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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Morning all! Maybe I should buy a lottery ticket today because our lucky run of summer-like days rolls on! Baby, roll another 7! I pray it's a bright, happy, sunshiny day for all of you reading my Tree House News 🏡 📰on this Friday, September 18, 2026,

🌺🌸💐☀️HAVE A HAPPY SUNSHINY DAY!☀️💐🌸🌺

PASS IT ON 🫱📃🫲 AND BRING THE SUNSHINE WITH YOU!

HAVE A HAPPY NATIONAL DO NOTHING WEEKEND, EVERYONE! 🥳🍾🍻😯😲🍸🙃🥃😵‍💫🧪😵🍷🫩ᝰ/🥴 - 🤔I'll stick with🍼☕️🫖🫗

_*What is the topic of the day? Well, I can think of a good one: what is the chance of some sane news on the major news networks today? A thousand American dollars to my wooden Canadian nickel that it will be as likely as rain in Death Valley. It is more likely the Aliens do us a favor and "disappear" Trumpo the Typo during the night while he was on Truth Social. And if that happened, I soitainly ain't goin' ta look fer him. Maybe Trumpo was a repo of an experimental AI robot gone coo-coo.

But we are all drowning in Trump's 💩 💩💩 because that is all we see before us: an ocean of Trumpo 💩 💩💩or up 💩 💩💩 crick, in a leaky canoe with no paddle and ... NO BAILING CAN 🥫!

_* PSYCHOLOGICALLY, 🧠 someone or many someones with a fully functional brain is behind this. What they want to do with the nation of America certainly doesn't look good for the health of the general public. THAT'S YOU, THE PEOPLE .*_

_*To me, it's certainly not brotherly and sisterly love; it looks more like someone is trying hard to bring about a WORLDWIDE FINANCIAL COLLAPSE.*_

_*I believe that this is exactly what Mark Carney is trying to prevent by unifying what's left: the EU, Mexico, and other smaller nations that wish to be more aligned with the EU.*_

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

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Question: World financial collapse 2026

🔹AI Overview

Global economic forecasts for 2026 point to slowed growth and rising vulnerabilities rather than an immediate, full-scale financial collapse, as detailed in reports like the World Economic Forum Global Risks Report.

Key Economic Risks in 2026

• AI Market Concentration: Massive capital spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure creates a potential valuation bubble that could trigger tech corrections.

• Geopolitical & Energy Shocks: Ongoing conflicts in the Middle East elevate risks of oil price spikes and supply chain fragmentation.

• Fiscal Strain: High public debt levels and rising bond yields put pressure on government budgets and central bank policies worldwide.

Market Outlook

• Growth Projections: International bodies project global economic growth to hover around 3% to 3.1%, tempered by trade tensions and tighter financial conditions.

• Resilience: Despite bearish concerns and elevated risk perceptions highlighted in analyses such as Yahoo Finance UK, major financial institutions note that structural cushions and corporate balance sheets have so far prevented a systemic collapse...

The PETROLEUM PROBLEM IS WHAT'S GOING TO BREAK THIS CAMEL'S BACK

If they allow prices to get out of control. CANADA doesn't need to follow everyone else over the precipice; we have enough of our own petroleum to supply...

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🔹AI Overview:

Canada has approximately 163 to 171 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, giving it the *third or fourth-largest oil reserves in the world.*

That's about it for today, folks. Thank you for visiting and reading the Tree House News 🏡

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BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

AI companies worry about the tech harming humans in the future. But it may damage the US economy even sooner

New York — President Donald Trump is suddenly at odds with AI’s leading executives over the largely unchecked development of AI technology. And it may be because our economy can’t afford a slowdown.

It might seem politically ill-advised, less than two months before the midterm elections to so forcefully stake out a position that’s out of step with the majority of Americans, who overwhelmingly oppose data centers being built near them and remain suspicious of AI’s use cases. But Trump’s pedal-to-the-metal approach suggests he may be more concerned about a bigger question: What happens to the US economy if the AI fever breaks on his watch?

There are a lot of ways to slice the metrics on just how dependent the US economy has become on AI (and AI-adjacent) spending...

That economic risk could come at a time when warning lights are already flashing.

