Jillian Carter finished her Masters of Dietary Studies at Florida State graduating Summa Cum Laude 4.0 GPA. She adds this to her Governors' General Medal for Academic Excellence in Canada. Girl has her mother's smarts. Starts her internship in January.
Whole world awaits.
๐จโณ๏ธ๐บ๐ธ #USA โ Wyndham Clark showed up to the Rink at the Canadian Open with a USA Hockey jersey and the Canadian fans let him hear it after he birdied the hole ๐
โBoooooo!โ ๐คฃ
As Musk opens up space, some random thoughts from up here in paradise.
My rule is simple: donโt bet against Elon. Canada, almost reflexively, does the opposite.
Canadaโs failure to embrace Elon Musk and SpaceX is not an isolated misstep, it is the latest expression of a deeper, decades-long flaw: a persistent lack of economic humility. At a time when global power is being redefined by technological capability, Canada continues to default to caution, complacency, and the assumption that its model requires little adaptation.
Musk, like Alexander Graham Bell before him, has Canadian roots. Bell became a symbol of transformative innovation tied to Canadaโs early industrial identity. Yet the modern parallel is uncomfortable: Canada is far more inclined to celebrate innovators in retrospect than to support them in real time. The country reveres past builders while hesitating in the face of present ones confident in its narrative, but reluctant to confront its shortcomings.
Musk represents exactly what Canada claims to lack: a builder of industries, not a manager of assets. SpaceX has fundamentally altered the economics of space, created a new industrial ecosystem, and positioned itself at the center of future defense, communications, and energy infrastructure. These are strategic capabilities. Canadaโs response? Indifference at best, suspicion at worst.
The irony is hard to ignore. A political and corporate establishment that loudly signals climate virtue has shown little appetite to embrace Tesla, while moves to sideline or cancel Starlink over Muskโs perceived political affiliations only deepen the contradiction, especially as figures like Carney and Ford now pivot toward rhetoric around a โFortress North America.โ Industrial policy is not a performative art. It demands coherence, discipline, and a willingness to engage with reality rather than posture around it.
This reflects a broader economic structure shaped by that same lack of humility. Canada has optimized for regulatory capture, financial engineering, real estate, banking concentration, and asset inflation, while underinvesting in productivity, innovation, and industrial scale. Capital exists, but it is not deployed toward building globally competitive companies. Risk is not evaluated and priced; it is reflexively avoided.
The reaction to SpaceX IPO made this mindset visible. Instead of recognizing a generational industrial milestone, much of the commentary defaulted to valuation cynicism and personality critique. This is a country more comfortable second-guessing builders than backing them, more fluent in critique than in creation.
The issue is not Musk. It is a system that confuses stability with strength, optics with strategy, and past success with future relevance. Without a reset in mindset, toward humility, realism, and ambition Canada will continue to watch the industries of the future be built elsewhere.
Canada is not being outcompeted, it is choose not to compete decades ago.
๐จ๐ฆ๐ซก๐ฐ๐บ๐ธ : Pierre Poilievre goes nuclear on Mark Carney after Mark accused Pierre of not being patriotic to Canada.
Poilievre turns the table and questions Mark Carney's patriotism, over Carney's love for investing in the USA & moving Brookfield Asset Management (BAM) HQ to the USA.
Ricky Gervais on 60 Minutes Makes a Crystal-Clear Case for Free Speech
He put it perfectly: the great thing about freedom of speech is that I can say what I want, and you can say you're offended, and I get to decide whether I care or not.
Because let's be honest, there's nothing you can say that someone, somewhere won't find offensive.
That's why blasphemy laws are so absurd, they're basically trying to protect an all-powerful deity from having its feelings hurt.
At the end of the day, we should be free to criticise any idea.
Just because you're offended doesn't automatically mean you're right.
Spot on, Ricky. Free speech isn't about never upsetting anyone, it's about the right to speak anyway.
America was born in fire.
Canada was handed a constitution by its colonial overlords.
One nation fought for its freedom, the other was negotiated into existence by bureaucrats.
Everything that has gone wrong since flows from that founding difference.
