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@shazzer65 @iamkennethchan Because they weren’t helping solve climate change.

@iamkennethchan Then why did they lay off so many staff members working on sustainability? Not like climate change went away this year. 🤷‍♂️

The City of Vancouver has recorded a $530-million surplus for the 2025 fiscal year. Property tax revenues climbed from $1.272 billion in 2024 to $1.414 billion in 2025. #vanpoli #vanre #vancre dailyhive.com/vancouver/vanc…

Jeff Bezos just told you exactly how to price AI. Nobody listened. Bezos: “AI is real and it is going to change every industry. In fact it’s a very unusual technology in that regard in that it’s a horizontal enabling layer.” Horizontal enabling layer. Three words that reprice the entire technology sector. The iPhone was a vertical. One product. One new market. Electricity was a horizontal. One substrate that rewired every market on Earth. Wall Street is pricing AI like it is the next iPhone. Bezos is telling you it is the next electrical grid. Right now, thousands of companies are trying to sell AI as a product. A feature. A tool. A subscription tier. Every single one of them will be priced to zero. You do not sell a horizontal layer. You do not compete with it. You build on top of it or you disappear beneath it. For a century, entire industries survived on one thing. Complexity. The friction of navigating law, medicine, logistics, finance. That was the moat. If you could not memorize the maze, you could not compete. A horizontal layer does not navigate the maze. It dissolves the walls. Electricity did not compete with the candle industry. It erased the need for one. The most dangerous part of a horizontal shift is how quiet it is. It moves underneath the economy. The surface looks normal. Revenue still holds. Every day you operate on the old substrate, you accumulate a debt you cannot see and cannot repay. The internet repriced distribution. AI is repricing cognition itself. When intelligence becomes a utility that runs through the walls of every company on Earth, the premium on human expertise does not erode. It evaporates. This is not a disruption. Disruptions replace products. This replaces the ground you are standing on.

CEO French. Most people think “woke” in Canada is just about being nice. Polite. Inclusive. Harmless. Like putting a land acknowledgement on your website and calling it a day. That’s the sales pitch. Now watch the behaviour, not the branding. What we actually have isn’t kindness. It’s compliance with a moral script that keeps changing mid-sentence. One year’s acceptable language becomes next year’s offence. Words get redefined. Intent doesn’t matter. Only alignment does. Miss a step and you’re not corrected, you’re marked. And here’s the trick. It didn’t spread through loud revolution. It spread through HR policies, university codes, and government frameworks. Quietly. Form by form. Training module by training module. You don’t vote on it. You absorb it. Like background radiation. Then you get moments that expose how brittle this system is. Take Air Canada. The CEO offers condolences… but not in French. And suddenly, that’s the story. Not the loss. Not the people affected. The language choice. The compliance failure. Think about that. We’ve trained ourselves to scan for symbolic mistakes instead of focusing on substance. The priority shifts from “Was this humane?” to “Was this perfectly aligned with every linguistic expectation?” Miss one box, and the reaction machine spins up. That’s not compassion. That’s ritual. People say, “If it’s so bad, why doesn’t anyone push back?” They do. Just not publicly. Because the real currency here isn’t truth. It’s risk. Risk to your job. Your reputation. Your access. So people do the math. Stay quiet. Nod along. Keep your head down. The classic Canadian move. Keep the peace. Don’t make it awkward. But silence has a side effect. It looks like agreement. And that’s how you end up with a system that feels unanimous on the surface and hollow underneath. A lot of people going through the motions. Saying the lines. Not buying the script. Here’s the part that gets ignored. The original impulse wasn’t crazy. Fair treatment. Equal opportunity. Basic dignity. Most Canadians already agreed with that decades ago. That wasn’t the fight. The shift happened when it stopped being about fairness and started being about control of language and outcomes. When disagreement became “harm.” When questions became “violence.” That’s not progress. That’s a shutdown of thinking. And once a system punishes questions, it stops correcting itself. It drifts. Fast. My take. Don’t overreact and don’t submit. Call things what they are, calmly and clearly. Refuse the language games. Ask simple questions and keep asking them. No yelling. No panic. Just steady pressure. Because systems like this don’t collapse from outrage. They collapse when enough people quietly stop pretending to believe them.

@KEriksenV2 Do you actually think the majority of votes can be pulled from the far left to the far right in one election cycle? If the conservatives can pull this off it will be with a centre right candidate.

Conservative Party of BC leadership candidate, Caroline Elliott, is not a conservative. Please stop pretending that she is.

