Quote: "Alberta’s policy landscape – which has stifled renewables development for the past 3 years – will make it harder for them to do so locally. These are policy choices, not technical or economic inevitabilities – and are unlikely to be in the best interest of Albertan ratepayers." Choices.

Imagine how much higher the toll would be if Alberta was an independent country, Keith. And remember: Alberta collects the upstream royalty while BC takes the environmental risk associated with any spills.

I loathe the cult of the car.

Stephen Harper must be advising, right?

Carney has been “flooding the zone” lately — so Canadians might have missed a seemingly minor but actually VERY significant shift he just announced. The PM has taken a step towards taming one of the last, if imperfect, sources of accountability for his government's agenda. Here's what he did:

Where are you @eleanorolszewski.bsky.social @coreyhogan.ca @mark-carney.bsky.social This requires an environmental impact assessment and a foreign investment review. Now. What happened to elbows up? Fossil fuel and tech bros winning just like in Trump land #ableg

Less than four months after being found liable for building addictive design elements into Instagram, Meta is developing plans to lace its platforms with a novel gambling feature: a prediction market that could feed users an individualized stream of events to bet on.

Btw, one of the worst policy traps in developing countries is when they try to subsidize the price of fuel. It becomes a huge and invisible fiscal burden, and when you can no longer afford it, it gives way to huge price increases sparking civil unrest.

Looking forward to the Fox News segment that explains how this is different from Mamdani’s city-run grocery stores.

The wonderful things Alberta will soon enable!

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DOGE wielded extraordinary power during the first months of the Trump administration. It was more important than any Cabinet official. The fact it has been completely memory-holed by this administration says much about its purpose and impact. federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-overs...

FWIW, he’s convinced that the genAI frenzy simply isn’t sustainable because the tech doesn’t work as advertised, it uses too many resources and it causes so many social harms. The math simply doesn’t add up.

As an engineer friend once told me years ago (before ChatGPT fwiw): I work with AI. I publish on AI in academic journals. But when I read about “AI” in the press, I have no idea what they’re talking about.

They’re calling capitalism!

Shutting down several radio stations that people actually like and depend on to fund my purchase of the parent company of the worst hockey franchise in the known universe. That's just good business.

Holy hell, we need some version of proportional representation to prevent these never-been-anything-but-a-politician caricatures of humans from being the only influencial person in a party.

This is your regular reminder that most of your neighbours pay way less attention to politics than you do.

2/2 Yet Trump’s DOJ is now threatening to criminally prosecute election officials over a “problem” that barely exists. This isn’t election integrity…it’s intimidation.

Non-citizens can’t vote. Full stop. It’s already illegal in federal elections and extremely rare…noncitizen votes made up just 0.0001% of ballots cast in 2016.  1/2 #USDemocracy #Pinks newrepublic.com/post/212838/...

This strip is, no exaggeration, a formative element of my life. Read it young; remembered it forever.

Somebody in Halifax *must* know who this clown is & I hope they come forward soon. Sending love to the poor Muslim women who were literally just buying groceries when they were attacked. Sending gratitude to the bystanders that *did* intervene to help. We don't have to let the haters win.

1 gigawatt! For reference, 1.4 gigawatts powers the city of Edmonton. 1.21 gigawatts can fire up the flux capacitor and take us back to 1955! www.reuters.com/world/americ...

ICE fatally shot a man in Houston yesterday. Agents arrested a nun on her way to mass. An Afghan who helped the U.S. military died in ICE detention, one of at least 21 people to die in detention this year. The headlines have moved on, but Trump is still waging his reign of terror.

Cutting healthcare for vulnerable asylum seekers signals a dangerous shift towards anti-migrant policy—and will lower the standard of healthcare for all. By Hana Sherafati Zanganeh @policyalternatives.ca #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Does anyone trust Meta? Anyone trust Danielle Smith? No environmental impact assessment? Gas companies will get rich on data centres. Everyone else... not so much.

UCP referendum questions on immigration are illogical, deceptively worded and tainted by racism. albertapolitics.ca/2026/07/ucp-...

