The Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast - Bitcoin News With a Canadian Spin - Canadian Jobs Report Disaster, One Year With Carney, Floor Crossers | CBP 256 Pt 2

Episode Date: March 18, 2026

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But I feel good about recommending that service. and it's becoming more and more important to have a real plan that someone who has real knowledge helps you execute. And that's all I'll say. Want to talk about the job report in Canada? I love this. I love it. I'm not sure if we did talk about this one specifically.

It's new. It's new this week. Or late last week, I should say late last week. Okay, because I remember then it was the U.S. one. But either way, Canada. The U.S. We talked about was the, yeah, the Department of Downward Revisions got like, they're like 18 months in a row.

or something. No, but the last job report for the U.S. was bloody awful. And this one for Canada from February is bloody awful as well. 84,000 jobs were lost. And this is a surprise to the economists out there because they were predicting 10,000 job gain. What a huge fucking miss. And this 84,000 job drop is the largest outside of COVID and over. over 15 years. Crazy.

So unemployment rate, they're saying, is 6.7%. They're saying this jumped 0.2% since January. But they're not capturing into people that just simply stop working for, looking for work. They just are tired. They're not doing it. So they're not captured in this statistic. This is for people that are actively looking and so forth. The reality is the unemployment rate, countrywide, is probably at or higher 10%.

It's got to be 15. I think it's 15. I'll tell you why after you're done in the summary. It could be. And of this, 108,000 full-time jobs were lost. 24,000 part-time jobs were added.

It's horrific. Now, you know what you can say? Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead, no, please. No, no, you finish up and then we'll... I was just going to add 24,000 jobs part-time added. You could look at that, just strip it away and say,

wow, this is good. We added 24,000 part-time jobs. But if you take into consideration the whole thing, The 108,000 full-time jobs lost, that's rough. And furthermore, they're saying that the youth workers, ages 15 to 24, are the ones that are have the, and it's historically like that. They were hit the hardest, 47,000 jobs lost, and the unemployment rate for them is 14%. And that's probably understating it in reality.

We haven't yet gone to the point where people are going to be looking, these young workers are looking for summer jobs. You're not going to be going to McDonald's, Starbucks, whatever, because those people out there, those jobs out there, are now taken, unfortunately, by people of more experience. People that are older that need a second job because things have gotten more expensive. So these young people are now getting pushed out from that.

Also, there may be some AI taking into consideration here that is taking some jobs. It's tough for these people. And if you really want to go furthermore into this thing, they're saying Quebec and British Columbia are the ones, the two provinces that got hit the hardest. interesting Quebec

there they're you know the separation discussion is always going on over there and BC well they're a mess and it's going to get continually be a mess over there why is this happening

the thing that they're saying is because it's the trade and tariffs this is as a result of that unbelievable we've you know you can go a little bit further into this it's a one year anniversary of Carney taking over

the leadership and of course being Prime Minister of Canada. This is what we get as a result of I'm not saying it's all because of him. Tough environment. I'll give him that. It is, but he was elected on being the guy

who could get you through a tough environment. Was he not? Absolutely. But hey, it is what it is. I'll hide it over to you because I know you want to say something on this.

Well, you brought it up and I'll drive the point home. Employment down. in every age group under 55, unemployment, sorry, unemployment up, I should say in every age group under 55, unemployment down in the 55s and over. So now if you're a Canadian kid,

you're competing with every third world villager coming over here on fake scam job offers and also your grandparents for the jobs that you would otherwise basically have handed to you so you can gain experience and propel the economy me and build a resume and build skills that will help the country prosper long term. Incredible stuff going on in Canada.

