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CIBC, the only big bank that hasn't sent most staff back to the office almost F/T. RTO is BS.
“We delivered record financial performance in 2025 through the consistent execution of our client-focused strategy, driving high-quality earnings growth & delivering top-tier returns for our shareholders”
“We delivered record financial performance in 2025 through the consistent execution of our client-focused strategy, driving high-quality earnings growth & delivering top-tier returns for our shareholders”
December 4, 2025 at 11:29 AM
CIBC, the only big bank that hasn't sent most staff back to the office almost F/T. RTO is BS.
“We delivered record financial performance in 2025 through the consistent execution of our client-focused strategy, driving high-quality earnings growth & delivering top-tier returns for our shareholders”
“We delivered record financial performance in 2025 through the consistent execution of our client-focused strategy, driving high-quality earnings growth & delivering top-tier returns for our shareholders”
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Many CIBC corporate staff are still usually only 1-day per week in office. All the CEO excuses you hear about "performance" and "collaboration" are bunk. It's really all about real estate and control.
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Many CIBC corporate staff are still usually only 1-day per week in office. All the CEO excuses you hear about "performance" and "collaboration" are bunk. It's really all about real estate and control.
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The finance-bro mindset is both relentlessly short-term, one quarter to the next, and conformist. Faced with big oil's corporate media propaganda behemoth, Carney naturally adapted his 'Value(s)' to fit extinctionism, facts, science and reality be damned. It's who he is. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Natural Gaslighting: the Canada-Alberta Pipeline MOU is Built on a Blatant Pack of Lies
Since 2014, Canada and Alberta together have faced two historic disruptions in oil prices - one low, one high - that were driven entirely by Saudi Arabia and OPEC.
substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The finance-bro mindset is both relentlessly short-term, one quarter to the next, and conformist. Faced with big oil's corporate media propaganda behemoth, Carney naturally adapted his 'Value(s)' to fit extinctionism, facts, science and reality be damned. It's who he is. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Of course, but the causation isn't "voters don't care so politicians deprioritize climate", it's "politicians work very hard to convince people that the economy (read: shareholder profits) must be the only urgent focus".
Climate isn’t the ballot question right now.
Only 13% rank it a top concern — meaning big shifts in climate policy can land softly if voters see economic upside.
More insights in our latest poll: davidcoletto.substack.com/p/canadians...
Only 13% rank it a top concern — meaning big shifts in climate policy can land softly if voters see economic upside.
More insights in our latest poll: davidcoletto.substack.com/p/canadians...
December 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Of course, but the causation isn't "voters don't care so politicians deprioritize climate", it's "politicians work very hard to convince people that the economy (read: shareholder profits) must be the only urgent focus".
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I'm not convinced that PM Goldman Sachs is an abstract, long-term thinker. And this hasn't just damaged his relationship with May; now other parties have reason not to trust him.
“I don’t know if the prime minister lied but I think he needs to consider what his word means when his word was given"
“I don’t know if the prime minister lied but I think he needs to consider what his word means when his word was given"
December 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I'm not convinced that PM Goldman Sachs is an abstract, long-term thinker. And this hasn't just damaged his relationship with May; now other parties have reason not to trust him.
“I don’t know if the prime minister lied but I think he needs to consider what his word means when his word was given"
“I don’t know if the prime minister lied but I think he needs to consider what his word means when his word was given"
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It's wild to think we're going into year 7 of this mess and somehow big media & govt's have normalized alienating anyone who uses health mitigations
6 years ago today: A man in Wuhan, China starts feeling ill, becoming the first confirmed case of COVID-19
December 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
It's wild to think we're going into year 7 of this mess and somehow big media & govt's have normalized alienating anyone who uses health mitigations
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Six years is the absolute max he would ever stay before he heads back to the corporate world. Two years before his government falls and he delivers us a Con win, with all their policies normalized for them, is still my current guess for how it actually plays out.
Carney's in a unique position. He's not invested in the future of the Liberal party, the other parties are shockingly weak, the Libs need him more than he needs them, and he's here for a good time, not a long time (six years, tops?). ...
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Six years is the absolute max he would ever stay before he heads back to the corporate world. Two years before his government falls and he delivers us a Con win, with all their policies normalized for them, is still my current guess for how it actually plays out.
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Why won’t so much of the left believe in the sovereign power to make money? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...
Why won’t so much of the left believe in the sovereign power to make money?
There are days when I genuinely wonder what parts of the left think the state is for.
The capacity to create money is the most fundamental power any modern government possesses. It is the basis of its...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
December 1, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Why won’t so much of the left believe in the sovereign power to make money? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...
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The fundamental failure of public health was this; deciding that vaccination was the only precaution that was necessary.
Despite mountains of evidence to the contrary.
