Neil

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[Neil @Neil_nbrown]

@globeandmail Imagine what was he upto when he was MP

[Neil @Neil_nbrown]

@gnijjar12 Canadian politicians are far dumber to let them in without background checks

[Neil @Neil_nbrown]

@warDaniel47 Counterargument could be that most 'White collar' jobs are BS as people without any experience or credentials are able to perform them.

[lubricant @darren_lubedude]

Due to the overwhelming response to my recent post, I am launching a multi-part deep dive into the hidden architecture of Canada’s economy.
If you have ever wondered why your phone bill is so high, why grocery prices feel insulated from global realities, or how a handful of corporate giants dominate our most essential sectors, this series is for you.
Over the coming days, we are breaking down the protected, concentrated, and heavily regulated industries that form the backbone of Canadian commerce. We’ll examine how these systems were built, who they were designed to safeguard, and what they mean for consumers, workers, and taxpayers today.
Here is what we’ll be covering:
Part 1: The Kitchen Table — Dairy, Chicken & Pork
We’ll unpack the mechanics of Canada’s supply management system. How do production quotas, import tariffs, and marketing boards shield domestic farmers from global volatility, and what is the trade-off at the checkout line?
Part 2: Heavy Metal — Steel & Aluminum
A look at how global trade politics, carbon border adjustments, and domestic industrial strategy intersect to safeguard the critical materials that build our infrastructure and manufacturing base.
Part 3: The Boardroom Cartels — Banking & Telecom
Why does Canada rely on the "Big Banking" and "Big Telecom" models? We’ll analyze how strict foreign ownership limits and high regulatory barriers trade market competition for financial stability and domestic control.
Part 4: Sovereign Control — Defense & Aviation
Lastly, we’ll look at the sky and the frontline. From airline cabotage restrictions to military procurement strategies, we’ll evaluate how national security and economic sovereignty dictate who gets to fly and who gets to supply our armed forces.
Whether you view these frameworks as vital shields for national self-reliance or costly barriers to consumer choice, understanding how they were set up is essential to understanding Canada’s economic future.

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

If I were president and I wanted to tank the dollar and get rich off it, here is exactly what I would do.

I would hire a Treasury Secretary who already made $3.5 billion crashing another country's currency. I would put my guy in charge of the agency that approves bank charters. I would install a crypto czar with $200M in crypto holdings and give him an ethics waiver so nobody could challenge it.

Then I would sign an executive order banning the government from ever creating a digital dollar so there was no competition.

Then I would have my family launch their own private digital dollar. My family takes 75% of net profits. I would grow it to $4.6 billion in circulation and route a $2 billion Abu Dhabi sovereign fund deal through it to prove it works.

Then I would get Congress to pass a law requiring every stablecoin in the country to hold short-term Treasury bills. Now every dollar of my digital currency is a forced buyer of government debt. Brookings projects $2.3 trillion in captive demand by 2030.

Then I would have my OCC guy grant my family's company a federal bank charter. Now I can issue my digital dollar with federal authority.

Then I would have my Treasury Secretary weaken the actual dollar. Bond buybacks that suppress yields but tank the currency. Build a $950 billion war chest for more. Let the debt hit $40 trillion. Dollar index drops to 99. Gold goes to highest point ever.

Then I would kill the Corporate Transparency Act and delete the FinCEN beneficial ownership database. That was the one law that required every shell company in America to report who actually owns it. Without it, nobody can trace who is buying my stablecoin, who is routing money through it, or where the profits land.

Then I would let the loop run. Weaker dollar drives demand for "stable" digital alternatives. The law I passed forces those alternatives to buy T-bills. That funds the government's debt. My family takes profit on every transaction. Foreign central banks walking away from Treasuries get replaced by legally mandated stablecoin reserves my family controls.

Then I would use sanctions to start cutting countries off from the dollar system entirely. And when those countries need a new way to transact in dollars, the only federally chartered private digital dollar in existence is mine. They can buy it through shell companies nobody can trace because I deleted the ownership database.