Bond markets are signaling growing concern over government debt loads, deficit spending and elevated inflation that could lead to a cycle of higher interest rates — a situation compounded by the war in Iran and investors piling into corporate debt to fund the AI buildout._ ...

REad More:

PUBLISHED Sep 18, 2026, 7:30 AM ET - 2 hr ago

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They sparked Signalgate. Now they’re threatening to sink Trump in a different way.

The Iranian-backed Houthi militants are once again threatening oil shipment routes through the Red Sea. What will President Donald Trump do this time?

NEWS VIDEO | Included:

The U.S. decision to attack the Houthis last year unwittingly kicked off one of the most bruising political scandals of President Donald Trump’s second term: Signalgate. Now the Iranian-backed Houthis are once again wreaking havoc on vital Red Sea transit routes, with Trump holding back and deciding not to widen the Iran campaign — for now.

American diplomats met with Houthi representatives at the U.S. Embassy in Oman over the weekend, a source briefed on the meeting said. The goal was to cool down the conflict and ensure that ships can pass through the Red Sea, said the source, who was granted anonymity to describe sensitive discussions...

• More articles: The Houthis’ commandeering of a Red Sea strait is a huge deal*

“Trump doesn’t want to start another campaign, certainly not before the elections,” said Schenker, who is now a fellow at the Washington Institute. “We’re short of munitions and already stretched.”

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Posted Sept. 18, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT

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CANADIAN NEWS RECAP:

Ottawa mayoral candidate charged for alleged death threats against Doug Ford and Mark Sutcliffe

Charges filed in Kingston, Ont., against Geoffrey Nicholas Griplas cite social media posts this month

WARNING: This story contains descriptions of violent language and imagery.

A candidate for mayor of Ottawa is facing multiple charges for allegedly making death threats against Ontario Premier Doug Ford and incumbent Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe. Geoffrey Nicholas Griplas was charged on Sept. 15 with two counts of criminal harassment, as well as two counts of uttering death threats allegedly made by social media posts between the dates of Sept. 6 and Sept. 13.

CBC News has obtained court documents that detail the charges and name the targets of the alleged offences as Ford and Sutcliffe, who is running for re-election as Ottawa mayor...

• Social media posts:
• The 2018 election:

Posted: Sep 18, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago

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Na, na, na. That is not right, and there is too much of this type of aggression running around loose like a plague of rabies or something. I would sooner FORD THE PIRATE 🏴‍☠️ fell into a dumpster 🧊full of nice warm oozing 🫟cow 🐄 patties 💩💩💩; eh, well! throw him a life preserver🛟and close the lid! 😁

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Carney wants Canada to join Europe's Erasmus+ program. What is it?

PM signalled interest in Europe's flagship exchange program in speech to EU

NEWS VIDEO | Included:

As Canada and the EU court closer ties, Prime Minister Mark Carney signalled clear interest in joining Erasmus+, a popular European exchange program.

While many details of the suggested new partnership are left to be ironed out — like what it would mean to be the EU's first "associate member" — Carney specifically pitched Canadian involvement in Erasmus+ when he delivered a speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on Thursday.

"Canadian membership of Erasmus+ would give your students and ours more opportunity to learn at some of the world's top universities, to broaden their horizons and to build those lasting ties that will sustain our alliance for the future," Carney said...

WATCH | Carney's full speech in Strasbourg:

• What is the exchange program?:

Posted: Sep 17, 2026 5:07 PM EDT | Last Updated: September 17

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Could AI really kill us? | The Current

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe2YcbvXKe0

 

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Morning all. Well, so much for the weather — cloudy and gloomy ☁️ Ahhhh, a little late getting started 🕘 I tripped over the themes on my blog 🧖‍♀️ and decided to look for something to fix the awful background colors 🖼️ The restore button 🔄 just popped up, and I eagerly clicked it. BINGO! The colors in my blog are back to normal. Cindy's Open House Blog

cindyopenhouse.blogspot.com

I wish my physical body 🩻 would take a vacation 🏖️ and take all its aches and pains 💥⚡️* with it!

