Andy’s Musical Advent Calendar, Day 4: Merry Christmas Baby by Otis Redding.

I think it’s worth mentioning that the manufactured excuse the U.S. is using to murder people in the Caribbean is the same manufactured excuse they used to discuss annexing Canada.

According to this Supreme Court: ❌ Using race conscious admissions in college to give minorities a fair shot ✅ Using race to profile people on the street to detain for immigration sweeps ✅ Using race to disenfranchise minorities in elecciones The only consistency is white supremacy.

$200k during the teachers strike. Another $300k in May related to the Alberta Next nonsense. A half million dollars worth of sole source contracts in less than six months going to a firm with connections to the UCP. Just a normal day in Alberta. www.townandcountrytoday.com/beyond-local...

“I consider their refusal to drown a legitimate reason to murder them” is quite the argument.

This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves

I do not care at all for these modern leadership rules. A foundational principle of a parliamentary democracy is responsible government. Whether you or government or opposition, if you can’t hold the support of your caucus, you step down.

Climate scientist Simon Donner has resigned as co-chair of the federal government’s Net Zero Advisory Body. www.linkedin.com/posts/simon-...

Put together a playlist honouring The Colonel. Every song on here features Mr. Cropper either as a guitar player, songwriter, or producer. It's not even close to covering the vast catalogue of work he put together during his lifetime. Hope you Al, and Duck are laying down some grooves with Otis. 🙏

Fuck, this one hurts, for me the greatest guitarist, a musician in the service of the band and the song, who played on and helped create a wild succession of the finest records ever made. RIP Steve Cropper.

Oh, man. This one hurts. One of the most important musicians in the history of rock n’ roll.

We should probably just skip the demand for an inquiry at this point and call for Smith to step down. We’re far beyond the corruption and competency threshold.

Andy’s Musical Advent Calendar, Day 3: Merry Christmas, Please Don’t Call by Bleachers.

This app needs more frivolity and conversation.

NGL, if I was this dad I would not settle for justice. Vengeance would be the goal.

Thinking about becoming a DJ named “Old Man” who exclusively does sets between the times of 11AM and 4PM.

If there’s one thing the Trump administration wants you to know after today’s cabinet meeting, it’s that no one, NO ONE, starves and murders people better.

Andy’s Musical Advent Calendar, Day 2: I Wish It Was Christmas Today, by Julian Casablancas.

Fuck you if you support him.

And yet our provincial governments wage war on the public system and fail to appropriately remunerate those that would staff these as public facilities so what system are you building these for?

I assume she means everyone who isn’t white.

Andy’s Musical Advent Calendar, Day 1: A Long December by the Counting Crows.

Why does no one seem to understand that forward-looking "economic impact studies" aren't a real thing? There is no grad school class on this because no credible forecasting methods exist. No serious economists use these consultant projection models for anything.

Between April 1, 2024, and March 31, 2025,  the advocate’s office recorded 60 youth deaths and nine serious injuries among young people who had received child intervention services within the two years preceding their death. apple.news/AyqEPphBWQAu...

Kind of funny that neither the UCP or the NDP base want a new pipeline, yet both their leaders are out there advocating for it. Glad the finance bros in Calgary are being taken care of, at least.

After today's performance, the Eagles offense ranks 28th in success rate. They are producing a positive play at a lower rate than offenses like the Saints and the Jets. It's the worst offensive success rate for an Eagles team through Week 13 in the last 20 years.

This would be a war crime even if there were an actual war and these people were actual combatants, which there isn't and they weren't. It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...

They were always going to unleash full-on ethnic cleansing. They were just waiting for a plausible excuse.

Another night to sleep on this and I'm solidifying this take There is a reason industry/govt sees a bit win in trading the regulations that would have forced real emissions reductions (oil and gas cap and CER) for vauge future carbon pricing promises that some are claiming will achieve the same 1/

“Non-compatible with Western Civilization” is unadulterated white nationalism.

Adam Radwanski does a good roundup of the climate policy implications here. (I think I did a gift link?) Anyway, my concern is less about phantom pipelines than it is the future of emissions reductions, renewables and clean tech in AB & BC. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/64d9ad7...

I do not hold out a whole lot of hope that the industrial carbon price will have the kind of coverage and stringency as to matter much. I am just not hearing any indication that the GoC will use this economic tool to incentivize clean tech, diversify the economy or meaningfully reduce emissions.

Downers may think it’s a bad idea giving Danielle Smith a win right before her leadership review, and when her party is on the ropes with the public for privatizing health care and using the notwithstanding clause four times, but you don’t have the MENSA-level minds of Mark Carney and Naheed Nenshi.

All these rosy assumptions about Carney rest on him actually NOT wanting a pipeline built. On the contrary, he’s sounding very much in favour of it.

Giving Alberta an exemption to the Clean Electricity Standard means the policy is DOA. There’s no way SK isn’t asking for the same thing, as they restart coal plants. One Canadian economy? Nope. Likely scenario is no electricity regs at all, meaning we’re back to Harper-era policy.

This article is great if you completely ignore the fact that it may cost Carney seats in B.C. and Quebec, that he’s given the Bloc and NDP new life, that he’s damaged relationships with the province of B.C. and the Haida Gwaii, and that Alberta may just decide to build the pipeline w/o private $.

Oh, look. A principled politician. How novel.

UCP are pretty clear on what they think happened today.

Again, how can you be in favour of more pipelines but oppose coal mining in the eastern slopes? How can you say you believe in climate change and then advocate further polluting the planet? The calculus here is peeling people away from the UCP while abandoning your own voters and values. Shameful.

Other stuff I wont comment on thats outside my wheelhouse (impact of tankers etc). But on the whole very disappointing MOU that has a whole lot of backpedaling and climate delay. (Reminder that climate delay is the new climate denial and in 2025 leads in effect to the same outcome).

This is how Enron did its accounting (seriously)

I couldn’t even get to the pipeline stuff because I was so horrified and angry about the AI/data centre stuff.

The pipeline stuff will get the most attention, but the bottom line of the Ottawa-Alberta MOU policy-wise is that Carney is scrapping or softening most Trudeau-era climate-related regulations in favour of putting (almost) all his eggs in the industrial carbon pricing basket.

Lots of people like to say there is no such thing as a Canadian identity. I don’t believe that, but even if it were true, I’d rather have no identity than the bullshit the Americans feed themselves.

Nature is foreshadowing.

Christy Clark the former B.C. premier who set out five conditions before agreeing to a pipeline way back in 2012? The one who said there were “significant environmental risks” associated with Northern Gateway, and that there were “few benefits to British Columbia”?

👌. No notes.

Coen Brothers doing The Yiddish Policemen’s Union.

Because then nothing is right or wrong, true or false. It’s all just open for discussion in a free and civil society, man. You can’t judge me if I’m just offering my opinion. It’s sophistry in the modern age.

If Coca-Cola is 90% water, than means I need to drink at least 4-5 cans a day to get my daily quotient in, right?