Truly mind-numbing how fucking retarded this place has become. That 84,000 jobs represents 44% of all the gains over the last four months. So you basically lost two months of, two months of growth there, quote, quote, growth. Who knows where that growth was? I don't have the date in front of me. But the interesting thing for me continues to be this. that we are always the victim of policies happening elsewhere in the world. But I think this is starting to wane on the populace. We are canceling major projects related to oil and gas because of

First Nations tribes who are taking time off drinking mouthwash to evict people from trailers in which they've been living for 40 years. We have problems with interprovincial trade that were supposed to be resolved in the first 60 days or 90 days, I think, of Prime Minister Carney's tenure. They've not been resolved as of yet. We have rate hikes in the forecast for Canada, though I don't think that's actually going to happen because the 10 year doesn't really give you that indication. And also, like I tweeted today, that's assuming that Kuzma is renegotiated on basically the same footing as we have now, which is rather unlikely, not only because we've made, I think enemies of the Trump administration's trade negotiators and the Trump administration's top, top dogs, but also then because I think the tariffs were meant to hit us a little harder than they did and they couldn't really use them against us as much as we were led to believe by our media, not by the American media, but by our media, thanks to Kuzma.

So you may remember that when the Kuzma or when the tariffs were branded as illegal or unconstitutional, whatever the ruling was there, maybe a month ago or so. We said on the show, and I think I put out a separate video as well on this channel, that the thing is that as far as Canada's concerned, it doesn't really affect us one way or another. Most of our goods are covered by this trade agreement that so far we've been enjoying. the likelihood that the U.S. renegotiates Kuzma and puts us on our heels a little bit, I think is pretty high. Trump needs a win, and it certainly doesn't look like it's going to come in Iran, so maybe it'll come north of the border instead. We're going to make the Canadians pay for this major project with tariffs. And I'll just reiterate that producers,

what is the best way to phrase this? When our media talks about, and our politicians talk about how, you know, it's consumers that pay tariffs, not producers. That's not entirely true for us and them in the same way. We're much more dependent on America. And so when America throws a tariff our way and we tariff back, you know, reciprocally, yeah, we do pay for that and they pay the tariff on stuff that we sell them. But the thing is they can get the stuff that we sell them from other places. And that may not be tariff the same way. And so the uneven nature, the asymmetric nature of that trade relationship means that no matter what our ministers tell you on power and politics, you know, the likelihood that it's actually hitting the U.S. as hard as it's hitting us is zero.

It's zero. It's not zero point 1%. 0.2% is 0% chance. 0% likelihood. We're going to see a big change in this country, I think, in terms of jobs and in terms of economic drivers that have been big for us in the past. Oiling gas is one that doesn't seem to be coming to fruition. I'd be curious to hear, Duneberg's take on this, given that we just spoke six weeks

ago now at this point or so about this exact topic. And for the first time in probably a year and a half, it looks like they are going to be wrong about the direction of oil and gas. But the other big one, I think, Len, is automotive. Ontario has a huge, quote-unquote, automotive sector. I'm using air quotes because manufacturing means something different to someone building something in their garage than it does someone building something under a trade agreement. You know, if you're the guy who puts the final screw in the door of the Prius, it's a Canadian car, even though the materials and the labor and, you know, the bulk of the work, the finance share of the work were done in another country. and it shipped back and forth over borders many times and all these different complications

and exogenous factors play into what the nature of that manufacturing relationship is with the country in which the car is sold. I think you're going to see a big change in that sector because it sounds like the Americans want to build cars over there. It sounds like we're going to let the Chinese bring in 50,000 EVs. 50,000 is not a big number in terms of total vehicles, but it is a big number in terms of EVs. And with these other car manufacturers looking to get into that market, it's going to have an impact on automotive in this country.

And then, of course, there's all sorts of runoff jobs, second order effects from those industries, oil and gas, and car manufacturing. So you have all these things going on. And if you think the 84,000 jobs lost in the month is bad, I bet you you get a worse print than that before the end of the year, if I had to guess. I think that's fairly likely.

This is all with the backdrop of Canadian purchasing powers way down. GDP per capita is way down. Let's throw on higher cost of energy. That's right. If you have that, it's going to be more expensive to do business and people will have less money to spend and less money to spend makes

than the economy spin. I totally agree. Right. So it becomes a problem, right? This whole. It's a flywheel, right? It's going the wrong way. Yeah.

What was it this morning? I saw the price of gas per liter here around $1.60-ish, a little bit less than that. Diesel was $2.10 per liter. And some parts of the world are probably laughing at how cheap that is. But over here, we haven't hit those prices for a long time. And it could get even worse. You hear these quote unquote experts saying you're going to potentially double this price. Yeah. And that's like, who the fuck knows what's going to happen?

