Educator | Poli-Sci, Public Opinion & Survey Methods | Elections analyst | Opinions are mine; temperament is my father's.

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"Anything critical – however diluted, incidental and innocuously decontextualised – will still be found offensive by the uncompromising reactionaries."
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After a decade defined by Trudeau-Guilbeault progressivism on the Left and the Freedom Convoy on the Right, the Carney government's governing priorities and the election of the Doerkson-led Conservatives in BC mark the reassertion of the median voter.
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Chrishell Stause announces split from G Flip after 4 years 💔 tmz.com/2026/10/26/chrishell…
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I’ve asked this before but is there any historical event that is like the Opposite of 9/11. Like something so good that happened that it changed the world forever
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Pretty hard to find a better example of a tariff that is causing more harm to US industry (and consumers) for less strategic or economic gain than the steep tariff on Canadian aluminum 1/2
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this is so bleak
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I want more premiers who are just some decent accountants named Dave and Kathy. We don't even need to know their last names, really.
Relatively normal and likeable dude replaces deeply unpleasant and polarizing political animal as leader of conservative party and wins massively, in what is surely a fluke one-off with no broader meaning or significance that anyone should pay attention to or ponder in any way.
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For the international crowd, the Conservative Party of British Columbia won because it purged the more MAGA wing of the party in a civil war.
JUST IN: Conservatives just won a landslide majority in British Columbia, Canada, returning to power for the first time since 1928. And Brazil is about to elect a conservative President Flavio Bolsonaro. MAGA is spreading worldwide.
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Somewhere, David Peterson is heaving a sigh of relief to no longer be the cautionary tale
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This obsession with the details of what a candidate may or may not have said is one reason why parties are finding it so difficult to attract candidates. The perfect candidate will have nothing on the record concerning their views on various religious groups., abortion, LBGTQ+, indigenous relations, etc. Especially pathetic since in today’s government, so-called backbenchers have basically no influence whatsoever. Prime Minister‘s and Premiers rule like modern monarchs.
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WTF, $3000 Samsung TV has an always-on mic, automatic content recognition, geo tracking, network mapping, and ships your data to Samsung + 400 partners. Bro Rooted a brand-new 2025 Samsung TV after noticing absurdly targeted ads. Firmware was locked down, so zero-days it was. Got a root shell. then found: always-on voice service, ACR, geo, full telemetry pipeline, and four separate DRM systems. This isn’t a bug, It’s the product bro.
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My naive optimism: the stupidity of this administration might taint tariffs for a generation. That could make the whole episode net positive
Just such a fun chart here from @greg_ip. If only we could tease out some meaning. Ah, well, nevertheless. 🤣
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The exact same split in… 2005. #cdnpoli
NEW: With 100% of polls in, Albertans vote to remain in Canada by a margin of 75%-25% (1,545,094 vs 514,005)
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I asked @nenshi how he can champion pipelines when federal NDP Leader @avilewis is against new ones. Nenshi: "I don't want to be unkind, but the federal NDP is really not relevant in Alberta. Nobody talks about them, nobody worries about them." 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Some claim men are dropping out of the workforce because there aren't "manly" jobs left in manufacturing and construction, but there are 800,000 such jobs standing open and men aren't applying for them. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
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This in @Quillette is excellent on France in 2026 "French schools are no more “underfunded” than Dutch, German, Austrian or British ones, and spending per pupil has actually increased slightly in real terms over the past ten years." ~ @K_Niemietz quillette.com/2026/10/21/fra…
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith fed a stray cat, in hopes that it would go away. But stray cats don’t do that. Now she's in a world of trouble theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
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Have they asked Claude to design a sustainable business model? xitter.cf/Polymarket/status/2112…
JUST IN: Anthropic recorded a staggering $80,000,000,000.00 net loss in the first half of 2026.
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Mom and dad aren't mad, they’re just disappointed that you experimented with separation.
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Hilarious. A 75 per cent defeat is actually a victory.
Before the votes are tallied, I wanted to be clear about something that they're going to try and take from us. The definition of victory. If as much as 25% elect for option 2 on the only question that matters... this is not a win for "remain." It's a victory for independence. 1/4 of the province (of which had doubled in size since this bs immigration scheme) is on board with cutting ties. That's not 2 crazy dudes in Didsbury. That's every 4th person. Maybe we won't get to further the process... but we will get to make our point clear: a huge chunk of us are so dissatisfied with the present status quo that we want to walk away from it all. From this day forth, politicians will see that number on the page and know that it they don't find a way to bring those people into the discussion, they've lost them. Don't let them redefine victory and marginalize our struggles. But of course, I want option 2 to pass.
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A country isn't a single-use thing. If you don't like how it is working, work to change it (dare I say "better is always possible"). Don't throw it out assuming that you can start a newer better country. It's easier to continue improving what we already have.
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