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What the Epstein files tell us about extreme wealth

The Epstein files aren’t just about one wealthy predator.

They reveal how extreme wealth creates a system where the ultra-rich protect each other, avoid consequences, and exploit power, while everyone else pays the price. patrioticmillionaires.org/perspectives...

Advocates urge Ottawa to extend ‘no-brainer’ tax incentive for employee ownership It took Peter Deitz eight years to figure out the best way to sell his business. But it wasn’t until the federal government opened up a new option for succession planning that he found the right buyer...

Employee-ownership advocates say letting Canada's tax exemption for Employee Ownership Trusts expire in 2026 would undercut the model before it’s even given a chance to shine.

Let's #ExtendTheIncentive and give #EOTs the proper runway to take off in Canada!

#OwnershipMatters #CdnEcon #CdnPoli

"Yes, children were abused, but for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."

Selling to a U.S. company was an endgame for many Canadian businesses. The government is trying to change that | CBC News A new type of employee ownership comes at a time when the country is facing a wave of baby boomer entrepreneurs nearing retirement and an increased focus on strengthening the national economy in the f...

Some Canadian companies are choosing to turn their workers into owners instead of selling their businesses to the U.S.

Here's why 👇

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

#OwnershipMatters #EOTs #AlwaysCanada #Never51

Advocates urge Ottawa to extend 'no-brainer' tax incentive for employee ownership OTTAWA - It took Peter Deitz eight years to figure out the best way to sell his business. But it wasn't until the federal government opened up a new option

"It's in the federal government's interest to promote employee-ownership models that keep Canadian companies — and decisions about their intellectual property and the welfare of employees — in Canada."

#OwnershipMatters #EOTs #ExtendTheIncentive #CdnPoli

Summary of OPEN LETTER: Dear Government of Canada, Canada has already begun to see the promise of EOTs. What the market needs now is certainty. Sign the open letter to make the EOT incentive permanent.

🖋️Sign the open letter! 🖋️

Dear Government of Canada,

Canada has already begun to see the promise of employee ownership trusts. What the market needs now is certainty.

Sign the open letter to make the EOT incentive permanent.

www.employee-ownership.ca/advocate/

#CdnPoli #CdnEcon #EconSky

How a youth employment supplement could help young Canadians A youth employment supplement to the Canada Workers Benefit could help young Canadians facing housing costs, debt and weak job prospects.

Last year at @maxbellschool.bsky.social, my team and I proposed a Youth Employment Supplement. Today it’s in Policy Options thanks to @scpartners.bsky.social. Half of young renters spend 50% of income on rent. Our proposal would reach 2M young Canadians.
policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/02/yout...

How a youth employment supplement could help young Canadians A youth employment supplement to the Canada Workers Benefit could help young Canadians facing housing costs, debt and weak job prospects.

🚨New article! 🚨

It's tough out there for Canada's young people.

In today's @policyoptions.irpp.org, SCP's @kirangill.bsky.social and @mendelmatt.bsky.social propose a new worker benefit to help young Canadians facing:

🏚️ housing costs
💸 debt
🚧 weak job prospects

#CdnPoli #EconSky #PublicPolicy

Stephen Marche:

💹 Are foreign takeovers good for our economy?

In today's SCP news, we talk FDI and the very big difference between foreign investment that BUILDS and foreign investment that BUYS.

Read + subscribe: mailchi.mp/65d6721f7918...

#Subscribe #CdnPoli #EconSky #CdnEcon

YouTube video by Social Capital Partners Are foreign takeovers good for Canada's economy?

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We all want more investment in Canada's economy. But when it comes to foreign investment (FDI), @jonshell.bsky.social says we have to ask: is it investment that builds? Or investment that buys?

Because these are two very different things.

#FDI #cdnpoli #cdnecon #econsky

It has never been more clear that unaccountable systems of wealth are the PRIMARY destructive element of our politics, economy, and society as a whole. Unchecked abuse of all kinds. The current US admin is just the latest, purest personification of this trend.

Why is the Bank of Canada so unsure about the economic path ahead? “I’ve never seen anything like this,” @hscoffield.bsky.social, CEO of the Canadian Tax Observatory tells @jeyantvo.bsky.social, tonight at 8pm on The Rundown | Producer: @britweaver.bsky.social

The Rundown | TVO Today Hosted by Jeyan Jeganathan, The Rundown delivers original journalism and in-depth analysis of the social, political, cultural, and economic issues that shape life in Ontario.

Tune in to TVO's @therundowntvo.bsky.social tonight to see @hscoffield.bsky.social from the Canadian Tax Observatory talk monetary policy and how Canada's economy is shifting in reaction to the U.S.

📺Tonight at 8 pm on TVO's The Rundown

www.tvo.org/the-rundown

Amen!

🚨New article!🚨

The real question is not whether the world's middle powers must adapt, because of course we must, but whether we adapt defensively or ambitiously.