No one knows. But the thing is like, I think people are tired of the piss in my ear and tell me it's raining attitude from the top of the food chain. You know, whether it's business leaders or politicians or the media, you know, David Cochran and Rosie Barton in the spotlight, thanks to Travis DeNarge's or Drenage's testimony. I think everyone's kind of realizing that like the jig is up. And actually, you know, I think I think they are. You want to know why I'm thinking not. Okay. Is if there's an election today, who do you think is going to form government? Well, the liberals will form government?

Yeah, yeah, for sure. And will they do so? Will they get more seats you think than last time? Last seats? The same amount of seats? Yeah, I think, no, I think they will get more seats. But I don't think it's necessarily indicative. I don't think voting patterns are indicative of necessarily this kind of information being disseminated accurately.

I think what you probably are still seeing is people think that, yeah, things are bad. Yeah, we're not getting the whole truth. But I'd still rather see Carney there than Paulyev dealing with Trump. You know what? And I think that's more a Paulyev problem than a Carney problem, which I've said on the show before. The conservatives won't win as long as he's the leader. It's people for whatever reason love the liberals. if you are in power and things aren't going well,

historically you tend to punish the party that's there because the voter will associate all the wrongdoings that's happened. They only have so many choices. Yeah, I get it. Sure. And so because of that, it's like, I think they're, for whatever reason,

they see what's going on. Like, they just go slightly different tangent here. Toronto, there's some neighborhoods in Toronto. they're thinking about doing a virtual gated community. I'm not sure if you heard about this story or if you heard about this, but because there is a lot of violence going on, theft, home invasions, it's happening everywhere Toronto as well.

Yeah. They're turning to these virtual gated communities and it is going to be hiring private people to help make sure security is done right. You don't get this when things are good. You get this when things are bad. You know, people are afraid to park their high-end cars or even shitty cars outside. They're forming enclaves.

They're forming enclaves. Yeah, totally. We've been told by the Toronto police to leave the keys at the front. So that way you won't have to interact with the burglar when it comes in, right? This is an erosion of the middle class. And you look at this. Why stick around? But you know what Toronto is going to vote for next election federally is going to be predominantly

read. They're not associating anything of any of these. And it's not like this is, it's been a change all of a sudden. It's been just a slow erosion here over the past five, 10 years. Why? Because there's been some policies put in place that created these problems. People are not associating that, oh, you know what, they may have done it. Maybe we should be voting for somebody else.

I mean, I'm not saying that you could vote out of the way to this problem. You can't. saying, you know, you're looking at it. Fuck, Ford was even talking about trying to legalize pepper spray today. I know. Talk about a sign of the decline. That is crazy. Few American, few American followers.

I have pepper spray, which is illegal right now in Canada to carry and use as a means of defense. And he's trying to lobbying the federal government that changed the criminal code to allow people to do this. Yeah. Well, like, what world do we live in when people are doing that? I mean, not to yet again rag on the same shit that we talk about. every week or two. But we got to stop pretending that immigration is not at the core of all these problems. Like housing, healthcare, education, you name it. You know, like crime, obviously. It's just like, what are we, why are we pretending? I don't understand why we keep pretending.

And Ford actually today hinted at it and in one of his press conferences, you know, I think he said, you know, before 2015, we never had these problems. And yeah, think about what happened. They're not as large. They get magnified or they get... Or whatever. The point I want to make is that the guy who runs the... He's like the Queens Park correspondent. Colin DeMello, you know, puts us...

What I view is a snarky remark. Ford is trying to make reference to immigration and immigrants. Like, well, of course he fucking is. So are the rest of us? You know, we're all sick of it. And I think, like, again, I think people realize this. a problem, but they're still placing their trust in Kearney over Polyev more because Polyev is just these two used car salesmeny.

You know, I'm not, people watch a show every week. I'm not saying anything new, but, you know, we said earlier he was going to lose and he lost. And like, you know, the Pauley Market was in his favor for so long, but you watch the guy on a camera and you just like, you know, you don't like the cut of his jib. It's just the way it is. And why did the party give him a vote of confidence to allow him to money to get it? Because they don't get it either. They don't have anybody.

