Jeff Callaway 🇺🇦🇮🇱🌸

I care about AB, a dairy farm kid who traded in the coveralls for suits.

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Oman's main oil terminal Mina al Fahal hit with a drone strike causing a large explosion, suspending all loading and multiple supertankers now anchored off the port, per Reuters.

This comes 9 days after Trump threatened to "blow up" Oman.

[RMC86 @RMC19861987]

And just like that, the Alberta MOU pipeline has months more added to the approval process. 🇨🇦 @TCEnergy CEO Francois Poirier led a permit streamlining process including comprehensive environment reviews in the 🇺🇸. Approvals now take months. 🇨🇦? More hand-wringing. Geez. 🙄

[Heather Exner-Pirot @ExnerPirot]

What does that mean in practice, to put humanity first in an AI data centre? How could an investor or proponent possibly interpret that?

[Rachael Thomas @RachaelThomasAB]

🚨UNBELIEVABLE!

Retired RCMP officers were lured into a CBC program under false pretenses, then mocked for their service to Canada.

I brought forward a motion to investigate and hold the CBC accountable.

The Liberals shut down debate.

No answers. No accountability.

Shameful.

[Rebel News @RebelNewsOnline]

Millions in bonuses for Liberals' imaginary Alto high-speed rail

The Liberals are full steam ahead on the $90 billion Alto high-speed rail line that handed out millions in bonuses for a train that doesn’t exist yet.

Crown corporation Alto paid out nearly $3 million in performance bonuses to 134 officials, years before construction is set to begin, while Canadian families are crushed by inflation, housing costs and record taxation.

The Alto high-speed rail fantasy is proposed to connect Toronto and Quebec City sometime in the next five years, with construction slated to begin in 2029. Transport Minister Steve McKinnon confirmed earlier this year that once this mega-project is approved, expropriation of private property will begin “almost immediately.”

Despite no tracks being laid and a clear plan still in development, there have already been plenty of taxpayer-funded payouts.

A new Order Paper Question response from the Minister of Transport shows some of those jaw-dropping numbers.

For the 2025-26 fiscal year, Alto dished out $2.76 million in bonuses to 100% (yes, every single one) of its 134 officials – 18 executives or above and 116 others.

That’s over $1.23 million to executives, averaging out to over $68 000 each, in bonuses.

Another $1.53 million in bonuses went to regular staff; but for what? Meetings? Consultations? Photo-ops?

Perhaps the all-expenses-paid public consultations “open houses” that spanned Quebec and South Eastern Ontario from January to March of this year.

This is part of the massive cash already poured into what’s being called a doomed-to-fail project.

The Liberals, under then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, announced an 'investment in the co-development phase' of this electric rail project to the tune of $3.9 billion over six years, starting 2024-25. That’s in addition to the nearly $372 million put into it from Budget 2024.

That’s billions committed before anyone has seen a tangible infrastructure plan.

The total projected cost is estimated at $60 to $90 billion.

Your money. Their bonuses.

Hundreds of upset farmers and landowners showed up to various Alto open houses, speaking out against the expropriation of prime farmland, private property and protected land… all ripped up by this behemoth, destroying livelihoods in the process.

Conservative MP Philip Lawrence has been on the ground with these communities, calling out the lack of transparency and the ballooning costs.

Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre has been clear – this is a waste of taxpayer dollars when we can’t even fix existing VIA Rail or roads and bridges. Why force a vanity bullet train on people who don’t want it and can’t afford it?

These millions in bonuses for an imaginary project leave rural Canadians footing the bill and dealing with all the disruption that comes along with it.

Living in a constant state of uncertainty, left in limbo, wondering if their land will be seized and pausing home or land development plans indefinitely.

Meanwhile, the urban crowd gets to show up for the ribbon-cuttings down the line.

It’s increasingly clear that this public-private partnership is enriching the pockets of well-connected Liberal insiders. There are major players involved in the ‘consortium’ overseeing the project, such as AtkinsRéalis, which is scandal-clad SNC Lavalin rebranded.

When one really breaks it down, the insiders win no matter what happens. Millions in bonuses now and billions guaranteed later.

REPORT by @TamaraUgo:

[Chris Selley @cselley]

This is so transparently ridiculous and it’s the sort of thing that will sink HMS Carney if he doesn’t get a handle on it.

[Marhelm @MarhelmData]

Trafigura - one of the world's top commodity traders

The conflict in the Middle East has already removed more than 1.1 billion barrels of oil from global markets (~15% of pre war inventories)

Lost supply today persists at roughly 14 million barrels per day

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

Michael Geist "Well, I think if we waited this long, we really did need more detail."

"In fact, if anything, we see it actively undermining privacy on a number of other fronts. I mean, quite literally later today, they're going to push ahead with Bill C22. It's lawful access legislation that envisions mandatory metadata retention."

"It's pretty hard to talk credibly about how you're prioritizing privacy as a way of increasing user trust when at the same time you've got legislation that, quite frankly, actively undermines it now the government released a report that outlined the strategy."

