Matt Schellenberger

VP, farmer, financial advisor, husband, father, musician, lover of life, friendships and unforgettable journeys.

[Matt Schellenberger @mattschellen]

Yes, yes it was. 😎

[SCOTT WARNER @ScottWarner18]

No lie. You were a legend if you had one of these bad boys.

[Matt Schellenberger @mattschellen]

🤦‍♂️🥴

[Heather Exner-Pirot @ExnerPirot]

Worst energy shock in history transpiring; inventories about to bottom; Germany buying BC LNG; South Korea, India and China all come to Canada in the same two week period asking for oil and gas; TSX O&G index up 35% YTD.

The Canadian Left:
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[Matt Schellenberger @mattschellen]

I honestly don’t get the appeal of Carney. It’s all artificial, and agonizingly clear, none of the country’s and its peoples challenges seem to register. It’s just full speed ahead on the Carney/Liberal plan, everything else be damned.

[Northern Perspective @NorthrnPrspectv]

Imagine having a Prime Minister that laughs at a woman who lost her job and became homeless, only to then refuse to answer after getting called out on making a joke of it.

Well you don't have to imagine.

Here he is.

Share this with a Liberal voter.

[Matt Schellenberger @mattschellen]

Yikes…and yet somehow this government stays popular. One wonders about the impact of legacy media in this framing, particularly among boomers. Elbows down. 🫣

[Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Tablesalt13]

‼️CANADA JOINS EQUATORIAL GUINEA

in an economic recession.

Russia IS NOT even in a recession right now.

Ukraine is being bombed and its not in a recession.

Afghanistan is NOT in a recession.

[Matt Schellenberger @mattschellen]

@axaxia92 A cult classic, Van Damme’s best.

[Matt Schellenberger @mattschellen]

Wow - we camp there a lot, that is mighty brave.

[The Angel 🖤 @Angel_150913]

In Alberta news, some crazy fucker breaks a world record driving off our local waterfall. Shout out to Dusty Friesen and his boat named Dent.

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

The fatal error of the Liberals and NDP is treating wealth like a pie instead of a garden.

A pie gets divided. A garden gets cultivated. Different rules entirely.

Prosperity is not something elites hide in a vault after stealing it from “the people.” It comes from energy, investment, risk, productivity, contracts, trust, stable laws, entrepreneurs willing to fail, workers willing to build, and markets coordinating millions of decisions nobody could centrally plan. That machinery is messy, imperfect, and deeply human. But it creates abundance.

The modern socialist instinct skips all that. It sees unequal outcomes and assumes exploitation must be the cause. So instead of asking, “What creates prosperity?” it asks, “Who can we punish for having more?”

That mindset slowly turns productive citizens into tax livestock and businesses into political punching bags. Investment hesitates. Innovation slows. Talent leaves. Capital hides. Energy projects stall. Housing gets strangled by regulation. Then politicians stand in front of the economic crater they helped dig and announce another subsidy funded by debt.

That is the boiled frog problem in modern Canada. The decline happens gradually enough that people normalize it.

The tragedy is that compassion without economic reality eventually destroys the very engine that funds compassion in the first place. You cannot redistribute wealth that nobody creates.

So they do not really raise the floor. They lower the ceiling, weaken the pillars underneath it, and call the falling dust “fairness.”

[Eric Nuttall @ericnuttall]

The UAE is building a ~1.4MM Bbl/d, 370km pipeline costing ~$4BN USD, started in 2025 and onstream in 2027. Canada aims to potentially build a 1MM Bbl/d pipeline, to cost ~$40BN, take 8+years, and is tying it to an obsolete/costly $30BN Pathways project. See the difference???

[Matt Schellenberger @mattschellen]

Interesting.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just described how the entire government operates in a single sentence.

Musk: “Paying people to do nothing doesn’t make sense.”

Then he told a Milton Friedman story that should terrify every bureaucrat on the payroll.

Friedman watched workers digging ditches with shovels.

He suggested they use excavators instead.

Someone pushed back.

“But then we’re going to lose a lot of jobs.”

Musk: “Friedman says, well, in that case, why don’t you have them use teaspoons?”

One sentence.

That’s all it took to gut the entire logic of modern government.

The teaspoon is not a punchline.

It is the actual policy.

Every agency that would cease to exist if it actually solved the problem it was created for.

Every department that measures success by headcount instead of output.

Every approval that routes through nine desks before someone can say yes.

Teaspoons.

The system doesn’t want excavators.

Excavators finish the job.

And a finished job is the one thing the system can’t afford.

So it hands you a teaspoon. Calls it a career. Gives you a pension for never asking why the ditch took forty years.

But this isn’t about laziness.

It’s about control.

A person digging with a teaspoon doesn’t have time to build something better.

Doesn’t have the energy to question the plan.

Doesn’t have a thought left to ask if the ditch even needed digging.

Busy people don’t ask dangerous questions.

That’s the point.

