Tag: politics

  • 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…

  • 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 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…

  • 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…