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[canadiansumac @forest10000]

#Ontario records a significant drop in its labour force . Probably @fordnation is stumped on what to do . #onpoli #unemployment

[TrendingPolitics.ca @TrendPolCa]

BREAKING: Ontario recorded its steepest drop in labour force participation since 1976 excluding the pandemic, with 71,300 people leaving the workforce in the first quarter of 2026 according to the Financial Accountability Office of Ontario — Global News

[John Dunn @SkaraBraeRanch]

For the benefit of non-Albertans struggling to understand Alberta separatism: this sentiment did not emerge overnight, nor is it confined to the fringe. It is the cumulative product of years of political, economic, & cultural alienation.

Six key developments, had they unfolded differently, may well have diffused the current predicament.
1) The reelection of the Liberal government in 2025, despite overwhelming opposition in Alberta, reinforced the belief that Alberta’s democratic preferences are irrelevant within Confederation.
2) A decade of Trudeau-era federal policies widely viewed in Alberta as hostile to its primary industry ... including Bill C-69, the tanker ban (Bill C-48), the emissions cap, the carbon tax regime, and a regulatory framework seen as deliberately constraining hydrocarbon development.
3) Continued opposition from the B.C. NDP to pipeline expansion and Alberta’s efforts to secure reliable access to tidewater.
4) The cancellation, obstruction, or collapse of major energy projects — including Northern Gateway, Energy East, and Keystone XL ... reinforcing the perception that Canada’s political and regulatory systems are incapable of supporting Alberta’s economy.
5) Deepening resentment over equalization & fiscal transfers, with many Albertans believing the province contributes disproportionately to Confederation while receiving little political consideration in return.
6) A widening cultural divide between Alberta and the political elites of central Canada, accompanied by a growing sense that Alberta’s industries, values, & prosperity are treated with contempt or moral suspicion by national institutions & media.

Whether one agrees with separatism or not (I do not), dismissing these grievances as irrational misses the point entirely. A significant number of Albertans may ultimately support a referendum not out of a desire to leave Canada, but as an expression of profound frustration with a Confederation they increasingly believe no longer treats Alberta with fairness, reciprocity, or respect.

[John Dunn @SkaraBraeRanch]

The core of Trudeau’s economic strategy was to drive population growth through high immigration with elevated real estate values driving an outsized share of Canada’s GDP growth. At the same time, his government constrained major resource development projects ... even though the resource sector (unlike speculative real estate inflation) is tied to productive output, exports, & national competitiveness.

What even Mark Carney now appears to recognize is that natural resources are not some economic relic to be managed into decline; they remain foundational to Canada’s productivity, trade position, fiscal strength, & geopolitical relevance.

[Riley Donovan @valdombre]

PM Carney says Canada is in a recession in part due to immigration cuts tanking population growth. He points out "household incomes" are rising.

Startling admission of what restrictionists have always said: mass immigration juices GDP while dragging down standard of living.

[Juno News @junonewscom]

MUST WATCH: @CDNConstFound warns Bill C-22 would create a sweeping "surveillance regime" that threatens Canadians' privacy.

"To have a truly free society, we must be free to make our choices without being monitored—and without even knowing we're being monitored."

[Candice Malcolm @CandiceMalcolm]

Liberals dodge question on how many illegal immigrants working on federally-funded job sites

https://t.co/0xWhFiRPF0

[Michael Chong 🇨🇦 @MichaelChongMP]

My statement on the new tariffs announced by the U.S.:

"Conservatives believe the American tariffs are unjustified and present another threat to our workers and our industries.

We are also deeply concerned about the findings of forced labour in Canadian supply chains.

Prime Minister Carney has been unable to speak clearly on this issue and for six years the Liberal government has continually failed to stop products using forced labour from entering Canada. This failure is now putting Canadian jobs and trade at risk.

Conservatives continue to call for the Liberal government to stop these products from entering our country."

