Tag: economy

  • New Rule: The “Hunger Games” Isn’t Supposed to Be a Documentary

    And finally, New Rule: Stop telling me grocery stores have “razor-thin margins.” You know who has razor-thin margins? The single mom in Halton Hills deciding between buying raspberries or paying the hydro bill. That’s a thin margin. If you’re the CEO of Loblaws, and your net profit has tripled in ten years while the rest…

  • The “Buy Canadian” Paradox

    If “Part One” of this review exposed the accounting tricks—relabeling spending as “investment” and redefining debt as “net debt”—then “Part Two” must expose the core economic contradiction that proves the entire narrative is a house of cards. The Carney Government has presented a budget that is fundamentally at war with itself. It is a document…

  • The Truth Behind Budget 2025

    Canada Is Being Told a Feel-Good Story While Standing on a Fiscal Cliff We keep being told to relax. That this budget is bold, visionary, transformational, “generational.” We are expected to believe that everything being spent today is not spending at all — but investment — and that somehow this will all magically pay for…

  • The Single Most Important Reality Check: Canada Cannot Spend Its Way Out of This

    At the end of the day, we could spend 40 pages clinically dissecting line items, amortization tricks, capital v. operational categorization strategies, IMF qualifiers, productivity illusions, and CER fantasy land — but none of it actually matters if Canada cannot support the weight of this spending trajectory. Look at the chart. Deficits are now not…

  • Budget 2025: Ambition, Accounting Alchemy, and the Question Canadians Can’t Ignore

    Prime Minister Mark Carney has unveiled Budget 2025 with the confidence of a man convinced this one document might solve our external tariff threats, domestic housing crisis, and a persistent productivity stall. The branding alone is dramatic: “Canada Strong.” The pitch is that this is a generational turning point budget—a massive $280 billion in targeted…

  • Canada Budget Review Part One

    Unmasking the Budget’s Shell Game: Operational Spending’s Sneaky Side-Step to “Capital” Preamble….Diving into the 2025 Federal Budget: A Page-by-Page Autopsy (Because Someone Has to)Alright, fellow Canucks – I’ve cracked open the 2025 Federal Budget like it’s a mystery novel, but instead of whodunits, it’s who-didn’t-see-this-fiscal-fireworks-show-coming. Plan: I’m reading it page by page, and whenever I…

  • Canada’s Debt Chart: The Great Fiscal Magician’s Hat Trick

    Folks, if you’re Canadian and you’ve just cracked open the latest federal budget—like, the one that dropped today, November 4, 2025, with all the subtlety of a moose in a china shop—you might have seen that shiny bar graph. You know the one: “Canada’s Strong Fiscal Position Enables Us to Respond to Global Challenges.” And…

  • Are You Kidding Me? Another Budget, Another Fairy Tale.

    Good evening, Canada! And for those of you tuning in from the Finance Minister’s office, wipe that self-satisfied smirk off your face, because we’re about to dive into your little game. Tomorrow, Canadians will be subjected to the annual spectacle known as the Federal Budget. And if the pre-game hype is any indication – all…

  • Carney’s Sermon on the Mount(ain of Debt): How Liberals Are Turning Canada into a Broke Cousin Nobody Wants at the Family BBQ

    Ah, Canada—our polite, maple-syrup-soaked paradise, where the biggest drama used to be whether Tim Hortons runs out of double-doubles on a holiday.But lately? It’s like watching a slow-motion train wreck directed by a committee of drunk uncles: the Liberal government, under the slick-suited Mark Carney, preaching “sacrifices” while rifling through your wallet like it’s an…

  • “Carney’s ‘Swing for the Fences’: Liberals’ Generational Investment Gamble Risks Canada’s Debt Crisis

    The Generational Curse: Ottawa’s Fiscal Mirage In the shadowed corridors of Ottawa, where the air grows thick with the scent of desperation, the Liberal government under Prime Minister Mark Carney is whispering a seductive mantra: “generational investment.” He delivered this line—and the even more audacious “swing for the fences”—at a pre-budget speech to a rapt…