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Despite record-level oil production at very high prices, under the UCP Alberta’s average wage has fallen from first to fourth

UCP is pipelining profits to investors around the world while Alberta wages stall

https://t.co/bAJjM2czXq

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Alberta oil fields pumping more than ever, StatsCan report shows

And at very high prices

Production in March 2026 was up 2% from March 2025 and a huge 43% jump from March 2016

https://t.co/oXTIaJTRIT

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Why are gas and groceries so expensive?

One reason is retailers are raising their sales margins twice as fast as inflation, according to new StarsCan data

And BTW, Loblaw dividends are up!

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Ontario insolvencies hit new peak in March, doubling from 5 years ago

Alberta insolvencies hits record highs, has 23% more insolvencies than BC

https://t.co/hCfQQD9Tin

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Just as college and university students are about to hit the job market, Ontario’s youth unemployment rate hits 17.7%

There were 672,900 unemployed workers in Ontario in April

It’s a city bigger than Hamilton

https://t.co/7zLukzsy6A

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StatsCan: inflation hit 2.4% in March, up from 1.8% in February as fuel and food prices surge

Tax cuts on food and fuel can absorb some of inflation’s effects. But they do not stop inflation while draining public funds https://t.co/wWZVcTkJOI

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Ontario Liberals ran fourth in Q1 fundraising. They can’t attract anyone to run for leader except Nate Erskine-Smith.

Is their polling pop is more a halo of Mark Carney than a reflection of their own momentum?

https://t.co/rdI1MMVmpn

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BQ-Liberal polarization in Terrebonne squeezes Conservatives and NDP

Low Conservative support de-polarizes Toronto ridings, lets NDP rebound

Here’s the hard data analysis on Monday’s three by-elections:

https://t.co/34vUUUpTFT

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Ontario lost jobs again in March, says StatsCan

But this month’s job losses weren’t in manufacturing and construction

Now it’s workers in stores, schools, bars and restaurants losing their jobs

https://t.co/3WtZOFUXsa

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110,000 jobs disappear in two months, 60,000 in Ontario, the cost of Trump and Ford’s incompetent and ideological government

Will Carney’s economic strategy work? Or work fast enough for Canada?

https://t.co/cPJkgmUszw

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Trump’s war has crude prices soaring and an inflation wave coming

The BoC warns that wave could trigger higher interest rates, killing GDP and jobs

The one-two punch to workers and businesses was foreseeable by those who backed war — even if with regret

https://t.co/CY1IYTV4Ex

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Oil companies are extracting crude from Alberta at a record pace

But with royalty revenue projected to collapse 41% in two years, Albertans face a $10B deficit

https://t.co/fYRM5y73rb

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B.C. leads growth, with the number of active business at new highs, but Ontario has lost about 5,000 businesses since March 2024

You’d never guess either fact from their communications messaging

https://t.co/nzwcAjBTdG

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The “predictable, long-term” $30B Transit Fund was announced in 2024.

But in Carney’s first budget it disappeared

Turns out it was merged into another fund, cut by $5B, renamed and promoted as a new “generational investment”

https://t.co/dNPfW89Tm0

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Ontario still has the highest tuition fees, despite a multi-year freeze, which the Ford PCs ended last week

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Ontario still has the highest tuition fees, despite a multi-year freeze, which the Ford PCs ended last week

https://t.co/hYzbU2O7e8

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StatsCan Labour Force Survey for January

Jobs up in every province but Ontario, which lost 67,000 jobs in January leaving Canada down 25,000 jobs

Ontario participation rate plunges so the national unemployment rate dips 0.1% point as fewer people search for work

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PBO report: Carney housing plan will lower housing starts

https://t.co/0KcUw4i0dI

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Trump chaos and violence in December cuts Canadians’ share of international air travel to USA to a new low

While travel from USA to Canada is also down, Canadians are spending at home and visitors from Europe and Asia are strongly up

https://t.co/PXU0j9iNTN

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What’s driving beef price inflation?

On Jan 12 StatsCan reported November cattle price at $282, up 24.7% from Nov 2024

At retail end
- stewing beef +22%
- sirloin +32%
- ground beef +11%

What percent of beef retail price is the cattle price?

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