Rob Zidar 🍳

@Reil76 You're just making numbers up champ

Lets actually sit down and do the math on Alberta separation, because it seems like nobody else wants to. Right now, Alberta’s budget is roughly balanced. About $70-75 billion in, same amount out. It’s not perfect, but it works. The second you leave Canada, you don’t just stop sending money to Ottawa. You inherit the whole damn machine they were running on your behalf: borders, military, pensions, Employment Insurance, courts, federal policing, Indigenous obligations, foreign affairs, currency, central banking, all that shit. That’s not some rounding error. That’s an extra $30 to $60 billion a year in new costs slamming onto a province that was already spending every dollar it made. So now you’re looking at $105-135 billion in annual spending against $75 billion in revenue on a good year. That’s a $30-60 billion hole every single year, and nobody in the separation movement wants to talk about it. And it gets worse. You’re also picking up $120-150 billion in inherited federal debt. That’s another $4-6 billion a year just in interest payments before you’ve even hired your first border agent or opened a single embassy. Where the hell is that money supposed to come from? How do you close a gap that big? You’d need brutal spending cuts, a new sales tax, higher income taxes, higher corporate taxes, and you’d better pray oil stays above $80 a barrel. Even then you’re white-knuckling it. The real kicker is the oil revenue swings like crazy. Your new government costs sure as hell don’t. You can’t call up the military or the pension guys and say “Hey, prices are down this month, take some time off.” The bills keep coming whether WTI cooperates or not. And now there’s no Bank of Canada to bail you out when shit gets sideways. You’re on your own. Good luck with that. This isn’t about politics or which team you’re on. It’s just arithmetic. You want to be pissed at Ottawa? Fine, there’s plenty of reasons to be fucking pissed. But don’t confuse being pissed off with actually having a plan. Right now the separation crowd is long on anger and real short on math that adds up.

Have people lost their minds? Joining the European Union while rejecting the geographic reality of being the next door neighbour to the world's only Super Power; is one of the most retarded economic proposals I have ever heard. It could only be dreamed up by Canadians.

@OrevaZSN They don't. That is nonsense.

@WeSee2024 @SRuhle Wow you should really delete your account

This also can be true. The Trump administration could’ve save the airline by helping them. Spirit needed $500 million to stay operational. Trump gave $40 BILLION DOLLARS of taxpayer money to Argentina, a foreign country, to “help” them out. Trump could’ve saved 1000’s of American citizens jobs for $39.5 BILLION DOLLARS LESS. In the end, Argentina is now the 3rd poorest country in the world and it’s citizens are eating donkey meat. Where did the money go?

2 things can be true. - the Biden Administration blocked a JetBlue/Spirit merger out of market consolidation concerns & now here we are with one company gone. - the final blow that caused Spirit to fall was skyrocketing jet fuel prices caused by the war in Iran.

“We don’t hire foreign workers” is what the manager told me. Between Orillia and Gravenhurst, on HWY 11 in Ontario there is a place that still HIRES CANADIAN youths. Support business like Webers. Great burgers 🍔 Next post for outside shot.

@pmarca So glad I was alive to see this.

Every argument of “because of the smartphone” or “the Internet” or “social media” is cope, to avoid confronting the catastrophic collapse of incumbent institutional competence over the same timeframe.

@Houseofyogi Is @SenWarren okay? Worried about her.