Despite mountains of evidence to the contrary.
if you’re proudly vaccinated against COVID but you don’t bother with other precautions like masking in indoor spaces, you’re actually *undermining the effectiveness of the vaccine*
@juliadoubleday.bsky.social dropping truth on the “public heath is dead” podcast
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
@juliadoubleday.bsky.social dropping truth on the “public heath is dead” podcast
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
December 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
The fundamental failure of public health was this; deciding that vaccination was the only precaution that was necessary.
Despite mountains of evidence to the contrary.
Despite mountains of evidence to the contrary.
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That politics requires a vastly different set of skills (and temperament) than does central banking, finance or business is a lesson voters have failed to learn time and again.
Said otherwise, you can use econometrics to analyze the economy. Politics resists such definitive modelling.
Said otherwise, you can use econometrics to analyze the economy. Politics resists such definitive modelling.
And if you think Carney must be a political super genius because he was a banker and economist etc etc., well, I'd like you to meet tech bros as proof positive that skills in one area don't always port over to another.
I'd write this up but I don't want to. So, feel free to mad libs it.
I'd write this up but I don't want to. So, feel free to mad libs it.
November 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
That politics requires a vastly different set of skills (and temperament) than does central banking, finance or business is a lesson voters have failed to learn time and again.
Said otherwise, you can use econometrics to analyze the economy. Politics resists such definitive modelling.
Said otherwise, you can use econometrics to analyze the economy. Politics resists such definitive modelling.
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Yup. Reinforces a type of federalism where you get rewarded for throwing a tantrum
As a political scientist, I think the effects on unity are some of the biggest problems with the agreement. It legitimates "Alberta" as an aggrieved party, distinct from other provinces, while treating BC and its peoples to be as issues to be managed, rather than partners in the federation.
November 29, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Yup. Reinforces a type of federalism where you get rewarded for throwing a tantrum
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As a political scientist, I think the effects on unity are some of the biggest problems with the agreement. It legitimates "Alberta" as an aggrieved party, distinct from other provinces, while treating BC and its peoples to be as issues to be managed, rather than partners in the federation.
November 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
As a political scientist, I think the effects on unity are some of the biggest problems with the agreement. It legitimates "Alberta" as an aggrieved party, distinct from other provinces, while treating BC and its peoples to be as issues to be managed, rather than partners in the federation.
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There's no scenario in which Carney comes out looking good. If he doesn't want a pipeline he's being dishonest with Alberta and throwing Indigenous folks under the bus. If he does want a pipeline he loses any credibility he still has on climate. You don't win by playing games like this.
If you expect Mark Carney won't take pipeline blame whether it's built or not, I have bad news for you: opposition parties aren't going to be charitable in their framing and voters aren't always charitable, or consistent, themselves.
Carney will be seen as Captain Pipeline.
Carney will be seen as Captain Pipeline.
November 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
There's no scenario in which Carney comes out looking good. If he doesn't want a pipeline he's being dishonest with Alberta and throwing Indigenous folks under the bus. If he does want a pipeline he loses any credibility he still has on climate. You don't win by playing games like this.
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And if you think Carney must be a political super genius because he was a banker and economist etc etc., well, I'd like you to meet tech bros as proof positive that skills in one area don't always port over to another.
I'd write this up but I don't want to. So, feel free to mad libs it.
I'd write this up but I don't want to. So, feel free to mad libs it.
November 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
And if you think Carney must be a political super genius because he was a banker and economist etc etc., well, I'd like you to meet tech bros as proof positive that skills in one area don't always port over to another.
I'd write this up but I don't want to. So, feel free to mad libs it.
I'd write this up but I don't want to. So, feel free to mad libs it.
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If you expect Mark Carney won't take pipeline blame whether it's built or not, I have bad news for you: opposition parties aren't going to be charitable in their framing and voters aren't always charitable, or consistent, themselves.
Carney will be seen as Captain Pipeline.
Carney will be seen as Captain Pipeline.
November 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
If you expect Mark Carney won't take pipeline blame whether it's built or not, I have bad news for you: opposition parties aren't going to be charitable in their framing and voters aren't always charitable, or consistent, themselves.
Carney will be seen as Captain Pipeline.
Carney will be seen as Captain Pipeline.
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I would offer that being an expert in business, might actually be the worst possible qualification for a politician when it comes to making decisions for actual citizens and the environment.
And if you think Carney must be a political super genius because he was a banker and economist etc etc., well, I'd like you to meet tech bros as proof positive that skills in one area don't always port over to another.
I'd write this up but I don't want to. So, feel free to mad libs it.
I'd write this up but I don't want to. So, feel free to mad libs it.
November 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I would offer that being an expert in business, might actually be the worst possible qualification for a politician when it comes to making decisions for actual citizens and the environment.
