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Dougald Lamont

@dougaldlamont.bsky.social
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Recovering politician, writer, editor. Orwell-Keynesian. Read my stuff here: dougaldlamont.substack.com

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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Saving Canada: Nine Truly National Projects the Carney Liberals Can and Should Launch Right Now
Carney’s First Pick for a “National Project” is pure trickle-down: a two-province pipeline that will juice returns for some of Canada’s most profitable companies. This is the alternative.
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
An Open Letter to the C.D. Howe Institute and Don Drummond on their “Endgame” Report on Canada’s Economy The report itself omits 81% of the debt in the economy - household and private debt, which is the kind of debt that triggers crises.
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An Open Letter to the C.D. Howe Institute and Don Drummond on their “Endgame” Report on Canada’s Economy
Drummond and the C.D. Howe Institute’s models leave out 81% of the debt in the Canadian economy.
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b3ta @b3ta.com · 12/09/2026
25 years ago today B3ta launched Well, 25 years ago today, we launched the version of the website you are familiar with, we were going for at least three months beforehand, if you check newsletter dates on issue 1. However most b3tans look at the board post date - so happy birthday us. Sort of.
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
One of the views of #Canadian #politics and history, perhaps because it occurs alongside the U.S., is that extremist views and bigotry are generally downplayed, and may even be treated as a foreign “import” of ideas from the U.S. dougaldlamont.substack.com/p/canadamnes...
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CANADAMNESIA II, #8 Eugenics, Sterilization and the Canadian KKK: A Cross-Partisan Consensus
Extremist Politics in Western Canada in the 1920s, 30s & 40s
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This Substack summarizes the many failures and errors of “Grave Error,“ a book written to sow doubt about the claims of Residential schools by Tom Flanagan and CP Champion.
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CANADAMNESIA I #7 : Grave Error’s Shallow Pool of Sources, Oil-Industry Funders, Political Staffers & Think Tank Amplifiers
Closing the Book on Grave Error’s Errors: Shining a light on who created and, and funds the Residential School Industry of Manufacturing Doubt
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
CANADAMNESIA I #6: Grave Error’s Research Errors, Chapter by Chapter #6 in my series, “Canadamnesia (I)” which analyzes the claims in “Grave Error,” published by True North & the Dorchester Review edited by Tom Flanagan and CP Champion, that has been praised in media and shared by think tanks.
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CANADAMNESIA I #6: Grave Error’s Research Errors, Chapter by Chapter
A Catalog of Errors of Fact, Errors of Reasoning, and Unsupported Assertions in the essays in the book "Grave Error" (Chapters 15-17)
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
CANADAMNESIA 1 #4: Grave Error’s Research Errors, Chapter by Chapter This is the 4th instalment of “Canadamnesia”, a document that analyzes the book “Grave Error”, edited by Tom Flanagan and CP Champion, often based on the independent research of “Nina Green.”
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CANADAMNESIA 1 #4: Grave Error’s Research Errors, Chapter by Chapter
A Catalog of Errors of Fact, Errors of Reasoning, and Unsupported Assertions in the essays in the book "Grave Error" Chapters 8-11
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This is part three of my analysis of “Grave Error” a book about residential schools. The first chapter reviewed in this post sets the tone: in a book that rails against others for their standards of accuracy, the author is “Anonymous Wordpress.” dougaldlamont.substack.com/p/canadamnes...
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CANADAMNESIA I #3: Grave Error’s Research Errors, Chapter by Chapter
A Catalog of Errors of Fact, Errors of Reasoning, and Unsupported Assertions in the essays in the book "Grave Error" (Preface, Introduction, Chapters 4-7 )
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
CANADAMNESIA: Reconciling Truth with the Absence of Facts and Reason in "Grave Error" by Flanagan, Champion and Green I decided to fact-check the sources of every part of Grave Error, as well as checking the arguments for errors in reason. dougaldlamont.substack.com/p/canadamnes...
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CANADAMNESIA: Reconciling Truth with the Absence of Facts and Reason in "Grave Error" by Flanagan, Champion and Green
A multipart series on the researchers sowing doubt about Residential Schools: Part One: Testing Grave Error’s Sources and Reasoning on Residential Schools for Accuracy.
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The Axioms and Apparatus of Keybernomics dougaldlamont.substack.com/p/the-axioms...
