Senior Portfolio Manager & Senior Wealth Advisor at ShortFinancial with @iaprivatewealth | Published Author and Market Commentator
St. John's, NL
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Here is the math for a single person driving 20,000 km and 30,000 km in Newfoundland and Labrador. Notice I have used 19.55 cents which is the carbon tax plus HST. Please correct me if you see a math error.
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Craig is one of the sharpest minds I know in oil & gas.
He's CEO of BluEnergies & just joined X to cover oil markets from the inside. He even had the full story on the Saudi pipeline hours before mainstream media.
If you're invested in energy, give him a follow: @Craig_Steinke
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However the production in offshore Atlantic is quite compatible with European refineries. Cenovus White Rose and Equinor Baie du Nord would add ~250kbd
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@AirCanada Huge shout-out to the crew and cabin crew of Flight 2054 from Toronto to st. John's last night.
They allowed 3 people who were seated near the rear of the plane to depart first so two of them could get to their mom before she passed away. They made it! .❤️
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It’s over, that’s it… this wins the internet!
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🚨WOW!!!
A Bronx pizzeria owner saw a woman eating out of his GARBAGE.
He walked outside, took her by the hand, led her in, and pulled a hot slice straight from the oven for her.
She sat down and cried. He said: "Don't cry. Eat. I don't want you eating out of a garbage." ❤️
His name is Daniel Romano.
He owns D'Romano's Pizza in the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx.
He didn't shoo her away.
"I grabbed her by the hand and I led her to the pizzeria and I went in the oven and I got her a fresh slice and gave it to her. Sat down and she started crying. I said, 'don't cry, eat. This is not a problem.'"
In that moment, he decided he'd never let it happen to anyone again.
So he grabbed a marker, wrote a sign by hand, and taped it in his window for the whole neighborhood to see:
"To the people eating out of my garbage, I have more love for you than you think. Please come in and tell me you're hungry. I will forever give you a slice and fresh water to drink."
When they asked him why, his answer was simple.
"Right now, I think this world is shot. There's too much hate. Too much negativity. Why not put a smile on someone's face?"
And it turns out this runs deep for Daniel.
It goes all the way back to his mother, Carmella.
"She had a saying in Italian. She used to say, 'a desperate person will always make a better decision on a full stomach than on an empty.'
"It always stuck with me. So I feed people."
A desperate person makes a better decision on a full stomach.
That handwritten sign has traveled way past the Bronx now.
Daniel says people are calling him from Texas, Arkansas, Hawaii, even Alaska, all wanting to chip in and buy slices for hungry strangers they'll NEVER MEET.
"Don't ask me, I didn't even know Alaska had a phone."
It all started with one slice.
One woman.
One man who did something kind.
GOD BLESS Daniel Romano. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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We’ve been covering settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank for years.
But yesterday, we found ourselves on the menu.
A group of masked settlers beat our team and pummelled the 51 year old woman we were interviewing unconscious.
We’re all ok now - and Aida is out of the hospital - but this is just one incident among an unprecedented surge in settler violence across the West Bank.
Here’s out story on yesterday’s attack on Sunday Today on @NBCNews.
#Israel #WestBank @TODAYshow
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Reserves in Venezuela jumped from 100 billion to 300 billion under Chavez. Chavez did it. It wasn’t about a massive new discovery. But reclassification of reserves from one class to another. That is an over simplification, but worth thinking about…
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I think the problem is that it is being pitched as a solution to the current problems, when best case scenario its a solution that’s 10 years out.
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This is not AI. This is instinct. 🐕 Nature not only surprises us with its strength and destructive capacity. It also surprises us with the intelligence, senses and instincts of animals
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I couldn't disagree with this more. Alberta produces natural gas as a by product of oil and NGLs. We have a surplus of natural gas. Data centres offer an incredible opportunity to gain value from this extra gas, as royalties for Albertans and profits for our producers.
