Remembrance Day ceremonies held across Canada today.
In acknowledgement, Court Painter features images from A.H. MacKay’s Canadian war artist assignments in Somalia (1993) and Afghanistan (2002), in tribute to his late father Allan, a veteran of the Second World War; his brother Richard, a career bandsman with the Royal Canadian Navy who now resides at Camp Hill Veterans Hospital; and in memory of his brother Elliott, who was killed in combat in Korea in 1951 at the age of 17.
Prime Minister Carney has now climbed into two submarines on two continents-one on a production line in Germany, the other in the water in South Korea – yet the 2025 federal budget, which allocated more than $80 billion toward defence, made no mention of funding towards the much-needed vessels.
The Royal Canadian Navy is in the market to buy 12 conventional diesel-electric powered submarines and the federal government has narrowed the competition to two companies: ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) and Hanwha Ocean.
Court Painter with PM Carney in unauthorized image of sub shopping.
Canada currently has four aging submarines, only one of which is operational. The entire fleet is at risk of becoming obsolete by 2035, held together by parts that can’t be replaced, because they’re no longer being produced.
In market for 12 …Present fleet 4 …Present Operation 1
Rumour Source: Court Painter News Group
BREAKING Rumours:
It is rumoured that Royal Canadian Navy procurement staff and PM Carney are surreptitiously exploring the purchase of second-hand underwater vessels constructed by hobbyist submarine enthusiasts in an undisclosed southern U.S. state. These vessels have reportedly been upgraded and are now powered by AI, replacing their original hand-crank and pedal propulsion systems.One special model is comprised of completely enclosed wooden vessel sheathed in waterproofed leather, it can be submerged by AI agents controlling hand-operated wooden screw thread adjustable plungers pressing against flexible leather bags located at the sides to increase or decrease the volume of water to adjust the buoyancy of the craft. It is not recommended for Arctic waters however would be wonderful off the warming Grand Banks.
Another rumour circulating beneath the procurement waves suggests that the Royal Canadian Navy has established a top-secret squadron of snorkel experts to supplement the present submarine fleet of one , to be deployed in readiness from sea to sea to sea. Court Painter managed to capture an image of a training operation but strongly advises that anyone who views it should delete it immediately and refrain from sharing—under penalty of being keelhauled or fat-shamed.
Tweedledumb and Tweedledumber—nicknames for two Conservative parliamentarians, Pierre Poilievre, Leader of the Opposition, and Andrew Scheer, Conservative House Leader—have become synonymous slang in Great Dominion parliamentary circles for individuals whose griping, bleating rhetoric is indistinguishable.
Tweedledumb & Tweedledumber
Court Painter seen with recent bleating parliamentary portraits
Court Painter seen celebrating the news with friends!
Excerptedfrom CARFAC news release November 6/25
Good news for visual artists in the 2025 Federal Budget
CARFAC and RAAV, the national associations representing visual artists in Canada, are thrilled to see the Artist’s Resale Right in the Federal Budget: “Artists, particularly visual artists, are great contributors to Canada’s cultural scene and among the lowest income earners in Canada despite their significant cultural contributions. An Artist’s Resale Right provides the creators of original visual artwork with a royalty whenever their work is resold through an eligible sale, providing an additional income stream. In Budget 2025, the government announces its intent to amend the Copyright Act to create an Artist’s Resale Right in Canada, ensuring Canadian visual artists benefit from future sales of their work.”
The Artist’s Resale Right is a royalty that allows artists to share in the wealth they generate in the marketplace. It aligns Canada with over 90 countries around the world that already have ARR legislation. Many of those laws provide for visual artists to receive 5% when their work is resold in the secondary market through an intermediary such as an auction house or commercial gallery. The ARR helps artists benefit from the ongoing commercial success of their art. It will help many senior artists who have worked for years in the industry, and often face financial difficulties later in life. It is also a huge win for Indigenous artists, who have too often been exploited in the secondary art market.
CARFAC and RAAV look forward to Parliament approving the Fall Budget in the days to come, and look forward to seeing the details of how this much needed legislation will be implemented in Canada, and sharing that information with our community.
