705 Adventures 🇨🇦

Holding on, in hurricane of change

[Rachael Thomas @RachaelThomasAB]

Shameful!

I called for an investigation into CBC’s prank on retired RCMP officers and other Canadians.

The Liberals shut down debate immediately.

Veterans want answers. The Liberals want silence.

Transparency shouldn’t be this threatening.

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

BREAKING: U.S. dairy industry argues Canada is using its supply-managed system to generate surplus dairy proteins and exporting them through product categories not explicitly capped under CUSMA, want that addressed during the next trade review.

This will get ugly.

[Brian Lilley @brianlilley]

Read this!

[The Really Big Show @TheRlyBigShow]

What if Canada's military lost access to American weapons overnight? 

That is not a hypothetical. 

It is what happens if America decides Canada violated a 70-year agreement that almost no Canadian knows exists.

Brian Isted, a former intelligence officer, joined The Really Big Show to ask a question that nobody in Ottawa seems to have considered. 

What if Canada broke the deal that makes its military function and nobody noticed?

The agreement in question is the ITAR Canadian exemption.

 ITAR is the US law that governs access to American military technology.

The rule is simple: American military technology is for Americans. 

Everyone else needs written permission. 

Canada is the only country on earth with a permanent exemption. 

It was built over 70 years of military partnership. 

It means Canadian soldiers can use American jets, radios, night vision, and encrypted communications without individual permits. 

But the exemption has a condition. 

It does not apply to anyone with ties to countries America considers adversarial. 

Here's where the lines blur. 

In 2026 Canada created a new immigration pathway to recruit foreign military personnel directly into the CAF. 

Which foreign militaries qualify has not been publicly defined. 

Canada also enrolled 1,400 permanent residents last year. 

They begin training before full clearances are processed.

If a person from a restricted country accessed protected technology during that clearance gap, Canada is liable.

ITAR requires no intent.

Theoretical access to a restricted manual is enough to trigger a violation.

Brian explains to Jim and Iain what happens if the US decides Canada just broke the deal 👇

https://t.co/APkQ0m0lVK via @YouTube

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Don’t worry.

Not everyone is suffering.

[Holly Doan @hollyanndoan]

.@SenateCA by 41 to 32 vote kills proposal to criminalize Indian Residential School “denialism.”
“Senators may have already noticed the online backlash to the amendment has begun.”
— Senator @pierremmoreau
https://t.co/fKVVNQoKHD
@Dawn_Moncton @SenatorWanda @SeanFraserMP @JusticeCanadaEN #cdnpoli

[Chris Ryan @Watchdog_MP]

💥 RCMP JUST TORCHED THE LIBERAL GUN GRAB!

Brian Sauve (20,000 federal officers): Targeting licensed owners is statistically baseless, insanely expensive, and pulls cops off real crime.

As a retired cop I couldn’t agree more. Criminals use illegal guns. Not your PAL holders.

Liberals: Stop harassing law-abiding Canadians. Go after the gangs and smugglers.

Enough waste. Enforce real laws.
Agree? RT + comment.
#cdnpoli #GunControl #RCMP

[Franco Terrazzano @franco_nomics]

Poilievre grills Carney over spending $195,400 on airplane food during three international trips.

Carney talks about what he hears from "international investors."

Pro tip for Carney: You can travel abroad without billing taxpayers six figures for airplane food.

[Wiretap Media @WiretapMediaCa]

🚨ALERT: Despite CSIS warnings, Rogers and Ericsson offshored 115 high-level telecom jobs to India, with direct access to Canada's security telecom infrastructure.

The arrangement opens the door to intelligence gathering or disruptive operations.

No major Canadian news outlet has covered this potential scandal.

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

Food for thought

We are running 21st‑century monetary policy on a 1913 operating system. It is time to scrap the Federal Reserve’s regional offices and their presidents and admit that a map drawn for the age of railroads has no place in a world of real‑time data.

The 12 regional banks were a political compromise, not a sacred design.

They were built for localized banking, slow communication, and expensive travel. Today, the Fed does not need a president in Minneapolis or St. Louis to tell it what credit markets are doing; markets and payment systems report conditions to Washington in milliseconds. The “regional voice” rationale has become nostalgia masquerading as governance.

Worse, the current structure diffuses responsibility while adding noise. Regional presidents give speeches, move markets, and sometimes dissent, yet they are neither consistently Senate‑confirmed nor clearly accountable when policy errors pile up. Their research shops largely share the same academic priors as the Board in Washington, so the supposed decentralization mostly produces duplication, not diversity of thought.

A cleaner model is straightforward: a single, nationally accountable central bank with a smaller, clearly identified policy committee and a professional staff. Preserve regional information channels, surveys, business contacts, outreach, without propping up 12 quasi‑independent fiefdoms invented to pass the Federal Reserve Act.

If we were designing a central bank from scratch today, no serious planner would reproduce this sprawl. We would not outsource key votes to lightly scrutinized local presidents or confuse blurred lines of authority with checks and balances. Streamlining the Fed, eliminating regional offices and their president is the necessary first step toward a central bank that is both more limited and more accountable.

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

For the record.

In Canada, It Matters How the Economy Dies.

The Canadian economy is dead. It just didn’t die with a crash big enough to satisfy the models. No Lehman moment, no Covid‑style cliff, just two negative quarters of GDP, years of falling output per person, negative productivity, and a private sector slowly strangled by rates and regulation while the establishment insists the patient is “resting.”

