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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The fact that I am so old that this is not just "unclassified" but also "in a museum" is pretty hard to process.
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This is such a bleak story about what it's like to try to land a job right now. nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
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"Never before had an Alberta government rejected the riding map drawn by a boundaries body."
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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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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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."
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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…