PM Carney welcomes floor-crosser d’Entremont who suggests there could be more.
Excerpted from CTV article November 5/25
Chris d’Entremont is being celebrated by his new Liberal colleagues with cheers and open arms on Parliament Hill Wednesday morning, after crossing the floor from the Conservatives to the Liberals.
Prime Minister Mark Carney publicly welcomed d’Entremont, and thanked him for his decision, which brings Carney’s minority government one vote closer to a majority, now just two seats shy.
“I saw it by being a part of the government caucus,” d’Entremont said. “I would suggest that there probably are those that are in the same boat, but I will let them tell their stories, if that happens.”
Rumours have swirled for weeks that opposition other MPs are considering joining the Liberal benches.
In question period Wednesday afternoon, however, d’Entrement’s defection went largely unaddressed. Aside from a few quips from other MPs, neither Carney nor Poilievre mentioned it directly.
Court Painter & “PM Carney nets a Conservative floor crosser“
Somemembers of the Conservative minded brain trust reportedly turn to drink.
Sorry to say,Prime Minister Carney managed to reinforce the trope, stereotype, and cliché of Canadians always apologizing.
The Prime Minister went all in—dropping elbows as he said sorry to The Orange Menace President Donald J Trump for Ontario Premier Ford’s ad that had accurately quoted former U.S. President Reagan’s critical views on tariffs.
Reports suggest that many Canadians are not sorry at all—indeed, some are reportedly torching their Canadian Tire money in protest over the PM’s fallen elbows! (Apologies if this report proves to be merely fanciful.)
Court Painter is sorry for raising such a sorry subject, since it’s old news; however, he looks forward to brighter tidings with today’s Liberal Government Budget announcements—sure to light up the Great Dominion from sea to sea to shining sea!
Court Painter accompanies PM Carney and Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne to rendering of their ‘no surprise’ plan.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, also spelled Arcimboldi (Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe artʃimˈbɔldo];[1] 5 April 1527 – 11 July 1593), was an ItalianMannerist painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books.[2]
Court Painter’s celebration of fall pays homage to artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
Possibly the greatest threat to humanity at this moment is the algorithm.
It can twist and wreck people’s minds and lives — tear apart families and destroy countries — in a way that can be more rapid and more powerful than heroin, cocaine, or fentanyl. And yet it is completely unregulated.
An algorithm is a software program/system that inserts itself between humans as we attempt to communicate with each other. It decides which communications are important and which are not, which communications will be shared and which will not, what we will see or learn and what we will not.
The algorithms driving social media sites ultimately decide which direction society will move as a result of the shared information they encourage or suppress across society.
The algorithms’ main purpose is to make more money for the billionaires who own the social media platforms.
The morbidly rich people who own our social media, focus more on adding more billions to their money bins than the consequences of their algorithms, don’t seem particularly concerned about these issues. Instead, they appear to be intentionally tweaking their algorithms to promote content that agrees with their political views and economic interests (although we can’t be sure because they keep them secret).
Mark Zuckerberg is only one of numerous media billionaire’s cashing in on the dance to the algorithm.
By the way Katy Perry is in the news these days so put your dancin’ shoes on and chain yourself to the rhythm…
Court Painter directed his video crew to venture into the wilds of Ottawa to capture a politician silent. He succeeded with the Leader of the Opposition, Pierre Poilievre, in what is regarded as a rare—perhaps unprecedented—glimpse of this particular politician in a state of silence.
Please note: No cheating by adding a soundtrack over the cinematic tranquility. Simply carve out two minutes of your cacophonous life for a two-minute moment of silent viewing of the Great Dominion’s loudest-mouthed politician…silenced !
PP seen biting his lip silently
Court Painter seen observing 2 minutes of PP’s silence
What Court Painter and his trusty Press Attache, A Hardon MacKay, decide upon as a subject for their pictorial and verbal analysis remains a closely guarded studio secret(keep it under their hat). However, it can be said that the following post was sparked by a journalist’s remark that Canadians are looking for something from the Carney government “to hang their hat on.”
