For the late/west coast crowd, my @xtramagazine.com column: Mark Carney's majority likely won't help queer and trans people #canqueer #cdnpoli

For the late/west coast crowd, my latest for @cba-nationalmag.bsky.social on today's #SCC decision about whether the Crown can forfeit proceeds of crime when the criminal charges were stayed #cdnlaw

Doug Ford ('s Taxpayers) Buys A Private Jet youtube.com/shorts/HBzTV...

At the @nac-cna.bsky.social for some theatre with @drjanne.bsky.social! The play is cicadas, which was a collaboration between theatre and orchestra.

For the evening crowd, my @xtramagazine.com column on what we can expect from Carney's majority, and why it will likely be the absolute bare minimum for LGBTQ+ people #canqueer #cdnpoli

New from me at @cba-nationalmag.bsky.social: Ensuring crime doesn't pay #SCC #cdnlaw

What happens to property confiscated in a police investigation and subject to a forfeiture order when charges have been stayed under Jordan timelines? @journodale.bsky.social has the Supreme Court's answer. nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...

This needs to be taken seriously. Along with underfunding, Doug Ford is destroying the university system. And yes, this latest move is 100% in line with what we've seen happening by state-level MAGA-hats in the US.

How, pray tell, are you going to "hold judges accountable"? Seriously, fuck off you bunch of absolute grifters.

The #SCC ruled 5-2 from the bench, dismissing an appeal on a murder charge around adducing fresh evidence. Video: video.isilive.ca/scc/2026/202... Plain-language summary: www.scc-csc.ca/judgments-ju...

ICYMI, my Loonie Politics column: What Carney's majority moves will look like #cdnpoli

For the Friday crowd, my @xtramagazine.com column: Mark Carney's majority likely won't help queer and trans people #canqueer #cdnpoli

New Music Friday is the new album from Vanessa Carlton.

This braying doofus just won't quit. COVID did cause deflation for about two months. It's in the StatsCan data. That's why the Bank of Canada engaged in quantitative easing, to prevent markets from seizing up. He's also attributing false readings of Trudeau's policies to Carney for some reason.

Context: A couple months ago, Mantle made a member’s statement, baby in arms, talking about the need for “masculine fathers.”

In the #HoC for Friday #QP. Kmiec in the Big Chair. Gabriel Hardy leads off in French, and demands tax cuts. Joly assures him they are lowering the cost of gas because “pragmatism,” and that wages are rising twice as fast as inflation.

The #SCC ruled unanimously that courts can decide what happens to property seized during a police investigation after charges are stayed. www.scc-csc.ca/judgments-ju...

Roundup post: Another lunchtime speech praising trickle-down economics #cdnpoli

This performance is pure bullshit. Champagne was cleared by the Ethics Commissioner who said there was no conflict. The only point in hauling him before committee is to get clips of the Conservatives calling him corrupt.

Once again: There was an inquiry. It was the McDonald Commission. As a result, the RCMP Security Service was disbanded and CSIS was created. There is no point in holding a fresh inquiry into a service that no longer exists.

For the late/west coast crowd, my Loonie Politics column: What Carney's majority moves will look like #cdnpoli

For the late/west coast crowd, my @xtramagazine.com column on what we can expect from a Carney majority, including the absolute bare minimum for queer and trans issues #canqueer #cdnpoli

Here is Avi Lewis' readout of his meeting with Carney today. #cdnpoli

I keep watching this on repeat.

Doug Ford vs. Socialist Groceries youtube.com/shorts/U5zV_...

For the evening crowd, my Loonie Politics column on the procedural changes that need to happen for the Liberals to transition to a majority, and why it may not fully happen until fall #cdnpoli

#QP Recap: Zombie statistics to justify gas tax whinging #cdnpoli

Nerd alert: Canada's GHG Inventory for 2024 just released. It shows that progress has stalled (emissions down 0.3% from 2023 levels). www.canada.ca/en/environme...

Actual quote from Poilievre's speech today: "If you asked a neutral and objective AI bot to go into all of the policies on the books of the government of Canada, what would you find has actually changed in the last year?" There is no such thing as a "neutral and objective" bot. Absolute clown show.

New column from me at @xtramagazine.com: Mark Carney's majority likely won't help queer and trans people #canqueer #cdnpoli

Apparently what will help jobs in London, ON, is pipelines. FFS #QP

Jacques Gourde announced the birth of his eighth grandchild before decrying fuel taxes. Steven MacKinnon says that Gourde will have to answer to said grandchild about why he voted against the Canada Child Benefit. *sigh* Could we get some adults in our Parliament? #QP

They are literally making it up as they go along. When they don't like the outcome, the Smith government rigs the process. It's a worrisome pattern for those who care about procedural fairness and institutional forebearance. You know, real conservatives.

Prime Minister Mark Carney recently announced that the process to appoint the next Supreme Court of Canada justice had been launched. nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...

For the morning crowd, my Loonie Politics column: What Carney's majority moves will look like #cdnpoli

In Question Period, Poilievre and his caucus have flat-out lied and said that the clean fuel standard is just a rebranded carbon tax, when it's not a tax or a charge at all, but a hypothetical estimation of how much it might cost refiners to meet that standard.

No #QP for the PM today. #cdnpoli

Roundup post: The thing about windfall taxes #cdnpoli

Erm, the correct answer is Dr. Dinosaur. cc @bclev.bsky.social

The guy who pushed the centrist normies out of his new party because they were insufficiently "conservative" in favour of separatists and far-right assholes blames leftist academics for killing centrism. Zeus wept. I just can't with this asshole.

For the late/west coast crowd, my Loonie Politics column on how the transition to a majority parliament will likely occur procedurally, and why it may not be fully in place until the fall #cdnpoli

This was a great speech. Bill S-209 (age verification) is a censorious abomination and privacy nightmare. It should be killed before it can pass to the Commons, but I fear that too many senators have succumbed to the Helen Lovejoy of it all, and will pass it because it's trying to do *something.*

I would follow up this discussion with something that @kevincarmichael.bsky.social wrote about how productivity is so poor in Canada because businesses essentially look to become rent-seekers and then stay on cruise control. thelogic.co/commentary/k...

How are Canadian judges dealing with generative AI? B.C. Supreme Court Justice David Masuhara joins @alisoncrawford.bsky.social to talk about hallucinated citations and what happens when they show up in court. 🎧 New episode of Verdicts & Voices out now: bit.ly/41ySQIf

#QP Recap: Chirping about excise taxes #cdnpoli

I really missed David Cochrane pushing back on partisan bullshit. So nice to have him back. #PnPCBC

New column from me at Loonie Politics: What Carney's majority moves will look like #cdnpoli

A backbench suck-up question uttered the line “our new majority government.” I hate it here. #QP

John Brassard, showboating, quotes Carney saying a majority will see less showboating. #QP

Marilyn Gladu, pleased as punch, reads a happy script about the gas excise tax cut, inviting Wayne Long to crow about it some more. #QP