Another place where we should stop our reliance on the U.S.

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

Carney telling it like it is. "There is a strong tendency for countries to go along to get along... to avoid trouble. To hope that compliance will buy safety. Well it won't." www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE98...

Can be easy to forget. But there are still a lot of wonderful people in the world. Volunteers in Minnesota Deliver Groceries So Immigrants Can Hide at Home www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...

Mark Carney just paved the way to the future for Canada's automotive sector — and the consumers who will benefit from it. So why is Doug Ford so mad about it? www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/16/o...

Worth every second

Alberta's separatists don't have to win a referendum to break up the country. It's time for Danielle Smith to realize just how big of a mess she's made by encouraging their efforts — and other prominent Conservatives to help clean it up. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/08/o...

Carney's tepid response to the abduction of Nicolas Maduro puts Canada squarely in the camp of the US, a country whose president, Donald Trump, is showing himself to be as drunk on power as the Venezuelan president himself. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/06/o...

Mark Carney take note. A new study out of Germany offers helpful tips on how to do business with the narcissist-in-chief. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/05/o...

It's well past time for Canadian government officials to get off of X, @jameswsthomson.com writes. This latest — disgusting — incident is just one more reason.

Have been waging a year-long boycott of US foods and still eating just fine. Looks like some of this is having an impact. 😀https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/business/canada-trump-tariffs-trade

Because dealing with flooding isn't bad enough...

I have had a national observer subscription for years. Easy "yes" every time it's up for renewal.

Cautionary tale for the feds here re: Quebec! Yikes open.substack.com/pub/climatem...

Even if Lewis and his Green New Deal is not the first choice for New Democrats seeking a way to rebuild their party’s dismal fortunes, it’s nice to see someone aiming high for the climate www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/17/o...

Stephen Miller to Vanity Fair photographer: “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” Photographer to Miller: “You know, you do, too.” www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/... @shaneisland.bsky.social

Great read from @natashabulowski.bsky.social for @nationalobserver.com. Alberta is pitching AI data centres as the next oil boom. It's fitting when you think of the impacts they'll have on communities, which will have to pony up billions of litres of water+commit to locking in more gas-fired power.

Heads up #ableg #abpoli #Alberta

Proud of my eloquent sister-in-law @erinellis.bsky.social who is featured in this uplifting interview. Drawing together different generations to sue big oil and combat climate change. What On Earth with Laura Lynch: Gen Z and baby boomers take on Big Oil www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

My colleague, Professor Sharry Aitken speaks on the peril of travelling to the US.

Honestly the Liberals had swung pretty hard left and eaten the NDP's lunch while leaving the *entire* right to the Conservatives. This is an opportunity to retake the centre and go back to being the "socially progressive (mostly) and fiscally conservative (kinda)" party.

This summer in Toronto could be the last without a bylaw requiring landlords to keep rental units at a safe temperature during increasingly hot summers. Mayor Olivia Chow called for the drafting of a max temperature policy by this upcoming summer + implementation in 2027. For @nationalobserver.com

Exclusive - Danielle Smith and Rob Anderson intervened on behalf of Jordan Peterson's online school in a concerted attempt to grant it accreditation in Alberta. Jordan Peterson's School Isn't Accredited. Smith Offered Alberta's Help via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

There are still people cutting Carney all kinds of slack on the climate front. But I now think I was naïve to believe Carney would support Trudeau-style, regulatory climate policy. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/10/o...

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

Climate initiatives are being thrown under the bus by all levels of government in Canada. Still, there are rays of hope. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/04/o...

BREAKING: Alberta Health Services CEO who took over after a controversial firing in January is now himself out. AHS confirms Andre Tremblay on leave. Minister Matt Jones has appointed a new CEO and chair. Tremblay was named CEO after Athana Mentzelopoulos was fired earlier this year.

The way to read the Canada-Alberta MOU is that Carney is using the Trump effect as political cover to pursue the deregulatory agenda he’s long wanted. I spoke with @naomiaklein.bsky.social who called it a classic example of the shock doctrine.

"How to describe the laundry list of climate-killing gifts to Alberta that the MOU spells out? The depth of the betrayal goes beyond words. I felt ill as I read it," writes @arnokopecky.bsky.social

Max reflects my read on the Carney Alberta MOU fwiw www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...

I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"

JD Vance, your unsolicited advice on Canadian immigration policy isn't wanted. Best thing Canada can do is shut out the noise from meddlesome US political leaders. @adriennetanner.bsky.social writes for @nationalobserver.com www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/25/o...

There is a free press chill in Alberta. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/19/o...

Site back up. My latest for @nationalobserver.com on how anger over the BC ostrich cull has farmers and others planning a truck/tractor convoy protest. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/07/a...

Farmers and others angered by the ostrich cull are planning a tractor/truck convoy. Didn't think so at first, but it might have been better to test those birds and spare those not infected. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/17/o...

It might have been worth testing the ostriches and sparing the healthy animals simply to enhance public faith in the government’s willingness to listen. Now we're staring down another possible convoy protest. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/18/o...

Wondering if Stephens mixed up the U.S. and Venezuela with this line? “But the larger challenge posed by Maduro’s regime is that it is both an importer and exporter of instability.”The Case for Overthrowing Maduro www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...

@svenbiggs.bsky.social Hoping to reach you for a piece I’m writing. [email protected] thanks!

Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.

Vancouver had 117 people die during the 2021 heat dome climate disaster.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Interesting

The end is drawing near. The departure of two Conservative MPs this week doesn't bode well for Poilievre's chances of surviving a January leadership review. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/07/o...

Great first-hand account of the ostrich cull and its implications for public trust in Canadian institutions. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/07/a...

“In his final budget before facing voters next October, Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is presenting a property tax freeze and $50 million more for police, & major cuts to arts, culture, community services & sustainability.” Brutal austerity for everything else, but $50 million more for over-budget cops.

New York City's CEOs and other billionaire business leaders spent more than $40 million trying to stop Mamdani from becoming the city's next mayor. www.npr.org/2025/11/06/n...