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One point that is probably related to this forum. Blue states aren't doing a great job with housing. This is driving people to red and swing states that are increasing their Electoral College share. And a lot of those NIMBYs are supposedly progressive.

I don't get why Canadians are so surprised. The same things making Trudeau unpopular here are making Democrats unpopular there. From inflation to immigration. And the Americans have had higher inflation and worse immigration problems than us. They definitely helped. But I doubt they can do...

Republicans care a lot less about the deficit when a Republican is in the White House. Market knows money will be flowing.

Agree with most. Not sure I agree with the Russian economy being robust. It's proving more robust to sanctions. That doesn't mean it's not degrading and in trouble. Putin needed Trump to win otherwise the cracks were really going to show in 2025. Vehemently agree on how we all screwed up in...

A bigger threat is that they now demand more than 2%. There could well be a price for not hitting 2% the last few years. There are major Trump foreign policy advisors who have not only singled out Canada, but actually called for coercive trade policies to get us to targets. There's a lot of...

Waning Liberal days are HSR proposal days. I love the proposal. I hate that they are pitching it now, exactly as they are facing electoral catastrophe. No matter how much good work the HFR office has done and how serious the bidders are, this will be seen as nothing but an electioneering...

A lot of this is crticisms that many serving members and several auditor generals have picked up. It's unfortunate, how much these issues get ignore in Canada. It's kinda like how development charges have 10x in the last three decades because cities use that to pay for everything. Federal...

A Saudi Oil Minister once famously said, "The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones. The oil age won't end because we run out of oil." Till today, demand for oil has only ever gone in one direction. And this has created things like cartelisation (OPEC). But the day that we have...

This is an understatement. Seba made a fundamental mistake here. He assumed that there's very similar learning curves for bioprocesses. To a point there are. But where with batteries they can just literally make the plants bigger to drop cost, biological processes have certain limits. You...

Big fan of Tony Seba. But he's got his blind spots. He's missed the mark on AI (mostly because he bought into Tesla's hype and insinuations). And he's really missed the mark on bioreactors (treating a biological process as scalable like chip manufacturing is some wacky stuff). I love his...

I could paste this in Climate Change. But I think the long term economic implications are profound for fossil fuel exporting nations like Canada. If you're under 50, you might like to see this change.

Nowhere. We've had a term of Trump already. And the Americans still get most of the best and brightest of the world, including from Europe. Have you seen salaries for skilled workers in Europe? It's becoming literal memes. The only place that does worse rewarding talent than Canada, is the...

The place that can't defend itself without the US and whose core industrial power based their industrial strategy on basically arbitrage between Russian energy and Chinese exports? A place which has basically missed most of the tech boom and is now trying to basically build a regulatory sector...

So the US has a lot of juicy Intel on India's going ons.

Reading this shows what's at stake: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/20/cia-analyst-whistleblower-trump-impeachment-ukraine/ The US is probably done if Trump wins and his supporters get to gut their bureaucracy to politicize it.

This is insufficient. It's a still a recipe for wage suppression. The comparison should not be to local median wage. It should be to the wage in that industry or employment field. As it stands, this rule would allow companies to bring in Data Scientists and Aerospace Engineers to Ontario for...

Opinion piece to deflect? Kinda sad how so many can deny what are significant statistical trends at this point, even while they fret about their own kids and grandkids prospects.

Honestly, if I was Trudeau, I'd call his bluff. The PM has the right as the Chief Executive to declassify. The only thing he can't risk is Five Eyes sourcing. And possibly ongoing collection and counterintelligence efforts. But let's be honest here. All three national parties have names on...

I get the conspiracy theory. I don't agree with it. He's extremely partisan. And he's doing it to stick out. Most Cabinet Confidence is at the Secret level. Not even TS. That's basically a police and background check. He's been in the public eye for most of his adult life. Very hard to...