Jarrett Hasson

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Our housing shortage estimate is 1 million, and it’s shrinking. This 10 million figure far exceeds all other estimates I’ve ever come across over the years.

Canada has had 14 prime ministers in its history who stood at the head of minority governments. Every one of them thought about weaseling their way to a majority. But the other 13 were blocked by a polity that wasn't yet as corrupt, ignorant and fearful as the Canadians of 2026.

CANADA BUILDING PERMITS (MOM) (FEB) ACTUAL: -8.4% VS 4.8% PREVIOUS; EST -0.4%

⚠️⚠️Bank CEOs Worry About Credit Cycle Amid Private-Lending Concerns Bank stocks have just had their worst quarter in years as concerns mount about losses in the private-credit industry, and how much exposure banks have to the sector -- and bank leaders are getting increasingly nervous about the credit cycle in general. It’s not obvious where the bust will come from -- though private credit is the most obvious candidate at the moment -- but it’s telling that both CEOs are warning about tight spreads and lower lending standards. In his letter to shareholders, published last week, Dimon warned that “when we have a credit cycle, which will happen one day, losses on all leveraged lending in general will be higher than expected, relative to the environment. This is because credit standards have been modestly weakening pretty much across the board.” Goldman’s Solomon echoed those remarks on Monday. (BBG)

Canada has had 14 prime ministers in its history who stood at the head of minority governments. Every one of them thought about weaseling their way to a majority. But the other 13 were blocked by a polity that wasn't yet as corrupt, ignorant and fearful as the Canadians of 2026.

Canada has had 14 prime ministers in its history who stood at the head of minority governments. Every one of them thought about weaseling their way to a majority. But the other 13 were blocked by a polity that wasn't yet as corrupt, ignorant and fearful as the Canadians of 2026.

This is a game changer. Woke judges will now be publicly tracked for how many violent criminals they release who reoffend. These judges all just started to panic.

A major constitutional showdown is now before the Supreme Court of Canada, and at its core is a simple question of who decides. Constitutional interpretation is not a straightforward exercise. Rights are stated at a high level of generality, as they must be, and don’t contain detailed instructions for their application. They must be interpreted and operationalized in the real world, and balanced in relation to other rights and other public policy objectives. Courts are not uniquely equipped to perform this task, nor were they ever meant to monopolize it. In our parliamentary democracy, legislatures have an essential role to play in that process, and that is what section 33 is for - a necessary condition of patriation and part of the constitutional design where coordinate interpretation can occur in a back and forth between courts and legislatures. The federal government has intervened in these cases to argue contrary to the clear textual basis of the Constitution that repeated invocation of the clause “irreparably impairs” a rights. Though the clause clearly prohibits the policing of its use beyond correctness of application, they argue courts should in fact be able to assess whether legislatures have used it too much. Ottawa has also argued that courts should be able to issue declarations that laws are unconstitutional even where section 33 prevents them from being struck down. A constitutional press release, if you will. Formally toothless, but plainly political in purpose and effect. And given the Court’s decision in Power, which contemplates retroactive damages for laws later found to be unconstitutional, this sort of declaratory power could become a backdoor route to financial liability as well. Given all the innovations the courts have been prone to, one would not put this past them.

This is a game changer. Woke judges will now be publicly tracked for how many violent criminals they release who reoffend. These judges all just started to panic.

This is a game changer. Woke judges will now be publicly tracked for how many violent criminals they release who reoffend. These judges all just started to panic.

PM Carney: "Many of our former strengths, which rested on our close ties with the United States, have become our weaknesses now ... And while we have overcome the initial shock of the betrayal, we must never forget the lessons it has taught us. We must take care of ourselves."

This is a game changer. Woke judges will now be publicly tracked for how many violent criminals they release who reoffend. These judges all just started to panic.

This is a game changer. Woke judges will now be publicly tracked for how many violent criminals they release who reoffend. These judges all just started to panic.

This is a game changer. Woke judges will now be publicly tracked for how many violent criminals they release who reoffend. These judges all just started to panic.

The Liberal party has Patrick Pichette a former Senior VP of Google on stage who lives in Europe by the way, say that if Canadians want to leave Canada to work in the US they need to pay an exit tax of half a million dollars. The guy did the very thing to get a Microsoft job decades ago and paid 30 bucks. Now he wants young Canadians to be trapped here. The Liberals are nuts.