Imagine walking into a negotiation after Ottawa has just been told: “Keep the current arrangement.” Option 1 is serious political risk for Alberta. Alberta negotiates from a position of strength when you vote Option 2.

Carney -Things have never been better ???

This “unofficial First Lady” business (in the UK and Canada too) should be firmly resisted, and especially so by the Prime Minister. Having any kind of “first lady” undermines the Westminster parliamentary system. There are members of parliament, and there is the crown. There is no one else.

Fog overtop the Bow River this morning after temperatures dropped overnight in Calgary.

Neil Herland, an award-winning veteran journalist at CBC, has been pulled off the air and received disciplinary action. This comes after he filmed a protest taking place outside a Jewish synagogue during Yom Kippur services. Neil, who is Jewish, posted it to social media. Shortly after, he was quietly removed from the air by CBC. Simply documenting a story, while sharing his own personal history as a Jew, Neil was reprimanded. He wasn't spinning any story; he was reporting on it. The news org he works for wouldn't have that.

Here is a real-world example of how Canada's retaliatory tariffs actually work. We are a Canadian manufacturer employing 40+ people in Ontario. We buy steel drums from an American manufacturer in Ohio. We bring the EMPTY drums into Canada. We fill those drums in Ontario with products WE MANUFACTURE IN CANADA. Then we ship the finished Canadian product back to customers in the United States. Simple enough. Except Canada has now imposed a 50% retaliatory tariff on U.S.-made steel drums under tariff code 7310.10.00. So let me understand the strategy. Who exactly are we trying to hurt? The American steel company already sold the steel. The American drum manufacturer already sold the drum. Our American customer still needs the finished product. The company writing the cheque for Canada's 50% tariff is us — the Canadian manufacturer employing Canadian workers. And before someone says, "Buy Canadian" — we have a Canadian drum supplier in Burlington. They're busy and their lead times are several weeks longer than our Ohio supplier. And here's the irony: The Canadian drum plant is itself owned by an American company. So we are potentially adding enormous cost and working-capital requirements to a Canadian manufacturer in an attempt to punish the United States. There may be duty-drawback relief available because we're re-exporting these drums as part of our finished product — and we're investigating that now. But think about the administrative absurdity we've created: Import an American drum → Canada charges a 50% retaliatory tariff → Canadian workers fill it with Canadian-manufactured product → ship it back to America → Canadian company applies to recover the tariff. That's not industrial policy. That's friction. If the objective is to protect and grow Canadian manufacturing, we need to start asking a very basic question before imposing retaliatory tariffs: Who actually writes the cheque? @ronmortgageguy @StephenPunwasi

Vote carefully Albertans. Remember the National Energy Program.

Carney continues to lie and misrepresent what Canada is up against in losing the USA as a trading PARTNER.

"Based on today’s Janet Brown poll showing Option 1 with an increasingly commanding lead in Alberta, I’m now wagering that Carney will play the energy card against Trump by the end of the year" @nspector4

Last day to register for mail in ballots!

This makes no sense. We want to exclude criminals, not make it easier for them to get citizenship. This must stop.

Beat the polling station line-ups on October 19. With 10 ballots it will be a zoo. Register for mail-in ballots to be sent to your home. I just did it and it only takes a couple of minutes. BUT TODAY IS THE LAST DAY YOU CAN REGISTER! Do it now! specialballot.elections.ab.c…

Mark Carney: “Canada is the best-connected economy in the world” Vancouver is ranked 347 out of global 348 ports in efficiency with some of the longest vessel waiting times.

.@CBC says it values journalists with lived experience because their connection to a community can “broaden and deepen” its journalism. Apparently, that principle becomes considerably more complicated when the lived experience is Jewish. According to @KinsellaWarren’s reporting, veteran CBC journalist Neil Herland (@NEWSneil) was pulled off-air and subjected to disciplinary proceedings after documenting what happened when he arrived for Yom Kippur services in Toronto. Herland wasn’t parachuting into somebody else’s story. He was living it. Protesters were blocking the entrance to the service. Congregants were being taunted. According to the report, people were called “baby killer,” one woman was called an “ugly Jewish bitch,” and another protester shouted, “The Jew smiles while he kills babies in Gaza.” Herland filmed what he saw and later described the fear increasingly felt by Jewish Canadians. CBC’s own Ombudsman has previously defended the value of journalists bringing their lived experience and community connections into their work, saying those perspectives can make journalism richer and more informed. So what exactly is the rule? When a Muslim journalist speaks from lived experience, CBC applauds the effort. When a Jewish journalist documents antisemitic intimidation happening to him on his way into synagogue, CBC reportedly investigates him and sanctions him. CBC/Radio-Canada suspended its journalist, Élisa Serret, for engaging in antisemitism by uttering antisemitic tropes on air. But CBC suspends its Jewish journalist Neil Herland for the crime of reporting on antisemitism. That is not a small inconsistency. It goes directly to the question of whose lived experience CBC considers legitimate. And at a moment when Jewish Canadians are being told repeatedly that their fear is real, that antisemitism is escalating, and that armed police are required outside synagogues, silencing a Jewish journalist for documenting that reality would send an extraordinary message. CBC should explain the standard. Because “lived experience” cannot be a journalistic virtue for some communities and a professional liability for Jews. shorturl.at/ARc9I

👀 This chart, from the tail end of my explainer here 👇 might be about to become one of the most important issues in UK politics. How and why did the government allow its emergency stockpiles of diesel to drop to one of the lowest levels in the developed world...?

Oh, we know. We have been tied for decades. We fund Canada. It's about time you even noticed.

RT @ConservativeTht: Facts are stubborn things: “While Hamas did everything possible to keep Palestinian civilians in harm’s way, often at…

My family lived in England for a year in 1964/65. I wanted to grow up to be a bobby (British policeman) or one of the Beatles.

Thoughts?

The question the ATC set out to answer was not whether Alberta should become independent. It was whether Alberta could afford to. Its conclusion: Alberta could finance existing services and sovereign responsibilities with $22.2–$32.1 billion surplus per year remaining. That deserves serious discussion. Read the reports for yourself and share them with others.