Kirk Propp

Just a guy

[Richard Dias @RichardDias_CFA]

Canadians should not be surprised that Canada is now in a technical recession. For years, mass immigration papered over what the BOC called a productivity emergency. Mass immigration is now over, but Canada still faces a chronic lack of private investment. Expect more weak growth until there is a change in philosophy about the nature and scope of government.

[William Lacey @WilliamLaceyYYC]

Some more context. The creation of Pathways will represent the potential reduction of 10-12 million tonnes (MT) of CO2 per year. In 2024 global emissions were 35,130 MT, so the project represents a potential reduction of 0.03%. The largest growth in emissions in 2024 was from the Asia Pacific region (839 MT) while North America (-143 MT), Europe (-236 MT) and Africa (-9 MT) all declined). I can think of a lot of better ways to spend these billions of dollars to improve the environment than the wasteful spending on Pathways.

[Stephen Taylor @stephen_taylor]

Open the Carney Strait! Oil tankers are currently suffering a blockade by a zealous fundamentalist government.

[Dan McTeague @GasPriceWizard]

While 🇨🇦 arrogantly abided
green schemers in fantasizing there was no business case for LNG

The real spectacle?

The sudden realization by energy commentators, complete with charts and musings about an energy shock that’s left 🇨🇦’s energy, when it’s most needed, in the dust

[Steve Saretsky @SteveSaretsky]

Parts of the world are being forced to ration fuel and switching back to Coal and here’s Canada talking about “decarbonized” oil.

[Steve Saretsky @SteveSaretsky]

As the world clamors for oil and gas from a democratic ally, never forget the words of former energy minister @JonathanWNV less than two years ago.

[Damien C. Kurek @dckurek]

Just wait till you hear what our Prime Minister said about the future of oil and gas. Turns out he and his party were dead wrong, and Canada now buys LNG not from Alberta, but from literally the other side of the planet! That is the legacy of Mr. Carney, Mr. Trudeau, and the people in the Liberal benches and backrooms that have held Canada back.

[JayGen 𝕏 er🇨🇦 @JayGenXer]

Carney was the architect behind Trudeau, if you haven’t seen this video…

Well, BUCKLE UP! As it’s a LOT to take in and follow

Draw your conclusions…
#onpoli #canpoli #carney #trudeau

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

Mark Carney boasts that Canada has “the most educated workforce in the world,” but that claim has become a parody of itself. What passes for education today is little more than mass credentialing and ideological indoctrination. The managerial class, overflowing with degrees but barren of competence, preaches climate virtue while productivity, state capacity, and living standards collapse.

Canada’s bureaucracy has swollen into a self-reinforcing progressive monoculture obsessed with “SWOT analyses,” diversity audits, and climate signaling. Ottawa now models hypothetical U.S. invasions and publishes net-zero transition memos while failing to build pipelines, fix housing, or deliver basic services. The country’s economic sovereignty is slipping away, suffocated by its own “educated” overseers.

The cult of climate policy has become the ultimate refuge for a failed governing class. Bureaucrats and academics chant the language of decarbonization and “climate justice” to obscure their own incapacity to produce or manage anything concrete. The economy stagnates under the weight of green bureaucracy, yet the managerial elite congratulates itself for moral superiority.

A recent poll shows how deeply this moral delusion has seeped into the national psyche: Canadians now view the United States as more dangerous than China or Russia. That’s not education, it’s indoctrination. The average citizen blames Donald Trump for the failures of their own government, conditioned by a university and media ecosystem that worships climate alarmism and despises economic reality. Canada’s decline is no mystery, it’s what happens when a society mistakes ideology for intelligence and compliance for virtue.

[Martin Pelletier @MPelletierCIO]

I’m not joking. Watch what happens to the 10’year under his term. One catalyst will be the cancellation of CUSMA. Others as well: https://t.co/TVheMdLnVM

[Melanie In Saskatchewan @saskatchewan_in]

https://t.co/rvQCuZkN3s

🚨Canada’s $25B ‘Volunteer Fire Brigade’ for a Country That Isn’t Actually Fighting Back!

Remember when we were told Ukraine was a nation of lion-hearted freedom fighters willing to bleed for independence? Cute meme. Here’s the update from lived reality here on Earth:

While Ukrainians hit the ski slopes and pretend winter is optional, their new defence minister just admitted, in front of the entire world, that about 200,000 of their own soldiers have deserted their posts.

Meanwhile an astonishing 2 million eligible Ukrainians are avoiding the draft entirely, dodging the fight like it’s a bad date.

That’s right! Two million people are on the run instead of the front lines. And whose wallet is getting picked clean to bankroll the whole operation?

Canada’s. Again.

Nearly $25 billion in so-called “aid” since 2022 shipped from Ottawa to Kyiv, taxpayer dollars and benefits like our credit score that Canada could have spent on health care, housing, or actual fearless Canadian veterans, instead of funding pensions for people who won’t even fight for their own country.

And we’re told to grin and thank our lucky stars we’re helping defend democracy. Meanwhile, many Ukrainians are apparently too busy booking après-ski lessons to show up for duty.

If people won’t actually fight for their own independence, why is Canada essentially signing IOUs in their name? Why are Canadians funding pensions for 'fighters' who are too busy dodging conscription?