Now that my stomach feels better than it has in years, my body is sprouting aches and pains here and there that I didn't know I had — not severe, just annoying, a case of the wandering gas attacks ∘○˚.•o

Stomach problems, or any other dreadful thought — Great Spirit forbid — let that thought go! Thoughts can kill.

My letting-go-of-things prayer:

As a gesture of letting something go, it may sound dumb, but I twirl my index finger in the air twice to the right, stop, curl it, then flick it out, and I pray, "GONE!" Depending on the depth of the emotional distress, the usual negative thought just "poof!" gone. It works for me. If I stop thinking it, it remains in the ethers. But I bag and savor all the good stuff; I savor those times and treasure them above what all the money in the world can buy me.

The good stuff is the byproduct of the lessons learned from the bad ones. In this lifetime, anyway.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

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🔹AI Overview

The Art of Letting Go

The key is focusing on what you can do rather than what you feel.

Key Points

• We all have anger, regret, and resentments that continue to haunt us.

• We mistakenly believe that letting go lies in changing these thoughts and emotions.

• But it is our behaviors that keep these in place. Focus instead on changing your behaviors in the present...

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Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender

Letting go involves being aware of a feeling, letting it come up, staying with it, and letting it run its course without wanting to make it different or do ...

People also ask:

What does Letting Go mean?

🔹AI Overview

Letting go means choosing to stop fighting reality, releasing the need to control outcomes, and freeing yourself from emotional pain tied to the past.

What Letting Go Is:

• Acceptance: Acknowledging what happened instead of wishing it were different.

• Surrender: Stopping the inner struggle against thoughts, feelings, or situations you cannot change.

• Relief: Turning down your body's stress response so you can live in the present moment.

What Letting Go Is Not:

• Not forgetting: You still remember the event, but the memory no longer hurts or controls your daily choices.

• Not giving up: You stop forcing outcomes, which frees up energy to focus on actions you can actually change.

• Not ignoring pain: True release often happens only after you feel, process, and heal from difficult emotions...

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BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

The Fed was bullied into hiking rates. Now it hopes it didn’t royally screw up

The bond market gave the Federal Reserve an ultimatum: Raise rates, or we will. So the Fed did the only thing it could do. Backed into a corner by rising Treasury yields and inflation, the central bank boosted its target interest rate Wednesday for the first time since 2023.

Americans have suffered from a persistent inflation problem for five years, and an interest rate hike is a powerful weapon that could help squash it. But it’s a blunt tool that comes with a nasty side effect: It can unintentionally turn the job market into collateral damage...

But the Fed is playing with fire. Raising interest rates risks slowing down the American economy without anything to show for it....

• ‘Weak case’:
• Warsh vs. the market:
• Read More:

PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2026, 12:01 AM ET

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Will AI really kill everyone? How, exactly?

Artificial intelligence could kill the entire human species, according to people in the artificial intelligence industry. Specifically, they say, it could exterminate humanity within the decade.

Politicians, major news organizations, and Sheryl Crow reacted with alarm last week after an Anthropic employee named Jacob Coxon announced he was quitting the AI company because its work was too dangerous. Evan Hubinger, another Anthropic worker, chimed in to put the chance of AI-powered human extinction within 10 years at greater than 10%...

• Wiped out by synthetic plague?:
• Slaughtered by robots?:
• Or nuked?:
• Death without details:

Read More:

Updated Sep 17, 2026, 10:35 AM ET - 29 min ago

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Republicans made Hasan Piker a villain. Democrats still can’t decide what to do about him.

Seven weeks before a hugely consequential election, the Twitch streamer Republicans keep putting in ads explains why he won’t tone it down.

Hasan Piker is an unlikely star for a negative ad campaign. He has never run for office and says he has no interest in doing so. He holds no leadership position in any political party. He has no political action committee. Most of the country has no idea who he is: In April, 60% of likely voters told Echelon Insights they had never heard of him.

That was before he started appearing in living rooms across the nation, in ads paid for by Republicans who want him to be one of the most famous men in Democratic politics — and before prominent Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, condemned him in an effort to distance themselves from a figure they fear is too polarizing to help them retake the majority in November...

“My bet on this isn’t that I’m doing this just so Democrats can win elections,” Piker said. “I’m doing this because it’s true and I want people to understand and maybe even entertain a different perspective, even if they don’t fully internalize it and fully understand it.”