On the facts, this isn’t ambiguous. Real GDP has contracted for two consecutive quarters on an annualized basis. Labour productivity has been flat or negative since 2021. Real GDP per capita is below its pre‑pandemic level. Ontario has logged its worst non‑pandemic quarterly job losses since the mid‑1970s. The only consistent growth is in government payrolls and compliance, not in private enterprise and investment. If that isn’t recessionary, the word is meaningless.

And yes Macklem threatens rate hikes through all of this insanity.

Yet Canada’s official guardians insist nothing fundamental has broken. The C.D. Howe recession‑dating committee says the downturn is not “pronounced, persistent, and pervasive” enough. The central bank warns against overreacting to “technical” weakness. Bay Street talks about “soft landings” and “resilience.” In some quarters, the answer to this slow‑motion collapse is not relief, but further rate hikes. Ignore the body on the table, we are told, the vital signs aren’t quite bad enough yet to fill out the certificate.

Their rulebook was built for heart attacks, not cancers. It excels at spotting sudden collapses in aggregate GDP and jobs. It barely registers slow organ failure: a few tenths off real GDP per capita each year, productivity edging down, ugly quarters for private‑sector employment and capex offset by public hiring. None of that triggers the old alarms until the damage is permanent.

Meanwhile, Canada has been busy throwing away the advantages that once justified its prosperity. Energy and resource projects are stalled or strangled. Business investment per worker trails peers. A country rich in capital, talent, and geography behaves as if it can live forever off inherited endowments while making it harder to build anything new. That is not “resilience.” It is delusion.
Canada’s economic establishment needs to wake up.

Two negative quarters of GDP, negative productivity, falling GDP per person, historic job losses in the core province, a suffocated private sector and calls for more tightening on top, are not signs of an economy “cooling toward trend.” They are signs of an economy that has already crossed the line from stagnation into decay.

The Canadian economy is dead in the way that matters: as an engine of rising living standards and a place where private capital is rewarded for building the future. It just didn’t die loudly enough for the old definitions. The real question now is not what we call it, but how long our institutions will keep pretending the corpse is “resilient.”

[Holly Doan @hollyanndoan]

Jewish groups dismiss as ineffectual the appointment of @CdnHeritage committee to investigate anti-Semitism. “Canada is not facing an anti-Semitism awareness problem. The country has been poisoned with Jew hatred and we need a remedy.”
— Simon Wolle, @bnaibrithcanada
https://t.co/lCoTPmfEFQ
@OmarAlghabra @CIJAinfo @MarkJCarney #cdnpoli

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

Getting calls about Canada Royal Milk...

Just learned the contract to build the facility was sole-sourced to Graham Construction, no competitive bidding process. Grant Beck, the company's CEO, reportedly flew to China on a whirlwind 48-hour trip to sign the deal, and Canadians paid for it.

Unbelievable.

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

"The optics of supporting a Chinese-owned baby formula plant in Canada to export products to China are not favorable. They become even more difficult to ignore as Canada prepares for another review of the Canada–United States–Mexico Agreement (CUSMA)."

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

🚨 BREAKING: The Ontario Legislature won’t return until October 27

~5 months of no Question Period.

No accountability.

No debate.

Steve Clark, the House Leader, the man who resigned over the Greenbelt scandal, says they don’t want to “interfere in municipal elections.”

Odd excuse, given that this is same Ford government that cancelled regional chair elections mid campaign.

Cut Toronto’s council size mid election.

Used strong mayor powers to override councils.

Here’s real reason: Canada is in recession.

Carney is collapsing in the polls.

Ford is propping Carney up by going dark.

Ford is avoiding accountability himself.

This is the second time Ford has done this in less than a year.

Insane.

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

I have to be honest, you guys have the most incredible gaslighting & spin skills I think I've ever seen.

I'm honestly starting to respect it a bit more than I am disgusted by it.

It's incredible how you can have:

-disingenous FDI numbers (driven by M&A)
-GDP decline in 3 of the last 4 quarters
-cook the books on the budget
-think you could use the CPP funds as an asset to lie to Canadians on our health
-record deficits
-be the only country in the G7 in a recession

And still say: "we're going to grow, let's builld Canada strong, together".

I'm living in the twilight zone.

[wealthmoose @wealthmoose]

🚨 $544 BILLION.

That’s how much Canada has spent importing foreign oil since 1988 — from Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Venezuela, Russia, Angola, Malaysia, Norway…
All while sitting on one of the largest, safest, most ethical oil reserves on Earth.

And why?

Because Ottawa refuses to build a single East-West pipeline that would keep Canadian energy in Canada, keep Canadian dollars in Canada, and keep Canadian workers employed in Canada. 🇨🇦

For 36 years we’ve been enriching dictatorships while bankrupting our own economy ..all in the name of “virtue.”

No serious country does this.

Only Canada does.🇨🇦

It’s time to stop importing the world’s oil and start exporting Canada’s future.

#cdnpoli #Energy #Canada #Economy #Pipeline

[The Reclamare @TheReclamare]

@MelissaMbarki Its hard for me to accept that records are unable to be found. There is an massive amount available. For a small fee . . .
https://t.co/eVoXlaE4wf

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Liberal illusion meets reality.

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

Newly released government records related to the Chinese-owned dairy plant in Kingston, Ontario, raise important questions that have so far attracted remarkably little public attention.

See full article below.