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@DrJStrategy Hmmm good marketing for your firm. Get political, right on! No one should use you idiots because you can’t beat the market anyway, buy an ETF instead. Maybe point some blame where it belongs, the idiot down south destroying the world economy.

For the record. Canada is sleepwalking into recession, with a collapsing standard of living and a soaring cult of Mark Carney, and once again earning its honorary place as a member of the Third World. Even as growth flatlines, per‑capita incomes stagnate and policymakers openly tell Canadians to get used to being poorer, Carney enjoys record‑level approval ratings unmatched in a decade. It is a bleak rerun of the early 1980s, when Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s interventionism delivered stagflation, recession and mounting debt while Ottawa insisted that more state control was the cure. The difference now is that the delusion is more brazen: Bay Street demands higher rates to clean up the non-existent inflationary mess, Carney wraps managed decline in climate and “equity” branding, and the political class applauds. Proof that Marx’s bourgeois socialists are not just alive in Canada, they are firmly in charge.

@handre @naval Yes and the masses of people, especially in the US, are known for their ability to set aside enough savings to self-insure for major health costs……oh wait is that right?

LASIK eye surgery cost $2,200 per eye in 2000. Today it's around $1,000 per eye despite 24 years of inflation. Meanwhile, an MRI that cost $1,200 in 2000 now costs $3,000+. The difference? LASIK operates in a free market with no insurance interference and minimal regulation. When patients pay directly, providers must compete on price and quality. LASIK clinics advertise prices, offer financing, and constantly improve technology to attract customers. Compare this to hospital procedures where prices are hidden, patients never see bills, and insurance companies negotiate opaque rates that somehow always increase faster than inflation. Cosmetic surgery follows the same pattern. Breast augmentation, rhinoplasty, and other elective procedures have become more affordable and safer over decades. Surgeons invest in better techniques and equipment because they must satisfy paying customers, not insurance bureaucrats or hospital administrators focused on maximizing reimbursements. The lesson is clear: remove third-party payment systems and excessive regulation, and you get Austrian economics in action. Prices fall, quality rises, and innovation accelerates. Healthcare costs aren't rising because of aging populations or new technology—they're rising because we've destroyed the price mechanism that makes markets work.

@BenSteiner00 Whiny and entitled just like their president.

It's quite amusing to see how many Americans are complaining about the time of the gold medal game. Meanwhile, Canadians are just like, "Cool, beers at 5 a.m., it is." It's not that hard.

@farrmacro @carlquintanilla As a Canadian I wouldn’t refer to it as “disagreements with allies.” I would refer to it as treating your allies like shit.

I’m all for doing whatever is necessary to level the playing field against countries that hack our defense contractors (China), or ban our media companies (China), or steal our IP (China), or restrict capital flows (China). If this means blockading ships, banning imports, tariffs, etc, it might be worth it over the long run. But attacking Canada, Europe, Japan, etc with tariffs based on questionable math has been a very convoluted approach that has done far more damage than good. I see it now every day in the markets. Foreign capital is starting to shun the US and the Dollar and that’s a mistake that could have devastating consequences to our standard of living. Disagreements with our allies are best reserved for tough but private conversations.

For all of those who have been blaming Canada for "not making a deal," welcome to reality. The countries who negotiated "deals" are now getting whacked with higher tariffs, unilaterally and arbitrarily. They did nothing to provoke that. He's just angry with the United States Supreme Court. The tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum are in violation of our earlier deal: CUSMA. Deals don't matter when negotiating with a counterparty who doesn't respect them. We still have to do our best to preserve what we can of CUSMA and "negotiate," but with eyes wide open. That means dispensing with the naïve belief that we can return to normal trade relations anytime soon.

"The provincial government’s search for a major private investor to build a pipeline to the West Coast is reportedly stalled by the uncertainty surrounding a potential separatism referendum this fall." Separatism is bad for business & bad for Alberta. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

.@JamesTalarico: For 50 years, the religious right convinced our fellow Christians that the most important issues were abortion and gay marriage—two issues that aren't mentioned in the Bible. Jesus tells us exactly how we're going to be judged: by feeding the hungry, by healing the sick, and by welcoming the stranger. Don’t tell me what you believe. Show me how you treat other people, and I’ll tell you what you believe. Jesus gave us two commandments: love God and love neighbor. There was no exception to that second commandment regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, immigration status, or religious affiliation.

It’s important that you understand what happened last night. Last night, Stephen Colbert interviewed Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, a candidate who, by all accounts, is on track in the polls to flip Texas blue. In response, Trump’s FCC reportedly threatened CBS if the interview aired. CBS caved and pulled the segment, citing “financial reasons.” In modern American history, no president has been more hostile to free speech than Donald Trump. But censorship always backfires. Here’s the full segment Trump didn’t want you to see.

Canadians did not start the trade war. We did not ask for, nor did we deserve, threats of the annexation of our country. And no amount of gaslighting will change those facts.

“There’s never been a president with zero interest in protecting the natural world until Donald Trump" "Teddy Roosevelt’s Family Urges G.O.P. to Protect Public Lands" nytimes.com/2026/02/16/cli…

"Trump’s Trade Moves Are Making Everyone Else Great Again" bloomberg.com/opinion/newsle…

You can’t teach humility 🇨🇦

On average, Canadians have a better quality of life and enjoy greater political freedom than Americans. There is less violence in public life – a benefit of "Peace, Order and Good Government." It's important to consider these things given threats of annexation by the USA.

Recorded back in the 1960s, John Cleese (of Monty Python fame) made an excellent satirical commentary exposing the friend-enemy distinction as being at the heart of both far-left and rar-right extremism, inter alia, including its psychological appeal.

Canada won't be bullied! I stand with PM Carney 🇨🇦 Scott Galloway:

. @profgalloway speaks facts about the Canada - US trade relationship. “If there’s a trade imbalance, or an asymmetry, it benefits us (the USA) full stop.” His point is that the tariffs, threats, and attacks on Canada make no sense, and are contrary to the commercial interests of the USA.

Finance guys get it. Scott Galloway on Trump vs. Canada and Whether He’ll Sell His Big Tech S... youtu.be/N5_kM-Ax28M?si… via @YouTube

Phil Hartman and Catherine O'Hara on #SNL on October 31, 1992, singing about the Toronto Blue Jays winning the World Series and being proud Canadians 🇨🇦 📽️: SNL/NBC

You have the right to leave the country. You don't have a right to take a piece of it with you. You can hold whatever votes you like. But you can't vote to help yourself to something that isn't yours. All of the territory of Canada belongs to all of Canada. Canada's future can only be decided by Canadians as a whole, not by groups within it, however desperate or fanatical. (Which they are, pretty much by definition: to think that the only solution to your grievances, real or imagined, is to destroy one of the most successful countries that has ever existed marks you out as an extremist from the start.)

A reminder: There is no legal or moral basis for secession. There is also no practical possibility of it. The mere attempt would be ruinous for everyone involved. Why do we persist in indulging this fantasy — especially now, of all times? We have enough trouble on our hands as it is with the Trump administration. Why hand them the tools with which to divide and destroy us? theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…