Yeah, or that. That's one of the two. Yeah. They, I don't know. Nobody else has come to the forefront and has come to show themselves as an alternative to Poliav. And it's interesting because. Yeah. Yeah.

Right. I'm just saying until that happens, you're not going to have anybody. You're not going to have the party, the rank and file say, let's go ahead and go against Poliave. Let's go with the other person because there is no other person. The funniest thing is that Canadian politics, it's so hard to leave Canadian politics and go into business or do anything productive. that will net you a salary. And it's even less likely that you leave a nice salary

and a life of notoriety and success to go into Canadian politics. You know, Carney, for all his successes, was doing nothing, you know, before he joined the political scene here in Canada. He's leading Brookfield, right? It's like a... Right.

Yeah, but he doesn't really have to leave Brookfield. He just puts his assets into trust and Brookfield keeps running, right? So he's got the best of both worlds. But if you look at the liberal politicians who said they were going to leave to spend time with family or reevaluate their priorities, they ended up all coming back because there's nothing out there for them. You know, Sean, whatever his name is there, the tall guy who's, yeah, Frazier, like, there's

nothing out there for him. Anita Ann, nothing out there for. Jolie, nothing out there for. Even Trudeau, you know, he's with ran through Katie Perry now. Like that's not the life that he thought he would be living. I am sure of it while he was PM. And the conservatives are having the same problem now. Their MPs can't go anywhere because there's nothing out there for them. They've proved themselves being competent. And no one, even in the business world, who's typically aligned with the conservative ethos, wants to come and play politics for a party that is rudderless.

And so until that party goes into a sort of a self-destruction and self-immolates in a very public way and a very embarrassing way, which is going to happen in the next election, whether it's this year or next year, they're not going to get any talent. That party needs to be gutted from the inside. It has to be. Because they're just, they're lost, man. You said it. They gave that guy, I think, an overwhelming vote of confidence to return. and I see his podcast appearances and it's the same shit.

They're in a difficult position. As the Conservative Party of Canada, because they have to be, and I've said this many times, they have to have a federalist agenda. And if you're having this talk within Alberta, which is their grassroots,

and they want to talk about separation. Yeah, they're going to leave. You can't cater to both parties, the federalist side and the separatist side. So they're going to lose some support. I don't know what's going to happen as a result of all this. I'm not sure.

Third party, federal party is going to be the same way that the reform or alliance. I don't know. Maybe you have something like that. Just rinse and repeat, same shit over and over again. Whatever. I don't know. You know, what happened this past week, we haven't talked about some big news because it looks like the liberals are closer to.

Thro's my election call into question for sure. No, to the majority government. I don't, I thought there was going to be an election, but they're not going to need it. They may need it. You know where, and I'll give you ammunition for that argument. Sure. Where it may still be possible. But first, I mean, we'll talk about this and I'll explain why it will still be possible.

We have the NDP, sorry, the MP from Nenevitt, who was an NDP, crossed before and became a liberal. And because of this, now the liberals are closer to majority. There's three by-elections taking place. April 13th, I think it is. Or to fuck it. Yeah, April 13th. Three by-elections. Two in Toronto,

which are going to stay red and one in Quebec. When the two in Toronto become red again, then the liberals have a razor-thin majority. And whatever happens to Quebec is going to be just added, you know, it would be gravy for them. But I want to just add quickly, too, about this, this NDP person that switched.

I mean, why? You know, we have a leadership racist going on, March 29th for the NDP, and she left. She was campaigning. for Abby Lewis pumping his campaign as recently as last week. Maybe she was whipped to do that. Maybe not.

I don't know. But either way, she was there doing that. And the, now when I say whip, the political means of web, I'm saying anything else. This happens all the time where votes get whipped and so forth, just for people that are wondering. The NDP are now down to six elected members. There, a fucking real problem. The previous dude left him in a fucking massive poll. Why would she cross?

