On a recent trip to Golf Town I noticed that new clubs are now locked in place so you have to get a clerk to get one out for you to examine. How long will it be before grocery stores are doing the same thing for steaks and roasts?
Police in Richmond, B.C., are investigating after a series of meat thefts from retail stores that they say may be “organized” crime.
RCMP say that there have been 39 cases of reported theft of meat from stores across the city since December.
The same @CityofRegina stripping hundreds of millions from their taxpayers for a swimming pool vanity project. https://t.co/Jcpi9mUKEE
— Katewerk (@katewerk) March 18, 2026
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.
2. Canada is now a net importer of electricity.
/3 pic.twitter.com/M07s5P2nab— Heather Exner-Pirot (@ExnerPirot) March 16, 2026
Threadrolled here.
I imagine that most Cubans aren’t so fiercely proud of their revolution now.
Cuba’s electrical grid suffered a total collapse on Monday, the country’s power operator said, marking the latest nationwide blackout in recent years, and the first since the US effectively shut off the flow of oil to Cuba.
Ron Butler asks the tough question: are the problems in Canada’s private credit market an indication of a financial contagion?
We have Easy Financial. The stock price fell 50% in one day. Is this the private credit contagion?
Um, they’re restating earnings from over a year ago. What? What? What? What sense does that make?
I think something is wrong because you don’t want to see the CEO of a independent financial lending organization both quit within the same two year period.
“This land ♬ was your land, but now it’s ♫ our land…“
Kristi Noem is out as of tonight as head of Homeland Security.
The decision to replace Kristi Noem as Department of Homeland Security secretary came together quickly, and the timing of President Trump’s announcement caught many across DHS off guard, even as tensions had been building for weeks between Noem and the White House, according to senior White House and DHS officials.
“$9,000 for every single Canadian family of four across the country”
Construction of regional high speed rail is a $90 billion catastrophe for taxpayers, says an MP whose constituency is on the route. Conservative MP Scott Reid (Lanark-Frontenac, Ont.) yesterday warned of “ruined lives” and wasted billions as the Commons passed the High Speed Rail Network Act: ‘Why on earth should people in British Columbia, Alberta or Newfoundland pay for this?’
$100 billion of Canada Pension Funds invested in India. pic.twitter.com/ub5zTjFZTA
— Ivano Defazio 🇨🇦🇮🇹🇺🇸 (@DefazioIvano) March 2, 2026
… the economy capped off a volatile year with a contraction in the final quarter of 2025.
The agency said Friday that real gross domestic product declined 0.6 per cent on an annualized basis in the fourth quarter, falling short of expectations from the Bank of Canada and most economists for flat growth. Real GDP per capita was unchanged in the fourth quarter.
Here’s hoping that Javier Milei’s labor market reforms continue to gain traction. Notice how the news item is framed in such a way as to draw no connection between the undeserved power of Peronist labor unions and “frequent economic shocks”.
The bill, which grants employers greater flexibility in matters of hiring, firing, severance and collective bargaining, has drawn fierce opposition from labor unions and their Peronist allies, who argue it would roll back measures that protect workers from abuse and Argentina’s notoriously frequent economic shocks.
If John Risley typifies the mindset of the business community in this country, we’re all done for.
He sold the company in 2021 for $1 billion. But instead of enjoying his money in retirement, he kept backing massive projects with global ambitions, including a stalled wind-powered hydrogen energy operation in western Newfoundland.
Risley was in Ottawa in December to drum up support for a deepwater port in the Arctic.
Under the increasing interest rates, the US$250-million loan inflated into a debt reaching nearly US$1 billion, the documents said. CFFI planned to sell off a few major investments and pay off the debt, but the sales never happened, the papers said.
Money has to be the most marketable commodity, not lines of code on a hard drive. Investors in the latter are finding that out the hard way.
Bitcoin is now down 24% this year and remains roughly 47% below its October all-time high.
The largest failure so far this year has been Blockfills, a midsize prime broker that halted deposits and withdrawals earlier this month amid the decline in bitcoin prices.
Canada's condo crash "Condo prices are still plummeting in parts of this country and it's causing major money troubles for people who bought in early."
"…No one escapes. Every single person is closing on a unit that they bought five years ago that's worth less than what they… pic.twitter.com/AbZ3IjSDjd
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) February 23, 2026
Now, factor in the crash coming to vacation condos in Mexico.
Home sales are plunging, particularly in Ontario, because no one is ever eager to sell below their expectations and/or at a loss. But buyers are in the driver’s seat now, and when the dam breaks we can sit back and watch the fire sales.
Canada’s real estate market opened 2026 in a slump, as national home sales fell 5.8 per cent month-over-month in January, while actual, non-seasonally adjusted transactions were down 16.2 per cent from a year earlier…
P.E.I. has the highest food inflation rate in the country at 10.1%, followed by Newfoundland and Nova Scotia at 9.2%. Quebec has the lowest, at 5.4%.
— The Food Professor (@FoodProfessor) February 17, 2026
Let them eat Chow Mein.
I thought this AI thing was all win/win.
Cisco Systems dropped 12.3% despite likewise topping analysts’ expectations for profit and revenue last quarter. The tech giant indicated that it may make less profit off each $1 of revenue during the current quarter than it did in the past quarter.
More broadly, questions are rising about whether businesses that are spending heavily on AI will end up seeing high-enough profits and productivity to make the investments worth it.
If some of the AI generated nonsense I’ve run across lately is going to become commonplace, it’s little wonder that investors are getting skittish.
Amazon.com shares slid 9% on Friday after the company outlined a planned $200 billion capital outlay for the year, stoking investor concerns about the scale of Big Tech’s spending on artificial intelligence.
Are we headed for what some are calling the Dead Internet Theory?
But the dead internet theory goes even further. Many of the accounts that engage with such content also appear to be managed by artificial intelligence agents. This creates a vicious cycle of artificial engagement, one that has no clear agenda and no longer involves humans at all.
Statistics Canada reported the country lost 25,000 jobs in January, with the “decrease” in unemployment driven by Canadians giving up and dropping out of the labour market altogether.
