Making History
This is not the kind of history that any level of government should be making. But I guess it’s okay, as long as we call the spending “investment”.
The New Brunswick government says its investments in health care have helped push the budget into a record deficit. Introduced on Tuesday, the budget’s $1.4-billion deficit is the largest in the province’s history, according to Finance Department staff.
Speaking of investments…
The federal government is putting $200 million toward a Canadian-owned launch pad so it can send satellites into orbit without the assistance of other nations or other foreign third parties.
Carney’s Canada
The Food Professor- What many Canadians may not realize is how deeply our country relies on rules and regulations. While regulation is necessary, the sheer volume has become problematic.
According to Statistics Canada, federal regulatory restrictions increased by 37% between 2006 and 2021. This surge has been linked to a 1.7-percentage-point decline in GDP growth, along with decreases in business investment, productivity, employment, and the rate of new business formation.
The Hub- It’s time to rein in Canada’s red tape state: DeepDive
Ontario Is For The Birds
Where would society be without the Chimney Swift and the derelict industrial chimneys that they call home? How dare those evil contractors disturb a nesting site!!
Marble Arch and Adam Watson significantly damaged the chimney’s function as a habitat for the Chimney Swift by carrying out demolition work during the birds’ migratory season, and by leaving a large hole in the side of the chimney for the remainder of the 2020 season.
Circling The Drain
Is the federal NDP a political party or a suicide pact?
… the all-anglophone field stumbled through November’s French debate in Montreal. Interim leader Don Davies even jokingly called the Franglais-filled evening a morale booster for the Bloc Québécois.
Activist and filmmaker Avi Lewis comes into the debate as the clear frontrunner…. He’s also driven much of the conversation with progressive proposals like a public option for groceries, national wealth tax for the top one per cent of Canadians and a so-called Green New Deal to transition fossil-fuel workers to sustainable industries.
Circling The Drain
It’s probably not a good idea to stick a thumb in the eye of your biggest trading partner over Cuba, but what else would you expect from the NDP? Failed political parties tend to have a lot in common with failed states.
Last week in the House of Commons, NDP interim leader Don Davies urged the government to “support Cuba in the face of aggressive U.S. imperialism,” arguing this would give heft to Carney’s speech at the World Economic Forum that urged middle powers to stand up to intimidation by superpowers.
Canada
Where multiple public policy failures come together in ways you could never imagine.
CTV- Father of Tumbler Ridge victim prepares to bury son in Zambia
Bloviating Blowhard
While Dougie is trying to paint his climb down as a win, it’s very likely that Diageo would have spent this money in exactly the same way had there been no kerfuffle over the Ontario plant closure in the first place.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Crown Royal will remain on liquor store shelves in the province after its parent company agreed to $23 million in spending in Ontario.
The Left Coast
Getting What They Voted For
CTV- More than half of British Columbians fear for their safety, survey suggests
The survey found 73 per cent of those polled said crime and violence are impacting their quality of life, and 37 per cent said they’ve been the victim of a recent crime.
One Step Forward, Six Steps Back
It didn’t take long for Carney to get out the EV subsidy shovel again.
Speaking at an auto parts manufacturer in Woodbridge, Ont., Prime Minister Mark Carney said Ottawa is restoring the rebate program with $2.3 billion to help Canadians cover the cost of a new EV, and $1.5 billion for EV infrastructure like charging stations.
Ottawa will offer $5,000 toward the cost of a new EV and $2,500 toward plug-in hybrids. Those rebates will decrease every year until they’re phased out after 2030 — or until the money for the program runs out.
Or rather, until the government goes bankrupt.
Unity In Disunity
The cheery facade belies the deep divide that actually exists within “Team Canada”.
Eby said later that Alberta has yet to identify sites where a pipeline would exit, it has not yet identified a proponent who would fund it, nor engaged with coastal First Nations.
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew has also protested Ford’s plans to pull Crown Royal whisky from government-run liquor store shelves. The product is made in Gimli, Man.
Ford said he understands Kinew is “doing what any other premier would do, try to protect his jobs,” while Ontario is doing the same.
That Sinking Feeling
If Carney’s polling numbers hold up, a spring election is a distinct possibility, and a Liberal majority would be the likely outcome. The reason is simple enough: once again, NDP and Bloc voters are stampeding to the Liberals. Inevitably, some will suggest that the Tories reinvent themselves to appeal to the left, but a string of electoral defeats with Red Tories at the helm points to the futility of that gambit. If that’s the best conservatives could do, why have a conservative party at all?
From coast to coast, Léger finds Mark Carney’s Liberals at 47% support among decided voters, up four points since Léger’s previous poll back in December. And this newfound support for the Liberals does not come at the expense of the Conservatives, who sit at 38%, themselves up two points.
When You Separate Authority from Responsibility
Because They Care So Deeply…
It is no secret that JFK interfered with the 1963 Canadian Federal election.
But did you know why?
Kennedy was keen to draw Canada deeper into the American sphere. Diefenbaker, who held the more traditional attachment to Britain, balked at the invitation to join the Organization of American States.
Diefenbaker would not allow American nuclear warheads on Canadian soil and Pearson would.
The first US nuclear-armed missiles arrived in Canada on December 31, 1963. These were CIM-10 Bomarc surface-to-air interceptor missiles, which were equipped with nuclear warheads and deployed to Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) stations in North Bay, Ontario, and La Macaza, Quebec.
all U.S. nuclear weapons were removed from Canadian soil by 1984, …with the final nuclear-tipped Genie missiles leaving Canadian bases in July 1984…
The Liberals were willing to do anything to win the 1963 election, even sell out Canada’s sovereignty and security to a foreign nation. The placement of US nuclear warheads on Canadian soil made Canada a potential battleground in a Nuclear war between the United States and Russia.
Diversities Learing?
Rather than shovel ever more taxpayer dollars at administratively bloated post-secondary institutions, why not privatize them so they are free to allocate resources based on actual demand from employers? Otherwise, they’ll just continue to give gender studies the same priority as engineering.
Ontario’s universities and colleges are looking for billion-dollar funding boosts in the province’s upcoming budget, investments they are framing as critical to Premier Doug Ford’s plan to “protect Ontario” from tariff impacts by strengthening domestic capabilities.
The Council of Ontario Universities says in its pre-budget submission that its institutions are at “a breaking point” and they are calling for an additional $1.2 billion in operating funding next year, with that amount increasing to $1.6 billion by 2028-29.
Related (from Kate): Up to 25 percent of U.S. colleges may close soon, Brandeis president warns
Dispatches from the Maple Gulag Truck Stop
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.
Quelle Surprise
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.
Great Success!
Canada’s Bolsheviks
I look forward to hearing the boy from Waldeck Saskatchewan telling Mark Carney to go F@&K himself…
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