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[Jeff Thompson @thomjeff]

Carney told supporters in BC fentanyl isn’t a crisis here. “Look, fentanyl is an absolute crisis in the US. It’s a challenge here, but it’s a crisis there,” he said.

Burnaby police traced a traffic stop to 5 Richmond sites holding 6,765kgs of narcotics and precursor chemicals

[Love My 7 Wood @LoveMy7Wood]

Mark Carney will meet with every leader in the Middle East, even those with known human rights issues, but he will not even talk to Benjamin Netanyahu. He even has an arrest warrant out for him. Classic definition of an antisemite. https://t.co/w10YH4EfnQ

[Vivian Bercovici @VivianBercovici]

Ottawa in a nutshell. Nothing is every anyone’s responsibility. Zero accountability. No one gives a damn. Whoever signed this contract should be fired.

Not our job to ensure border patrol helicopter could fly in Canada, RCMP says - Toronto Star https://t.co/y07dXJjAl6

[Dan Albas @DanAlbas]

This is quite significant. The Exxon Valdez was also a VLCC class tanker (2nd largest class) at 330 metres that can carry close to 2 million barrels of oil. Fortunately much has changed since the days of the Exxon Valdez. I did a report on oil tanker movement with the last TMX expansion back in 2019...

https://t.co/p0nDkkoCk9

[Dan McTeague @GasPriceWizard]

I am learning that Canadian taxpayers will be on the hook for $44 billion to build what the private sector won’t

All because of our Climate lunacy and its NetZero demands

[Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms @JCCFCanada]

Tamara Lich’s sentence ends in January 2027, but the Crown is forcing the entire case back to the Court of Appeal — still demanding 7 years in prison for Lich and 8 years for Chris Barber.

The Justice Centre has funded lawyers to defend Mr. Barber since 2022.

Ontario taxpayers have already spent roughly $15 million on this prolonged prosecution.

This is what political lawfare looks like.

[Wind Concerns @WindConcernsONT]

@WorkingCdns It's past noon on the day after all this came out: she should be gone NOW.
Generational farmers fighting to keep farms going, still produce food for Canada and, this...?

[Forest Park Pharmacy @ForestParkPharm]

My wife and I own a pharmacy. Last month we spent days trying to pry one prescription loose from a company that did everything it could to hold onto it.

The drug was everolimus. A generic. It treats cancer and protects transplant patients from rejecting their new organ. Not exotic. Not rare. A pill.

The patient wanted it filled with us because we're cash-pay and cost-plus. No insurance. No PBM. No secret markups, no games. Our price was $318. That's not cheap by our standards — most of what we fill runs under $20 — but it was honest.

Here's what that same prescription looked like on the other side of the counter.

In 2023, Medicare was paying about $6,645 for it. That's roughly 21 times our price for the identical medication. Medicare spent around $240 million on everolimus alone that year. If they'd paid our price, they'd have saved roughly $230 million. On one generic drug.

So how does an insurance company profit off a drug that expensive? Don't they pay for it?

No. You pay for it. In your premiums. Their job isn't to spend less — it's to keep your healthcare dollars circulating inside their own companies. And the tool they use is called spread pricing.

Spread pricing works like this: the middleman bills the health plan one price, pays the pharmacy a lower one, and keeps the difference. You never see it. On TRICARE, they pay an independent pharmacy like mine about $311 to fill everolimus. That barely covers our cost of the drug. Meanwhile the plan gets billed thousands. That gap — north of $6,000 on a single fill — is pure margin the middleman pockets.

Now here's the part they'd rather you not think about.

The pharmacy we were fighting was Accredo. Accredo is owned by Express Scripts. Express Scripts is the pharmacy benefit manager owned by Cigna. Same company, three masks. That nesting-doll structure isn't an accident — it's the whole design. When the pharmacy, the PBM, and the insurer are all one entity, they can shuffle money between their own pockets and call it whatever they want. The confusion is the product.

And this isn't a story about one weird drug. It's the business model.

The FTC has been digging into exactly this. In its January 2025 report on the three biggest PBMs — CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, and OptumRx — staff found those companies marked up specialty generic drugs by hundreds and thousands of percent when dispensing through their own affiliated pharmacies. Just those markups generated more than $7.3 billion above what the drugs actually cost to acquire, from 2017 to 2022. One in five of the specialty generics they studied was marked up over 1,000%. Some cancer generics: over 3,000%. On top of that, the FTC pegged spread pricing on those same drugs at another $1.4 billion.

One example straight from the FTC's files: dimethyl fumarate, a multiple sclerosis drug. Costs about $177 to acquire. The PBMs paid their own pharmacies close to $4,000 for a 30-day supply. Same trick. Different drug.

And they steer the profitable ones to themselves on purpose. Pharmacies affiliated with the big three took in 68% of specialty dispensing revenue in 2023 — up from 54% in 2016. The prescriptions marked up more than $1,000 disproportionately end up at their own pharmacies, not independents like mine.

So when we called to transfer this patient's everolimus to be filled without insurance, it landed like we were asking them to set $6,000 on fire. Of course they stonewalled us.

That's why we fired them.

No insurance means no invisible $6,000 charge buried in a premium you can't itemize. It means the price you see is the price. Ours was $318. Theirs was thousands. Same pill.

[Ben Rabidoux @BenRabidoux]

"Evidence to suggest that signatures were forged" on egregiously high interest private mortgages. No arrests or criminal charges. Best we can do is warn people-->

Ontario regulator warns borrowers about GTA mortgage lender https://t.co/IqGUdmQOp4

[National Post @nationalpost]

$1,826 is the maximum amount a family can get from the government under the new Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit, which lands in bank accounts today. But when you add that to the Goods and Services Tax credit, that's a decent windfall, right? No. It turns out, this is a government rebranding exercise https://t.co/kWXD76yDic

[Blacklock's Reporter @mindingottawa]

Bank exec @FCCAgriculture had Visa card suspended for late payment of exorbitant expenses. Staff questioned thousands in late fees & interest charges run up by $458,000-a year CEO. 
https://t.co/gM0WkpVSOO @AAFC_Canada

[Wind Concerns @WindConcernsONT]

We would refer any landowners contemplating leases to look beyond the money being offered and read the multiple concerns about these long-term agreements. The OFA has an especially helpful document.

[Love My 7 Wood @LoveMy7Wood]

Surprise, surprise, surprise. @CTVNews was once a great and trusted news organization that reported the news, not their bias on the news, but it completely changed after being purchased by @Bell @BellMediaPR

[Wind Concerns @WindConcernsONT]

Residents from rural Ottawa/West Carleton were in Toronto yesterday at Divisional Court requesting formal judicial review of zoning changes to allow a battery storage system on farmland. The developer is Brookfield @Evolugen_CAN. West Carleton Community Alliance #onpoli #ottcity

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

Canada just dropped $7.5 million on a shiny new U.S. Black Hawk for 'urgent' border security... that Transport Canada immediately grounded because it can't legally fly here

RCMP's response? 'Not our job, dude. Contractor's problem'

Meanwhile they're happily paying daily minimums to keep the grounded bird on retainer...

Nothing says 'tough on borders' like panic-buying American military surplus to own Trump, then shrugging when it violates our own rules

Carney clownery: anouncify, spend big, achieve nothing, blame someone else 🤡

At this rate, the helicopter's only mission is draining taxpayer cash and look good for Carney government phoo-ops 🇨🇦🚁💸

[G.M. Forbes @gmforbes35]

And the corruption continues.

Carney just announced $500 million for the Red Chris copper mine expansion in BC.

The majority (70%) owner/operator in Newmont Corp.

Carney is personally invested in Newmont.
(last pick is from Carney's own list of investments).

[Andy Lee @RealAndyLeeShow]

Surely we will alert our international policing counterparts of this record precursor chemical haul so the criminals are brought to justice.

We have bilateral agreements, do we not?

One in particular, perhaps.

@MarkJCarney

[Dean Skoreyko @bcbluecon]

Maybe because it was a Liberal insider stealing again.

[Dean Skoreyko @bcbluecon]

Two weeks to come up with that lie.

What a joke.

Eby and Carney are in deep shit in BC over their Chinese condo bailout.

This isn't going away.

[Lorrie Goldstein @sunlorrie]

EDITORIAL: Failed climate plan needs a forensic audit
Don't expect a Liberal majority government to investigate where the $200 billion went https://t.co/J5Kl9N60Mr