Happy for everyone to know people like this guy are my haters. 👍 And I came in second last.
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Today is muncipal election day in Ontario, and I'm running to be elected again in Ward 3 of the Town of Essex. Haven't posted about it here because this is a personal account. Details at Chris Vander Doelen For Ward 3 on Facebook. Wish me luck.
John Nolte (A founding employee of @BreitbartNews) is the only movie reviewer who comes close to the down-to-earth brilliance of Roger Ebert. His heart and his judgement are flawless. breitbart.com/entertainment/…
Canada seems to be the only major country in the world not on this list
Four years ago today, Elon Musk bought Twitter.
Liberals lost their minds because they knew they were losing control of their ability to shape the narrative.
Today, X is the #1 source of news in the world and it’s the legacy "news" media on life support.
Our friend Jerome heard us raving about wild mushrooms -- and surprised us by picking several pounds from his secret locations around town. Look at the giant on the left.
How the financial world views the B.C. election results. Shocked -- and pleased.
zerohedge.com/political/poli…
Good stuff here.
Les gens m'ont dit que j'avais droit à un droit de réponse dans Le Monde, voire que je devrais porter plainte. J'ai autre chose à faire. Je vais répondre ici. J'ai fait un milliard de vues en sept mois sur ce réseau, et ce texte sera sans doute lu par bien plus de monde que l'article lui-même. Comme dit Elon : you are the media now. Donc voici mon droit de réponse, et l'affaire sera close.
L'article est signé Aurélien Defer. Il est aussi passé cette année par le pôle Enquêtes de StreetPress, où il pige encore. StreetPress, pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas, c'est un média qui appelle ses lecteurs à l'aider à « gagner la bataille culturelle contre l'extrême droite ». Ce n'est pas moi qui le dis, c'est écrit sur leur propre page de dons. Plus d'un tiers de son budget vient de subventions publiques et de fondations. Il a touché de l'argent du ministère de la Culture au titre de l'aide au pluralisme, et de l'Open Society de George Soros. Un média militant, financé en partie par vos impôts, dont la mission affichée est de combattre un camp politique. C'est de cette école-là que vient le journaliste qui me colle l'étiquette d'extrême droite.
Pour moi, ces médias-là ne sont rien d'autre que des officines d'extrême gauche sous perfusion de subventions, qui mentent au peuple sur à peu près tous les sujets.
Avant la publication, j'ai passé vingt minutes au téléphone avec lui. J'ai été cordial, transparent, je n'ai esquivé aucune question. Il m'a demandé : « Êtes-vous libertarien ? » J'ai répondu oui, sans détour, parce que c'est ma ligne et que je n'ai rien à cacher.
Je lui ai expliqué ce que ça veut dire. Le libertarianisme, c'est l'idéal d'une société où les individus coopèrent librement, par l'échange et le contrat, sans qu'une autorité centrale ait à tout organiser pour eux. Aujourd'hui, c'est une utopie, je le dis moi-même. Mais je pense que des sociétés suffisamment civilisées finiront par y arriver : des individus capables de se coordonner entre eux, sans tuteur. On y viendra un jour. Probablement sur Mars.
Puis je lui ai donné la version pragmatique. Dans le monde réel, je suis libéral. Je pense que moins d'État produit plus de prospérité. Il suffit de regarder l'Argentine : quand Milei arrive au pouvoir, l'inflation dépasse 200 % par an. Elle tourne aujourd'hui autour de 33 %. Le redressement est en cours, et il est spectaculaire.
Je lui ai surtout expliqué ma méthode. Je regarde les systèmes qui marchent et ceux qui ne marchent pas, et j'essaie de ne pas céder à l'idéologie émotionnelle. Je suis venu à l'économie par l'entrepreneuriat, et l'entrepreneuriat vous apprend une chose très vite : l'économie, ce sont des échanges entre individus. Pas des plans, pas des slogans. Des gens qui créent de la valeur les uns pour les autres.
Quand on s'intéresse sérieusement à l'économie, on lit Marx. Puis on découvre que sa théorie de la valeur a été démontée par la révolution marginaliste il y a 150 ans. Alors on continue, on lit les autres. Et on finit par arriver à l'école autrichienne, qui est pour moi la plus lucide de toutes : aucun individu, aucun comité, aucun ministère ne peut prévoir ni piloter un système aussi complexe qu'une économie. C'est peut-être pour ça qu'elle est si peu enseignée en France. Elle oblige à admettre qu'on ne contrôle pas tout.
Ma ligne, la voici donc, en entier. Pro-humain. Pro-liberté. Pro-respect de la loi, la même pour tous. Et un rejet total du wokisme, que je considère comme une forme de racisme : celui qui juge les gens sur leur couleur avant leurs actes, et qui attend moins d'eux à cause de leurs origines.
Vingt minutes d'échange honnête. Et le résultat, c'est une étiquette : « narratif xénophobe ».
Alors posons la question franchement. Où est la xénophobie ? Où est le racisme ? Chez celui qui demande que la loi s'applique à tout le monde de la même façon ? Ou chez ceux qui trient les citoyens par origine, qui excusent ici et accusent là, et qui laissent des communautés entières porter la honte de quelques délinquants qu'on refuse de sanctionner ?
