Dean Wilgosh

If Canada wants Alberta to stay, it's actually quite simple - just treat Alberta fairly. Here's how Ottawa could do that: 1) Fix the House of Commons so it's proportional to population. 2) Fix the Senate, so it's elected and there are an equal number of seats per province. 3) Repeal the multiple pieces of legislation preventing pipeline and energy project construction and let the private sector get to work. 4) Get rid of the equalization program. 5) Convert transfer payments using a tax point transfer. 6) Give up the "spending power" on issues that are provincial jurisdiction. Note that literally none of these would change things to favour Alberta, they would simply remove existing inequalities to make things fair for all provinces. If the rest of Canada isn't willing to even consider making things fair, why should Alberta stay?

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Anyone on here running a big meridian swing auger ?

@Denny2point0 Seed into dust the bins may bust. Seed into the mud and your year is a dud. The saying my dad said about the land he had. He was right about that actually.

⛔️Canada had the world by the balls… and we absolutely flushed it all down the toilet. Brutal truth: a country can’t survive on nothing but government jobs, bloated bureaucracy, and delusional “plans.” At some point you need real people with the guts to risk their own capital, build actual businesses, hire workers, open plants, drill, mine, manufacture, innovate, and grow this economy like it’s supposed to. We have every single natural advantage on the planet: oil, gas, potash, uranium, gold, nickel, forests, farmland, fresh water, world-class talent, and a rock-solid banking system. We should be an absolute global economic beast dominating the world stage. Instead, investors look at our toxic swamp of crushing red tape, punishing taxes, regulatory insanity, activist grandstanding, endless bureaucracy, and nonstop anti-business venom… and they just say “No thanks” before taking their money and running to countries that actually want success. This nightmare didn’t happen overnight. It was years of deliberate, brain-dead policy choices: years of choking productivity with red tape, years of treating every entrepreneur and investor like public enemy number one, years of making it damn near impossible to build anything in this country. And what did millions of Canadians do? They kept voting for more of this garbage. That’s the part that makes my blood boil. When the hell did we stop voting for a better future and start voting against people like brainwashed sheep? Pure emotion. Personality cults. Fear-mongering. Imported “orange man bad” idiocy. CBC propaganda and social media echo chambers pointing fingers at the villains while the country quietly rotted from the inside. Investment? Gone. 
Productivity? Dead in the water.
Young people? Completely locked out of ever owning a home.
Doctors and skilled workers? Bailing en masse.
Businesses? Sprinting for the exits.
Capital? Long gone. And now some clowns have the nerve to act shocked? What the hell did anyone think was going to happen when governments spent years attacking the very industries that pay for everything in this country? You cannot tax, regulate, shame, obstruct, and demonize the engines of growth forever and expect the economy to magically keep working. That’s not how money works. That’s not how people work. That’s not how reality works. Capital goes where it’s welcomed. It runs screaming from where it’s punished. End of story. Businesses chase profits and investors want returns — that’s the machine that creates jobs, wages, pensions, infrastructure, and the tax revenue everyone loves to spend. You don’t have to love corporations to admit that chasing all investment out of Canada is straight-up economic suicide. And here’s the ugly truth nobody has the guts to say out loud: Canada has an aging electorate that controls every election. Retirees who already own their homes, already stacked their wealth, and already lived through our best decades. Younger Canadians get stuck with the wreckage: unaffordable housing, stagnant wages, crushing debt, and zero opportunity. Every election turns into the same pathetic emotional “stop the scary guy” circus instead of any real debate about growth and competitiveness. That stupid strategy works… right up until the bill shows up. Well the bill is here, and it’s a monster. The most rage-inducing part? Canada still has massive unrealized potential. We’re not poor.
We’re not out of resources.
We’re not short on talent. We’re just completely lacking any leaders with a spine to stand up and roar: “ENOUGH! Let the builders build again!” Because no amount of government press conferences, slogans, subsidies, or worthless reports will ever replace real private investment. That’s the brutal difference between creating real wealth… and just managing our own pathetic decline.

