Kevin Nimmock

New candidate for headline of the year just dropped. CC @paulisci.bsky.social

These are all 10/10 masterpieces

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BREAKING: CBC is projecting a Liberal government.

Not sure how this does anything but benefit Carney

Conclave poster, but concave

Conclave poster, but convex

woke up with this in my head and now it's your problem

Hot take: Calgary Confederation is Canada's most interesting riding this election cycle. Star Liberal candidate Corey Hogan is in a neck and neck race with former UCP cabinet minister Jeremy Nixon. This riding has never elected a Liberal.

Liberals and Conservatives said their rallies drew thousands. We decided to count | CBC News Crowd sizes have become a discussion point in this election. The CBC News’s visual investigation unit looks at some of the images from those rallies to try to determine whether the reality fits with t...

The Conservatives claimed that the Edmonton-area rally was attended by 15,000 people. CBC News counted roughly 1,558.

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Opinion: Mark Carney poses a threat to national unity If he remains prime minister after this election, there is a very real possibility that Western Canada will move to secede

Wild claims here from Preston Manning:

"The next prime minister of Canada, if it remains Mark Carney, would then be identified in the history books, tragically and needlessly, as the last prime minister of a united Canada."

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

ANALYSIS | The U.S. has covertly destabilized nations. With Canada, it's being done in public | CBC News Former senior Canadian intelligence officials say Canada needs to be on the lookout for campaigns aimed at destabilizing the country amid U.S. President Donald Trump's escalating 51st state threats. T...

"The CIA has worked to destabilize many governments in the past, using methods as mundane as corruption and as drastic as assassination, but former spy chiefs say a campaign aimed at Canada would likely rely more on social media — such as the Elon Musk-owned X platform."

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It is not unusual historically for the U.S. to accuse a country of being undemocratic while trying to exert influence to control their natural resources.

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I can't wait to meet my 18 new best friends. Happy #Survivor48 premier day!

Anti-Immigration TikToker by Night, BC Conservative Staffer by Day | The Tyee Posting as Robin Skies, Adam Beattie makes political videos that rack up millions of views.

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U.S. Hockey Team Calls for Trump to Attend Canada Match The U.S. hockey team’s manager said Trump’s tough talk with Canada is helping their performance.

Even more incentive for Canada to win:

"U.S. Hockey Team Calls for Trump to Attend Canada Match"

www.thedailybeast.com/us-hockey-te...

Hey, Calgary reporter pals: The media room at McDougall is mic'd up. We don't have to stand at the mic.

And at pressrs, we don't have to stand at a mic. That just gives govt the power to cut us off.

We can police ourselves. Just scrum like we used to. We can do this. They are not the boss of us.

CAF updates entry medical standards to aid recruitment efforts The Canadian Armed Forces is no longer automatically disqualifying applicants with certain medical conditions such as allergies and ADHD, as it works to improve its numbers and grow the size of Canada...

Today I learned the Canadian Armed Forces had a longstanding policy to disqualify applicants with ADHD. Wild.

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Question for Canadians: Are you rethinking upcoming travel plans to the US? Does a Trump presidency change your views about travelling south?

Of note: Pierre Poilievre and Danielle Smith explicitly disagree on how to handle the Trump tariff threat.

Poilievre is calling for retaliatory tariffs on the U.S.

Smith:

"Our best approach now would be to focus on diplomacy and refrain from talk of any kind of retaliatory measures," she says.

The Calgary Zoo has cancelled its first penguin walk of 2025, because it is too warm for penguins to go outside today. It was 9°C as of 9 a.m.

At a certain point, it doesn't actually matter if Trump is kidding about annexing Canada.

It has been an AMAZING year for Canadian filmmakers. Some movies you should watch over the holidays: Matt and Mara (five star masterpiece), Red Rooms (great movie, terrible vibes), Universal Language (never seen anything like it), Paying for It (wild) and My Old Ass (you will laugh/cry).

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A former Alberta Health Services employee has been fined $12,000 for falsifying COVID-19 vaccination records for 199 people in 2021.

Geneuine question: does anyone actually like panettone?

Canada's cities are losing up to 19 days of winter | CBC News In just the past 10 years, cities around the world, including in Canada, have lost weeks' worth of winter ski, skate and snow days each year due to climate change. They've been replaced by dozens of d...

Seems bad!

In Canada, some cities and regions that have lost more than two weeks of winter weather, including Vancouver (19 days), B.C.'s Greater Nanaimo region (18 days) and Ontario's Niagara region (15 days).

www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Transgender former CFL player says attending B.C. Lions ceremony as authentic self was 'euphoric' | CBC News Maven Maurer spent 13 seasons as a professional football player. The CFL believes Maurer is the only openly transgender former professional football player in league history.

SUCH a great story.

"Not wanting to let fear get the best of her, Maurer flew to Vancouver and walked onto the field at B.C. Place as her authentic self. She described hearing the cheers from the 20,000 people in attendance as 'euphoric.'"

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Breaking: former premier and NDP leader Rachel Notley is resigning as NDP MLA, effective Dec. 30

New Angus Reid polling shows Wab Kinew is (easily) the country's most popular premier. Doug Ford has the lowest approval rating.

From the inbox: very much enjoyed this Alberta government news release about a truly massive ... thing that's being hauled on the road from Edmonton to Fort McMurray this week. It is referred to only as "the load."

Whatever it is, the truck/trailer they're using has 352 wheels!