Good news for that guy in Calgary who fleeced City of Saskatoon out of $300K for three plastic rocks.
The Libranos: Property Management
THE CONDO KING IS SO BACK: Foreign Buyers Ban LIFTED
Unexpectedly
Have some juxtapose with your morning coffee.
Hiring was unexpectedly strong in October, when employers added workers at a vigorous pace.
Employers added 165,000 jobs last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, and the unemployment rate dropped to 4.1 percent.
🇨🇦 Canada shed -4.7K jobs in October, with a massive decline in the private sector (down ~52K, first drop since February). The public sector gained ~49K. Unemployment edged up to 6.7% (from 6.5%). Forecasts were calling for a gain of +15K, so this is a disappointment. Long-term joblessness (i.e. looking for work 27 weeks or more) is now up to 23.7% (from 21.5% a year ago). Average hourly wages were +2% from a year ago, down from 2.3%. Overall a weak report on the labor market in Canada.
The Libranos: The Fat Lady Singhs
Just in case you thought we could still vote your way out of this mess.
What Did Canadians Drive Before Horses?
The largest investment by Quebec taxpayers in the battery sector is at risk. Nemaska Lithium, a project that received 1.2 billion dollars in public funds, is likely to lack funding to continue the construction of its Bécancour plant.
According to information obtained by our Bureau of Investigation, workers have left the construction site in the Trois-Rivières region in the last few days.
“We are starting to close construction activities and demobilize contractors,” says a source familiar with the matter. […]
The largest shareholder of Nemaska Lithium is the Australian-British company Rio Tinto, which owns more than 53.9% of the project.
Behind the scenes, Rio Tinto recently raised doubts about its ability to continue to finance the construction of the plant in 2027 and 2028.
“There is still 12 months of work and $500 million to be injected into the construction for the plant to be completed,” says one informant.
Another win for our strategic partner.
Coulda Had A Pipeline
Chief Big Screen TV, LLP: Lawyers set for ‘generational wealth’ as First Nations sue over Pacific Link pipeline
Good And Hard
By-elections are coming my hungries, so put up or shut up.
The Salvation Army’s 2026 Poverty and Socioeconomic Analysis found 31 per cent of the 1,500 Canadians surveyed skipped meals or reduced portion sizes because they couldn’t afford groceries. This is up from 27 per cent last year.
The number turning to community supports, including food banks, also rose from 11 per cent to 15 per cent this year.
Coudes Vers Le Bas!*
If your nation’s alleged goal is to somehow “show those Americans who’s boss”, news like this probably won’t do much for your credibility. In any case, someone should let Blubber Dougie know before he opens his trap again.
Hydro-Québec has released a report suggesting it may need to import electricity from neighbouring provinces or the United States within the next three years.
The utility expects this demand could cause it to face energy deficits as early as 2029.
*Elbows Down!
Letter To The Office Of One Hundred Dollar Fines
This sounds serious: Dear Commissioner Von Finckenstein...
Coulda Had A Pipeline
Rug, pulled.
Mark Carney gave Danielle Smith a pipeline promise in October.
In November, she got the lawsuits. Ten of them.
Ottawa’s "fast track" looks an awful lot like the old slow track.
Canada is broken.
— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) November 2, 2026
Enjoy Your Basic Dictatorship
Checking my pockets for a violin: Unions told MPs Ottawa’s strike-ending power didn’t get them a deal. Defying it did. Liberals then voted 6 to 5 to stop hearing from witnesses.
The Libranos: Seems Fishy
@hollyanndoan – .@CoastGuardCAN confirms it reclassified all 7,378 of its employees including 6-figure executives as national defenders to help cabinet meet @NATO spending targets. Staff were @FishOceansCAN until 2025.
Welcome To Your Basic Dictatorship
It’s been a busy day for our new friends and collectivists.
🚨🇵🇱COUP UNDERWAY IN POLAND!
PM Donald Tusk has just sent police to storm Constitutional Tribunal building in Warsaw in the middle of the night.
Tusk waited until President Karol Nawrocki left the country before ordering the police takeover. Nawrocki was halfway to Senegal when he abruptly turned his plane around and rushed back to Poland to confront the unfolding crisis.
The EU, which backs Donald Tusk, has STILL NOT issued a statement on this unprecedented crisis or condemned the attempted coup
More: For those confused as to what’s happening in Poland right now…
Things didn’t go quite as planned. The photo of the night. The President of Poland with several heads of state powers seated inside the Constitutional Tribunal.
Une Autre Hissy Fit
Please, Quebec. Either have a referendum and become an independent country, or accept the fact that you’re simply a province like any other. It’s beyond annoying to watch you trying to have this both ways.
St-Pierre Plamondon chose not to attend after saying he would not accept being reduced to the role of a “spectator” without the opportunity to speak or negotiate on Quebec’s behalf.
The Libranos: Squeaky Clean
“…fastest growing economy in the G7”
The Libranos: He Was Turnin’ His Life Around
Read it all. Insolvency Insider;
RSG Law Professional Corporation, an Ontario law firm founded by former Brampton Member of Parliament Rajvinder “Raj” Grewal, was placed into receivership on October 23, 2026, with AlixPartners Restructuring, Inc. appointed as receiver by Justice Sean Dunphy of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. The appointment follows an earlier June 12 order appointing AlixPartners Advisory, Inc. as sales officer over properties associated with Avtar Singh Grewal and related parties, and forms part of a series of proceedings involving alleged real estate fraud, disputed mortgage claims and potential misuse of law firm trust accounts.
The underlying litigation was commenced by WIGI Restructured Bond Corporation, part of the Walton Group, against 1000234566 Ontario Inc., Amrinder Singh Mangat, Avtar Singh Grewal, Arandeep Grewal, RSG Law Professional Corporation and Davinder Singh Khattra. WIGI alleges that the defendants concealed real estate transactions and diverted sale proceeds that should have been used to repay vendor take-back mortgages. The proceedings have since drawn in numerous property-owning entities and secured creditors, with AlixPartners tasked with preserving assets, tracing funds and investigating competing claims.
Squeaky clean: Elected as a Liberal in the 2015 Canadian federal election,[2][3] he resigned from caucus in 2018 after a police investigation into his extensive gambling debts, and did not stand in the 2019 Canadian federal election. In September 2020, he was charged by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for breach of trust and fraud over $5,000.
Nein, Non, Ma No, OH-hee
BREAKING: EU reportedly abandons plans to offer Canada “associate member” status after opposition from Germany, France, Italy, & Greece.
— Polymarket (@Polymarket) October 28, 2026
But wait! There’s more!
Canada is facing a carbon tariff threat from the European Union within months as the economic bloc fully implements its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).
According to internal documents CBC News obtained through an access to information request, Canadian iron, steel and aluminum are not exempt from the carbon tariff even with Canada’s national price on carbon and its decade-old trade deal with the European Union.
Related.
Gradually, Then Suddenly
This is fine: Bank of Canada raises interest rate as inflation projected to worsen
Now is the Time at SDA when we Juxtapose!
December 2025: Tucker Carlson bought a home in Qatar and is deemed by many to be evil.
October 2026: Brookfield Asset Management has huge contracts with Qatar and opens an office there. Barely a peep in the media about this.