Tuesday, 15 September 2026

🧚‍♀️ TREE HOUSE NEWS 🏡

NEWS AGGREGATOR & COMMENTS

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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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Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed says Platner should drop out

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Sept. 15, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

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CANADIAN NEWS:

The Current:

"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

The Latest

• 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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