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Albertans voted yes on immigration reform. @CoryBMorgan says it’s time for Danielle Smith to use that mandate.
Ottawa is increasing immigration again while Alberta faces pressure on jobs, housing and health care.
WATCH:
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How is that Alberta Pension Plan coming along @ABDanielleSmith? – at Indian Wells, CA
🚨🇨🇦 CANADA’S PENSION FUND LOST $4.7 BILLION IN THREE MONTHS.
AND ITS ACTIVE STOCK-PICKING DIVISION HAS AN EVEN BIGGER PROBLEM.
CPP Investments just reported its fiscal Q2 results.
📉 Quarterly return: –0.5%
📌 Investment loss: $4.7 BILLION
🏦 Total assets: $866.2 BILLION
But here’s what deserves more attention.
CPP’s active equities division reportedly lost $3.5 BILLION in fiscal 2026 and approximately $6 BILLION over five years.
Billions managed by professional stock pickers.
Sophisticated models.
Expensive investment infrastructure.
And billions in losses.
Now, CPP isn’t an S&P 500 ETF. Its portfolio is globally diversified, and its 10-year annualized return is 8.8%.
One bad quarter doesn’t prove failure.
But here’s my question.
IF WE EXPECT ORDINARY CANADIANS TO QUESTION HIGH-FEE ACTIVE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, WHY SHOULDN’T WE APPLY THE SAME SCRUTINY TO OUR NATIONAL PENSION FUND?
The real test isn’t beating the S&P 500 every quarter.
It’s whether active management consistently adds value against appropriate benchmarks, after fees and risks.
CANADIANS DON’T NEED EXPENSIVE STOCK PICKERS.
THEY NEED INVESTMENT MANAGERS WHO CAN JUSTIFY THEIR COST.
🍁 @wealthmoose
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1% growth is 4.2m
according to the fake statscan numbers
its 97% immigration
the real population is likely 60m
whites are already a minority in canada
BMO has looked at Carney's immigration numbers and says they don't add up.
Ottawa's official target is 380,000 permanent residents a year.
A senior economist at the bank, Robert Kavcic, went through the 2025 and 2026 budgets. He found special measures that would move about 280,000 temporary residents onto the permanent rolls in 2027. Officials, he writes, have suggested this will be "on top of new admissions."
On top of. Not instead of.
You still get the 380,000 new permanent residents. Then you add 280,000 people who are already here, being made permanent. That's not 380,000. That's 660,000.
BMO now expects the population to grow by about 1 per cent in 2027, nearly double what the bank itself was forecasting. Kavcic called it "an abrupt change in the near-term outlook."
It's abrupt only if you believed the first number.
The government advertises 380,000. A bank looked at the books and got 660,000. I know which one I'm going with.
#cdnpoli
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Carney spent $19,000,000,000 of your tax dollars on high-priced consultants
100,000 Canadians lost their jobs in the last 3 months
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thebureau.news/p/mark-carney… ESSAY: As Taiwan confronts Chinese threats and election interference, Canada’s prime minister understates Ottawa’s exposure to Beijing, while an agreement with Taiwan sits unsigned in his desk.
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Liberals reveal the Major Protects Office is staffed by people employed by companies benefiting from the approvals, subsidies and regulatory exemptions made by the Major Protects Office
They’re having a party, and you’re paying for it
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Wow.
CEO Roman Shimonov of Roshel just admitted he told the Carney Government months ago they were going to buy the Stellantis Brampton plant, the BNN host say then surprised why are they acting angry over the news?
Guess what, that’s exactly what they are doing, ACTING as to not look bad to the 2000 workers out of a job. Our Government pretending to act surprised about all of this is a scandal. They knew full well what was going on.
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What an outrage:
The Carney Liberal government says it can’t afford to let all reservists attend Remembrance services.
Where are all the billions going? To defence lobbyists and corporate powerbrokers, not the troops.
