I did a "Boozy Lecture" last night, and I'm astonished. More than 100 people gathered at a Calgary sports bar listen to me talk about migrant labour for an hour. Tickets for the event, all free, "sold out" within minutes. This happens for every lecture the group puts on. www.boozylectures.com

So... in the separatist chess metaphor, the white queen defeats her own white king on behalf of the white rook? Maybe stick with checkers, dumbasses.

Welcome to Balance of Power A fresh lens on the forces shaping Canada’s future This week: • Alberta’s immigration referendum • The economics of immigration and the labour market • Why facts often lose to political narratives • Guest: Dr. Bronwyn Bragg ▶ Watch now:

This was so excellent. Bravo, all.

A very generous review of Precarious in @albertaviews.bsky.social. albertaviews.ca/precarious/

Worth reading the whole article. Not only is Modry despicable, he’s also profoundly stupid. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Credit where credit is due: that was pretty funny.

Being a working writer with deadlines is great but it's also unbelievably stupid. Like sorry guys I can't go out tonight, I am thirty-three years old and I have homework that I begged to do.

I’ll be pontificating to strangers at a Calgary bar this week. Hardly a rare occurrence, to be honest.

I visited Iran in 2003 and 2004 for a book I was writing. People warned me against talking politics while I was there, but I quickly learned that politics was all Iranians wanted to talk about. (1/10)

she's a 10 but makes the dial up internet connection noise when she orgasms

@reecejones.bsky.social Spotted side-by-side!

Pierre Poilievre says refugee claimants are undermining Canada’s health care system—but it couldn’t be further from the truth. @desmondcole.bsky.social fact checks his misinformation and explains how blaming the most vulnerable distracts us from fighting for good health care for all.

Today on GET LIT! We talk with Marcello Di Cintio about his book, Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers. 1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu dot ca or on pods or here: tinyurl.com/3kj4xk2t @marcellodicintio.bsky.social @biblioasis.bsky.social

Maclean's approached me about writing a personal essay on Alberta Secession and my opposition to it. It was published today. macleans.ca/politics/i-d...

More excellent work by @nicholaskeung.bsky.social. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

I'd still rather travel to Mexico than the United States.

okay, this is funny, though

While it's fun pointing out Smith's hypocrisy on immigration, we need to focus on her real intentions. By proposing immigration restrictions as the solution to Alberta's problems, she casts immigrants as the cause of those problems - rather than her own cruel incompetence. This is dangerous.

I’m going to need you to be a little more specific.

what's your guys favorite credit card number and expiration date

It's unfair they made Matt Tkachuk read the lineup when he doesn't know all the letters yet

I'm like most of us: grappling to understand this "AI" thing and just what it is and isn't… Today I had this enlightening encounter that really helped in this. I'm going to capture it here as my own record, but also for others who may learn from it too. I was trying to trace a joke punch line… /1

Premier Danielle Smith said she doesn't know how much newcomers cost Alberta’s health care and education systems, despite scheduling a referendum to ask whether social services to those residents shd be limited b/c of cost www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... By @mattscace.bsky.social and friend

Looks like the separatists are trying to get signatures at Calgary Public Library branches. And at the Nicholls Family branch they want to do it in secret. Since this goes against the library's political use policy, I've been told this will be disallowed.

For what it's worth, the House had a chance to effectively ban floor-crossing in 2012: C-306 would have required an MP to run in a by-election before sitting with another party. It was defeated by a vote of 181 to 91 at second reading. Just 3 Conservatives voted in favour, 142 voted against.

Unreal.

My latest: Alberta's separatist leaders keep using Norway as an example of why an independent Alberta would work. Let's put that to the test, shall we? #cdnpoli #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/19/o...

My neighbourhood pool needs to “clean up a contamination” before lane swim can start and I’m trying not to think about it.

There's a frequent poster on one of the Alberta separatist Facebook groups who keeps referring to transgender people as Tran's as if they belong to some Vietnamese dude named Tran.

Wanna guess which of these names the most Facebook commenters are fixated on?

Swiss Olympic bobsled commentator broke a century of neutrality and spent the entire run of the Israeli bobsled team recounting all the pro-genocide remarks and social media posts by Adam Edelman, one of the apartheid state athletes. Absolute legend. More of this in sports please!

My favourite Alberta separatist delusion of the day: In an independent Alberta, the Oilers and Flames will rack up Stanley Cups, and Alberta Olympians will “own the podium,” because of favourable tax rates.

Happy PLR Day to those who celebrate!

Separatists: Ottawa steals Alberta’s oil wealth to prop up rest of the country! Also separatists: Ottawa is destroying Alberta’s oil industry on purpose!

I think the Alberta separatists use so much AI because they lack any other kind of I.

Watch for a similar spike in trans youth suicides in Alberta under Smith’s cruel policies.

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

Excellent essay by @stephenmarche.bsky.social.

Any wonder why Pierre avoids mentioning Trump whenever possible?

The funniest thing I read in the separatist documents today is that an independent Alberta's aspirational military will include a navy. Looking forward to battleships on the Athabaska. And does West Edmonton Mall still have that submarine?

"There is no visible trace left of a plot just outside the main cemetery set aside for Canadian UN peacekeepers. Inside the main graveyard two whole sections of graves have been razed, of more than 100 allied soldiers killed in the second world war..."

This guy isn’t even a shadow minister in his own party. But I guess he and Vance used to share a couch or whatever. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

you don't say? at some point we're going to acknowledge what every study ever on this subject has said, right? right? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation (undoubtedly to the frustration of certain KC’s and separatist leaders)… Are making it clear that they can speak for themselves. A new fact sheet blows absolute holes in a LOT of the separatist lies. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli