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Matt Schellenberger retweeted
đ¨BREAKING NEWS: the Orwellian Surveillance state is officially coming to Canada.
The Carney government just filed a motion to ram Bill C-22, the mass Canadian spy bill, through Parliament by the end of this week.
Hereâs their play:
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Amendments kept SECRET from the public before the vote
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Zero discussion on any remaining amendments
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Weeks of expert testimony from the Privacy Commissioner, lawyers, security companies, discarded
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Only 30 minutes of committee debate
They want all the big tech companies to be forced into metadata retention, encryption backdoors, warrantless data sharing.
Not to mention that they introduced Bill C-36, which strips the Privacy Commissionerâs role in private sector privacy regulation.
The privacy regulator gutted on Monday.
The surveillance bill rammed through on Tuesday.
The amendments hidden from Canadians on Wednesday.
Spying on us by next week?
So this is what Carney means when he said doing things âat speeds not seen in generations?â
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Matt Schellenberger retweeted
You've likely seen the headlines from bills C-34, C-36, and C-22 in the media.
Each may sound reasonable on their own: protect kids online, modernize privacy, help police catch criminals.
But buried within is an emerging Digital Regulatory Superpower unlike anything Canadians have ever seen.
These bills hand one unelected commission power over what Canadians can say, what stays private, and who the state can watch.
As of today, the Federal Government is rushing to enact massive Internet Surveillance Reform into law without proper debate.
Jun 15
You have to read Bill C-34 on The Commission to believe it. It sets the rules on age verification, social media bans, and content removals while serving as combined regulator, investigator and advocate. At the start, Chair alone can be the full Commission.
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Jun 13
RT @mattdykema: We worked 16â18 hour shifts producing the first versions of the Falcon 9 thrusters.
To this day, it is still the hardest mâŚ
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Matt Schellenberger retweeted
Jun 11
Ayn Randâs warning was not about some distant dystopia. It was about the moment a country starts punishing production and rewarding political access.
Look at Liberal Canada.
If you want to build, drill, mine, farm, hire, invest, or expand, you need permission from people who produce nothing but paperwork. If you play the subsidy game, hire the right lobbyist, repeat the right slogans, and flatter the right ministers, money magically appears.
Work gets taxed. Risk gets regulated. Failure gets funded. Competence gets buried under process. Graft gets renamed âpartnership.â Waste gets called âinvestment.â Favours get dressed up as policy.
This is how countries decline. Not all at once. Slowly, stupidly, and with press releases.
Canada does not need more managers of decline. It needs a government that respects the people who actually produce the wealth in the first place.
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Matt Schellenberger retweeted
Jun 11
đ Trans Mountain is apportioned, i.e full capacity.
Itâs only been in service for two years.
Demand for Canadian heavy oil in global markets has been proven beyond a doubt.
Jun 10
Trans Mountain pipeline in Canada hits full capacity two years after upgrade dlvr.it/TSzV5h
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Not sure how I feel about thisâŚbut I guess weâre going to see. đŤŁ
Jun 8
"Assuming there's no complications carrying forward with the #NHL, Mike Babcock will be the next coach of the @EdmontonOilers. It's inevitable."
-@Bob_Stauffer on @OilersNow this afternoon
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Yes, yes it was. đ
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Worst energy shock in history transpiring; inventories about to bottom; Germany buying BC LNG; South Korea, India and China all come to Canada in the same two week period asking for oil and gas; TSX O&G index up 35% YTD.
The Canadian Left:
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I honestly donât get the appeal of Carney. Itâs all artificial, and agonizingly clear, none of the countryâs and its peoples challenges seem to register. Itâs just full speed ahead on the Carney/Liberal plan, everything else be damned.
Imagine having a Prime Minister that laughs at a woman who lost her job and became homeless, only to then refuse to answer after getting called out on making a joke of it.
Well you don't have to imagine.
Here he is.
Share this with a Liberal voter.
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May 30
YikesâŚand yet somehow this government stays popular. One wonders about the impact of legacy media in this framing, particularly among boomers. Elbows down. đŤŁ
âźď¸CANADA JOINS EQUATORIAL GUINEA
in an economic recession.
Russia IS NOT even in a recession right now.
Ukraine is being bombed and its not in a recession.
Afghanistan is NOT in a recession.
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May 27
Wow - we camp there a lot, that is mighty brave.
May 27
In Alberta news, some crazy fucker breaks a world record driving off our local waterfall. Shout out to Dusty Friesen and his boat named Dent.
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Matt Schellenberger retweeted
May 25
The fatal error of the Liberals and NDP is treating wealth like a pie instead of a garden.
A pie gets divided. A garden gets cultivated. Different rules entirely.
Prosperity is not something elites hide in a vault after stealing it from âthe people.â It comes from energy, investment, risk, productivity, contracts, trust, stable laws, entrepreneurs willing to fail, workers willing to build, and markets coordinating millions of decisions nobody could centrally plan. That machinery is messy, imperfect, and deeply human. But it creates abundance.
The modern socialist instinct skips all that. It sees unequal outcomes and assumes exploitation must be the cause. So instead of asking, âWhat creates prosperity?â it asks, âWho can we punish for having more?â
That mindset slowly turns productive citizens into tax livestock and businesses into political punching bags. Investment hesitates. Innovation slows. Talent leaves. Capital hides. Energy projects stall. Housing gets strangled by regulation. Then politicians stand in front of the economic crater they helped dig and announce another subsidy funded by debt.
That is the boiled frog problem in modern Canada. The decline happens gradually enough that people normalize it.
The tragedy is that compassion without economic reality eventually destroys the very engine that funds compassion in the first place. You cannot redistribute wealth that nobody creates.