• More articles: Hasan Piker is a distraction for Democrats — and a potential liability:

"Piker’s model is, in part, Donald Trump, who proved AN INFLAMMATORY STYLE can win a national election."

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Sept. 17, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT

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CANADIAN NEWS RECAP:

Carney says Europe, Canada aren't 'fair-weather allies' while rebuking Trump's tactics

Addressing European Parliament, prime minister says 'deeper partnership' is about sovereignty

Prime Minister Mark Carney pushed back against U.S. President Donald Trump's recent comments that Canada seeking a deeper relationship with the European Union was "laughable."

Carney told reporters during a news conference on Thursday that a partnership with the EU would make Canada "a better partner" to the U.S., but he insisted that the relationship with the U.S. must respect Canadian independence. "We are looking for partnerships that are complementary, that reinforce our sovereignty," he said when asked about Trump's comments...

WATCH | Trump says closer Canada-EU co-operation is 'laughable':

WATCH | EU chief talks about Canada in her state of the European Union address:

• 'People-to-people ties':

WATCH | Ambassador focused on 'results' in deepened EU alliance:

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Posted: Sep 17, 2026 5:52 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

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If I could get one wish granted by the Great Spirit, it would be to have the privilege to punch🥊 this arrogant fat orange 🟠 (‿ˠ‿) 🕳️ in his fat 👃nose.

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PM Mark Carney addresses European Parliament – September 17, 2026

Prime Minister Mark Carney addresses the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. The address comes one day after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed opening the door for Canada to become the European Union’s first associate member.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8lUxaXsDFk

 

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Good mornin'! 🌅 I got up this morning with no stomach 🍤 problems. 💥⚡️ I ate my cereal 🍚🥄 with an appetite and really tasted the coffee ☕️ for the first time in a loooong time, and all I did was change the timing of my stomach pill 💊 ... 🤷 As long as it works... Thank you, Great Spirit🙇‍♀️

As far as the weather 👩‍🏫 goes, it's partly cloudy and sunny 🌦️ but at least it's back to more summer-like temps. At the moment, I'm not sure whether the clouds or the sun will win out. "I bet two Canadian wooden nickels 🦫🪵🪙 the odds are on the clouds!" ☁️ I stood on the stage 🏟️ and shouted 🗣️📣 out to my fans in the crowd 👫👬🧍‍♂️🧍🧍‍♀️🧍‍♂️🧍 👫👬"As The Stomach Turns!" 🍤 It's a new name for the daily drama of s--tty 💩 weather. 🌀 👅😁

That's about all I have to report from the home front, The Tree House Newsroom, this morning

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

MAY GREAT SPIRIT BLESS THEIR SOULS!

E.U. Offers to Make Canada ‘Associate Member’ as U.S. Ties Weaken for Both

Canada and the European Union have been confronting an increasingly challenging relationship with the United States under President Trump.

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The European Union has invited Canada to work toward becoming the bloc’s first “associate member,” a title meant to underscore Canada’s growing closeness to the 27-nation union as both face deteriorating relationships with the United States.

President Trump has waged a relentless trade war with Canada, challenging the nation’s economy. The United States has pulled back support for NATO and Ukraine, leaving the European Union scrambling to shore up its defenses. That has left both looking for new partners as the alliances established after World War II shift.

“We must urgently reimagine our partnerships,” said Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Union’s executive arm, on Wednesday during a speech in Strasbourg, France. Mark Carney, the prime minister of Canada, was seated directly to Ms. von der Leyen’s left as she made her address...

Mr. Carney gave a headline-grabbing speech at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, this year during which he argued that the world order that emerged from the Cold War was facing a “rupture, not a transition,” and that “middle powers must act together because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu.” ...

Ottawa and Brussels already have a free-trade agreement, and though the deal has not been approved by 10 of the 27 E.U. member states, about 90 percent of trade between the European Union and Canada is tariff-free.

