Category: The Libranos

That Sinking Feeling

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My advice to the Conservative Party of Canada: just be patient. Your time in the sun may be coming.

Statistics Canada says the economy stalled in November and early estimates suggest a decline in real gross domestic product for the final quarter of 2025.

November saw manufacturing of durable goods hit its lowest levels since 2011, outside the COVID-19 pandemic.

Update: Even the mainstream financial media is noticing that something is not right.

Canada’s main stock index fell 1,092.61 points or 3.3 per cent on Friday.

Despicable Actions Must Have Consequences

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Today, I received the email shown below from the Juno Beach Centre in France, directing me to this URL.
Here’s what I wrote back to them:

You periodically ask me for donations. I’ve visited your facility before. It’s excellent. It well honours the brave Canadian men who died on June Beach on June 6, 1944 and in the many months afterwards to free Europe of the Nazi scourge.

But in 2022, you besmirched the good names of Tamara Lich, Chris Barber, and the other patriotic folks who protested the ridiculous, seemingly unending Covid mandates imposed by Justin Trudeau and his colleagues. The folks behind the Freedom Trucker Protest have been proven to entirely correct in what they were fighting for, including in several court cases. But you’ve never apologized, sincerely or otherwise.

“Lest we forget” has a special meaning every Remembrance Day. But it has a double meaning for me regarding the Juno Beach Centre. I will never forget, which is why the only donation you’ll ever get from me is disdain. Continue reading →

Unity In Disunity

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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

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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.

Let Them Eat Taser

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Yesterday afternoon around 430pm Alberta time, Tony Olienick walked out of Drumheller Institution, and re-united with the only family he has, his mother Tessie, after suffering nearly four years of incarceration as a political prisoner in the mass gulag camp once known as Canada.

The previous evening he was granted ‘bail on appeal’, something he was denied once already last year, and while he has to live with a number of strictly enforced conditions, somewhat similar to those imposed on Chris Barber and his ‘house arrest’, Tony is almost a free man. His conditions will be fully discharged in June of 2026, when he would have been statutorily released at the end of his sentence. ‘Sentence’ doing a lot of work here for a guy whose only crime was being a loudmouth at a protest…

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WW2 Revisionism?

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Yesterday, a Vancouver acquaintance of mine posted something online criticizing Trump’s recent inflammatory rhetoric that Europeans would be talking German and Japanese now if it weren’t for the Americans. Over the top? Of course. But this Vancouver fellow in his 60’s implied that the Allies were doing just fine fighting the Germans before America got into World War 2. To be clear, Canada contributed greatly, well beyond its relatively small size. A whole lot of brave Canadian lost their lives in this noble fight against the Nazis.

So I privately asked this fellow about what he posted, and whether he truly felt that America’s contribution in WW2 wasn’t needed to achieve victory for the Allies. He said he wasn’t sure and that “we’ll never know”. He also gave me his list of those who deeply contributed to the war effort: Britain, the Soviet Union, Canada, France, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Brazil, & Mexico. I was curious, so I asked Grok to do some research for me.

Here’s the AI’s response.  I’ll leave it to you, dear reader, to decide whether the Vancouver fellow, a huge fan of Trudeau and Carney by the way, was accurate with his summation of WW2.

Update: I went back to AI and asked it to speculate on what would have happened had America not directly got involved in WW2.

Our Chinese-Installed Governor In Ottawa

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Trouble at head office.

The weekend delivered a jolt from Beijing that underscores a theme Chris Meyer and I have explored across multiple podcast discussions: Xi Jinping’s regime can look strong yet be brittle.

China’s Defence Ministry says it has opened investigations into senior military figures including Gen. Zhang Youxia, a vice chairman of the Central Military Commission—an escalation that is shaking the top ranks of the People’s Liberation Army and fuelling fresh questions, inside and outside China, about whether this is an anti-corruption purge, a political power struggle, or both. […]

Chris and I also discuss the obvious: Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new strategic engagement with Beijing, already questionable to many critics of China’s hybrid warfare efforts in the West and especially targeting Canada, now looks increasingly dubious as questions hover over the stability of Xi’s regime.

More: China just took over a Canadian gold mining company in a $5.5 BILLION deal.

Is This Elevator Going Down?

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I’m not so sure that central banks have much of a choice when it comes to cutting interest rates, given the dynamics of fiat currencies with an exponentially growing debt load, but the fact that the mainstream financial media is even publishing Pelletier’s analysis is, in itself, a warning sign.

The issue now is that central banks appear close to implementing yet another round of QE, not to stabilize markets but simply to absorb the massive issuance of government debt. That’s where the real danger emerges: currency debasement. When a central bank prints money to finance deficits, the purchasing power of that currency erodes rapidly.

Now is an ideal time to revisit your portfolio. Start by examining your government bond exposure, especially in jurisdictions such as Canada, where the federal government holds no gold reserves and where 10‑year yields near three per cent offer little compensation for the level of risk.

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