records, prescription histories, and toxicology findings. Our reporting includes:

These are examples, not our complete archive. Our demand is consistent. Produce the records needed to examine treatment decisions and institutional responsibility.

When lawsuits become tools for steering legislation instead of exposing the whole truth, the people cannot participate in the legislative process to hold government agencies accountable or eliminate bad social programs. Law firms’ narrowing of investigations to selectively target certain industries has exposed political agendas and has failed to stop mass killings. Law firms cannot build the case for new laws. That is the job of the American people. The lawfare approach has left government agencies and behavioral health providers outside the spotlight. That is not full accountability.

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