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Where are my fellow Gen X at?

The psychology of Gen X. A generation who respects competence, not titles. A generation who had to solve their own problems. A generation who was adulting since elementary school.

He's crushed it. With only approx. 3.5 billion in guaranteed new deals. The rest are mou's or trade extensions. No deal with the 🇺🇸 GDP down, housing down, cost of living up, food inflation #1 in the G7. 2.2 million people at food banks. 700 are kids. We're now energy dependant. Canada is giving away its land Youth unemployment has skyrocketed .. Carbon tax does cause inflation Bank of Canada says our economy is on LiFe Support. Deficit is the highest ever PBO said the budget was stupefying. His is trying to pass 1984 style censorship bills. And not passed a single bill to make life more affordable. Grocery rebate -- proven to be a 14b taxpayer bill for the future. Middle class tax cut has already been eaten by the cost of living. I can go on...?

@wk6431 @mrsunshinebaby My wife is on her way home from Great Falls,MT right now. Filled up for $3.60/Gallon($1.30/L using today's exchange rate). Price in Calgary today $1.60/L.

@mrsunshinebaby 1.43 per litre in Montana (That's with the exchange rate plus GST conversion) Good thing we aren't taxed to death in Canada

Gas prices in British Columbia, Canada, have hit $2 per litre ($7.57USD per gallon). I hope y'all are ready.