It is not a Wild West. All the normal standards and permits for water and noise and setbacks and zoning apply. This is manufacturing opposition to a sector that makes incredible economic sense for our province and supports Canada's AI strategy.
After consulting with thousands of Albertans, Alberta's New Democrats are calling for a pause on new AI data centre projects until a credible impact assessment framework is in place.
Read our full plan:
albertandpcaucus.ca/aidatace…
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Trying to blame the camming truck driver is ridiculous, This is 100% the fault of the car. Stupid highway driving.
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Jeff Bridges showed up to John Goodman’s Walk of Fame ceremony wearing the actual Dude sweater. Goodman’s reaction is pure joy. Cinema history hugging it out.
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The Saxophone Is Saying What Words Cannot
Some performances can tell a story without a single lyric. “Lily Was Here” by Candy Dulfer and Dave Stewart is one of them.
What draws me to Candy is not how fast or technically difficult she can play the saxophone. It is the way she breathes emotion into it.
Some notes linger a little longer, like a sentence someone is not quite ready to finish. Other phrases move gently before suddenly opening up, like an emotion slowly finding its way out. Candy is not simply playing the notes written on the page. She makes the saxophone sound as if it is having a conversation with the listener.
And Dave Stewart seems to know exactly when to step forward and when to step back.
His guitar never tries to compete with the saxophone. It feels more like a musical foundation, steady enough to give Candy room to soar. The two do not need to constantly look at each other. Their connection lives in the way they listen to one another through sound.
That is a beautiful form of communication between musicians who truly understand music: they do not need to say much, yet they always seem to know where the other person is going.
Perhaps that is why “Lily Was Here” still carries such a special charm decades later.
The piece belongs to an era when instrumental music could still become part of popular memory. Listening to it today, you are not simply hearing a saxophone. You are hearing the atmosphere of the 1980s and 1990s again—gentler, slower, and perhaps a little more romantic.
But what I love most about this performance is its simplicity.
Candy does not seem to be trying to prove anything. She is simply absorbed in the music. At times she closes her eyes; at others, she gently sways with the melody, as if the stage and the audience have disappeared for a moment.
And perhaps that is one of the greatest things an artist can give an audience.
Not a performance so technically perfect that it feels distant, but the feeling of watching a human being truly live inside their music.
There are days when we do not need more advice or anything grand. Sometimes, all we need is a few quiet minutes, a beautiful melody, and the chance to let the mind breathe.
“Lily Was Here” can do that.
It does not try to overwhelm you.
It simply speaks.
And sometimes, a melody without words can say more to the heart than an entire song ever could.
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Excellent interview by @armstrongcbc
The trade war between the U.S. and Canada is intensifying after negotiations broke down over the weekend. President Trump announced that tariffs on Canadian-made cars, trucks and auto parts will rise to 50% at the start of the new year, part of a broader round of 50% tariffs covering $28 billion in Canadian goods.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said his country had been preparing for a fundamental shift in its relationship with the U.S., which it no longer views as a reliable partner.
@GeoffRBennett speaks to @armstrongcbc for more.
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Wild they have that man controlling their trade deals. Absolutely wild.
US-Canada trade talks collapsed after last-minute pressure from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, according to people familiar with the matter bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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If Canada must be dragged into a trade war, might as well be when oil is US$87/barrel, gold is US$4600/oz, potash is US$400/tonne, aluminum is US$3250/tonne and copper is US$6.50/lb 📈
Our relative position is much better than it was in January 2025.
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One of the best songs ever. The sound of the sax sends shivers down one’s spine 🎷
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Jim Stanford on the Canadian vs. American economies: "The longer-term trend in the U.S. labour market has been quite different than Canada. Since Donald Trump came back in with his trade war and the tariffs and everything else, overall employment in the U.S. has actually been falling, whereas it's been growing in Canada. Real wages in the U.S. are falling. Real wages are growing in Canada."