Stephen Cook

Waterloo resident, happy family man...long suffering Leaf fan and so much more.

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

Our Government over the last 11 years has taken $200 Billion dollars from Canadians and pumped that money into to their so called climate initiatives. And guess what they still complain about after 11 years? The same hot weather, floods, forest fires and more.

Our prosperity has been driven into the ground, the quality of our lives in Canada have been declining all to satisfy our Governments ideology. An ideology with a sole purpose to redistribute wealth & force draconian behavior change on the population.

$200 BILLION DOLLARS. Gone. Stolen. Really think about that. Who got rich off our backs? It made zero difference to the “climate” but that money could have made an actual difference in our lives.

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

Canada: Crying Over Spilt Milk in a Self‑Inflicted Stagnation

Canada’s elite have spent a quarter‑century turning a rich, opportunity‑dense economy into a slow‑growth, over‑levered cul‑de‑sac, and they still insist nothing is structurally wrong. There is no sense crying over spilt milk about past mistakes when the architects of this stagnation are still in charge and still in denial.

Canada did not just drift into secular stagnation; it embraced a kind of virtue socialism and an industrial policy anchored on climate change targets rather than productive capacity, competitiveness, or growth. An economy built on world‑class natural resources, strategic geography, and human capital has been deliberately downgraded into a housing‑addicted, low‑productivity balance sheet recession risk, and the people who did it still show up on panels calling this “resilience.”

For years, Canada’s comparative advantages in energy, resources, and industrial capacity were something to apologize for, regulate to death, or tax into oblivion, while policy and capital chased the illusion that you could mortgage and virtue‑signal your way to prosperity. The result is a country flirting with a liquidity trap, where even lower rates may barely move a real economy suffocated by over‑priced assets, under‑built productive capital, and households too damaged to borrow again.

The real scandal is not that Canada faces secular stagnation; it is that the elite engineered it, denied it, wrapped it in climate rhetoric, and now blame external shocks while the data scream that this is a made‑in‑Canada crisis.

To be clear, Canada’s problems are not the result of President Trump!

If Canada’s elite will not finally admit that decades of attacking its own strengths, worshipping its own bubbles, and treating industrial policy as a morality play have left the country one downturn away from a full balance sheet recession, then they are not guardians of the national interest, they are custodians of decline, and at this point, there really is no sense crying over spilt milk, only over the refusal to fix the mess they made.

[Fringe Truth @TruthFringe]

I just heard on the radio with @bradcsmith that all the C02 Canada has removed over the last 5 years, with taxes and whatnot, China produces in 32 hours. 🇨🇦🇨🇳

Well done, Liberals. You're absolute morons.

[Stephen Cook @scook3]

@Tablesalt13 No uniformity at all

[Stephen Cook @scook3]

@Sportsnet having Schaeffer on as a " correspondant" who has played against many of these draft picks, masterclass!

[Stephen Cook @scook3]

@WR_Record Geeze. Ridiculous

[Stephen Cook @scook3]

@yyzsportsmedia Jonas frankly always takes the negative side re TML. Availability is the best ability, and JW didn't have it.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

When the game is over, the king and the pawn end up in the same box.

- A powerful Italian Proverb

[The Royal Canadian Legion @RoyalCdnLegion]

June 6, 1944. Today, we mark the anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy. 14,000 Canadians stormed Juno Beach, showing unparalleled bravery in the face of fierce resistance. 359 Canadians made the ultimate sacrifice that day.

We stand in silent gratitude for the heroes who broke through the Atlantic Wall and paved the path to liberation.

Learn more: https://t.co/fwAmSCIN3W

Photo: Troops of the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade
(Stormont, Dundas, and Glengarry Highlanders) going
ashore from LCI (L) 299 [Landing Craft Infantry],
Bernières-sur-mer, Normandy, France, 6 June 1944.
[Library and Archives Canada 3408540]

[Stephen Cook @scook3]

@yyzsportsmedia I do agree after a bit of thought.

[Stephen Cook @scook3]

@CTVKitchener Slow traffic down more. No need, just politicians feeling important. This Council is ridiculous

[Tom Quiggin @TomTSEC]

Just a guess, but flooding universities with low IQ students and hiring unqualified teachers who fit DEI profiles might have been a bad plan.

[Stephen Cook @scook3]

@TheAthletic @seangentille We have moved on. Over Lib reporters cannot

[The Real Mr Bench @therealmrbench]

The Globe and Mail is now running opinion pieces about cutting elderly benefits because Canada faces “crippling debt.”

Perfect.

Not cut bureaucracy.

Not cut consultants.

Not cut foreign aid.

Not cut corporate welfare.

Not cut the Liberal spending machine.

Not cut the political class that created the debt bomb.

No.

Cut grandma.

That is how this always works.

Trudeau, Freeland, Carney, and the Liberal Party help bury Canada under debt.

Then the establishment media starts preparing Canadians for the “unpopular” solution.

The people who built the mess never pay.

The elderly get handed the invoice.

Canada was robbed by incompetence.

Now seniors are being told to sacrifice.

Brilliant system.

[Laura Stone @l_stone]

I tried to ask Prime Minister Carney if we’re in a recession on his way out of the event today, but did not succeed. #cdnpoli

[Stephen Cook @scook3]

@TSN_Sports @odognine2 @frankcorrado22 Great job covering Mem Cup!

[John Smith @yonkojohn]

Steven Guilbeault resigns, assume he now won't be repaying Canada the 254 million he slipped out of the Green Fund and into his own Company! The true reasons never make the paid media!

[Marc Nixon @MarcNixon24]

STEAKS, LOBSTER, WINE, CAVIAR for Mark Carney

$195K on FOOD, Deserts and Drinks for 3 flights

Canadians Can't afford to EAT this is INSULTING and Out of Control.

Liberals: Mark Carney is flying around the WORLD non-stop getting 100s of thousands of JOBS and making Canada RICH

[Stephen Cook @scook3]

@vijay_riar56136 @yyzsportsmedia Look at the last 7 years. He MOST certainly did NOT do his part. To think otherwise is frankly, ignoring the facts, and the data

[Stephen Cook @scook3]

@hailey_salvian @TheAthletic Way too many teams, too fast. Not enough quality hockey players, unfortunately