Is it a Nunavut 3,000 initiative, right? She has financial interest in something called Nunavit Holdings. That is a company that does construction and shit like that and renovations. $2.6 billion, by the way, for this Nunavit 3,000 that's going to build 3,000 housing units by 2030. 2.6 billion for 3,000 units. I'm going to read just one last time. 2.6 billion for 3,000 units. And so now she has jump ship.

I wonder what sort of values she has that are similar to the conservative MPs that jump ship. She being an NDP, those NDPs, those MPs from the conservative party and not liberals, do they share values? I don't know. Either way. But to go to your question about, I don't want to gloss over it, could there be an election? Maybe. And this is how it could be done, is if Carney says, I need a stronger mandate because he's got a razor-thin majority

or I'll assume he has one. After Cosma's ripped up and he has to say to the people, I need a stronger mandate in order to negotiate a New Deal with the United States. That could be the only thing that he could, I think that he could go to an election. Other than that, I don't know. I don't think there's going to be an election for some time.

You're on mute, by the way. Right. Yeah, I was stuck in and snot. Do you know about Nunavitt Holdings? Yeah, Nunavut Holdings, Inc. She has financial interest in that. That's the company that does construction and renovations in the region over in Nunavut. And so like the ties between that, the Nunavut 3,000.

Like I say, I'm going to just say it again. 2.6 billion building 3,000 units by 2030. I mean, that's part of the answer, I think. There's another story about a university in Nunavik getting 50 million from Carney and, I see from Carney from the liberal government in November 2025. What can you say, really, right? Like, and I think her son, is it her son or Jenneroo's son? No, it's her son.

Her son's got a, you know, pedophilia charge. I have, you know what, I, I'm not saying, I'm not, listen, I'm not saying that it's like, I don't know what the story is there, okay? Right. And I don't want to know to be honest. But my point, the point is that you can target any MP to cross the floor, presumably, right? Go to anybody. millennial moron, by the way, I called this like a year ago that she was going to cross.

So good for him. You can target anybody you want. You really do feed the fire when you look at someone like it'll out and you get this none of it holding's thing, you know, 500 million, whatever it is. You get the university, another 50 million. You get the kid who's got a pedo charge. And it's like, why did you, why her? Why? There's not another MP you could target?

Is it because she's like easy to compromise? Is that what I'm hearing here? Like if I was one of these talking head conservative influencers like Mario Zendaya, whatever that fucking guy's name is, the bald guy, or Mark Nixon or one of these other guys, who by the way, the conservative party should like out and out cut ties with this avowed. They're killing the chances of that they're getting elected as well. This is what I'd be talking about. I would never stop talking about it.

And the reason that it's important to talk about is because soon it probably will be illegal to talk about it. in this country. It's not in the public interest. It goes against the public good. It calls them the question the legitimacy of the institutions, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. These bills that are coming down the pipeline here. People are distracted, though.

What? People are distracted by other things. They're distracted for sure. They're distracted for sure. But it's like, but it's like why, like why, again, show me someone's behavior and I'll tell you what kind of person that guy is or girl is. And like I've seen a lot now.

I've got a pretty big sample size. I got a year in Sussex. I got two Bank of England or two Central Bank ten years. And I got Brookfield. And I don't know. Cunning is probably the kindness word you could use, right? He's very cunning, this prime minister, has his priorities. Ironclad, knows how to execute on a plan and knows where the weaklings in the chain are,

it seems like, doesn't it? he's doing everything possible to ensure longevity of his political career for sure he's doing a as a politician he's doing a wonderful job for ensuring that he remains prime minister and like i say people are distracted by other things and with all these job losses price of gas going up they're looking at other things that are more impactful to their lives immediately and not really caring much about a floorclosure from Nunavit. It's just, and not, I mean, even closer to home, you had those shots that were fired at the U.S. consulate last week.

I know in Toronto, yeah. Right? Like, this stuff doesn't happen in the first world. Yeah. Right. Like, this is like, there's like all these Palestine freaks like chanting shit in the streets calling for the death of Americans and death of Jews and stuff. It's like, what do we do?

Like, it's not about what cause you support or what cause you don't support. It's like in a first world country, you don't do this. This is not first world behavior. You had the march yesterday with the cleric came by, landed. Apparently is now a citizen of Canada. What is the deal with this guy? I don't know the deal with this guy. I've seen the story, but I don't know really is the background.