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The Axioms and Apparatus of Keybernomics
The Four Axioms and Their Thirty-Three Derivations, Stated in Plain Language with Their Corollaries
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Keybernomics (2) - The Rules are the Game dougaldlamont.substack.com/p/keybernomi... While the news faithfully reports how central banks like the Bank of Canada lower and increase interest rates to manage the economy, no one calculates the impact ahead of time. #canada #elbowsup
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Keybernomics (2) - The Rules are the Game
Quantifying How Monetary Stimulus and Lending Drive Wealth Concentration & Housing Crises in Canada, the U.S. Australia, New Zealand and the UK
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Keybernomics (1) - The Money Function: The Information Theory of Money
Part one in the series
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Please consider signing this petition to make February Chinese Canadian Heritage month in Canada. Here's how: www.youtube.com/shorts/8KAYk... Here's the link: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... #canada #chinese #heritage
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Chinese Heritage Month Petition In Canada
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The Strait of Hormuz Oil Shock is about to Get Real. Governments need to stop hoping for the best and start preparing for the worst. corporateknights.com/perspectives...
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Why Canada needs to declare a critical supply emergency now
OPINION | Oil executives and experts say the price of oil could skyrocket again soon. Canada needs to act to shield residents from supply shocks.
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This report was originally intended to be the answer to three simple questions: – How many children were in provincial child welfare care in Canada, each year, from 2001 to today? - How many of those children were Indigenous? And - How many of them died? dougaldlamont.substack.com/p/children-o...
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Children of the State: Why Don't Canada's Governments Track Numbers or Deaths of Children in Their Own Care?
Since 2001, how many children per year were in provincial child welfare in Canada, how many were Indigenous, and how many died? No one can tell you.
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
the “Free Alberta Strategy” document that is considered the intellectual basis for Separation leaves out 75% of the economy and 94%of the workforce.
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The "Free Alberta Strategy" Leaves out 75% of Alberta's GDP and 94% of Its Workers
Rob Anderson, Barry Cooper and Derek From's Document is Being Used to Justify Alberta Separation. Not One of its Conclusions is Supported by Any Evidence.
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I’ve written an evidence-based report that explores the claims being made in the Free Alberta report, and found that none of the report’s conclusions are justified by the facts they present. The report is essentially non sequitur after non sequitur #alberta #Canada
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All Hat, No Cattle: Breaking Down the Free Alberta Strategy's Baseless Case for Separation
Across the board, the report by Prof Barry Cooper, Rob Anderson and Derek From Jumps to Conclusions Its Own Data Doesn't Support
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Mark Carney’s Confidence Fairy Won’t Help the Canadian Economy: Here’s What Will Confidence was never the missing ingredient. What's missing from all these models are energy, land, private debt, and real estate. When you do include Energy, Private Debt, and Real Estate, the picture changes entirely.
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Mark Carney’s Confidence Fairy Won’t Help the Canadian Economy: Here’s What Will
Canada Can Afford to Be Bold. In the The question is not “Can we afford a wartime-level mobilization?” it is “Why haven’t we already started?”
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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The Truth of Residential Schools is Still Being Denied
It’s sometimes said that history is written by the winners. It may be more accurate to say it’s erased by them.
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The C.D. Howe Institute’s “Big Bang” for Taxes Went Off 30 Years Ago. It Was a Bust. If, in Canada, your economic models don’t include oil, energy, finance, insurance or real estate, what do you even have left to describe?
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The C.D. Howe Institute’s “Big Bang” for Taxes Went Off 30 Years Ago. It Was a Bust.
The recommendations to slash taxes don't add up, because the authors leave most of the actual economy out of their models. When taxes are the only problem your model allows, that's what you'll get.
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Everything Pierre Poilievre Gets Wrong About Housing: Everything #Canada #housing #realestate #economics
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Everything Pierre Poilievre Gets Wrong About Housing: Everything
"Housing Hell" was a coherent, confident, well-produced explanation of the housing crisis that gets everything wrong from beginning to end.
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I've argued this for more than a year, but a new paper from the IMF confirms what I've been saying - the benefits are baked into the math being used - because real data is not being measured at all. #economy #canada #freetrade
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The Promised $200-billion+ Benefits from "Free Trade in Canada" Is Based on Barriers that Do Not Exist
The promised gains aren't based on real inputs: They were generated by numbers from inside the economic formulas themselves - not the Canadian economy.
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Canada Is Heading for an Economic Crash. Here's How Carney, the Premiers and the Bank of Canada Are Making It Worse.
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Canada Is Heading for an Economic Crash. Here's How Carney, the Premiers and the Bank of Canada Are Making It Worse.
The crash isn't coming because of one bad decision. It's coming because everyone with power is making the same mistake at the same time — and we have seen this exact movie before.
