Bill Clinton has a random run-in with Loretta Lynch at an airport in 2016 - MASSIVE, WEEKS LONG SCANDAL JD Vance attends a private dinner with Chief Justice Roberts while the Court considers multiple Trump Admin lawsuits - "social call" ... "friendly pop-by" YOUR MAINSTREAM MEDIA, LADIES & GENTS 🙄

“A seriously stacked sandwich from Quebec made with smoked beef brisket layered between slices of light rye bread and drizzled with tangy yellow mustard.” Montreal smoked meat sandwich named among world’s best sandwiches

Man claims Canadian first amendment rights infringed when people refuse to listen to his opinion

Someone finally giving up on a classic full suspension Stumpjumper at the Kamloops metal pile. It looks like it is still in pretty decent condition!

We all know how we feel about this “demonic, mewling turducken of a referendum question,” but can anyone say it the way @sproudfoot.bsky.social says it? I don’t think so. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...

2026 Blue Jays game-by-game record: 🅆🅆WLWLLLLLLWWLLWLLLLWWWLLWWLWWLWWLLLLWWLLL🅆LWWLLWWWW

Political analysts from Alberta on CBC radio think we can move on from the referendum after it fails. But I am not so sure- mainstream Alberta politics turned its back on Canada when Canada was being threatened with annexation. It was a betrayal

The hard truth is colleges and universities have always been welcoming to conservatives, just like to various other students, and teach some conservative ideas. What schools can't do is be welcoming to anti-science ideological liars, because that goes against the core idea of research and education.

Malign neglect is built into concentration camps. Hurting and killing via disease is intention and hardwired.

I wrote about how Danielle Smith took a good, hard look at the existential damage that could be done to Alberta and to Canada by a separatism campaign and she decided that one thing mattered above all: Danielle Smith. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...

Live footage of the UCP's brave fight against independence.

Ecologists! Check out this AWESOME paper using the newer (to us, anyway) Synthetic Control technique in combo w/ @inaturalist.bsky.social to show hurricane impacts on bees. From Asia Kaiser, @julianresasco.bsky.social, and @lauradee.bsky.social 🌍🧪 #causalinference www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Smith may think she is managing pressure. Most Albertans likely think she’s watering and fertilizing the sprouts and setting the trellis up to help it grow." Smart analysis from @davidcoletto.bsky.social. open.substack.com/pub/davidcol...

The NZ housing synth control is one of my favourites cdn.auckland.ac.nz/assets/busin...

Your periodic reminder that this is no such thing as a sovereign Alberta with a Canadian federation.

The CRTC rules are part of its implementation of the Online Streaming Act, which the U.S. has identified as a trade irritant with Canada. globalnews.ca/news/1185945...

Props to the person who picked this photo

Reality bath from @gelliottmorris.com: Given Biden approval rating & inflation/consumer sentiment, "the surprise of the [2024] election is that Harris did as well as she did...the Dem nominee was on track to lose the popular vote by 4 points. She lost by 1.5." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-dnc-au...

This is the ultimate ambiguous (two part) question. If you say "yes" which part are you saying yes to? If you say "no" which part are you saying no to? This, like the committee hearing yesterday, is total SNAFU. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

Jen Gerson: "The UCP has become a party of snivelling, weak little thieves who operate by night."

I don’t think that some Albertans realize how much this separatism tantrum is going to make their province reviled by the rest of Canada. Canadians not from Quebec, who knew our country’s history, could understand Quebec nationalism, but we sure as hell do not understand Alberta’s grievance fantasy

Premier Smith claims that she is not a separatist, but she is certainly doing everything in her power to make separation happen

I rode a rock roll tonight that I had first seen 4 years ago and had said “I don’t even want to be a good enough rider to even attempt something like that”

I deeply appreciate the Conservative Republicans who are standing against the brazen, poisonous suspension of our rule-of-law. No ‘side’ wins from shattering our institutions.

Jen Gerson: "The momentum here right now is on the side of people who treat the idea of the Republic of Alberta as a kind of religious movement. It's a millenarian movement ... heavily influenced by the kind of nihilism that infects a lot of the broader MAGA movement."

Gerson Unchained

a flock of bluesky users is called a cringe

Kevin O’Leary petitions Trump to have name added to Epstein Files

Canada’s approach to AI data centres has high stakes for its climate goals. With the right policies, data centres can support bigger, cleaner, smarter grids. With the wrong ones, they can drive up prices, make electrification harder, and lock-in emissions. ⬇️ climateinstitute.ca/canadas-ai-a...

'Dancing can reduce BMI'. This highlights the problem with 'arts engagement', what does it mean? Here it seems to include physical activity! Regardless, I'm still left asking 'dancing can reduce BMI COMPARED TO WHAT'?'. Is dancing better than running? A causal question needs a comparator! 8/10 🧵

'We examined many confounders'. Perhaps, but also irrelevant. It is not the number of confounders that matters, but whether you have accurately measured and adequately controlled for all the necessary confounders for your particular research question. Many are missing or poorly controlled. 4/10 🧵

Alex hitting the nail on the head. Students come to institutions for programs, but they take classes. Using a methodology that hurts faculties which teach lots of courses to students in programs not in their faculties will give you bad data, and lead to perverse incentives and duplication of work.

2/ And here's part 2, from today, where the methodological choices become, collectively, totally bananas. It's not wrong to want to know your university's various cost functions. But you might want to at least test the extent to which your methodological assumptions are driving the results...

1/ Two-part blog on program costing analysis and why overwrought methodologies usually aren't worth the effort, using an egregiously awful methodology from Nova Scotia, courtesy of Huron Consulting. Here's part 1, from yesterday:

This serves well for setting clear and consistent expectations for students and instructors. But I do wonder about the enforceability of much of this. How do you monitor and enforce gen AI use in conceptualization? An unenforceable policy is more like a guideline

A prof of mine from undergrad (and now friend) was in Kamloops for a conference, and I took him and his PhD students on a hike in Kenna-Cartwright Park last night. He is an avid birder, so I was sure to end the hike at the Dufferin Pond. He was like a kid in a candy store; there were soo many birds

Relevant to City of Vancouver’s desire for an MLB expansion team (a successful expansion bid would require a stadium)

He didn't answer the question. He's looking forward to campaigning in an unnecessary referendum, and unwilling to criticize the premier for threatening the very national unity he claims he will defend. Coward.

Sometimes there is a sequence of tiny events that occur in succession in your life and you wonder if we are just in a simulation.

fries with mayo > fries with ketchup

Mark Carney might look good from abroad, but when it comes to climate change, more and more Canadians are realizing that he's bad.

"We let them cheat" is not the win you seem to think it is.

"There’s no contradiction between Trump’s deepening unpopularity—and his evident commitment to further unpopular conduct—and his intensifying assault on democracy and rule of law. People like Trump, enemies of democracy, merely see greater urgency to steal power." open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...

David Anderson, who played a major role in getting Canada’s Species at Risk Act passed in 2002, is the third former Liberal environment minister to criticize Mark Carney’s proposed changes. @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

I wrote about the Habs. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Truly astonishing levels of corruption and self-dealing. Every day Donald Trump does something new that, in any other period of American history, would be an immediate presidency ending scandal www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I hope everyone enjoys their party

The Melania Movie, just like buying the Washington Post, was not about the project itself making money; it was a decision with his larger enterprise in mind