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So, what you’re saying is that the media will be biased, twist the truth, misrepresent you, and selectively present information, all in an effort to shape public opinion against you and advance their own agenda?
That’s quite a wild admission.
4) PRO TIP for Andrea Barbour: The media giveth, and the media taketh away.
Environment Minister Andrea Barbour finally spoke to the media on Thursday after accusing the media of twisting narratives the previous day.
NTV’s @BenClearyNL reports.
ntv.ca/news/environment-mini…
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According to the Left, anyone that isn’t them is a danger to democracy.
The irony of the virtuous Left…
1) JUSTIN BRAKE @IndependentNL: Why Andrea Barbour is a danger to democracy
The environment minister’s behaviour is reckless, dangerous, and mimics Trump’s totalitarian tendencies
#altmedia #nlpoli #cdnmedia
theindependent.ca/commentary…
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Mark Whiffen retweeted
“The federal gov’t spent $19B on external consultants last year, despite a promise to cut back on its use of outside contractors… In last week’s budget… [it] said it had already taken steps to reduce spending on external management and other consulting services by 20%…”🤔
Federal government spent $19 billion on external consultants last year bnnbloomberg.ca/business/pol…
Mark Whiffen retweeted
“[In] September… Canadian residents made approximately 1.9 million return trips from the U.S. by air & automobile, up 6.8% from September 2025. It was the sixth consecutive month of year-over-year growth. ‘We need to remember the majority of snowbirds still go to the U.S.’…”🤔
Are Canadian snowbirds flocking back during the U.S. trade war? Here’s what data says bnnbloomberg.ca/tariffs/2026…
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But notice how flat the curves are!
This is the game: every budget or update projects spending to flatline in out years. And every budget or update, the whole curve gets shifted upwards $10 or $20 billion.
Mark Whiffen retweeted
PM @MarkJCarney’s budget sends money to the ridings of two MPs who crossed the floor to the Liberals, cash a pollster says could soften the backlash against them.
The Toronto Star reports the budget also targets seats the Liberals barely won or narrowly lost. 🧵👇 (1/7)
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This chart explains a lot about Ottawa’s polling and priorities.
Import a tax base to keep the rich babies happy.
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One of the most depressing parts was watching Bill Morneau, who wrote a book about the myth of Canada’s retirement crisis, being trotted out to defend the reversal
Reminder that Canada under the Harper government *did* raise the OAS eligibility age.
Had Trudeau not reversed this courageous reform, we would be spending $11 billion less on OAS by 2029, according to the PBO.
When OAS was created in 1952, the benefit began at age 70. Life expectancy was 68, and the ratio of workers to retirees was 8 to 1.
Eligibility is now at 65, with life expectancy at 81, and the ratio of workers to retirees down to 3 to 1.
The current system represents a massive, unjust intergenerational transfer of wealth which is obviously unsustainable.
Mark Whiffen retweeted
Expert level: gaslighting
Last year only "beat" his own bad forecast, thanks to surprise revenue from you.
Next year: $62B+, and over $50B till 2030.
The windfall is already spent.
Debt interest > health care next year.
Interest hits $85B+ by 2030.
Those things are in the budget too.
‘Deficits are lower, that’s a fact’: Finance minister defends budget ctvnews.ca/politics/article/…
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New job numbers yesterday.
The grocery bill doesn’t wait for the job market to recover. From January to October 2026, the U.S. added 861,000 payroll jobs while Canada had 45,900 fewer people employed.
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A sobering fact that is ignored by the Bank of Canada and the Economic Elites of Canada.
The delusion in Canada needs to stop!
The has Canada lagged the United States in population-adjusted employment growth from 2019 to 2024. Canada relied much more heavily on government-sector hiring, while private-sector employment failed to keep pace with its growing working-age population.
Sure let’s hike rates.
Canada added no private sector jobs from 2019 to 2024 — U.S. did the exact opposite nationalpost.com/news/canada…
Mark Whiffen retweeted
"We hear plenty about how many Canadians the federal government is helping. I long for the day when it can brag about how many Canadians no longer need its financial support."
Cheques from the federal budget help Canadians afford today’s grocery bill. A more productive food system makes tomorrow’s bill easier to manage.
Link to full article: agrifoodanalyticslab.substac…
Mark Whiffen retweeted
Public spending in Canada by age.
When Ottawa looks for savings, it reviews the public service and operations. Most of that isn't on this chart.
The elephant in the room is the bulge after 65: health care (red) and OAS/GIS (blue).
Reminder that Canada under the Harper government *did* raise the OAS eligibility age.
Had Trudeau not reversed this courageous reform, we would be spending $11 billion less on OAS by 2029, according to the PBO.
When OAS was created in 1952, the benefit began at age 70. Life expectancy was 68, and the ratio of workers to retirees was 8 to 1.
Eligibility is now at 65, with life expectancy at 81, and the ratio of workers to retirees down to 3 to 1.
The current system represents a massive, unjust intergenerational transfer of wealth which is obviously unsustainable.
Mark Whiffen retweeted
The entirety of GST revenue the federal government will collect this year ($51.5b) PLUS the entirety of EI premiums they’ll collect this year ($34.3b) together aren’t enough to cover the near $90b cost of OAS this year. This problem will only get worse as the population ages.
Mark Whiffen retweeted
Canada’s dirty little secret
CBC’s At Issue buried the real budget criticism in the YouTube bonus
In the online-only extra, Andrew Coyne finally said it plainly: “Moving in the wrong direction is they are going to increase and indeed entrench subsidies to the news media to our business. I thought this was a bad idea when they first introduced it… it was going to be this temporary emergency stopgap… Well, once we got our hooks into the public taxpayer, you’ll never get us off it. So in fact, they’re increasing the amount of and they’re going to make it pretty much permanent. And they’ve expanded it beyond just the newspaper business now into audio visual. This is not good for the future of the news business in this country.”
The response? An immediate pivot from Rosie to “Your letter stamps are going up to $2… Canada Post isn’t doing well. 7% escalator after. Oh, dear.”
A panelist on the public broadcaster admits the temporary media bailout is now permanent and expanding, and the room answers with postage rates. That is the entire engagement with the most obvious conflict of interest in the budget @acoyne @RosieBarton @althiaraj
Mark Whiffen retweeted
Reminder that Canada under the Harper government *did* raise the OAS eligibility age.
Had Trudeau not reversed this courageous reform, we would be spending $11 billion less on OAS by 2029, according to the PBO.
When OAS was created in 1952, the benefit began at age 70. Life expectancy was 68, and the ratio of workers to retirees was 8 to 1.
Eligibility is now at 65, with life expectancy at 81, and the ratio of workers to retirees down to 3 to 1.
The current system represents a massive, unjust intergenerational transfer of wealth which is obviously unsustainable.
