The military takeover of Washington, DC

[SalesServiceGuy]

74 year old Jeanine Pirro, the Trump appointed US Attorney for Washington, DC reversed a long standing policy of banning "open carry" anywhere in the City.

Now any wacko from anywhere in the world can freely walk around DC with any variety of AR15s, shotguns, handguns and high capacity magazines.

This is at the same time, that there are US service members armed the same.

The soldiers will be jumpy as well as the citizens.

The threat level has just increased immensley for all local citizens, visitors, tourists, convention centers, Republicans, Democrats and independents.

The DC Tourism/ Convention industry is going to crater causing many lost jobs and income.

The Secret Service will create safety barriers around key gov't buildings.

.... complete madness!

Watch the gunshot wounds and deaths by gunshot statistics skyrocket.

[BBM]

It will be a even match now . Law abiding citizens against the criminals .

[BillyCarpenter]

The mayor of DC has asked Trump to leave the national guard in place for an additional 30-days. Dems all talk, Trump gets shit done.

[SalesServiceGuy]

With no end in sight, National Guard troops deployed to DC grow weary


With each phone call home, the troops describe a mission unlike any other.

One soldier from Tennessee told his father that from 4 p.m. to 4 a.m. every day, his only task is to walk around Chinatown. Another service member from Mississippi told a loved one that she’d been repeatedly cursed at while on patrol. During a call to his wife, a guardsman from Louisiana said there was confusion about what the military was actually doing there.

“We haven’t gotten critically low on morale, but we’re falling fast,” said one soldier who, like others quoted in this story, on the condition of anonymity because they’re not authorized to speak to the media and feared reprisal.

Of the more than 2,200 National Guard soldiers President Donald Trump deployed to Washington, DC, last month, in addition to a wave of federal law enforcement, roughly 1,300 are from out of state.

Guard members on the DC mission and their relatives said they left behind civilian jobs and children to serve.

And while domestic missions typically have National Guard troops responding to crises like hurricanes or wildfires, in DC, much of their work has involved more mundane tasks – patrolling popular tourist destinations and assisting with “beautification projects” including picking up trash, raking leaves and laying mulch.

Most of that beautification work has been assigned to soldiers from the DC National Guard to avoid angering GOP governors who have sent their troops.

For some, the mundane orders aren’t an issue. One father of a Guardsman joked that this is like a vacation for his son. But the mother of another soldier from Mississippi said her daughter is missing out on “a lot of first events with her child” to serve in Washington.

It’s also unclear how long the deployment will last. A senior official familiar with the planning said military orders for guardsmen on the mission are expected to be extended through the end of December, though the official stressed that was largely to ensure the continuity of their benefits like health care coverage, and not necessarily to indicate the mission will continue through year’s end.

Trump has also threatened to mobilize the National Guard to other cities, including Chicago, Baltimore and New Orleans, as part of his administration’s crackdown on crime. He’s said he could keep National Guard members in Washington “as long as I want” by declaring a national emergency.

‘Yeah, this is crazy’

For a mission that already carries a price tag of about $1 million a day, costs are continuing to mount. Expenses include an estimated $7 million in catered food for the first 10 weeks and $5 million for 18 weeks of laundry services, according to a review of contracts.

An additional $5 million for a tent city has also been approved, the contracts show, along with $600,000 in air conditioning rental and more than $500,000 for land mobile radios.

[SalesServiceGuy]

The mayor of DC has asked Trump to leave the national guard in place for an additional 30-days. Dems all talk, Trump gets shit done.

.... it is standard practise now that whenever you post anything it has to be vetted. Like Trump you usually exaggerate, distort facts, use only those parts of a statement that reinforces your beliefs or lie.

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Washington, DC, doesn’t need a “federal emergency,” Mayor Muriel Bowser said Wednesday, adding her new executive order is meant to be a pathway out of the federal takeover that is set to end this month.

The Democratic mayor clarified that her order this week, which requires the city to coordinate with federal law enforcement, is not an endorsement of the Trump administration’s ongoing involvement in the city, but rather a framework for ending the president’s federal emergency.

“Let me tell you, without equivocation, that the mayor’s order does not extend the Trump emergency,” Bowser said at a press conference. “In fact, it does the exact opposite. What it does is lay out a framework for how we will exit the emergency. The emergency ends on September 10. The only way it can be extended legally is by the Congress.”

