TTC wants to “decolonize wayfinding”
You don’t have a serious transit system because you don’t have a serious TTC Board. pic.twitter.com/tINV7JWgaY
— IntegrityTO (@integrity_to) June 4, 2026
This Is My Brother Muhammad And This Is My Other Brother Muhammad
A combine catches fire in Pakistan…
How It Started
Here’s a picture of my daughter playing with the toys in the City of Calgary room set up to help adult city councillors and staff cope with the stress of attending the public hearing of the blanket re-zoning bylaw repeal motion today.
You’ll Learn To Love Crickets
🚨WE HAVE A NEW RECORD
Beef tenderloin spotted for $150/kg in Toronto today
making each one of those steaks cost $70
H/T @tnugent2001 pic.twitter.com/wWqWLpzTBj
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) March 7, 2026
Canadian Slaughter Steer Prices (Week of March 7, 2026)
Alberta: Fed steer prices closed the week at approximately $315.28 per hundredweight (cwt). Dressed sales in Alberta were reported in the range of $520–$530 per cwt delivered, marking an increase of $5–$7 per cwt from the previous week.
Ontario: Steer and heifer prices were up $1–$3 per cwt from the previous week, with dressed sales reported at $530 per cwt delivered.
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
June, 2025: Beef is becoming a luxury item in Canada – Canadian beef prices have surged due to a shrinking cattle herd, high transportation costs, and potential market collusion
Since January, according to Statistics Canada, beef prices have surged dramatically. Striploin is up 34.2 per cent, top sirloin 33.7 per cent, and rib cuts nearly 12 per cent. Pork rib cuts and chicken breasts have each risen 5.9 per cent, while even meatless burger patties are 6.8 per cent more expensive. Beef has led the way in these increases, and its dominance in the price hikes is striking. What’s particularly concerning is that it’s not just one cut of beef—virtually every option has seen a dramatic jump, putting pressure on Canadian consumers who were already grappling with rising food costs.
February, 2026: Beef will remain a luxury item in Canada
Canadian exporters are now able to ship over-thirty-month (OTM) bone-in beef, and for the first time, pork and pork products. In addition, Indonesia has approved more Canadian facilities, further strengthening Canada’s export capacity to this dynamic market. Enhanced access for beef and beef products has also been achieved through the removal of Indonesia’s residency restrictions on imported cattle. As a result, Canada’s exports to Indonesia are expected to increase significantly, building on the country’s robust market, which in 2024 was valued at $1.1 billion for beef imports and $42 million for pork imports.
Shut up and eat your bugs.
Havana Pulses With The Languid Energy Of Survival
@mindingottawa confirms the CEO of Farm Credit Canada cited Fidel Castro as someone she admires during an “Ask Me Anything” session with employees last fall.
Farm Credit Canada is a Crown corporation operating under Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
Canada Thrives
Three Agriculture Agri-Food Canada research and development centres and four satellite research farms will close, the federal government has confirmed Friday.
Research and development centres at Guelph, Ont., Quebec City, Que., and Lacombe, Alta., will close, an AAFC spokesperson said in a statement on Friday afternoon.
Satellite research farms at Nappan, N.S., Scott, Sask., Indian Head, Sask. and Portage la Prairie, Man., will also close.
War On Beef
You will live in a pod and eat bugs.
…the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is moving forward with expanded identification and traceability regulations that will require farmers and ranchers to report livestock movements in significantly greater detail. These rules were first proposed in 2023. Conservatives opposed them then, and they oppose them now, because they add new regulatory costs at a moment when households are already being asked to absorb higher food prices and producers are operating under documented financial strain.
(A point repeatedly missed by commentators who write on food prices: commercial beef is sold at auction. Like most western Canadian commodities, there’s no mechanism for producers to recover expenses because they don’t set the price, and their regulatory costs aren’t passed along to the consumer directly.)
John Barlow, the Conservative agriculture critic, released a statement warning that these regulations add yet another layer of red tape onto producers who are already being crushed by higher fuel costs, higher energy prices, labour shortages, drought, and regulatory overload. These aren’t large multinational corporations. These are family farms, ranchers, and community-based agricultural groups trying to survive.[…]
Indeed: The same dysfunctional @liberal_party that has ‘misplaced’ millions of TFW’s, Int’l students, uninvited immigrants etc., and DON’T CARE about finding & sending them home …. Now wants to pinpoint & track EVERY f*kin cow in the food chain??
Farmers would be required to track and report routine livestock movements that were previously informal or community-based, including movements tied to agricultural fairs, 4-H events, rodeos, and local exhibitions.
