@nationalpost@financialpost If you didn’t complain about Ontario’s 70% tariff on B.C. Wine, I don’t wanna hear you whining about Trump’s 50% tariff. Got no time for hypocrisy.
@FoodProfessor@globeandmail Supply management is never good for the consumer / average tax payer. Open competition always delivers the best price for the consumer and there is no better alternative.
@vancolour In B.C. It’s a rigged system that favours the municipal and provincial tax coffers. The Developers hitch on for the ride. The risk always lies with the end taxpayers.
"With more tariffs hitting Canada, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: there is no trade war to win. “Elbows up” won’t work. You cannot outmuscle a country that represents roughly a quarter of the global economy. You need to work with it—even if you despise its leader. Mexico chose engagement and is now in a better position because of it.
As for Canada, we chose pain."
@Marcus_Mosher Cowboys made a huge mistake by trading him away.
He had that undeniable chemistry with Dak, and when he left the Offense took a step back.
Provincial politicians in Canada are taking much bigger salaries than their counterparts in the United States.
Ontario MPPs got paid $157,350 in 2025 while the median American state rep got $45,002.
But the average Ontarian is poorer than the average American in 43 of the 50 states.
Taxpayers aren't getting their money's worth. Read the new Subnational Politician Pay report for more!
If by calling me a “climate denier” you mean that I don’t think the government of Canada can control the Earth’s climate, by taxing the shit out of us, then yes, I am a climate denier.
Canada: Crying Over Spilt Milk in a Self‑Inflicted Stagnation
Canada’s elite have spent a quarter‑century turning a rich, opportunity‑dense economy into a slow‑growth, over‑levered cul‑de‑sac, and they still insist nothing is structurally wrong. There is no sense crying over spilt milk about past mistakes when the architects of this stagnation are still in charge and still in denial.
Canada did not just drift into secular stagnation; it embraced a kind of virtue socialism and an industrial policy anchored on climate change targets rather than productive capacity, competitiveness, or growth. An economy built on world‑class natural resources, strategic geography, and human capital has been deliberately downgraded into a housing‑addicted, low‑productivity balance sheet recession risk, and the people who did it still show up on panels calling this “resilience.”
For years, Canada’s comparative advantages in energy, resources, and industrial capacity were something to apologize for, regulate to death, or tax into oblivion, while policy and capital chased the illusion that you could mortgage and virtue‑signal your way to prosperity. The result is a country flirting with a liquidity trap, where even lower rates may barely move a real economy suffocated by over‑priced assets, under‑built productive capital, and households too damaged to borrow again.
The real scandal is not that Canada faces secular stagnation; it is that the elite engineered it, denied it, wrapped it in climate rhetoric, and now blame external shocks while the data scream that this is a made‑in‑Canada crisis.
To be clear, Canada’s problems are not the result of President Trump!
If Canada’s elite will not finally admit that decades of attacking its own strengths, worshipping its own bubbles, and treating industrial policy as a morality play have left the country one downturn away from a full balance sheet recession, then they are not guardians of the national interest, they are custodians of decline, and at this point, there really is no sense crying over spilt milk, only over the refusal to fix the mess they made.
@Victori49569624 You can spin it any way you want, but the fact remains that the Canadian taxpayers are bailing out the very well to do developers.
And It’s absolutely not about affordable housing, because affordable housing only happens when the market corrects itself naturally.
This is outright criminal. Canada is in a recession and our political leaders think handing taxpayer money away to foreign interests is the right thing to do?