Her comments come as Republican senators on Wednesday praised President Donald Trump’s efforts to crack down on crime in the nation’s capital. One senator suggested reforming or altogether undoing DC’s Home Rule Act – a law that balances local self-governance with federal oversight in the capital.

“If we can reform the Home Rule status, we can give that a try. But we have to remember, this is authority that is ours. It’s been delegated, delegated unwisely, in my view. If we can reform that, then let’s do it. And President Trump’s action is an important first step in that direction,” Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah said.

He continued, “But to the extent that that experiment is not able to work out, then we’ve got to be ready to do what needs to be done, and undo Home Rule.”

The Home Rule Act of 1973 allows the president to take control of the city’s police for 48 hours if he “determines that special conditions of an emergency nature exist,” which requires the department’s use for federal purposes.

The president can retain control of the department for a longer period if he notifies the chairs and ranking members of the congressional committees that handle legislative matters pertaining to DC. Any request of control over the city’s police department for over 30 days must be passed into law.


.... the Mayor of DC did not ask Trump to extend the 30 day National Guard deplyment ending Sept 10. The Mayor's plan is to get the troops to leave as soon as possible. The Mayor is not endorsing the President's police actions in DC.

[SalesServiceGuy]

Fearing ICE arrests, DC’s migrant delivery drivers are changing tactics – or leaving the city


Washington —
Yakson had a delivery to pick up in Washington, DC’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood, but first he scanned the street for immigration officers. A white truck parked nearby looked suspicious. He lingered, peering through the truck window for signs of an agent. Only when it seemed clear did he dart inside the restaurant, rushing the pickup.

“People are scared,” his eyes still on the truck.

The Trump administration’s move to surge federal law enforcement into Washington, DC, has reshaped the daily rhythms of immigrant life in the nation’s capital. With ICE now riding alongside local police, many food delivery drivers – a workforce that includes many Venezuelan migrants – say they no longer feel safe waiting on street corners for orders.

Some have switched from mopeds to bikes to avoid attention or potential stops for traffic violations, while others have left the city altogether, leaving local businesses struggling with delayed orders, vanishing customers, and steep drops in sales. Dozens of delivery drivers in DC used to gather outside businesses while waiting for their phones to “ping” to signal the next pickup. Street corners that once pulsed with salsa, reggaetón and lively chatter have fallen silent since the start of Trump’s law enforcement push in the capital.

In the first two weeks of Trump’s crackdown last month, there was a more than tenfold increase over the typical ICE arrest numbers for the district. Many residents in migrant-heavy neighborhoods now worry about being picked up by ICE, with delivery drivers especially fearful. ‘

Just let us work’


José, a delivery driver from Venezuela, said he changed from a moped to a bike to lessen the chances of being targeted.

“I have my wife and two children back in Venezuela (that I send money to) and bills (here) still need to be paid,” said José, who declined to share his last name.

José left Venezuela two years ago in search of a better future amid the country’s ongoing political and economic crisis, which has deepened under the country’s increasingly authoritarian government.

Being a delivery driver was his way to make ends meet. He said that after the law enforcement push in DC, his income has gone down.

“It’s hard, it’s very hard,” said José when discussing the current work environment.

During the Biden administration, thousands of Venezuelans were granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS), giving them work authorization and protection from deportation. The Trump administration has moved to end TPS.

Another driver, who’s been in Washington, DC, for three years, told CNN he has witnessed arrests that he considered unfair. “Not everyone does bad things – people deserve respect as human beings,” he said.

He added that many drivers have stopped showing up given the current climate.

“I’ve seen fewer delivery drivers on the streets because people are afraid of being deported. If someone does wrong, fine, apply the law. But those who work hard every day deserve the chance to keep working,” he said.

A different delivery driver, who asked to remain anonymous, had a simple plea: “Just let us work.”

“There is a lot of fear,” she continued. Two years ago, she fled Venezuela with her young daughter and sister amid the country’s political and social turmoil. “It’s a disaster,” she said of her homeland.

She began working as a delivery driver six months ago, drawn by the flexible hours that allowed her to earn an income while caring for her daughter.

Her sister, also a delivery driver, shares the same fear. If anything were to happen to either of them, she worries her daughter would be left alone, with no other family in the United States to turn to.

