Sigh. I took down my Senate Instagram account a few months ago. A mistake, perhaps, since there is now a fake Insta account pretending to be me - and well meaning but confused folks are tagging it. If you are still on Instagram, could you please do me a favour and report it as a fraud?

50 years ago today, Nov. 10, 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank beneath the waves of Lake Superior during a massive storm. The sinking took the lives of all 29 men on the ship, and became immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's song. This is the story of this terrible tragedy. 🧵1/20

Agreed. Writing is about more than processing information from explicit sources--our lives are in the background of every sentence. Writing is a pleasure--those brief moments of finding clarity in a small corner in the messiness of living.

While researching my current column, I had trouble finding something PM Carney said in a speech in either Factiva or Google, so I tried asking ChatGPT-5 to search for it. This was its internal response. It hallucinates in basic searches. It can't write truth. It can't copyedit. What is it good for?

"The New York Times found that at critical points, as measles was gaining new footholds in Canada, provincial politicians stopped public health officials from speaking out about the value of getting vaccinated." The province under discussion in the article by the @nytimes.com is Alberta...

"Why do we still rely on a country that has threatened our sovereignty to investigate our citizens and collect and retain their private and biometric information?"

A simplified US take on the Canadian budget: Carney has decided to be the FDR kind of left-wing (creating economic revival and employing many people through big public-funded works) but opposed to the LBJ kind of left-wing (Carney is paring back fed offices with redistributive functions)

Enjoyed this. Clear and compelling with a surprise ending. Read on...

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

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Libraries matter. Access matters. After years of legal battles, the Internet Archive is still here—and still fighting for a world where everyone can read, learn, and remember. @arstechnica.com tells the story: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

"Grokipedia is the first [encyclopedia] to be largely created by AI and this week a question swirled: who controls the truth when AIs, steered by powerful individuals, are holding the pen?" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Good article. “What we witnessed in the reactions yesterday is an effort to sow ignorant enmity towards the courts, threatening broader political polarization over the judiciary. We need only look south of the border to see where this can lead.”

"Despite Trump’s topsy-turvy revisionism, it is not true to say President Reagan “loved tariffs.” The opposite is true." therealstory.substack.com/p/true-north...

We are deeply saddened by the loss of Greg Newby, who led Project Gutenberg ( @gutenberg.org ) with passion and purpose. Greg’s belief in free and open access to knowledge continues to inspire us and so many others working to preserve our shared culture online. gutenberg.org/about/newby....

At the risk of beating a dead horse: we can still trade duty-free into the US, but that would require a pivot to services, but that apparently is beyond the pale of respectable policy discourse.

Got off the plane and walked into a drug store in Ottawa and got my COVID vaccine in under 5 minutes. No line up. No appointment. No cost. Was even asked if I wanted Moderna or Pfizer. It’s unconscionable that we can’t get this same level of service in Alberta.

Unbelievable. Chills. Tens of thousands of teachers converging downtown just outside where Danielle Smith is addressing an audience. I’ve never seen anything like this. Time to listen up, Premier. Time for a fair deal. We stand with teachers. ❤️✊

Respectfully, I'm not sure a survey that finds voters want low taxes and high services is delivering much data other than people want everything.

“Restore merit, end DEI” says man who could only get elected in Canada’s safest Conservative stronghold

"In a report published this summer, [Canada's] Parliamentary Budget Office, the federal government's fiscal watchdog, found that a guaranteed basic income program at the federal level could cut poverty rates in Canada by up to 40 per cent." www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

It's Ada Lovelace Day, so worth noting that the era during which coders were mainly women (starting with her machine-language explication of the Bernoulli sequence in 1843) lasted about 130 years whereas the male-dominated period has lasted less than half that long

'Buy local': Neil Young says he will remove his music from Amazon. My story: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/entertainmen...

Think of how good it would feel to put a nail in the separatist coffin, and say “we are proudly Canadian and we want to work as Canadians to make the country even better.” Fear and hate have always been hallmarks of fascism. Let’s not do that.

Kudos to the Fox Sports producers for playing some Rush when going to commercial, here on Canadian thanksgiving and in a game involving the Blue Jays.

