People ask, “If the economy is growing, why doesn’t it feel like it?” Because our individual economic realities are driven less by the national average and more by the policy choices—tariffs, taxes, and cuts—that decide who actually gets the gains from growth.

If the world juniors were playing in Canada, they would be sold out, why is the US even hosting them? When they played here in Nova Scotia, people were begging for tickets, almost sold out in every game, no matter who was playing. #Canada #Latvia Credit to bardown 🏒 🥅

Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?

Imagine running a capital-intensive firm when the White House can suddenly threaten to shut your industry down. Wind farms today, something else tomorrow. That risk changes what gets built, where, and whether it gets built at all.

Context you rarely hear: global stocks are up about 30% over the past year. U.S. stocks? Around 18%. That means American investors underperformed the world by about 12 percentage points, even while headlines called it a “fantastic year.”

America, It's Not You, It's...

Excellent video vt.tiktok.com/ZSP37tqpP/

Flu hospitalizations nearly double as H3N2 spreads across #Canada The rate of hospitalization from influenza in Canada has nearly doubled compared to the previous week of available data, with infections now up almost 30%, Health Canada’s latest figures show. /1 globalnews.ca/news/1158556...

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No one is safer in the United States than wealthy pedophiles.

No one is safer in the United States than wealthy pedophiles

Wired's biggest story of 2025. "DOGE also gained access to untold terabytes of data. Trump had given Musk and his operatives carte blanche to tap any unclassified system they pleased." Let the extortion begin... www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Ya gotta reward good behaviour... www.thestar.com/business/opi...

I didn’t watch it. But I heard a line he said. Reminded me of this song: “They stood there laughing They're not laughing anymore The walls came down” Best line: “I don't think there are any Russians And there ain't no Yanks Just corporate criminals Playin' with tanks” FTR! youtu.be/AKCyzI3evFw?...

🇨🇦 This is the post that should be shared widely today. open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Andrew Coyne nails it here. I usually try to pull a pithy quote when sharing, but every sentence here is worth your time...

Employment growth since April ("Liberation Day"): United States: +119,000* Canada: +166,200 * The U.S. number is expected to be revised down.

Moving to the US now feels like leaving a spa to go work in a burning hotdog stand. 😆😩👇

Sounds about right.

In today's numbers... George Bailey turned down a job offer from Mr. Potter for $483,600 when he was making $56,581. THAT takes CHARACTER!! Oh, and Uncle Billy 'misplaced' $144,000!! Billy never should have had that job.

In today's numbers... George Bailey turned down a job offer from Mr. Potter for $483,600 when he was making $56,581. THAT takes CHARACTER!! Oh, and Uncle Billy 'misplaced' $144,000!! Billy never should have had that job.

Word for the day: Fiscal dominance.

I’m so tired of bad people getting away with doing bad things. Fortunately, this doesn’t apply to Tina Peters. open.substack.com/pub/logicall...

"At 88, Ed Bambas couldn’t afford to retire ... (because he's) weighed down by hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical debt after losing his wife to cancer." That's the glorious US healthcare system Glenn Beck loves so much. And this is a CNN 'good news' story!! 🙄 www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/b...

For the 3rd time in a month a Conservative jumps ship, with 2 of them joining the Liberals. Will there be more? Chantal Hébert & Bruce Anderson assess where things stand in Ottawa as 2025 ends. 🔊 on SXM Canada Talks, podcast platforms. 📺 on YouTube: youtu.be/yJaiL8DDG7M

Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."

Yesterday was International Human Rights Day. Last year the Biden admin bestowed Human Rights Defender Awards to 8 people for their work in human rights. This year? Nothing. No recognition of the day. No awards. Torture & abuse continue apace though. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

“The guy who bedazzled this room in gold thinks your child has too many pencils.” - Jimmy Kimmel

You’re literally paying “twice” for Trump’s tariffs.

We're #20! (Of 23.)

"the current rise of far-right-wing extremist movements worldwide to the simple fact that the complexity of today’s world has exceeded many people’s capacity to tolerate it.” Why Intolerance and Extremism Happen Teri Kanefield books.apple.com/ca/book/why-... VERY important read! Free!

If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime. If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder. It’s that simple.

I am just as ill at ease over the way this administration has hijacked American democracy...and taking basic competence with them. But for a number of reasons I'm done with outrage. These people no longer get my anger. Just my determination to replace it and chaos with justice and kindness.

💥 This is a huge story that isn’t getting much attention. Putin humiliated as Russia can't pay army and defence industry faces collapse www.express.co.uk/news/world/2...

Hilarious!! Canadian satirical website fools the Time Magazine share.google/AdZccILmiH5A...

And the Rubber Duck Museum! 🤣 www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

"What the Founders feared as an existential threat to the republic is now unfolding in plain sight. The anxiety they enshrined in the Constitution is being flouted with barely any disguise." On the eve of the 250th Anniversary, it's all but over. #Democracy

"The idea that you could potentially be rounded up in the street, even temporarily, by an ICE agent, scared a lot of foreign students. It’s not the Canadian way to go and round up people." These U.S. companies moved to Canada. Will there be others? - Yahoo News Canada share.google/COra2xYgm0VI...

When Mark Carney sets specific goals for Canada to "diversify away" from its reliance on the US—making headlines in Canada but not the US—hear that for what it is: Close partners and allies looking elsewhere for better friends. This is the silent way that the US loses its pointless trade war.

"resistance is not only about what we reject but also what we value and will continue to protect." Thank you Boston. open.substack.com/pub/charliea...

When Canada deepens ties with China, it's not romance, it's risk management. If the U.S. keeps slapping tariffs and rewriting rules, partners diversify. Reliability is an economic asset; squander it, and trade flows and influence quietly move elsewhere.

Trump craves bloodshed at his command

He’s a fucking psychopath. His holiday gift to America is uncertainty, starvation, death, degraded services, higher prices, and free passes for pedophiles and other corrupted trash. No president in either party could have gotten away with so much. I long for the first post-djt day. Happy holidays! 😣

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

There’s an econ problem and a trust problem. When a president finally addresses affordability and insists “It's gone away, prices are falling” while your rent and groceries say otherwise, the message you hear is: you’re wrong, or invisible, or you're being ignored. That’s rocket fuel for anger.

French president unveils new 10-month voluntary military service for volunteers aged 18 and 19 halifax.citynews.ca/2025/11/27/m...