To celebrate today’s supreme court decision.
The Truckers were right. pic.twitter.com/2ZbViyYzob
— Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker (@Martyupnorth) January 16, 2026
Shameless Plug for Gord Magill’s new book ‘End of the Road’. Buy a copy and upset Mark Carney’s New World Order.
And of course the we need to hear from Tamara and Big Red on the only Canadian news source with any integrity.
Now that the governing party is in disarray, maybe there’s hope for a solidly positive yes vote in a referendum.
Quebec Premier François Legault announced Wednesday that he would resign after more than seven years in power, triggering a leadership race and further upending the province’s political landscape with only months to go before the fall provincial election.
I look forward to hearing the boy from Waldeck Saskatchewan telling Mark Carney to go F@&K himself…
🚨BREAKING: The UK Government is working with Canada and Australia to launch a coordinated ban on X
— GB Politics (@GBPolitcs) January 10, 2026
Dan Knight- Canada’s Labour Market Starts to Crack
The most important number isn’t jobs created. It’s people who couldn’t find work. In December, the number of unemployed Canadians jumped by 73,000 in a single month. The unemployment rate rose from 6.5 per cent in November to 6.8 per cent. That move alone wipes out much of the progress made in the fall and tells you the labour market isn’t tightening. It’s loosening.
Wab Kinew, Manitoba’s NDP Premier, is running out of other people’s money.
A doubled deficit on life support
The mid year fiscal update now pegs Manitoba’s deficit at about $1.6 billion, more than double the $794 million shortfall forecast in the spring budget. What was supposed to be contained has blown wide open, blamed on “faster than expected spending” and a familiar parade of “one offs” from fires to droughts to floods, disasters that somehow recur in one form or another every year.
This follows a $1.2 billion deficit in 2024 25, roughly $800 million worse than projected in the previous budget; this is not bad luck, it is awful planning. Taxes and fees, including education property taxes, are coming in higher than expected, so the government is running enormous deficits even while digging deeper into a decreasing base of taxpayers’ pockets.
New federal figures show Manitoba set to receive just over $5 billion in equalization in the upcoming fiscal year, up about 7.5 per cent from roughly $4.68 billion and about double what the province received in 2020. Manitoba is the only western province dependent on equalization and, after Quebec, its second largest user in gross terms.
On a per capita basis, Manitoba far surpasses Quebec and is the largest, or one of the largest recipients of federal transfer payments. In other words, we are Canada’s biggest welfare recipients and have been for years. This is a choice that should be unacceptable to Manitobans for ourselves and for our children…
From Minnesota to managed decline
Manitoba did not always underperform. In the 1960s, its growth rates were comparable to similar sized jurisdictions like neighbouring Minnesota. The divergence that began in the 1970s, coincides with Manitobans repeatedly electing socialist NDP governments, embedding command and control economic thinking in policy and driving the province off the path its US peers followed.
The comparative numbers today are stark. In 2022–23, Minnesota’s GDP per capita sits around 78,000 US dollars, with Iowa and Kansas in the low 70,000 dollar range and South Dakota above 74,000. Manitoba, by contrast, is about 46,800 US dollars per person, roughly 40 per cent below Minnesota and far behind most Mid-Western States.
In fairness, Wab Kinew is not the only incompetent NDP leader…
The sheer magnitude of this taxpayer largess boggles the mind. And yet many reserves are without potable water. My guess is that most of the money is going to lawyers and “consultants”. It’s long past the point where this needs to stop, but a population browbeaten by the residential school mythology seems tragically incapable of raising any objections.
When the Liberals first took power in 2015, their own estimates showed that total federal government spending on what they deemed “Indigenous priorities” was about $11 billion. Within 10 years, this had nearly tripled. By 2024, internal Department of Finance estimates were showing that planned “investments in Indigenous Priorities” were set to hit $32 billion.
Put another way, it would take Manitoba’s entire annual economic activity just to cover the increase in federal Indigenous spending since 2014.
More evidence that Canada is not a serious country. Given that Crown Royal is distilled in Gimli, Ford’s decision effectively imposes economic sanctions on Manitoba.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says to “stock up” on Crown Royal, confirming he plans to strip the Canadian whisky from the shelves of the LCBO in retaliation for a planned plant closure.
It said bottling at the factory intended for the U.S. market will be shifting stateside, while bottling for Canadian consumers will relocate to its Valleyfield, Que., location.
We can’t be considered a serious country when the airline regulator stipulates the exact number of weekly flights a foreign carrier can offer out of Canada. And people still wonder why Canadian air fares are punishingly expensive.
