Extremely funny that Andy understands “costs need to grow to match inflation and taking a break from that means you need to catch up more later” when it comes to his lackey budget but not our water infrastructure. This guy is such an empty suit.

www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo... - “Output of motor vehicles and parts manufacturing (-6.4%) was largely constrained by a global semiconductor shortage” AI bubble, welcome to the war on cars?

This is really thoroughly reported - extensive and accurate. Battery facilities like these are awesome and just getting better.

Halifax Transit pocket friends, this is just a delightful read www.halifaxexaminer.ca/equity/halif...

A Team Canada approach (Heated Rivalry model) - producing a whole lot more queer cancon and exporting it everywhere 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

We need a Country of Origin labelling system like Australia’s where you don’t have to spend two minutes peering at the fine print on each product.

Entirely seriously has anyone ( @thesaxbygale.ca maybe?) tried running bike lanes or induced demand through a chatbot to see what it comes up with? Might actually work on Fillmore. 🤣

Trish Purdy: objectively pro-climate change, which is a wild thing to be in Canada in 2026.

"We can have flying cars?" "No, but we can have exactly one flying bus."

This is such a great profile of Bedford’s own Rachel Reid (bonus for locals: it includes a photo of her in her gear when she played hockey for the Bedford Rangers as a kid).

Shouting “MEANWHILE IN CANADA” into a weirding module so loud it blows up a mountain

PM Carney on Heated Rivalry: "Studios south of the border were interested in Jacob's vision, but wanted to, shall we say, tone it down ... Exactly. What's the point of that?"

Tonight I watched Prime Minister Mark Carney take the actual Heated Rivalry Canada fleece from Hudson Williams, slip it on and say: “This is true soft power.”

substack.com/@grandparade... - “we’re flagging cross checks and review as a risk to the city” what the actual fuck. @landofsticks.bsky.social you’re remarkably subdued on this segment. 🤣

Heated Rivalry stars Hudson Williams, Sophie Nélisse attend Ottawa gala with Prime Minister Mark Carney #Canada www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Mark! NO! 🤣

It’s a matter of geography. Even if Carney can shift the percentage of trade 15-20% away from the US that will be a HUGE shift. The 9-9% we’ve seen already is significant. I mean, 32% of Taiwan’s trade is still with China. That’s down from 44% n 2000. This will take time.

Such a confused article. Vacancy rate for “affordable housing” is not a meaningful metric. That metric is useful for housing allocated by market mechanisms, but non-market housing gets allocated as soon as it’s available. We should look at wait lists instead, 8000+ long and ~2 years wait time in NS.

Prices aren’t just “taxes”, but signals of scarcity. You can zero out the price, but it doesn’t fix the scarcity (often making it worse for everyone)

Why does David Eby, the largest Premier, not simply eat the other Premiers? 🤣

Halifax! There is a trial of an inhaled vaccine for COVID that you can enrol in right now!

"There’s a lot of work being done to give Halifax a modern transportation network, including bus rapid transit, fast ferries, and the province’s core streets review." - Mayor Fillmore. ... Didn't Fillmore try to cancel the fast ferries? At least he's stopped lying about the total cost...?

*stares* youtu.be/Ux1NIRhNDbk?...

www.cbc.ca/news/busines... - funny, doesn’t seem like a lot of people think that Amazon cutting 10% of their corporate workforce - 30K jobs total over six months- will majorly reduce their ability to get things done. 🤔

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... oh hey! Turns out we’re already doing the smart thing! That’s awesome actually! “Milligan said the two [battery facilities] that are already online helped the province through the recent cold snap”

"The community group has a plan to build 430 units of “deeply affordable” and mixed-income housing, retail spaces for Black-owned businesses and performance community areas"

Damn, for someone who insists on drivers getting free stuff, Trish is sure dead-set against having the money to give drivers free stuff!

this is how I learned David Eby is like 6 foot 9 lmfao. born to hoop forced to lead British Columbia

get in the car, loser, we're making sports super gay. 🏳️‍🌈

Seems good!

This seems like the kind of thing where possibly a technocrat who tries to pivot and become a politician might work out better than a lifelong politician trying to do whatever this is.

Passing the Canadian Sovereignty Act could be difficult insofar as, strictly speaking, it does not exist as a piece of legislation.

They've been "woke" since before a lot of these people have been *alive.* Seems on-brand... 😏

Also please consider subscribing to www.grandparade.news so I can keep coming to these meetings and reporting on them

"Recent developments suggest that Canada–Sweden co-operation is no longer best understood as a transactional arrangement. Instead, it reflects a sustained effort by two northern democracies to strengthen long-term co-ordination in an increasingly unstable global environment." By Christophe Premat

Halifax is getting a new tartan. Have your say in what pattern we choose

Andy Fillmore stick to a fucking decision challenge (difficulty: impossible)

The risk to North American auto manufacturing is North America's auto manufacturers not keeping up with what global consumers want. You've had tens of billions of dollars in subsidies and supports shovelled at you. Compete or die.

Alberta's separatists are convinced that the biggest threat to their prosperity comes from Ottawa. They ought to be looking to China and India instead -- and realize that an independent Alberta would be powerless against them. #cdnpoli #ableg www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/27/o...

www.cbc.ca/news/busines... - so looks like Amazon is planning on cutting nearly 10% of its "corporate workforce" (AWS, video, amazon dot com, and HR - not warehouse / delivery) over about six months. Hands up - who thinks this will cripple their ability to get things done?

*staring into camera intensifies, crying* "You never said stuff costs money!" "We assumed you knew! How could you not?!?" "You never told us!!!" Absolute cinema.

We've affordability concerned our way into massive tax bills or crumbling infrastructure. Good job council!

Transfers? Taxes, but applied by another order of government. "Wait, you mean there's no option where money magically rains from the sky and everyone pays less but gets more?" 🤪

Councillor White: "“There’s more cars crossing the bridge. So that’s what’s called induced demand. You’ve made it easier to drive so more trips are being taken, so that is the opposite of what I’d like to see for HRM.”

Dear council please apply an area rate to Cole Harbour until we get our shit in order. I am not a crank.

From SmashTransphobiaKjipuktuk on Instagram.

There is nothing correct about deportations. Immigration is good, and even if you disagree with that, the way to stop undocumented immigration is by penalize EMPLOYERS who profit by exploiting precarious people. Deportations are not only inhumane, ineffective and wrong.

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

Canada's smallest tactical nukes will be called timbits. The really big deterrence nukes will be crullers.