Here is @scottadamssays explaining how the College of Psychologists of Ontario couldn’t find anyone in the entire country to re-educate Jordan Peterson.
Getting Milked
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.
Worth Every Penny
Bad Advice
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).
Protected Class No More?
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.
Fake It, So You Can Make It
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.
Delusional Advice
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.
Keynesian Dreams
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.
Great Success!
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.
Here’s Hoping…
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.
Going To The Dogs
At first glance, I thought I was looking at a parody account. But it’s a real thing, complete with a central figure who seems to be channeling Timothy Treadwell.
The non-profit Vancouver Foundation is one of B.C.’s oldest charitable contributors, and in its most recently updated list of grant recipients, it lists a $300,000 grant for a “Decolonial Dog Sanctuary,” a project described as a “form of land-based re-occupation.”
The sanctuary’s overseer is Teresa Brown, who lives on site and is described in Vancouver Foundation grant documents as a “Wilp Matriarch and Hereditary Representative of the territory.”
Brown has said she had limited knowledge of dog care before starting the sanctuary, but believed that aggressive dogs could “evolve into versions of themselves that thirst again for love.”
Dairy Farmers Uber Alles!
It’s no surprise that the US sees Canadian supply mismanagement as a major trade irritant; I sincerely hope they don’t back down in trade talks this time around.
Washington’s trade representative says a coming review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico trade deal will hinge on resolving concerns about Canadian policies on dairy products, alcohol and digital services.
Like clockwork, the water carriers for Big Dairy are falling in line:
Carney said Canada has been clear about its intention to protect the supply management of agricultural products. “We continue to stand by that,” he said at a news conference in Ottawa with Ontario Premier Doug Ford.
The Numbers Game
It’s pretty hard to believe that a deficit could be literally twice what you estimated in the space of a few months, but Wab’s got one thing one his side: average John Q. Manitoba voter probably couldn’t care less. They just want the free stuff to keep coming.
The Manitoba government’s deficit for the current fiscal year is expected to reach $1.6 billion, more than double the $794 million estimated in the spring budget, the province’s second-quarter report released Monday showed.
Tax Me Harder Baby
Sun- Canada should stop taxing food altogether
Ending the GST/HST on all food is one of the simplest, fairest and most effective measures the federal government can take immediately
National Disunity
While some aboriginal communities welcome the prospect of roads and mines in the so-called Ring of Fire zone in Ontario, some clearly don’t. They prefer to live in a “pristine” wilderness that for some reason is not pristine enough to provide clean drinking water for thirty years.
The province has released a Ring of Fire ad that uses Ford’s slogan from the 2025 election: “Protect Ontario” and makes a sales pitch on development. “What about protect Neskantaga?” Marcus Moonias says. “I’m so mad about it.”
“I almost threw my television at the wall,” he says about the commercial.
Bigger dreams are starting to enter Mamakwa’s mind. He thinks one day a First Nation political party could hold the balance of power in Ottawa, like a Bloc Québécois of the north.
Dispatches from the Maple Gulag Truck Stop
Bankruptcies abound, yet the Mark Carney’s job numbers show a huge increase in transportation and warehousing? I am starting to think the job numbers are prepared by the same people who said Mark Carney would win by a landslide in Alberta. Trucking News reports on bankruptcies in Canada and Freightwaves reports on US bankruptcies, so any news of growth in the industry is highly suspicious. Several months ago Gord Magill reported on the financial chinanery in the trucking industry
Sonar truck freight index shows an 11% decrease this year after several years of decreases. Yet somehow we are supposed to believe the economy is adding jobs when trucking is failing, construction jobs are down and housing sales are flat? Something stinks in the state of Denmark.
Predictable Behavior
With the Bloc Quebecois now falling into line with its ideological soulmates on the west coast, how much life is left in the Memorandum Of Understanding?
Blanchet offered his help to B.C. last week — seeing that the MOU was negotiated without the province’s input and offers to relax key climate policies such as the tanker ban — and Eby’s team and his quickly came into contact to coordinate a virtual meeting.
Blanchet said they quickly agreed that, on certain subjects, they were on the same page.
Great Success!
Protection Racket
Hardly a week has passed since the memorandum of understanding with Alberta, and already the Libs are laying the groundwork for endless “unavoidable” delays. At this rate, I don’t know why Guilbeault found it necessary to quit caucus at all.
On his way into a cabinet meeting Tuesday morning, the former minister of Crown-Indigenous relations told reporters he sees a difficult road ahead for any pipeline project.
“If everyone thought Thursday was difficult, that was probably the easiest day in the life of that pipeline,” Miller said.
Let’s Pretend…
National Post- Canada’s delusional quest to replace U.S. trade
Canada’s prosperity has been disproportionately owed to the fact that it happens to sit atop the most powerful economy in human history