🚨 A young immigrant from Ecuador/Venezuela/Colombia just dropped the coldest warning Canada has heard yet. “Everything you are seeing now here in Canada is what happened in Venezuela twenty years ago… step by step. 
It’s a script from communism. Simple as that.” He looks straight into the camera and says:
“We come from the future basically… this is messed up 100%.” Then drops the brutal timeline graphic right beside him — the full collapse from richest country in the hemisphere to food shortages, suspended elections, jailed opposition, and unarmed citizens massacred by their own government. And right in the middle? 
Red arrow: “Canada, you are here.” One generation of “progressive” leadership was all it took to destroy Venezuela. We’re watching the exact same playbook in real time. #cdnpoli #VenezuelaWarning #CanadaWakeUp #ManagedDecline #CarneyCarney #LiberalBetrayal #OneGeneration

My grandfather said he’d never move into a retirement home. He said, “Too expensive… and the food tastes like someone boiled sadness.” Instead, he checked into a beachfront hotel. We asked, “Grandpa, isn’t that even more expensive?” He smiled and said, “Not really. At the retirement home, I’d pay $200 a day for cold meatloaf and no visitors. But here? For $150 a day, I get ocean views, room service, fresh towels, a pool… …and suddenly all my grandkids remember I exist every weekend.” Then he leaned back in his chair and delivered the final line like a mob boss: “And if I die in the hotel lobby, the manager will actually look disappointed. But at the nursing home? They just call it Tuesday.”

That’s not even close to the whole story. For most of us, one, two, three, or even ten pipelines changes nothing. When oil crashed in 2014, the industry had tens of thousands of layoffs. The province was hurting but there were signs of hope: Northern Gateway, Energy East, and TMX. Northern Gateway had its approval cancelled by Trudeau. Energy East was cancelled because Ottawa wanted to count upstream and downstream emissions, which put the project on shaky ground. But the coup de grace came when Québec’s prime minister at the time, François Legault said that there was “no social acceptability for a pipeline.” TC cancelled it shortly after. Finally, we fought over TMX because Ottawa wouldn’t assert its jurisdiction. Trudeau let Horgan and BC make it so risky to try to build TMX that Kinder Morgan had to pull out. Nobody wanted the federal government to buy the pipeline, they should have simply enforced the conditions to ensure it was safe for Kinder Morgan to proceed. Albertans had stayed quiet for a long time over equalization because Ottawa was staying out of our faces, so it was just the price to pay to operate in this country. But when came time to help Alberta after the oil crash, the whole nation turned its back on us and proceeded to crush the three beacons of hope we were counting on to turn the corner. That’s when a lot of us started paying closer attention to politics to figure out how to get our voices heard. It didn’t take very long before we started looking at seats in the House of Commons and the Senate and realizing how unequal and unfair our representation is in Ottawa. Bottom line is that we’re effectively screwed and that the people we subsidize through equalization continuously vote for governments that attack our industry. Fixing the constitutional mess is impossible because it would require either Ontario or Québec and all the maritime provinces to vote in favour of curtailing their own political power. It will never happen. In 2019, we figured that Canada was going to be smart enough to realize that Trudeau was a disaster and we’d get back some common sense. Wrong. Trudeau was voted in for a second time. If you were in the oil and gas industry at the time, you probably had your first taste of western alienation with the Wexit movement instantly polling above 30% in support of independence. Next up is covid and that’s when all hell broke loose with the spending, the OIC to prohibit common guns, etc. Albertans’ living standards were the most impacted by Trudeau and now Carney’s insane deficit spending. We watched as Trudeau pranced around on the world stage, virtue-signalling with our money while the cost of living was sky rocketing. In FY 2024-2025, we watched the Liberals send $13B abroad between gender equality and climate change foreign aid, while running a $36.3B deficit. We had one last hope with Pierre looking like he was going to get elected and stop the bleeding. But they parachuted Carney in and the rest is history. The country’s finances are in shambles and it would take 3 generations to fix this mess if we started today by doing the obvious, which Ottawa is still refusing to do. Ottawa is fiscally irresponsible and now headed down a very dangerous path of authoritarianism with all the bills that were passed in this parliamentary session. Alberta independence supporters see the writing on the wall and don’t care about any number of pipelines. Once you’ve looked close enough at the system, you realize it can’t be fixed and there’s no coming back from realizing the true extent of the mess Canada is in. The Canada we grew up in doesn’t exist anymore. It is a sinking ship and independence is the only way to save Alberta.