I just built a toll booth on the global financial system. I take a cut every time someone uses the dollar. And I made it so nobody can see who is paying.

And every single step I just described has already happened.

So what does that mean for you and I?

The reason the United States can borrow at low rates and keep your mortgage and your car payment and your import prices stable is because foreign central banks hold trillions in dollar reserves. That system has always been public. The benefit went to everyone. Lower borrowing costs, cheaper goods , and the single biggest economic advantage any country has ever had.

What I just described is the privatization of that function. The entity buying the debt is no longer a central bank acting in the public interest. It is a private company taking 75% of net profits for one family. The reserve function used to generate a public benefit. Now it generates a private fee.

Your purchasing power shrinks every time the dollar weakens. Your 401k buys less in real terms. Everything you import costs more. And every time the dollar drops, demand for the private digital alternative goes up. The one the president's family owns. The one that by law must buy government debt.

You absorb the cost of a weakening dollar. His family collects the profit. That is the trade.

The enforcement mechanism to stop a sitting president from doing this? There isn't one. Former White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter says it would be a violation for literally any other federal employee, but not the president.

Nobody voted for this. No one was asked. There was no debate. There is no enforcement mechanism. There is no one investigating it. The Senate tried and it was blocked.

This is the largest conflict of interest in American history happening in broad daylight while everyone argues about something else.

So what do you do? Share this. Make it impossible to ignore. Send it to your representative, your senator, every journalist you follow. We make them answer for it.
Because the only thing protecting this scheme right now is the fact that not enough people understand it yet.

[Vaibhav Sisinty @VaibhavSisinty]

A college student just killed the biggest advantage politicians have ever had. The gap between the lie and the fact-check.

He built a Chrome extension called InTruth. It listens to any live speech, debate, or interview.

Transcribes every word. And checks every claim against real sources in real time. Before the speaker even finishes the sentence.

It works on debates. Press conferences. Town halls. Interviews. Anything with someone talking on video. The fact-check shows up on your screen while they're still talking.

Until now, fact-checking happened hours or days later. By then the clip has been shared, the headline has been written, and the damage is done. Nobody reads the correction.

InTruth closes that gap to seconds. The claim and the fact-check exist in the same moment.

A college student, a Chrome extension, and an AI model just did what entire newsrooms couldn't figure out for decades.

[Chris Warkentin @chriswarkentin]

Canada's Integrity Commissioner has been overwhelmed by allegations of wrongdoing by Mark Carney's Liberal government.

As these allegations surge, Carney DENIED the commissioner's request for extra funding to investigate corruption.

Why doesn't Mark Carney want the integrity commissioner to do her job? What could the Liberals be hiding?

[Bev 🇨🇦 @Garnet_2203]

Doug Ford thinks hiding the records means the public will forget.
Wrong.
He lost in court on his personal cell phone records, so he rammed through a bill rewriting Ontario’s Freedom of Information laws to make it illegal for the public to access them. Retroactive. No debate. No hearings. Pure cover-up.
Here’s how we fight back 👇

1️⃣ Go around the blackout
You can exempt the Premier’s Office and cabinet from FOI, but you can’t erase every trail.
File requests on every ministry, agency, email, contract, and lobbyist registry. The fingerprints are still there, especially on:
• Doug Ford’s personal cell phone records (court-ordered for release now illegally shielded by his own bill)
• The Ontario Place redevelopment boondoggle
• The Ontario Science Centre closure and forced relocation

2️⃣ Drag it into court
This bill was rushed in a budget omnibus to bury scandals, kill existing requests, and overturn a court ruling. Judicial review is made for this: no government gets to pass a law shielding itself from accountability.

