A proud Canadian 🇨🇦 of Danish 🇩🇰 heritage, A Conservative who likes hunting, fishing & shooting sports. Eat, shop local & support your local humane society.
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Ivan retweeted
🇨🇦 CANADA’S GROCERY STORES HAVE DISCOVERED A CLEVER WAY TO CHARGE YOU MORE WITHOUT RAISING THE STICKER PRICE.
It’s called SHRINKFLATION.
Imagine this:
🥣 A 500g cereal box costs $5.
Next year, the box contains 425g.
The price? Still $5.
Congratulations.
YOU JUST PAID 17.6% MORE PER GRAM WITHOUT SEEING A PRICE INCREASE.
Now imagine this happening across your shopping cart.
🍫 Smaller chocolate bars.
🥔 Lighter bags of chips.
🧻 Fewer sheets of toilet paper.
🧴 Less detergent in the bottle.
🍪 Fewer cookies in the package.
And here’s the economic insult.
Your salary hasn’t necessarily increased.
Your grocery budget hasn’t increased.
But the amount of food and household essentials you’re bringing home has decreased.
Statistics Canada can capture shrinkflation in CPI through quantity adjustments, but shoppers often miss it when comparing shelf prices.
THE PRICE TAG TELLS YOU WHAT YOU PAY.
THE PACKAGE SIZE TELLS YOU WHAT YOU ACTUALLY GET.
Canada’s affordability crisis isn’t just about prices going up.
Sometimes it’s about getting less for the same money.
SAME PRICE. SMALLER PACKAGE. BIGGER BILL PER UNIT.
Welcome to the economy where even your groceries are downsizing.
🍁 @wealthmoose
#Canada #Inflation
Ivan retweeted
“This dooms the paid press to increasing reliance on corporate welfare and growing public contempt,” she told me. “Independents will fight on but taxpayers will be forced to support media they neither read nor watch nor listen to.”
open.substack.com/pub/peterm…
@CdnHeritage
Ivan retweeted
💥𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗖𝗕𝗖 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀?💥
Remind me again, was it $𝟲𝟬𝟬𝗠 𝗼𝗿 $𝟳𝟬𝟬𝗠 Mark Carney and the Liberals sent to Ukraine?
"Ukraine's corruption police tie senior security officials to major criminal ring"
-𝗥𝗲𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 | Nov 4th, 2026
Ivan retweeted
I had an opportunity to spend a week in the U.S., and I made a few observations.
We often hear Canadians proudly say, “We’re not like Americans.” But I’m curious about what we mean by that, and why we assume it is something to congratulate ourselves about.
The first thing I noticed was pride in their country. American flags everywhere! A sense that loving your country does not depend on who happens to be in power.
In Canada, we have seen the flag treated as controversial one moment and encouraged the next. Apparently, we need to check the political mood before deciding whether we can proudly fly our own flag. If we need permission to show pride in our country, what else have we learned to ask permission for?
So if pride in their country is one of the things that makes Americans different, that’s something I would welcome more of here.
I also noticed more personal autonomy and confidence. People seemed comfortable making their own decisions and standing behind their beliefs. Political disagreements? Plenty. But nobody I spoke with seemed to need permission to have an opinion.
When did walking on eggshells become a Canadian virtue? If Americans are more comfortable speaking their minds, why would we pride ourselves on being different?
There also seemed to be less expectation that government should have an answer for everything. People help themselves, help their neighbours and take responsibility for what comes next, without assuming government will step in and sort it all out.
Is that really something we want to distance ourselves from? Independence and personal responsibility sound good to me.
Taken all together, what I noticed was less fear. More willingness to try something, take a chance and live with some uncertainty. A confidence that you can figure things out as you go, even when you have to.
Are these qualities we should distance ourselves from?
I want Canadians to be informed, prepared and confident in their own judgment. Ask questions. Understand the risks. Take chances. Succeed. Fail. Learn and grow.
But for goodness’ sake, LIVE. We cannot let fear make every decision for us and expect government to fix everything.
So tell me: why is it so important to keep announcing that “we’re not like Americans”? What exactly are we congratulating ourselves on?
Give me something more than “we’re nicer.” When people are smeared, labelled and pushed out for expressing different views about this country, can we really say that with a straight face?
Besides, I met some pretty nice people down there too.
Ivan retweeted
When everyone is homeless, no one will be homeless.
Federal budget outlines plan to end homelessness within 10 years ctvnews.ca/politics/article/…
Ivan retweeted
🚨🇨🇦 THIS IS NOT A THIRD-WORLD COUNTRY. THIS IS TORONTO, CANADA.
These are pictures of the Gardiner Expressway, right in the heart of Canada’s largest city.
Look at the concrete. The cracks. The deterioration. The patchwork.
Millions of Canadians travel on infrastructure like this every day.
We somehow find billions for international commitments, grand announcements, political pet projects and endless promises to build a better tomorrow.
But what about maintaining the country we already built?
Canada is a G7 nation. Toronto is its financial capital.
Yet ordinary Canadians are left looking at infrastructure that raises serious questions about maintenance and public priorities.
And the irony?
We pay income taxes. Property taxes. Sales taxes. Fuel taxes. And taxes on practically everything else.
HOW MUCH MORE MUST CANADIANS PAY BEFORE BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE BECOMES A PRIORITY?
A country doesn’t become prosperous by announcing billion-dollar projects while neglecting what previous generations built.
You can’t build the future if you can’t maintain the present.
Welcome to Canada. Where the announcements are always brand new, but the concrete tells a different story. 🇨🇦
Ivan retweeted
🚨Allison Inquiry Update🚨
Lawyer Shawn Buckley believes Health Canada has committed criminal offences after unleashing a bioweapon on the Canadian people — now the agency is using a 15-year extension on access-to-information requests to bury the evidence.
