Rod Mountain

[Rod Mountain @rod_mountain]

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[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

Whoever designed this needs to be fired immediately:

[Rod Mountain @rod_mountain]

It only took nine seconds for an AI coding agent gone rogue to delete a company’s entire production database and its backups https://t.co/7bvSMdErri

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The year is 1950. Your doctor lights a cigarette and tells you smoking is fine. He read it in a study. He is telling the truth about having read it. He does not know, or is not saying, that the study was funded by the tobacco industry.

The year is 1958. Your doctor tells you to eat less fat. The evidence is contested. The contestation is not in the public messaging. The food industry has been helpful in clarifying which findings deserve attention. Some researchers who published contradictory data have been quietly defunded. Ancel Keys is on the cover of Time magazine.

The year is 1962. Your doctor prescribes thalidomide to your pregnant wife for morning sickness. It has been approved. The FDA gave it the green light in Europe. Twelve thousand children will be born with severe limb malformations before anyone in an official capacity acknowledges the problem. The families are told the drug was safe. The drug was approved. Both of these things remain true.

The year is 1972. Your doctor prescribes Valium. Britain is in the grip of a benzodiazepine wave that will last two decades. The dependency risk is known internally. It is not shared. Your doctor is not lying to you. He was not told either.

The year is 1999. Your doctor prescribes Vioxx for your arthritis. It is newer than ibuprofen, well-tolerated, and Merck has a study showing it works. Merck also has internal data suggesting it roughly doubles the risk of heart attack. This data will not reach your doctor for four more years. Fifty thousand people are estimated to have died in the interim. Merck eventually settles for 4.85 billion dollars. No criminal charges are brought.

The year is 2002. Your doctor prescribes OxyContin. Purdue Pharma trained its sales representatives to tell doctors the addiction risk was less than one percent. That figure came from a letter, not a study. The letter was about patients with terminal cancer on short-term doses in hospital settings. Your doctor is a GP with a patient who has a bad back. Nobody draws a distinction. Nobody is required to.

The year is 2008. Your doctor checks your cholesterol. Your LDL is elevated. You are prescribed a statin. Nobody mentions that the number needed to treat for primary prevention is approximately 250. Nobody mentions that the muscle deterioration you'll notice over the next two years is listed as a rare side effect rather than a documented pattern affecting a meaningful percentage of patients. The trial that informed the prescription was funded by the manufacturer.

Now it is today.

Your doctor has new guidelines. New studies. New consensus.

He is confident.

He has always been confident.

The confidence has never been the problem.

The confidence is, in fact, precisely the problem.

[Tom Quiggin @TomTSEC]

According to the Bank of Canada:

"Roughly 40% of Canadians whose underlying ability/human capital would place them in the top 1% of Canada’s income distribution if they had stayed -- now reside outside Canada."

Also: For the next 9% (roughly the 91st–99th percentiles), the implied share abroad is 30–50%.

Money and talent are leaving Canada due to the massively oppressive business environment.

https://t.co/6ZHkySY5yu

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

Where is food inflation actually happening? Not everywhere.

Over the last 12 months, in Canada, the biggest price increases in Canada are concentrated in a few key categories:

🥒 Cucumbers: +43%
🍗 Whole chicken: +42%
🥬 Celery: +36%
☕ Coffee: +25%
🥩 Beef: +24%
🍓 Strawberries: +22%
🍅 Tomatoes: +19%
🛢️ Vegetable oil: +17%
🫑 Peppers: +14%
🌰 Almonds: +14%

Meanwhile, many staples remain stable: Milk, bread, rice — barely moving.

With oil now above $110 U.S. and transport surcharges starting, Stage 1 is here.

[WTF Happened in 1971? @WTF_1971]

WTF happened to our cost of living?

[Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Tablesalt13]

🚨NEW - CANADIAN SENIOR OFFERED DEATH FOR MINOR BONE BREAK

84-year-old Miriam Lancaster was admitted to a Vancouver hospital with a broken sacrum (small back bone)

Her doctor told her: "We can offer you MAID.’

she refused and recovered in a month, later climbed a volcano.

