matt roberts
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The final and 3rd Part of my History of Quebec VC answers the question I set out to answer at the beginning. What is Canada's most important VC fund? Fun fact, you've likely never heard of it. This one:
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Thank you Kevin!
As a columnist, few have been as consistent as @markrmcqueen on the dangers of surging antisemitism. Heās been there with us since the beginning for now over 2 years. And heās continued to speak up from the pages of the Toronto Star no less. #StandTogether
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Just so everyone understands. Letās say that: 1) Iāve never been to Canada 2) speak fluent French, average English 3) am over 40 years old 4) have a 2 year college diploma 5) am working in an assistant role 6) spouse with same background I have above this cutoff score
Francophone draw of 6,000 people with the CRS cutoff of 399!!! Thatās what they were setting up for. Distract people with some CEC movement finally to continue the lower score francophone immigration agendaā¦ Check the CRS calculator - it doesnāt take much to get that scoreā¦
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New blog post from me: Is Canadaās news media complicit in the ongoing attacks against the Jewish community? Todayās 4:25am EST news alert about a Chanukkah terrorist attack in Sydney is a wake-up call, both literally and figuratively, for all of those whoāve spent the last
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I look forward to being invited to a big boardroom table on Bay Street, where some of Canadaās brave (non Jewish) business leaders meet to declare that theyāre ready to face the hate thatās just outside their own office windows. Until thenā¦. #StandUpToJewishHate
@markrmcqueen š to @markrmcqueen for continuing to speak out against š & its close relative "apathy" Even more što him for doing it despite it not being a fashionable thing to do in š Hopefully many more will follow in Mark's courageous foot steps before the š so many knew & š is gone
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Columbia seniors: automate software engineering before someone else does. $300k/yr + competitive equity, SF.
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Itās amazing how the reality of surrogacy brings you around to the Catholic position on the whole business.
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Too long. Politicians have been warned, time and time and time again; from a May 2024 @TorontoStar column: "As I watchedĀ anti-IsraelĀ protestors block rush hour traffic at Yonge and Bloor again last week and read about Jewish Canadians being harassed at the University of Toronto,
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I embrace free speech, but chants that are widely interpreted as calls for terror attacks against Jews do not reflect the Canadian values that I grew up with.
How long can government failure to address the causes of antisemitism in Canada go on before things escalate? And by address, I don't mean mealy-mouthed statements and photo-ops.
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Cisco has officially recovered from the 2000 dot-com crash.
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New blog post from me: Rampant antisemitism, ever-higher airport fees, ādecolonizingā healthcare....are we living in a simulation? Ā It wasnāt until a @TorontoPolice Service officerĀ turned offĀ the playing of āO Canadaā that I realized that we all could be living in a simulation.
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From 2010 to 2023 the average income of a household increased from $96,900 to $111,600. An increase of 15.2%. This is less that half the rate of increase of their income tax burden which grew a whopping 41.4%
The average Canadian Household paid 41.4% more in income taxes in 2023 than in 2010.
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I disagree with this guy on almost everything. But I applaud politicians who stand on their convictions and leave cabinet when they can no longer unequivocally support policies.
This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec. You can find my full statement below.
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People are leaving Britain in droves, we face a "growth emergency" and Labour's tax bonanza is driving wealth out of Britain, Business Secretary Peter Kyle has said in an extraordinary admission.
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People are leaving Britain in droves, we face a "growth emergency" and Labour's tax bonanza is driving wealth out of Britain, Business Secretary Peter Kyle has said in an extraordinary admission.
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Thatās actually very sad to see. We reviewed the immigration consultations reports with @StevePaolasini and saw that stakeholders mostly preferred to keep skilled immigrants in the country to help grow the economy. That feedback was barely considered in the immigration plan
Canadaās highly skilled immigrants are leaving the fastest: report
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If Justin Trudeau had introduced a budget with a deficit nearly twice as large as the previous year, I am 100% certain no pundit would be wondering aloud whether it constituted a rightward shift.
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What this means is that itās actually cheaper for us to transition skilled workers already integrated into the Canadian economy to permanent residence than the protected persons transition. If we let in 115K workers instead that would only cost 67.5 million. Almost half the cost
I highlighted the relevant sections. You can see how no target amount is specified for the protected persons but notice the price tag of 120.4 million over four years. For the temp workers the number is clearly specified as 33K and the price tag ONLY 19.4 million in comparison!
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Worth a read
I want to take some time to break down the Canadian 2026 immigration levels plan and highlight some of the discrepancies and questions I personally have with it. More details to come in a longer article but letās start with the lowest hanging fruit - the one time initiatives
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Sweden's pension funds are facing eye-watering losses after they invested heavily in Net Zero projects that are now going bust, leaving the retirement savings of millions at risk.
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Sweden's pension funds are facing eye-watering losses after they invested heavily in Net Zero projects that are now going bust, leaving the retirement savings of millions at risk.
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Someone should check on Minister Guibeault
For several years, one of the worldās top oil forecasters seemed sure that demand growth would soon plateau. That certainty is fraying, writes @oil_gs01
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If only we had a ruthless technocrat who swore that he would be "completely focused on getting our economy back on track" as Prime Minister. And yet, this was curiously absent from the budget?
The fastest growing expenditures in the budget are debt charges & seniors benefits. If we're going to actually tackle public spending especially with an aging population, we need to fix OAS. Starting clawbacks around $100k would save billions and be fundamentally fairer.
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"One in three working journalists in the country already work for CBC/Radio Canada. If an 11 percent hike in funding is reflected in newsroom job growth, that number could move closer to 37 per cent. Federal funding for āprivate sectorā news organizations has remained flat (with
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"Their key measure of immobility, which shows how tightly a childās income rank in their late 20s and early 30s correlates with their parentsā, increased by 21 percent from 0.202 to 0.245 between the 1963 and 1985 cohorts. For early Millennials born in the early 1980s, parental
.@CharlesLammam: A retreat from opportunity: Is the Canadian dream still alive? https://t.co/WdXWEh5umI
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