“I’m sad, scared, depressed — I don’t go into DC anymore. None of the women (who are) delivery drivers do; we all have young children,” she said. “My sales have dropped, and I’m still supporting my parents and grandmother back in Venezuela. My grandmother is very sick, and I help take care of all of them.”

Growing fears and declining sales


Some of the moped delivery drivers are Venezuela migrants who arrived in DC in 2022, bused in from Texas. They sought work and found that food delivery for the apps was not only an in-demand, steady job, but easy to get approved.

Delivery apps like Uber Eats, DoorDash, and Grubhub have varying requirements for their couriers. Some demand Social Security numbers and driver’s licenses, while others only ask for a government-issued ID – a gap that’s made certain platforms more accessible to immigrant workers.

Video captured by a Washington Post reporter of one recent arrest of a moped driver went viral on social media. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the moped driver had come to the US illegally from Venezuela and had an order of removal from an immigration judge.

Leavitt has defended the federalization of DC, saying the administration is committed on making the nation’s city “safe and beautiful again.”

But immigration advocates say the change has fueled a climate of anxiety among food delivery workers.“A big fear is just being stopped and assumed to be undocumented – whether they are or not – and then getting arrested,” said Catherine Rubio of the Central American Resource Center. “There’s this fear that because they’re moped drivers, they’ll be targeted.”

Feeling unsafe in the city, some delivery workers have shifted to Maryland or Virginia, while others abandoned delivery work entirely and are now struggling to pay rent and bills, according to Amy Fisher, an organizer with Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid.

Some businesses have also taken a hit.

Dinesh Tandon, who owns the Indian restaurant Indigo with his wife, said delivery sales have dropped about 30% in recent weeks. “Earlier, orders were picked up instantly, without delays. Now we wait for drivers – sometimes they don’t even show up,” . In Mount Pleasant, another restaurant owner reported profits plunging by 60% because of the shortage of delivery drivers.

In nearby Columbia Heights, Latino-owned businesses describe kitchens being short-staffed after workers were arrested, while longtime customers now avoid the neighborhood’s commercial corridors. One supermarket employee said his hours were cut to just two or three days a week, and that several coworkers had already been arrested.

Hector, a business owner in Mount Pleasant who declined to give his last name but goes by “El Dominicano,” said, “My sales have gone down, as you can see,” gesturing to his nearly empty coffee shop.

“We had just opened, but since ICE started showing up in the neighborhood, people are scared – not just Latinos, but Americans as well,” he said.

When asked if he personally feels the impact, one Venezuelan driver turned to his faith. “I believe God is stronger than everything. He gives and takes away power. If something bad happens to me, it’s because He allowed it. I’m not afraid of what may come – I just put my hope in Him.”

[BillyCarpenter]

Trump’s Immigration Enforcement Delivers Real Wage Gains for American Workers

Breitbart Business Digest: Trump’s Immigration Enforcement Delivers Real Wage Gains for American Workers

6 Gabriel B. Kotico/White House Photo via Flickr John Carney 5 Sep 2025109
7:03
American Workers Are Winning as the Foreign Worker Pool Shrinks

The early economic returns on President Trump’s immigration enforcement are unambiguous: American workers are winning. After decades of being told that mass immigration was an economic necessity, the data from Trump’s first eight months in office tell a different story—one where reducing foreign worker competition translates directly into higher wages and improved living standards for native-born Americans.



The numbers are stark and revealing. The foreign-born workforce has contracted by nearly one million workers since January, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Friday. This represents a complete reversal of the 2024 trend, when foreign-born workers provided essentially all U.S. job growth, adding over 2 million positions to their ranks.

What happened when that foreign worker flood was turned off? Exactly what basic economic theory predicts: wages rose, and rose meaningfully.

The Labor Economics of Immigration Enforcement
Average hourly earnings have jumped 1.8 percent from January to August, an annualized growth rate of 3.1 percent. But the real story lies with production and non-supervisory workers—the 80 percent of the workforce most likely to compete directly with foreign-born labor. Their wages have risen 2.0 percent over seven months, annualizing to 3.4 percent growth.

These aren’t just nominal gains being eaten away by inflation. With consumer prices rising only 1.2 percent over the same period, American workers have seen genuine purchasing power increases. Production workers alone have gained nearly 0.8 percentage points in real wage growth—meaning their paychecks buy more goods and services than they did at the start of the year.

