I have no particular bone to pick with Anil Arora's career as Chief Statistician, but anyone who utters the phrase 'Canada's secret weapon is data' is courting some heavily deserved mockery.

#VanRE Large chunk of housing demand comes from investors. Responsible for 30% of purchases in the first 3 months 2023. Market share has largely been taken over by investors. Flippers & foreign buyers are often singled out as major drivers of speculation. cbc.ca/news/business/…

Beijing funding fentanyl trafficking: ex-AG William Barr.
Congress heard 'compelling evidence #Beijing is paying organized crime to traffic fentanyl, while Chinese Communist Party officials are implicated in drug-money laundering.'
Via Sam Cooper
thebureau.news/p/beijing-inte…

Congrats Darryl Greer Ian Young and @cdnpressnews. Fun to hang out.

Congratulations to DouglasTodd for his well-deserved win at the NNA/CCJ last night. I was honoured to be among such amazing journalists last night and proud of our work on the housing crisis Dan Fumano loriculbert.

Postmedia journalists win two National Newspaper Awards nationalpost.com/news/canada/po…

Trudeau government intervenes at last minute to save Vancouver blockader, who has been arrested 10 times, from deportation.
Joyce Murray helps deliver the 'good news' to Zain Haq, a Pakistani international student.
Via Stefan Labbé Tristin Hopper
#cdnimm
nationalpost.com/opinion/first-…

New from me: Premier David Eby was blindsided by the revelation this week that PHO Dr. Bonnie Henry commissioned a report on the “economics of safe supply” from an American researcher who has called for the restigmatization of drug use. #bcpoli

vancouversun.com/news/local-new…

Why is Brad West one of the few from the left who want to expose this Liberal/corporate assault on low-skill workers in Canada?
Recent immigrants looking for work suffer even more than domestic workers.
#cdnpoli #cdnimm

Trudeau's hoped-for surge in support among under-40s has yet to materialize, discovers Angus Reid Institute
Poilievre is viewed more positively among Gen Z than Trudeau (29% vs 17%).
Poilievre also has higher favourability among Millennials.
#cdnpoli
angusreid.org/budget-deficit…

Housing starts plummeting. Good night, Irene!

🧵 Here's an updated look at how employers are using the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

I thought companies would throttle back their use of TFWP because of rising unemployment, lots of int'l students already in Canada, etc.

I was wrong. (1/9)

What happens when genuine sympathy for civilian suffering mixes with a fervor that borders on the oppressive? My essay : theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

“Where does that leave them? Return home poor and in embarrassment, or claim refugee status, which gets them another three to four years,” he said, adding that they could then qualify for a work permit.

Yes, math is different when it comes to students cheating.