Damned right. Worth watching in full.

Métis Nation of Alberta pays one of the companies owned by Sam Mraiche — a multimillionaire Edmonton businessman at the centre of a roiling political controversy — $480,000 a year to lease this Edmonton building used as an addiction treatment centre. @charlesrusnell.bsky.social reports. #abpoli

Yale Law School never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations

Alberta Health Services' former CEO alleges she has been subject to an intimidation campaign since suing the govt. Athana Mentzelopoulos speaks about it publically for the first time --> www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... By @mattscace.bsky.social

Breaking News: President Trump said the U.S. would withdraw from the U.N.’s bedrock climate treaty, and 65 other treaties and agreements.

Kristi Noem: "Renee Good was a domestic terrorist."

The image of the blood-soaked airbag next to the glove compartment overflowing with stuffed animals is going to stick with me for a very long time.

“ICE kills Good” is awfully on-the-nose.

More impunity invites more brazen acts of violence against innocent bystanders.

Chrystia Freeland resigning her seat on Friday. #cdnpoli

Join my colleague Rob Currie-Wood as he defends "Renegotiating the Bargain" his book on political party organization against a trio of high-profile critics. January 21 from 5-6:30 at MRU

. @theannamurphy.bsky.social is alive and is at the hospital. She had previously posted this message on Instagram, but thankfully did not succeed.

Bryan Ward acted for Mraiche in a property flipped to the Alberta government for a $300,000 profit. thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/97434e9... Podcasters who were harassing Carrie Tait and former AHS board member Sandy Edmonstone were being paid by an Edmonton lawyer with close ties to Sam Mraiche. Probably just a coincidence.

NEW: A podcaster accused of harassing a former AHS director said he was hired by an Edmonton lawyer, court docs show. That lawyer has ties to Sam Mraiche, who owns companies at the centre of Alberta's procurement controversy. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By @tuthanhha.bsky.social

I feel seen.

First day of classes of the Winter semester! This semester I am teaching nuclear energy, introduction to IR, qualitative research methods, and at the UofC's MPP the seminar on Canadian Foreign Policy.

INBOX: Statement from Senator Kelly

Trump is a 19th Century President open.substack.com/pub/duanebra...

One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Graham: This is not interventionism. This is making America safer. We're going to be more prosperous because of the business deals. Trump: The oil companies are going to go in… and we’re taking back what they stole. They took our oil

The foreign policy of a personalist dictatorship. There are no constraints.

Trump in a single gaggle on Air Force One just threatened: -- a second strike against Venezuela -- Cuba -- Mexico -- Colombia -- Iran -- Greenland (which in turn would be an attack on the EU and Denmark)

Trump: Don’t ask me who is in charge because I’ll give you an answer and it will be very controversial. Reporter: What does that mean? Trump: We’re in charge.

Q: There's about $17 billion of oil reserves in Venezuela TRUMP: You mean trillion. Did you say billion or trillion? Q: I said billion TRUMP: It's much more than that Q: So what is going to happen to those reserves? TRUMP: We're going to run everything

Q: Back in 2016, you criticized the US being involved in regime change and nation building. You stance has changed on that TRUMP: This isn't a country on the other side of the world. This is Venezuela. It's in our area. The Donroe Doctrine

TRUMP: Colombia is very sick too. Run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the US, and he's not gonna be doing it very long Q: So there's will be an operation by the US in Colombia? TRUMP: Sounds good to me

I spoke with María Corina Machado today. I affirmed Canada’s support for a peaceful, Venezuelan-led transition of power — one that respects the democratic will of the Venezuelan people.

To the people in the back, criticizing Trump from using military force to take Venezuela oil is NOT the same as defending the Maduro dictatorship (who should be in a Venezuela prison).

The death toll is now 80? I know the pandemic made life cheap amid mass death, but 80 dead is staggering

Rubio: Venezuela military operation was simply implementing an arrest warrant. Trump: Venezuela military operation was about oil, regime change, and Donroe doctrine to take Greenland, Cuba, and whoever else we want.

EXCLUSIVE: In an interview with @michaelscherer.bsky.social, Donald Trump threatened Venezuela’s interim leader, Delcy Rodríguez, with a fate worse than Maduro’s; defended regime change in the country; and expressed renewed interest in the U.S. seizing Greenland. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

These are all plausible explanations. Just not the ones they’re using out loud

The Prime Minister of Greenland Jens-Frederik Nielsen to the United States: “Enough is enough.”

Seems important

Carney welcomes the end of Maduro, but made a conscious decision not to criticize Trump/US except in veiled terms (Venezuelan-led transition process).

New statement from PM Carney.

Some thoughts on what Trump has done in Venezuela and what it might mean for US national security. Caveat: not a Latin America scholar so this is focused on US policy. Clearly huge consequences for Venezuela that others can address. First, despite the buildup, I didn't think Trump would do it. 1/

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have landed New York. A uniformed FBI agent as well as several individuals with DEA, FBI and HSI uniforms were seen near the aircraft carrying the couple.

Interesting that neither Carney nor Smith have commented on Trump’s attack on Venezuela and capturing Madura and his wife.

VP Delcy Rodriguez, whom Trump indicated earlier today was collaborating with the US government, is live on television right now. Earlier reports that she's in Russia are false. She's in Caracas with the rest of the cabinet. Rodriguez: "We will never again be a colony for any empire"

Trump to Venezuela.

Trump on María Corina Machado: "I think it'd be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn't have the support or the respect within the country. She's a very nice woman but she doesn't have the respect."

DID HE JUST SAY THE OIL WILL PAY FOR THE OCCUPATION

Trump on the US running Venezuela: It will not cost us anything because the money coming out of the ground is substantial. We’re going to take back the oil.

Trump is also threatening Cuba and Colombia.