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Updated Sept. 16, 2026 - 7:23 a.m. ET

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We need to firmly establish free and tariffed trade agreements and protocols with the EU if we wish to survive. But it's not just us; we all need each other — the EU, Canada, and other nations who wish to be part of the EU Alliance and stand together as one... or fall I//__ 😵✨• *•.°🪐

There is still hope that our world leaders have enough intelligence and ethics to make the right decisions to turn away from the precipice of this catastrophe. An Orange Slime Bag began demolishing a country that had been a functioning constitutional republic for almost 250 years. Under his usurped rule, it will soon be a Nazi Banana Republic, a pirate's den where corruption rules, laws don't matter, and the Constitution is a distant memory.

The future of the entire planet lies on the shoulders of those in the government WHO ARE SANE with the power to make decisions. PLEASE REMEMBER YOU HAVE POWER TOO! IT'S YOUR VOTE THAT DETERMINES WHO'S IN THE PRESIDENCY AND BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS! SUPREME COURT JUSTICES ARE PEOPLE IN ROBES; THEY ARE NOT GODS! They retire or die and need replacement. Your vote can determine how the Supreme Court decides cases, in favor of We, the People or in favor of corporations and the wealthy. Let us pray they will make the right, ethical decision AND STICK WITH IT!

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BREAKING NEWS UPDATE:

As price of fuel ratchets up, so does anger of people who can no longer afford it

Protesters are taking to the streets around the world to voice anger about skyrocketing fuel prices and rolling blackouts, as the now monthslong US war with Iran drives up the cost of energy globally.

Oil prices climbed back above the $100 per barrel mark last week in the wake of further US strikes on Iranian oil tankers in the Gulf and reignited fighting in Yemen that threatens shipping in the Bab al-Mandab Strait.

For the United States, that has meant elevated gas prices and stark warnings for households that rely on heating oil to keep warm in the winter, as analysts forecast a 30% jump in prices amid the Iran war.

While dozens of protests have been peaceful, demonstrators on Sunday blocked the Hasaka–Deir ez-Zor highway, where they burned tires and stopped oil tankers, according to ACLED, a global conflict monitor.

• Syria:
• Guatemala:
• Portugal:
• France:
• Philippines:

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Updated Sep 16, 2026, 9:24 AM ET - 1 hr 31 min ago

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The World Economy Is Becoming Wary of the U.S.

America’s position of global economic stability is starting to look shakier as the Trump administration piles on debt and doubles down on sanctions.

Global investors are balking at U.S. bonds. Talk of the dollar’s dwindling power is getting louder. Foreign governments are hauling their gold out of American vaults.

Almost two years into President Trump’s second term, the world economy is increasingly looking for ways to distance itself from America. Concerns about a $40 trillion debt burden, the excessive use of sanctions to solve foreign policy problems and Mr. Trump’s penchant for pushing the limits of the rule of law are raising questions about the appeal of the United States as a haven for global investment.

Despite pledges by foreign companies and nations to invest in the United States — in many cases to curry favor with the White House — capital is starting to seek alternative destinations. “Geopolitical factors and U.S. weaponization of the dollar through financial sanctions are causing central banks and other official investors to attempt to diversify away from dollar...

Last year, Christine Lagarde, the president of the European Central Bank, said erratic policymaking in the United States was setting the stage for a “global euro moment.”

Federal Reserve Bank of New York. “I do think that there is a fear factor.”

That fear factor is also creating blowback for American companies that are trying to do business abroad.

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Updated 9:41 a.m. ET Sept. 16, 2026

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CANADIAN NEWS RECAP:

We will rule in CANADA': Letter from Bishnoi gang to police disclosed to CBC News

Documents detail year-long investigation into group behind extortion, shootings, arson and fraud

CBC News has obtained a copy of a letter the Lawrence Bishnoi gang sent Canada's "defence minister, army and police" last year claiming to have 5,000 gang members in Canada and "more guns" than the police.

The letter sent to the Abbotsford Police Department and signed "Lawrence gang from India" was released through an Access to Information Act request for exhibits from an Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) hearing for a Bishnoi associate who was ordered deported in July. A police officer who testified at the hearing referred to the letter's existence, but the full text has never been made public...