CANADA 🇨🇦 2026 SMOKING INSIDE ILLEGAL DRINKING OUTSIDE ILLEGAL SMOKING CRACK ON THE SUBWAY? ALL GOOD. YOU HAVE TO BUY A GROCERY BAG BUT. TAMPONS IN THE MEN'S ROOM? FREE. GERMS ONLY TRAVEL 5 FEET 11 INCHES. MEN CAN HAVE BABIES THE PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE ⬆️ CAN'T DEFINE WHAT A WOMAN IS GENDER IS JUST A CONSTRUCT. BUT YOUR ONLY CHOICES FOR TRANS PROCEDURES ARE MALE OR FEMALE 😏 NEED LIFE SAVING SURGERY? 2 YEAR WAITING LIST. HAVE YOU CONSIDERED ASSISTED SUICIDE? WE CAN DO IT TOMORROW LEAD A PEACEFUL PROTEST? 49 DAYS IN JAIL, 2 PLUS YEAR TRIAL CROWN SEEKS 8 YEAR PRISON TERM SEXUALLY ASSAULT A CHILD? TIME SERVED, REDUCED SENTENCE, CUZ CAN'T JEOPARDIZE GURDEEP'S IMMIGRATION STATUS. PURCHASE, STORE, OPERATE FIREARMS LEGALLY? WE'RE TAKING YOUR GUNS. SHOOT UP A SYNAGOGUE, SCHOOL, BUSINESS? OUT ON BAIL THE SAME DAY. ........OVER AND OVER AND OVER. CANADA IS A PUNCHLINE 😐

No helmets, No supervision and pure chaos! Nobody did it like Gen-X! 😎

Activist: "Your cows are putting carbon into the atmosphere." Farmer: "Where did they get it?" Activist: "What?" Farmer: "The carbon. Where did the cow get it before it put it anywhere." Activist: "From... eating?" Farmer: "From eating grass. And where did the grass get it." Activist: "The soil?" Farmer: "The air. The grass pulled it out of the air last spring. The cow ate the grass. The cow breathed some of it back out. It went back into the air it came from." Activist: "But it's still going into the atmosphere." Farmer: "It's going back. There's a difference between a thing going somewhere and a thing going back. You've described a circle and you're frightened of it." Activist: "Then just don't have the cow." Farmer: "The grass still dies in autumn. It rots where it falls. The carbon goes back into the air either way, just without anyone getting fed in the middle." Activist: "It's not that simple." Farmer: "It's grass, cow, breath, grass. Or it's grass, rot, air, grass. Same circle, fewer dinners. If that's complicated for you I'd stay away from the water cycle. That one's got clouds in it."

🚨BREAKING THE NARRATIVE: First Nations voters just posted one of the strongest pro-independence results in the poll. 46% support Alberta independence. The state-funded media narrative says First Nations are overwhelmingly opposed. The data says something very different.

Every ‘equal society’ in history ended the same way: with force. You cannot redistribute productivity without coercion. That’s the part radical socialism never admits. The more 'equality' you want, the more authoritarian it must become to enforce it.

"Taxpayers are getting ROBBED blind. Congress shows up for just 133 days a year, pockets $174K salaries, and blows through $810 MILLION in staff allowances alone — up to 18 aides per member plus massive operating budgets. Billions flushed down the drain with zero results for the American people. This isn't government. This is institutionalized fraud. Time to drain the swamp for real. Term limits. Audits. Cut the waste. Who's with me? 🇺🇸 Drop your thoughts below👇!