Ivan retweeted
Vaccine injured Canadians have received just $20 million. Health Canada kept its own Pfizer SV40 review secret for three years while clinging to the "safe and effective" mantra.
Ivan retweeted
In 2017, the Trudeau gov put forward a plan to cut homelessness in half.
The current homeless population is now 160% larger than it was in 2017 according to Statistics Canada.
If your past accomplishments are any indication of your future success, CDN cities are going to completely overwhelmed in the next decade with a tripling of the current homeless population!
"We are putting Canada on a path to end homelessness within 10 years."
Finance Minister @FP_Champagne makes a bold promise while tabling Budget 2026
Ivan retweeted
Westinghouse was acquired by Brookfield while Mark Carney was running the firm, by the way.
Ivan retweeted
HARD FACT: Only 8% of Canadians want more immigration.
The will of the people is being ignored by Carney.
HE IS NOT A LEADER, HE'S A DICTATOR.
(End immigration. Start remigration.)
Ivan retweeted
Funny, because Canadian health care is around $7000 a year per person in taxes, so would that put it on par with what US health insurance costs? And there's the bonus of being seen by a doctor before you die.
A family health plan now costs $28,000 a year, and the line on this chart has been going one direction for 27 years.
Read more: unusualwhales.com/news/us-fa…
Ivan retweeted
BIG MONEY going to Ukraine in this Federal Budget 🇺🇦 BILLIONS. Also joining the EU’s €90 Billion Ukraine support Loan, $2 billion in operation unifier announced in Spring, $300 million assistance to Ukraine announced in spring
This is building Canada Strong 😅
Ivan retweeted
So Blacklock’s recently found out through the freedom of information act that Carney will soon be inserting a video of himself halfway into citizenship swearing in ceremonies. This is supposed to be a non-partisan event, but I guess the Liberals figured it would be a good way to promote dear leader and the Liberals.
This party is shameless.
Ivan retweeted
Industry committee wary of Chinese EVs, asks how @MarkJCarney import quota of 279,000 vehicles will bypass ban on slave-made auto parts: "Do you believe there's forced labour in China?"
blacklocks.ca/mps-wary-of-ch… #cdnpoli @GAC_Corporate
Ivan retweeted
Pierre said in August, Telesat spoke with Carney's office.
But DSX records show a Monthly Communication report Sept 11th, and multiple lobbying records targeting the PMO on:
• SEPT 3rd
• SEPT 4th
• SEPT 9th
• SEPT 11th
Telesat was doing A lot more than August @CPC_HQ!
🤔
🛰️ Carney stumbles, falls then has Minister Steven MacKinnon (badly) cover for him on violating the Conflict of Interest Act related to Telesat benefiting his good friend, CEO Dan Goldberg.
🙊 He refuses to answer if he ever DISCUSSED Telesat's $2.3B contract award with a public servant. Only that he wasn't involved in DECISIONS.
💥 "Oh, how he chooses his words carefully!"
🧑⚖️ Carney is caught. Guilty.
Ivan retweeted
This is modern Canada.
1 in 5 deaths attributed to medical murder. Canadian ‘doctors’ have killed more human beings under this program than the entire population of my city. The Liberal government now wants to amend the Criminal Code so these so-called doctors can’t be charged with murder.
- A veteran asking for a wheelchair ramp?
- Vaccine-injured seeking help?
- Sad? Depressed? Lonely?
- Elderly spouse too tired to care for you anymore?
Don’t be silly! Don’t be an inconvenience! Don’t be a burden on your family! Why so selfish?
Framing death as a beautiful, empowering experience is beyond sick. It won’t matter anyway because you will be dead. Canada has become unrecognizable.
There will be a reckoning.
@Kelsisheren
Ivan retweeted
Britain announced plans yesterday for new laws and a watchdog to oversee police facial recognition. 🧑⚖️
Canada must insist on strict limits when governments scan faces to identify people. Public safety cannot be a blank cheque for surveillance.
gov.uk/government/news/stron…
Ivan retweeted
🚨MAJOR BREAKING: The Carney Government is investing another $781 million—over 5 years—in failing immigration programs—and wants to add 750,000 immigrants a year.
Budget 2026 sets out the 2027–2029 Immigration Levels Plan in Chapter 3.4, targeting 370,000 new temporary resident arrivals and 380,000 permanent resident admissions in each of the three years. Set against the recent past, the document itself cites — 971,815 temporary arrivals in 2023 and 673,650 permanent residents in 2024 — that is a reduction of roughly 62% in temporary arrivals and 21% in permanent admissions. The plan is framed throughout as a return to "sustainable levels," with the cover letter claiming the government has "taken back control of immigration" and an operating goal of pushing temporary residents down to 5% of the population, from around three million today toward roughly 2.08 million.
The central mechanism is a pathway allowing up to 200,000 temporary residents already in the country to transition to permanent residency by the end of 2027, with 100,000 workers routed through Express Entry or the Provincial Nominee Program. Because those people are already residents, a substantial share of the 380,000 annual permanent admissions will be internal conversions rather than new arrivals — meaning actual new inflow runs closer to 370,000 temporary plus perhaps 180,000 genuinely new permanent residents. Combined with the departures the plan depends on, net population growth lands somewhere around 100,000 to 250,000 a year, well below pre-2022 levels.
The chapter is supported by $151.5 million over five years to reform the Temporary Foreign Worker Program across regional labour market alignment, processing times and employer compliance, plus an International Talent Attraction Strategy and Action Plan worth $1.7 billion over 13 years carried over from Budget 2025. The system itself is funded at $511 million gross over five years, the transition pathway at $302.3 million, asylum processing at $98 million and biometrics at $90 million. The study permit cap is cut by more than half.