I don't understand how he achieved Canadian citizenship. I have no idea. There's a lot of things that I just can't fucking cross. can't connect the dots. But the fact he's here, appears, that he was marching in some parade. And you have the two sides, just yelling at each other,

flags were burned, and people put in jail and shit like that. We live at a time where people are just pissed off and divisive. And just to further compound the problem when you have broken money. And when people can't pay for food, can't pay for rent,

they're fucking pissed. They go out. It just, that becomes a powder keg and like, they go back shooting at a consulate. Like, it's crazy. I get it. You're angry with what the United States is doing. I get it. But go out and fucking protest, do it right.

You know, go get a piece of paper or car. Get a permit. Get a permit. Right. Do it the proper way, but don't fucking shoot. And then whatever. It's interesting. The car was stolen too on top of all that.

Well, at least we'll get at least next time someone shoots you. You can be a little pepper spray handy. Do you know who the other employees? of none of it holding says by the way besides Lori her husband it's her husband yeah yeah yeah yeah the story gets worse the more you look the more you squint the worse it gets you know a couple of quick stories the canadian omid forces they did a training exercise near the what the what the canadian omit force remember if you change just one letter and they're going to be recruiting people from abroad from joining in so like i i am not officially calling

So the Canadian armate forces They did a training Oh my God. Sorry, arm forces. My mistake. Sorry, arm forces. How could I do that 40 and slip?

Oh, my God. They did a training exercise near Fairbanks, Alaska. It got fucking cold minus 43 Celsius. And apparently there was, they were doing it showing off how tough they are, blah, blah, blah. And some frostbite was,

discovered and days later after the fact that this happened, one guy lost a thumb from despair. It's just so shameful. 30 soldiers minimum suffered it could be as high as 60. Is that a life-altering injury by the way?

Frostbite? I think it is, right? If you lose a thumb, that's light-fulturing. For sure it is. Right? That's what separates us from a lot of fucking things. Anyways, don't want to make

light of this. But what is kind of disturbing, though, is that this information was never made public until the family members took it to the media and then at that point then it became known like that's pretty sad.

These people are giving up their lives to be to be serving the country and they weren't given proper equipment to deal with the cold and then furthermore, once they do suffer injuries, the families are the ones that have to break the stories

to the rest of the world. Give me a break. Who wants to be part of the Canadian Amid Forces after hearing? How much money costs to just go to sale and buy proper gear,

you think? I don't know. And is there going to be proper gear to deal with 43 that's at sale? I think you might have to get this really specialized equipment. That's a nice fishing temperature. Is it? Yeah.

It's not like you can get that at sale. You can get that at sale. Yeah. Oh yeah. For sure. Just spray paint some camel gear thing on it. Whatever. Like you can get it.

I don't understand this. This is insane. Just go to the store. Like what are we talking about here? I guess the procurement backlogs and bottlenecks and whatever may be the problem. Or they got to buy Canadian now, which is another thing that's going on, right? So who knows what the issue was there?

But the idea that you can't get gear for minus 40, what are people doing when they're going fishing? That's what they're dressing for. They're not worried about it. I think they're electric cars to get up there? I doubt it. I doubt it. It's not going to start.

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or may not be aware of. I suggest you look it up before we talk about the crimes being committed and it'll give you some insight into why I guess a certain way. And I'll explain to you why I guess a certain way as well before we finish. So story number one is 4,000 stolen chocolate bars recovered in Ontario. Damn. Yeah. So police recovered thousands of chocolate bars, sunglasses,

perfume, and other goodies following a routine traffic stop. And they believe that those arrested have been involved in organized crime ring that has been targeting retail operations. Three people arrested, two adults, one youth. And they're looking for another suspect. And this all unfolded on January 4th, just before 11 p.m. when they spotted a driver improperly wearing a seatbelt. Oh, this is getting easier by the minute here.