Ottawa is loosening restrictions on the number of flights coming from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates after past diplomatic spats had limited flights.
Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon announced the government is expanding air transport agreements to allow as many as 14 passenger flights per week from Saudi Arabia — up from four. The latest deal also includes as many as 35 passenger flights a week from the U.A.E., up from a maximum of 21. Plus unlimited cargo flights from both countries.
And they would like you to join them on the fainting couch.
Globe and Mail- The Sunday Editorial: Venezuela’s fate is a warning for Canada
The motivation is simple, and ancient: empire. Saturday marked the formal debut of an imperial America, led by a president who recognizes no law, save that of the jungle. Already, Mr. Trump is turning his attention elsewhere, saying in an interview Saturday that “something’s going to have to be done with Mexico.”
Every country in the Western Hemisphere should be worried, particularly this country, which Mr. Trump so obviously covets as a 51st state.
Here is @scottadamssays explaining how the College of Psychologists of Ontario couldn’t find anyone in the entire country to re-educate Jordan Peterson.
Star Phoenix- Why it took Trump to challenge Canada’s dairy orthodoxy
A joint Dalhousie University–McGill University study estimates that Canadian dairy farmers discard anywhere from hundreds of millions to as much as one billion litres of milk each year, not because of food safety concerns, but to prevent oversupply and maintain elevated prices.
Who knew that Canada’s problems are the result of not paying people enough not to work?
At the heart of the issue, he said, is Canada’s eroded social safety net, particularly employment insurance (EI), which, along with other social programs, isn’t keeping up with today’s economy.
EI benefits have mostly stayed the same in value and replace roughly 55 per cent of a person’s wages. The benefits are higher than in the United States, but they lag far behind European countries such as Denmark, where they replace 90 per cent of a person’s wages, the Netherlands (70 per cent) and Sweden (80 per cent).
The Food Professor has some predictions for Canadian agricultural policy in 2026. Here’s hoping that we’ll see moves to either liberalize or end our supply mismanagement system.
Even if the United States has little genuine interest in exporting more dairy to Canada – and even if Canadian consumers show limited appetite for it – President Trump now understands, far better than during his first term, that supply management is a potent political wedge.
The system protects roughly 9,400 dairy farmers who exert disproportionate influence over agricultural policy, while compensation payments continue to flow without any meaningful reduction in production or market share. For a growing number of Canadians, this arrangement increasingly resembles a closed loop rather than a public good.
An ever growing number of Canadians are unable to tell the difference between someone who is actually competent and a run of the mill conman.
Western Standard- The death of merit and how Canada lost its compass.
The decline of merit is the story of modern Canada. It began as a slow corrosion under Justin Trudeau, whose rise was fuelled by name recognition and emotional politics rather than achievement. It deepened under Chrystia Freeland, who turned fiscal management into performance art. And it has continued under Mark Carney, whose credentials might suggest competence but whose actions have proven the opposite. These are not isolated examples; they are milestones on a national journey away from merit and toward mediocrity.
It’s probably not a good idea to “stand firm” when your feet are in quicksand.
As Canada approaches a review of its key free trade deal with the United States next year, Unifor national president Lana Payne says it’s important to stand firm for a good deal. Payne said it’s important to play hardball, and not allow tariffs to be legitimized in any form. Instead, Canada needs to hold out and let the “self-inflicted wounds” of tariffs create pressure instead.
“We’re seeing that now in the United States where their economy is suffering and worsening by the day,” Payne said in a Dec. 19 interview.
Nothing says destruction of capital like pumping carbon dioxide 400 kilometers and then forcing it into the earth.
“Alberta specifically is a really great confluence of all the right factors coming together to give Canada a chance to lead in this ecosystem,” said Cameron Halliday, co-founder of Cambridge, Mass.-based Mantel Capture.
Mantel is not disclosing the cost of the project at this time. It is receiving support from Alberta Innovates, a provincial Crown corporation.
MLI- The Provincial Productivity Crisis
-Public sector size has grown in every province, with health care being the main driver.
-The efficiency of public services – how much value we get per dollar spent – has fallen everywhere. Manitoba saw the largest drop in productivity, while Alberta saw the smallest decline.
A lot more needs to fall into place before Quebec independence is a done deal, but with any luck we may finally bring decades of frustrating indecision to a solid conclusion.
But the immolation of the Quebec Liberals only solidifies the likelihood that the Parti Québécois will sweep the province’s 2026 election. Once in power, PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon has promised he will be pulling out all the stops to hold a third referendum on secession from Canada. Quebec’s incumbent government, led by the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) under François Legault, is currently plumbing new depths of unpopularity.