3️⃣ Charter challenge
Democracy dies in darkness. When a Premier changes the rules to lock the public out of who he’s calling during Greenbelt deals and billion-dollar projects, it becomes a constitutional issue. Informed debate is a right not optional.
While Ford hides behind his new law:
• His personal phone logs could expose direct communications on Greenbelt, Ontario Place, and more. A court said release them. He changed the law instead.
• Ontario Place and Science Centre deals slammed by the Auditor General as unfair and unaccountable.
• Hand-picked school supervisors billing $350,000+ a year for part-time work while classrooms struggle.
This isn’t modernization. It’s a Premier weaponizing legislation to protect himself.
Transparency isn’t optional in a democracy.
If he slams the door shut with his own bill, we pry it open with every legal tool we have FOIs, courts, Charter challenges, and unrelenting public pressure.
Doug Ford needs to go. Ontario deserves better than a government that changes the law to hide its own phone records.

[Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️ @StephenPunwasi]

🇨🇦: something extremely f*cked up is happening with federal worker pensions, and taxpayers will be on the hook.

Since the supervillains in charge won’t explain it, I guess I will.

Here’s how 🇨🇦 is looting ~$3B from gov workers pensions & dumping the risk on you.

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[Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️ @StephenPunwasi]

Bonkers. 🇺🇸 just said they spent $25 billion on the Iran War so far.

That’s ~$416 million per day—$4,822 per second, just on direct costs.

No one’s really sure how long it’ll last or why. Though I bet the companies taking in $416 million per day have *some* idea.

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

My patient stuck in ER for 4 days with no hospital bed to accept them is more important than:
-landing more jets in Toronto
-an Austrian spa
-a new Science Center
-a new jet
-rebate cheques before an election
-accelerated expanded alcohol sales

[Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️ @StephenPunwasi]

🇨🇦: 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.

[Very Brexit Problems @VeryBrexitProbs]

Americans love banging on about the War of Independence. They’re quieter on the War of 1812. Here’s why.

In 1812, America declared war on Britain. The plan was to march into Canada and annex it. Thomas Jefferson said it would be “a mere matter of marching.”

It wasn’t. The Canadians sent them packing. Two years later, the British sailed up the Potomac.

American forces collapsed at Bladensburg in what’s still called “the Bladensburg Races” because of how fast they ran. President Madison had already fled to Maryland.

The British walked into Washington unopposed. They sat down in the White House, ate the dinner Dolley Madison had laid out for forty guests, used the President’s silver, then set fire to the building. Then they burned the Capitol, the Treasury and the Navy Yard.

A freak thunderstorm put the fires out the next day. The British left when they were ready. It’s still the only time a foreign army has captured the US capital.

You can see why it doesn’t come up much.

[dogmatix @DogMatixxxx]

My takeaway driving from Florida to North Dakota is the United States of America is filled with poor people.
The wealth, the heart has been stolen.
The uniqueness of culture has been replaced with fast food and Walmart.
I knew all of this.
But wow. A stark reminder. 😞

[Ron Butler @ronmortgageguy]

Prime Minister Carney Operates A Government For The Elites: It's Becoming Obvious Now

It's just out there now, it's become clearer

The 80% of Canadians who ARE NOT in the top income or top wealth brackets are being left behind

This is a Government for top tier Canadians

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[☘️Seán Caomhánach ☘️ @kavs86]

Rogers got over $80 million from the federal government during the pandemic for wage subsidies.
If only the CRA tried to recoup that money with as much gusto as they do with poor people who got a few thousand from CERB. #cdnpoli

[Ross 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 🇪🇺 @ggrmcd]

My hope is that when @fordnation is eventually investigated and charged for his crimes that all of his MPP’s within the @OntarioPCParty are charged with aiding and abetting a criminal enterprise. They are all complicit and share responsibility for this mess.

[𝙰𝚟𝚊𝚕𝚘𝚗 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @AvalonResists]

Let's do this, 🇨🇦

The Welsh govt is in the process of introducing legislation to allow for the removal of politicians who lie to the public.

The rules would allow for suspension/disqualification of MPs and election candidates found guilty of deliberate deception.

Bye @CPC_HQ

[Flopop @florintruth]

@DougAMacgregor

[Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️ @StephenPunwasi]

🤣🤣🤣

fyi 🇨🇦, not a single sovereign wealth fund on the planet works this way.

This is a bailout and taxpayer risk absorption for insiders.

h/t @christoaivalis