The Checkout Called. It's Not Impressed. Your Economy Doesn’t Feed People. Dear @MarkJCarney You told Canadians to judge you at the checkout. That was your standard. Your line in the sand. So I took you at your word. And I came prepared. I brought my grocery receipt, and I brought my tax assessment from the Canada Revenue Agency, because I am well aware that the easiest way to dismiss people like me is to pretend we are exaggerating. I am not. My gross income sits at roughly $26,800. I am a widowed, rural school bus driver raising an 11 year old child. That number is not theoretical. It is the framework every decision in my household has to fit inside. Now let’s talk about your “Judge me at by the checkout” remark. $84.78. Twelve items. One week of school lunch supplies. One luxury bag of Doritos I hope my autistic kid will like. One bag of Sunchips I know she will like. Not groceries. Not abundance. Not even balance. No meat except for pepperoni sticks. No dairy. Just Supplies. And before anyone reaches for the standard talking points, let me address them directly, because I already know what your response would be. You would point to a school food program. You would point to a grocery benefit. You would present both as evidence that help is either here or just around the corner. Neither of those things solves this problem. As I said, my daughter is autistic. Food is not a matter of preference or persuasion. It is a hard boundary defined by texture, predictability, and tolerance. If you think a child like mine will eventually “get hungry enough” to eat whatever is put in front of her, then you do not understand what autism looks like in real life, and the endless feelings of failure mixed with overwhelmed exasperation for parents. My child has, and will go forty hours without eating something she cannot tolerate. And if she forces it, she will throw it up simply from the stress of eating something she cant tolerate. That is not stubbornness. That is not behavior that can be corrected with incentives or programs. That is neurological biology meeting reality. So no, I cannot rely on a generic school food program filled with random items, unknown ingredients, and inconsistent preparation in kitchens I don't know are free from cross-contamination or not. I cannot gamble on whether something will trigger headaches, nausea, or outright refusal. And I cannot risk my child going hungry because a policy designer in Ottawa assumed all children interact with food the same way. There is another layer to this that people like to ignore because it is uncomfortable. If my child consistently shows up to school not eating what is provided, or not eating enough, it does not get interpreted as “policy failure.” It risks being interpreted as parental neglect. Teachers report concerns. Systems activate. Suddenly I am not just navigating grocery prices, I am defending myself as a low-income parent of an autistic child. One more stereotypical label applied to my household without considering the facts. That is the reality your programs do not account for. I can't even fathom hiw disabled Canadians with special diets survive. That might explain why we just surpassed 100,000 doctor assisted suicide in your MAiD program. So I do what parents have always done. I adapt. I buy what she will eat. I cook extra at night so she has something for lunch. Sometimes I cook an entirely separate meal just so she can get take it in her lunch and get through the school week. She will not eat sandwiches. She will eat the components, but not assembled. The only bread she tolerates is light rye, at six dollars a loaf, and only if there’s a cheeseburger between the slices. Otheriwse she wont eat bread or toast, so even that workaround comes with a premium. This is not inefficiency. This is survival inside constraints you have never had to think about. Now let’s talk about cost, because that is where this all collapses. The box of food I bought is not impressive. It is not nutritionally perfect. It is not what your government would showcase in a campaign graphic. It is what fits inside my budget and inside my child’s limits at the same time. Milk at $7.39 plus deposit. Cereal at $7.29. Those are not even in my cart. They are examples of the line I cannot cross. They represent the point where “better choices” become financially inaccessible. On top of that, I pay deposits on beverage containers in Saskatchewan. I’m paying $1.60/L for fuel to travel forty kilometres to the nearest grocery store and back. The closest Walmart is 3 hours one way. The closest No Frills is 80 minutawaine way. I pay taxes layered onto already inflated prices. Every step increases cost before the food ever reaches my kitchen. And while all of that is happening, I am told to follow the Canada Food Guide. Have you SEEN it? I somehow doubt while in your ivory tower eating your foie gras, that you’re attuned to the hunger beneath you. The food guide states our plates should be comprised of half fruits and vegetables. The rest whole grains and lean protein. Explain how that is supposed to work on $26,800 a year, with a child who cannot simply “adjust,” in a system where every input cost is rising. Explain it in numbers like I’m five. Because the numbers I am working with do not reconcile with the expectations you are setting. Let me make this even clearer. My child has already adapted to scarcity. She usually goes without breakfast, because of limited choices, availability and her never-ending pickiness of textures, smells and consistency. But dont worry you and your cabinet will say “...but there is a school food program!” Lunch is small. The students are only given 13 minutes to eat their lunches, because time is money and teachers feel underpaid for their efforts. So no extra time allowed lest the teachers have to give up more of their time unpaid. Supper is portioned. Not because that is what I want for her, but because that is what the budget allows. Water fills a lot of the empty spacetin order to fake the feel of being sated. Water consumption is the one part of the food guide we can actually follow as long as I pay the water bill. As for me, I eat about once every thirty hours on average. Not because I am not hungry. Because that is what I can afford to do so she can eat. That is what YOUR liberal economy looks like from the inside. Food banks are not the safety net people imagine. The closest one to me is an hour away. That requires fuel I cannot spare. It requires me to show up in person during hours I am working. It is not accessible in any meaningful way. For context, I get paid four hours a day to drive a school bus and the food bank hours are 1-4 pm. Remember, its a one hour drive just to get there. Another hour home. I won’t even describe how long it takes to wait in the line, or the endless embarrassment at having to do so. There is no daycare. No babysitters hiding out in the canola fields. No means to find a second job that won't get eaten up paying for daycare. So when you stand there and suggest that the Liberal system has supports built into it, understand that those supports do not reach a lot of people who need them. They certainly do not reach households like mine in a way that materially changes outcomes. The fact the system even needs supports your first clue that your system is failing. And people like me don't want supports. We want a paycheck that isn't taxed to death so we can afford to live again. And every time you or one of your clown ministers answers a question about affordability with comments like “We brought in a school food program” its an outright slap in the face. Even the child tax credit, at it’s highest amount doesn’t elevate us above the poverty line so again, your cabinet ministers claiming they’re raising thousands of children out of poverty is outright bullshit. Please! Enough! Just STOP with the bullshit. I refuse to accept it any longer. And this is the part you need to hear, whether you like it or not. Before oil prices moved. Before the latest conflict overseas. Before any of the convenient explanations. Nothing was getting better. Not one solitary thing. You have travelled in contradiction to your climate rhetoric and carbon goals. You have announced billions in endless supports for Ukraine and other international programs that do nothing for my household, or even my country. You have signed agreements and issued statements and reassured Canadians that progress is being made, yet Canadian cannot point to any progress affecting their lives in any meaningful way. And at the supermarket checkout, where your performance is actually measured, there is no evidence of progress anywhere. Absolute nothingness. An abyssal cavern of emptiness and hungry stomachs. Not one single thing. If you believe you can continue reshaping the economy, layering costs through policy, and pursuing your agenda while assuming people will quietly absorb it, then you are fundamentally misreading the country you are governing. Because people are not confused. They are not misinformed. They are not failing to understand your vision. They are doing the math. And the math is not working. Right now, families like mine are being forced into a calculation no parent should have to make. We are choosing between the food our children will actually eat and the food we can afford to throw away when they cannot. That is not a policy debate. That is a failure. You told Canadians to judge you at the checkout. So here is the judgment. Your words have not translated into results. Your policies have not produced relief. And the reality in homes like mine is moving in the opposite direction of everything you promised. Fix that. Now. Or accept that people will stop listening to what you say and start responding to what they are living. You have the audacity to go on vacation leaving millions of Canadians hanging, waiting for any sign you might, some day, perhaps, just maybe, do that “something” for Canada that you claimed only you alone could do, since you alone are the only one who “understands how the world works.” You clearly don’t understand Jack shit about how the world works, and it shows. Yours in justified contempt, Melanie in Saskatchewan School bus driver Widowed mother And... Still waiting for your promises to show up at the checkout. 👇🏻 buymeacoffee.com/melanieinsaska… 👇🏻 open.substack.com/pub/melanieins…

@TheRealKeean Saw this exact thing at a Walmart in Calgary today. Sad state of affairs when retailers feel like they have no other choice but to lock up baby formula.

