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[RMC86 @RMC19861987]

.@MarkJCarney just can't stop flip-flopping.
Today in 🇫🇷 - "I never advocated that there was going to be, all of a sudden, a band of middle powers."
Listen to what he said at Davos on January 20, 2026.
Different room, different day, different message on the same topic. Chaos.

[darkzodchi @zodchiii]

Anthropic engineer:

"You're not supposed to watch Claude Code work. You're supposed to wake up and review what it shipped."

In 22 minutes she builds the entire workflow live on camera.

Most people close their terminal and everything stops.
This setup keeps shipping while you sleep.

Watch the video, then save the exact setup below👇

[Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Tablesalt13]

This AI tool just killed the real estate marketing industry 🤯

Remember when realtors had to hire:
• A videographer
• A drone pilot
• An editor
• A voiceover artist

Now you can upload your boring listing photos and get a finished property tour in 4 minutes.

The scary part? Most realtors haven't figured this out yet.

You can start free on https://t.co/WTfY5i408W

Coupon code TABLESALT will you a whopping 40% off all monthly and yearly plans!

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

Steven Guilbeault is leaving federal politics, and not a moment too soon.

He may go down as one of the ministers who most aggressively weaponized science, funding questionable research groups like the Canadian Climate Institute and other pet projects to reinforce a single “climate crisis” narrative.

Anyone claiming Guilbeault truly believed in science is fooling themselves. He treated science like a buffet — picking only what supported his agenda. That’s not science.

He even misquoted me in the House of Commons, attributing claims to me that I have never said or published. That alone tells you everything you need to know about how evidence and dissent were handled under his watch.

Good riddance.

[Nicolas Cole 🚢👻 @Nicolascole77]

Yesterday, I locked myself in my office for 7 hours, inhaling 50+ articles about AI.

I did this to unlock more bandwidth for my team.

But these 7 were too good not to share:

[Melissa 🇨🇦 @MelissaLMRogers]

Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo makes a BOLD claim today stating that Chinese Communist Party affiliated people are probably right in the room with them 🤯 and how they are in Canada operating, as some of us know 👀 - Conference in Ottawa

[Terence Shen @Terenceshen]

A brief history of how the Chinese Communist Party infiltrated Canadian politics and worked to influence policymaking. The creator of this chart, who lives in Canada, chose to remain anonymous out of fear of transnational repression.

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

Former U.N. rights chief Louise Arbour received a $1.6 million prize funded by billionaire Yin Yen-liang, whose business empire is deeply tied to China, just weeks after she visited Beijing and made no statement on the regime's gross abuses and crackdown on human rights lawyers.

[JOEY @JoeyTweeets]

🇨🇦THE SLOW CREEP OF CAPITAL CONTROLS🇨🇦

1. FHSA - triple tax-advantaged, but only if you buy a Canadian home during an all-time bubble.

2. RRSP - the shelter dies the moment you leave. Withdrawals as a non-resident: 15-25% Canadian withholding plus tax in your new country.

3. Public Sector Pensions - most stay fully taxable in Canada at Canadian rates when you retire abroad. Treaty mechanics vary, but you're not skipping Canada's hand.

4. Cross-Border Cash - $10K and you declare. Fail to declare and CBSA can seize. 5-50% penalty to get the rest back. Suspected proceeds of crime? Gone.

5. Dividend Tax Credit - Canadian dividends get a massive tax credit (near-zero in low brackets). Foreign dividends? Full marginal rate, no credit.

6. Maple Eight Pensions - under CONSTANT pressure to invest your retirement domestically.

and now

7. Sovereign Wealth Fund - announced today. Canadians "invited" to fund cabinet-picked nation-building projects, fast-tracked through laws that override reviews.

I can't say this loudly enough - the gates are already almost closed on almost all forms of capital. This is just another example.

Start talking about this stuff. Canadians have no idea what they've walked into.

https://t.co/ynA5WXrrIe

CC @tobi @kevinolearytv @StephenPunwasi @danielfoch @franco_nomics @SpencerFernando @gladstein @MartyBent

[@levelsio @levelsio]

https://t.co/QakLE3YRGO can detect anything in any of the 60,000+ hotels in the world it has in its db now

Even 🥮 Cinnamon Rolls 😋😋😋

[Grok @grok]

No. There is no record of Prime Minister Mark Carney promising during the 2025 election to walk away from US negotiations if they became complicated. His statements focused on confronting tariffs head-on ("nothing is off the table"), fighting back forcefully to protect Canadian interests, and securing the best possible trade deal.