The economy doesn’t run on productivity.

It runs on the appearance of productivity.

Millions of people sit at desks right now doing work a single script could replace by morning.

They know it.

Their managers know it.

The people who sign their budgets know it.

But the teaspoon stays in their hand.

Because the moment you hand someone an excavator, they finish by noon.

And a person with a free afternoon starts thinking. Starts building. Starts wondering why they needed permission to dig in the first place.

That’s the thing the system can’t survive.

Not unemployment.

Free time.

Musk didn’t tell a joke on Rogan.

He described the longest con in modern governance.

Keep them digging.

Keep them busy.

Keep the teaspoon in their hand so they never look up long enough to see the ditch was pointless from the start.

Friedman told that story sixty years ago.

He meant it as a warning.

The system heard every word.

It just made sure everyone kept calling it a joke so no one would recognize it as a confession.

[Matt Schellenberger @mattschellen]

Many of these institutions are not even hiding it anymore, so much for speaking against the “state”. Mainstream media is on life support as it should be, it’s become partisan beyond measure. I grew up watching CBC and the National, now I struggle every time I turn it on. Newspapers that used to be seen as pillars of journalism have faded into mediocrity and laziness. The globe and mail, the times, on and on. X is where I get most of my news now, because I can follow and engage with multiple sides and counterpoints are clear and accessible. Unfortunately many, especially those 50+ still believe that news is fact and government generally has our best interests at heart. Both are being severely tested in front of our eyes. My mom, a retired teacher, still watches CBC. She’s always been left, and that’s fine. I was too once. But increasingly her counter facts have become counter opinions, with language that sounds more like judgement of person than argument of fact. This is what’s happened to the left too often, they’ve made it about morality, and if you’re against an idea or policy you’re against them. And are treated as such. Climate change, immigration, freedom of speech, etc. This hubris cuts off debate and hurts society. It’s happened in much of Europe and is happening here. You’re with us or against us, no room for debate. Very sad and quite dangerous. The UK has shown us that. I hope it can change. By the way still love mom very much!

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

The Star reportedly pulled Supriya:

She criticized Carney on Modi.

Called out the India file.

Questioned the foreign interference cover up & Bill C9.

Now she’s gone.

You’re allowed to write whatever you want about Carney in Canadian media.

As long as it’s nice. 🤣

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

Did you know that recent changes to recycling rules are quietly making your food more expensive? Here’s why.

It’s called EPR — Extended Producer Responsibility.

Under EPR programs, companies are now paying much more to recycle packaging and manage waste. Those added costs don’t just disappear. They move through the supply chain and eventually show up at the checkout counter.

Few people are talking about it, but recycling policy is becoming another permanent cost layer in our food system.

[Matt Schellenberger @mattschellen]

So much YES! 🤤

[Matt Braynard @MattBraynard]

We're so back.

An entrepreneur is restoring Pizza Huts to their former glory.

[Matt Schellenberger @mattschellen]

@SuryPanwar @GreatBig_Sea Appreciate and hope, and there’s many still working hard to ensure that. Thanks for the optimistic push Sury, hope you’re well.

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

"It’s astonishing that almost no media outlet has reported on the UN’s downgrading of some of the most extreme climate scenarios that helped drive the urgency behind the Paris Climate Accord and carbon taxes around the world.

The UN-backed scientific community is now acknowledging that the planet is likely not warming as fast as some earlier worst-case projections suggested. Canadians deserve to know this, especially as major policies continue to reshape economies, energy systems, and food affordability."

[Matt Schellenberger @mattschellen]

Life note: Try to hang with great people doing big things with shared passion. And booze. That helps too. 😎😆
#leadership

[JayGen 𝕏 er🇨🇦 @JayGenXer]

🚨❌ 2,700% TAX INCREASE in just 60 years — while houses rose only 2,000%, food 900%, and clothing 478%.

Canadians now pay more in taxes than housing, clothing, and food COMBINED.
45% of our entire $2.7 trillion GDP goes straight to government.

The average family shells out $47,000 a year in taxes — that’s 43% of their income.

We are one of the most taxed jurisdictions on Earth… and Canadians are done.

This is why the cost-of-living crisis feels impossible.

Who else is fed up with this?

I know @hrh_elliot is !

#canadianpolitics #cdnpoli #taxpayer #governmentspending #costofliving #taxes

[Matt Schellenberger @mattschellen]

Very cool.

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

Footage from Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada in 1935 - one of the most peaceful places on planet Earth

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

Interesting how Canadian media largely ignored this new climate scenarios paper published by mainstream climate scientists (Link below).

The study doesn’t deny climate change, but it does acknowledge that some of the extreme warming pathways heavily used for years are now viewed as less plausible.

That matters enormously for energy policy, agriculture, food security, infrastructure, and affordability debates.

Instead of discussing how climate modelling assumptions are evolving, we continue to get simplistic “net zero at all costs” narratives.

Science is supposed to evolve. Public debate should too.