[SalesServiceGuy]

Trump’s Immigration Enforcement Delivers Real Wage Gains for American Workers

Breitbart Business Digest: Trump’s Immigration Enforcement Delivers Real Wage Gains for American Workers

6 Gabriel B. Kotico/White House Photo via Flickr John Carney 5 Sep 2025109
7:03
American Workers Are Winning as the Foreign Worker Pool Shrinks

The early economic returns on President Trump’s immigration enforcement are unambiguous: American workers are winning. After decades of being told that mass immigration was an economic necessity, the data from Trump’s first eight months in office tell a different story—one where reducing foreign worker competition translates directly into higher wages and improved living standards for native-born Americans.



The numbers are stark and revealing. The foreign-born workforce has contracted by nearly one million workers since January, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Friday. This represents a complete reversal of the 2024 trend, when foreign-born workers provided essentially all U.S. job growth, adding over 2 million positions to their ranks.

What happened when that foreign worker flood was turned off? Exactly what basic economic theory predicts: wages rose, and rose meaningfully.

The Labor Economics of Immigration Enforcement
Average hourly earnings have jumped 1.8 percent from January to August, an annualized growth rate of 3.1 percent. But the real story lies with production and non-supervisory workers—the 80 percent of the workforce most likely to compete directly with foreign-born labor. Their wages have risen 2.0 percent over seven months, annualizing to 3.4 percent growth.

These aren’t just nominal gains being eaten away by inflation. With consumer prices rising only 1.2 percent over the same period, American workers have seen genuine purchasing power increases. Production workers alone have gained nearly 0.8 percentage points in real wage growth—meaning their paychecks buy more goods and services than they did at the start of the year.

Back on Earth One:


What the latest jobs report means for you … buckle up

After years of plentiful employment opportunities, healthy pay bumps and pandemic savings-fueled spending sprees, American workers now face a sobering economic reality: It’s getting harder and harder to find work, and more and more industries are shedding jobs.

The latest jobs report, released Friday, indicated that the US economy added about 22,000 jobs in August and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.3%, the highest it’s been in nearly four years.

The job market is “stalling,” Glassdoor economist Daniel Zhao said on Friday, “it’s slowing to a dangerous speed.”

Job growth is practically nonexistent.

And if the labor market is showing signs of a cold, that doesn’t bode well for the overall health of the economy.

Here’s a rundown of the latest data.

Takeaways from the August jobs report


Job growth hasn’t just been weak, it turned negative recently:

During the past three months, the US economy has seen a net gain of roughly 29,000 jobs per month, Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows.

If that sounds soft, it’s because it is: Excluding the massive employment plunge at the start of the pandemic, that’s the slowest three-month average since the summer of 2010, when the United States was still clawing its way back from the Great Recession.

Bringing that average down was a now-negative report for June. The second revision for that month (which includes more comprehensive dispatches from US businesses) now shows a net loss of 13,000 jobs.

More industries lost jobs in August than added them:

The jobs report contains a nerdy little gauge (a diffusion index) that is meant show the breadth of employment changes across 250 private-sector industries.

If it’s above 50, that means more industries added jobs than lost them. It’s been under 50 since April and measured 49.6 in August. Most of those gains, however, were minimal.

And the hardest-hit sectors are those in the goods business:

The impact of President Donald Trump’s tariff policy, and the whipsaw manner in which it’s being applied, is having an “undeniable” impact on hiring, RSM US economist Joe Brusuelas wrote in a note to investors Friday.

Goods businesses have posted “four straight months of declines since May,” he wrote. “Manufacturing, which was supposed to benefit from restrictive trade policies, instead slipped into reverse as supply chain uncertainty deepened.”

Opportunities are growing increasingly limited:

The health care industry, which has an aging US populus working in its favor, has been a leading driver of employment growth in recent years.

Now it’s practically the only game in town.

Health care businesses added an estimated 46,800 jobs in August. The industry, however, accounts for only 15% of overall US employment, BLS data shows.

“For 85% of workers, they’re not seeing a lot of the jobs added,” Kory Kantenga, LinkedIn’s head of economics Americas, told CNN this week.

The “canary in the coal mine” is chirping:

The unemployment rate for Black workers in the United States rose again last month to 7.5%, the highest level since October 2021.

