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I used to vote Liberal. Then I started reading the budget.
Now I write it down: receipts, sources, zero feelings.
Not left vs right. Average people vs the entitled.
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The motion asked the Ocean Envoy to come for two hours with her mandate and a cost breakdown for the conference. Liberals said no. An MP's written question on her staff and budget is due an answer December 2. I'll set a reminder.
Alberta is tabling a bill so public bodies hire the best person for the job. Wild that it needed a bill.
Handy to know in Canada: under the Scanner Price Accuracy Code, if an item rings up higher than the shelf price and it's $10 or less, you get it free. Over $10, you get $10 off. Most people never ask.
Finance Canada this spring credited Canada's debt position to "the government's responsible fiscal management."
The Parliamentary Budget Officer last week said the fiscal anchors "have imposed limited fiscal discipline."
Only one of them grades their own homework.
One point in Detroit, Hyman banged up, and Calgary on deck Wednesday. Perfect timing. Nothing heals a team like the Battle of Alberta. 🔥
Europe is fighting over how to use your data to train AI. Canada's AI law died on the Order Paper when Parliament was prorogued in January 2025. Brussels regulates. Ottawa naps.
Winnipeg got the same treatment. In 1953, the U.S. Army sprayed zinc cadmium sulfide over the city to model chemical and biological attacks. Residents were told it was a smoke screen test. National Defence gave permission.
Joe Rogan discusses declassified U.S. Army experiments that tested how biological simulants could spread through American cities.
The documented tests included civilian areas and public transit systems, raising serious questions about the ethics of conducting military experiments in populated areas.
Sources: washingtonpost.com/archive/p… and Manitoba's 1994 report release: news.gov.mb.ca/news/archives…
The CIA helped fund brainwashing experiments on patients at a Montreal hospital in the 1950s. In 1992, Ottawa paid 77 of them $100,000 each and still admitted no liability.
Quiet one from March 27: Ottawa's legal borrowing limit went to $2,541 billion, up from $2,126 billion. That's a $415 billion bump to the national credit limit. No speech, no ribbon. It's in Annex 3 of their own fiscal update, if you like light reading.
Whale watching and coffee shops. Somebody finally said it out loud. You can't pay a mortgage with vibes, and you can't rebuild a mill on land that's already a condo tower.
“You can’t build a provincial economy on whale watching and coffee shops.”
We need to be a province that builds, makes and creates. We need a provincial industrial strategy and we need to get serious about the loss of industrial land to real estate speculation.
Once industrial land is converted to other uses, it is extraordinarily difficult, if not impossible, to get it back. And without that land, where exactly do we expect the next generation of manufacturers, skilled tradespeople and industrial employers to go?
This is one of the most consequential challenges we face in British Columbia, with a lot of damage already done. I hope the new government makes it an urgent priority.
Ottawa's draft stablecoin rules ban paying holders any interest. The stated reason is so they don't "compete directly with bank deposits." At least they put the quiet part in the Gazette.
Source:
Canada Gazette, draft Stablecoin Regulations, Oct 24, 2026: gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2026/…
PBR Canada National Finals, Rogers Place in Edmonton, November 13 and 14. Eight seconds still means eight seconds, which is more than I can say for a federal budget. 🙄
Six goals in three games, two in every one. Draisaitl is NHL First Star of the Week and the Oilers sit first in the Pacific. Good week to own an Oilers jersey. 🔥👌
What does the @NHL's First Star of the Week have up his sleeve this week? 👀 #LetsGoOilers