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@lesliechurch The deficit has not gone down. Your projections say it will go down in the future. But the Parliamentary Budget Officer is skeptical of your math; giving it only a 7.5% chance of happening. Not good odds.

The deficit is coming down 📉 Home prices and rents are coming down 📉 The GDP is going up 📈 Non-U.S. exports are going up 📈 Why? Because our plan is starting to pay off. We are empowering workers, we are investing in Canada and we are Building 🇨🇦 Strong.

Do not use Passkeys ! If you update or change your computer you'll be locked out of your accounts, and have to deal with customer service to reactivate them -- a very painful and slow process

@RickAnderson @TaylorCtaylor67 It's business investment that matters for productivity and employment gains, and per-cap Canada's is lowest in the G7

Some more good news. On a per capita basis, Canada is now attracting twice as much foreign direct investment as the next closest G7 country.

@ManyBeenRinsed Yet Canada has the lowest per-cap business investment in the G7. It's business investment that improves productivity and employment, not FDI

I’m extremely bullish on Canada long term as I’ve been saying lately. Adjusted for size - my Canada is attracting twice as much foreign direct investment as the next closest G7 country. We’re almost double the US. 😤 We are truly the G’est of the G7. Thank you, Carney. ✊🏽

@pxue @Rasmic It's the degrees and quantities; not binary

@Rasmic Literally none of these problems are unique to Canada.

I'm very bullish on Canada. It's no more or less difficult to start a million dollar internet business in Canada than in the US. Honestly, it’s a lot easier when you’re not stressing about $10K a month for health insurance, especially if you’re young and healthy. You don’t have to put life on hold, worry about a $100K childbirth bill, or carry as much financial pressure for aging parents. Truthfully, millennials in Canada is doing just fine. I’m bullish on the next generation staying. People in their 20s are ambitious, have that IDGAF energy, and are building in public, bootstrapping, and learning fast. It’s a sharp contrast to millennial founders who leaned toward the perceived safety of the US startup ecosystem. Taxes aren’t the issue for builders. I’m a second-generation founder and this comes up all the time. In Ontario, the first $500K of small business profit is taxed at roughly 12% combined. You also get a $1.5M life-time capital gain exception. Small businesses win in Canada. The conversation always swings back to optimizing for a hypothetical $100M exit. For most founders, that’s unrealistic and premature, so it’s largely irrelevant. Like I’ve said before, you can’t optimize Canada for an American outcome. The systems are different, and most people online just repeat US-centric takes without understanding that. Where you build your first business doesn’t matter much. I’m five startups in, and Canada hasn’t been a handicap. Just build.

@pxue Maybe. But you need employees. And why will they work and sacrifice if all those problems are solved without work and sacrifice

@sarobertsonca These are the people that couldn't manage a queue at their leadership convention

Avi Lewis: "We have a very clear plan to cut grocery prices by 30-40% for Canadians at a cost to the federal government ... We'd subsidize it. It costs $350m to launch and $300m a year, which is one-half of 1% of the current defence budget."

@MarcMethot3 Teams are often short on numbers as is, many having retired their own numbers. I think retiring numbers league-wide is over. Hexadecimal numbers ? That will increase the number space from 100 to 256, while keeping the numbers two-digits long

Not feeling this. At least not “officially.” Then it opens the door or at least conflicts with 9 and 66 (as mentioned by others in the comments..) Teams can decide for themselves. I remember when Ho-Sang was wearing 66. It never worked out, and the players should know better anyway. (Mario said he had no issue with it but let’s not kid ourselves)

@THudson59618056 Lower taxes, especially lower capital gains taxes, would help Canada. There are no rich people left to tax. Business needs private capital to develop

Pierre Poilievre said Singapore is an example of a successful economy with low taxes. 😂😂😂😂 Singapore Taxes: 65% taxes on a second home. Tax rate on a car is 300% 80% of Singapore people live in government housing. Oh yeah they has Industrial Carbon Tax...$40 CAD.

@MattWalshBlog They should just shorten it to NSWM; Not Straight White Men

For those who don't speak Woke Retard, I looked it up and apparently MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ means "Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual." So apparently they'd added murdered people into the LGBT community. Murdered is now a queer identity. This is the kind of innovation we get from Canada.

@Hartamophone Tough year for Leafs fans. Hang in there hugs 🤗 There's always next year

Sens fans, this is lame. Team is absolutely cooking in a playoff-run game and the place empties out long before the final horn. Yes the rink is in Kanata and the parking lots are annoying, but it gets tough to defend the fanbase when this is the norm. Let’s step it up. #gosensgo

@Hartamophone The CTC Kanata situation is brutal. The move to Lebreton Flats cannot happen fast enough

@junonewscom Maybe shorten it to NSWM; No Straight White Men. Just be honest

NDP MP Leah Gazan condemns Budget 2026 for cutting $7B from Indigenous Services Canada and Crown Indigenous relations. "They provided $0 to deal with the ongoing genocide of MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+," she said. "Rates of violence are increasing, and the PM is turning a blind eye."

@monsturmun "People that don't share my values are bad people" ... not the kind of thinking that is consistent with a pluralistic democracy

When I was at St. Joseph's for 22 hours, I was amazed at the NDP support in that area, I saw Orange signs everywhere! It gave me a feeling of togetherness and community spirit, a Hope of Ontario being run by the people! Vote NDP folks, we must help now! youtube.com/watch?v=eLjDY7…

@ZontarAlt Polls are polls, not hard scientific facts. Ottawa can't even build a light rail that works when it snows, let alone comes in at under 2x budget

@TaoStein Numbers don't lie, Reformers do

The fringe minority of Tories who oppose the line seem to not comprehend that this is a lost position on a consensus *within the Tory voterbase*

@djosfilms Jeffery Epstein made the no capitalisation pretentiousness uncool forever

bc i was born in saskatchewan the most boring province ever, moving to the big city made me feel better idk

@Reil76 This nonsense deserves to be mocked. Meanwhile, in the real world ...

Alberta, is this what you want for your LGTBQ community? People mocking them and making fun of them? Is this the Alberta you want for your children?

@ZontarAlt Easier solution: teach them how to use Zoom

Fun fact: the maximum capacity of the HSR line would allow for it to move 120 times as many people between Montreal and Toronto as air is capable of before needing a relief line.

@Cappy_Nate That's what they said in the 60s when they built those things through cities. Everybody hates them

This is a viaduct. Viaducts are 2-5x cheaper than tunnels. This is how you bring High Speed Rail to downtown Toronto in the fastest, cheapest, least expropriative manner. Beautiful isn't it?