So they do not really raise the floor. They lower the ceiling, weaken the pillars underneath it, and call the falling dust âfairness.â
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Matt Schellenberger retweeted
May 21
The UAE is building a ~1.4MM Bbl/d, 370km pipeline costing ~$4BN USD, started in 2025 and onstream in 2027. Canada aims to potentially build a 1MM Bbl/d pipeline, to cost ~$40BN, take 8 years, and is tying it to an obsolete/costly $30BN Pathways project. See the difference???
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May 19
Interesting.
Elon Musk just described how the entire government operates in a single sentence.
Musk: âPaying people to do nothing doesnât make sense.â
Then he told a Milton Friedman story that should terrify every bureaucrat on the payroll.
Friedman watched workers digging ditches with shovels.
He suggested they use excavators instead.
Someone pushed back.
âBut then weâre going to lose a lot of jobs.â
Musk: âFriedman says, well, in that case, why donât you have them use teaspoons?â
One sentence.
Thatâs all it took to gut the entire logic of modern government.
The teaspoon is not a punchline.
It is the actual policy.
Every agency that would cease to exist if it actually solved the problem it was created for.
Every department that measures success by headcount instead of output.
Every approval that routes through nine desks before someone can say yes.
Teaspoons.
The system doesnât want excavators.
Excavators finish the job.
And a finished job is the one thing the system canât afford.
So it hands you a teaspoon. Calls it a career. Gives you a pension for never asking why the ditch took forty years.
But this isnât about laziness.
Itâs about control.
A person digging with a teaspoon doesnât have time to build something better.
Doesnât have the energy to question the plan.
Doesnât have a thought left to ask if the ditch even needed digging.
Busy people donât ask dangerous questions.
Thatâs the point.
The economy doesnât run on productivity.
It runs on the appearance of productivity.
Millions of people sit at desks right now doing work a single script could replace by morning.
They know it.
Their managers know it.
The people who sign their budgets know it.
But the teaspoon stays in their hand.
Because the moment you hand someone an excavator, they finish by noon.
And a person with a free afternoon starts thinking. Starts building. Starts wondering why they needed permission to dig in the first place.
Thatâs the thing the system canât survive.
Not unemployment.
Free time.
Musk didnât tell a joke on Rogan.
He described the longest con in modern governance.
Keep them digging.
Keep them busy.
Keep the teaspoon in their hand so they never look up long enough to see the ditch was pointless from the start.
Friedman told that story sixty years ago.
He meant it as a warning.
The system heard every word.
It just made sure everyone kept calling it a joke so no one would recognize it as a confession.
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May 17
Many of these institutions are not even hiding it anymore, so much for speaking against the âstateâ. Mainstream media is on life support as it should be, itâs become partisan beyond measure. I grew up watching CBC and the National, now I struggle every time I turn it on. Newspapers that used to be seen as pillars of journalism have faded into mediocrity and laziness. The globe and mail, the times, on and on. X is where I get most of my news now, because I can follow and engage with multiple sides and counterpoints are clear and accessible. Unfortunately many, especially those 50 still believe that news is fact and government generally has our best interests at heart. Both are being severely tested in front of our eyes. My mom, a retired teacher, still watches CBC. Sheâs always been left, and thatâs fine. I was too once. But increasingly her counter facts have become counter opinions, with language that sounds more like judgement of person than argument of fact. This is whatâs happened to the left too often, theyâve made it about morality, and if youâre against an idea or policy youâre against them. And are treated as such. Climate change, immigration, freedom of speech, etc. This hubris cuts off debate and hurts society. Itâs happened in much of Europe and is happening here. Youâre with us or against us, no room for debate. Very sad and quite dangerous. The UK has shown us that. I hope it can change. By the way still love mom very much!
May 16
The Star reportedly pulled Supriya:
She criticized Carney on Modi.
Called out the India file.
Questioned the foreign interference cover up & Bill C9.
Now sheâs gone.
Youâre allowed to write whatever you want about Carney in Canadian media.
As long as itâs nice. đ¤Ł
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Matt Schellenberger retweeted
May 16
Did you know that recent changes to recycling rules are quietly making your food more expensive? Hereâs why.
Itâs called EPR â Extended Producer Responsibility.
Under EPR programs, companies are now paying much more to recycle packaging and manage waste. Those added costs donât just disappear. They move through the supply chain and eventually show up at the checkout counter.
Few people are talking about it, but recycling policy is becoming another permanent cost layer in our food system.
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May 16
So much YES! đ¤¤
May 16
We're so back.
An entrepreneur is restoring Pizza Huts to their former glory.
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Matt Schellenberger retweeted
May 15
"Itâs astonishing that almost no media outlet has reported on the UNâs downgrading of some of the most extreme climate scenarios that helped drive the urgency behind the Paris Climate Accord and carbon taxes around the world.
The UN-backed scientific community is now acknowledging that the planet is likely not warming as fast as some earlier worst-case projections suggested. Canadians deserve to know this, especially as major policies continue to reshape economies, energy systems, and food affordability."
May 15
This week on The Food Professor Podcast:
âĄď¸ The Bank of Canada got it wrong again on counter-tariffs.
âĄď¸ Are Ontario dairy farmers done with milk dumping?
âĄď¸ Dunkinâ Donuts returns to Canada.
âĄď¸ Savoura saves Serres Demers.
âĄď¸ Is the industrial carbon tax dead with the Alberta pipeline deal?
âĄď¸ Shopping for sardines in L.A.
Plus, Kim Furlong, CEO of Retail Council of Canada, joins us to discuss surveillance pricing, price gouging, and the grocery code of conduct.
Listen below.
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May 14
Life note: Try to hang with great people doing big things with shared passion. And booze. That helps too. đđ
#leadership
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