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The Bank of Canada is now reporting that the counter-tariffs implemented by the Liberals last year did impact both inflation and food inflation. This is exactly what our Lab had been saying for months, but few reporters wanted to hear it. Sad.

Not a single purchaser of crude oil in the world asks nor cares about the carbon footprint of the barrel, instead is 100% focused on accessibility, affordability, and reliability. I do not see how we overcome this massive misunderstanding which underpins all ongoing negotiations.

@MPelletierCIO Give us your money, we know what's important to you

Watch this. It is an excellent summary of the philosophy and approach of this LPC government. Top down control over all parts of the economy and our daily lives with terrible results. The Indian Act is the perfect example, ask anyone living on a reserve and they will tell you. I certainly have. This reminds me of a time when the City of Calgary under Nenshi accidentally took too much of my property taxes. Instead of giving it back, council argued that if they did so we would spend it on beer and popcorn and so they had a duty to keep it. It’s my damn money, I have every damn right to spend it how I want to even if it’s on beer and popcorn. x.com/cbcwatcher/sta…

7 of 10 Canadian provinces fall below our national GDP per capita $59,529. Most concerning is that Ontario and Quebec - the two most populous - are among them. Hard to improve national performance when the provinces home to over 60% of the population are in this position.

@kinsellawarren @DaisyGrp Congratulations Warren & Team!

Great 20th @DaisyGrp anniversary. Thanks to all.

GOLDSTEIN: Canada’s big bet on electric vehicles goes bust Honda fiasco perfect symbol of the EV disaster Trudeau boasted about betting on EVs with huge taxpayer-funded subsidies, singling out Honda as the EV industry betting on Canada. It was nonsense. torontosun.com/opinion/column…

I understand that my personal information, including my home address, was shared publicly on a screen at a recent Alberta separatist event. It was also recorded on video, and is now circulating. This was apparently part of the outrageous data leak of Albertans’ private information, wherein Elections Alberta shared its entire detailed provincial voter database with the “Republican Party of Alberta,” which in turn shared it with some separatist group called the “Centurion Project,” whose leadership then shared my personal information publicly. Over the past few years I have received no shortage of threats from people broadly associated with the separatist / antivax / far right movement in Alberta. So it is disturbing that my personal information is now broadly available, particularly in those circles. While I have been targeted specifically, the broader data breach may also effect vulnerable Albertans, including victims of domestic violence, journalists, activists, judges, and other public servants for years to come. I will retain legal counsel to seek advice on recourse regarding this outrageous and potentially dangerous violation of my personal privacy.

@MPelletierCIO Clarifying: "Liking" this comment means I don't like the graph

LPC Canada. Winning.

This is the person Carney has chosen to represent the Crown. She spent two years building an international framework to normalize mass migration, told democratic nations that their sovereignty concerns were misinformation, and advocated for government oversight of how journalists cover the subject. In a country where immigration is now the top domestic policy concern and where the previous government's immigration policy is widely regarded as a catastrophe, the symbolism is remarkable.

@dowbboy I think it has now been more than 30 years since anyone who did not hail from Upper or Lower Canada (Laurentia) was named as Governor General. Might as well be from the UK or France so far as many westerners are concerned

@MPelletierCIO No one surprised

This.

Must watch! Heather Exner-Pirot "But now in April 2026, it's just that the context is different for since Trump came into power, investors don't care about ESG anymore." "There is no premium associated with (decarbonized oil). You are dependent on capital because of that performance. So there's no financial incentive." "And we saw Mark Carney's own GFANZ, the Global Financial alliance for Net Zero, fall apart you know, in the, in the early days of the Trump administration." "In the middle of an energy crisis. The discussion is we need the cheapest, most accessible oil from wherever we can get it." "And that's why, at some point, I think Carney and Hodgson also have to see, you know, the world is a different place than it was." @ExnerPirot @SenatorWallin @timhodgsonmt @MarkJCarney

Wonder what the over/under will be from the sports books for game 2 Avs vs Wild?