It's one thing to help out an ally in their time of need. It's a whole other ball game when they become a parasitic dependent sucking your bank accounts dry as they settle into their role of avaricious foreign dependence. It's like caring for a disabled dependent with no resources.

Here’s a quick reality check for Ukrainians.

Canada pays the bill, but many Ukrainians don’t pay the price.

And that’s not “solidarity.” That’s subsidizing someone else’s fight because nobody at home is willing to do it themselves.

If they wont stand up for themselves and their sovereignty, then what will they stand for? They should feel ashamed having dozens of other nations paying for their war and recreational activities and pensions while so many of them refuse to do any heavy lifting to secure their own futures, their own lives.
#cdnpoli #StopTheUkraineGravyTrain #FeedCanadiansNotUkrainePensions

[Martin Pelletier @MPelletierCIO]

They elected Trudeau/Carney who did both 😂

[Morgan Downey @morgan_downey]

Today (Friday Jan 9), when the US admin meets oil majors, expect a big headline number.

A promise of $100 Billion to rebuild Venezuela.

Maybe $200 Billion.

Heck, why not $500 Billion for when oil reaches $200 per barrel?

Whatever number is announced, multiply it by zero.

No CEO is going to invest that kind of Capex while oil sits at $55, the admin itself is targeting $50, and breakeven in Venezuela is $80+.

Promises are free.

Math is undefeated.

[Rob Anderson @FreeAlbertaRob]

My my…this didn’t age well.

What could have those last two socialist mayors of ours invested in that would be super duper more helpful than a $87B climate strategy? Anyone?

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

The Great Climate Crisis has now become a full blown realignment of the entire structure of human society. The costs are staggering almost beyond comprehension, beyond our reach, with estimates that net zero will cost $275 trillion, at $9.2 trillion every year for 25 more years.

Earth's climate history is full of violent, natural swings that make the current 1.2–1.5 degrees over the last 170 years look trivial in geological terms. The planet can flip from hot to cold without any human help - and it does. This is shown in the endless great global events, like the end-Permian extinction (the Great Dying), the Carnian Pluvial Episode (sharp warming, plus 1-2 million years of ceaseless rainfall) and the Younger Dryas (an abrupt, severe cooling spell, 12,900-11,700 years ago). These were all world shaking.

This is why it's impossible to foreshadow the future of climate, based on a trace gas, CO₂, which is only 420 parts per million (4 molecules in 10,000). This must be measured against the other great natural forces that have always driven the geology of Earth for 4.6 billion years. We shouldn't overlook the lessons of history and science; the sun, the Milankovitch orbital cycles, the ongoing Quaternary Ice Age, the moon and ocean currents, shifting tectonic plates as continents collide and prevailing winds, tides and storms.

The UN forced this agenda of a warming climate based on computer models that may or may not apply in 10 years, never mind 25 years. It has been presented as an ideology, akin to religion where to question is heresy. There's no evidence to say such a colossal price tag will change anything. If it achieves nothing, what will we do then? Where will our children turn once our rich human society has been driven back into a new Dark Age.

This entire crisis narrative is based on an assertion that human activity is responsible for a rise in CO₂ levels since before the industrial revolution. But there are deep fractures in this reasoning and also questions of predictability. The question is no longer, 'Is this really happening?' but why does this matter more than other pressing issues, how much will it cost and who will pay. Is this really the only way for us to adapt or mitigate issues like climate?

Instead of an open debate, the UN has called to shut it down and cancel discussion as denial, saying 'the climate is settled'. We need to have this conversation, far beyond approved slogans, messy trade-offs and unintended consequences. Because this may not be where the future lies, especially now artificial intelligence is looming as the next great leap forward for mankind.

Critical minerals supply chains are already strained to breaking point, and failing grid reliability is already colliding with net-zero timelines in ways most people haven't realised yet.

[Concerned Canadian @Concern70732755]

This is the major emerging story for 2026 !

[mistersunshinebaby @mrsunshinebaby]

Chrystia Freeland MUST resign as a Member of Parliament before she begins serving a foreign country.

Retweet if you agree.

[Market Mania 🏴‍☠️ @MarketManiaCa]

Chrystia Freeland.
The person who froze people’s bank accounts for taking part in a peaceful protest. ❄️💳

The same finance minister who presided over Canada’s lost decade has now been appointed economic advisor. 🇺🇦📉

This isn’t competence — it’s the corrupt, incestuous recycling of power that defines today’s political class. 🔁⚠️

[Eric Jackson @ericjackson]

Canada had 20 years to integrate its God-given oil and natural gas with the U.S.—its closest ally—through projects like Keystone.

Instead, it chose virtue signaling over national interest, punished its own producers, and normalized ~65% effective tax burdens.

Now the U.S. will source the oil it needs elsewhere.

This is what elite-driven, anti-growth policy looks like in practice: self-imposed impoverishment.

[Barberra302 @BarberraBarker]

Here is a perfect example of how the City works, or in this case, not really. The guy currently overseeing Water Services got his start with the City collecting trip data for Calgary Transit. I’m sure he’s a nice guy but nowhere in his Linkedin profile do I see an engineering background. These are the people making the final decisions on our critical infrastructure. 🤨