As keen observers of the Court Painter postings will know, the resident studio scribe, Chatterley Grandiose Preposterous Thunderstruck (ChatGPT), is sometimes called upon to compose a narrative that illuminates a chosen subject—and at the drop of a hat took on the task of commenting on Canadians’ wish to find something from Carney “to hang their hat on.”
Editor’s Note : AHM was forced to edit heavily upon receiving the initial draft and apologizes in advance to all subscribers for taking up so much of their valuable time.
“The Great Canadian Hat Rack Accord”
It began, as all great Canadian political crises do, with a polite but insistent demand.
Canadians, from coast to coast to coast, were telling Prime Minister Carney they wanted something from government they could hang their hat on.
At first, Prime Minister Carney’s aides assumed it was a metaphor—one of those reassuring idioms people toss around when they crave stability. But soon the letters and memes began arriving by the thousands : handwritten, digitally rendered ,carefully worded, and almost all containing the same refrain—“We need hat racks.”
The message was clear. Canadians were tired of having no place to hang their hats—whether they be trucker hats, toques, hijabs, bowlers,beach,hockey,ball & hard hats, or ceremonial head toppers. “We are a nation of many hats,” one op-ed in the Globe and Mail declared, “and it’s high time Ottawa recognized our collective cranial fashion diversity.”
To assure Canadians he wasn’t ‘talking through his hat‘, Carney established the National Hat Rack Initiative—the crown of Carney’s newly hatched Industrial Strategy.
A Nation Debates Hat Rack Industrial Capacity
The question of where to build the hat rack manufacturing plants quickly became the most divisive issue since pipeline politics. Each of the ten provinces and three territories demanded a fair share of the new “hat rack manufacturing and innovation clusters.”
Alberta wanted “traditional, rugged, western-style racks woven from sustainable tumble weeds.” Quebec insisted on “artisanal racks with cultural flair and optional fleur-de-lis finials.” Newfoundland demanded “weatherproof wall hooks” for sou’wester hats.
Prince Edward Island, with its limited landmass, offered to host “boutique, small-batch racks.” The Yukon lobbied for “smart racks” embedded with AI sensors to detect headwear type and offer temperature-adjusted hooks.
The negotiations were so delicate that Carney established a new ministry—the Department of Equitable Hat Rack Distribution and Allocation (DEHRDA)—to mediate.
Energy Quotas and the Hat Rack -Power Debate
But trouble loomed on the energy front.
Hat rack factories, it turned out, were surprisingly power-hungry—especially the ones designed to integrate with Canada’s growing network of AI data centres. The so-called “smart racks” could suggest hat care routines, forecast expansion rates for narcissists ,recommend rackish angles and issue polite reminders to place hat back on rack with care.They also would come equipped with fun house mirrors ,adjustable backstage make up lights and a device charger.
This put them in direct competition with tech giants for scarce energy resources. Provinces with abundant hydro or wind power were reluctant to share. British Columbia’s premier was quoted as saying, “If Alberta wants smart hat racks, they can plug them into their yet to be approved wind turbines!
The federal-provincial talks stretched for weeks. Acronyms multiplied faster than hats at a Stampede parade. The “National Energy for Hat Rack Allocation Plan” (NEHRAP) was announced, delayed, scrapped, and re-announced under a new name: the Great Dominion Hat Rack Energy Accord.
A Great Dominion Compromise Takes Shape
In the end, compromise prevailed, as it sometimes does in the Great Dominion.
Each province and territory would receive one flagship hat rack plant, (with Alberta and Quebec receiving two because they are such incessant whiners,) otherwise proportional to population and adjusted for private profit with tax dollar backing. The factories would be powered by a shared energy pool, managed by a central foreign owned AI known simply as The RACK (Resource Allocation Computational Kernel).
When Carney stood before Parliament to announce the deal, he called it “a model for cooperative federalism and a compromise all Canadians could ‘hang their hats on!”
And so, the Carney government gave Canadians something they could truly hang their hat on…rack it up to public pressure and clever diversionary tactics demanded of the time.
The National Hat Rack Initiative became an industrial policy and a metaphor for the Great Dominion itself which eludes all thoughtful folks to this day!