Spirit Airlines died tonight at the hands of the socialist crusader, Elizabeth Warren She must be so proud to add another casket to her achievements. Tonight at 3am, Spirit turns off the lights. 14,000 jobs gone. 30+ smaller airports lose service. JetBlue offered $3.8 BILLION in cash to buy Spirit in 2022. Shareholders, flight attendants union, literally everyone voted yes. The combined company would have held 9% of the US market against a Big 4 that already owned 80%. For anyone who understands numbers: 9% isn’t a monopoly against 80%. Warren said no. She wrote letters. She pressured Buttigieg. Biden’s DOJ sued. A federal judge killed the deal in January 2024. Her argument: the merger would cost consumers $1 billion a year. Now look at her collateral damage she dusts under the rug. 510 pilots gone in the months after. 1,800 flight attendants furloughed in December. 14,000 jobs in 2023. 7,500 last week. Zero tonight. And that’s just the people in Spirit uniforms. Catering goes. Fuel guys go. Baggage crews, gate agents, airport coffee shops, hotels and rental cars in 70 cities Spirit flew to. Every airline job carries 3 more on its back. 40,000 people out of work because of one woman’s moronic crusade against the market. And the math ain’t mathing. Spirit abandoned 90 routes during the death spiral. Fares on those routes are up 14% on average. Oakland to Newark: $135 to $288. Fort Myers to San Juan: $92 to $219. Kansas City to Newark up 66%. That’s reality. Not some BS number from a “study.” So @SenWarren tell me how this saves the consumer money? Cheap carriers in a market drop fares 21% across the board. Southwest did this in the 90s and saved Americans $68 BILLION over 20 years. Warren killed it. That’s what moronic politicians led by socialism do. Then with her own blind arrogance, she tweeted Spirit’s collapse is “a Biden win for flyers.” A win. 14,000 people are reading termination letters tonight. And she’s taking credit. This is socialism in 2026. A senator who’s never made payroll thinks she knows how to run a market better than the people who own and work in the company. She saved you a billion on imaginary paper. She cost you ten times that in real life. She didn’t protect consumers from anything. 14,000+ will go from working to welfare. She will make sure to blame billionaires, hardworking tax payers, AI, capitalism and whatever monster they will make up tomorrow hiding under your bed. Higher taxes. Fewer jobs. More expensive everything. She called it a win. I hope you enjoy winning.

Thank you Elizabeth Warren for killing Spirit Airlines, a budget airline for low income consumers

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but a nation doesn’t need infinite growth. Canada was a much better place with half the population. We all had doctors, our schools weren’t overcrowded, housing was reasonable and plentiful, teenagers could get jobs, traffic wasn’t a nightmare, vehicle insurance was even reasonable. There is not a single thing that has improved by importing 20 million people who couldn’t even build their own country

@StephenPunwasi Tragedy

🇨🇦: Toronto’s death spiral continues. This was one of the most exclusive retail strips in the world, converting into self-storage. Toronto is the best example of a city that had everything it needed to be great, squandered by elites who turned into a warehouse for workers.

@BBCWorld How about we leave the ice there

Chunk of glacier blocks route up Everest in peak climbing season bbc.in/48k2diZ

@Mikeggibbs Astute

Canadians know that the current inflation crisis is the fault of one lunatic: Donald Trump. They know it's not Mark Carney's fault.

I owe $11,600 in federal taxes. $4,000 was because my side biz did better than expected. Thats great. But $7,600 was because “Obamacare” says I made too much money. I’m currently in a payment plan that will take me a year to pay off so Somalians and black lives matter family members, and “nonprofits” can steal from me. Not to mention the millions of illegals getting FREE healthcare, food and housing. I’m an American who’s worked since 16. I am nearly destroyed because I work! And I am officially pissed the FUCK OFF. @POTUS

@junonewscom This is a full on disaster

PM Mark Carney said the "international order is crumbling" and suggested Canada's close ties with the U.S. are no longer reliable. He added that Canada has "overcome the betrayal" of the trade war and should build relationships elsewhere.

@Smil3yAngel Seems fake. Good luck with it.

A new poll is out saying that the majority of Canadians are interested in possibly joining the European Union. 25% said they would be interested and 58% said it's worth looking into. What are your thoughts? Should Canada join the European Union? 🇨🇦🇪🇺

@gregbradyx When was the last time you answered a poll?

I come across SO many people. They're in my inner circle, semi-inner circle, outer circle, at the gym, fellow parents, people who text the show - I've never had one interaction, let alone conversation (not one - not this year, not last year, not at thousands of Ajax doors), where someone even mildly opined "Canada should join the European Union". Not the most sane person, not the most loony person, not the person that is indifferent to Trump, not the person who despises Trump & can't focus on a single other important thing. I've not had one 10 second convo w/ anyone about Canada joining the EU. So I have no idea who these people are.....deadly serious.

@Gubloinvestor @Lok_visa It is not 2nd for ease of doing business. It is red tape and taxes everywhere

@Lok_visa Since there is so much negativity about canada on social media, wanted to point some good words. Anything you mentioned is everywhere in the world and yes i totally agree with the points you mentioned above.

