Desk
Parliament, provinces, and pocketbooks
Ottawa and the provinces measured by citizen impact: housing starts, deficits, carbon and fuel policy, major projects, speech and press fights, and the farm–regulator line.
Accountability|Canada
Landowners near Rigaud say Ottawa’s high-speed dream means broken farms, shaky ridership math, and expropriation risk — and they’re telling officials to get off their property.
Policy Watch|Canada
With mail ballots flooding Elections Alberta, voters face a remain-or-start-separation choice plus immigration and constitutional questions that read like a western taxpayers’ indictment of Confederation.
Accountability|Canada
Accreditation fights, subsidy asymmetry, platform rules, and libel pressure shape who gets heard — then a verified directory of independent Canadian outlets and reporters with working links.
Accountability|Canada
Benita Pedersen faces days of AHRC hearings over a 2023 flyer opposing a rainbow crosswalk. JCCF is defending; Rebel News is pushing a Scrap Section 3 campaign with a Hwy 2 billboard and a UCP convention petition.
Accountability|Canada
A sourced accountability ledger — deficit math, Bill C-5 fast-tracks, housing delivery gaps, Brookfield ethics optics, and immigration integrity — measured against what supporters say he fixed.
Accountability|Canada
A Calgary chambers hearing pushed Rebel News’s mandamus application toward an expedited schedule before the Oct. 19 referendum — a process fight over third-party money reports, not a ruling on the ballot questions.
Policy Watch|Canada
Indigenous, environmental, and labour coalitions filled downtown Toronto against the PM’s trillion-dollar pitch — and named Mackenzie Valley, Grays Bay, and a nuclear DGR as the next Building Canada Act flashpoints.
Accountability|Canada, United States
Record pump prices in Canada and the U.S. are real. The viral “park the trucks” shutdown for October 1 remains social-media rumour — the same claim Snopes and OOIDA torched south of the border.
Data Desk|Canada, United States, European Union
From $6.29 U.S. gallons to $2.77 Canadian litres to €2.08 EU diesel, one fuel is driving trucking, farming, and grocery anxiety. Here are the sourced numbers.
Cost of Living|Canada
Wet fields and ~276.7 ¢/L diesel are squeezing Canada’s most expensive crop year for some growers. Grain groups want a temporary per-litre rebate; grocery transmission is the household risk.
Policy Watch|Canada
Federal gas (−10¢/L) and diesel (−4¢/L) relief now runs into early 2027. Against $2.75+/L diesel, truckers and analysts call the diesel cut symbolic.
Data Desk|Canada, United States, European Union, World
A chart-heavy explainer on why ‘debt/GDP’ headlines mislead when coverage (federal vs general government) and denominators differ.
Housing|Canada
CMHC and StatsCan data show completions rising — but not fast enough to close the gap between household formation and new stock in major metros.
Economy & Jobs|Canada
StatsCan LFS unemployment near cyclical lows coexists with regional participation gaps and youth underemployment that headline rates hide.
Cost of Living|Canada, United States, European Union
Food CPI cooled from peaks, but cumulative price levels remain far above 2019 — and national baskets differ more than politicians admit.
Housing|Canada
CMHC Rental Market Survey data show vacancy rates in several metros still well below the ~3% band often associated with balanced markets.
Accountability|Canada, United States, European Union, World
Auditor-general and GAO-style findings across jurisdictions keep finding the same pattern — dollars obligated, metrics vague, citizen results unclear.
Policy Watch|Canada, United States, European Union
Battery plants and chip fabs draw billions in Canada, the U.S., and the EU — job and investment promises should be tracked like bond covenants.
