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Lloyd Axworthy: Canada once rejected America’s aggressive, unlawful foreign policy. Today Mark Carney embraced it By endorsing preventive strikes on Iran during ongoing diplomacy, and after Washington itself shredded the previous agreement, we are embracing the very doctrine we used to reject, writes Lloyd Axwort...

Canada's former foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy: "We invoke international law and the 'rules based order' when adversaries engage in unlawful actions, but abandon those same rules entirely when it's the Americans — whose gov't 60% of Canadians see as a threat"

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This is just getting ridiculous

Tamarind is open again?

They just effectively increased taxes on any business that owns or rents office, retail or commercial space. The city has provided an analysis on property tax increase for a residential home, but not yet for commercial.

Businesses, property owners remain opposed to elevated Green Line through Calgary's downtown: survey calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...

Can’t wait for the version of this for non residential. With the reversal of the tax shift and then an even bigger increase of ed tax, that’s going to result in rent increases for small businesses.

And much of it is capital intensive and even with huge royalty breaks, has slightly lower economic returns than opportunities in the US. Though, as they exhaust their top tier inventory, Alberta’s are next up in the stack.

The BC NDP are trying to follow the same route but with mining and LNG. #bcpoli

When Alberta gets to learn from Botswana

If you watch 2 minutes of video today…

Make it this.

A masterclass on oratory and personal responsibility is on full display.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Alberta's 2026 budget brings higher education tax take from Calgarians, drawing mayor's ire The Alberta government is poised to hit Calgary homeowners with a bigger slice of the province's education tax.

Calgary, this government of Alberta is stealing from us & it’s about to get worse. #YYCcc buckle up buttercups, forget repealing blanket rezoning, & get down to the basics of looking after our infrastructure we can’t lose any money from the Fed. #HAF

calgaryherald.com/news/alberta...

NEW: The Assembly of Treaty Chiefs has unanimously voted no-confidence in the UCP government.

“Danielle Smith’s government is acting as an embassy for the worst we’ve seen from south of the border, and it’s time to say no,” says Treaty 6 Confederacy Grand Chief Joey Pete.

NEW:

Alberta is predicting a budget deficit of $9.4B in 26-27.

"Inaccurate data": How Recovery Alberta officials facilitated consumption site closures (Pt 2) Selective data sharing by some of Alberta's top health officials may backstop plausible deniability for government negligence in closing sites – with impacts all the way to Ontario.

"Alberta government appears to be [..] 'finding reasons to accuse sites of not being utilized enough, to create justification for closing them.'"

Safe consumption "site visitors have been under-counted by as much as three-quarters."
#Alberta #Ontario #Canada #Drugs #Healthcare #Housing

It's missing the crucial third line where AI deflates like a sad balloon farting around the room, and humanity kicks it over like it's naught but a disobedient Roomba. And it joins the junk pile with NFTs and crypto and all the other anti-human tech-bro bullshit.

Victim mentality writ large …in pen!!!!

Well, she is deputy leader and they are splitting up the duties. (And she dropped off to support NN)

Your friendly reminder that the solution to the majority of bike/pedestrian safety concerns is not another workshop, seminar, public outreach but a DESIGNATED INFRASTRUCTURE.

The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom

“They turn humans into this hyperefficient terrestrial locomotor because they make being on land more like swimming.”

The most efficient traveller is you on a bike. #UrbanTruth

Via Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

I’m definitely never going to buy an ICE vehicle. Making gasoline at home is too slow.

Gross

One way Europe and the world can help Ukraine is to stop buying oil and gas from Russia, which just functions to fund their side of the invasion (now stalled, so a mere entrenchment)

Whoa @calgary.ca. Eight days ago, a driver struck and killed a toddler in a stroller in a marked crosswalk. The next day, the driver of a tractor trailer hit and killed a senior in a marked crosswalk. Those deaths come after a record 15 pedestrians were killed in 2025.
And this is your message?! 😡😢

Hearing the “Alberta party” name is available (just jokes, the Tories still have it)

Diagram showing sight lines for popular SUVs and pickup trucks vs sedans. Oversized vehicles have blind spots directly in front that can completely conceal children and make it much harder to see all vulnerable road users.

“I bought an SUV because I like being up high so I can see.”

Leong: To improve pedestrian safety in Calgary, we need more than friendly advice The people who design Calgary streets need to rethink how intersections work if we are to reduce the number of pedestrian crashes.

"While motor vehicles are no doubt the biggest and heaviest road users, they shouldn’t get to monopolize our streets—despite a century of discourse telling us otherwise.”

Gratitude, @rickyleongyyc.bsky.social, for the work you're doing/revisiting on safe mobility.
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Is this one of Alberta’s UCP aspirations? There are some folks in the party asking about the semi-equivalent “permanent residents”. #abpoli

Where is the phone in hand? Usually it is surreptitiously to the lower right of the steering wheel.

Mark Carney and the failure of co-operative federalism in Canada Carney promises co-operative federalism, but without institutional reform, Canada risks falling back into competitive provincial politics.

Some historical and comparative context from me, with a particular focus on industrial policy.

Like others before, the PM is committed to cooperative federalism. Without institutional reform, however, competitive federalism will prevail.

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Canadians tend to get very annoyed with the conduct of most mustelids. They poop right on your dock line knots!