Tim Warman @TimwarmanTim

Canada’s boreal forest — the source of much of the wildfire smoke drifting into the U.S. — isn’t like our managed forests in the lower 48. It’s the largest intact forest ecosystem on Earth: roughly 1.3 billion acres (about 78 times larger than Alaska’s Tongass, our biggest national forest, and 7 times larger than all 154 U.S. National Forests combined). It stretches in an almost continuous belt from the Yukon to Newfoundland. Why can’t they just do controlled burns like we do here? Because most of it is remote, roadless wilderness. • Less than 9% of Canada’s population lives in the boreal region. • Less than 1% of the forest itself is developed. • Vast areas have no roads and are only accessible by aircraft or winter roads. You can’t send crews in to do prescribed burns across a billion+ acres of inaccessible terrain the way we can in populated areas near roads and communities in the U.S. Wildfire has been nature’s primary management tool in these ecosystems for thousands of years. Smoke reaching the Northeast isn’t new either. It happened in 1950, 1988, 1995, 2002, 2017, 2021, 2023, 2025, and now 2026. Weather (especially upper-level wind patterns) determines where the smoke goes, not just where the fires are burning. Blaming Canada’s government for “not controlling” these fires is political theater. The scale and inaccessibility make large-scale suppression or prevention across that wilderness fundamentally different — and in many places, practically impossible — from managing forests near U.S. population centers. Nature runs that forest. Politicians don’t. Let’s stop pretending otherwise.

Canada’s Pacific Gateway Is Wide Open to Cartels and Hostile States thebureau.news/p/canadas-paci…

RANDOM ANGELS GONNA GUIDE YOU U2’s new single “Street of Dreams” adapts an idea from Bono’s memoir Surrender. In Chapter 7, right after unpacking Jesus on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24), Bono writes about strangers who can become angels: “I have taken flights where the person seated next to me — the one I was dodging conversation with — turned out to hold a valuable piece of the puzzle of my life that I would be lost without. When you’re open, a hitchhiker — a ‘randomer,’ as my daughter Eve calls them — can become an angel. When you’re least expecting one.” This is straight out of Hebrews 13:2: “Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels.” (NKJV) Moral of the story? Stay open. The next “randomer” might just be your angel on the road.

STREET OF DREAMS U2’s new single begins and ends with a prayer that is easy to miss: God hear me shout Lend your ear to my prayer When I’m far from anywhere Down to my last breath of air And it draws from Psalm 61 from The Message: “God, listen to me shout, bend an ear to my prayer. When I’m far from anywhere, down to my last gasp, I call out, ‘Guide me up High Rock Mountain!’” Psalm 61:1-2 MSG

"Seeing our podcast and our interview with Ambassador Hoekstra being mentioned by media outlets around the world has been incredibly rewarding. But I'm just a lowly academic from Halifax. It's not normal for someone like me to obtain critical information that mainstream media should have uncovered in the first place."

Andrew Huberman prays every day, on his knees before important things and before sleep. The neuroscientist started reading the Bible a few years ago and found deep wisdom in it. As a scientist, he sees the limits of human perception, animals see things we can’t, so he believes there’s more energy and purpose out there. Theo Von agreed, saying he tries to position himself as the best “receptor” for ideas and signals from above. Jesus said: “Split wood, I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there.” (Gospel of Thomas) A candid talk about faith, science, and staying open.

Learn to love the interruptions. Find the fun in the delay, the humor in the challenge, the pleasure in the daily commute. A great deal of life is spent dealing with interruptions and waiting for the conditions to turn. We think, "If I can just get past this, then things will open up." But the interruption is not standing between you and your life. It is your life. Yes, I prefer hassle-free days too. But you'll rarely find a situation that is all bad. There are little pockets of joy folded inside the annoyances we face. There is always fun to be had, if you go looking for it. This is one of the arts of living. It's the art of enjoying the imperfect days. It's the art of making all the moments count.

Tamara Lich’s sentence ends in January 2027, but the Crown is forcing the entire case back to the Court of Appeal — still demanding 7 years in prison for Lich and 8 years for Chris Barber. The Justice Centre has funded lawyers to defend Mr. Barber since 2022. Ontario taxpayers have already spent roughly $15 million on this prolonged prosecution. This is what political lawfare looks like.

Tamara Lich 🇨🇦 @LichTamara

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My sentence will be served January 21, 2027 and then it’ll be back to court to start this process all over again. By the time this is over, if it ever truly is, the Ontario taxpayers will be on the hook for around $15M for the prosecution of our case alone. The crown prosecutors

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It's weeks like this where I fear for Canada's future. We have governments putting out housing plans they can't explain, and a media that struggles to report even basic facts, and won't correct their errors. I'm not sure how Canadians can be expected to trust our institutions. - Dr Mike Moffat, Economist, Western U

If your sleep feels unrefreshing, start with the basics. Five questions matter: • Are you actually sleeping 7-9 hours (not just spending that much time in bed)? • Are you getting bright outdoor light within 30 minutes of waking for at least 15-30 minutes? • Are you waking up at roughly the same time every morning? • Are you eating within 3 hours of bedtime? • Are you drinking alcohol too close to bed? Ideally: yes, yes, yes, no, no. If not, you have your first targets!

