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Speaking on behalf of all the haters, I believe we did indeed have a happy Christmas

Best wishes and thanks to all the healthcare workers, first responders and support staff working on Christmas and during the holiday season. Here's to a happy, healthy 2026.

You there, boy! What day is this? (Wrong answers only)

Y’know, watching It’s a Wonderful Life right to the end is making me want to be a bit more like George Bailey. Which is why I’m trying to lead the whole crowd in singing Auld Lang Syne on Christmas Day. Now why is everyone looking at me funny? Clarence?!

Junius on Winnipeg opening Portage and Main w/o the feared traffic chaos.. Mayors need fight status quo bias cause future hard to predict and pessimists not always right. Plus, there’s a cost to doing nothing. So just try something. City can always backtrack www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

"Until then we'll have to muddle through somehow" — this remains the most perfect Christmas lyric for contemporary times, even though Frank Sinatra killed the Judy Garland original lyric to "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" nearly 70 years ago. macleans.ca/culture/its-... (my piece from 2020)

"10:30 A.M. Send another overdue notice to the impish man who checked out 'Tom Sawyer' months ago and listed last known address as 'Heaven.' Men like this are why I’m a single spinster."

It’s interesting that Global TV made international news and its comms and PR team hasn’t been able to pull together a statement in two days - is so far just letting CBS speak for them. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

Bonkers story from @matthewblack.ca: Lawyers for a former AHS board member claim a self-described political fixer, along with an indy publisher, have been paid to smear their client in an effort to discredit & dissuade him from testifying in the wrongful dismissal suit from the agency’s former CEO.

Periodic reminder that governmental obfuscation is not just a burr for journos: It runs counter to the public interest. It makes for an ill-informed population with less trust in institutions. The people who work for you don't want you to have information you own. Be mad about that.

I have to say I think it was a mistake putting Barry White in charge of CBS News. Great singer but he’s no journalist, and he’s been dead for 20 years

INSIDE EL CECOT (GIFT LINK) The Post's reporting on the Salvadoran prison where the Trump administration sent migrants deported from the United States, based on interviews with 16 former detainees wapo.st/3KUUv6n

I don’t think Grynbaum is on here but someone please correct me if I’m wrong. Here’s his story for the Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts

This is what happens when CBC gives a bar trivia nerd its Alberta political podcast for a week: I quizzed @alexboyd.bsky.social @faliceemo.bsky.social & Janet Brown on the exhausting year that was 2025: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...

Goddamn them all I was told We'd cruise the seas for Maduro’s nose gold We'd bomb no boats Shed no tears Now I'm a broken man on a West Palm Beach pier The last of Marco’s privateers

Curious what the panel means by “limiting eligibility for social services to citizens, permanent residents and individuals with an immigration permit." Excludes undocumented people, presumably, but what about refugee claimants who are covered by federal health care but may need social assistance?

The province receives recommendations from panels all the time, and premier & gov't take or leave ideas as they please. But this is different. This panel was *chaired* by Premier Danielle Smith. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Three years after firing Deena Hinshaw and one measles crisis later, Alberta has finally hired a permanent chief medical officer of health. Unlike past fill-ins, she's actually a public health doc. Vivien Suttorp, lead MOH for Alberta Health Services in Lethbridge-Medicine Hat zone for 17yrs.

Alberta is allowing Corb Lund and the indépendatistes to reapply under the old fee if it’s done within the 30-day transition to the new law, a spokesperson confirmed. But this will make it pricier for anyone to force a referendum question on, say, renaming the justice minister Doris Daymery.

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

Now a pizza company is publicly calling out #Toronto ‘s long-delayed “rapid” transit lines for slow delivery. (A+ trolling, by the way)

After all my years guesting on Kathleen Petty's podcast, this is my co-punditting debut on a panel with her! We went on Front Burner to break down the iiiiiiiinteresting year in Alberta politics. www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

And then there were... honestly, I've lost count. Justice Minister Mickey Amery and Jackie Armstrong-Homeniuk are the latest MLAs to have recall petition approved against them. www.elections.ab.ca/two-new-reca...

A woman was charged with sending a threatening email to ex-justice minister Jon Denis. Courts learned somebody had faked the email through a Czech website. Quite the story from @robsonfletcher.com & Meghan Grant www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

Vanity Fair has released a series of portraits of Trump’s inner circle, including these extreme close-up shots, which are… interesting. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

More than 600 pages of records show Alberta officials delayed a coal mine pollution study — and seemingly stopped the lead scientist from speaking publicly thenarwhal.ca/alberta-stal... #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

the OneBC staffers are letting it all hang out on the fun site

Looks like Alberta separatists will be gathering petition signatures from mid-January to mid-May next year. Winter Olympics are in February. While many Albertans are cheering on Team Canada, some will be campaigning to break the team apart.

Calgary city council is way off in the weeds on blanket rezoning. Not voting on repealing on blanket rezoning today, but on whether or not to start the process (for March '26 hearing + decision). Repetitive amendments, numerous councillors trying to put their stamp on a repeal. #yyccc

What’s even more impressive is that they were all Stephen King adaptations

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

Ahmed El Ahmed A good guy without a gun www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

HalfBC it is, then.

The details of this Hanukkah attack on Jewish Australians are gruesome, horrifying. Children sheltering and unable to find their parents. It's heartbreaking www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

Pardon me, but *holy shit* chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

As a judge shot down Alberta separatists’ referendum bid, Danielle Smith gov raced to give them a second chance. Now they’re confident Albertans will vote on leaving Canada this fall, after UCP’s legislative boost. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... by me

To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.

If another MP crosses the floor and the Liberals get the slimmest possible majority, how much pressure is there on Carney to appease any caucus member who threatens to resign over anything, from policy disputes to not being in cabinet?

25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.

Ashamed that it’s only now, in my grey-hair years, that I realize that Sam the Eagle and Miss Piggy are voiced by Frank Oz, who also voiced Yoda. youtu.be/KNYI3iINXrQ?...

Pipeline is most unpopular in Québec, but that’s a relative term. 27% oppose, 37% support.

He says guards assaulted him. The jail lost the footage. www.thestar.com/news/investi... via @bkstar.bsky.social

As someone who has experienced both Peterson Academy (one week) and an accredited Alberta university (5 years, oops) it is striking to me that Albertan officials were discussing "transferability." The most rigorous testing PA did is an AI-generated multiple choice quiz. thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...