Those groups have been very clear about what this means. It means more paperwork, more compliance costs, more liability, and fewer events. It threatens youth programs, rural traditions, and the local economies that depend on them. This isn’t theory, these organizations told regulators directly that they may not be able to continue operating under the new rules.
More detail from Alberta Beef Producers: Proposed Part XV of the Health of Animal Regulations
Nope
The Food Professor- Canada Is Poised to Lose 4,000 Restaurants in 2026. Does Anyone Care?
We Need A Famine
The people who want to ban Round-Up are the people who want us to eat fake meat.
And defying all odds, farmers who sprayed first generation (now banned) crop herbicides from open tractors are still around in their 80-90's. https://t.co/8GDpyelrvi
— Katewerk (@katewerk) November 24, 2025
Where’s The Beef?
Dr. Sylvain Charlebois- Ottawa Wants to Keep Beef Prices High — Deliberately. Here’s How.
We recently received information from a reliable industry source about how the federal government is administering beef import permits. If accurate, it raises serious concerns about whether Ottawa is knowingly sustaining an outdated and opaque system that keeps beef prices unnecessarily high. At a time when many families are struggling with food costs, this is more than a bureaucratic issue—it directly affects affordability.
Gain Of Function
Interesting how “random” mutations could cause this specific thing to be delivered by ticks.
Victims Of Success
New Governor, Same As The Old Governor
He’s just not that into us.
We Need A Famine
Introduce a feed additive that interferes with a complex and unique digestive process that evolved over millions of years. What could possibly go wrong?
Meanwhile at COP 30…
Social Disease
So many people are “on Food Stamps” that when the government is shut down by DemocRat intransigence, people literally go crazy. Starting with LBJ’s Great Society program in the 1960s, and continuing until Obama and Biden actively recruited people to go on the public dole and Biden allowed millions of illegal aliens to suck at the public teat (blatantly against Federal law!), the program has snowballed. Today, the figure given for the number of US residents on food stamps (SNAP, EBT) is close to 42 Million People! Yes, you read that correctly, Forty-two Million People are drawing food stamp benefits, many illegally!
When the government withdraws the opium of federal benefits, that most have become addicted to, withdrawal symptoms set in, and this time is no different.
Higher Learning?
The Food Professor sat down to talk to some University of Montreal grad students the other day. The feedback he got confirms the suspicions of many that most universities have never altered their mission to graduate as many Marxists as possible.
Spoke with a group of graduate students and faculty today. The consensus in the room was clear: they believe food companies shouldn’t be allowed to make a profit, and meat consumption should be banned or at least heavily discouraged.
Thread reader here.
Who Do You Think You Are?
Dairy farmers?
Blacklock’s- Put Lost Sales At $1.6B So Far
Parliament must be prepared to compensate canola farmers for lost income if a trade war with China persists past Christmas, growers yesterday told the Commons agriculture committee. Losses to date are near $2 billion, said the Canadian Canola Growers Association.
Obviously We Need To Shut It All Down
University of British Columbia- Canadian crops beat global emissions—even after 17 trips across the Atlantic
Canadian-grown wheat, canola and peas have some of the lowest carbon footprints in the world—so low that, in some cases, they could be shipped to Europe 17 times before matching the emissions of the same crops grown there.
Our Chinese-Installed Governor In Ottawa
The more things stay the same, the more things stay the same.
Why Are We Trading Our Breadbasket for a Battery Pack?
In protecting a shaky electric vehicle dream, Ottawa is putting a $43-billion canola reality at risk — sacrificing a cornerstone of our agricultural economy for a battery pack that may never deliver. […]
The backdrop to all of this is Ottawa’s high-stakes bet on the EV sector. Despite nearly $50 billion in combined federal and provincial investments, Canada’s EV industry is faltering. Sales are dropping, mandates are clashing with market realities, and major projects are delayed or shelved. Without a significant acceleration in charging infrastructure, policy recalibration, and restored investor confidence, the sector risks collapse.
Ottawa’s trade stance is effectively protecting a fragile EV industry at the expense of a robust and profitable canola sector. One is speculative and policy-driven; the other is market-proven and globally competitive. The policy choice here should be obvious: Canada must either adjust its EV tariff position toward China or carve out exemptions to protect agricultural exports. Beijing has made its expectations clear.
Related: Built in 1960, the Second Narrows Bridge was not designed for the volume and weight of modern freight trains, which have grown substantially in size and frequency to meet rising global demand.