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Why would I say it is an odd renaming? Aside from the fact that CGEB isn't a great acronym, we don't charge GST on most groceries. I looked at my receipt from shopping last week - spent $172 at the grocery store, HST was applied to only $42.
January 26, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Why would I say it is an odd renaming? Aside from the fact that CGEB isn't a great acronym, we don't charge GST on most groceries. I looked at my receipt from shopping last week - spent $172 at the grocery store, HST was applied to only $42.
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Here lies the rub: how many times does Trump have to threaten any of us with the iron fist only to barely make contact with a whiffle ball bat before we all have to agree we’ve lost trust? For me that was last year. For Carney it was two days ago. For Danielle Smith, we are still waiting.
January 22, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Here lies the rub: how many times does Trump have to threaten any of us with the iron fist only to barely make contact with a whiffle ball bat before we all have to agree we’ve lost trust? For me that was last year. For Carney it was two days ago. For Danielle Smith, we are still waiting.
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So he actually posted an altered image to Truth Social with the US flag over Canada along with Greenland and Venezuela (and we know what has happened in Venezuela 🇻🇪) and Canada has done what with the US ambassador?
January 20, 2026 at 4:15 PM
So he actually posted an altered image to Truth Social with the US flag over Canada along with Greenland and Venezuela (and we know what has happened in Venezuela 🇻🇪) and Canada has done what with the US ambassador?
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As someone with a bad bladder, I wish there were more publicly available and clean washrooms.
January 12, 2026 at 4:28 PM
As someone with a bad bladder, I wish there were more publicly available and clean washrooms.
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The fact that the Canadian government's official statement on the president of the United States illegally invading a foreign country does not include the words "President," "United States," "illegal," or "invade" really tells you all you need to know about where we stand, tbh
Please see my statement on the situation in Venezuela:
January 3, 2026 at 10:25 PM
The fact that the Canadian government's official statement on the president of the United States illegally invading a foreign country does not include the words "President," "United States," "illegal," or "invade" really tells you all you need to know about where we stand, tbh
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"Maduro’s wife" has an actual name — Cilia Flores. She's not a great person, but so far as I know, there are no criminal complaints or arrest warrants for her anywhere. You can't even put a legal fig leaf on her kidnapping.
January 3, 2026 at 2:23 PM
"Maduro’s wife" has an actual name — Cilia Flores. She's not a great person, but so far as I know, there are no criminal complaints or arrest warrants for her anywhere. You can't even put a legal fig leaf on her kidnapping.
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Home for Christmas
Maud Lewis
c. 1958
Maud Lewis
c. 1958
December 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Home for Christmas
Maud Lewis
c. 1958
Maud Lewis
c. 1958
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Imagine if the PM had just taken time to meet with Coastal chiefs *before* signing the MOU with Smith…
Carney vows to meet Coastal First Nations after chiefs vote against pipeline to B.C. nationalnewswatch.com/2025/12/02/c...
Carney vows to meet Coastal First Nations after chiefs vote against…
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
nationalnewswatch.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Imagine if the PM had just taken time to meet with Coastal chiefs *before* signing the MOU with Smith…
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But cutting $1.2 billion from student aid.
Canada is investing $1.5B in youth through Budget 2025, supporting ~175,000 youth in 2026–27 with jobs, training, and skills for rewarding careers.
🔗Learn more: bit.ly/4ibRue4
🔗Learn more: bit.ly/4ibRue4
November 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
But cutting $1.2 billion from student aid.
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Minority parliaments, in theory: Parties forced to work together, government held to account, real compromise, substantive accomplishment.
Minority parliaments, in reality: IS THERE GOING TO BE AN ELECTION THIS WEEK? WHAT ABOUT NEXT WEEK?
Minority parliaments, in reality: IS THERE GOING TO BE AN ELECTION THIS WEEK? WHAT ABOUT NEXT WEEK?
November 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Minority parliaments, in theory: Parties forced to work together, government held to account, real compromise, substantive accomplishment.
Minority parliaments, in reality: IS THERE GOING TO BE AN ELECTION THIS WEEK? WHAT ABOUT NEXT WEEK?
Minority parliaments, in reality: IS THERE GOING TO BE AN ELECTION THIS WEEK? WHAT ABOUT NEXT WEEK?
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Second-biggest line item in the budget.
Largely ignored this week because it was old news.
bsky.app/profile/arad...
Largely ignored this week because it was old news.
bsky.app/profile/arad...
Should we be talking more about the incongruity of the $27B income tax cut that Carney implemented upon taking office with the economic and fiscal theme of his first budget?
November 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Second-biggest line item in the budget.
Largely ignored this week because it was old news.
bsky.app/profile/arad...
Largely ignored this week because it was old news.
bsky.app/profile/arad...
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I can't find the defense budget figure for 2025. Sigh
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I can't find the defense budget figure for 2025. Sigh
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Staring at Canada's own gender-based analysis of its budget. Give you one guess at the main beneficiary of all the major spending investments....