Black workers are disproportionately employed in frontline and lower-wage industries as well as the government workforce. Economists warned earlier this year that Trump’s sweeping policy changes related to trade, immigration, federal employment reductions, as well as a crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, could reverse some of the historic employment gains made recently by women, Black workers, Latino workers and other underrepresented Americans.


Economic headwinds and uncertainty are putting a drag on hiring:

There’s not one single cause for the slowing job market, but uncertainty certainly hasn’t helped, Glassdoor economist Zhao said.

“Even before this year, the job market was on a slowing trend, interest rates have been fairly high, but we do see with the data in the last few months that some of these tariff-sensitive sectors like manufacturing or construction have slowed and in fact, started losing jobs,” he said. “So, there does seem to be some impact from tariffs and the uncertainty associated with them.”

“It’s not just the fact that there are these tariffs being implemented, policy uncertainty makes it very hard for businesses to commit to hiring plans,” he added.

Rising unemployment can get out of hand … quickly:

The unemployment rate of 4.3% still lands within that “healthy”/full employment arena, but if it keeps rising, that’s a big problem.

Unemployment has stayed relatively low in part because of dampened demand for workers as well as a depressed supply (people aging out of the workforce as well as reductions in immigrant workers).

“But, as we start to see unemployment rise, that does start to suggest that this is not just because of shifts on the labor supply side,” Zhao said. “When unemployment starts to rise, those impacts can start to stack up very quickly and unpredictably.”

And if the job market cools further, that means less money in the pockets of American households — and less spending to support more hiring.

“That can build into a cycle of a sharper economic slowdown,” he said.

“We expect growth and hiring to reaccelerate as the combination of interest rate cuts, tax cuts and full expensing of business investment bolster demand for labor later this year and early next,” he wrote in the note. “Thus, we do not expect the economy to slip into recession in the near term.”

An interest rate cut, even a small one, could unleash pent-up demand:

Toward the end of last year, including after the election, hiring and investment picked up and so did sentiment – especially as inflation appeared to be getting tamed, said Ron Hetrick, senior labor economist at Lightcast,.

“Then that got squandered, when we started doing tariffs, and that possibility of inflation got introduced, then the [Federal Reserve] was like, ‘Hey, all that stuff’s off the table now’ — and so, all of this underground fervor was gone,” he said. “When you lower the interest rate, the Fed is signaling, ‘We think it’s time to start this engine again.’”

[BillyCarpenter]

Back on Earth One:


What the latest jobs report means for you … buckle up

After years of plentiful employment opportunities, healthy pay bumps and pandemic savings-fueled spending sprees, American workers now face a sobering economic reality: It’s getting harder and harder to find work, and more and more industries are shedding jobs.

The latest jobs report, released Friday, indicated that the US economy added about 22,000 jobs in August and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.3%, the highest it’s been in nearly four years.

The job market is “stalling,” Glassdoor economist Daniel Zhao said on Friday, “it’s slowing to a dangerous speed.”

Job growth is practically nonexistent.

And if the labor market is showing signs of a cold, that doesn’t bode well for the overall health of the economy.

Here’s a rundown of the latest data.

Takeaways from the August jobs report


Job growth hasn’t just been weak, it turned negative recently:

During the past three months, the US economy has seen a net gain of roughly 29,000 jobs per month, Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows.

If that sounds soft, it’s because it is: Excluding the massive employment plunge at the start of the pandemic, that’s the slowest three-month average since the summer of 2010, when the United States was still clawing its way back from the Great Recession.

Bringing that average down was a now-negative report for June. The second revision for that month (which includes more comprehensive dispatches from US businesses) now shows a net loss of 13,000 jobs.

More industries lost jobs in August than added them:

The jobs report contains a nerdy little gauge (a diffusion index) that is meant show the breadth of employment changes across 250 private-sector industries.

If it’s above 50, that means more industries added jobs than lost them. It’s been under 50 since April and measured 49.6 in August. Most of those gains, however, were minimal.

And the hardest-hit sectors are those in the goods business:

The impact of President Donald Trump’s tariff policy, and the whipsaw manner in which it’s being applied, is having an “undeniable” impact on hiring, RSM US economist Joe Brusuelas wrote in a note to investors Friday.

Goods businesses have posted “four straight months of declines since May,” he wrote. “Manufacturing, which was supposed to benefit from restrictive trade policies, instead slipped into reverse as supply chain uncertainty deepened.”

