Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦

'Major threat' to trade: U.S. Congress Republicans call for Canada to rescind Online Streaming Act Republicans are pushing top Trump officials to pressure Canada to kibosh the controversial Act, as a “major threat” to trade relationship.

Canada cannot do this alone. We need to work in concert with Europe, Australia and other countries trying to maintain national sovereignty in the streaming era. nationalpost.com/news/politic...

Canadian economy sheds almost 41,000 jobs in July, unemployment rate remains steady It’s the first major economic data release for July as Trump ramps up his tariff policies

Clearly, the correct policy response is to fire the head of StatsCan. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Opinion: After complaining about the Grateful Dead for decades, outing myself as a midlife Deadhead wasn’t easy I’m willing to accept that aging will bring deterioration to my body and my memory and my ability to locate the car keys, but am I powerless to protect my taste in music?

Hmmm. I've yet to recover from an overdose of Grateful Dead music from friends in the late 80s. Is this coming for me now? Am I finally going to understand the soft grooves of Fleetwood Mac? www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

the damage done to U.S. society within six months is far beyond what I thought was possible.

Opinion: If Bell doesn’t like competing with Telus on its own broadband network, it really won’t like the alternatives The telco launched a campaign complaining about new rules forcing it to allow competitors to access its fibre network

Known communist @acoyne.bsky.social wades into telecom policy with a call to "separate ownership of the networks from the right to provide service on them". Good column. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Sincere thanks to the organizers of the Calgary Folk fest this weekend. The weather has not cooperated but is been a good line up. Calgary has been doing a Vancouver impression all summer.

I have little patience for soft jazz chords right now. This moment needs a Clash.

Getting soaked at Calgary folk fest. But los lobos and Steve Earle is a good line up.

America will require decades to regain what has been lost in the last six months.

Happy to see my MLA speak up when the Premier won't.

Trump Administration Live Updates: Amid Epstein Furor, Trump Posts Fake Obama Arrest Video

The fact that this barely merits mention today really speaks to the times. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

Globe and Mail reporter targeted by online campaign, photographed surreptitiously in public settings An anonymous X account posted photos of Alberta reporter Carrie Tait and described her movements as she reported on a health authority controversy

A frightening effort to intimidate the free press in Alberta. "No comment" from the Premier is not good enough. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Trevor Tombe: Why an Alberta Accord makes sense

I wonder how many people at the "Alberta Next" gathering in Red Deer this week knew that Trevor Tombe, the fellow immediately beside the Premier, justified some of the arguments of the panel by quoting Pierre Trudeau? thehub.ca/2025/05/15/t...

This thread is particularly true in the west. Technologies change, underlying values of public access don't.

In keeping with the era that the U.S. is about to cut what is already among the most poorly funded public broadcasters in the world. The savings are a pittance. News media in America, already brutal, is about to get far worse. Only the sycophants survive.

OK, I put up with your pet pictures, allow me to publicly pay tribute to my Infinity stereo speakers, originally purchased in 1993 at Audio Empire in Rexdale. This week, they met an undignified end at the Calgary dump. I salute them for their decades of tireless service.

Well PM Carney, this might be a good time reintroduce the digital goods and services tax.

Alberta bans ‘sexually explicit’ books from school libraries, restricts materials about puberty, menstruation Students in Grade 9 and below can also no longer check out literature referencing romance, including kissing and handholding

Was there really a large public outcry in this province about literary depictions of handholding? www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

Opinion | Trolling Democracy

A disturbing and important piece. Are Canadian young men, who will populate our classes this fall, in a similar place? "It’s a grim, ugly and barren place." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/o...

Opinion: Carney risks boosting Western alienation by leaning on his ‘wise men from the East’ Many Western Canadians will view the federal government’s latest appointments with great trepidation

Lots of the usual positioning by Manning here against Ottawa "elites", conveniently omitting the fact that the Conservatives have a leader who has never done anything in his life except work in politics. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

RCMP charges military members allegedly plotting to form militia and seize land | CBC News The RCMP has charged four men, including two active members of the Canadian Armed Forces, with being part of an extremist plot that allegedly involved creating an anti-government militia with a massiv...

Under MAGA ideology, these four would all be potential Justice Ministers in waiting. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

At the risk of giving this movement further unmerited oxygen, this is an interesting embedded view.

On July 4, 1987, I saw Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in Buffalo. That was my America.

Is it an aging thing that ice cream truck music now sounds decidedly creepy?

Senate GOP budget bill has little-noticed provision that could hurt your Wi-Fi Cruz bill could take 6 GHz spectrum away from Wi-Fi, give it to mobile carriers.

Buried within Trump's big bill are spectrum policy changes placed there by Calgary's own Ted Cruz. The future of wifi may hang in the balance. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

If the recent history of dealing with the U.S. President teaches us anything, it is that capitulating to him gets you nothing in return.

Trump’s FCC Chief Brendan Carr Is Acting More Like a Mob Enforcer Than a Federal Regulator With a new GOP majority, the incoming FCC boss aims to punish criticism, reward obedience—and screw the public.

“This is the most corrupt FCC in the agency’s history,” Victor Pickard, a professor of media policy at Penn, told The Nation. “What we’re seeing now is outright Mafia-style behavior where the FCC is trying to shake down corporations and entire industries to carry out Trump’s agenda.”

3 important by-elections in Alberta tonight, including one that should put Nenshi in the legislature. From what I can see, neither daily Postmedia paper in Edmonton or Calgary has anyone covering the story. This is unfortunately all too common in Alberta politics.

Watched the Rob Ford doc on Netflix. Despite Doug Ford's protests, I think the reality was far worse. Toronto was ahead of the curve on the right-wing "don't trust the media" movement. The @thestar.com bore the brunt of that. I should renew my subscription.

The inherent whining of much of the contemporary conservative movement is reaching an artform