matt roberts

The final and 3rd Part of my History of Quebec VC answers the question I set out to answer at the beginning. What is Canada's most important VC fund? Fun fact, you've likely never heard of it. This one:

One of my favourite traditions in Lebanon is the Night of the Seven Churches. Tonight was my second time. Across Christian communities, observers and non-observers alike visit seven churches to mark the start of the Easter weekend. A beautiful community experience. Happy Easter.

“Children don’t make you happy” - The Daily Mail I'm no researcher, but I downloaded the dataset and looked for myself. The study's numbers say the EXACT OPPOSITE of the headline 👇🏻

Could this be the next Prime Minister of Canada? Recently, I’ve been finding myself up all night trying to figure out what the hell is going on in the world and if we're on the verge of World War III… So, today I’m sitting down with Pierre Poilievre who is the leader of Canada's Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition. He became one of the youngest MPs elected to Canadian parliament and has spent 2 decades fighting for working class people and fair opportunities. Pierre told me that he’s on a mission to make Canada the freest and most affordable place in the world, and he’s not stopping until that happens. To give you more context on his background, Pierre was adopted at birth by two school teachers who struggled financially and ended up losing multiple homes which meant that they had to start again from nothing several times throughout his childhood. That experience shaped what he believes about work, money, and fairness. When speaking about his parents, he told me that they taught him that it doesn’t matter where you come from. It matters what you do. That belief is now at the centre of everything he’s trying to change.

“If the Supreme Court continues on its trajectory and decides to throw Canada’s future into the unknown by inventing limits on the notwithstanding clause, Parliament should use its powers under Section 9 of the Supreme Court Act, to remove from office any judge who voted for such restrictions,” writes @yuanyi_z, member of MLI’s Judicial Foundations Project. Read here⬇️

Hopper to run Avion travel rewards program for RBC /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…

Globe scoop: Georgian founders sell interest in Toronto growth equity firm for US$100-million to ASX-listed Navigator Global Investments $NGI /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…

Mark is a machine. What a run.

@markrmcqueen If they investigate why they didn’t investigate, yes.

Will “the UK’s national inquiry into grooming gangs” attract global media coverage ala the Epstein scandal? “The group-based child sexual exploitation that occurred in Rotherham from the late 1980s until 2013, with an estimated 1,400 girls impacted.” dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

Fair but it is effectively taking tax dollars to compete with businesses that pay taxes. And it will be run at a loss - so then it’s asking society that pays taxes to subsidize a business that could never survive without its continued subsidization. A means tested voucher system is more fair. Doesn’t punish businesses, increases access to food and more widely accessible. This is theatre.

@tobi @grok @mattroberts Except a government run store wouldn't be a command economy since the production in the supply chain is all still private demand based. They just become another customer that needs lower margins

@nachkari Probably know a few!

Tech lending is tougher than it looks

@nachkari French is still pretty mediocre.

Committees can actually be places where really solid work can be done to make policy improvements. And on paper Michael Ma should be a strong contributor. But this is beyond the pale. This guy needs to apologize, resign from the committee and give his head a shake.

@InsiderTakes “Compared to the US” is never a great win on things like this.

@mattroberts Gerontocrat. In a sense we’re lucky we have so few clueless old seatwarmers like her, compared to the US.

The inability to read the room is apparently a specialty of this one. Her own government memo’s show that youth unemployment was driven sky high by their immigration policies. When people like this are in office for decades you can see how out of touch they become.

@Sajwani Deal

Only accounts I follow and whom they follow can reply to this post … try it !

Race is one of the "primary criteria" when @LegalAidOntario is deciding whether a person is eligible for representation by the org's senior counsel. In 2024-25, the LAO was 57% funded by the government. Taxation may be colourblind, but the services Ontarians support are not.

@ArminRosen @InsiderTakes It’s worse because people are in denial.

Holy shit, it's *that* bad up there?! x.com/TristinHopper/…

@strombo Hey congrats on this ! Great to see you getting some kudos for doing the good things.

15 year old me did not have this on the menu. #orderofcanada