All the brave men and women in uniform deserve to be front and centre at ceremonies that honour their courage and sacrifice.
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MORGAN: Farkas promised to fix Calgary's budget, then adopted Nenshi's playbook westernstandard.news/opinion…
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BREAKING - Conservative leader @PierrePoilievre calls for Melanie Joly and all Liberal Ministers involved in the Stellantis failure, to lose their jobs as thousands of Canadians just lost theirs.
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Liberals block investigations into 426 Christian Church arsons in Canada. Too many anti Christian stances from Ottawa under Trudeau and Carney. Other religions in Canada not affected, just a little strange!
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Carney’s friends in the European Union and Turkey aren’t buying Canadian cars.
But that Davos speech!
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.@OurCommons places order for 6,000 bottles of fine wine to “maintain expected standards of hospitality” in Parliamentary Dining Room.
Stocking of wine cellar came 4 days after #Budget2026 lamented plight of “hardworking Canadians struggling to get by.”
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@MarkJCarney @FPChampagne #cdnpoli
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🇨🇦 BREAKING: Canada makes its rural immigration pilot permanent, with plans to expand beyond the 14 participating communities.
🇨🇦 Check out full details here 👇
immigrationnewscanada.ca/new…
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Canada quickly marching towards being another Chinese vassal state
Well done, Elbowzos
China just sold its first major green sovereign bonds into Canada. Champagne is calling it a vote of confidence in Toronto’s markets. Most Canadians are only hearing about it now (still no CBC or CP article!)
Chinese Ministry of Finance yuan green bonds (RBC as bookrunner) drew heavy oversubscription. Champagne framed it as proof of Canada’s deep capital markets and a win for green cooperation. No broad prior explanation from Ottawa
The downsides are straightforward:
* Canadian capital is now funding Chinese state paper denominated in a tightly managed yuan. Currency, policy, and political risk sit with the holders.
* It gives Beijing a new leverage channel. In any future dispute, China can slow issuance, change terms, or use the relationship as pressure.
* It advances China’s yuan internationalization and Carney’s long stated preference for a U.S. less dollar-centric system—while Canada is under U.S. tariff pressure. Washington will notice
* Green label does not equal high transparency or independent verification under China’s framework.
* Public communication has been minimal. A foreign sovereign entering Canadian markets at this moment deserved more than reactive media answers.
Market demand is real. Treating this as an unqualified success ignores the strategic costs @FPChampagne @MarkJCarney
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China just sold its first major green sovereign bonds into Canada. Champagne is calling it a vote of confidence in Toronto’s markets. Most Canadians are only hearing about it now (still no CBC or CP article!)
Chinese Ministry of Finance yuan green bonds (RBC as bookrunner) drew heavy oversubscription. Champagne framed it as proof of Canada’s deep capital markets and a win for green cooperation. No broad prior explanation from Ottawa
The downsides are straightforward:
* Canadian capital is now funding Chinese state paper denominated in a tightly managed yuan. Currency, policy, and political risk sit with the holders.
* It gives Beijing a new leverage channel. In any future dispute, China can slow issuance, change terms, or use the relationship as pressure.
* It advances China’s yuan internationalization and Carney’s long stated preference for a U.S. less dollar-centric system—while Canada is under U.S. tariff pressure. Washington will notice
* Green label does not equal high transparency or independent verification under China’s framework.
* Public communication has been minimal. A foreign sovereign entering Canadian markets at this moment deserved more than reactive media answers.
Market demand is real. Treating this as an unqualified success ignores the strategic costs @FPChampagne @MarkJCarney
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In this riverside chat, James breaks down the competing schools of thought fueling the Alberta independence infighting. Including why the “loyalist” label is being misused, the strategic risks of different timelines, and what conduct we should expect from independence leaders.
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Mark Carney's radical 2026 budget equals 2 things, mass immigration and astronomical spending.
