But I’ll say it anyway, for our neighbors to the south and east about to face Saskatchewan winter conditions in the coming days.
It’s winter. Don’t leave home without a good blanket or sleeping bag, a jar of nuts, bottled water. It could be a long night. https://t.co/2xp2MZNRbK
— Katewerk (@katewerk) January 20, 2026
I like cashews. What’s coming is no joke.
In an expanding economy, mergers and acquisitions can streamline productive capacity to meet growing demand. In a shrinking economy, the purpose of a merger is often to sweep up the pieces of a dying business to salvage whatever is left of their capital. I’m not so sure that the upbeat tone of the article reflects the reality of the Canadian economy.
Canadian dealmaking activity is expected to pick up this year, driven by nation-building efforts and a stronger business outlook, according to a new survey by KPMG Canada.
Thirty-three per cent of business leaders polled indicated plans to make a major acquisition in the next 18 months to capitalize on potential growth opportunities, the survey released on Monday found.
Brian Zinchuk: We are living in 1938, again hearing the drumbeats of war
Do you want to send your kid to “go stop a bullet?”
Related: House, feds probe to unravel mystery of ‘Squad’ Rep. Ilhan Omar’s skyrocketing wealth
The Democratic Party’s America: ICE car ramming attack. The Left lives by lies. Chaos by design.
Conman Carney’s Canada: What Canada can learn. Seniors trust TV network news. Carney’s CBC. China.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Mass shoplifting. The enemy within. Missing Maggie. Afghans.
Your morning meme.
And at the Bee.
Here’s Home Free’s cover of Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
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The @CivilRights is investigating the potential violations of the federal FACE Act by these people desecrating a house of worship and interfering with Christian worshippers. @AGPamBondi https://t.co/uZBBv1iuuH
— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) January 18, 2026
More: Don Lemon ringleading.
This is a long, but fascinating, discussion with author Gregg Hurwitz. I listened to it while making & eating lunch, gaining some wisdom in the process.
New York Times- After Renee Good Killing, Derisive Term for White Women Spreads on the Far Right
…some even using an acronym: AWFUL, or Affluent White Female Urban Liberal.
That’s a whole lot of Patel.
Not The Bee- Canadian Police Arrest “Patel, Patel, Patel, Patel, & Patel” For Robbery
Weekend Watch: Is Canada Wasting Its Energy Advantage? | Doomberg on Oil, LNG, and the Pipeline Future
There’s some pretty good discussion about Saskatchewan at the 30 minute mark.
Also, from Canadian Press: Carney says Qatar will make ‘significant’ investments in Canada’s major projects.
At least Carney isn’t dressing up in local dress like Trudeau did in India. Take that for what you will.
Academic papers by women and racial minorities were prioritized for publication by the American Political Science Review, according to a new report from the Goldwater Institute.
The policy is just one of the results of a takeover by the self-described “Feminist Collective” at the publication, run by the American Political Science Association and published by Cambridge University Press.
The all-female editorial group also shifted the journal’s focus to identity politics and away from topics such as the U.S. Constitution, the study from the Goldwater Institute concluded. The group lost power in 2024, however it may have approved some articles that were published into 2025, which covers the most recent set of issues. Goldwater’s report covered articles published between 2020 and 2025.[…]
Articles that the American Political Science Review published under the directives of the “Feminist Collective” include “Universal Suffrage as Decolonization,” “From Thin to Thick Representation: How a Female President Shapes Female Parliamentary Behavior,” and “Overcoming the Political Exclusion of Migrants: Theory and Experimental Evidence from India.”
I’ll go out on a limb and suggest that Canadians need to be less concerned about Trump and more concerned that voters essentially opted for a continuation of the Trudeau years with a few tweaks.
“Businesses aren’t panicking, but they aren’t betting big either,” Patrick Gill, vice-president of the business data lab at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, said.
“Pessimism about the next 12 months is now at its highest point in several years,” he said. “In that environment, firms are holding back on major expansion and taking a clear wait-and-see approach as they look for more clarity on U.S. trade policy and demand conditions.”
Recently, senior executives at Salesforce have admitted, both internally and publicly, that they massively overestimated AI’s capabilities. They have found that AI simply can’t cope with the complex nature of customer service and totally fails at nuanced issues, escalations, and long-tail customer problems. They even say that it has caused a marked decline in service quality and far more complaints.
But the problems go far deeper than that.
Both employees and executives have said that the company is wasting countless resources on firefighting to stabilise operations since the mass AI layoff. Employees have to spend so much time stepping in to correct the wildly wrong AI-generated responses that AI is wasting more time than it saves. In other words, this AI reduces productivity, not increases it.
But there is also a huge problem here with expertise and skill debt. On top of the firefighting to correct the AI, executives have also highlighted how they are also having to firefight to stabilise their systems from problems that were previously easily solved by staff who had the required experience and skill. However, these staff were fired in the AI layoffs.
Expertise, experience and skilled employees are really hard for a company to acquire. You see, much of the expertise, experience, and skills required are unique to the company and its operations. These operations will have quirks, common problems, and unique issues that even the most experienced outsider will really struggle with, but are effortless to someone with experience within the company. As such, these attributes are not only vital, but are nurtured and grown within a company, and cannot be hired in on a whim. What Salesforce has done is chuck all this experience out the window, and now they are suffering.
To say this is a damning indictment on Benioff, his capabilities as a CEO, and his cult-like push for AI is an understatement. It demonstrates that he is dangerously ignorant, as it was painfully evident that this would happen; more on that in a minute.
We're getting another 2 million Chinese immigrants to solidify Liberal power forever. That's what this means. https://t.co/Ht6wefp2Ec
— Katewerk (@katewerk) January 18, 2026
@johnkonrad – They sold out to communism for less than half the price of one aircraft carrier