Baby formula locked up like Fort Knox in Canada. Kinda sad, for a bunch of reasons.

As a middle class Canadian citizen I’m simply shocked that other Canadians can’t see what’s happening here. How do you not see the adult immigrants working the jobs our youth used to hold? How do you not look around when out in public and see the massive amounts of foreigners wearing foreign garb and speaking foreign languages? How do you not see the prices of groceries and realize that your dollar no longer has any purchasing power? How do you not fuel up and see the cost of fuel increasing due to taxes that if removed would make fuel affordable again? How do you not see the secondary CPP on your paycheque that generations before us weren’t forced to pay? How do you not see the excessive control the government is trying to take via the bills they’re currently discussing and passing? How do you not see the corruption, ethics violations and laws being broken by politicians, their family and friends with ZERO accountability and justice never being handed out? How do you not see the corrupt justice system who panders to foreigners allowing them to commit crimes on Canadian soil with almost zero punishment to protect their immigration status? How do you not see a justice system we were promised was blind hand lenient sentences based solely on race? How do you not see the billions sent to foreign countries, on illegal migrants and people who hate Canada? How do you not see the increase in homeless people on our streets, the increase in drug addictions and the degradation of society? How do you not see that our education and healthcare systems have been decimated due to mass immigration? HOW CAN YOU LIVE HERE AND NOT SEE THE TRUTH ALL AROUND YOU?

The allowance your parents paid you as a teenager. Go!

@ryangerritsen Looks like someone just got their CTV interview requests significant reduced...

CTV try’s to disparage Pierre due to his recent travels, Tom Mulcair quickly puts them in their place with some quick facts.

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@thackattack41 Oilers fans as soon as season ticket or playoff renewal packages arrive in the mail...

Just got our Oilers Season Seat renewal and playoff ticket option. If you thought playoff tickets were expensive last year..... just wait.....

A Brand New Day starts now. Watch the official trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day - exclusively in theatres July 31.

DEGENERATION X HAS JOINED THE GREATEST TREND EVER 🔥 "Dad, what were you and your Bro like in the 90s"

@spittinchiclets Not sure who's going to setup on the right side during PPs now. Happy Gilmore maybe??

Not ideal. Leon Draisaitl is expected to miss the remainder of the season.

Calgary’s @Enbridge is the single biggest oil energy exporter from the U.S. They are in 43 states employing thousands on both sides of the border. Met CEO Greg Ebel to talk about powering the continent and the world, making Canada the richest and most affordable country on earth.

stop applying for bank loans like a normal person there are $2.3 billion in government grants available right now that you never have to pay back not loans. not credit. free money from the federal government sitting in databases that 99% of business owners have never opened grants.gov has 1,900+ active grant opportunities RIGHT NOW. the SBA has grants. the USDA has grants for rural businesses. the department of energy has grants for clean tech. state governments have their own programs. cities have their own programs. there are grants specifically for: women-owned businesses (SBA Women's Business Centers + Amber Grant: $10,000 monthly, $25,000 annually) veteran-owned businesses (StreetShares Foundation, VetFran) minority-owned businesses (MBDA grants, National Urban League) businesses in rural areas (USDA Rural Business Development Grants up to $500K) businesses in specific industries (SBIR/STTR grants for tech and research: $275K-$1.5M) businesses creating jobs in underserved areas (Community Development Block Grants) nobody applies because the application process is intentionally intimidating. 20-40 page proposals. budgets. timelines. impact statements. most business owners see the requirements and close the tab that's exactly what they want. fewer applicants means less competition means higher approval rates for the people who actually submit SBIR grants (Small Business Innovation Research) give tech startups $275K in Phase 1 and up to $1.5M in Phase 2. the acceptance rate for Phase 1 is around 25%. one in four. that's insanely high for free money. most people assume it's 1% and don't bother USDA Rural Business Development Grants go up to $500K for businesses in rural areas. if your business operates outside a major metro, you might qualify. population threshold varies but generally towns under 50,000 population. a huge portion of America qualifies the Amber Grant gives $10,000 every month to a woman-owned business. the application is one page. one page for $10,000 in free money. they've given away millions and the applicant pool is embarrassingly small relative to eligible businesses btw, the application is not about your business. it's about their mission. every grant-making organization has specific goals. job creation. innovation. community impact. environmental improvement. your application needs to show how YOUR business accomplishes THEIR goals. frame everything around impact, not revenue hire a grant writer if the grant is over $50K. professional grant writers charge $2,000-$5,000 and have 40-60% success rates. spending $3,000 to access $275K is the best ROI in business apply to 10-15 grants simultaneously. it's a numbers game. the people winning grants are applying to everything they qualify for, not just one and praying now combine this with 0% credit: get $150K in 0% business credit to fund operations TODAY while your grant applications process (grants take 60-180 days). if you get approved for a $275K SBIR grant, the grant money pays off the credit cards. you've been operating on free capital the entire time and now have $275K in non-dilutive funding with zero debt even the government wants to give you money. you just never asked (we build full capital stacks: 0% credit + grant positioning + SBA. link in bio for business owners doing $250k+/yr)