#cdnpoli

[canadiansumac @forest10000]

The TFW program hasn’t been an economic boom the #LPC government promoted. Young Canadians trying to enter the workforce must be disappointed in their federal government . #cdnpolj #cdnecon

[Brad Vis @BradleyVis]

You paid half a billion dollars to bring foreign workers into Canada.

Here’s how:

The temporary foreign worker program cost you $1.6 billion over the last 5 years.

Except the fees that TFWs are supposed to pay didn’t cover costs, so there was a loss of $509 million.

We have youth unemployment at 15%. We’re in a recession. This is simply outrageous.

#cdnpoli

[Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Tablesalt13]

BREAKING: In order to prevent subscription streaming services from raising their prices, and angering Trump

Carney will cover the new CRTC fee of $600 million by billing you on April 30th every year, via the taxbase.

(and its borrowed, so youll pay interest on it too)

[Rupa Subramanya @rupasubramanya]

@MarcMillerVM I don't know man. This is a bizarre cast of characters. Most of them hate Jews and Israel. https://t.co/4e58XRFKga

[Kevin Vuong 🇨🇦 @KevinVuongxMP]

“I remember Alghabra lobbying me to keep Hezbollah legal”, which begs the question:

Should the man who advocated for designated terror group Hezbollah—whose foundational documents & raison d’être is Israel’s destruction—be on an advisory council combating hate and antisemitism?

[David Jacobs @DrJacobsRad]

As Carney made his way through the crowd at Holy Blossom Temple, every handshake was a betrayal because he hadn't come to help the community, he'd come to bury it.

Carney's appointees to his committee meant to combat antisemitism include:

-A lawyer who is leading a Charter challenge against the removal of the University of Alberta's post October 7th encampment.

-A former MP who lobbied to keep Hezbollah legal, condemned the use of the word 'terrorist' to describe the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, and eulogized prolific terrorist Yasser Arafat.

This is a sick joke that won't end well for the Canadian Jewish community, or Canadian society as a whole.

[Juno News @junonewscom]

CPC MP @MelissaLantsman bashes PM Carney's recent antisemitism remarks, saying he offered no concrete action.

She also targets Omar Alghabra, a former Liberal minister on a new antisemitism council, saying he lobbied to keep Hezbollah legal and to ban parts of the Torah.

[Western Standard @WSOnlineNews]

🚨 JUST IN — Prime Minister Mark Carney comments on the new tariffs that are set to be imposed by the United States due to a lack of action to combat forced labour.

Ambassador Greer announced late last night these new measures.

• follow @WSOnlineNews •

[Aaron Pete @Aaronpete_]

I'm prepared to go to jail over this.

My grandmother Rita Pete went to St. Mary's Indian Residential School. She experienced terrible abuse. As a consequence, she struggled with alcohol use most of her life.

My mother was born with FASD as a consequence of her using alcohol to cope with her trauma.

I am Chief of my community Chawathil First Nation. I am working to address the longstanding impacts of these past policies through renovating homes, building new homes, creating childcare, and growing businesses through economic development.

I have interviewed people who went to Indian Residential Schools. I have interviewed people who believe Indian Residential Schools were awful, horrible schools, meant to remove the Indian from the child.

I've also interviewed people who believe they were well intended, generous investments by Canadian taxpayers meant to assimilate a society and had shortcomings.

Like with many things, the history is dark, complicated, and with any policy that existed for a long time, across a whole country - there were different experiences.

No one story tells us everything. No report shares the full experience of the individuals who went. No commentator today can disprove someone's lived experience with statistics.

The path forward is not to criminalize speech, questions, or debate.

The path forward is empathy for past attendees.
The path forward is truth based on facts.
The path forward is real conversations.
The path forward is to lean into complexity.

If the government criminalizes this, then I will be a criminal for having these conversations.

If I am a criminal by the laws definition, then I am committed to going to jail over this.