@Howard__24 Could a practice rink fit inside? 🤣

Exclusive: Brookfield has flipped the Shangri-La Vancouver (now Hyatt) retail podium to Aquilini Group for $55 million. Brookfield bought the property last summer. Full story: howardchai.substack.com/p/shangri-la-v…

@iamkennethchan “Major reduction in non essential consultant contracts” is so long overdue. The amount of funds wasted on this is staggering.

BREAKING... B.C. government to cut 15,000 jobs over 3 years, including executive positions in Crown corporations and health authorities. There will also be a major reduction in non-essential consultant contracts. #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-g…

@investseekers Regulatory capture at its finest.

Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb on CNBC was blunt about the $NVO vs. $HIMS fight: Mass compounding of GLP-1s was meant as a temporary workaround for shortages, not a permanent business model. He warned that using compounding to “copy” patented drugs undermines FDA approval, safety standards, and incentives to invest billions in R&D. He said once GLP-1s are officially off the shortage list, the legal basis for bulk compounding largely disappears. Compounded versions aren’t FDA-reviewed, may use different formulations, and have already raised concerns around dosing errors and impurities. Access matters, but bypassing FDA approval isn’t a sustainable path. Link to video: cnbc.com/video/2026/02/… #StocksToWatch #investing

@BatchHockey @FarhanLaljiTSN Agreed. None of this makes sense. Even if you had your own stadium the cost to carry the debt associated with building it would eat into revenues just like they are saying the cost to stay at BC Place is. How are all the lower attendance teams surviving???

Brutal look for the Whitecaps, essentially asking the province to subsidize your business. I wouldn’t blame anyone for assuming that the plan has been to move the team all along.

@KirkLubimov We are fundamentally a risk averse nation. We overthink, overanalyze everything until our window of opportunity has passed and then we blame those around us for being in the situation we are in. Rinse and repeat.

Canada has a huge issue of underperformance in its manufacturing sector and more so specifically in capital-intensive manufacturing. Canada can't be our own best customer, increase productivity and pivot if we can't build heavy industries. This is one of biggest key parts that's holding our economy back. Since 2019, this part of sector's GDP has shrunk by 10% vs the US, seeing over a 15% growth. These industries also have a higher profit margin which means Canada is missing out on both sides of the equation. This is companies telling us with their dollars that Canada isn't investable and not worth the long term risk. We need to see policy changes and internal supply chain value added focus before products enter exports to turn this around.

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@RichardDias_CFA Socialism accelerates productivity declines

"Deep down, Canada’s affordability problem is really a productivity problem." - Nicolas Vincent, Deputy Governor, BOC. GST rebates will not solve the underlying problem Canada faces: a lack of productivity growth, due largely to collapsing CAPEX (see next chart).

@KirkLubimov Outcomes > Optics

Mark Carney followed up his great speech in Davos with a moronic speech in Ottawa. He thinks he is a thought leader who can run this country with ted talks and LinkedIn level pretentiousness. We don't need speeches, we need action. We don't need to try to convince ourselves and the world that Canada and Canadians are great. Our actions should lead people to tell the us that.

I’m in to win for BC. 👉We need you. Join our team: winforbc.ca

@GradySas This team is in a constant state of buy high sell low 😩

#Canucks getting whacked on HNIC nationally... You don't just make trades for the sake of, but with some of the injuries, and the lack of effort from the team on this trip, now is the time for mgmt to get aggressive in trade talks. Time to start peeling off some guys already.

@theblockspot Falcons. Talent is already there. Facilities are top notch and ownership is all in.

Dolphins HC job is open. Browns HC job is open. Ravens HC job is open. Raiders HC job is open. Giants HC job is open. Falcons HC job is open. Titans HC job is open. Cardinals HC job is open. Which is the best HC job opening???

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Canada had 20 years to integrate its God-given oil and natural gas with the U.S.—its closest ally—through projects like Keystone. Instead, it chose virtue signaling over national interest, punished its own producers, and normalized ~65% effective tax burdens. Now the U.S. will source the oil it needs elsewhere. This is what elite-driven, anti-growth policy looks like in practice: self-imposed impoverishment.

@CanucksArmy Draining

What word would you use to describe 2025 for the Vancouver Canucks?

@TSN_Sports What a shot! So much swag. 😤

WHAT A PASS FROM TIJ IGINLA TO BRAEDEN COOTES! Cootes' snipe makes it 2-0 Canada! 🇨🇦 #WorldJuniors

@TheStanchion Tear it ALL down

The fact that the Abby Canucks haven’t gotten their rings yet makes this just incredible. This team, man. Just can’t get out of their own way.