🚨 BREAKING UPDATE: Lori Idlout’s Floor-Crossing TREACHERY Exposed – Your Tax Dollars Funneled to Her Family? This is INFURIATING! 😤🇨🇦 Since my last post on this disgusting betrayal the dirt keeps piling up! Lori Idlout, Nunavut’s former NDP MP, ditched her party to join Mark Carney’s Liberals, becoming the FOURTH floor-crosser to boost their power grab. She’s pushing them just TWO seats from a majority – all without an election! How’s that for democracy? 🤬 Look at this timeline of “coincidences” – Carney’s Liberals dumping BILLIONS into Nunavut right before her switch: •Jan 5: $8.5M for linguistic education in Nunavut. •Jan 30: $250M to build 750 homes in Nunavut (that’s over $333K per house – smell the pork?). •Feb 6: $600K for digital literacy. •Feb 19: $228M for “various projects” (vague much? No details, just your money vanishing). •Mar 4: $6B (yes, BILLION) in trade and infrastructure. •Mar 11: Idlout crosses the floor, citing “Northern priorities” like housing funds and $50M for an Inuit university. Convenient! That’s a whopping $478M just in housing/projects alone, plus billions more. And on March 12, Carney announces a MASSIVE $35B Arctic defense and infrastructure plan, including $253M+ for Nunavut energy, housing, and infra – Grays Bay Road/Port, airport upgrades in Rankin Inlet/Iqaluit, and more. Who’s benefiting? Enter Allan Mullin, Lori’s husband, grinning in that airport selfie from Dec 18, 2025. He owns Nunavut Holdings Inc. (NHI), a Iqaluit-based construction firm specializing in appliances, fire/rescue gear, hardware, industrial supplies – perfect for all these taxpayer-funded builds! Reports claim NHI snagged up to $500M for 750 homes on Jan 30. Coincidence? Or straight-up CRONYISM? This stinks of corruption – your hard-earned taxes lining their pockets! 💸🤑 And don’t get me started on her son, Robin Idlout. Charged in 2024 in Winnipeg with accessing and possessing child pornography after FIVE investigations spanning years. Iqaluit RCMP issued a statement Dec 30, 2024. Now, post-crossing, rumors swirl that his case “mysteriously disappeared” – speculation of a Liberal pardon or deal? Disgusting if true! How low can they go? 🤮 This isn’t politics; it’s a BETRAYAL of Nunavut voters who elected her as NDP in 2021 and 2025. No byelection, just backroom deals. Carney’s “courtship” lasted months – bribing MPs to stitch a majority? ENOUGH! Canadians are SICK of this Liberal sleaze. What do YOU think? Was this payoff for her vote? #LiberalCorruption #FloorCrossingScandal #MarkCarney #LoriIdlout #Cdnpoli #NunavutBetrayed #TaxpayerRipoff

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Calgary Gasoline Price December 31, 2025

Calgary, Edmonton, and Prague will be the hosts for the 2028 World Cup of Hockey! #WCOH

@Tablesalt13 I'm starting a business next month. Thanks for the tip 😁

Basically, the only people who can afford a new car in Canada now are business owners who get a capital cost allowance (depreciation write off) and who can ITC the HST (get the sales tax back) I know because I do it.