Boom! @mgeist

[RMC86 @RMC19861987]

🚨 What's going on with CUSMA? Well, let's ask one of the members of the Advisory Committee on 🇨🇦-🇺🇸 Economic Relations, Lisa Raitt (@lraitt).
"I have no inside information whatsoever... but I think Minister Leblanc is heading into a wood chipper...they are just going to lay out exactly what's been agreed to by Mexico & the expectations on Canada to acquiesce."
I couldn't agree more (see yesterday's post).

[Jeff Callaway 🇺🇦🇮🇱🌸 @JeffCallaway]

@boehmerB 🤣

[Bruce McGonigal @bruce_mcgonigal]

🇨🇦🏭📉BREAKING : Bank of Montreal predicts Canada will come in dead last in economic growth, in the G20, in 2026.

Scotia Bank predicts Canada with come in 14th place.

This is way below the "2nd fastest growing economy in the G7" lies Canadians were told by the Finance Minister & Prime Minister, for over a year now.

When the government lies to Canadians for a year and there is no consequence, why should they ever tell us the truth?

[5DME81 @5dme81]

THE MONEY IS GONE ❗️ Liberals wasted $300,000,000 of your tax dollars on PrescribeIT, a useless digital prescription system that changed absolutely nothing. Now they are trying to sweep this massive failure under the rug. LIBERAL SCANDAL🚨

[Western Standard @WSOnlineNews]

STEVEN GUILBEAULT: You have mail! Take a look at what Steven received today.

[Jeff Callaway 🇺🇦🇮🇱🌸 @JeffCallaway]

@DavidStaplesYEG @gilmcgowan Power prices are extremely low in AB. A quarter or less of what they were at the peak of renewables construction. Supply and demand. No one is signing $120/mwh PPA's when power is $20 or $30. Add higher interest rates vs 5 yrs & no one is funding such uneconomic projects.

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: Trump just signed an executive order that will functionally wall off the Canadian export economy from the United States.

Every Canadian company shipping to the US now must:

-Post much higher per shipment bonds

-Be CTPAT validated by US customs

-Disclose beneficial ownership & domestic assets

-Provide foreign tax IDs & detailed supply chain data

-Lose access to “informal entry” for low value shipments entirely

The reason?

Foreign importers can’t be trusted to comply with US law.

The trigger?

Canada’s documented failure to enforce its own forced labour ban.

80% of our exports go south.

The Prime Minster yesterday said “we expected this”

Canadians who export to the US sure as hell didn’t.

https://t.co/99Z5vdGUv4

[Jeff Callaway 🇺🇦🇮🇱🌸 @JeffCallaway]

Cue Axios peace deal is imminent story at market open Friday....

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: The US State Department has just issued a security alert for all Middle East countries warning of "potential for hostilities" and instructing US citizens to locate the nearest shelter immediately, after the US has given Iran a new end-of-week deadline of "a deal or a military strike," per Channel 12.

Multiple US air force assets are currently airborne in the region with six C-17 Globemaster aircraft leaving the Middle East toward Europe.

The IRGC says its forces have been placed on full combat alert with units now instructed to "stand ready for immediate execution of orders."

[TrendingPolitics.ca @TrendPolCa]

BREAKING: Canada's Parliamentary Budget Officer released its latest Economic and Fiscal Outlook today, projecting deeper deficits than the government forecast and raising serious questions about the sustainability of Ottawa's fiscal plan. 👇🧵 (1/6)

[Jeff Callaway 🇺🇦🇮🇱🌸 @JeffCallaway]

With government it's always a few more months, a few more meetings, a few more fact finding missions, a few more reports that get filed and gather dust, a few more Committees, a few more expert Advisory groups & more costs & funding for each. It's all about running out the clock & perpetuating influence. Never about the people it actually impacts. Just assuaging the vocal minority opposition that will never be satisfied....

[Heather Exner-Pirot @ExnerPirot]

The Carney government proposed a suite of much needed regulatory reforms in a discussion paper last month. They are now extending the consultation period and will likely introduce legislation in the Fall instead of this month.

An additional 2-3 months is not the end of the world but we can’t keep having the loud minority of knee jerk naysayers getting in the way of common sense regulatory reform that is required to put more of Canada’s energy and resources into global markets starving for them.
https://t.co/Tx72tC6NmD

[Eric Nuttall @ericnuttall]

Ninepoint Energy Strategies Update: the "battle for the barrel"™️ and why oil product shortages in the coming weeks are likely, resulting in a price spike

[Jeff Callaway 🇺🇦🇮🇱🌸 @JeffCallaway]

Your voice in Ottawa doesn't matter. Kudos to @AndrewLawton for exposing this!

[Andrew Lawton @AndrewLawton]

Canadians have sent 240,000 postcards to senators urging them to oppose Liberal Bill C-9.

Until this morning, the Senate was hiding these postcards in a warehouse in Gatineau. This morning, they were moved to a Senate room, but they still aren't being delivered to senators.