Francis

[Lorrie Goldstein @sunlorrie]

Seems an appropriate time to retweet this:

[Alexander Zoltan @AmazingZoltan]

HAPPENING NOW: Someone asks BC Premier David Eby, "How would define residential school 'denialism'?" and "As a civil liberties guy, do you think this infringes on freedom of speech?"

That someone is @WesternStandard alumni and @sitkamedia's @JarrydJaeger.

Great questions.

[Blacklock's Reporter @mindingottawa]

$458k/yr CEO who told @FCCAgriculture staff to "tighten the belt" quadrupled expenses including Filet Mignon steak dinners biz-class flights to Singapore & $543 Uber ride from Edmonton to Calgary.   
https://t.co/ypiUHB2mLY @CornwallHeath

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

Canada: Crying Over Spilt Milk in a Self‑Inflicted Stagnation

Canada’s elite have spent a quarter‑century turning a rich, opportunity‑dense economy into a slow‑growth, over‑levered cul‑de‑sac, and they still insist nothing is structurally wrong. There is no sense crying over spilt milk about past mistakes when the architects of this stagnation are still in charge and still in denial.

Canada did not just drift into secular stagnation; it embraced a kind of virtue socialism and an industrial policy anchored on climate change targets rather than productive capacity, competitiveness, or growth. An economy built on world‑class natural resources, strategic geography, and human capital has been deliberately downgraded into a housing‑addicted, low‑productivity balance sheet recession risk, and the people who did it still show up on panels calling this “resilience.”

For years, Canada’s comparative advantages in energy, resources, and industrial capacity were something to apologize for, regulate to death, or tax into oblivion, while policy and capital chased the illusion that you could mortgage and virtue‑signal your way to prosperity. The result is a country flirting with a liquidity trap, where even lower rates may barely move a real economy suffocated by over‑priced assets, under‑built productive capital, and households too damaged to borrow again.

The real scandal is not that Canada faces secular stagnation; it is that the elite engineered it, denied it, wrapped it in climate rhetoric, and now blame external shocks while the data scream that this is a made‑in‑Canada crisis.

To be clear, Canada’s problems are not the result of President Trump!

If Canada’s elite will not finally admit that decades of attacking its own strengths, worshipping its own bubbles, and treating industrial policy as a morality play have left the country one downturn away from a full balance sheet recession, then they are not guardians of the national interest, they are custodians of decline, and at this point, there really is no sense crying over spilt milk, only over the refusal to fix the mess they made.

[Sam Cooper @scoopercooper]

Let this Chinese money laundering house of cards fall.

[Sam Cooper @scoopercooper]

Good series - worth doing, my only quibble is I think some evidence is emerging that this isn’t entirely self inflicted. “It’s a project being advanced not by our enemies, external or domestic, but by the very governments tasked with stewarding this great inheritance.”

[Sam Cooper @scoopercooper]

PRC intelligence uses journalism fronts to try to infiltrate an expert’s accounts. Important to understand this, for open societies at macro level, and for individuals.

[Sam Cooper @scoopercooper]

‘Whole of government approach’ this time, to counter anti semitism — where have we heard that before? Yes, CSIS urged ‘whole of government’ to counter CCP covert interference via MPS and its proxies. But Carney embraced it instead. Similarly, for electoral and party backer reasons he will fail to counter Iranian/Marxist elements. And Yuen Pau Woo will be right behind Iran as a PRC cut out.

[BNN Bloomberg @BNNBloomberg]

U.S. excludes Canada from trade talks with Mexico https://t.co/Ap0ZRl7tUR

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

Remember that Chinese-owned infant formula manufacturing plant in Kingston? Canada Royal Milk?

Did Canadian taxpayers help finance a facility that is now exporting products made from quota-protected Canadian milk to China?

Stay tuned.

[Francis @drenfrancis]

@FoodProfessor @tomfletcherbc I thought this was called a “she-cession”? Where’s the “she-covery”?

[Sam Cooper @scoopercooper]

The Canadian public has been told this agreement exists.  But we have not been told what it actually says — because the RCMP has stated it will not release the document without Beijing’s permission.
That is not how a democracy operates. Canadians do not need a foreign government’s consent to know what their own police force has agreed to.
We call on the Government of Canada to release all details of the RCMP–Ministry of Public Security MOU to Parliament and the Canadian public immediately.
This agreement was not signed in a vacuum. It was signed against a backdrop of sustained, documented, and escalating interference by the People’s Republic of China against Canada and Canadians.
@rcmpgrcpolice

[Francis @drenfrancis]

Great news !

[CTV News @CTVNews]

#BREAKING: Guilbeault to resign as an MP over Carney government’s climate policies

https://t.co/VoQ1sUeX8G

[Francis @drenfrancis]

Dear Canada: cut GST to 4% and reduce gov FTE to 2010 numbers.

[Sam Cooper @scoopercooper]

Pentagon Suspends 86-Year-Old Canada-US Defense Board, Citing Ottawa's Failure to Meet Commitments, in Direct Rebuke of Carney's Davos Speech https://t.co/GRtzcnWeIK

[Francis @drenfrancis]

@liberal_party Canadians have never had it so good.

[Francis @drenfrancis]

@martinmbauer 🎯

[madridistas en apuros ⭐️⭐️ @madridenapuros]

“Si realmente quieres hacer una pandemia, haz que el hantavirus sea de transmisión humana”

01/05/2012

[Eric Nuttall @ericnuttall]

Jon McKenzie, CEO of Cenovus, came out swinging on their Q1 conference call today. Great to see CEO's becoming more vocal about our squandered opportunity! To summarize: no other oil producing country is doing this to themselves...time for Canada to wake up!