Ontario school board training materials appear to be training teachers to override parents on gender issues. In role-play scenarios, a teacher who suggests speaking to parents is portrayed as doing the wrong thing. Training teachers to hide information from parents about their own children is a direct and unjustified attack on parental rights.

Juno News @junonewscom

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In a 2021 KPRDSB professional development session for Gender-Sexuality Alliance staff, participants engaged in a role-play titled “A Student Comes Out” where a student named Fiona tries to come out as non-binary to Mr. Straight because she fears her parents.

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This is brilliantly written. “The real scandal is not that Canada faces secular stagnation; it is that the elite engineered it, denied it, wrapped it in climate rhetoric, and now blame external shocks while the data scream that this is a made‑in‑Canada crisis.” Following James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy colleague of the prolific @MPelletierCIO Smart guys.

James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy

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Canada: Crying Over Spilt Milk in a Self‑Inflicted Stagnation Canada’s elite have spent a quarter‑century turning a rich, opportunity‑dense economy into a slow‑growth, over‑levered cul‑de‑sac, and they still insist nothing is structurally wrong. There is no sense crying over

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“Energy contributed perhaps more than half of the 0.5 per cent monthly growth, whether it’s from conventional and nonconventional oil and gas extraction, pipeline transportation, but also refined petroleum product manufacturing. Those all went up,” says LaPointe. “We’ve seen more global demand for Canadian energy, and at the same time, the fact that the Trans Mountain pipeline is now in full capacity, really supports the growth of that sector,” says LaPointe.

BNN Bloomberg @BNNBloomberg

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Canadian energy is carrying the economy, as tariffs continue to hit manufacturing, economists say bnnbloomberg.ca/business/econo…

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✅First Nations own source revenues went up by 159%. ✅16 of the 20 nations have equity options in the pipeline. Yes nations will have different interests, which is why ongoing dialogue is important. @ShannonAJ1 Every project can be a win/win and to me this is economic reconciliation.

The Hub @TheHubCanada

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‘Their own source revenues went up 159%’: @ShannonAJ1 on why LNG projects in Canada are the new model for economic reconciliation. thehub.ca/podcast/video/…

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Your 90-year-old self would give anything to be where you are right now. Lift weights, walk, eat healthy, and sleep well. You are living your golden years right now. You're younger than you think you are. Don't waste it.

@AlderLaneEggs Bob Rennie, the marketer the industry calls its “condo king,” is no newcomer to a Vancouver condo bailout. The city’s troubled Olympic Village — a bailout that put taxpayers on the hook for some $740 million before it landed in receivership on Robertson’s watch in 2010 — was relaunched for sale the following year under Robertson’s council, with Rennie brought in to market the unsold units. As this writer reported in The Province in 2014, Rennie went on to organize an exclusive $25,000-a-seat lunch giving developers private access to Robertson, an arrangement that drew outrage as a case study in how real-estate money fills a governing party’s coffers. A decade on, Rennie has, by his own on-record account, lobbied Carney on a plan to have the federal housing agency backstop foreign-investor condo purchases, ahead of Carney’s federal election win. He has also hosted Liberal fundraisers featuring Carney as guest — one last February, a month after the Prime Minister returned from Beijing and announced a new strategic partnership with China. None of this is alleged corruption. It is documented proximity. Pierre Poilievre put it more bluntly. Carney, he said, “seems to have a bailout for anyone who’s part of the Liberal club of power brokers, corporate insiders and lobbyists.” He is the opposition leader — but the logic is hard to dispel. Carney has been lobbied by, and has filled his fundraising coffers at events hosted by, Vancouver developers who prospered selling condos into offshore demand, whose most prominent figure has pressed him to keep that market open, even at prices far beyond what Canadians earn.

.@CharlesLammam: Canada has an investment crisis—and we need more than a Wall Street pitch to fix it thehub.ca/2026/06/24/can…

Sober decade-long story on 3 fronts 1/ More Canadian capital has left the country than has come in. 2/ Business investment per worker has fallen while American and OECD peers have pulled ahead. 3/ Our most promising entrepreneurs are increasingly choosing to build elsewhere.

The Hub @TheHubCanada

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.@CharlesLammam: Canada has an investment crisis—and we need more than a Wall Street pitch to fix it thehub.ca/2026/06/24/can…

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