Canads is by Far one of the best country in the world 🇨🇦 🍁 Canada is a top-tier global producer of potash (1st), uranium (2nd), and aluminum (3rd), which are critical for the global energy transition. Canada currently ranks 2nd globally for ease of doing business, making it a top destination for corporate headquarters and investment. Canada remains a global leader in the export of gold, motor vehicle parts, and agricultural products (specifically barley and soybeans). Canada holds 7% of the world's renewable freshwater supply and possesses roughly 20% of the world’s total freshwater when including the Great Lakes.  Canada consistently ranks as having some of the cleanest air quality among G7 nations. Recent 2026 data shows that while some urban pollutants fluctuated, most indicators remain significantly lower than 1990 levels. Canada ranks 12th out of 165 countries for overall human freedom (economic and personal). Ranked 14th in the world, Canada is one of the safest and most stable countries on the planet Canada currently ranks 21st, maintaining a high standard for journalistic independence and the protection of free speech. Canada ranks 3rd globally in overall reputation and is the #1 most trusted nation for tolerance and inclusivity (Global Soft Power Index 2026). For over two decades, Canada has led the OECD in the percentage of adults (ages 25–64) with post-secondary education. It is ranked 3rd in the world for being politically stable, well-governed, and respecting the rule of law. In 2026, Condé Nast Traveller named Canada among the top 29 most beautiful countries in the world, specifically highlighting spots like Torngat Mountains National Park. 17 Canadian cities were recognized among the world’s most livable urban centers this year. Top-ranking cities include Ottawa, Victoria, Vancouver, and Halifax, which were noted for their balance of safety, healthcare, and standard of living. Five Canadian cities (Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Ottawa, and Calgary) rank in the Top 100 Best Cities globally to live, visit, and invest in. Canada is the place to be 🇨🇦

@NYTimesPR @sissenberg @nytimes LOL

@sissenberg @nytimes A correction will appear in tomorrow's print edition: "A headline with an article on Friday about President Trump’s threats to leave NATO misstated the full name of the body. It is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, not the North American Treaty Organization."

Does the @nytimes know what NATO stands for?

There was something almost perfectly revealing about the confrontation with Pierre Poilievre on the train issue. Not because it was dramatic, but because it distilled, in a few awkward minutes, the peculiar habits of Canadian political life: a media class that prefers sentiment to scrutiny, and an electorate that too often confuses aspiration with arithmetic. Poilievre is being treated as though he has committed some offence against decency. In truth, his offence is far simpler—he has done the math out loud. We are told that this proposed high-speed rail line will cost $90 billion, as though such numbers arrive neatly and obediently on budget. But anyone with even a passing familiarity with large infrastructure projects knows the ritual: estimates are promises made early and broken later. If this comes in under $150 billion, it would be a historical anomaly rather than a triumph. Run the numbers seriously. Assume nine million riders annually—roughly triple current demand. That is not skepticism; that is generosity. Spread capital and operating costs over a 20-year horizon, and the cost per trip approaches $1,175. Even if one charitably halves that figure, you are still looking at $600 per passenger. Now compare that to what people will actually pay. There is no political universe in which tickets sell for anything close to that. At $175—a figure already pushing the limits of public tolerance—you are left with a subsidy north of $400 per trip, and more realistically closer to $1,000. Put plainly: the state could save money by paying for each traveller to rent a car, cover their fuel, buy them a lavish meal en route, and still have enough left over for a trunk full of groceries. Yet none of this arithmetic seems to trouble the commentary class. Instead, critics—figures like Thomas Mulcair among them—dismiss the objection as narrow or ideological, as though basic cost accounting were a partisan affectation. And here lies the deeper problem. Around the world, high-speed rail is rarely profitable. Outside a handful of dense corridors—often in countries with vastly different geography and population patterns—these systems operate as prestige projects sustained by continuous subsidy. Canada, a vast, sparsely populated, northern country, is about the least natural setting imaginable for such an undertaking. But the politics of it are irresistible. The promise is sleek, modern, cinematic—something between a campaign brochure and an episode of The Simpsons. The costs, meanwhile, are deferred, diffused, and ultimately borne by people who will never ride the train. So a politician points this out—plainly, numerically—and is treated not as a participant in debate, but as a heretic. That is the real spectacle. Not a man speaking out of turn, but a culture so uncomfortable with inconvenient arithmetic that it mistakes it for provocation. And when, a decade from now, the inevitable overruns arrive and the subsidies deepen, those who cheered the dream will not bear the consequences. They never do.

@AntiTrumpCanada You think it's fine that CDN gas is more expensive than US gas?

$1.84/L = $7.16 per gallon ($5.14 USD). On behalf of Canada, just wanna say: great job Donald Trump, you fucking piece of shit.