Nick Heer

I wonder if Alberta’s Minister of Red Tape Reduction has heard about the new “Statement of Eligibility form”, introduced by Alberta’s government, required to be completed in triplicate for each voter, or the requirement to hand-count all ballots. Feels red-tapey to me.

I just finished “Lucky Loser” and the guy loves his ballrooms.

Also, it’s a pretty trite comparison, but imagine the Fox News reaction if Barack Obama so much as chipped the paint.

You can make a good case for lots of Miles Davis recordings to be his best. “In a Silent Way” will always be my favourite, though. What a perfect set of pieces.

What error does it show? I’d like to track that down in case it’s something on my end.

Smith Not Impressed With New Plates "Political Agenda" Written by Brent Manke Monday, Jul 14 2014, 12:00 AM The three choices for Alberta's new license plate, plus what we have now. The Opposition Wildrose party is up in arms over the removal of the "Wild Rose Country" slogan from the bottom of the plates, calling it politically motivated. Highwood MLA Danielle Smith is no fan of Alberta's proposed new license plates. She supports the new reflective paint job, but not changing the slogan at the bottom from "Wild Rose Country." She says it's more PC political nonsense. "All of a sudden this comes out in the middle of the summer, in the middle of a leadership race, taking off the Wild Rose slogan. It's clearly political. People have seen through it. They are outraged and responding in massive numbers. We have a poll going with six thousand respondents so far, most of which, about 70-percent who say keep the Wild Rose slogan." She says the province would have been better off asking us if we wanted to change the plates in the first place, as well as if we wanted to change the slogan, before moving ahead on their own.

Subscribe $1 for 6 months Breadcrumb Trail Links HomeNewsLocal NewsNationalPoliticsOpinionColumnists Bell: Danielle Smith set to roll out a new Strong and Free Alberta licence plate Alberta to get a new licence plate. It reads Strong and Free Author of the article: By Rick Bell Published Oct 14, 2025 Last updated 34 minutes ago It’s coming. A new licence plate for Alberta vehicles. Article content It is a licence plate with attitude. It is long overdue. Psst … the current licence plate was designed more than 40 years ago. Article content Article content The words on the plate have been decided. Article content Strong and Free. It is the motto of Alberta. They are words found in the national anthem. Article content A generation ago some Albertans fought for a Strong and Free licence plate, including this scribbler and legendary Edmonton Sun columnist Neil Waugh...

Smith in 2014: The plan to change the motto on Alberta's licence plate is a politically motivated distraction.

Smith in 2025: Here's a plan to change the motto on Alberta's licence plate.

I think it might not be at the blog end, but with a different utility. Trying to track it down!

How trans visibility became a trap People who have documented their lives online are discovering the dark side of digital permanence.

Moved by both of the essays the Verge has run so far in this series about being trans on the internet.

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Thanks. Think Bluesky will get editing first, or I’ll more consistently remember which quotation mark to use?

The Future Of The Sneaker Business First Requires A Future | Defector PORTLAND, ORE. — Global capitalism begins with apparel. Slaves were brought to the American South from West Africa to do farm labor, and by the 19th century that largely meant cotton, a ubiquitous puf...

I love paying for Defector. defector.com/the-future-o...

I think that’s nice, too.

Thank you! And thanks for your thoughts as well.

On Liquid Glass A brief, throat-clearing caveat: while I had written most of this pre-launch, I was unable to complete it by the time Apple shipped its annual round of operating system updates. Real life, and all tha...

Some thoughts on Liquid Glass: pxlnv.com/blog/on-liqu...

I will probably need to bring the videos over to Vimeo. Also, I probably missed your favourite complaint or nitpick about it.

weird how "the demands of the market" means "report twice a year" and not "report monthly, more data for shareholders' informed decisions"

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide!

It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.

It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

Find some of the dumbest people with an internet connection by searching X for “to:grok is this true”.

Screenshot of a Zero Hedge article entitled "There's Something Odd About Meta's New Ray-Ban AR Glasses…" containing a bizarre theory about how oversized black-rimmed glasses are a "status symbol within the Democratic Party".

Look, I love @techmeme.com as much as anyone, but are we learning anything when they aggregate and link to a fringe conspiracy blog like Zero Hedge? www.techmeme.com/250917/p45#a...

When All You Have Is a Robots.txt Hammer Last year, Robb Knight figured out how Perplexity, an artificial intelligence search engine, was evading instructions not to crawl particular sites. Knight learned that Perplexity’s engine would use an unlisted user agent to scrape summaries of pages on websites where Perplexity was blocked. In my testing, I found the summaries were outdated by hours-to-days, indicating […]

When All You Have Is a Robots.txt Hammer https://pxlnv.com/blog/when-all-you-have-is-a-robots-hammer/

Screenshot of the Wall Street Journal offering “a visual breakdown of the Trump birthday letter to Epstein”.

No, thanks.

A photo of Calgary’s Chinatown at dusk with lanterns hanging above buildings with glowing windows.

A photo of Air Force One in flight, preparing to land, as it passes over a Canadian flag on a building

A photo of the Calgary Stampede midway attractions as the sun sets behind the high-rise buildings in the background.

A tranquil photo of people rafting a small river at sunset.

Minolta XD-7, Minolta 50mm f1.7 and Tokina 100–300mm f5.6
Cinestill 800T
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How about the murders though?

The reason why the FP sold for so much — relative to its small output — is because it has a world view that is embraced by a readership of very wealthy people. Weiss isn't anti-establishment. She comforts the comfortable.

There’s one policy that Democrats could run on that guarantees they’d sweep back into power: making .webp images illegal

We’ve been here before. Automatically reinforcing echo chambers were demonstrably a problem so YouTube changed its recommendations system. And then OpenAI went and built an even more personalized echo chamber.

Thanks Patrick.

If you or your colleagues are digging into this, is there anything we should be reading into why it is called an “administration fee”?

Quick question regarding the party of free speech. www.newsnationnow.com/politics/tru...

‘Apple in China’ When I watched Tim Cook, in the White House, carefully assemble a glass-and-gold trophy fit for a king, it felt to me like a natural outcome of the events and actions exhaustively documented by Patric...

I reviewed “Apple in China”, kind of. I rarely think this, but this might be one of my favourite things I have written in a while. pxlnv.com/blog/mcgee-a...

the canadian government should seize on the hostility with the US to finally ditch the US paper sizes and switch the country to a-series sizes

YouTube video by Climate Town Joe Rogan Doesn't Understand Graphs

A graph Joe Rogan has brought up on SIX separate episodes of his podcast to disprove climate change explicitly says the opposite of what he claims.
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