Alberta will hold an October referendum on whether or not to have a binding referendum on separatism. Smith says she will vote to remain in Canada #Ableg www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... For clarity: this is a referendum about having a referendum, not a separation referendum.

Mars' southern hemisphere from the departing Psyche spacecraft on May 16th. flic.kr/p/2sdXi1n

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HUGE: Alberta judge quashes the separatists' referendum petition, in major victory for Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and Blackfoot confederation. Justice Shaina Leonard: "the Crown failed to meet its duty to consult"

Ottawa giveth, and Ottawa taketh away: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The Holt Liberals have introduced legislation to tighten the rules around the province's lobbyist registry. One lobbyist says: bring it on. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The Restigouche River, seen from a lookout in Saint-Alexis-de-Matapédia.

Breaking News: A panel of federal judges on Thursday blocked President Trump from imposing a 10% tariff on most U.S. imports, dealing yet another legal setback to the White House in its efforts to tax foreign goods and wage trade war without the express permission of Congress. nyti.ms/4da1dzv

My newsletter this week wrapping up last week’s political news. Subscribe for free. open.substack.com/pub/jacquesp...

Albert Marshall, Mi'kmaw Elder, Eskasoni. He coined the concept 'two-eyed seeing'. We see/understand better when we 'see' from different perspectives, indigenous and non-indigenous. It is a beautiful concept with wider application -- Republican and Democrat, male and female, old and young.

Is the decline of history education threatening our democracy? Co-author Alan Sears discusses Rescuing Reason with @vanessavanv.bsky.social on CBC Shift New Brunswick, making the case for civic reason, empathy, and thoughtful citizenship. Listen here: bit.ly/4w90Pde

Earthquake detected next door in Maine.

Mic cut out during O Canada and the Buffalo crowd brought it home

N.B. “on track” for emissions target despite 2024 spike, minister says: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Arseneau, Arsenault, and [checks notes] Arseneault.

Subscribe tonight to get a freshly baked, generously buttered N.B. political newsletter from me at 7:45 a.m. tomorrow morning: substack.com/@jacquespoit...

Legislation coming on framework for N.B. security office: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Higgs government tracked New Brunswickers' movements, "discontent" during pandemic, RCMP documents reveal: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I love when weird or overly specific regulations are purged from New Brunswick laws: Bars were able to stay open an hour later from February 7-10 2008. The reason: Fredericton was hosting the East Coast Music Awards. Cabinet finally repealed it in March, 18 years later.

Annual fredericton tradition of going to look at the flood and saying yep that's a flood.

Visiting with a distinguished predecessor: journalist with the St. John Daily Telegraph and Morning Journal, later a “hack writer” & “the most prolific popularizer of New Brunswick history in his time.”

Parliament Hill has its own micro climate with a wall of fog between West Block and Confederation.

N.B. Department of Public Safety wanted to scoop up information from 911 calls, top RCMP officer alleged in 2021: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Susan Holt on that Moody’s rating: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Carney is removing the federal excise tax on fuel until Labour Day weekend, a move he said will drop gas prices by 10 cents/litre and diesel prices by 4 cents/litre. It does not appear the GST is being removed on fuel.

I encourage everyone to follow my neighbor and friend Alfred Leblanc @alfredjleblanc.bsky.social who has long been chronicling Cape Breton, where he is originally from, and has more recently added the people of the Ottawa Valley

Never sure what to say or even if I should post but I've seen two waterfowl in the past two weeks with plastic on them. One was this Mallard the other a Black Scoter on the Northumberland Strait. Fredericton, #newbrunswick #birds #garbage #pollution #plastics #mallard

Downgraded: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

McCain vs McCain, again: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Once-Adventurous Salmon Can’t Believe She Ended Up Moving Back To Birthplace, Having A Bunch Of Kids https://theonion.com/once-adventurous-salmon-can-t-believe-she-ended-up-movi-1825827223/

Canada’s federal Conservative caucus has now yielded the Carney Liberals as many seats as Prince Edward Island.

🚨Another floor-crosser! This time Sarnia—Lambton—Bkejwanong Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu. That brings the Liberals up to 171, as my colleague Catharine Tunney reports. #cdnpoli #canpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Iranians in Shiraz, Isfahan and Yazd, April-May 2000.

Schoolgirls in Persepolis and Isfahan, Iran, in Spring 2000.

Pre-flyby view of the Orion spacecraft window from the Artemis II crew. flic.kr/p/2s68SXB

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Holy shit these two photos from Artemis II that were shared just a bit ago.

Irving Oil has been buying Saudi crude since the company’s Saint John refinery opened in 1960. Now that relationship is in jeopardy: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

BREAKING: Activist and filmmaker Avi Lewis has been elected NDP leader. CBC's live page is following this today! #cdnpoli #canpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Have you read this? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

N.B. maximum price of gas a year ago, just before the carbon tax repeal: $1.64 per litre. After the repeal: $1.44. At start of January 2026: $1.33. Now: $1.82.

Analysis from me: what if it were budget time all the time? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I wrote about everything happening too much in 2026 and the rise of ‘monitoring the situation. How total bombardment is partly a surrender to the internet and its logic and algorithms—a kind of attentional death

Man. Allan Legere's six months of terror—hiding in the woods then stealing, attacking, killing—happened when I was a little kid and visited the Miramichi 6-7x a year. I remember my extended family talking about it all the time; I was afraid of the woods for *years* after www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...