A year ago, the BOC raised the alarm about "the pressing need for Canada to increase productivity {...}, it's an emergency". Of course, the Private Sector is not without fault. But Public (Non-Business) Sector Productivity has not improved in 20-years! https://t.co/FkOzISpL38

This chart is wild, Canadians are drowning in taxes. The average Canadian family now spends ~$47,000 per year on taxes and ~$13,000 per year on food, That's 3.6 TIMES more on taxes than food. The average Canadian family also now spends ~$24,000 per year on shelter. In other

A lot of business owners talk about the types of customers they want to attract but not enough try and make themselves look like the type of business that customer wants to do business with. You gotta be it before they’re gonna believe it.

Imagine. From over 5 years in a small cell in a maximum security prison. Nearly 14 years detained in the UK. To this. For the "privilege" Julian Assange must pay over half a million US dollars. Please help if you can: https://t.co/bBkYB5mycE #AssangeJet

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actually, I want to live in a country where the finance minister doesn't spout class-war bullshit to support destructive policies. I want to live in an entrepreneurial, dynamic, positive and high-growth society - where opportunities come from freedom and effort, not government

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Governments around the world: We need to stop the spread of fake news on X Mainstream Media:

Canada: YAY people are millionaires thank to their house price appreciation Also Canada: Why is our productivity so low and we can’t attract productive investment capital or talent to our country 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

The dark secret of capital gains tax during inflation—it taxes you for gaining nothing: If you have $400k in retirement assets, and 25% more money is “printed”, your assets are now worth $500k, but you are no richer. The dollar just became 25% less valuable. Although you are no

The road to socialism via inflation: • Print money, crash the reserve currency, destroy savers, and force them into inflated assets. • Asset inflation leads to inequality. Demonize asset holders and tax the nominal gains, thereby confiscating the real value of the assets.

The cancer rate for Amish is 60% lower than general population. Why?

People say the Biden White House didn't pressure Facebook to censor, but it did. FB to White House 3/21/21: "...in addition to removing... often-true content..." FB internally 4/21/21: "We are facing continued pressure...from the White House... to remove more... content..."

I agree with @mtaibbi: “The worse a country is, the more secrets it has.” Julian Assange didn’t compromise U.S. security. He embarrassed the U.S. government. That’s why they’re seeking to imprison him for 175 years. #freeassange https://t.co/9LOVM3fxWH

Tell me that new @Apple VR headset wasn't inspired by Dale... you can't...

It's pretty ironic that an operative of the CIA's propaganda arm tried to cast @GGreenwald—a career-long opponent of these pernicious security agencies—as a "far-right" figure 🤷 It's also a fairly weak attempt to deflect from valid critiques of his shady employer, @Bellingcat.

Today is a huge day for developers. 🤯 - ChatGPT API released (10x cheaper) - Whisper available in the API - Overhauled data usage policy - Focus on stability And more! Here’s a quick thread on everything we shipped today @OpenAI 🧵

What an incredible experience this was! You two were awesome to work with.

Though the West's Security State knows they can get the corporate media to say anything they tell them to say, even they must sometimes marvel at how easy it is. I'd bet anything they cackle as they recall: can you believe we got them to say Russia blew up its own pipeline?😂

Bank of Canada just admitted one of the reasons for their early pause in rate hikes is high household debt. Well, of course. Today Canada has a higher private debt/GDP than Japan at the peak of their real estate bubble!