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"This decision now stands as binding precedent. It places real legal constraints on future governments and ensures that the Emergencies Act cannot be repurposed as a political convenience. It restores the act to what Parliament intended: a narrow, exceptional tool, not a blunt instrument against dissent.
The government spent millions defending the indefensible. It lost completely. And in doing so, it handed Canadians one of the most important civil liberties rulings in a generation.
That is worth celebrating.” @cvangeyn nationalpost.com/opinion/chr…
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Global News should note much more prominently that this poll was commissioned by CUPE Local 416 (Toronto Civic Employees’ Union), who have formally endorsed Chow as their preferred candidate
Toronto election: Chow holding decisive lead over Bradford, new poll indicates
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"The solution is not to ban technology any more than banning tractors or electricity is to unleash tomorrow's entrepreneurs."
"So slash occupational licensing, payroll taxes, employment law complexity, strip away unnecessary permits, zoning, make it easy to start a business, to experiment, and to hire the first employee."
"Technology has been eliminating jobs for thousands of years. In fact, that's how we became rich. The Industrial Revolution wiping out farm labor."
"But what we didn't have in 1840 was an empire of tax and regulation, roadblocking billions of new jobs." @profstonge
The economy's booming but nobody's hiring.
Because AI is boosting experienced workers -- they can do more, so you don't need to hire.
While AI is replacing entry-level and new college grads.
The Boomer vs Gen Z fight is about to go nuclear.
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Annette Verschuren, a @liberal_party donor appointed chair of Sustainable Development Technology, abruptly resigned while under investigation. @EthicsCanada concluded she breached federal law by voting to award her own firm a $217,661 green technology grant.
@BetOnMePodcast @cbuniversity
ICYMI - Sustainable Development Technology Canada was created to subsidize environmental projects.
It was disbanded in 2024 with resignation of all directors after audit found 186 conflicts of interest.
@PrivyCouncilCA report cited gross mismanagement that cost taxpayers $150M.
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What he fails to mention is that that Starlink has never authorized its use to attack inside of Russian territory & that the CAF & several other federal agencies, inside of Canada don’t use Starlink for anything other than reliable emergency communications which are critical.
Carney also falls to mention that Telesat, if everything goes to plan, will not be capable of providing full coverage of the Arctic & Northern Canada for 8-10 years so guess what will continue to be used until then?
Finally Carney fails to mention that what failed Ukraine was Starshield which is controlled exclusively by the US military.
Just as a side note he also fails to mention that without our access to secure US military satellites, the CAF would be blind & incapable of operating inside or outside of Canada & many of our weapons systems (including one recently bought by the Carney gov) won’t/can’t function.
This is just another example of appearing to do something antiTrump without doing anything more than spending money & making grand pronouncements!
Mark Carney on what Elon Musk's throttling of Starlink means for Canada: "We do not want to be caught in a situation where we are reliant on one provider that puts Canadians at risk or compromises our sovereignty, our ability to express our values and live our values."
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Job update: I'm excited to have joined energy economist @PTertzakian at the Calgary-based research and advisory firm he founded, Studio.Energy, as chief content officer.
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Sorry to CTV but no. There are no talks underway. There is no chance of this happening before the midterms above a mathematical non-zero chance.
CTV News reports Canadian government sources are signaling a faint window of opportunity for a snap trade deal with the U.S. ahead of the midterms.
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Juneau's exact quote "If some people want to criticize Canada for dealing with a country like Turkey, like Saudi Arabia, India, for that matter, that the government has been getting closer to, and there's significant human rights concerns there as well, for that matter.
By far our largest partner, the United states, more than 70% of our trade, by far our closest partner on security and defense and intelligence matters.
There are growing concerns on democratic backsliding in the US with the list that you just gave being only the tip of the iceberg of all the concerns that we may have with the US Are we going to stop trading with the US Are we going to stop trying to save the trading relationship that is so essential to Canadian prosperity because of these concerns in the U.S. i'm not saying that there's an easy answer here.
These are really difficult moral dilemmas that are very real and that shouldn't be just swapped aside."
Watch yourself say it!
Bullshit. You selectively mention some of the things I said while leaving out others. I don't equate Turkey with the US.
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60% of residents surveyed say Toronto is a worse place to live than four years ago
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The Quebec HRT ruled that a law firm, whose work includes family and youth protection law, lacked evidence to withdraw a job offer to a law student who had child porn charges (he pleaded guilty afterward).
