Absurdity-Observer-August-2025
Absurdity Observer – August 2025
- The public sector just keeps on growing! Between 2019 and 2023, public sector employment ballooned by 13%—the biggest four-year surge in nearly half a century. Since 2015, federal public service alone exploded at triple the rate of the population growth during that time. As of 2024, 25%, or one in four, working Canadians are employed by various levels of government and their agencies.
- In a country where many Canadians struggle to pay the bills, former Manitoba Hydro CEO Jay Grewal was paid just over $880,000 last year despite being dismissed six weeks into the year. That’s ~$335,000 more than her annual salary the previous year, according to a recently released Hydro compensation report.
- The average (median) CEO pay was a whopping $16.8 million during the 2024 to 2025 filing periods, according to a new analysis of S&P 500 company CEOs from ISS-Corporate. This represents a 7.5% increase from last year’s filings, and seems largely driven by the increased value of stock and option awards.
- Newly released government data reports that, over the past 11 years, Immigration Canada approved over 17,600 applications from foreigners with criminal convictions. Just last year, 1,390 convicted criminals were waived through, while only 105 were refused.
- Chemotherapy alters DNA and accelerates aging in healthy cells, according to research published in Nature (Mitchell et al.). One striking example from the study involved a 3-year-old cancer patient whose blood cells, after treatment, showed the genetic damage of an 80-year-old.
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- According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, COVID-19 is still a public health emergency and will continue to be until 2029. The key driver for extending the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act is so that COVID-19 vaccines and treatments licensed or authorized only for “emergency use” by the Food and Drug Administration can continue to be used, along with their liability protections.
- Canada’s longest and most expensive mischief trial has just resumed, targeting Freedom Convoy organizers Chris Barber and Tamara Lich. Barber and Lich were each found guilty of one count of mischief for their involvement in the peaceful Freedom Convoy protest of February 2022. Barber was also found guilty of an additional count of counselling others to disobey a court order. The government is seeking a seven-year sentence for Lich and an eight-year sentence for Barber.
- In a stark assault on freedom of speech and expression, US-based Christian musician Sean Feucht had his “Let Us Worship” tour venue permits revoked by city officials all over Canada—not due to safety concerns, but because of his conservative Christian views, particularly his views on “gender ideology.” In a patently absurd move, the City of Montreal fined a church $2,500 for stepping in to host Sean’s concert without a permit—a penalty authorities justified by labeling the event “against Montreal’s values of inclusion, solidarity and respect.”
- The CBC quietly dished out a record-breaking $37.7 million in pay raises during the 2024–25 fiscal year—its largest single-year salary hike ever—just months after pledging to eliminate its controversial bonus program. According to access-to-information records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, 1,831 CBC employees earned over $100,000 last year. Meanwhile, federal estimates peg the broadcaster’s total taxpayer funding for 2025 at more than $1.4 billion.
- The Canadian Nurses Association’s 2025 Code of Ethics for Nurses denounces what it calls the “white, European-centric” foundations of modern medicine and compels nurses to adopt a broad set of radical, progressive political beliefs as part of their professional duties and “recognize the impact climate change has on patient outcomes.”
- In Vancouver, residents of the newly renamed šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm Street (formerly Trutch Street) are struggling with more than just pronunciation. The street name—pronounced sh-MUS-quee-um-AW-sum—uses characters from the North American Phonetic Alphabet that most banks, government agencies, and online systems don’t recognize—and the English translation isn’t accepted either. Officials call it reconciliation, but true reconciliation builds understanding and mutual respect, not confusion and frustration for everyday people.
- In just the first quarter of 2025, the federal government approved over 50,000 jobs for temporary foreign workers—and a third were non-seasonal, entry-level positions that unemployed Canadians could have easily filled. This program (that was supposed to include a safeguard for Canadian jobs) now appears to be little more than a loophole for corporations to slash labour costs and suppress wages. Nearly 1 in 5 private sector workers are foreigners on temporary permits, according to new figures quietly released by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
- It’s too dangerous to deport LGBTQ+ people to the US, judge decides. A non-binary person is being allowed to temporarily remain in Canada after removal proceedings were stayed by a judge due to potential for “irreparable harm and fear for safety” if returned to the US, since rights and protections for trans and non-binary people have been rolled back.
- A 62-year-old Nova Scotian man was removed from an Air Canada flight for wearing a shirt with a picture of former prime minister Justin Trudeau from 2001 in blackface, which the cabin crew found to be “offensive.”
- In Germany’s latest crackdown on free expression, a 64-year-old woman is being fined €1,800 (2,900 CAD)—not for writing a post, but for simply reacting to one with three thumbs-up emojis. Her “crime”? Thumbs upping a tweet about a 15-year-old Swedish girl who killed the migrant man who raped her.
- Debanking is making a comeback: RBC shut down the accounts of Eva Chipiuk—Freedom Convoy lawyer and outspoken critic of Canadian institutions—citing unspecified “risk concerns.”
- While Canadians were being vilified and censored for daring to question the official residential school narrative, internal government emails reveal that Parks Canada staff themselves privately doubted the Kamloops “mass grave” story as early as 2023. According to documents just uncovered by Blacklock’s Reporter, officials admitted the claims were “unfounded” and likely false—even as media and politicians pushed the story as unquestionable truth.
- UN launches task force to combat global “disinformation” threat. In its new Global Risk Report, the United Nations ranked so-called “mis- and disinformation” as one of the greatest threats to humanity—on par with war and natural disasters. But instead of promoting open dialogue, the UN announced it is forming a global task force to shield its 2030 Agenda from public scrutiny.
- Instead of facing accountability for lockdowns, job losses, and coercive mandates, two of Canada’s top COVID enforcers—Bonnie Henry and Theresa Tam—are being rewarded with the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest honours.
- Canada’s federal government has begun laying the groundwork for a nationwide digital ID system by turning to private consultants, sidestepping both a formal budget disclosure and parliamentary involvement.
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