once again I tap the sign.....

We're getting a new ambassador to Ukraine, and the new consul to Greenland has been named. #cdnpoli

Martha Hall Findlay has become the poster child of ideological capture.

Canada’s specialest tech bro.

"You just punched it." #StrangeNewWorlds

ICYMI, my Loonie Politics Quick Take about Carney's trip to kiss Prince Bonesaw's ring #cdnpoli

The #SCC unanimously upheld that a pharmaceutical patent that includes a specific dosing regimen is valid, but it broke down 7-2 on the reasons. #cdnlaw

New post: Elder pundit nonsense about the Senate #SenCA #cdnpoli

Just complete horseshit from Carney on his pipeline justification.

For the evening crowd, my Loonie Politics Quick Take on Carney's trip to suck up to Prince Bonesaw #cdnpoli

Yikes. This looks to be substantially worse deal than hinted. Debt servicing comes *after* the 50% share is applied. bsky.app/profile/bria...

Just farcical at this point. How can you claim to have any credibility on environmental projection when your government's marquee plan is to increase emissions?

Counterpoint: The more the feds step up, the more the provinces step back and underfund, and we wind up worse overall. And if the feds engage in cost-recovery, the provinces would cry poor to the media. Counting this as defence spending would frankly just make the situation worse overall.

ChatGPT is as much of a learning tool as a forklift is a training tool at the gym. Stop letting them spin you with their bullshit.

Strangely, this is not a call for Canada to do more to reduce the emissions that cause climate change.

I should have known better than to read this, but I got curious, and that was a mistake. Now I'm angry and I'm probably going to have to write a scathing blog post about it. It shouldn't surprise me, and yet it does, about how many of our "elder statesman" pundits are so fucking ignorant.

For the morning crowd, my Loonie Politics Quick Take on Carney's visit to kiss Prince Bonesaw's ring #cdnpoli

ICYMI, my Loonie Politics column: Jason Kenney's Nice History of Canada #cdnpoli

There was a global supply glut before the Strait of Hormuz closed. There will be a global supply glut after it re-opens (and it will, eventually). Supply gluts mean low prices. Adding to a supply glut will depress prices further, making these bad investments.

New post: More hints about future Senate appointments #SenCA #cdnpoli

For the late/west coast crowd, my latest Loonie Politics Quick Take on Carney's trip to suck up to Prince Bonesaw #cdnpoli

Well, that was quite the ending of #MaximumPleasureGuaranteed. Great first season. Looking forward to more.

Another pipeline will clearly help the situation. And so will reducing the oil industry’s emissions reduction targets.

Mark Carney Solves Canada's Air Quality Crisis youtube.com/shorts/FHu6q...

Populist politicians have learned the lesson that drivers vote and will vote to fuck over cyclists at every opportunity, and the inverse is not true. It's a guaranteed vote-winner.

For the evening crowd, my Loonie Politics column: Jason Kenney's Nice History of Canada #cdnpoli

New Quick Take from me at Loonie Politics on Carney's trip to kiss Prince Bonesaw's ring #cdnpoli

Justice Joyal has now been sworn-in as a judge of the #SCC. His biography page is here: www.scc-csc.ca/about-apropo...

"The principle of restraint" is intrinsic to the presumption of innocence, which is the cornerstone of our justice system, you fucking ghouls.

It’s the episode of SG-1 where a man from another plane of existence stalks Carter and becomes corporeal so that she can fall in love with him. Carter dating her stalkers is a theme on this series. (And you wonder where incels get their inspiration from?)

For the morning crowd, my Loonie Politics column: Jason Kenney's Nice History of Canada #cdnpoli

It's amazing how repeating Jagmeet Singh's decision not to seek a seat immediately yielded the same response from the public.

Heat got you down? Try some light climate reading! Here's a snippet from Very Serious Mark Carney's book Value(s). "Actions speak louder than words. Credible climate policies should cut emissions from day one to reduce the end point in carbon concentrations." (p.296).

"Finally showed up"? So taking on outsized burdens in Afghanistan, Libya, and Latvia was what, exactly?

New post: Self-defeating speeding up of consultations #cdnpoli

For the late/west coast crowd, my Loonie Politics column: Jason Kenney's Nice History of Canada #cdnpoli

Good thing Mark Carney decided climate change isn't worth addressing.

For the evening crowd, my Loonie Politics column about Jason Kenney promoting "good parts only" versions of history versus what he considers "defamation" by the left #cdnpoli

But it won't cut emissions. You've reduced the requirement for how much it is required to capture, which will be outweighed by the increase in production to fill your new pipeline. This is just greenwashing (with a hint of gaslight).

I spy @smsaideman.bsky.social on the TV at the gym.

The light streaming into my apartment is distinctly orange. Not quite Blade Runner 2049 orange, but in the same family.

ICYMI, my previous Loonie Politics column: The incoherence of Carney's Senate appointments #SenCA #cdnpoli

We're going back to being a branch plant economy, aren't we?

ICYMI, my @cba-nationalmag.bsky.social story: Supreme Court upholds mandatory minimum on child exploitation offences #SCC #cdnlaw

A film by Tony Gilroy about Pedro Pascale as a cello player? Sign me up!

New column from me at Loonie Politics: Jason Kenney's Nice History of Canada #cdnpoli

"With the attention economy, the only way to win is not to play the game."

New post: Votes aren't that important in the Senate #SenCA #cdnpoli

For the late/west coast crowd, my Loonie Politics column: The incoherence of Carney's Senate appointments #SenCA #cdnpoli