My dude. You are literally inventing a conspiracy making Doug Ford do bad things when he's really just a shitty person who does bad things and doesn't need an evil organization to blame it on. Stop inventing conspiracy theories about the IDU. It's not pulling anyone's strings.

Alberta's book ban didn't go away. Delayed implementation got implemented. #canqueer

My *extremely Canadian* explanation/theory for this is that GAC Coms couldn’t not get itself together in time to sign on. bsky.app/profile/luke...

That minister is just a digital asbestos hype man and he doesn’t want to regulate because the tech bros told him it will “stifle innovation” and he credulously believes what they tell him.

Once again, I ask: Approve what? Which route? With which proponents? With what consent from First Nations rights-holders? There's nothing to approve. Not even a line on a map.

Position less than clarified. Carney's calculus on milquetoast communication around NATO alliances & international law places a baffling faith in securing a Cda/US trade deal that's worth anything the day after it's signed.

Deep down America's allies know that only Americans can put a stop to the madness. The fact that they can't or won't is why the damage to our partnerships will last far beyond this President.

ICYMI, my Loonie Politics column: In 2026, Mark Carney need to get the provinces in line over their data #cdnpoli

Roundup post: Freeland's botched departure announcement #cdnpoli

He's just a big, stupid child.

This reeks of bullshit. (This guy was pro-ostrich farmers, which gives you an indication of his politics. I highly doubt the Liberals would go near him with a bargepole).

For the late/west coast crowd, my Loonie Politics column: In 2026, Mark Carney needs to get the provinces in line over their data #cdnpoli

For those Canadians cheering on Trump's military action in Venezuela, it might be worth recalling that you live in a country that Trump wishes to bend to his will through "economic force" and in a region that Trump says the US must "dominate."

ICYMI, my latest for National Magazine:

For the Monday crowd, my Loonie Politics column: In 2026, Mark Carney needs to get the provinces in line over their data #cdnpoli

Here is a preview of the #SCC's upcoming move this summer.

*Canada shifts nervously*

Sunday dinner was @nigella.bsky.social’s slow-cooker Moroccan chicken stew (using the oven method as I have no slow cooker and I really don’t want one).

For the late/west coast crowd, my weekend Loonie Politics column on Carney's plan to build requiring better data from the provinces, and why that can't wait #cdnpoli

This has some good context.

Oh this is interesting: Prime Minister Mark Carney just had a call with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado

ICYMI, my Loonie Politics column: The faux debate over Carney's future Senate plans #SenCA #cdnpoli

Parliament sitting on January 4th? Can you imagine MPs without their six-week constituency breaks?

Those grifters are angling to be on an expert panel and want you to only think about competing on taxes and then pursuing even more austerity, ignoring everything else the US is doing…yes even on this weekends oil play

Take a moment and have a think about all those grifters that want us to compete with the US on their tax policy ignoring all their other policies that go with that tax policy as those it can be magically disentangled. It’s important that you do since @mark-carney.bsky.social promised reform

New weekend column from me at Loonie Politics: In 2026, Mark Carney needs to get the provinces in line over their data #cdnpoli

For the late/west coast crowd, my Loonie Politics column: The faux debate over Carney's future Senate plans #SenCA #cdnpoli

New statement from PM Carney.

Pierre Poilievre’s Personal Assistant Explains Why He Supports Trump Invading Venezuela youtu.be/NBrSxfzpSpI

The JJ-Trek films are on at the gym today, and I’ll take it.

Not going to pretend to bring in a legitimate leader. At least not today

Good/important thread.

For the Saturday crowd, my Loonie Politics column: The faux debate over Carney's future Senate plans #SenCA #cdnpoli

If Canada was the 51st State this would be our Vichy Gov’s official statement:

As people like Poilievre, Kenney and Chong line up to praise Trump.

As are all of the billions or "trillions" that Alberta thinks they're going to get from another pipeline anywhere else.

For the late/west coast crowd, my Loonie Politics column: The faux debate over Carney's future Senate plans #SenCA #cdnpoli

For the evening crowd, my latest Loonie Politics column on the clues we're getting about Carney's future Senate appointments, and the faux debate over returning to a two-party Chamber #SenCA #cdnpoli

From me:

New season of #RuPaulsDragRace is starting. I'm encouraged by the fact that all of the contestants seem to be over the age of 30 this season, and a lot of them are making their own outfits rather than just bragging about buying designer labels.

This used to be the kind of thing that the Canadian Secretary to the King would chair. (To read more about that, check out my chapter in the book #RoyalProgress).

Why this might be the year we take the threat that the US poses seriously...

That's literally how political organizations work. There is a whole cottage industry in the US of former campaign staff for each side who get paid big bucks to go to conventions around the democratic world to talk about "how they did it." The IDU is not a backroom cabal pulling strings.

FOR FUCK SAKES. The IDU is not SPECTRE. It's a social club for terrible people. That's it. Stop dreaming up conspiracy theories about its influence.

While depressing, a good point was made in here about how a number of those companies were only being performative in their reporting (which anti-greenwashing legislation helped to weed out, but Carney has since decided to water that legislation down).

The IBSF has the whole clip of the greenscreen for her headshot on IG.

There is certainly an element of learned helplessness around this that effectively turns a lot of municipalities into technocracies.

New column from me at Loonie Politics: The faux debate over Carney's future Senate plans #SenCA #cdnpoli