Like selling ice to Eskimos, but at a higher price and with limited store hours;
New Brunswick’s Crown-owned cannabis retailer is recording a big financial loss in its first year in operation. Unaudited year-end results released Tuesday show Cannabis NB lost $11.7 million. […]
General manager Lara Wood says the government knew there would be challenges but is confident objectives including reducing the illicit market and creating public awareness are being met.
As if.
h/t Bob
Well, this is good news! The government says you can borrow more money.
The federal government is poised to announce an expansion of an agricultural loan guarantee program in response to the canola market crisis. https://t.co/MdGZWIH2qn @CBCKatie
— CBC News (@CBCNews) May 1, 2019
It’s a “scientific-based disagreement”, according to Trudeau. So, here’s some advice for Canadian farmers — you might change the name of your crop to “Bombardier”.
“He just crawled out the window again with that answer.”
They’re getting the DPA.
Update… it’s as though they have someone on the inside.
"Despite the evidence collected by investigators, the Commissioner of Canada Elections decided not to bring charges against the company" https://t.co/pR3vHmwnDL
— Rachel Curran (@reicurran) April 30, 2019
They all look alike to him.
Selling ice to Eskimos, at a higher price and with controlled access: Marijuana Sales in Canada Are Going Nowhere Fast, Analysts Say
Was the letter from the Shiny Pony to Sheer sent on April 1st?
Return of the Mole: Trudeau Uses Photo Of Forest Fire Caused By Wind Turbine Construction Project To Sell His Carbon Tax Scam
h/t Davis
Hopefully, more government hiring can turn this around: Canadian economy lost 7,200 jobs in March
A loss of 6,400 full-time jobs made up the bulk of last month’s decrease, Statistics Canada said. The number of employee positions in the private sector fell by 17,300 last month, while public-employee jobs increased by 4,200 and self-employed occupations rose by 6,000.
BONUS JUXTAPOSE: US added 196,000 jobs in March, vs 175,000 expected
(h/t Ed)
Now is the time at SDA when we swagger!
Swagger, May 2018: “No, we will not apologize for swaggering when it comes to talking about Canada and being confident in the future we are building together.”
Stagger, April 2019: The fallout from Saudi Arabia’s move to punish Canadian companies was felt within a month of the countries’ sudden diplomatic feud last summer, leading to visa rejections, a government ban on food from Canada and a blockage of shipments at the kingdom’s ports.
h/t James
Port Elgin – in the news.
Layoffs at Fiat Chrysler plant in Windsor will affect 1,500 jobs.
Wait, I thought it was all Scott Brison’s fault.
The usual anonymous sources are now whispering to reporters that the reason Jody Wilson-Raybould was fired as minister of justice and attorney general in January had nothing to do with her refusal to kill the prosecution of a Liberal-friendly firm in a province critical to the party’s election chances, as the prime minister and a phalanx of top officials had pressured her to do. No, according to reports by Canadian Press and CTV, it was because of her pick for a judicial appointment. […]
Several points are worth noting about this obviously deliberate leak. One is the casual violation of the very confidentiality provisions that are supposedly so sacred to Trudeau that he cannot fully release Wilson-Raybould, even today, from their clutches.
The second is the willingness, in the service of undermining the credibility of the former attorney general, to smear not only her — apparently in addition to being “difficult” and “in it for Jody,” she’s a crazed social conservative — but a sitting judge.
Sounds cordial.
Next: HERE COMES DA JUDGE!
Update!
Q: Did your office leak the info about Judge Joyal and JWR?
PMJT: Avoids answering the question directly.#cdnpoli #polcan— Christian Noël – SRC (@CNoelSRC) March 26, 2019
They had to ask?
“There’s much more to the story that should be told.”
This is Philpott’s first interview since she resigned over Trudeau’s handling of the SNC-Lavalin controversy. She believes, as she put it, that “there’s much more to the story that needs to be told” but that it can’t come out because “there’s been an attempt to shut down the story”—an attempt she attributed to the Prime Minister and his close advisors.
But she is also keenly aware, because she has been hearing from Liberal colleagues, that “there are people who are afraid that they’re not going to get elected because of what I did.” As she described that anger, the former minister said: “My only way of living with myself on that, is that this is not my fault. I did not start this.” Now she is trying to figure out how to see it through.
Update: Grab a chocolate bar, and bask in his éloquence.
In the 2015 election, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised he’d run “modest” deficits for a few years, then balance the budget in 2019.
The prime minister just released the 2019 budget. It wasn’t what he promised. And it’s worth counting the ways in which he misled Canadians in the process of breaking that promise.
First of all, there was the justification for running deficits. The economy was weak, went his argument, so we must spend to boost it. What’s more: Nothing gives a better boost than building infrastructure and the deficits will pay for it!
But then a strange thing happened.
The overall economy picked up soon after the Trudeau government came to office — the government gleefully took credit for the turn — and yet the deficits have continued each year anyway. Suddenly, the old argument was gone and a new one had appeared in its place: Economic times are good so we can afford to run deficits!
More: SQUANDERED INHERITANCE.
@JesseBrown – Details of the government’s newspaper bailout are here, and it’s all much worse than I predicted.
Who needs a pipeline, when money flows in rivers from Ottawa?
Members of southern Alberta’s Blood Tribe voted in favour of a multi-million-dollar settlement claim on Tuesday regarding a century-old dispute about cattle management.
They will be receiving $150 million from the federal government as compensation for losses the Blood Tribe suffered in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
Three-thousand-fifteen eligible voters cast their votes with 2,966 voting in favour of the deal and 49 against.
I’ll assume the 49 thought it wasn’t enough.
Update: Check the comments for more on the litigious history of this band.