Nova Scotia’s new EV fee raises bigger questions for drivers across Canada | Globalnews.ca
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Nova Scotia’s new EV fee raises bigger questions for drivers across Canada | Globalnews.ca

Nova Scotia has become the latest province to start charging an extra fee for battery-powered cars and trucks.

As of Thursday, electric vehicle (EV) owners will pay $500 every two years in addition to their vehicle registration fee. Plug-in hybrid vehicles will have an additional $250 fee.

Some drivers call it an unfair cash grab, but the provincial government argues it’s a way to pay for road repairs since EV drivers don’t pay the provincial gas tax.

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u/Cold-Cap-8541 — 11 days ago
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How media subsidies became bureaucratic press passes

"only news organizations that take government money deserve to question government officials."...

Normal people just call them employees who don't want to be fired for asking the boss the wrong questions in public. The 'journalists' may as well replace their corporate logos with how many millions their organisation is subsidised to make it easier for Carney to only allow the safest organisation to ask him questions.

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u/Cold-Cap-8541 — 3 months ago

Dodging the Propaganda of the Canadian Government's Subsidised Media

The legacy media (and their ability to assign their cable subscribing viewers their opinions nightly) are slowly but surely going the way of black smiths who hand created horse shoes as the Canadian public eyes those 'horseless carriages' with delight.

Imagine not having to look at some horses ass every time you want to go out and do something.

u/Cold-Cap-8541 — 3 months ago

Today's News - "There is no trade war with the United States. It's pure nonsense"

"There is no trade war with the United States. It's pure nonsense. The U.S. administration has simply concluded that globalization is a failed policy and is now implementing protectionist trade measures against nearly every country in the world. The term “war” merely serves a convenient political purpose for Ottawa."

u/Cold-Cap-8541 — 3 months ago

With home sales slow, realtors take a step back from the industry - The Globe and Mail

Thousands of Canadian realtors have left the industry or are taking a step back, as home sales dropped across most of the country.

While selling real estate was once viewed as an easy way to make a living, that’s no longer the case after several years of downturn. And it’s not just newcomers who are leaving. Veterans are retiring or have cut staff to deal with the multiyear slowdown.

Debbie Cosic’s Mississauga-based real estate brokerage In2ition used to sell about 3,000 preconstruction condos across the country every year prior to the downturn. Last year, they sold 800 units.

Because activity slowed, she had to downsize and change her business model to focus predominantly on houses and rental-only apartment buildings. She now has about 50 employees compared to a few years ago when she had a staff of 150, including realtors.

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u/Cold-Cap-8541 — 3 months ago

Why Canada is not attracting investments!

"Canada isn’t attracting new grocers because the country is generating very little new wealth. Why would anyone invest here? The government’s role is to create the conditions that encourage private investment. PM Carney understands that—which may explain why much of his own wealth is reportedly held outside Canada."

u/Cold-Cap-8541 — 3 months ago

Is Mark Carney and Brookfield shorting Canada as an investment strategy? The more Canada tanks fiscally...the more the 'Big Short' pays off!

Sure would explain why:
* Mark Carney is tanking the CUSMA negotiations.
* Manufacturing companies are planning on leaving Canada.
* He's fracturing the relationship with Canada's largest trading partner and the largest economy on the planet.
* He's preventing energy development and export across Canada.

u/Cold-Cap-8541 — 3 months ago

Pierre Trudeau refuses to issue an apology for the treatment of Japanese Canadians in World War Two: "I do not think it is the purpose of a government to right the past, it cannot rewrite history"

If only the Liberal Party remembered....or did the Liberal Party learn it could launder money through Woke groups?

Liberals of today flip from one woke cause to another without any thought of consequences.

u/Cold-Cap-8541 — 3 months ago

Hedge funds turn most negative on Canadian dollar since 2024

https://financialpost.com/news/economy/hedge-funds-negative-canadian-dollar

https://www.benefitsandpensionsmonitor.com/news/industry-news/speculators-hold-us125-billion-in-net-short-bets-against-the-canadian-dollar/393919

"Currency speculators have built their largest bearish position against the Canadian dollar of any major currency, driving the loonie to a 14-month low ahead of Washington's confirmation of steep new tariffs on Canadian goods. 

Net short positions held by non-commercial accounts hit US$12.5bn in the latest weekly data from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Reuters reported, released Friday.  

For a second straight week, that was the highest reading among currencies traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and the biggest wager against the loonie since December 2024. "

u/Cold-Cap-8541 — 3 months ago

LILLEY: Mark Carney claimed he thrives in a crisis. His record suggests otherwise

https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/mark-carney-thrives-crisis-record-suggests-otherwise

In fact, a new poll from the Angus Reid Institute shows that just 43% now believe Carney can deliver a good deal with the Americans, the thing he promised in the last election, down from 51% in April.

“If it’s not a crisis, you wouldn’t be seeing me,” Carney told a crowd at a Barrie, Ont., pub during the Liberal leadership race last year.

“I’m most useful in a crisis. I’m not that good in peacetime.”