JANE STREET SLASHED ITS BITCOIN ETF EXPOSURE IN Q1 2026, CUTTING IBIT BY ~71% AND FBTC BY ~60%, ACCORDING TO ITS LATEST 13F FILING
Price discovery is back on the menu
The Founder of Shopify,
One of the smartest& wealthiest Canadian,
CORRECTLY points out, that thereโs a Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) in Canada.
โThe obvious way for prosperity here is to build the sh*t out of pipelines,
build the sh*t out of our industry,
get resources that everyone needsโฆ
We have the most educated workforce on planet earth.โ
Not a single lie was told.
How can you not love Tobi
Honest. Pragmatic. Centred.
The ongoing naval blockade:
๐ฎ๐ท Iran's economy nears collapse
โ> America wins
๐จ๐ณ China's economy suffers
โ> America wins
๐ช๐บ Europe's economy suffers
โ> America punishes them for their betrayal โ> America wins
๐บ๐ธ America becomes the largest oil exporter in the world
โ> America wins
NEW: Michael Saylor says the โend gameโ of Bitcoin is a digital bank account with an 8-10% yield driving the price to $10 million dollars with a market cap of $200 trillion.
๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐โ๐ โ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐โ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐. ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐.
Eilish, on her platform:
๐๐ง ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ข ๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ช๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ค๐ฉ, ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ต. ๐๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ตโ๐ด ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐บ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ. ๐๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐บ, ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ช๐ต ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ข๐ฏ๐น๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด.
Biggers, responding with the actual research:
๐. ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐-๐ซ๐๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐๐ ๐๐๐๐: ๐ ๐๐๐. Per MDAT (the worldโs most-used disaster tracking database), despite record CO2 emissions and record heat, climate-related disaster events have not increased since the year 2000.
๐. ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐-๐ซ๐๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐๐๐๐ญ๐ก๐ฌ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐๐๐: ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐.๐%. Per Bjorn Lomborgโs data, fatalities from floods, droughts, storms, and wildfires are at record lows โ even with global population having quadrupled in that period.
๐. ๐๐ฅ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฏ๐ ๐๐๐. Tree growth in greenhouses scales UP with CO2. Current atmospheric CO2 is 420 ppm. Even at 835 ppm (double current), trees thrive. Going back millions of years, current atmospheric CO2 is at a HISTORIC LOW.
๐. ๐ ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ก๐๐ฌ ๐ ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐๐ซ๐. Global production of fruits, vegetables, and nuts from 1961 to 2022 is at all-time highs. The ๐ค๐ญ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ค๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ช๐ด has not stopped any of these foods from getting to market.
The chart Biggers ends on: world CO2 emissions, world GDP per capita, world life expectancy, and world population all went up together starting in the mid-to-late 1800s โ when humanity discovered oil, coal, and natural gas. The fossil-fuel era is the most prosperous era in human history.
๐๐ก๐๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ก ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก ๐ซ๐๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐๐ฌ, ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐จ๐งโ๐ญ ๐ ๐๐ญ ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ ๐๐ง๐ฑ๐ข๐๐ญ๐ฒ. ๐๐จ๐ฎ ๐ ๐๐ญ ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ง๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฎ๐ง๐๐๐ง๐๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐๐๐ซ๐ง ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐.
๐๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฐ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ @๐๐๐๐ช๐จ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด.
Bill Federer explains how free people can be pushed into giving up freedom.
Fear.
Free stuff.
Dependency.
Then he says once people rely on government cheques, benefits, subsidies, and programs, they are far less likely to vote against the system keeping them dependent.
Does this sound like Canada?
Because every election now feels like a bidding war over who can hand out more borrowed money, create another benefit, promise another subsidy, and call it compassion.
At some point, โhelpโ stops being help.
It becomes control with better branding.
Bill Federer explains how free people can be pushed into giving up freedom.
Fear.
Free stuff.
Dependency.
Then he says once people rely on government cheques, benefits, subsidies, and programs, they are far less likely to vote against the system keeping them dependent.
Does this sound like Canada?
Because every election now feels like a bidding war over who can hand out more borrowed money, create another benefit, promise another subsidy, and call it compassion.
At some point, โhelpโ stops being help.
It becomes control with better branding.