**Mark Carney just set a NEW RECORD** 💥 **The WORST first full fiscal year deficit in modern Canadian history.** **-$66.9 BILLION** 📉 (2025-26 est.) Compare that disaster to: - Justin Trudeau (Liberal): **-$17.8 BILLION** 🔴 deficit - Stephen Harper (Conservative): **+$13.8 BILLION** 🟢 SURPLUS - Paul Martin (Liberal): +$1.6B 🟢 surplus Liberals keep saying “best economy in a decade”… Then drop **record-breaking debt** from Day One 💸 This is Carney’s “strong economy”? Canadians are getting crushed by Liberal tax-and-spend madness. Wake up 👀 What do you think of this record? Drop your thoughts 👇 Canada First — not more Liberal economic destruction. 🇨🇦 #CDNPoli #MarkCarney #LiberalFail #CanadaFirst #CanadianEconomy

I hear so many people blaming the outrageous gas prices on Donald Trump, but here’s a fact for y’all to ponder. Oil just topped $100 per barrel. As of five minutes ago gas is selling for $1.90/litre in my neighborhood. The last time oil hit $100 per barrel was under Stephen Harper, yet gas prices topped out at $1.38 per litre back then. Yes, the Iran war is affecting gas prices, but there’s about 52¢/litre that is the direct result of taxes, environmental taxes, and taxes on those taxes.

Dear @MarkJCarney and François-Philippe @FP_Champagne Before you step up today and tell Canadians how well everything is going, understand this first. People are paying attention now. Not casually, not passively. Carefully. Because over the past year, you’ve given them a reason to. You’ve said the economy is strong while growth slows to a crawl. You’ve said things are resilient while unemployment edges upward. You’ve talked about momentum while businesses pull back and households tighten everything they can. That gap between what you’re saying and what people are living is exactly why this update matters. Now comes the Spring Economic Update, and Canadians already know the play. You’ll take a large deficit and present it as “strategic investment.” You’ll say the numbers are “better than expected” without reminding anyone the original expectations were already a problem. You’ll lean on words like “nation-building” and “long-term growth,” and avoid the simpler word. Spending. Because that’s the shift you’ve been making all year. Take spending, attach a future benefit, call it an investment. Same dollars, different story. That’s where the Canada Strong Fund comes in. On paper, it’s a $25 billion investment vehicle. In reality, it’s borrowed money placed into a fund so it can be described as something else. Countries that build sovereign wealth funds do it from surplus. Canada is doing it while running deficits. That’s not investing profits. That’s repositioning debt. And once you do that, almost anything can be called an investment. Subsidies become investments. Infrastructure becomes investments. Policy becomes investments. Even spending with no direct return can be dressed up as “future growth.” The line doesn’t blur. It disappears. Because if everything is an investment, nothing looks like a cost. If everything is building the future, nothing answers for the present. And then there’s the IMF. You keep pulling out tidy little half-sentences like they’re gold stars. A phrase here. A compliment there. Just enough to suggest everything is on track. What you don’t mention is that those same paragraphs, sometimes even the same sentences, are packed with warnings about weak growth, poor productivity, high debt, and structural risks. That trick doesn’t work anymore. People are reading past the comma now. They’re reading the whole paragraph. They’re reading the report. But Canadians are noticing something you’re not acknowledging. They’re not living in the future. They’re living right now. They’re looking at grocery bills that don’t match your optimism, watching job markets that don’t reflect your confidence, doing math at their kitchen tables that doesn’t align with your messaging. And when reality doesn’t match the script, people don’t assume their lives are wrong. They assume the script is. So here’s the problem. You’re trying to rebuild trust using the same tactics that eroded it. Re-branding spending as investment doesn’t strengthen the economy. It polishes the explanation. Cherry-picking reports doesn’t prove strength. It proves you’re hoping nobody reads the rest. Calling a weaker outlook “resilient” doesn’t change the trajectory. It softens the language. And telling Canadians everything is fine while restructuring the books to make it look that way doesn’t demonstrate leadership. It demonstrates awareness. Awareness that the truth isn’t selling. So before you deliver your update, understand this. People are listening differently now. They’re watching the words, watching the emphasis, and watching what you avoid. Because this time, when you say “investment,” they’re going to ask a very simple question. What are we getting back? And when you quote the IMF, they’re going to keep reading. And if the answers aren’t there, no amount of re-branding, trimming, or selective quoting is going to cover it. Not anymore. Taking ordinary spending, attaching the word “investment,” wrapping it in sovereignty language, all while hoping Canadians do not notice the economy underneath is still coughing into a napkin and really bad governance. Melanie in Saskatchewan #cdnpoli #SpendingIsntInvestment Article here👇 Before You Sell It, We’re Already Reading the Fine Print open.substack.com/pub/melanieins…

