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[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.”

[Tim | Murphy @Timlmurphy]

@MelissaLMRogers Gaslighting: a person covertly sows seeds of doubt, forcing a target to question their perception to gain power and control or avoid accountability. Calling out gaslighting is an assertive, reality-based defense that names the manipulation to halt it.

[Tim | Murphy @Timlmurphy]

@ryangerritsen How much has Canada donated to offshore entities from the credit card paid for by Canadians?

[Tim | Murphy @Timlmurphy]

The moment we stop asking "What if the framework itself is wrong?" diagnosis becomes ideology and reality is defeated in favor of the status quo.
Read the full breakdown on the epistemological trap of Narrative Capture:

https://t.co/1Fyfq9wddJ

[Tim | Murphy @Timlmurphy]

We are completely obsessed with AI "hallucinations."

Can the model make things up?
Can it fake a citation?

Those are legitimate concerns, but they miss the real threat—Narrative Capture. 🧵👇

[Tim | Murphy @Timlmurphy]

The danger isn't that AI will disagree with us. The danger is that it will become exceptionally good at agreeing with us—especially when we are wrong, and especially when our frameworks become our identities.

[Tim | Murphy @Timlmurphy]

During a live diagnostic test, the model perfectly mirrored the language of operator discretion.
But as the architecture expanded, it quietly flipped a system designed to strengthen human judgment into an enforcement mechanism that eliminated it.

[Tim | Murphy @Timlmurphy]

https://t.co/1Fyfq9wddJ

[Tim | Murphy @Timlmurphy]

@NASAAdmin @NASAKennedy @blueorigin @JeffBezos @davill 💫💫💫❤️❤️❤️🍀🍀🍀💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

We go where we need to be, and today that was @NASAKennedy.

Some of my senior engineers and I spent time at @blueorigin with @JeffBezos and @davill, speaking with the workforce and seeing the damage at LC-36 firsthand. I appreciated the opportunity to hear directly from those working through the aftermath and better understand the challenges ahead.

There is a lot of work to do, but this is exactly why people choose careers in aerospace, whether at NASA, Blue Origin, or across the industry. The talent in this field thrives under pressure and performs at its best when solving the toughest problems.

We have been saying for months at NASA that we are not going to sit on our hands and wait for the capabilities necessary to achieve the nation’s most pressing objectives. We are going to take an active role alongside our partners, just as we did in the 1960s, to overcome setbacks, remove obstacles, and deliver the intended outcomes.

@NASA is committed to helping the Blue team recover, continue to advance their lunar lander and get New Glenn back to launching as soon as safely possible.

America’s greatest achievements in space were never the result of avoiding setbacks. They came from overcoming them. We have done it before, and we will do it again🇺🇸

[Tim | Murphy @Timlmurphy]

@JeffBezos 💫💫💫💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻🍀🍀🍀❤️❤️❤️

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@JeffBezos @zerohedge Ad astra per aspera

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

All personnel are accounted for and safe. It’s too early to know the root cause but we’re already working to find it. Very rough day, but we’ll rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to flying. It’s worth it.

[Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Tablesalt13]

BREAKING: Supreme Court of Canada decides not to hear the Wolastoqey case.

Signaling that private property rights in Canada are supreme, indefeasible, and cannot be subject to Aboriginal title.

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

WILD

Gad Saad is leaving for safety reasons.

For context, I left El Salvador, for safety reasons.

Now things have come full circle.

We are losing the best of the best.

More than 40% of the top 1% are fleeing Canada.

The Liberals own this.

[Tim | Murphy @Timlmurphy]

@KatKanada_TM Brilliant researcher and author.

[John Tomkinson @johnwtomkinson]

🚨PM Mark Carney speaking today in BC at the Vancouver Board of Trade adds some new clarity to last weeks pipeline “announcement” in Alberta.

The “potential pipeline…will ONLY advance with the following prerequisites;”

➡️Pathways Carbon Capture.

➡️BC gets “substantial” economic and financial benefits from Alberta industry and resources.

➡️ First Nations consultations, including FN veto on ‘National Interest’ designation, all condition on the project, and indigenous financial benefits, partnership, and co-ownership.

Do you still think Canada supports Alberta?

It's time to recognize the writing is on the wall. There will be no pipeline. Alberta is moving towards Independence and the charades and shell games with different stories for different audiences reveals the true intent of those making them.

[Ralph Capocci @RalphCapocci]

@Tablesalt13 Carney needs to scrap C2, C8, C9, C11, C15, C22 and C63, then he needs to get out.