Tag: news

  • BRIEFING: The 72-Minute End of the World

    The Reality of the Numbers Most people think nuclear war is something from the movies or the distant past. It is not. Right now, the United States has approximately 1,770 nuclear weapons ready to launch in less than 60 seconds. Russia has roughly the same amount. These are not just bombs; they are world-enders. We…

  • THE CAPITAL SHELL GAME

    There is a very old trick in politics:when you can’t actually shrink government… you just rename the growth. That’s exactly what Mark Carney is doing here. He is standing on podiums bragging — not subtly — that he is “reducing operational spending”, while at the SAME moment manufacturing an explosion of brand new federal agencies,…

  • New Rule: Yachts for the Yachtsmen, Crumbs for the Rest of Us

    Alright, folks, buckle up, because tonight I’m channeling my inner Canadian rage—eh?—and it’s aimed square at that silver-spooned sorcerer of the global elite, Mark Carney. You know Mark? The guy who used to run the Bank of England like it was his personal yacht club, who jets around Davos preaching about climate Armageddon while sipping…

  • 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…

  • 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…