One of my favorite expenses from the Monette Ledger is the $1,297.07 owed to be in the Yellowstone Club, an exclusive Golf and Ski Club in Montana. To be part of the club you need to pay $60,000-$78,000 per year and buy a condo for around $6 million USD to a house worth $30 million USD. It’s purchases like this that make you wonder why he is going bankrupt.

JUST IN: Iran just pulled a thirty-year-old empty supertanker out of retirement and began towing it toward Kharg Island. She is moving so slowly that a voyage that should take a day and a half is taking four days. Her name is NASHA. IMO 9079107. Built 1996. A two-million-barrel very large crude carrier that has been anchored empty off Kharg for years. TankerTrackers confirmed her reactivation yesterday. Gulf News, Iran International, and Fox News all picked it up within hours. The reason she is moving at all is that Iran is running out of places to put the oil. Kharg Island handles roughly ninety percent of Iran’s crude exports. Its onshore tanks had about thirteen million barrels of spare capacity when the US blockade began on April 13. Net inflow since has been running at one million to one point one million barrels per day because exports have collapsed to single digits of vessels while upstream production continues. The math is mechanical. Roughly twelve days of spare capacity. The calendar says that window closes this week. NASHA is not a strategy. NASHA is what you do when you have run out of strategy. A two-million-barrel floating storage vessel buys Iran approximately forty-eight hours of continued upstream production. After that, either the wells get shut in or the crude goes somewhere else. The parallel options being pursued, ship-to-ship transfers in the Riau Archipelago, AIS-dark transits, sanctioned VLCCs returning home through the blockade line, are not enough. Lloyd’s List Intelligence has tracked roughly twenty-six Iran-linked vessels evading since April 13. That cannot absorb a million barrels a day. The wells will shut in. The question is which wells, for how long, and whether they come back. The Asmari and Bangestan carbonate formations that sit under most of Iran’s giant southern fields are high-permeability, strong-water-drive systems. The Society of Petroleum Engineers literature on this specific reservoir class is unambiguous. Remove continuous pressure support for a prolonged shut-in and four damage mechanisms activate simultaneously: water coning upward through the fracture network, fines migration into pore throats, formation compaction under increased effective stress, and clay swelling under altered salinity and pH. The damage is not theoretical. It is documented. And it is measured in months to years of recoverable production capacity, not days. Maleki and Gordon estimate three hundred to five hundred thousand barrels per day of permanent capacity loss if the current shut-in trajectory completes. That is a directional estimate, not a lab measurement, but the direction is not in dispute. NASHA is the archaeological signature of the clock. When a country with the world’s third-largest oil reserves reactivates a thirty-year-old retired tanker to float on top of its main export terminal and buy forty-eight hours of time, the institutional systems designed to absorb shocks have already failed. The insurance market, the shadow fleet, the diplomatic channels, and the reservoir physics are all converging on the same conclusion at different speeds, and NASHA is the one that shows up on satellite. The market is pricing a ceasefire. The Pentagon is pricing six months of mine clearance. Iran just pulled a corpse out of the Persian Gulf and asked it to buy two days. That is not how a reversible crisis looks. That is how a regime tells you, operationally, that it has run out of options between the blockade and the shut-in. The reservoir does not negotiate. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

RMR: Seven Day Forecast youtu.be/wkDvqQKGgDA?si… via @YouTube