• 'Tactical Guide' to the Bishnoi gang:
• Goldy Brar and Goldy Dhillon:
• 'They all have to pay us':
• 'I am talking from Lawrence Bishnoi group':

WATCH | Jashandeep Singh holding gun connected to extortion cases:

• A gun with a pink slide:

WATCH | Arshdeep Singh seen in video next to gun with pink slide:

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Posted: Sep 16, 2026 7:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

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Carney opens up Canada's 4 biggest airports to foreign investors

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced plans to open Canada's four largest airports to operation by private investors. Carney says the billions generated would be used to fund infrastructure projects including building more regional and remote airports.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPuc0Ptrpg0

 

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Morning🌅 all🚶‍♀️🚶🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️‍➡️🚶‍➡️🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️‍➡️🚶‍♀️

Not sure what the weather ☔️ ⚡️☀️ will be like today. Right now it's half cloudy, and the rising sun is just peeking through the clouds ⛅️. Kind of cool-ish 🌬️ out there this morning, but it was nice to sit 💺 in the silence and peacefulness of the surrounding park woods 🏝️ 🌲🎍🌳 🌾🌴 across the driveway /┆\ from our apartment 🏢, the Tree House, I call it. I guess the "noise makers" (road construction) haven't started yet today.

_*I'll be sitting out here every chance I get, even in the winter. If the sun is bright and there is no wind, I can sit at the patio table with my coffee in a light winter jacket.

I grew up where there was a lot of outdoor space. We had closer neighbors up north in the lumber camps where my dad worked than we did in the homestead in central Ontario, where I grew up, where the closest neighbor was five miles away, and downtown was 11 miles away.

Even in all my travels across the US and Canada, I looked for the small places. Just somewhere to park my truck and camper, a creek for my fishing pole, lots of woods all around, and the friendly folks I met, for the most part, that I remember, no 🐎(‿ˠ‿)s. Actually! I don't remember any real nasty ones, American or Canadian.

Anyway, that will be enough from me for today. Thank you for visiting and reading The Tree House News.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

Remember a few months back, Mark Carney mentioned something about a 'Canada Strong Fund.' I thought it was a good idea, but what happened? We get too many news items like this and then never hear back.

It makes me wonder if these aren't just schemes thrown in for a distraction, like those veils ladies wore on their hats back in the late 1800s and early 1900s, I guess, to hide the world's ugliness, or from it.

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Question: What happened to Mark Carney's Canada Strong Funds?

🔹AI Overview

Prime Minister Mark Carney's Canada Strong Fund remains an active $25-billion federal initiative moving toward its fall rollout, though it faces ongoing economic debate and fraud alerts

• Current Status Rollouts:

The government announced the $25-billion fund on April 27, 2026, to co-invest in key sectors like energy, infrastructure, and critical minerals.

• Next steps:

Details regarding retail investor participation and final framework rules are expected to be released in fall 2026.

• Recent events:

The fund was a focal topic at the September 2026 national investment summit in Ottawa as Canada seeks broader capital deployment.

• Controversies and Warnings:

Economic institutes have criticized the fund because it uses borrowed federal debt instead of a national budget surplus, unlike traditional sovereign wealth funds.

• Scam alerts:

The federal government issued fraud warnings after fake YouTube ads and QR codes falsely claimed that public registration and direct retail investing were already open to individuals.

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• The criticisms from economic think tanks:
• Which industries the fund targets:

As far as I know, no shovels in the ground yet.

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When are they going to build Modular reactors in Canada?

🔹AI Overview

Construction is already underway at the Darlington New Nuclear Project in Ontario, with the first small modular reactor (SMR) expected to connect to the electrical grid by the end of 2030...

• A final decision to build is expected in 2029.

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Need to go no further with that one, I don't hear any definite shovels in the ground on that one yet nider said the spider 🕷 who drank too much cider 🍾😁 HICK! ∘○˚.•o*

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Question: Sept 15, 2026, have they started harnessing geothermal energy in Canada yet?

🔹AI Overview

Yes, Canada has started harnessing geothermal energy, but it remains a highly untapped resource.While the country has a wealth of underground heat potential and deep-subsurface expertise from the oil and gas sector, domestic deployment has been slow. Canada generates less than six megawatts (MW) of geothermal power capacity nationwide, accounting for a tiny fraction of its overall grid.

