You Don’t Hate the Media Nearly Enough

Here’s is Caylan’s Substack article that summarizes what transpired.

Can Saskatchewan do the CANDU?

Should Saskatchewan buy the CANDU reactor when it comes to building large-scale nuclear in this province? Carl Marcotte Senior Vice-President, Marketing & Business Development at CANDU Energy, part of AtkinsRealis, makes the pitch. Building large reactors will only be the largest, most expensive decision made by this province for generations.

Pipeline Online Podcast Ep. 29: Carl Marcotte, CANDU Energy

I’m hoping to get Westinghouse on in a future episode, as the main competitor.

Related: Cameco CEO on whirlwind Washington trip for talks on reactor deal

Also – Jim Warren: Critical questions about the Alberta-Ottawa pipeline MOU remain unanswered

Enbridge unfazed by prospect of more Venezuelan oil headed to Gulf Coast

TC Energy sets growth sights on U.S. data centre boom

Circling The Drain

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…

 

“My friends watch out for the little fellow with an idea.”

Antizionism is utter cyanide poison for democratic governance not due to anything related to Israel, but because it turns your lawmakers into conspiratorial imbeciles. I can think of no more textbook example of this than the complete ruin of the NDP.

A fitting postscript to the story of the little fellow who brought us cradle to grave health care by the shortest route possible.

Preview of Coming Controversies?

I had never heard of Janice Charette prior to her getting appointed to be the chief trade negotiator for Canada in upcoming negotiations with the U.S. Here’s a summary of her track recard:

The most significant and widely discussed controversy involves Charette’s recommendation to invoke the Emergencies Act for the first time in Canadian history to address the Freedom Convoy protests against COVID-19 mandates in Ottawa in early 2022. As Clerk, she advised the government on this, and Prime Minister Trudeau later stated that her formal recommendation as the top public servant played a major role in his decision to proceed.

The invocation was later ruled unreasonable and beyond legal authority (“ultra vires”) by a Federal Court, which found it infringed on Charter rights (freedom of expression under section 2(b) and unreasonable search and seizure under section 8).

I’m sure we’re in the best of hands.

Today In The Vote Rich Rapey-Beheader Community

The dog thing has been quite a hot topic lately.

I wonder what’ll happen to the Rooftop Coalition when the muzzies come to ban their dogs?

The Very Latest AI Breakthrough

This is a technical breakthrough but poses many dangers for all employed in Hollywood specifically and our society more generally. Imagine politicians saying things or doing things that they never actually did. Imagine seeing videos of white police officers beating up black people … that never happened. Do you think that China and other nefarious actors on the world stage are going to hesitate to inject such propaganda into western social media?

Circling The Drain

It’s probably not a good idea to stick a thumb in the eye of your biggest trading partner over Cuba, but what else would you expect from the NDP? Failed political parties tend to have a lot in common with failed states.

Last week in the House of Commons, NDP interim leader Don Davies urged the government to “support Cuba in the face of aggressive U.S. imperialism,” arguing this would give heft to Carney’s speech at the World Economic Forum that urged middle powers to stand up to intimidation by superpowers.

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