This amounted to discrimination against people with criminal histories.
Tribunal Watch: Quebec tribunal orders law firm to pay $5,000 to law student it refused to hire over child pornography charges
Néolégal dropped Antoine Absi within 10 minutes of learning about the charges.
Read more: rebelne.ws/4dXFagx
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"Canada needs to go from 'elbows up' to 'shoulder to shoulder' with the United States. The Chinese Communist Party is a criminal entity"—Sam Cooper @scoopercooper
Sneak peak!
Dropping soon: New information from @scoopercooper about Mark Carney's ties to China, US currency VS Chinese currency and what to watch for in the next few months to show the real agenda behind it all...
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Thomas Juneau on CBC just equated U.S. immigration enforcement and state abortion rules with Erdoğan’s Turkey, Modi’s India, and the broader authoritarian set Carney is courting. “Well, that’s a good point,” he said, then asked whether Canada should stop trading with its largest partner “because of these concerns in the U.S.”
Note, it was the CBC host who introduced the false equivalency points for the guest
This is not analysis. The Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project—the leading academic dataset tracking electoral integrity, civil liberties, and checks on power—scores the U.S. as an electoral democracy (still holding free elections next month) while rating Turkey ~0.11, India an electoral autocracy, and China a closed autocracy at ~0.04. And Freedom House: U.S. Free, Turkey Not Free, China Not Free. The gap is not subtle. It's not remotely close
Juneau elsewhere calls Turkey “at best a competitive autocracy” and says criticizing it is “pointless—and counterproductive.” He frames the government’s choice as refusing to “restrict diversification efforts only to democracies.” Fine. Just don’t pretend the human-rights records are comparable. That is moral equivalence dressed up as realism and feel-good justification
The real choice is pragmatic engagement with imperfect partners. Pretending the imperfections are comparable is just self-flattery for a Boomer audience that wants both the moral high ground over an imperfect America and a justification for these comparative tiny new deals, er MoUs @thomasjuneau
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This analogy works well for Carney's ever growing government bureaucracy...🚣♀️
The American auto industry in the 70s and 80s didn’t lose on engineering. It lost on headcount.
Elon told this old joke on Rogan:
Japanese boat: eight people rowing, one steering.
American boat: one person rowing, eight steering.
They lose. Fire the rower.
That was Detroit. It’s also most companies now. Layers of people who want to decide, not enough people who just want to finish. Meetings pile up, the work slows, and the last person still doing something gets blamed.
The ones who actually row are usually the ones who end up gone.
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"If given a mandate to govern on Saturday, the B.C. Conservatives must take action to root out the deep intellectual and ideological rot that has permeated all of our institutions. Doing so will require more than minor reforms or efforts to put more sympathetic figures in charge of these bodies" @kateemarland @WDiminishment
How the B.C. NDP created a human rights regime to advance their ideological goals and why there is ample precedent for dismantling it today in @WDiminishment
Political and social groups champion ideas and values that align with their goals and act as tools to gain or maintain power.
Nowhere is this more evident than in the B.C. NDP’s dogged commitment to the B.C. human rights regime.
How comfortable are British Columbians with consolidating adjudicative power, backed by substantial monetary penalties, in the hands of a few unelected bureaucrats? This question demands an answer when considering our human rights regime.
Abolishing the Human Rights Tribunal and the Office of the Human Rights Commissioner would not be unprecedented in our province’s history, and the suggestion that these actions be taken should not be treated as something beyond possibility.
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For all the media and pundits saying wait for a Democrat victory to get a deal... Trump says the quiet part out loud today: "But if there was, you call it gridlock, what happens is I veto everything and then the Democrats come and they want to make a deal." @realDonaldTrump
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I don't understand why we wouldn't collect on half a billion dollars.
Minister @MarjoriePLC writes off nearly half billion for people who cheated @GovCanHealth dental plan.
Feds to date won't explain why program went 80% over budget: 'It represents an amount up to $434.8 million."
blacklocks.ca/bogus-claims-c… #cdnopoli
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“It really seems that the more you give parents, students, and teachers freedom to experiment, the better results you’re going to get… Canadian policymakers outside of Alberta should copy this approach of partnering with non-profit schools.”— Colin Craig, @SecondStreetOrg President @colincraig1
Alberta is the only province where parents can choose to send their child to government-funded, non-profit schools known as charter schools. Because these schools are run by non-profits, they get to decide how they teach, school rules, etc. Best of all, there's no tuition!