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Laurence Thompson @thompsonlg.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
“There is no legitimate case for Alberta separation: the reason this is happening is that there is genuine economic suffering that has been ignored, and that by ideology, the Alberta government is opposed to addressing.@
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Canadian authorities are predicting that Canada will be fine, because the massive profits will be a net gain for the economy. The oil industry's gains will not make up for Canadians' real losses - and the shocks to systems that can break them. #canada #150bbloil #elbowsup
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Oil is Going to Hit $150/Barrel Next Month. Here's a List of What Can Go Wrong in Canada. It's a Lot.
Ask your provincial and federal representatives what they're doing to get ready. Because they should have started yesterday.
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
In 2014, Saudi Arabia started a price war that dropped oil by 70%. In 2022, Canada's oil industry had record profits - with fewer workers because of automation. These were both "historic" events. Albertans have been hurt, but it wasn't other Canadians who did it. It was OPEC.
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The Entire Debate Fuelling Alberta Separatism is Based on a Decade of Made-Up Conservative Talking Points
In 2014, Saudi Arabia dropped the price of oil in the sharpest and fastest drop in history. In 2022, Alberta had the highest oil profits in history. Why isn't anyone pointing out these basic truths?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/06/2026
it is very simple folks. "unqualified DEI hire" is when you're not a white male, "merit-based promotion" is when you are a white male and also pete hegseth's personal assistant. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...
“We don’t talk about that out of respect for those officers,” he said. Instead, he spoke broadly of the need to correct for years of “gender and demographic engineering” that he asserted had blunted the effectiveness of U.S. troops on the battlefield.

In a break with protocol, Mr. Hegseth also urged senior Navy officials to include Capt. William Francis Jr., a Navy SEAL who serves as Mr. Hegseth’s special assistant, on the one-star list, current and former Navy officials said. Captain Francis’ lack of command experience made him ineligible for promotion under the board’s rules and he was not selected, officials said.
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
There are massive shortages of doctors, nurses and health professionals because the provinces won’t pay to train them or hire them. It doesn’t take AI to figure that out.
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
There's an old expression - "Agent provocateur" all in an age when it's people have never been more provokable. These methods are certainly being used in Canada to sow division, outrage and resentment. youtube.com/shorts/Yd6rZ...
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Leaked Documents Reveal Russian "Cognitive Strikes" Against Europe
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This is a national emergency that requires an all-of-government response and a plan of action. The Government of Canada needs to Declare a Critical Supply Emergency, now. @mark-carney.bsky.social
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Exxon says Oil is going to hit $150/barrel. The Government of Canada Needs to Declare a Critical Supply Emergency Now.
If we wait, until the crisis, the damage will be irreversible, but if we act, we can get $15 back for every $1 we put int.
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The typical household for the majority of Canadians got $37k from pandemic monetary stimulus. The very top 0.01% got $188-million per household. #canada #economics #ElbowsUp
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Canada's Pandemic Fiscal Stimulus was about $346-billion. The Bank of Canada's Monetary Stimulus? $2.5-trillion.
We need to stop ignoring monetary policy, debt, banks and the financial sector, and start getting real about "unintended consequences."
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Canadians needs a wartime-level response to this crisis. In addition to the hostility of bad actors from other countries, our former ally the U.S. has turned on us and is effectively using tariffs as sanctions in an act of financial warfare to undermine the Canada’s economy. #elbowsup #canadastrong
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CRISIS ECONOMICS: Trump Wants to Crush Canada's Economy. Federal and Provincial Cuts are Doing his Job for Him.
We're in a crisis that requires wartime levels of investment to escape, but no one knows how to do that anymore.
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
#Canada is not prepared for the coming oil price shock. We can harden our economy but it will require a wartime-level effort, starting now. @mark-carney.bsky.social Read the report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1q8xQ...
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
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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.
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Canada wastes enormous volumes of methane every year — flaring it at LNG terminals, venting it from landfills, draining it from coal mines, and venting from thousands of inactive wells. This methane could be converted into two high-value products: turquoise hydrogen and solid carbon materials
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Spinning Methane into Turquoise Hydrogen + Solid Carbon is a Multibillion dollar Opportunity for Canada & Alberta
Turning Methane from Alberta's orphaned wells and Kitimat's LNG into hydrogen fuel and carbon materials would fight Climate Change while providing a new stream for Critical Minerals - without mining.
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
A Carbon-Negative Plan for Manitoba's Land, Air and Water. (And it makes money.) #elbowsup #climatechange #cleanwater
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A Carbon-Negative Plan for Manitoba's Land, Air and Water. (And it makes money.)
