Everyone down on Canada Post today would have been a Tommy Douglas opponent back in the day.

Indeed, I've often thought (though, admittedly, without evidence to back me up) that trust is hard for those who rarely see their own experiences and priorities reflected in academia.

I feel like people who themselves lack expertise often feel the need to denegrate that of others.

So. Pretty.

‘Breaking down the doors’: Carney's Liberals draw strong nomination buzz, but critics flag appointment trend - The Hill Times Mark Carney's Liberals risk repeating the Pierre Poilievre Conservatives’ past mistake by bypassing contested nominations, say Liberal sources.

This is often the case with technocratic governments. They command loyalty while things are going well, but a lack of grassroots buy-in means it tends to gets late early.

#CNDPoli

www.hilltimes.com/2026/04/20/b...

Works for academics, too

I remember an instructor memorably comparing regression models to dumb Missouri mules. They will absolutely walk right into trees if you don't direct them properly. Just because you can get a model to give you an answer, that doesn't mean it's a good or useful answer.

Pretty much everyone has a problem with you right now, my dude.

One wonders if Smith will try to simply change the law midstream again.

I would very much like to know where their funding is coming from. Though one also wonders whether Smith will simply change the law to protect them.

Colby Cosh: Alberta separatists admit their petition is symbolic To defuse First Nations objections, separatists are claiming that the government isn't required to act on their independence petition

"So can an Alberta government refuse to hold a referendum at all in the face of a successful, certified petition? This is not as clear to me, squinting amateurishly at the text, as it apparently is to Rath."

NP's reasonableness has me feeling like I've hit my head.

nationalpost.com/opinion/colb...

Today marks the 44th anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms 🇨🇦

Since 1982, it has helped protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of Canadians.
Let’s continue to uphold these values for everyone.
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B.C. government lawyer warns against 'abrupt' ruling in assisted dying lawsuit A lawyer for the British Columbia government has warned a court against a "sudden and abrupt" ruling in a lawsuit aimed at expanding access to medical assistance in dying in Catholic-run hospitals, sa...

I don't think it's appropriate for the Archbishop of Vancouver to decide what kind of healthcare I can receive at a publicly funded facility, actually.

#BCPoli

www.castanet.net/news/BC/6092...

Avi Lewis wants to ban 'surveillance' pricing. Here's what that means Newly minted NDP leader Avi Lewis is sounding the alarm on what he calls a "creepy new tactic" corporations are using to rip-off consumers.

A surprisingly reasonable take from the National Post on this.

#CNDPoli

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It's true AI is genderless - it's not human ffs. BUT the choice of putting a female face to this and using female pronouns says so much...

Once at the number three, being the third number be reached, then, lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.

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Come on, Save-on-Foods/Pattison — you’re better than this.

Both Mark Carney's Liberals and Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives prefer the lobbyists from Canada's grocery oligarchs to we Canadians being gouged by those same oligarchs.

Liberal AI minister Evan Solomon simply says 'not my department'...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#cdnpoli #canada
#corruption #graft #greed

Screenshot of a social media thread. First post: "We know that Facebook is brainscorching your parents and tiktok is brainscorching your cousins, but some of you refuse to admit that you got your brain scorched here. However unlike those sites there isn't an algorithm here you just make bad choices." Second post: "That's all we ever wanted. To arrive at Hell as a result of our own dubious navigation skills instead of as a result of Satan owning all the road companies."

I would indeed much rather make my own terrible decisions.

(Also, that metaphor goes so hard.)

As a reminder, ai cannot have the em dash

Here’s a feed cleanser.
Dogs catching treats.

I remember taking a class trip to go sit in the gallery :)

Between Vance lecturing the Pope about theology and Poilievre telling Carney he's bad at economics, it's been a great week for confident men.

The attacks on Sam Altman are a warning for the AI world A politician’s home was also attacked after voting to rezone for a data center.

“The alternative to organised, peaceful movements is not silence.... It is isolated, desperate individuals acting alone, without community, without accountability and without anyone urging restraint or offering peaceful paths for action.”

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

"Lawyers from the Government of Alberta argued there was no evidence of foreign interference in the process to date. ...the public record suggests strongly that there has been."

Leaving aside the question of state capacity, this sounds like more of an issue of political will than anything else.

Researchers draw parallels between plague victims and COVID-19 pandemic When researchers examined plague burials from a 17th century hospital in Switzerland, they found that a majority of victims were young labourers, indicating how social status can impact mortality duri...

“The COVID-19 pandemic raised many questions about social inequality.... We wanted to explore these same questions for our Early Modern sample.”

www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...

A colleague of mine has found that priming generational identity makes Gen Xers more isolationist (in terms of their defence policy attitudes). My personal theory as to why is a pervasive sense that 'well, no one helped/cared about us, so why should we do anything?'

An interesting data-driven approach!

livewirecalgary.com/2026/04/09/p...

"I think calling it scientific work is quite generous...I call it a scam."

Well I, for one, am shocked (shocked!)

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