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And Quebec. There's no brilliant 4D chess here.
Alberta will never go Liberal if buying us a pipeline didn't do it but now they get to lose BC too!
November 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
And Quebec. There's no brilliant 4D chess here.
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Alberta will never go Liberal if buying us a pipeline didn't do it but now they get to lose BC too!
November 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Alberta will never go Liberal if buying us a pipeline didn't do it but now they get to lose BC too!
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Pissing off BC and progressive voters and Indigenous folks and his own MPs now. Pissing off Alberta separatists later. Brilliant approach!
November 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Pissing off BC and progressive voters and Indigenous folks and his own MPs now. Pissing off Alberta separatists later. Brilliant approach!
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This point is disturbing: Guilbeault "was also deeply troubled by the ease with which the PMO was casting aside its moral obligation to May. What was the Liberals’ word worth?"
Mark Carney seems to have forgotten the first rule of central banking: Your word, your credibility, is all.
Mark Carney seems to have forgotten the first rule of central banking: Your word, your credibility, is all.
Good work by @althiaraj.bsky.social on the inside story of Guilbeault's resignation, from his being frozen out by PMO, given false assurances, and being made to wear the government walking back on pledges he made to Elizabeth May to secure her support. No kidding it was untenable for him to stay.
Althia Raj: Mark Carney lost the minister who was the green conscience of his government. Here’s how it happened
The inside story of Steven Guilbeault's resignation from cabinet over Ottawa's energy deal with Alberta.
www.thestar.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:23 AM
This point is disturbing: Guilbeault "was also deeply troubled by the ease with which the PMO was casting aside its moral obligation to May. What was the Liberals’ word worth?"
Mark Carney seems to have forgotten the first rule of central banking: Your word, your credibility, is all.
Mark Carney seems to have forgotten the first rule of central banking: Your word, your credibility, is all.
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I wish the "He's just playing 4D chess" folks understood that, even if that were the case (it isn't), it means he's being dishonest with almost everyone he deals with.
This point is disturbing: Guilbeault "was also deeply troubled by the ease with which the PMO was casting aside its moral obligation to May. What was the Liberals’ word worth?"
Mark Carney seems to have forgotten the first rule of central banking: Your word, your credibility, is all.
Mark Carney seems to have forgotten the first rule of central banking: Your word, your credibility, is all.
Good work by @althiaraj.bsky.social on the inside story of Guilbeault's resignation, from his being frozen out by PMO, given false assurances, and being made to wear the government walking back on pledges he made to Elizabeth May to secure her support. No kidding it was untenable for him to stay.
November 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I wish the "He's just playing 4D chess" folks understood that, even if that were the case (it isn't), it means he's being dishonest with almost everyone he deals with.
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With the planet running a carbon-induced fever and desperate to replace fossil fuels, Canada is one of the countries turning to nuclear energy. Not everyone is pleased.
Michael Harris writes. #canpoli
Michael Harris writes. #canpoli
Canada Calls Its Reactors Peaceful. It’s Not So Simple | The Tyee
A venerable anti-nuclear war group says Carney’s SMR funding could fuel a new arms race.
thetyee.ca
November 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
With the planet running a carbon-induced fever and desperate to replace fossil fuels, Canada is one of the countries turning to nuclear energy. Not everyone is pleased.
Michael Harris writes. #canpoli
Michael Harris writes. #canpoli
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This is craven and beyond contempt. There's no justification. Carney is using the perceived threats from the US to justify slashing commitments, checks, and balances as they pertain to environment, labour, and basically everything else.
This is a corporate power grab and an attack on everyone.
This is a corporate power grab and an attack on everyone.
Mark Carney drops Trudeau-era climate measures in energy deal with Alberta
Mark Carney drops Trudeau-era climate measures in energy deal with Alberta
rime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal government is scrapping plans for a major national climate policy and immediately suspending another in Alberta alone, as part of a wide-ranging accord that softens
www.thestar.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This is craven and beyond contempt. There's no justification. Carney is using the perceived threats from the US to justify slashing commitments, checks, and balances as they pertain to environment, labour, and basically everything else.
This is a corporate power grab and an attack on everyone.
This is a corporate power grab and an attack on everyone.
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You'll note that there is zero talk of nationizing fossil fuel revenues for actual nation-building that benefits citizens (a la Norway), it's just corporate profit.
Also crucially, even if oil wasn’t killing the planet and costing us billions, this doesn’t create that many jobs anymore. Its literally a give away of our environment to raise some stocks.
Canada has had record breaking forest fires that show no signs of slowing down, let alone stopping, and Carney decides we can all stomach it so oil magnates can get more billions.
November 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
You'll note that there is zero talk of nationizing fossil fuel revenues for actual nation-building that benefits citizens (a la Norway), it's just corporate profit.