Manitoba's First Nations are suing the Federal Government, the Manitoba Government and the City of Winnipeg for $5-billion for decades of pollution and mismanagement. There are real solutions
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
A Carbon-Negative Plan for Manitoba's Land, Air and Water. (And it makes money.) open.substack.com/pub/dougaldl...
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A Carbon-Negative Plan for Manitoba's Land, Air and Water. (And it makes money.)
Manitoba's First Nations are suing the Federal Government, the Manitoba Government and the City of Winnipeg for $5-billion for decades of pollution and mismanagement. There are real solutions
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 05/05/2026
Canada's healthcare system must prepare for oil shocks and shortages canadahealthwatch.ca/2026/05/05/c... @dougaldlamont.bsky.social ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁
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Canada’s healthcare system must prepare for oil shocks and shortages
Canada's drug supply chain is the healthcare system's largest and least understood oil shock vulnerability.
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Dianne 🍁 @dianneinbc.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Yikes. Canada's healthcare system is really vulnerable to high oil prices & shortages. Check out the measures @dougaldlamont.bsky.social states govts & health systems should take to adapt. Makes a lot of sense to me. #CanadaHealthcare -
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Renewing Canada’s passenger rail system would do everything the best kinds of government investments achieve: lowering costs for people and business, reducing the impact on the environment, while creating jobs and new opportunities, while govern for the benefit of the whole country.
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The (Very Good) Case for Canadian Passenger Rail Revival
While the Federal Government is proposing high-speeed rail from Windsor to Quebec, the rest of Canada gets nothing. At $90/ barrel it pays back, and the faster we do it, the cheaper it will be.
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Manitoba’s food system faces a $600–900M annual cost shock at $200/bbl through fertilizer, diesel for farm equipment, food processing energy, and distribution logistics. Without rapid intervention:
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$200/Barrel Oil Will Rock Canada's Food System and Create a Humanitarian Crisis for First Nations
What Governments and Communities Can - and Must - Do Now to Prepare
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Debt on Debt on Debt: How to Address Canada's Private Insolvency Crisis in an Oil Shock in my view Canada - and the world are not in a “global slowdown” but a personal and private debt and bankruptcy crisis, one that will explode as oil prices rise, along with costs. #canada #oilcrisis #elbowsup
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Debt on Debt on Debt: How to Address Canada's Private Insolvency Crisis in an Oil Shock
Canada’s Personal Debt Crisis, Who Is Most At Risk, and How Debt Restructuring Could Work
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Check out Class Wars: A Documentary by Joseph Erikson on @kickstarter.com It's an important look at the people who have been dismantling the U.S. education system, and why. I'm backing it, I hope you will too. #education #America www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...
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Class Wars: A Documentary
A teacher investigates the global dismantling of public education.
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Manitoba still has a lot of shortline railways that could be turned into passenger rail that could also transport vehicles. Save the driving and travel with your car.
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The (Very Good) Case for Prairie Rail Revival
Self-Propelled Passenger Rail on Prairie Shortlines is feasible right now.
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This effectively allows for the targeting of individuals by cross-referencing them across databases, sharing that information with a separatist group that is being backed by bad actors in the U.S. and elsewhere. Treasonous? Perhaps not, but certainly treason-ish.
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
New Report Calls for Urgent National Response to Oil Shock Threatening Canada’s Food Supply, Health System, and Northern Communities dougaldlamont.substack.com/p/outrunning...
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OUTRUNNING THE STORM
New Report Calls for Urgent National Response to Oil Shock Threatening Canada’s Food Supply, Health System, and Northern Communities
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
$200/barrel oil is completely possible. It would ravage Canada's health care system. It's not just fuel : it's shortages of supplies (gloves, gowns) and pharmaceuticals from insulin to cancer treatment, and provinces with broken budgets.
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$200 Per Barrel Oil Isn't Out of the Question - and it Would Ravage Canada's Health Care System
It's not just heating: It's cold chains, plastic supplies and life-saving drugs from Insulin to antibiotics to anaesthetic.
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Why are the Wellness Elite Getting Sepsis Jordan Peterson has been suffering from debilitating illness, including sepsis, for many months. Mark Hyman, another person who makes a living telling you how to live your life, also had sepsis.
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The "Miracle" Treatment That Almost Killed Mark Hyman and Jordan Peterson
From Jordan Peterson to Mark Hyman
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The Right Aren't the Only Ones in Denial About Canada's Dark History of Residential Schools & Eugenics open.substack.com/pub/dougaldl...
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The Right Aren't the Only Ones in Denial About Canada's Dark History of Residential Schools & Eugenics
J.S. Woodsworth's book "Strangers Within Our Gates" features the quote “Both Church and State should have, as a final goal, the destruction and end of treaty and reservation life.”
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