Jason Kenney hopefully amplifying reports that Carney might be open to privatizing our healthcare. If this ends up having even a lick of truth — which there is no reason to believe right now — it would be horrifying for our country. Don’t even think about it, Carney. Please.

It’s ironic that Mark Carney is cited as a catalyst for Europe moving away from the US, including from US tech, yet at home Carney’s government hasn’t taken similar moves, say, toward open-source alternatives to Microsoft products.

Trudeau treated Alberta like so much garbage that he bought and finished a pipeline to tidewater for them, kept approving oil sands projects (that didn't get built because the world price of oil crashed), and he said repeatedly that it didn't make sense to leave those resources in the ground.

Getting to go on a fun educational trip should be a regular thing at companies for mental health reasons

Forget Ottawa. @maxfawcett.bsky.social says we should also be airing grievances against AB govts past and present He calls wasted oil windfalls a lost opportunity and a lack of savings as unconservative He adds a PST would have set us up for generations to come podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/a...

What makes this even funnier is that i’m writing a story about book banning—and let me tell you, it’s not “the Canadian” in the poster who wants some books gone.

New from the revolving door files: Spokesperson for Alberta health ministry now lobbying for Big Tobacco, Pharma theijf.org/brief/press-...

Certain kinds of polarization are real (social, affective, etc) and deserve attention. But the real story of our era isn't really those sorts of polarization; it is indeed the (norm- and policy-) radicalization of the right.

“This has no chance of success,” Richard Masson, former head of the Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission, told Canada’s National Observer in a phone interview, adding that it's “surprising that they even announced it.”

This is a must read for Albertans. It should be distributed in high school and university classrooms and reprinted in local newspapers. It dispels the grievance lie incessantly told by Premier Danielle Smith and the separatists about Alberta shipping money to Quebec and other provinces.

One of my favourite student journeys to watch was those who embarked on a research paper planning to advocate for senate reform, but discovered along the way it had become a pretty cool institution. One concluded it just needed better PR and maybe a reality show. Such a shame to risk losing that.

I don’t study the senate, but I agree that the Trudeau’s reforms succeeded where I thought they couldn’t: making the senate more legitimate (and hence empowering senators to study, amend, delay, speak publicly) but not legitimate enough to give senators ideas above their station (I.e. that ….

It seems Hoekstra is trying to leverage Canada’s right-wing alternative media ecosystem to bypass critical media coverage and build bridges with the Canadian far-right When he pulled these kinds of stunts in the Netherlands, he was accused of foreign interference and violating the Vienna Convention

In Canada we call fossil fuel subsidies "catalysing investments."

Correct your priors: Private money is going after clean energy, governments are using public money to prop up fossil fuels "About 59% of all money spent on the fossil fuel system came from taxpayers in 2015. By 2025, that climbed to 68% and spiked at 78% in 2022." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

“No one would ever think in 100 years it would get done,” said Premier Ford, about a potential pipeline project heading to the feasibility study stage.

UCP found a different colour of crayon.

"A massive data facility uses automation and, once built, rarely employs more than a few dozen people. Data centers really only benefit the Big Tech emperors, to whom, according to a growing American consensus, we are no longer willing to sacrifice our towns." newrepublic.com/article/2126...

Run on this! It's a real thing! People want to hang out IRL but hanging out IRL is too expensive.

I see COVID. I don't see a "lost decade". Beware people flogging graphs with preliminary data. Phil below uses the updated revised data. GDP growth is an important goal. But you need to start with the right data if you want an accurate diagnosis of our challenges.

In the same way Ukraine is developing new methods and strategies on drone warfare in order to ensure their survival against a larger aggressive invader, it is (personally) fascinating to see Palestinians develop information resiliency in the face of genocidal aggressor(s).

'Distributed backups, cyber resilience, and a half-million records are preserving Palestinian history beyond any single building or border.' www.wired.com/story/how-pa...

Welcome to 1930s Germany: For Trump, seizing emergency powers has become central to governing www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...