Cet article est malhonnête, et c'est précisément pour ça que de moins en moins de gens font confiance à ce genre de papiers. Au lieu de se demander si, après des décennies, leur grille de lecture ne s'est pas trompée, si elle n'a pas surtout produit du chaos et de la casse, certains préfèrent coller des étiquettes à ceux qui posent des questions.
Un dernier mot. Je suis le petit-fils de paysans bretons. Personne ne m'a ouvert de portes. J'ai appris à coder seul à 12 ans, j'ai monté les échelons un par un. J'ai fini par lever des fonds. J'ai fini par recruter. Aujourd'hui, j'embauche des diplômés des meilleures écoles, moi qui n'en ai fait aucune. J'échange avec l'homme le plus riche du monde, et à mes yeux le plus grand entrepreneur de tous les temps, Elon Musk. Mes analyses sont relayées par Javier Milei, à mes yeux le meilleur président du monde en matière d'économie.
M. Defer aurait pu se demander comment quelqu'un parti de rien arrive jusque-là. Il a préféré coller des étiquettes : xénophobe, extrême droite. C'est le panier de crabes français dans toute sa splendeur. Quand quelqu'un grimpe, on ne cherche pas à comprendre comment. On tire vers le bas.
Et quand on prétend parler au nom du peuple, on devrait au moins prendre la peine d'écouter quelqu'un qui en vient, quand il vous parle vingt minutes au téléphone.
Je lui souhaite bien du courage pour la suite. Aujourd'hui, six Français sur dix se méfient déjà des médias. Avec des articles comme celui-là, on approchera bientôt des 99 %. Puis des 100 %.
Je n'ai rien caché de ma ligne. Je l'ai expliquée calmement. Il suffisait de l'écrire.
Looking forward to lots of Good News coming out B.C. for a change.
British Columbians have just elected a Conservative government led by a premier who was barely known a few weeks ago. The NDP’s attempt to play the “Trump card” in an election called two years early did not work.
This is good news for the province, for Alberta and also for Mark Carney.
For agriculture and food, the new government’s commitments could bring welcome changes:
• More on-farm processing: Modernizing the “50/50” rule could help farmers expand processing, source ingredients from other farms and generate revenue year-round.
• Better water access and worker housing: Faster groundwater licensing, more water storage and priority for farmworker housing permits could ease production constraints.
• Farmland reforms: Changes to the Agricultural Land Reserve and farm-class revenue thresholds, alongside a target of reducing reliance on imported food by 10% by 2030. Protecting productive farmland must remain central.
• Stronger aquaculture support: Working with Ottawa to permit responsible aquaculture where evidence demonstrates no harm to wild salmon.
• Tax relief on Canadian alcohol: Removing PST on Canadian beer, wine and spirits for the duration of the U.S. trade war.
These commitments offer a promising direction. The real test will be whether they translate into more investment, stronger farms, greater processing capacity and, ultimately, more affordable food.
This is a good summary of what I've learned on my own, over 50 years of reading history. WW2 was a war pitting socialists against capitalism. And socialist education systems have been lying about it ever since.
Replying to @ChuckieFFS
You absolute midwit. Congrats on repeating the Wikipedia "Nazis were far-right, end of story" summary you absorbed between TikToks.
Yes, the Nazis crushed independent unions, jailed and murdered communists and social democrats, and Hitler liquidated the Strasserite "left" wing of his own party in the Night of the Long Knives. That part is not in dispute. They were not Marxist class-struggle socialists. They hated Bolshevism as a Jewish plot and treated international socialism as the main enemy. Fine.
What your middle-school history class skipped is that they still ran a National *Socialist* state: private property existed only as long as it served the Führer’s racial and war goals, wages and prices were controlled, industry was cartelized under state direction, profit was subordinated to the party, and the economy was planned for autarky and rearmament. That is not free-market capitalism, liberal conservatism, or classical right-wing economics. It is the same family of state-directed, anti-liberal, collectivist economics practiced by every other fascist and "national socialist" regime. The name was not a prank; the 25-point program and the early rhetoric were full of anti-capitalist planks precisely because they were competing with the actual socialists for working-class support.
Your North Korea comparison is the usual gotcha and it is only half-clever. Yes, names can lie. But the NSDAP did not merely call itself socialist while secretly running a Rothschild hedge fund. They nationalized, directed, rationed, and regimented. The difference from Soviet socialism was mainly that the Nazis kept the owners as managers under party orders instead of shooting them all and installing commissars. Both systems produced shortages, secret police, and mass graves; one just had better uniforms and Wagner.
Elon pointing out the obvious—that "National Socialist" is not an ironic branding exercise and that the regime was economically left of any classical liberal or conservative—does not make him a moron. It makes him less obedient to the post-1945 academic consensus that insists every totalitarian who isn’t a full Marxist must be filed under "far-right" so the left never has to share the body count. Money didn’t buy him a brain; it just bought him a platform where he doesn’t have to pretend your selective reading of 1930s Germany is the complete picture.
