Ethan Maarhuis

Faith | Family | Freedom • Husband to 1, Father to 3 • Serial Entrepreneur: Marais Tea Company - Maar’s Burger Bar - HUIS Shave Ice • Economics Enthusiast

[Dr. Mike P. Moffatt 🇨🇦🏅🏅 @MikePMoffatt]

It's weeks like this where I fear for Canada's future. We have governments putting out housing plans they can't explain, and a media that struggles to report even basic facts, and won't correct their errors.

I'm not sure how Canadians can be expected to trust our institutions.

[Steve Saretsky @SteveSaretsky]

Now we are learning that’s it really @Dave_Eby pushing for the condo bailout. The province is covering 90% of the funds.

The guy who got elected villainizing the developers is now bailing them out. Ironic.

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

A big congratulations to the Alto executives for getting $2.8 million in bonuses for a train project that has no route, no financing, no building permit, no start date, and won’t exist for over a decade.

The Liberal Club is getting richer than ever. Thank you, Mark Carney. Pop the Champagne!!! 🍾 🥂

[T.D. Leaker @TdLeaker]

If Condos aren’t selling at “market value”, then they aren’t priced at “market value”.

It’s really that simple.

[Aaron Gunn @AaronGunn]

This latest Liberal announcement to bail out billionaire condo developers in Vancouver with taxpayer money is crazy.

Buying up thousands of empty condos at above-market prices just to save developers from having to lower prices and sell at a loss.

This is crony capitalism at its worst.

It also doesn’t actually create any new housing units.

The condos were already built.

All it does is keep Vancouver’s real estate artificially inflated, instead of allowing prices to moderate as the market would otherwise demand.

It screws over young Canadians and those trying to enter the housing market while lining the pockets of those who’ve already made BILLIONS over the past few years.

But hey - it’s a great deal for all those Vancouver developers who threw fancy fundraisers for Carney and Trudeau!

[Ethan Maarhuis @emaarhui]

@SteveSaretsky I overstocked on inventory at my loose leaf company… I don’t have enough buyers for all of it. Can the government buy my overbought tea?

[Richard Dias @RichardDias_CFA]

So, I've slept on it, and I am still incensed about this condo bailout.

Mining and Oil & Gas companies have to beg, BEG, to sell our natural resources, which pay Canadians billions in taxes and royalties.

And then the Feds give that money to condo developers who "don't want to sell at a loss".

Are you effing kidding me?

Anyway, let the BOC know I've solved the mystery of Canada's weak productivity!

[Steve Saretsky @SteveSaretsky]

Things are so bleak in the Vancouver development industry that they've cancelled awards night. Nothing getting built, and nothing to celebrate. Another sentiment indicator.

[Gareth Harney @OptimoPrincipi]

Russell Crowe on Gladiator 2:

‘They failed, and they failed because they didn’t understand what made the first film so successful: it had a moral core. Here’s the thing, most people want that. On the surface, they might go for entertainment, but if they’re going to love something and keep it with them forever, like that movie? …The love for that thing is because of its moral core. All guys want to be that man who can stay that strong, and all women want a man who can love them in that way.’

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Mark Carney gave Canadians the only recession among G20 countries.

Then he spent enough on his plane’s in-flight catering to feed a family of 4 for 55 years.

Canadians are going hungry while Liberal elites feast on the taxpayers' dime.

[MV33Racing🏎 @MV33Racing]

Peter Windsor was so right when he said: "These regulations neutralized the talent of Charles and Max."

"If you put any one of the greats from the past in these cars, I don't think they'll be able to do anything more than Lindblad or Hadjar."

With this reg set, the software engineer is the real driver of the car.

[🎥: Shay99087]

[Danny Bernstein 🍇🥬 @bernsteind]

autonomous robot driving through the field at night. no chemicals. no pesticides. just UV light killing pathogens and pests while everyone sleeps. this is @tricrobotics.

this is what chemical-free pest control looks like at scale.

[Julian Figueroa @kinetic_finance]

⚠️ If you don't understand what Gen Z just did to Hollywood...

You're gonna miss whats about to change in Bitcoin.

Last week, a 20 year old shattered a box office record that lasted 68 years.

And it signals a massive, generational shift in time preference, trust, and capital.

[Steve Saretsky @SteveSaretsky]

Our tax dollars pay for this news.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

You have absolutely disgraced yourself publishing this, globe.

We all clearly don’t hate the media enough.

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

According to Canada’s Food Price Report 2026, a family of four is projected to spend $17,572 on food this year.

The Prime Minister’s Office might want to include a few people who can actually do food math before making affordability announcements.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It wasn’t.

With rare exception, colonies were unprofitable, meaning more was spent building infrastructure like roads, railways, buildings, etc. than was exported.

And look at places like Singapore and Hong Kong. Both were colonies for a long time and yet they are extremely prosperous.

[Thomas Sowell Daily @DailySowell]

“We are living in an era when sanity is controversial and insanity is just another viewpoint—and degeneracy only another lifestyle.”

— Thomas Sowell

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

Milton Friedman: “I am not a conservative. I’ve never been a conservative. Hayek was not a conservative.”

“We are liberals in the true meaning of that term: concerned with freedom. We are not liberals in the current distorted sense—those liberal with other people’s money.”

[Sean Speer @Sean_Speer]

This week’s silly debate about whether we’re in a recession or a zero-growth economy is a good example of Canada’s failed model of political journalism.

Getting a series of quotes from different economists and politicians and then producing a story as if it’s a political horse race or a matter of partisanship does nothing to help the public understand what’s actually going on.

If we’re not in a recession—if the conditions and data cause some economists to be reticent to declare an outright recession—the alternative isn’t good for the economy or the government. It isn’t that things are otherwise good at all.

The real questions are: how much does the economy suck, how long has it sucked, why does it suck, and what are the different ideas to stop it from sucking.

Yet the legacy media insists on treating the whole thing like a contest of who’s right and wrong and in turn who’s up and down. It’s so superficial and dumb.