November 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Staring at Canada's own gender-based analysis of its budget. Give you one guess at the main beneficiary of all the major spending investments....
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We're cutting $s to low-income 18 year-olds to access education, but we still have half a billion a year to make student loans interest-free for early-career 20-somethings "to help with the rent"
AS DUMB AS A BAG OF HAMMERS.
AS DUMB AS A BAG OF HAMMERS.
Here's the biggest PSE story you haven't heard yet: the Canada Student Grant for low-income students is being cut from $4200/year to $3000/year as of next August. It's implicit in the budget tables but the government is too chickenshit to actually say so directly.
November 4, 2025 at 11:47 PM
We're cutting $s to low-income 18 year-olds to access education, but we still have half a billion a year to make student loans interest-free for early-career 20-somethings "to help with the rent"
AS DUMB AS A BAG OF HAMMERS.
AS DUMB AS A BAG OF HAMMERS.
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I don’t care. You are literally starving the woman’s state
Canada has what the world wants — the resources, the ambition, and the ideas.
Budget 2025 invests $1.7 billion to attract new talent, catalyse new research, and unlock our full economic potential.
Budget 2025 invests $1.7 billion to attract new talent, catalyse new research, and unlock our full economic potential.
November 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I don’t care. You are literally starving the woman’s state
Mandatory minimum sentences are bad because they force a harsher sentence than what a judge thinks is fair. They are only relevant if they are an unfair punishment.
October 31, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Mandatory minimum sentences are bad because they force a harsher sentence than what a judge thinks is fair. They are only relevant if they are an unfair punishment.
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I think there's this tendency in the Canadian discourse to assume that in any situation where another country is mad at Canada, it must be because Canadians did something wrong.
Probably we need to most past that as the default assumption.
Probably we need to most past that as the default assumption.
October 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I think there's this tendency in the Canadian discourse to assume that in any situation where another country is mad at Canada, it must be because Canadians did something wrong.
Probably we need to most past that as the default assumption.
Probably we need to most past that as the default assumption.
Why does a doctor earning the same salary as a PSW pay more taxes?
October 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Why does a doctor earning the same salary as a PSW pay more taxes?
CRA was too busy to answer the phone 8.6M times last year
October 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
CRA was too busy to answer the phone 8.6M times last year
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“"Canadians are expected to provide their tax returns on time and with accurate information. And I think, in return, they should expect that the Canada Revenue Agency will be available in a timely fashion and provide them with accurate information and I would say this is not the case,”
a man in a suit and tie is asking if he can get an amen ?
Alt: a man in a suit and tie is asking if he can get an amen ?
media.tenor.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
“"Canadians are expected to provide their tax returns on time and with accurate information. And I think, in return, they should expect that the Canada Revenue Agency will be available in a timely fashion and provide them with accurate information and I would say this is not the case,”
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EXCEPT... Toronto doesn't meet the second conditions! Depending on the type of unit, development charges in Toronto are 20-40% higher than they were in April 2024. So they shouldn't qualify!
October 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
EXCEPT... Toronto doesn't meet the second conditions! Depending on the type of unit, development charges in Toronto are 20-40% higher than they were in April 2024. So they shouldn't qualify!
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This particular cycle will happen over and over. Politicians and business types will never be able to resist dogpiling on the latest educational fad, because they never pay a price for being so excessively hubristic as to call the labour market five years out.
Big Tech Told Kids to Code. The Jobs Didn’t Follow.
www.nytimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This particular cycle will happen over and over. Politicians and business types will never be able to resist dogpiling on the latest educational fad, because they never pay a price for being so excessively hubristic as to call the labour market five years out.
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On Thursday, the Climate Institute reported the decline in Canada's GHG emissions had stalled and our 2030 target was no longer reachable.
In the two sessions of Question Period that followed, a total of 82 questions were asked.
Just 3 of those q's — 2 from BQ, 1 from NDP — were about the report.
In the two sessions of Question Period that followed, a total of 82 questions were asked.
Just 3 of those q's — 2 from BQ, 1 from NDP — were about the report.
September 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
On Thursday, the Climate Institute reported the decline in Canada's GHG emissions had stalled and our 2030 target was no longer reachable.
In the two sessions of Question Period that followed, a total of 82 questions were asked.
Just 3 of those q's — 2 from BQ, 1 from NDP — were about the report.
In the two sessions of Question Period that followed, a total of 82 questions were asked.
Just 3 of those q's — 2 from BQ, 1 from NDP — were about the report.
Bank of Canada: Canada's economy is bad so we will lower rates.
Minister of Finance: Great News! Canadians should celebrate!
Minister of Finance: Great News! Canadians should celebrate!
September 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Bank of Canada: Canada's economy is bad so we will lower rates.
Minister of Finance: Great News! Canadians should celebrate!
Minister of Finance: Great News! Canadians should celebrate!