Shhhh, an adult already spoke about Trudeau, you just ignored him:

After a year promising to build at "speeds not seen in generations," Mark Carney gives us the dithering dribble about maybe, possibly, probably, but not certainly allowing a pipeline.

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Canada’s future isn’t European This week, Prime Minister Carney announced that he’ll soon travel to Europe to attend a major continental summit as its first ever non-European attendee. The trip is occurring against a backdrop of growing discussion about Canada reorienting its trade and security relations towards Europe or even considering some form of formal integration with the European Union. Notwithstanding our ongoing challenges with the Trump administration, the notion that Canada’s future rests with Europe is flawed to say the least. Start with the sociology. Canada isn’t a European country that drifted west. It’s a North American country built, in large part, by people who self-selected out of Europe. They exited rigid class structures, slower growth, and limited opportunity in search of something more dynamic and meritocratic. They were in short North American egalitarians. It’s not a big surprise, then, that over time, Canada has converged far more with the United States than with Europe in its economic structure, labour markets, and entrepreneurial culture. The results are visible in the data: Canada’s per capita income is materially closer to the United States than to the European Union average—and higher than most major European economies. Why would we want to go back? The second problem is economic. Europe’s model of high taxes, heavy regulation, and expansive welfare states has come with trade-offs in growth, investment, and innovation. Over the past two decades, Europe has lagged the U.S. in productivity and technological leadership. There’s a reason the world’s leading technology firms are overwhelmingly American. The same pattern is emerging in artificial intelligence: frontier firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind are setting the pace, while Europe has largely positioned itself as a regulatory player—writing rules for technologies it doesn’t lead. Two things can be true at once. President Trump has been belligerent and counterproductive in his approach to Canada. Canadians are right to be angry. But we cannot let emotion cause us to lose who we are. The answer to a difficult American partner isn’t to abandon the North American economic model that has underpinned Canada’s own prosperity. Put bluntly: Canada’s long-term interests lie in growth, openness, and integration, not in retreating toward a slower-growing, more statist European model that’s already failing to deliver wealth and opportunity for its citizens.

@Pagmenzies So many journalists & outleta today..

Here’s something I don’t recall seeing before - reporting on someone else’s unnamed sources without verification “Citing unnamed federal sources, the Globe and Mail reported last week that Ottawa was leaning toward a southern route for a new pipeline …” ctvnews.ca/politics/artic…

This is one of the dumbest immigration policy ideas imaginable. The Trudeau government already turned Canada's human capital immigration system on its head. Prioritizing the PR applications of millions of low skilled TFWs would only deepen the damage, and is a recipe for continuing to crash Canada's per capita GDP. Huge numbers of upwardly mobile younger Canadians are leaving the country to pursue opportunity elsewhere. In other words, we are bleeding human capital. So who in their right mind imagines we can become more productive and prosperous by focussing our immigration intake on the lowest skilled jobs in the economy?

Super chuffed that my colleague, dear friend, and former boss @TaraRHenley will soon be coming out with a book on media, turning up the sanity-o-meter dial in this industry by a few points. The book is called "Trust Spiral: Why the media needs objectivity". I hope every journalism student in this country reads it, instead of some of the books they're currently being assigned by their profs. "Henley argues that the media's alarmed response to Donald Trump's first election—abandoning long-held standards of objectivity and rigorous reporting—set off a downward cycle that continues to erode public trust today. The roots of the problem run deeper still: an industry weakened by economic precarity, a generation of journalists never properly trained in the fundamentals, and newsrooms increasingly oriented around ideology rather than public service. Henley's prescription is as direct as her diagnosis. Restoring trust requires honest accountability for coverage failures, a public recommitment to objectivity, and a fundamental reorientation of journalism around the people it is meant to serve, including a long-overdue reckoning with condescending attitudes toward working-class audiences."