[Rod Mountain @rod_mountain]

https://t.co/V1L0PEJsvh

[Rod Mountain @rod_mountain]

Dash Crofts of Summer Breeze rock duo Seals and Crofts dies aged 85 https://t.co/hlhQju6ggm

[Global Statistics @Globalstats11]

Top 50 Countries with the Best Healthcare Systems in 2026 🏥

1. 🇹🇼 Taiwan
2. 🇰🇷 South Korea
3. 🇳🇱 Netherlands
4. 🇯🇵 Japan
5. 🇦🇹 Austria
6. 🇪🇨 Ecuador
7. 🇫🇮 Finland
8. 🇹🇭 Thailand
9. 🇩🇰 Denmark
10. 🇪🇸 Spain
11. 🇫🇷 France
12. 🇧🇪 Belgium
13. 🇨🇿 Czech Republic
14. 🇳🇴 Norway
15. 🇱🇹 Lithuania
16. 🇪🇪 Estonia
17. 🇱🇺 Luxembourg
18. 🇶🇦 Qatar
19. 🇮🇱 Israel
20. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
21. 🇩🇪 Germany
22. 🇲🇽 Mexico
23. 🇵🇹 Portugal
24. 🇦🇺 Australia
25. 🇸🇬 Singapore
26. 🇹🇷 Turkey
27. 🇨🇭 Switzerland
28. 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
29. 🇲🇾 Malaysia
30. 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
31. 🇨🇳 China
32. 🇮🇸 Iceland
33. 🇨🇴 Colombia
34. 🇨🇦 Canada
35. 🇺🇾 Uruguay
36. 🇸🇪 Sweden
37. 🇳🇿 New Zealand
38. 🇦🇷 Argentina
39. 🇬🇹 Guatemala
40. 🇺🇸 United States
41. 🇵🇭 Philippines
42. 🇭🇰 Hong Kong
43. 🇸🇮 Slovenia
44. 🇯🇴 Jordan
45. 🇮🇳 India
46. 🇭🇷 Croatia
47. 🇮🇹 Italy
48. 🇨🇷 Costa Rica
49. 🇿🇦 South Africa
50. 🇱🇧 Lebanon

Source: Numbeo Health Care Index 2026

[wealthmoose @wealthmoose]

🚨Meat prices are up more than 50% since 2019, and grocery bills keep climbing.

For many Canadians, affordability is now the top concern.

But then EV rebates will help Canadians..🚗

This government is completely out of touch..

#Canada #Cdnpoli #Food #Inflation

[Richard Dias @RichardDias_CFA]

Working-class people overwhelmingly buy USED cars. It's wealthy people who buy & lease NEW cars.

An EV subsidy is a regressive policy that redistributes money to Wealthy Canadians (Boomers?).

[The Royal Canadian Legion @RoyalCdnLegion]

On this day in 1918, Lt Col John McCrae, Canadian Medical Officer serving in the First World War, died in France.

His poem In Flanders Fields, written three years earlier in 1915, became the enduring words of Remembrance.

#LestWeForget #CanadaRemembers

[Old Canada Series @oldcanadaseries]

46 years ago today Canada saved 6 American diplomats in Iran.

[Old Canada Series @oldcanadaseries]

In response to the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, Canada and all NATO nations answered the call for help by the United States under Article 5. Allied nations working to help protect and support the United States would lose over 1,000 soldiers, with Canada sacrificing over 158.

[Old Canada Series @oldcanadaseries]

The first Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan were four members of the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, who died on April 17, 2002, in a friendly-fire incident at Tarnak Farm. A U.S. F-16 pilot mistakenly bombed the Canadian troops during a night training exercise.

The four soldiers—Private Nathan Lloyd Smith, Corporal Ainsworth Dyer, Sergeant Marc Daniel Léger, and Private Richard Green—were killed, while eight other Canadians were seriously injured in the tragedy.

[Daily Romania @daily_romania]

Troops of former Al-Qaeda leader, now President of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, massacre thousands of Kurds and release other thousands of ISIS members from Kurdish prisons

A week ago the EU granted al-Sharaa $722 million in 'aid'

[NoLimit @NoLimitGains]

Canada liquidated its gold reserves for an average of just $120 an ounce, about $4.3 billion.

If those holdings were kept, they’d be valued at around $162 billion today.

[Rod Mountain @rod_mountain]

Hall, ironman goaltender with record 502 consecutive starts, dies at 94 https://t.co/o6gZqzm77Z

[Rod Mountain @rod_mountain]

Oh Canada 😕

[Steve Hanke @steve_hanke]

Over the past 45 years, the US economy remained dominant while China and India surged.

Europe’s largest economies have mostly STAGNATED.