You know what’s easier than making a generational investment and building a bunch of new things? Not selling the things we already have. An investment strategy without an ownership strategy from the federal government is not good enough. @jonshell.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/you-ca...

Canada’s wealth gap is way worse than official data show. The PBO just confirmed the top 1% own nearly 25% of all wealth—which StatsCan missed because it doesn’t even count the richest families in its surveys. 🔗 Read more: socialcapitalpartners.ca/wealth-inequ... #CdnPoli #BillionaireBlindspot

🚨New video🚨 As Canadians, we like to think we’re strong and free. But, when it comes to the wealth gap, we’re looking more like America Lite—better manners, but almost all the inequality. #CdnPoli #CanadaSky #Wealth #EconSky

The Parkland (🍁) sale to Sunoco (🗽) offers little benefit to Canada while risking jobs, innovation and sovereignty. Ottawa should say no. Read Sarah Doyle and @jonshell.bsky.social in Policy Options. #FDI #OwnershipMatters #AlwaysCanada #Never51 policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/09/suno...

Build, baby, build? Or sell, baby, sell? Sunoco's acquisition of Parkland is a bad deal for Canada, and should be rejected. policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/09/suno...

Today's meeting with @jonshell.bsky.social , chair of @scpartners.bsky.social , @danskilleter.bsky.social, Gene Chartier, Taylor Seek hon, and Lee Chitiz, all representing Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs), was productive and insightful. #employeeownershiptrusts

For @guardian I wrote about how the world is separating from America this Independence Day. www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...

We can't win this trade war with the US, but we can win the next one. Appeared on @stephenmarche.bsky.social's new podcast Gloves Off (lnkd.in/gtc3qFRa) to talk about whether free trade with America has really been good for Canada and what a pivot toward a Middle Power Alliance could look like.

How long until the MAGA cover of "Not Like Us" about Elon?

Growth that widens inequality will weaken, not strengthen our economy. Canada Strong means putting economic sovereignty and broad access to wealth-building at the heart of our agenda. Read Matthew's piece: socialcapitalpartners.ca/as-the-feder... #CanadaSky #CdnPoli #AlwaysCanada #Never51

Sunoco's deal to buy Parkland is as clear a decision as the government is going to face. @mendelmatt.bsky.social and I write that it needs to be killed. No new investment, lost good Canadian jobs and lost energy infrastructure to an American company. All for a small premium. Embows up = no deal

PM Carney met Trump at the White House last week and passed his first real test. Now he faces a different kind of test. Will Canada be willing to go "elbows up" in the Sunoco/ Parkland energy takeover and kill the deal? @mendelmatt.bsky.social, @jonshell.bsky.social 👇 #Never51 #CanadaSky

As the threat to Canada’s sovereignty intensifies, we need policies that keep Canadian companies owned by Canadians. Employee-ownership is growing in 🍁 for good reasons: - more wealth for workers - more resilient in recessions - more productive 🔗 goodmenproject.com/featured-con... #EOT #CdnPoli

Corporate leaders are obsessing over GDP per capita. But, if you look at just about any number that would meaningfully tell you how well our economy is doing, Canada does better than the U.S. @mendelmatt.bsky.social @jimstanford.bsky.social #alwayscanada #never51 #gdp #cdnpoli #cdnecon

At PPF growth summit. Starting with a classic orthodox economic speech by a bank economist. Manufacturing isn't important, invest in services, we have educated people. Yawn.

Yesterday, America had their “Liberation Day.” Now it’s time for the rest of us to plan our own. The world needs a new Alliance, independent of the US or China. Here's one way to do it. It's wrong and incomplete. But maybe it can help get the ball rolling. jonshell.medium.com/manifesto-fo...

The bravest person in know, being awesome.

Rich tech leaders are sharing their ideas about how political decisions should be made. Vass Bednar, executive director of McMaster University’s master of public policy in digital society, has to wonder: Is a Canadian version of DOGE in our future? thewalrus.ca/are-a-handful-of...

From fighter jets to TikTok, satellites to steel, nothing is off the table when it comes to creative-even-crazy ideas to secure Canada's sovereignty. Fired up? Focused on the future? Full of ideas? Read ours: tinyurl.com/ycxkfn82/ Add yours: 👇 #AlwaysCanada #Never51 #CanadaSky #EconSky

Canada didn't "steal" American auto jobs. We didn't even take them nicely. Some facts about Trumps' latest lie in the trade war: * As a % of population, Canada has underperformed the US in auto manufacturing jobs since 1992 * Both countries have about the same # of jobs as 1992 #Canadasky #elbowsup

Worker ownership is an effective model for local ownership and democratic control. Rather than having businesses shut down or sold to distant shareholders and corporate entities, they can be transferred to the workers themselves, allowing for jobs and profits to remain in their communities.

Employee Ownership can be an important tool in the fight for Canadian sovereignty. Current policy isn't up to the task. Michael Ras and my take in today's @calgaryherald.com. It's time to move this issue into the front and centre of the Canadian economic agenda. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

A few hundred workers at a company in Vermont are about to share in about $1B. They will get over $1M each on average. Some will get as much as $10M. Most of these will 𝒏𝒐𝒕 be executives - they will be receptionists, salespeople, analysts, etc. #Thread #ESOP #Employeeownership

I've had a reasonably long career and never cared about whatever title I happened to have. It just never mattered to me. But now that you can be a "czar" it's the only thing I want in the world. I'd do anything to be a czar of something.

A solid Canadian troll would be to hire someone from McKinsey as the fentanyl czar

Here's a critical part of any Canadian tariff response plan that I have not seen talked about: *every* purchase of a Canadian company by a US buyer must be reviewed by the federal government as a security risk - no matter how small.

Canada needs to recognize that the U.S. is no longer a reliable partner or friend, and begin reorienting our economy accordingly, says SCP CEO @mendelmatt.bsky.social. None of this may work, but we have to try: socialcapitalpartners.ca/concepts-of-... #EconSky #CdnPoli #tariffs #trade

In the depths of the pandemic, Chrystia Freeland acted to help save small businesses across this country by rescuing the commercial rent relief program. While the focus will be on the politics of her resignation, that's what I'm thinking about today. Thank you for your service.