New research by SecondStreet.org found Alberta’s charter school students scored 10.5 percentage points higher on provincial achievement tests in 2024-25 than students at government-run public schools. They scored 9.2 points higher than students at government-run Catholic schools. They came out ahead in all seven subjects that could be compared.
Charter schools teach the same provincial curriculum and charge no tuition. Some focus on STEM, and others on classical subjects like math and history.
The model works in Alberta. Parents in other provinces should have the same option.
Learn more about how to fix Canada’s education system at SecondStreet.org
Read more from the source: secondstreet.org/2026/09/22/…
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Carney is right that single-provider dependence creates risk. But by the time Telesat Lightspeed is actually built—if it ever is—Canada will already be left out of the communications, compute, and power stack that is being scaled right now
Starlink went from 2.3 million users at the end of 2023 to 13.6 million after adding 1.6 million in the most recent quarter alone. Starlink Mobile is already at 22 million monthly users and grew 37% in Q3. New V3 satellites deliver a terabit per second each; Starship can launch 60 of them at a time. One recent flight added 26 terabits—more than eight times Viasat’s entire new fleet. At the end of 2025 the constellation had roughly 450 terabits; weekly (and eventually daily) Starship flights put it on a path to exceed the world’s total undersea-cable capacity. SpaceX is simultaneously ramping compute from 1.7 GW toward 2.5–3 GW by year-end and has said it is highly confident of adding 10+ GW next year, while building its own power capacity to support it. Major players are already contracting large blocks of that capacity
Canada’s planned system is years away, government/enterprise-focused, and still needs SpaceX launches. At the very least Canada should be securing a real partnership in the system that exists and is scaling, while it continues to pretend it can fund a proprietary alternative that will somehow catch up
Read this 👇@markjcarney @elonmusk
Mark Carney on Musk/Starlink for Ukraine: “We as Canadians do not want to be caught in a situation where we are reliant on one provider that may change their view or may be forced to change their view by one nation state that puts Canadians at risk or compromises our sovereignty.”
The concern about single-point dependency is legitimate. The rest is the same as Carney's previous GFANZ fantasy
Carney correctly notes the slowdown had “real consequences, human consequences, direct casualties.” Then he pivots to the idea that Canada can simply diversify and “build up sovereign capabilities”
There is no legitimate near-term alternative that matches Starlink/Starshield’s combination of scale, low latency, terminal size/weight, and cost for the battlefield role Ukraine is using it for
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, same week: “Starlink is really necessary for Ukraine and unfortunately in the short term Europe can’t replace this capability.”
OneWeb is the closest operational option. Fewer satellites, heavier/more expensive terminals, lower capacity. Not a drop-in replacement for frontline or drone use. Amazon Leo is still building out. EU IRIS² targets ~2029. Canada’s own planned Telesat Lightspeed is aimed at 2028, is government/enterprise focused, and is still needs to be launched on SpaceX rockets
This tracks the GFANZ pattern: announce a vast pool of capital and a clean path away from the existing system, then discover the constraints (antitrust pushback, continued fossil financing, diluted rules) were larger than the press release. The $130 trillion figure Carney claimed was assets under management, not money committed to the transition. It was Carney fantasy
Strategic diversification can be a real long-term project. Pretending the world already has, or will soon have, a workable alternative when the evidence says otherwise is just the same overclaim in a different domain. Deal with the system that actually exists
What happened to Carney taking "the world as it is"? @MarkJCarney @elonmusk
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Another excellent article by Brenda Shaffer
thebureau.news/p/when-green-…
It's still not clear which Mark Carney we elected last year. Builder Carney scrapped the consumer carbon tax, green Carney hiked it on industry and tightened the Clean Fuel Reg. Builder Carney scrapped the EV mandate, green Carney brought in new CO2 tailpipe rules that by 2035 only EVs can meet. Builder Carney admits we can't meet our Paris target, green Carney doubles down on Net Zero. Builder Carney courts global investors, green Carney is pushing an EU-style green Taxonomy that will strangle finance to our energy sector.
While builder Carney keeps appearing at the photo-ops, green Carney seems to be the one writing the actual rules.
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