BEYOND LOCAL: Former deputy premier says Alberta premier taking a "Pontius Pilate approach" to separatism

Andrew Coyne: "Crazy money, it is well known, makes you crazy. But crazy money that lands all at once, with little effort or direction but based solely, it seems, on the sheer brilliance of the founder, can only be compared to a mind-altering drug. One symptom is intellectual hubris."

Andrew Coyne: "The north coast of B.C. is legitimately fragile. A large spill would be catastrophic, not only for the environment, but for the socio-cultural heritage of Indigenous people in the region. Mere repeal of the ban – or a one-time carve-out – is not on."

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

This has gotta be one of the more narratively interesting contracts in pro sports, no? edmontonjournal.com/sports/conno...

ICYMI - On the first Alberta Unbound of the season, @lukaszukab.bsky.social explains the strategy behind his Forever Canadian campaign - and his love for the country that gave his family political asylum. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #SenateofCanada #ForeverCanadian #UCP #AlbertaUnbound

"Redman has been actively advancing the trade corridor through international diplomacy ... while the [Indigenous] nation continues to wait for Canada to formally recognize its sovereignty and legal framework, officials from Mexico and the US have shown greater openness to work together."

You may not know the name Albertine Lapensée, but she was the first superstar of women's hockey in Canada. In her late-teens, she dominated the sport before abruptly quitting and disappearing from history when she was 20. This is her story. 🧵 1/10

On this day in 1984, Marc Garneau became the first Canadian in space. He was aboard the Challenger from Oct. 5 to 13 as a payload specialist. He returned to space on Endeavour in 1996 and 2000. In all, he spent 29 days, two hours and one minute in space.

Personal reflection: when it feels like there’s a LOT of concerning things going on, it was therapeutic to join a vast crowd of Albertans at the Legislature (so many kids!) to support our teachers and public education. 1/4

On the eve of one of the largest demonstrations of labour power in Alberta's history, sights like 20,000 supporters rallying in front of the Legislature for teachers and their students is inspiring. Solidarity! #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

Some much needed good news.

The care economy is an economic powerhouse (all annual 2024 data, bigger now) 13.7% of GDP. Eclipses real estate (13.2%). 1.5 x bigger than all manufacturing, 2x bigger than construction, almost 3x bigger than all mining, quarrying and O&G. >21% of all jobs. Nothing comes remotely close to that.

As a long-time #yegdt resident, I'm looking forward to the park opening. It should be a fantastic amenity for my family. Thrilled to hear it is encouraging growth in housing nearby too!

On behalf of a proud nation, massive congratulations to Team Canada for an incredible run in the Rugby World Cup 🇨🇦 —   Au nom d’une fière nation, je tiens à féliciter sincèrement l’équipe canadienne féminine pour son incroyable parcours à la Coupe du monde de rugby. 🇨🇦

Boilerplate language for commentary on most UCP bills these days: "University of Alberta constitutional law professor Eric Adams said Friday it’s not clear what Alberta is seeking through the legislation...." www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

[July 21st, 1980] Terry Fox, a one-legged runner, received a hero's welcome in Kitchener during his Marathon of Hope to raise funds for cancer research. Thousands cheered and donated as he ran through the city, with organizers and volunteers praising his efforts.

this seems like a sensible idea There would be some upfront investment, but it would reduce another friction in interprovincial trade and likely improve domestic security.

I need to say a few words about Darren. He was, in many ways, the doctor all doctors needed to be. Compassionate, caring, an advocate and a poet. We were all privliged to have him in our world. And we are poorer for his departure from it. Wherever you are, I hope there are paddles and pedals.

To solve the jurisdictional confusion in Canadian politics, what if we put the federal govt in charge of everything that provinces are currently responsible for and then put provincial govts in charge of everything municipalities should be responsible for? Would everyone be happier with that?

Trump’s General Assembly speech endorsed the very things the UN was created to oppose — my column www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Some good wonky trade law analysis going on in this thread.

As always, CBC making a strong case for defunding to the Canadians who most believe in their mandate.

This is what happens when you wring out a wet towel while floating in space. Credit: CSA/NASA

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