Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Paying some of the lowest water rates anywhere in Canada – an average of just $2.25 per million litres of water – oil and gas companies in B.C. withdrew enough freshwater for more than 110,000 households last year alone. That’s equivalent to the entire population of Nanaimo.

a note from the CBS reporter behind this story to her colleagues tonight

omg i cant believe i havent obsessively watched That Coffee Commercial yet this year! its basically my only holiday tradition at this point youtu.be/uMwFWDIFVCU?...

The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.

had the mystic thing been caught?

HATCH THE FROZEN FLESH EGG

Between the fact that his heart was two sizes too small and he seemed obsessed with the noise coming from Who-Ville, it's possible the Grinch was simply suffering from migraines caused by his untreated vascular issues.

This chart tells Canada's future. The next federal election there include all sorts of vicious talk about immigration from the Conservatives, and it will happen *after* we've foolishly and short-sightedly allowed immigration to plummet.

LLM companies are open about prioritizing engagement over truthfulness. They know that if If LLMs say "I don't know" too much then ppl will stop using them. These dynamics are absolutely toxic for research, where truthfulness is the highest priority. www.science.org/content/arti...

it's the most wonderful time of the year (Folgers incest commercial season)

Trump is a documented fraud. His companies destroyed documents against court orders. He flushed documents down the White House toilet. His administration covering-up the Epstein files is just par for the course for this convicted felon.

Unless I missed it somewhere, I don't see any details about the Alberta Next survey methodology. This leaves me with a lot of questions.

AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re- BEASTIES: MORSE AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of Beasties: COURSE MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy BEASTIES: MOOCHER MCA: We’re Christmas Past MIKE D: Christmas Present BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE

This is the (pretty negative) prognosis for the oil and gas industry from the belly of the beast in Texas, even with absolutely every bit of federal and state help they could possibly have. But sure, let's continue to pour all our hopes for "abundance" into this leaky bucket.

Dear #UCP MLAs, At this point, I believe most Albertans can clearly see through the privatization playbook that echoes the tactics used in pre- and post-Brexit Britain and Trump-era America: #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #FireTheUCP #RecallThemAll #Alberta #SavePublicHealthcare #SavePublicEducation

I don’t know if The Bears are a good team but they sure are a fun team.

Inside you there are two weasels. Sorry, we ran out of wolves.

Not a bad way to spend the afternoon

Clear evidence that at universities conservatives don't face higher obstacles than liberals to establish student groups + invite outside speakers. "These results fail to offer support for the view that conservative students encounter more difficulty in efforts to access campus resources."

Hang in there, we can do it. Only about 16 hours until solstice and the daylight hours start increasing again.

So U.S. style riding manipulation in order to benefit candidates on the right?

A familiar headline in Calgary's blanket rezoning conversation, but worth the read -- especially given a statement within from CMHC: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Alberta Government cleared legal obstacles and circumvented Court decisions to help separatists. They are separatists. #ForeverCanadian will be ready to defend Canada in a referendum. Please, register yourself as a supporter at Forever-Canadian.ca edmonton.citynews.ca/2025/12/16/a...

Exotic Footwear Advent Calendar Day One

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Flock of Smeagols

By a show of jazz hands, how many of you are fabulous?

“I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by the belief in the virtuousness of work,” -Bertrand Russell (I was in search of a pithy quote to describe my holiday sloth and discovered this mind-blowing essay from 1932) harpers.org/archive/1932...

When It Matters Most, Student Journalists Are Showing Up Times are grim for the media industry. But young reporters are covering the stories that need to be told, by Pacinthe Mattar thewalrus.ca/when-it-matt... via @thewalrus.ca @michellecyca.com #journalism

It would be nice if our newly appointed CMOH, who actually has Public Health Experience, will be allowed to increase transparency of ourtbreak reporting at ALL AB facilities... Time to put the "public" back in Public Health!

Politicians smiling big smiles while doing photo opps at food banks at Christmastime is all you need to know about the politicians.

Watching Gremlins (1984) with the eldest. I hate to point this out but early in Gremlins, It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) is on TV. We are now further away from Gremlins than Gremlins was from It’s A Wonderful Life. Sorry.

Boxing is problematic etc etc but Anthony Joshua cracking a smile as he lines up his kill shot on Jake Paul is giving me life

Well, well, well…it looks like Frank was Antifa.🫡

Great time to go get your flu shot if you haven’t already.

These are the people Pierre Poilievre supports. #cdnpoli

It’s clear that Premier Danielle Smith’s governing United Conservative Party is using a “flood the zone” strategy but there were many times when it looked like the government was just flying by the seat of its pants and no one was really in control of the political agenda.

It is extremely difficult for Canada to defend itself from malign influence operations & information warfare, until it starts taking seriously - with legislation with teeth - the harm caused by dark money funded malicious disinfo pedlars, like #RebelNews. #CdnNatSec #CdnDisinto #Cdnpoli #cdnmedia

Alberta Next polling has a provincial police force consistently below 50% and the lowest of all categories. But that is one of the proposals that they are proceeding with and in the absence of a referendum. open.alberta.ca/publications...

6.8% of Albertans have had a covid booster this year. Six. Point. Eight. Percent. Embarrassingly low, by design.

Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.

Congrats to everyone who predicted that Trump let Netanyahu do a little mass-murder ethnic cleansing as quid pro quo for another hotel and casino 💰

The province receives recommendations from panels all the time, and premier & gov't take or leave ideas as they please. But this is different. This panel was *chaired* by Premier Danielle Smith. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

If people could just intuitively understand the difference between a million, a billion, and a trillion, we’d all be better off. That applies to dollars. To tons of carbon. And so on. Math. It matters.

The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.” * read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…

This plus the data centres that Dani announced. Where's the water? "The world’s largest carbon capture and storage complex planned for northern Alberta could use most of the surplus water in the giant Cold Lake-Beaver River basin, potentially forcing water rationing in the province. "

Danielle Smith's love for industries that extract wealth, such as oil and coal companies, extends to those private interests that specialize in extracting wealth from taxpayers and governments.

Isiah Thomas, Dominique Wilkins, Kenny Rogers, Larry Bird, and Michael Jordan.

Astonishing growth in solar-generated electricity in the last decade. Long may it grow.