During the investigation, the officers found that the driver had a suspended license and the vehicle was prepared for impoundment. And several items were discovered, stolen items were discovered. And they found a few things. They issued summons to open up everything in the car, to warrant to open up the car. What they found were 4,000 chocolate bars, sunglasses, cologne, perfume, candy, gum,

cough lozenges, protein bars, five-hour energy drinks. Stolen property is believed to be $16,000 worth and three parties were charged and they're going to go for their health for bail hearings, blah, blah, blah, and the fourth individual remains outstanding.

That is story number one. 4,000 chocolate bars. That's a lot. Are they melted when they got him out of the trunk? Yeah, they were all hidden in the trunk. I can't believe they got all that. Interesting. Okay.

16 grand worth of shit. This man faces robbery charges after an attempted Kijiji cell phone sale. Damn. This 19-year-old man is facing several charges, including robbery, after an attempted cell phone sale through Kijiji. Police say two men met on Saturday before 7 p.m. According to the report, the men were reportedly sitting in a seller's car when the buyer asked to see the phone. The seller told police he had a bad feeling about the deal, but he had. ended over the phone to the buyer anyway.

That's when the buyer reportedly attempted to flee the vehicle without paying for the phone. It gets better. So, police say the seller was able to grab the buyer before the seller was sprayed by, quote, unquote, aerosol irritant, believed to be pepper spray. I can't believe he's carrying that. The scammer allegedly escaped the car but left his wallet behind. Police say it was a scammer who called the police. The scammer called the police, claiming he would be to be a very. victim of a robbery and he was sprayed by an irritant and lost his wallet while fleeing.

And through the investigation, police determined the true events and the buyer was located and arrested. And it was going to go to court, 19 year old robbery administering a noxious chemical with intent to endanger your lives, blah, blah, blah. So you have those two stories. You have the guy who tried to steal a phone, pepper spray involved, lost his wallet, then claimed to be the fucking, the victim versus the three dudes plus a fourth outstanding they stole

4,000 chocolate bars, protein bars, a five hour energy drinks and a shitload of other things. Those are your two stories. Which one is the Hamilton man? Which one is the Brampton man? You know, the Brampton man

is not a good driver. He's not a good driver. And the traffic stop makes me think that the Brampton man was like pinched on a highway. he's got maybe one flip-flop out the window, the other one on the gas pedal. He's doing buck 30.

It's a 90 or something like that. It makes you think maybe that's him. But it's weird that you'd steal chocolate bars. Like, why steal chocolate bars? It's kind of weird. The Brampton Man is more in tune with the electronics market, I think, especially the cell phone market. I know this because I've done some Facebook marketplace sales over the years.

In fact, when I sold my iPhone 13, I met up with a guy in town on King Street so he couldn't get away. And he tried to shortchange me 20 bucks. I counted the money in his passenger seat and he was 20 bucks short. And then he magically found it, of course, in his pocket. So I won't tell you the origin of that guy. Yeah, I won't tell you the origin of that fellow, but you could probably pin it down if he tried. So all that to say that I think, I think,

probably the Brampton man stole the chocolate bars, even though I'm going against my better judgment because the Brampton man likes a good phone. But I'm going to go with the chocolate bars. Yeah, and you are correct. Nice. Indeed. And no names were released for those individuals, unfortunately.

So I don't have any names for them. But yeah, there you go. Those are the two stories. Bangor. I love that. I love that. Okay, that's it for tonight. I appreciate all you guys stopping by

if you're enjoying the show on Twitter. Like I said, this is, you know, 700 a year. So go subscribe to the YouTube channel. You'll dig it, man. Trust me. We have an interview out there with Francis that just came out today. Some other bangers from the recent past and more to come. No interview this week on Thursday.

I was going to do one with Zach, BTC BAP, because he has a new book out. But I haven't read it yet. And also, I am a little under the weather. So I don't want to, you know, jeopardize the quality of the interview. But I will talk to him at some point soon. And also, I'm going to say something up with the poet, the philosopher, and the Teddy Bear podcast, a couple of Canadian guys talking politics and culture from, I think the West Coast. If you haven't listened to that show yet, you should. It's pretty good. I enjoy it when I am

able to catch it. And they also do it live on YouTube via stream here. So you can watch it on Twitter or YouTube as well. Anyway, so we're going to do that in the Nazis' future. That's it for us. Until next time, take care yourself. Take care.