The problem for Carney is that, on issue after issue, his response to pressure has been the same: cave, then spin the retreat as a victory.

u/Cold-Cap-8541 — 3 months ago

Commentary by Stephen LeDrew regarding Carney

“When it’s talking about getting serious work done, I think we may have a Prime Minister who doesn’t know politics, who thinks he’s running a bank, who has given all kinds of benefits to certain friends…he doesn’t have the character necessary to be a successful Prime Minister to lead this country out of the malaise that it’s been in since 2015”

u/Cold-Cap-8541 — 3 months ago

Mark Carney says 'Our negotiations have put us (Canada) in a strong position.'

Mark Carney is truly the Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Black Knight

ARTHUR: I command you as King of the Britons to stand aside!
BLACK KNIGHT: I move for no man.
ARTHUR: So be it!
[hah]
[parry thrust]
[ARTHUR chops the BLACK KNIGHT's left arm off]
ARTHUR: Now stand aside, worthy adversary.
BLACK KNIGHT: 'Tis but a scratch.
ARTHUR: A scratch? Your arm's off!
BLACK KNIGHT: No, it isn't.
ARTHUR: Well, what's that then?
BLACK KNIGHT: I've had worse.
ARTHUR: You liar!
BLACK KNIGHT: Come on you pansy!
[hah]
[parry thrust]
[ARTHUR chops the BLACK KNIGHT's right arm off]
ARTHUR: Victory is mine!
[kneeling]
We thank thee Lord, that in thy merc-
[the Black Knight kicks Arthur in the head]
BLACK KNIGHT: Come on then.
ARTHUR: What?
BLACK KNIGHT: Have at you!
ARTHUR: You are indeed brave, Sir knight, but the fight is mine.
BLACK KNIGHT: Oh, had enough, eh?
ARTHUR: Look, you stupid bastard, you've got no arms left.
BLACK KNIGHT: Yes I have.
ARTHUR: Look!
BLACK KNIGHT: Just a flesh wound.
[bang]
ARTHUR: Look, stop that.
BLACK KNIGHT: Chicken! Chicken!
ARTHUR: Look, I'll have your leg. Right!
[cuts his leg]
BLACK KNIGHT: Right, I'll do you for that!
ARTHUR: You'll what?
BLACK KNIGHT: Come 'ere!
ARTHUR: What are you going to do, bleed on me?
BLACK KNIGHT: I'm invincible!
ARTHUR: You're a loony.
BLACK KNIGHT: The Black Knight always triumphs!
Have at you! Come on then.
[whop]
[ARTHUR chops the BLACK KNIGHT's other leg off]
BLACK KNIGHT: All right; we'll call it a draw.
ARTHUR: Come, Patsy.
BLACK KNIGHT: Oh, oh, I see. Running away, eh? You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you! I'll bite your legs off!

u/Cold-Cap-8541 — 3 months ago
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Doug, Canada, not just Ontario, can’t afford your ego, stupidity and your constant need for performative outrage.

"A direct message to fordnation. : Doug, Canada, not just Ontario, can’t afford your ego, stupidity and your constant need for performative outrage. You’re making an already damaged relationship with the U.S. even worse. So, for Canada’s sake: PLEASE, SHUT THE %$#@ UP."

"Doug is literally the definition of a STUPIDITY FEEDBACK LOOP!"

https://x.com/vesperdigital/status/2079644012550516794

u/Cold-Cap-8541 — 3 months ago

🇲🇽🇺🇸🇨🇦Has Anyone Called Mexico For Advice Yet?

Compiled data set outlining the terms of trade between the US/Canada and US/Mexico relationship over the last 4 years.

A common line of defence among Carney's supporters are cliche tropes like "do you want him to bend over to Trump?" or "you have to stand up to a bully" as if international trade is settled in the school yard at recess. Well if 'taking the knee' results in growing your country's trade surplus 41% over a 4 year period it's worth considering.

Mexico has taken over for Canada as the #1 US trading partner; hasn't Claudia Sheinbaum (who's been in office just 6 months longer than Carney) actually won for her citizens?

How has Mexico improved their terms of trade with America while Canada has shown a decline over the same period and a steep drop off this last year?

u/Cold-Cap-8541 — 3 months ago
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New draft regulations by Carney Liberal heritage minister Marc Miller would force all businesses with over 100 employees to offer all their services in French in designated English Canadian cities, including Edmonton, Winnipeg, Sudbury, Ottawa, and Yarmouth.

https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/news/2026/04/government-of-canada-tables-draft-regulations-on-the-use-of-french-in-federally-regulated-private-businesses.html

"Our two official languages are at the heart of Canadian identity. Protecting and promoting French—particularly its use in services to the public—and supporting official language minority communities are priorities."

u/Cold-Cap-8541 — 3 months ago

CBC explains - 'Why we censor politician's speeches we don't agree with.'

I’ve listened to Carney & plenty of other politicians say countless lies & never once has CBC or the rest of the media machine countered on them.

The CBC has 100% switched from becoming a reporter of the news, to a self appointed Ministry of Truth. Maybe they always have been?

I have always hated the legacy news showing seconds of a politicians speech and then spending 10 minutes with paid panellists (with their own agendas) spinning what the Canadian public should 'understand' the politicians said.

u/Cold-Cap-8541 — 3 months ago