Opportunities are growing increasingly limited:

The health care industry, which has an aging US populus working in its favor, has been a leading driver of employment growth in recent years.

Now it’s practically the only game in town.

Health care businesses added an estimated 46,800 jobs in August. The industry, however, accounts for only 15% of overall US employment, BLS data shows.

“For 85% of workers, they’re not seeing a lot of the jobs added,” Kory Kantenga, LinkedIn’s head of economics Americas, told CNN this week.

The “canary in the coal mine” is chirping:

The unemployment rate for Black workers in the United States rose again last month to 7.5%, the highest level since October 2021.

Black workers are disproportionately employed in frontline and lower-wage industries as well as the government workforce. Economists warned earlier this year that Trump’s sweeping policy changes related to trade, immigration, federal employment reductions, as well as a crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, could reverse some of the historic employment gains made recently by women, Black workers, Latino workers and other underrepresented Americans.


Economic headwinds and uncertainty are putting a drag on hiring:

There’s not one single cause for the slowing job market, but uncertainty certainly hasn’t helped, Glassdoor economist Zhao said.

“Even before this year, the job market was on a slowing trend, interest rates have been fairly high, but we do see with the data in the last few months that some of these tariff-sensitive sectors like manufacturing or construction have slowed and in fact, started losing jobs,” he said. “So, there does seem to be some impact from tariffs and the uncertainty associated with them.”

“It’s not just the fact that there are these tariffs being implemented, policy uncertainty makes it very hard for businesses to commit to hiring plans,” he added.

Rising unemployment can get out of hand … quickly:

The unemployment rate of 4.3% still lands within that “healthy”/full employment arena, but if it keeps rising, that’s a big problem.

Unemployment has stayed relatively low in part because of dampened demand for workers as well as a depressed supply (people aging out of the workforce as well as reductions in immigrant workers).

“But, as we start to see unemployment rise, that does start to suggest that this is not just because of shifts on the labor supply side,” Zhao said. “When unemployment starts to rise, those impacts can start to stack up very quickly and unpredictably.”

And if the job market cools further, that means less money in the pockets of American households — and less spending to support more hiring.

“That can build into a cycle of a sharper economic slowdown,” he said.

“We expect growth and hiring to reaccelerate as the combination of interest rate cuts, tax cuts and full expensing of business investment bolster demand for labor later this year and early next,” he wrote in the note. “Thus, we do not expect the economy to slip into recession in the near term.”

An interest rate cut, even a small one, could unleash pent-up demand:

Toward the end of last year, including after the election, hiring and investment picked up and so did sentiment – especially as inflation appeared to be getting tamed, said Ron Hetrick, senior labor economist at Lightcast,.

“Then that got squandered, when we started doing tariffs, and that possibility of inflation got introduced, then the [Federal Reserve] was like, ‘Hey, all that stuff’s off the table now’ — and so, all of this underground fervor was gone,” he said. “When you lower the interest rate, the Fed is signaling, ‘We think it’s time to start this engine again.’”

Thank goodness we're not Canada.

Canada's national unemployment rate rose to 7.1% in August 2025, a significant increase of 0.2 percentage points from the previous month and the highest rate seen since May 2016 (excluding the COVID-19 years of 2020 and 2021). This jump was accompanied by a significant loss of jobs, with the economy shedding over 65,000 positions, particularly in sectors like transportation, manufacturing, and professional services.

[SalesServiceGuy]

Thank goodness we're not Canada.

Canada's national unemployment rate rose to 7.1% in August 2025, a significant increase of 0.2 percentage points from the previous month and the highest rate seen since May 2016 (excluding the COVID-19 years of 2020 and 2021). This jump was accompanied by a significant loss of jobs, with the economy shedding over 65,000 positions, particularly in sectors like transportation, manufacturing, and professional services.

Thanks goodness we're not the USA

... with multiple armed para and military forces patrolling the streets of Ottawa. Canada is not wasting $1M+ per day on a useless mission that nobody wants anymore and is terrible for the local economy.

[BillyCarpenter]

Thanks goodness we're not the USA

... with multiple armed para and military forces patrolling the streets of Ottawa. Canada is not wasting $1M+ per day on a useless mission that nobody wants anymore and is terrible for the local economy.

7.1% unemployment? Better get to work with those trade deals you keep telling us about, sport.