Read our take on @pmcarney.bsky.social's speech heard round the world: socialcapitalpartners.ca/carney-davos...

#CdnPoli #Never51

Heated Rivalry season 2 casts ‘former hockey player turned prime minister’ role

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Succession by employee ownership. - Business In Calgary Although the juicy in-fighting and back-biting of Logan Roy and his scheming Succession family (allegedly based on the inside drama of the American Murdoch family) made for popular TV, in the real suc...

In today's economy?

Ownership matters

When business owners retire, we want their workforces and businesses to stay strong and stay Canadian. Employee Ownership Trusts can make this happen.

📖 businessincalgary.com/article-cate...

#CdnPoli #CanadaSky #EOTs

Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores.

TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti.

Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret.

Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.

18 Big Ideas to Supercharge Canada’s Economy Canada is, by many metrics, a great country. But the recent trade war has underscored that it could benefit from some bold thinking to help propel it forward.

Spoiler alert: #11 is "incentivize employee ownership."

“More than 75% of Canadian small-business owners are planning to retire in the next decade. For our country to stay prosperous and self-reliant, we need to keep these businesses locally owned."

www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...

Here's his BlueSky account: @kbardeesy.bsky.social

Karim Bardeesy: "Please see my full statement on X (formerly Twitter): STATEMENT ON X (FORMERLY TWITTER) I've been on X (formerly Twitter) since 2008, when I started my work as a business journalist in New York City at the beginning of the Great Recession. It was an invaluable tool in those days; and when I moved to The Globe and Mail, we used it to engage with readers through the paper's editorial board Twitter account, which I set up and ran. Twitter - in all of its chaos with all of its problems - was for many years a vibrant space of debate and discovery, and an invaluable source of information about the world, often in real time. But it's no longer that place. It's now a place where anger, hyper-divisive content, shock - and most, recently Al-generated sexualized deepfakes - is the content that gets elevated or rewarded by its algorithm. Al is now part of our reality and will continue to be. There's no denying that. But we are not passive in this journey. Our values matter; and when the technology and the platform are at such 100% complete misalignment with those values, it's time to go. In the absence of meaningful change, I am pausing my posting here. You can still find me and my office's work through the channels listed below. MP Karim Bardeesy Taiaiako'n-Parkdale-High Park"

Another Canadian Member of Parliament is quitting the 3-in-1 online harassment, extremist propaganda and computer-generated sex image app, X dot com

Canadians are just as concerned about job security, economic stability and making ends meet as they are about Trump.

Read @hscoffield.bsky.social on the Carney government's new GST tax credit and how it can help.

🔗: tinyurl.com/SocialCapita...

#Groceries #CdnPoli #FairTaxation

“This notion that the guy in the corner office is somehow almost single handedly responsible for company value, and everyone else are just little minions who don’t contribute much of anything - everyone can see that's not true" @sarahanderson.bsky.social www.ips-dc.org www.cnbc.com/2026/01/24/m...

In today's edition: 👊 Middle Powers, Unite!

Plus, Carney's speech heard round the world, green screens and heated rivalries.

Get the goods: mailchi.mp/8cc0989afe23...

#Substance #Snark #CdnPoli

Research shows that inequality = higher crime, worse public health, higher addiction, lower educational attainment, worse status anxiety, worse pollution and a host of other ills.

Read @georgemonbiot.bsky.social's column: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#EconSky

Economic Inequality Seen as Major Challenge Around the World Across 36 countries, a median of 54% say the gap between the rich and poor is a very big problem in their nation.

3. As soon as you see politics in this light, you notice something extraordinary. Almost everyone's in Group 2. Polls in 36 nations found that 84% see economic inequality as a big problem, and 86% see the political influence of the rich as a major cause of it. www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...

Carney uninvited to join Trump’s ‘Board Of Peace’ alongside Putin, Netanyahu, Lex Luthor, Megatron WASHINGTON D.C. - U.S. President Donald Trump disinvited Prime Minister Mark Carney from his newly-established "Board of Peace", comprised of Trump, various war criminals, authoritarian strongmen, and...

Carney uninvited to join Trump’s ‘Board Of Peace’ alongside Putin, Netanyahu, Lex Luthor, Megatron

Mark Carney's speech at Davos is the start of a Manifesto for the world's middle powers. A proposal to the non China/US world to build something new. Here are the parts I found most important,... Mark Carney's speech at Davos is the start of a Manifesto for the world's middle powers. A proposal to the non China/US world to build something new. Here are the parts I found most important, with co...

Middle powers, unite!

Our chair @jonshell.bsky.social on Prime Minister Carney's clear-eyed speech at Davos, calling on like-minded peer countries to join forces and respond to this rupture with something new.

#CdnPoli #CdnEcon #Manifesto #WEF #Optimism

As great powers abandon rules and values for their own interests, middle powers like Canada have a choice: compete with each other for favour or act together with impact.