Anthony Koch
@Anthony__Koch
“Orthodox Jewish Miami Vice” | Fier Québécois + Canadien | Consultant & Entrepreneur | “Grand Master of the Knights Jewsader” | Gam Zu L’Tovah
In advance of the First Ministers' meeting tomorrow, @mark_lawson2 and myself are in the Globe today making the case for the Premiers to prioritize ending labour mobility barriers for Canadian workers to help build one national economy: theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
Recent reports have found that slashing annual immigration will lower asking rents and bolster wages. Canadians were misled for years about the effects of rapidly expanding the population. Now, the truth is out. My latest for the @nationalpost nationalpost.com/opinion/geoff-…
Take those barriers down! Free traders internationally and protectionists domestically. 👇🏻
Crying about American protectionism while we engage in internal protectionism against ourselves. Full marks!
It’s often far easier for a Spanish company to sell products in Germany than it is for a Nova Scotia based company to sell products in Manitoba. Absolutely insane behaviour.
When the Left finds out about the political views of the average 16 year old male, they’ll start advocating for the voting age to be raised to 25.
Here's a trenchant comparison to the Lich case: Woman pleads guilty to a terrorism charge, gets one (1) day in jail. lapresse.ca/actualites/jus…
That line - “British politicians do not see problems to be solved, only perceptions to be managed” - gets uncomfortably close to the truth. Modern politics isn’t about problem-solving; it’s about narrative control. The incentives are fundamentally broken.
Vaizey calls phone theft a 'semi-victimless crime.' The real harm, he says, is the damage to public confidence that occurs when people notice crime being committed with impunity. British politicians do not see problems to be solved, only perceptions to be managed.
Timely piece by @howardanglin on how Canada is failing to ensure immigrants become Canadian. This was a topic of conversation that came up at every social event I attended over the weekend. People are worried about this even if they don't say it publicly. thehub.ca/2025/07/14/how…
Terrorisme: pas de prison pour une Montréalaise qui avait rejoint l'État islamique tvanouvelles.ca/2025/07/21/ter…
There was a time when Obama style liberalism was so hegemonic it felt like it would be normative for 1000 years. Never think it’s over.
The whole reason "developers" exist—instead of merely "builders" or whatever—is because most of what they do is navigate regulations, zoning codes, building codes, political approvals, government grants and loans, etc. The actual *building* is a minor component of their duties
ben makes a really interesting point: in a streamlined development regime, market power is distributed among developers, ideally the point where "an albanian guy in the bronx" can build. a friend once described this to me as "a coalition of multiracial fred trumps."
A lot of Canada’s most serious problems seem to trace back to bad judges. That’s something the Conservatives need to have a much stronger, more explicit agenda for addressing.
This is nightmare fuel stuff
New York Times reporters Brian M. Rosenthal and Julie Tate have just published this new article: “ A Push for More Organ Transplants is Putting Donors at Risk.” They document the MANY cases where organ procurement pushed to harvest the organs of people who were still alive. For…
Thank you for resisting sir 🫡🫡🫡
In Toronto for Shabbat, came across my first “elbows up” boomer in the wild.
In Toronto for Shabbat, came across my first “elbows up” boomer in the wild.
And yet the Canadian dollar is struggling badly against the euro, which also says a lot. Most Canadians haven't fully internalised just how poor we are.
I am old enough to remember Germanic triumphalism c. 2008-2010 and certain barriers to opening a banking account in Europe lest I spread some sort of North American contagion to the continent. How times have changed...