[JayGen 𝕏 er🇨🇦 @JayGenXer]

🚨 CANADIANS ARE BREAKING DOWN ON CAMERA

And it’s truly sad that social media is now flooded with regular people falling apart like this.

This guy and his wife pull in six figures. They’re “lower upper class.”

He just left the grocery store and he’s sitting in his truck, emotional:

“How are people making $60k, $70k, even $80k a year fucking surviving in Canada right now?”

He’s struggling to pay for groceries.
$5 broccoli.
Strawberries that rot in three days.
“Something’s gotta change… this isn’t sustainable for anybody.”

These aren’t the “poor.” These are the people who are supposed to be doing okay.

Liberalism did this.

The cost of living crisis they created, the inflation they ignored, the policies that crushed productivity and drove prices through the roof — this is the result.

While they lecture us about “climate” and “equity,” real Canadians are in their cars after grocery shopping, breaking down.

This is what a recession looks like when it hits normal people.

If you’re feeling this too — you’re not weak. You’re awake.

Drop your breaking point below 👇

#cdnpoli #LiberalFail #CostOfLiving #Recession #CanadaFirst

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

US Ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra "I present the President's views, the United States views, to Canada."

"I don't do all the reposting and retweeting myself. My understanding is we repost 100% of the President's tweets that deal with Canada." @USAmbCanada @brianlilley

[UnveiledChina @Unveiled_ChinaX]

Beijing thought it could hold the entire global tech industry hostage by locking down rare earth minerals, but Western innovators just broke the CCP’s chokehold. A Wall Street Journal report highlights a massive wave of optimism as industries successfully eliminate their reliance on Chinese critical minerals. For decades, Beijing controlled up to 90% of global rare earth processing, using that monopoly as political leverage. However, its recent aggressive export restrictions backfired completely, triggering an unprecedented boom in non-Chinese processing and substitution technologies that cannot be undone.

Leading this technological rebellion is Minnesota-based startup Niron Magnetics, which has engineered the world’s first high-performance, rare-earth-free permanent magnets using iron nitride. By utilizing iron and nitrogen, which are abundant, cheap, and entirely domestic raw materials, Niron completely bypasses the dirty refining loops controlled by China. This breakthrough has attracted massive backing from automotive giants like GM Ventures, Stellantis, and Volvo, alongside defense partnerships to build military hardware. Demand is already outstripping supply, forcing Niron to expand from a pilot facility to a massive 190,000-square-foot production plant to fulfill its contracts.

At the same time, startups like Conifer are transforming electric motors by swapping out rare earths for standard, abundant ferrite magnets. Conifer’s proprietary design slashes motor size and weight by up to 50% while boosting vehicle range and operating efficiency by up to 30%. These clean motors seamlessly drop into everything from delivery vehicles and robotics to data center cooling systems. By trying to weaponize its mineral monopoly, the CCP has accidentally forced the West to build a resilient, localized supply chain that leaves authoritarian chokeholds in the past.

#RareEarths #SupplyChain #NationalSecurity #CleanTech #ChinaDecoupling #Innovation #Geopolitics #NironMagnetics

https://t.co/7oWP1U6Jek

[Lee Humphrey @tleehumphrey]

Just yesterday the entire @liberal_party gov voted against the motion by the @CPC_HQ to reverse this ridiculous tax increase, today @MarkJCarney does exactly what the @PierrePoilievre asked him to do yesterday???

Seriously WTF is wrong with this Parliament & Gov???

[Smiley88 @dwyoung88]

Why is this not a surprise? Simple con man Carney under his direct control of Brookfield is still fighting a 100 million dollar lawsuit against slave labour,human rights violations,indigenous abuse in not 1 but 4 different countries! Oh yeah and mass deforestation....Mr. Net zero is a fraud! It's all about Brookfield transition 1 fund he holds millions of stock options in! And its all around green initiatives,Carbon capture,data centre's, and more in his climate scam! "Saving the planet "