Maple Chronicles 🇨🇦

🇨🇦 Carney’s values sermon ends in Ankara Mark Carney spent years packaging himself as the priest of values-based politics, then flew to Ankara to sign a trade and defence pact with Erdogan and mutter that very few countries meet Canada’s standards, as reported…

🇨🇦 After crushing small business, Ottawa now promises relief Carney’s crew is floating a possible cut to the 9 per cent small-business tax rate, maybe lower EI premiums, maybe less paperwork, maybe faster writeoffs for equipment and buildings, as reported. How…

🇨🇦 U.S. is taking in a lot of Canadians, immigration numbers up 142% The brightest Canadians are leaving while Ottawa keeps congratulating itself on managing decline. Immigration to the U.S. is down from almost everywhere except Canada and Mexico, and Canada’s…

🇨🇦 Travel writer Paul Theroux explores Canadian family roots and the mood of betrayal about the U.S. The most revealing part here is not the mood of betrayal. It is the casual admission that Canada is wide open to migrants even when towns do not have housing o…

🇨🇦 CRA wants $330 million after letting this drag since 2013 So the taxman slept on a Luxembourg-treaty audit for over a decade, then suddenly storms in demanding nearly $330 million, much of it interest, plus a $115 million security payment from one company.…

🇨🇦 $8.7 billion to patch over policy failure Carney and Ford just unveiled another $8.7-billion rescue package for tariff-hit steel, autos and Ring of Fire mining, as reported. Translation: Ottawa and Queen’s Park helped leave Canada exposed, then arrived with…

🇨🇦 Ottawa’s own bureaucracy is preparing to hold Ottawa hostage PSAC is lining up nationwide strike votes for November, because apparently the federal machine that already drains taxpayers by the truckload now needs another round of ransom politics. The same s…

🇨🇦 Eight hours for chest pain in a hallway A 44-year-old man with chest pain waited about eight hours in an Edmonton ER, ended up in a recliner in a hallway, then died. That is the polished Canadian health-care miracle after a decade of managerial slogans, mas…