Tom Leighton

[Tom Leighton @_tomleighton]

this is my ideology.

[Ishan @radshaan]

I’m never gonna let this video die

[Tom Leighton @_tomleighton]

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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.”

[My screen is red @tradeoilstocks]

“Give them a massive amount of oil, agricultural land, copper, freshwater, and every natural resource in the world. Now make them neighbors with the biggest market in the world. Great, now have them leave the resources in the ground and instead flip condos to each other”.

[Tom Leighton @_tomleighton]

@Sumskillz @FoodProfessor Please book a one-way flight to Cuba and stay there.

[Tom Leighton @_tomleighton]

@MarkJCarney Ah yes Telus, the AI infra powerhouse.

[Ramp Capital @RampCapitalLLC]

Claude watching me book a flight, hotel and rental car on Priceline

[Owen Brake @OwenBrakes]

The US Navy uses high-temperature superconducting cables to degauss submarines.

The large steel hulls of the ships traveling through the Earth's magnetic field collects a magnetic signature which can then be detected by underwater magnetic mines.

[Tom Leighton @_tomleighton]

@nat_fitz1 @nationalpost I’d rather swap them for you.

[Hyperion @Ortgeist]

Home of Actor Wesley Snipes, Windermere, Florida, 1997

[Richard Morris @ahistoryinart]

Charles Cundall's technical skill was especially good when working on large panoramic canvases. His pictures are rich with texture, light and movement. 'New York from Brooklyn,' was painted in 1939.

[Tom Leighton @_tomleighton]

@Lactualite Let’s start by confiscating your property and possessions.

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Only one chance in this lifetime…

Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.

I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

[blackstar @blackstarops]

an F-35 undergoing extreme cold-weather testing inside a climate-controlled chamber

[Art Encyclopedia @artenpedia]

'Dinner at the Casino' by Gaston La Touche, 1906

[Tom Leighton @_tomleighton]

@h81418541 @FoodProfessor Because they are owned by the parent company of Sobeys.

[Tom Leighton @_tomleighton]

@elidourado The combat footage subreddit has been mind blowing throughout this entire conflict.

[s2a systems @s2a_systems]

This morning’s Artemis II: Integrity on its way back home, at the edge of the Milky Way. Crossing the field of view from bottom left to top right. Time-lapse covering the period from 06:25:39 to 07:25:36 UTC on 2026-04-09. Second-to-last day of the mission.

[Aetius @AetiusRF]

Alexander wept. For there were no more situations to monitor.