This is what happens when you put a toddler in charge of the biggest military in the world. Leaving the world a worse place, one diaper-rash-induced temper tantrum at a time.

On a Venn diagram, "Albertan separatists" is basically completely inside the circle of "People who think that voting should require a photo ID." Which makes this really funny.

Tomorrow's headline is likely to be about the Premier musing again about getting rid of the RCMP.

Find someone who looks at you the same way a lab does when you have food.

Smith says she's cutting access to social support programs because she "heard that people were moving here just to be on social programs." This sort of hearsay framing is a dangerous rhetorical device employed by populists. Consider Donald Trump. +

The job was recently reposted. Looks like they're having a hard time filling it. Imagine that.

In this day and age, the question of when to 'buy the dip' is really about trying to estimate when DJT's friends are going to close their short positions and then tell him to course-correct.

This is an important piece right now.

THIS.

We can see that Iran is a toxic and dangerous regime and ALSO disagree with America unilaterally bombing it without apparent urgent provocation. It’s okay to see the grey and not only black and white.

For some reason, Alberta politics over the last several days remind me of Moe from the Simpsons: "Immigints! I knew it was dem! Even when it was da bears, I knew it was dem."

Frustrated by this game. Canada's been the better team, by far, but just couldn't convert this to a goal advantage. Add to it some lousy officiating... 3-on-3 is basically a coin flip, and it'd be awful to lose this game in that. McDavid has to put this away fast.

I'm appreciating how red this arena appears to be...

Let's be clear on the issue of judicial appointments in Alberta. There's no partisanship to the appointments of King's Bench justices. Nor is there a pro-Federal bias. Canadian judges are duty-bound to interpret and apply the Canadian Constitution. And that's why Smith doesn't like them.

“Threatening to withhold this funding is not only unconstitutional, but also undermines the administrative autonomy of the courts” The Canadian Bar Association has written to Danielle Smith about her threats. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

I've written a lot about the Free Alberta Strategy - focused on the 'how' - but in this video, Markham begins to illustrate that the 'why' of the FAS, the grievances driving it, is grounded in fiction. The video is worthwhile, and Markham is talking about what he knows. I'd also revisit the 'how'.

Citizens United - a decision that explicitly concluded that wealth, in a country with vast wealth disparity, gives a person a superior right to political speech - effectively made the US a plutocracy, where politicians are primarily accountable to the wealthy donors who fund their campaigns.

No part of this statement is the least bit controversial. Anyone even remotely connected to the justice system knows that this is all true. Judicial independence is a keystone of our way of life, in more ways than we can count.

Looking through job postings - more out of curiosity given that we're hiring, rather than me looking. A posting, for a lawyer with a finance company, starts with an anecdote about how John Adams defended British soldiers even though it was unpopular and unlikely to help his career.

In 2013, a Toronto police officer shot and killed Sammy Yatim. Yatim was high and disoriented, ending up in a standoff with police, standing in an empty streetcar with a switchblade drawn. His last moments were caught on video from several angles. He stepped back and forth anxiously.

We just got the professional photos from our wedding. We quoted Princess Bride in our vows. So sad to hear about Rob Reiner. RIP.

Just passed a line of vehicles on the Henday who seemed to be protesting...something. With flags and handwritten messages on their vehicles like "Wexit Warriors" and "Say no to digital ID" and "F*** Carney" and "STOP OVER GOVERMEN REACH"... It's a weird mode of protesting.

Just putting this out there: When GTA6 is released, somebody should create a mod with a mission that involves union-busting at a videogame company.

Kirk just needs a base hit to win it all.

Vladdy, this is your chance to take your place in World Series history. Go Blue Jays!

The Jays' fielding has been something tonight. Vladdy in particular has made a couple of good ones.

After Jimenez showed bunt 4 times, then Clement stole, Wife asked: "So what happens now?" Me: "Now he swings." And oh boy, did he!

After Wroblewski hit his teammate, Springer hit Wroblewski. These are hockey rules.

Where's the penalty box in that stadium? Maybe we need to hand out a couple of five minute majors...

Bo knows baseball!

There's a certain resonance here to some of the fights before the civil war - where Southern states were mad because Northern states were unenthusiastic about sending back fugitive slaves.

Some people watch scary movies on Halloween. I plan to watch a 3 hour (or more) show featuring a terrifying baseball-bat wielding man named Shohei.

Just drove past a guy crouching behind a car while putting on a balaclava-style mask. Any other day of the year, I'd find that very concerning.

Fun fact: The border through Lloyd is...wrong. 50 Ave is understood to be the border - the west side of the street is Alberta; the east side is Sask. However, 110 degrees - where the border is supposed to fall - is actually about 200m east of there. Just east of 48 avenue (where it crosses 16).

Hot take: The terms imposed by statute on Alberta's teachers (in a way that tramples the rights laid out in the Charter) cannot reasonably be called a "collective agreement". Nor a "contract". Suggestions welcome, but "mass indenturement" comes to mind.

I look forward to the day when some journalist does this with Jason Kenney from Virginia.

I enjoy Vladdy's propensity to just tap the base with his hands. Reminiscent of the run he scored in Game 3.

Fun fact: Winning a 9 inning game counts just as much as an 18 inning one.

My chocolate lab is trying to convince me that I've forgotten to feed him any meals for the last week, and he's wasting away to nothing. I personally fed him breakfast this morning. His next meal time is 6pm.

I must be tired, because I'm trying to calculate the total number of outs in this game, and I keep coming to 105. And that can't be right.

When I was a kid, I remember occasionally going to see a double header at Skydome. They felt long. They didn't feel THIS long.

The guy cleaning the pitcher's shoe reminds me of someone grooming a horse's foot...

Okay, how about this: Take every baseball that's been thrown this game. Mark one of them, and throw them in a ball pit. The managers then go in the pit, and the first one to find the marked ball wins.

That's nine full innings without any runs.

I laughed way too hard at this joke...

How about this: They agree to split games 3 and 4, and get tomorrow off...

This game is a heck of a nail-biter.

If this is accurate, this is basically a clone of Ontario's short-lived Bill 28 from 2022. They passed it, but repealed it days later when they discovered that dropping a nuclear bomb on CUPE wasn't something unions were going to take lying down.

Three years ago, the Doug Ford government tried to do this. In an historic piece of legislation, they invoked the NWC to send education workers back to work. In the organized labour world, it was one of the most galvanizing thing he could have done. It was repealed almost immediately.