Keep yelling "far-right fascists" while ignoring the actual economic policies and the party’s own name. It is the historical equivalent of covering your ears and shouting.
B.C. results have already flipped in favour of the Conservatives. stephentaylor.ca/data/politi…
Oh no! NDP ahead in B.C. election, 50% to 39%! (Relax: fewer than 1,000 votes counted, so far). Here are live updates every two minutes:
stephentaylor.ca/data/politi…
True.
Barack Obama was horrible in a million different ways, but he doesn’t get anywhere near the hate he deserves for destroying the used car market for an entire generation.
15-year-old cars with 150,000 miles that should be selling for $3,000 are going for $15,000. It’s abominable. Pure destruction and thievery.
At the Canadian Transportation Museum for lunch. On the outskirts of Harrow Ont. A 1932 Terraplane in the lobby.
Canada takes another hit from the U.S., this time for fertilizer imports santafenewmexican.com/news/l… via @thenewmexican
This never gets old
Replying to @LangmanVince @grok
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Lost in the Immigration debate and the faux justification (i.e. labour shortages) is that Employee Compensation as a share of GDP continues to fall. This means employee wages, salaries, and pension contributions are shrinking relative to the economy.
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What fascinates me about the immigration debate in Canada is the lack of outrage from the 'Left'. The results are in; the evidence is clear. The policy was extremely regressive.
Corporations Won; Workers Lost.
Unions, Academics, Students, Commies. Where are you? Are you not vexed that this government is set to put Workers through the meat grinder again?
The Canadian government's mass immigration policies of the last 10 years were highly regressive. Having seemingly learned nothing, they are dead set on turning back on the taps rather than letting the country heal.
On cue, the media has begun parroting the government's narrative and gaslighting anyone who disagrees. This suggests that they remain blissfully unaware that the Bank of Canada has written extensively about how (mass) immigration has negatively affected housing, rents, inflation, labour supply, wages, and productivity. So I've compiled an inexhaustive list to help these folks.
🏘️- Monetary Policy Report, October 2023
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▶️"The strength in rent and other housing costs is partly due to strong housing demand, which is supported by rapid population growth, and a structural lack of housing supply"
🏘️- Staff Analytical Note, December 2023
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▶️"The rise in immigration is nonetheless contributing to pressures in inflation components linked to house prices, given that it is adding more to housing demand than to housing supply in the context of structural imbalances in the Canadian housing market."
🏘️ - Speech by Toni Gravelle, December 2023
🔗bankofcanada.ca/2023/12/econ…
▶️"When a country’s population is growing quickly, the supply of housing also needs to increase to avoid a worsening in affordability. Shortly after immigration began ramping up in 2015, Canada’s vacancy rate—a measure of how many apartments and houses there are available to rent or buy—started to fall."
🏘️ - Monetary Policy Report, January 2024
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▶️"A larger increase in newcomers than in the past is adding pressure to the structural supply constraint in housing. This has helped to push the overall housing vacancy rate to record lows, which has underpinned house prices and led to higher rents (Chart 3-A)."
🏘️ - Staff Analytical Note, April 2024
🔗 bankofcanada.ca/2024/04/staf…
▶️"Meanwhile, the composition of immigrants coming to Canada has changed considerably since 2015. Historically, growth of the immigrant population in Canada came mostly from permanent residents....While the wages of the earlier immigrants are closer to those of Canadian-born workers and have been increasing over time, those of non-permanent residents are much lower and have fallen over this period. Because real hourly wages are typically correlated with labour productivity, this piece of evidence is consistent with non-permanent residents working in less productive occupations."
🏘️ - Monetary Policy Report, July 2024
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▶️"The increase in housing demand from newcomers is being felt across all types of housing, but the largest initial impact tends to be in rental markets. This is because most newcomers start out as renters."
👨🌾 - Staff Analytical Note, May 2025
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▶️"if newcomers’ conditional wages reflect their labour productivity, the productive capacity of the Canadian economy grew less than it would have if recent newcomers had the same socio-economic characteristics as in the past."
▶️"However, this gain has been particularly acute for certain industries such as accommodation and food services, business, building and other support services, and retail trade. Labour productivity in these industries—which are comprised of a sizable share of lower-skilled occupations—is lower than the average in the business sector."
👨🌾 - Staff Analytical Note, May 2025
🔗bankofcanada.ca/2025/06/staf…
▶️"Youth—individuals 15–24 years of age—represent a significant portion of the overall increase in unemployment since the start of 2023. This is a larger share than during other periods of rising unemployment (Chart 5). This is partly due to the high number of immigrants, who are generally younger than the rest of the population."
👨🌾 - Speech by Nicolas Vincent, May 2026
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▶️“The labour market is particularly challenging for young people”: The 2022–24 influx of young newcomers “intensified competition in Canada for lower-skill and entry-level jobs”. Youth unemployment has risen above 14%, and he expects it may normalize now that immigration has been cut.
🏘️ - Staff Article, September 2026
🔗bankofcanada.ca/2026/09/spar…
▶️"Strong population growth drove asking rents higher in recent years"


