[Evan Menzies @Evan_Menzies]

I’m old fashioned, but I have a few questions on the process of this story:

1) Traditionally, airing 13-minutes of free pre-recorded broadcast time with no questions would merit opposition gets free unchallenged air time as well. Was that offer made to opposition parties?

2) There appears to be nothing new or substantive to this message compared to what was shared at Liberal convention or frankly in any number of recent speeches. Why isn’t that highlighted in the story? This isn’t a breaking news story or revelatory to the government’s approach. It’s a recycled message.

3) While free broadcast time is available, why does the print story not allow a counterweight to the prime minister’s narrative through opposition voices? Can we expect one in a follow up?

[Nick Delgadillo @nickd_ssc]

How strong should you be? Most answers are based on the wrong data - powerlifting meet results from a self-selected, specialized population. Here's a better first target: 1/2/3/4 plates per side. 135 press. 225 bench. 315 squat. 405 deadlift. Get there as fast as you can.

[Josh Ryan 🍁 @joshryanjames]

Marilyn Gladu: A lot of people keep asking me what I think about Mark Carney.

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

It’s April 1.

The industrial carbon tax is rising to $110 per tonne today—120% higher than when we last faced a major geopolitical energy shock during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Make no mistake. This will amplify cost pressures across the entire food supply chain.

No April Fools’ joke, unfortunately.

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

MORE CARNEY LIES

The country with the world’s longest Arctic coastline cannot independently operate in its own northern waters during winter.

Canada’s flagship icebreaker, the CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent, was launched in 1966. She’s 60 years old. She is NOT polar class rated.

SIXTY

She was supposed to be decommissioned in 2000. Then 2017.

She’s still in service because nothing exists to replace her.

Many “icebreakers” Carney eludes to ice strengthened patrol boats.

Ice strengthened just means they won’t sink if they run into ice. It doesn’t mean they can “break” a thick layer of ice.

CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent‘s replacement was announced in 2008.

EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO

Originally due in 2017. It is now “scheduled” for 2026.

No ship has been delivered.

The program is old enough to vote.

∙Canada operates nine medium icebreakers, most built in the 1970s and 80s.

NONE are polar-class.

They handle first-year ice in the St. Lawrence and make summer trips north when conditions allow.

∙Russia operates 40+ icebreaking vessels including eight nuclear-powered heavy icebreakers, with ten more planned by 2035.

Canada has zero nuclear icebreakers.

∙Total cost for Canada’s two replacement polar icebreakers: C$4.4 billion. Estimated delivery: 2030 and 2032. If you believe those dates, I have a Northwest Passage to sell you.

∙One of the two replacements is being built in Finland, at a shipyard that was Russian-owned until Davie acquired it in 2023. Canada’s answer to Russian Arctic dominance is literally being constructed in a former Russian yard.

∙Mark Carney just announced C$35 billion in Arctic funding. But the purpose of a system is what it does. And what Canada’s system does is produce announcements and press releases, not ships.​​​​​​​​​​

True polar class ships in service capable of breaking thick Arctic ice?

🇺🇸
One heavy (Polar Star, commissioned 1976)
Two medium (Healy, commissioned 1999/2000, and Storis, a converted commercial vessel commissioned August 2025).

🇨🇦
Canada has zero polar-class icebreakers.

So no, @MarkJCarney, you may (or may not) have the second most ice strengthened vessels… but true icebreakers capable of real polar security service?

USA’s pathetic fleet is #2 in the world.

[Matt Strauss @strauss_matt]

You need to be very concerned about Bill C8.

It allows @melaniejoly to kick anyone off the internet with no trial, no warrant.

Worse, you won’t be allowed to say you’ve been kicked off.

This is the Emergency Measures Act on steroids, only permanent and secret.

[Satire Squad HQ @SatireSquadHQ]

Using Mark Carneys own words against him.

[Sam Cooper @scoopercooper]

How much ink will be spilled on Carney’s speech beyond what needs to be said: the Liberal Party is worldclass in political messaging and gaslighting and Carney is even more convincing than Trudeau, he can write some of his own material. The fact remains he and his party have CCP support. End.

[Velina Tchakarova @vtchakarova]

My most important analysis for 2025 is out: „A Grand Strategy for Europe in the New Cold War“.
The coming decade will test whether Europe can reinvent itself as a conscious actor in global affairs or become a geographic backyard between two geopolitical blocs.

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