• 💡 Current Milestone Projects:

The First Operational Hybrid Plant

In January 2023, FutEra Power launched Canada’s first co-produced geothermal power project in Swan Hills, Alberta. It is a hybrid facility that captures geothermal heat from existing oil and gas production fluids alongside a natural gas turbine to deliver low-emission electricity.

• Commercial Power Developments:

Companies like DEEP Earth Energy Production Corp. in southeast Saskatchewan have been executing drilling phases to establish Canada’s first standalone, large-scale commercial geothermal plants by tapping into deep sedimentary aquifers.

Recent Government Initiatives

The push to industrialize geothermal has significantly accelerated:

• The National Geothermal Strategy: In June 2026, the federal government allocated funding through Natural Resources Canada's Energy Innovation Program to launch the Canadian Deep Geothermal Roadmap project. Led by the Canadian Deep Geothermal Coalition (CDGC), this initiative is mapping out the technology, policies, and investments needed to finally scale next-generation geothermal across the country...

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No shovels 🪏 in the ground yet, just a bunch of lip flapping 🗣️💋🫦👄👅🐂💩

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BREAKING NEWS UPDATE:

If AI really could kill us all, why give any ground to China?

China isn’t messing around.

The government recently unveiled a comprehensive strategy to make China the world’s AI leader by the end of this decade — a roadmap that includes massive, coordinated funding and resources on a scale that one-party rule makes significantly easier. Sure, the Chinese Communist Party is prone to hyperbole, but the country’s leaders view AI as an existential threat to their power, and they’re throwing the kitchen sink at the problem. They’re already catching up to the United States.

Meanwhile, the American AI industry says it wants to tap the brakes on its own development. Their fear is a different one: Silicon Valley is building a technology that could outstrip its makers’ control and eventually destroy humanity...

• What China is capable of:
• US efforts to rein in AI:
• What global regulation might look like:

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Updated Sep 15, 2026, 8:04 AM ET - 1 hr 50 min ago

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Why Tucker Carlson has effectively endorsed Abdul El-Sayed for Senate

The right-wing pundit’s antiwar position is pushing him from critic of MAGA to opponent of MAGA.

If Abdul El-Sayed wins his Michigan Senate race, it will mark one of the biggest breakthroughs for the progressive left since the rise of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, which makes it quite strange that right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson is lavishing praise on El-Sayed and has declared his Trump-backed opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers, “unfit to serve in public office.”

Carlson hasn’t lost his mind. His quasi-endorsement of El-Sayed is a product of his flipping on President Donald Trump over the war with Iran. And it portends a serious problem for the GOP’s coalition — and a real opportunity for antiwar Democrats. In his newsletter last week, Carlson defended resurfaced remarks that El-Sayed made in 2021 on a defunct podcas...

• Carlson is arguably the single-most influential conservative commentator in America, and he’s now working to sabotage the GOP’s goal of maintaining a Senate majority.:
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Sept. 15, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

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"I'd like to rip someone's throat" Frank McKenna on the trade war

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The former premier of New Brunswick and former Canadian ambassador to the US gives his take on the trade war, and Canada at this moment. He has some sharp words for Alberta premier Danielle Smith and tells a wild story about the advice he and Jean Chretien got from another world leader after the 1995 Quebec referendum. Also in this episode: our conversation with beloved Acadian musician Lisa Leblanc...

Aired: Sep. 10, 2026 - 32 min. ago

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Canada will seek private investment at 4 largest airports, Carney says at summit aimed at boosting economy

Prime minister's investment summit aims to attract $1T in next 5 years

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• Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered remarks at his government investment summit in Toronto this morning, announcing that Canada will seek private investment at the country's four largest airports: Toronto Pearson, Vancouver, Montreal and Calgary.

• Carney also announced that Canada will allow immediate expensing for most new capital investment, calling it a 'mega deduction.’ He also said Ottawa will help finance nationwide sovereign internet.

• Hundreds of executives and global asset managers are attending the summit, as Carney looks to attract $1 trillion in new investment to Canada over the next five years.

• More than 1,000 demonstrators gathered in downtown Toronto yesterday to protest against the summit, arguing Canada's economic future should not be put in the hands of CEOs...

Updated September 15, 2026 - 23 minutes ago

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LIVE: PM Carney speaks to media at the 2026 Canada Investment Summit

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