The IMF has just released its April update of the World Economic Outlook – it includes revisions for various data.
Canada still has the worst Real GDP per capita (adj. for PPP), after Luxembourg. pic.twitter.com/s8DsCL6sfI
— Richard Dias (@RichardDias_CFA) April 22, 2025
Considering the likelihood of this happening, Carney might as well promise to balance the budget in fifty years time. No matter what the proposed timeline, it’s not believable. “Didn’t go to plan” is every politician’s Get Out Of Jail Free card.
Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday said if his Liberals won an April 28 election and all went to plan, it would be realistic to expect the budget to return to surplus in four or five years’ time.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has a major advantage here: Google is guilty. It lost the liability phase of this trial resoundingly, with the court finding Google violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by “willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power.” As far as the court is concerned, Google has an illegal monopoly in search services and general search advertising. The purpose of this trial is to determine what to do about it, and the DOJ has some ideas.
This case, overseen by United States District Judge Amit Mehta, is taking place against a backdrop that is particularly unflattering for Google. It has been rocked by loss after loss in its antitrust cases, including the Epic-backed Google Play case, plus the search case that is at issue here. And just last week, a court ruled that Google abused its monopoly in advertising tech. The remedies in Google’s app store case are currently on hold pending appeal, but that problem is not going away. Meanwhile, Google is facing even more serious threats in the remedy phase of this trial.
The DOJ will come out guns blazing — it sees this as the most consequential antitrust case in the US since the Microsoft trial of the 1990s.
@jonkay – For those following the bizarre afterlife of Canada’s 2021 “unmarked graves” social panic, we’ve hit a landmark of sorts. It’s now been almost 4 years, & CBC is finally admitting no graves have been found at any of the locations once identified by GPR tech as “potential” graves.
A federal report quietly released by the Privy Council predicts a dystopian Canada by 2040:
Class-based dating apps.
AI replacing your job.
Illegal hunting to feed your kids.
Gated cities for the rich.
Not satire. Their words.Jobs? Forget it.
Bronwyn Eyre: Canadian Oil Companies’ Flip Flop on CCUS…and Everything Else.
Eyre pulls no punches in this column, wondering where the oil & gas CEOs have been all these years?
Paul Joseph Watson – Panic on the streets of Europe. Country Squire – A life in fiction.
Woke America: The pro-Hamas brownshirts. Vance killed the Pope.
Lord Carney’s Realm: CBC smears Rebel News. Carney’s Canada.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: An argument against veganism. A Covid vaccine pregnancy study. Man killed for being the wrong kind of Muslim. The Barack Obama of the Catholic Church. An election in Australia.
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Here is Il Divo performing Adagio.
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Members and supporters of the right-leaning Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party are now facing mass gun license revocations. The reason? The German government has labeled the AfD a “right-wing extremist” group—a political designation that suddenly makes its members “unreliable” under the country’s gun laws. And just like that, firearms must be surrendered or destroyed.
“Democrats need to embrace Hollywood because this is where they need to come to learn how to tell a story.” – Michael Moore
In its fifth weekend on screens, “Snow White” earned about $7 million in ticket sales domestically and internationally, bringing the total box office take to an estimated $194 million. The film cost an estimated $270 million (after tax credits!) plus another $70-$100 million to market and probably needs $625 million, after theaters take their cut, just to break even.
Oof.
Roger Pielke Jr.- Trump Comes for Climate Research
Flash forward to now — the Trump Administration has announced that it has canceled the contract of the federal contractor that the USGCRP delegated responsibility to for overseeing the creation of the next assessment report. That does not mean that a report cannot be created — as you can see in the budget table above, there are billions of dollars appropriated to the USGCRP, and an assessment is inexpensive to conduct.
Peter Stockland- Canada’s media aristocracy remains puzzled by the refusal of the great unwashed to accept its majesty
British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge wrote long ago that there is nothing more pathetic than a ruling class on the run.
The winner of the “War on Poverty®”… is poverty.
Blacklock’s- Cannot Meet ‘Historic’ Target
Cabinet will not meet its target of reducing poverty by 50 percent, Department of Employment figures show. Then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau launched the campaign six years ago on a promise he was making history.
“If this trend continues the government will not only fail to meets its 2030 target of a 50 percent decrease in poverty but may also fall back below its 2020 target of a 20 percent decrease,” said the report
Sun- How global organized crime came to call Canada home
Lax sentencing, little oversight, and a government that has either been a) hopelessly naive; b) stupid; c) cynically playing for ethnic votes; or d) all of the above.
It beggars belief that the federal government actually involves itself in determining the correct number of lanes for city streets, but that’s the state in which we now find ourselves. I’m reminded of an episode of The Simpsons where Homer becomes the Springfield Safety Czar and pegs the downtown speed limit at 5 miles per hour.
Federal transportation officials once heralded road diets for cutting crashes by 19% to 47%, but criteria for an upcoming round of road safety grants say projects aimed at “reducing lane capacity” should be considered “less favorably,” the administration said.